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Bundt Cake posted:for united states people here's a list of fun-to-awesome fights you can watch right now courtesy of the UFC This is the best fight I've ever seen based 100% on the fight. It had almost no relevance to anything, and I'm not a big fan of either fighter, but the fight itself is loving awesome.
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Gomi Pile posted:except there's wrestling and any smart kid looking to get into mma would already be wrestling. lots of people go into mma later in life without having a background in a combat sport, and they are all bad. as the skill level of the sport rises these guys without athletic backgrounds will be getting crushed at the low levels of the pro ranks. You are 99.9% right but I have to mention that I'm pretty sure that Rich Franklin's athletic career before becoming a professional fighter was only playing high school football.
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Rodney the Piper posted:I remember reading a series of articles that covered the history of MMA, which seemed very well written. Unfortunately, I can't remember poo poo about where I found it or its contents other than it went back to the birth of modern MMA, including some of the earliest matches held in Japan that were booked by (I think?) Antonio Inoki. Unfortunately, I can't find it now; I know this is essentially the worst description of a web page ever, but I don't know if this is the same one you are talking about but this is from my UFC OP: Welcome to MMA, Here's the History of the Sport.
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May 5, 2011 22:47
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To me this was always the coolest muay thai move: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zBlvwCUfow
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May 7, 2011 17:12
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arm drags and the people that do them are cool
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May 31, 2011 22:33
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it's like horizontal wallgame
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Sep 22, 2011 23:53
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BlindSite posted:If you follow twitter you might want to follow as many fighters as possible along with Dana White and ariel Helwani because they'll post video links to video blogs and or pod casts they're featured in. https://twitter.com/ufc/fighters
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Nov 4, 2011 20:57
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getting taken down real hard can hurt your butt and mma judges are very empathetic to butt pain
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Dec 27, 2011 22:04
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Bundt Cake posted:that is part of the point He had a pretty lame performance against Chris Lytle before Chris Lytle became Chris Lytle.
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The Sphinxster posted:I have a dumb fight terminology question-- I see the term "arm punch" used a little bit. It seems to be a disparaging term. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_wnt84iyMk&t=303s Gotta put your rear end into it
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Grifter posted:For more current stuff there's a documentary about Anderson Silva called Like Water which has been well reviewed but as far as I know hasn't been distributed so it would be hard to find. For what it's worth, Like Water did get picked up last month and is scheduled to be released sometime this year but it sounds like it will be a limited release or Video On Demand or something.
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it's important that butt scooting be neutralized so please legalize stomps and soccer kicks.
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BlindSite posted:There was some bullshit promotion out here a year or two ago where Karo parisyan cornered Carlos Newton and was fighting later on the card. Other than that I can't recall. I've seen this happen at local fights several times
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Also they are awesome when they work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Gmn3YDxJo
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david carmichael posted:we should do some kind of group watch of a bunch of that trio's fights sometime. really compelling stuff on a lot of levels. This is a cool idea and I would totally be down for it
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Kuno posted:I've been watching this gay sport for about 2 months and thought it would be cool to go watch the first UFC on fightpass. It was so amazing I immediately watched the next two as well. That is actually a pretty good question and I'm not sure there is a great answer besides "insane billionaires". These rich dudes bought it for $2 million and then proceeded to dump around $40 million into it over 4 or 5 years and were finally at their wits ends (and pondering selling it off) when it started becoming a real thing and making money.
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Gadamer posted:I'm still fairly new to the sport, but I have been training bjj for a little over a year now ( It's probably getting dated by now, but Jason MacDonald vs Maia at UFC 87 was my gold standard for a long time.
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). A grappling showcase would be one I can approach with at least some knowledge, even if they aren't the most exciting.
