|
I would also want to be paid to stay in competition shape for months and months when I don't have a fight. Not giving up carbs for free homie.
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 20:42
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 5, 2024 09:42 |
|
|
Rashad Evans has announced his retirement.
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 20:56
|
|
|
that certainly didnt come out of left field, due to rashad's trouble with southpaws
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 20:59
|
|
|
Rigel posted:Rashad Evans has announced his retirement. it feels like that guy has fought exactly once since i started watching mma
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 21:04
|
|
|
mewse posted:So Kelvin could have fought for the title but he wanted to be paid to train It seems like a fair request, especially if whether or not you even get your show money is up to another guy making/missing weight. Training camps aren't free. Rigel posted:Rashad Evans has announced his retirement. Good.
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 21:10
|
|
|
Machida said that when Coker gave him an offer to join Bellator, he also asked Machida to promise that he wouldn't shop the offer, and the offer was so good that he couldn't refuse. The UFC then matched Bellator's offer, but Machida said he already gave his word to Coker. I guess the UFC did not expect Bellator to offer whatever it was they did offer.
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 21:20
|
|
|
i really liked allen vs burnell and quinonez vs ishihara. Perry vs griffin was really good, perry is good to watch even when losing, I liked moicano vs kattar, that was sure fun. Volkov werdum another fight i guess maybe medocre? shoutout to diachi abe for gassing out against luke jumeau, the only ufc fighter allergic to punches.
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 23:25
|
|
|
Rigel posted:Machida said that when Coker gave him an offer to join Bellator, he also asked Machida to promise that he wouldn't shop the offer, and the offer was so good that he couldn't refuse. The UFC then matched Bellator's offer, but Machida said he already gave his word to Coker. I guess the UFC did not expect Bellator to offer whatever it was they did offer. This overbidding is how Strikeforce got talent while Coker was president, and it is also a big part of why Strikeforce wasn't actually profitable enough to survive. I'm not saying that will necessarily happen again, but they are drawing 1/3 the viewers while paying Cheick Kongo $150k per fight.
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 23:52
|
|
|
still shook up? drat conor is the best of all time
|
|
#
?
Jun 25, 2018 23:53
|
|
|
Conor vs a woman, 3 division champ baby
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 00:05
|
|
|
Marching Powder posted:incoming contrarian opinion but i didn't rate romero / whittaker 2 as highly as all of you. whittaker not being able to throw his power hand for most of the fight made him very cautious, and romero spent the first 2.5 rounds not fighting at all. there was some amazing displays of heart and toughness from both guys, and whittaker went through the deepest water to get the w, but yeah romero's relative inactivity for half the fight and rob's broken hand made the actual fighting kind of ehhh I'm agreeing with a Marching Powder post, so it must be correct.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 00:11
|
|
|
Fights are actually even better when the guys just stare at each other doing different poses.
|
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 00:19
|
|
|
krylov mght be back, in talks pending a ufc russia show
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 01:12
|
|
|
I.N.R.I posted:it feels like that guy has fought exactly once since i started watching mma You're a pretty lucky guy then.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 02:23
|
|
|
Rigel posted:Rashad Evans has announced his retirement. I live one city over from MMMS's hometown so what this means is even though I've never met or interacted with Rashad Evans, there are a million guys on tinder who post a photo of themselves with Rashad as their cool once in a lifetime brush with fame Every time I see it I think to myself ~~such great heights~~
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 02:40
|
|
|
Ad by Khad posted:I live one city over from MMMS's hometown so what this means is even though I've never met or interacted with Rashad Evans, there are a million guys on tinder who post a photo of themselves with Rashad as their cool once in a lifetime brush with fame How do I browse other dudes on tinder?
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 02:49
|
|
|
rashad had a weird career and I hated him for most of it he lay n prayed bonnar so I was never ever going to like him his fights were boring and even his most impressive performance against rampage was still pretty dull
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 02:56
|
|
|
mewse posted:How do I browse other dudes on tinder? be a lady?
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 02:57
|
|
|
I've posted this a million times probably but the most telling indictment of rashad's fighting style is he fought in the ufc for like 15 years and nothing ever bumped the Sean Salmon headkick out of his highlight real.