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fatherdog posted:It is a measure of just how badly Louiseau got the poo poo beaten out of him in that fight that he knocked Franklin down twice and still got 50-42 scorecards. You know it's a good round when one fighter gets knocked down and unquestionably still wins the round
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projecthalaxy posted:What are some funny/notable stories of fighters missing weight? I just read about Shark Fights 17, where Karl Knothe missed weight by 24 pounds as nobody told him his fight with Ricco Rodriguez was signed at a 230 catchweight instead of the 265 he trained for. He was disqualified. Is there a better story out there? TUF 4 was The Comeback season and they invited a bunch of veterans who been not doing well lately to come on the show and get free food and housing for several weeks and just focus on training and becoming better fighters and get back into the UFC. Most of them took this opportunity very seriously because this was their career already (there wasn't a ton of drama in house that I remember) and the two winners of the season would INSTANTLY get a title shot in their respective weight classes. Travis Lutter won for the Middleweight division and got a title shot against Anderson Silva, who had already crushed Chris Leben and Rich Franklin, and looked scary as gently caress. At the first weigh in, Lutter came in at 187, two pounds over weight for a title fight. 2 hours later on his second attempt, he weighed in at 186.5 so the fight became a non-title fight after all. Lutter did okay in the fight for a little bit and even had Anderson Silva mounted at one point before losing. I think it's pretty conceivable in retrospect that if he hadn't had such a bad time cutting weight, he had a real chance at winning and becoming a UFC champion. He lost his next fight to Rich Franklin too and became the first TUF winner to ever be cut from the UFC. He went 1-1 outside of the UFC before retiring.
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david carmichael posted:Ruke dufus is big fan lol
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Memento posted:With the USADA do you guys pronounce each letter or do you say like you-SAA-da? You saw duh
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Cubone posted:What's the origin/meaning of the word "classic" in the titles of wrestling events? ("Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic", "CruiserWeight Classic") Just some old school carny poo poo? clas·sic /ˈklasik/ adjective 1. judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. "a classic novel" synonyms: definitive, authoritative; More noun 1. a work of art of recognized and established value. "his books have become classics" synonyms: definitive example, model, epitome, paradigm, exemplar; More 2. a school subject that involves the study of ancient Greek and Latin literature, philosophy, and history.
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I.N.R.I posted:max allowed is based on ur body weight. i cant remember the exact amount per kg but u wont reach it without pills or powder butt chugging a two liter of coke before i fight is my secret weapon
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Captain Log posted:What website is the least horrible for MMA news? I've been busy for a few months and it seems like they all blow. A lot. I think MMA Junkie is probably somehow the most legitimate, although their website is terrible and has a video autoplay on every page. MMA Mania has been pretty reliable for me for awhile now. On the side, there was an interesting article on Deadspin yesterday that kind of underscored how lovely of a company SB Nation is and why lots of their coverage (like Bloody Elbow) is so bad. I think MMA Mania just basically reports new and is better for it, rather than trying to inject terrible opinions like BE. DumbWhiteGuy fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Aug 15, 2017 |
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He was good but not bathtub good
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Fozzy The Bear posted:He was juicing for every fight. he is definitely off the juice now that he is in bellator though
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Memento posted:Which fight best shows off Vitor Belfort in all of his pure-horsemeat special-sauce glory? 
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LobsterMobster posted:Wasn't there an arm break in the Liddell/Franklin fight? yeah both of these are correct. it's not really uncommon for it to happen. the franklin/chuck one and the early forrest griffin vs Edson Paredao are the ones i always think of
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STONE COLD 64 posted:has anyone ever won a fight with a big ol wind up punch? 
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Mr. Nice! posted:He'd get wrecked by pretty much any amateur fighter let alone a professional one. i've been following this guy for awhile and all his videos really kick rear end because he just beats the poo poo out of these wushu masters
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shadow puppet of a posted:Cam I please get a life update on elite xc’s resident rapper Jared “$kala” Shaw? His Twitter is dead, I hope he isn’t too. what are the odds this is just gary shaw's personal info  anyway i can't find anything about his son
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LobsterMobster posted:possible answer: poster has shy arteries that refuse to be compressed every once in awhile, someone remembers you can just step over the bjj person and completely neutralize them
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I'm watching DAZN boxing tonight and a guy sounded like Frank Shamrock was commentating. Which leads me to the question, what ever happened to Frank Shamrock because I remember he got braces to do more desk work and I haven't heard anything about him in years.
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I recall hearing him actually dying due to an allergic reaction to hash which caused his brain to swell, but I don't know if that's true. Supposedly he almost died from it once before and they told him he needed to stop but he was already living that kind of lifestyle.
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