|
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 03:02
|
|
|
rashad made matt hughes (racist) mad and beat up mike whitehead (rapist) on TUF, so he rules, actually
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 03:09
|
|
|
LobsterMobster posted:rashad made matt hughes (racist) mad and beat up mike whitehead (rapist) on TUF, so he rules, actually This, and the Phil Davis fight means I could never feel anything on the bad side of neutral towards my man suga
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 03:25
|
|
|
Bundt Cake posted:rashad had a weird career and I hated him for most of it I cant say it was less dull but I consider his Phil Davis performance his most impressive and I enjoyed watching it very much
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 03:25
|
|
|
LobsterMobster posted:rashad made matt hughes (racist) mad and beat up mike whitehead (rapist) on TUF, so he rules, actually I think you'll find matt hughes is also the other r-word Hell, maybe even a few of them
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 03:26
|
|
|
I still remember all my buddies and I in my living room freaking the gently caress out when he knocked out Chuck; prompting my neighbor to bang on the wall and yell at us. Good times.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 04:37
|
|
|
El Roncho posted:I still remember all my buddies and I in my living room freaking the gently caress out when he knocked out Chuck; prompting my neighbor to bang on the wall and yell at us. Good times. i hated that cuz he was getting whooped, throwing the same right over and over but eventually chuck ran into it ... trying to just tee off near the cage like rashad was tito iirc
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 04:41
|
|
|
I remember the Chuck fight making me briefly think that Rashad knew how to box.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 04:47
|
|
|
Bundt Cake posted:i hated that cuz he was getting whooped, throwing the same right over and over but eventually chuck ran into it ... trying to just tee off near the cage like rashad was tito iirc And he was coming in with that loopy lead uppercut. Ugh.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 04:48
|
|
|
I was in a packed bar for that one, and when Chuck went down there was an uprorious disturbance from the drunks out in the parking lot watching through the windows
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:05
|
|
|
The loudest any crowd I have ever been in was at the PDX BWW when Holy Holm KO'd Ronda Rousey. The women were screaming the most.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:17
|
|
|
kensei posted:The loudest any crowd I have ever been in was at the PDX BWW when Holy Holm KO'd Ronda Rousey. The women were screaming the most. I was at the arena, and it was loving deafening. Then again, Melbournites are mad. The nice kind.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:26
|
|
|
My roommate at the time had to come check on me when I saw Anderson Silva's leg go noodly. I kept CURSING. VERY. LOUDLY. and she figured something interesting must have happened.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:31
|
|
|
Oh I just remembered that I actually saw somebody wearing a "Fighter and the Kid" shirt this weekend. The loudest crowd I've ever seen in a bar was GSP vs BJ II (Franco-Ontario), by a wide margin. GSP-Fitch was pretty loud, too, as was Lesnar-Couture,. but they're distant 2nd and 3rd. The tensest I've ever seen a bar crowd was for Lesnar-Velasquez - it was all hushed awe for that. One guy who was a big Brock fan saw Cain for the first time and was like "holy poo poo this dude scary." There was a weird energy for Weidman-Silva I. The casual fans who were rowdy for a Matrix Anderson Silva KO started loud and then got confused and finally outraged.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:34
|
|
|
The bar I was at for Carano/Cyborg lost their poo poo. I can only imagine what it would be like seeing Rousey or Silva get their streaks broken in person.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:41
|
|
|
Where are you guys watching the fights where there’s so much energy? Every time I’ve tried going to BW3 to watch a card, there’s been pretty much no one paying any attention. There might be one guy in a novelty wife-beater somewhat loudly explaining the fights (incorrectly) to his bros. Maybe Royal Oak just sucks.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:42
|
|
|
Does anyone have any recommendations for a bar in Denver to watch 226 at? Visiting from overseas and just wondering if there is a go-to place local fans always head to.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:56
|
|
|
Mcgregor/Aldo was pretty wild to see live. Everything got way quieter for a second when Aldo dropped, then the place erupted.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 05:56
|
|
|
Snowman_McK posted:I was at the arena, and it was loving deafening. Then again, Melbournites are mad. The nice kind.  That was wild.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 06:00
|
|
|
Most UFC fights I watch in public seem to be me, a handful of guys I've boxed with or a friend's bjj gym bros for a grand total of maybe 10 people at a venue for the express purpose of watching a fight. If there's anyone else there it's generally a sterotypical bro in a tap out shirt being loud about inane poo poo or its like a small tight 2-5 guy group where they clearly know some poo poo and are like circle jerking each other off about someone's kimura technique and golf clap ground transitions. I live in Miami too where I kind of thought there'd be a bigger UFC scene/crowd but there's just not. The best places I've seen to watch fights are like some guys house in a gym sponsored get together type deal and those are truly glorious. I saw McGregor Diaz which kind of started me into UFC with a friend who I had started boxing and rolling with and listening to them break poo poo down was super super interesting to me.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 06:16
|
|
|
Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Where are you guys watching the fights where there’s so much energy? 4+ years in the past. I was live at GSP/ Serra 2 in Montreal and it was pandemonium when GSP won. I was yelling as loud as I could and I couldn't hear myself over the rest of the crowd. Compare to Couture/ Machida in Toronto and you could hear a pin drop when Couture got ktfo. I was yelling as loud as I could there, too, and I def heard myself over the crowd that time.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 08:20
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 5, 2024 09:42 |
|
|
I haven't seen a lot of the upsets live because I try to avoid watching fights at the bar (because eventually someone will say "Why don't think just throw punches like that all the time?" when someone lands a haymaker) but there was a lot of hollering going on at BW3 when Nunas dismantled Ronda.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2018 15:15
|
|
