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So TUF already started and no one made a thread. Maybe because it seems like 3 TUFs are constantly airing in between wednesday afternoon UFC cards. Anyways, your coaches for this season are. The new* and motivated* - BJ Penn  And the people's champ. A fighter so nice he was robbed by Bendo twice - Frankie Edgar  I think BJ is a volleyball headed turd, but he's a legend and along with holding belts (in two weight classes) Penn has put on some of the most exciting fights in the Octagon. Frankie is chill, also exciting and like Penn is a legend in the making. Frankie was a former dominant lightweight champion (while only cutting two pounds) until thieving Ben Henderson literally robbed Frankie of the belt twice. This will be Frankie and BJ's third bout with the previous two being won by Frankie (He'll win the third too). Despite BJ being a bit of a hothead and losing to Frankie, the two seem to respect each other and have gotten along very well in the first episode. The conversations between Penn Dana and Edgar in the first episode alone make it worth tracking down. This is a LHW and MW season. Moving on, since the first episode is already over, the teams have been picked and they look like this. Team Edgar Corey Anderson (205) Patrick Walsh (205) Matt Van Buren (205) Todd Monaghan (205) Dhiego Lima (185) Ian Stephens (185) Eddie Gordon (185) Hector Urbina (185) Team Penn Anton Berzin (205) Josh Clark (205) Dan Spohn (205) Chris Fields (205) Mike King (185) Tim Williams (185) Cathal Pendred (185) Roger Zapata (185) Things that happened -A literal furry got eliminated in one of the fights to get into the house -Two Irish fighters slid into the house on sheer luck. One because his opponent didn't show up or was injured or something and the other because he was getting the poo poo beat out of him until his opponent blew out his knee. They then zoomed in on Connor Mcgregor's smug face as he said "luck-o-dee Irish" -The opening fights were almost all really good which is promising and I can't remember the last TUF where I thought that -Mike King and Nordine Taleb put on the fight of the season already and it was better than everything on the Bisping Kennedy card barring Poirier dropping Corrasani. Shame Nordine isn't in the house -Frankie and BJ don't have beef Why you should watch -The fights might be ok this season -Mark Coleman Seltzer fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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I was just wondering why there wasn't a thread for this up and then had the same feeling that there were too many TUF's going on. I'm in the middle of watching the opening fights and there have been some really good ones so far. Also hilarious that the Bellator champion didn't get in.
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Apr 17, 2014 22:25
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You left the whole shorts cutting thing out of Things That Happened which was up there with Ants In the Pants the polar bear otherkin as funniest thing in the episode.
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Apr 17, 2014 22:30
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quote:-The opening fights were almost all really good which is promising and I can't remember the last TUF where I thought that The Bisping/Miller season with all lower weightclasses had a ton of great fights to get into the house. That's the season where Dodson, Bermudez, Diego Brandao and TJ Dillashaw came from.
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Apr 17, 2014 22:32
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Sprecherscrow posted:You left the whole shorts cutting thing out of Things That Happened which was up there with Ants In the Pants the polar bear otherkin as funniest thing in the episode. Ha true, but now that you mentioned it I guess people will know. There never was a answer to why the shorts got cut so it slipped my head. Also yea a former Bellator champ didn't make it into the house and Dana poo poo talked Bellator on air. It was good.
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Apr 17, 2014 22:33
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can you fine folks please alert me when Mark "The Hammer" Coleman appears in an episode so i don't have to watch the other parts. thank you.
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Apr 17, 2014 22:33
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Seltzer posted:Ha true, but now that you mentioned it I guess people will know. There never was a answer to why the shorts got cut so it slipped my head. Also yea a former Bellator champ didn't make it into the house and Dana poo poo talked Bellator on air. It was good. Frankie asked one of his coaches about it and one of the fighters insisted it was good luck and did it to everyone's shorts. We never find out who though.
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Apr 17, 2014 22:34
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Sprecherscrow posted:Frankie asked one of his coaches about it and one of the fighters insisted it was good luck and did it to everyone's shorts. We never find out who though. Everyone except the guy who blew his knee out. 
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Apr 17, 2014 22:57
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Intel&Sebastian posted:The Bisping/Miller season with all lower weightclasses had a ton of great fights to get into the house. That's the season where Dodson, Bermudez, Diego Brandao and TJ Dillashaw came from.
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Apr 17, 2014 23:12
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Seltzer posted:A literal furry got eliminated in one of the fights to get into the house 
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Apr 18, 2014 00:27
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Triticum Guzzler posted:can you fine folks please alert me when Mark "The Hammer" Coleman appears in an episode so i don't have to watch the other parts. thank you. Agreed. On all counts.
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Apr 18, 2014 01:25
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The guy who'd failed to get in to the house before landing a punch and celebrating but the fight continuing and him ending up being arm-barred was pretty funny.
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Apr 18, 2014 01:37
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TerryCheesecake posted:The guy who'd failed to get in to the house before landing a punch and celebrating but the fight continuing and him ending up being arm-barred was pretty funny. Also a good reminder that no matter how cool walkaway KOs look, the best move for your career is to keep throwing punches until your opponent can't remember the faces of their parents.
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Apr 18, 2014 02:08
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fatherdog posted:Also a good reminder that no matter how cool walkaway KOs look, the best move for your career is to keep throwing punches until your opponent can't remember the faces of their parents. It's hard to do that against a man of God who has Jesus on his side (and no custody of his kids).
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Apr 18, 2014 03:01
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If there isn't a new "Take 'im down, Andeeee" interspersed with BJ taking the piss out of the new Andy, there's really no point in him even being there.
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Apr 18, 2014 07:31
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I guess Anton is kind of a friend and I would like to see him do well but I'm also not really that invested.
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Apr 18, 2014 11:37
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Even though Lyman Good didn't get in, 3 dudes who got booted from Bellator for being lovely did get in. Matt "The Gutter" Van Buren (205) 2-2 in Bellator Josh "The Hillbilly Heartthrob" Clark (205) - 0-1 Bellator Dan "Dragon" Spohn (205) - 1-3 Bellator Cathal Pendred's last fight was a win over Che Mills, so there's a chance he's not complete poo poo. The Gutter isn't even the worst nickname this season, that honor goes to Tim "The South Jersey Strangler" Williams. The only other mildly interesting thing is Hector "El Toro" Urbina has losses against Mayhem and Tim Kennedy.
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Apr 18, 2014 17:26
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Ariza posted:The Gutter isn't even the worst nickname this season, that honor goes to Tim "The South Jersey Strangler" Williams. Actually that nickname is really good
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Apr 18, 2014 18:31
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Matt came from my gym in Virginia Beach and I have had the chance to train with him quite a few times (he was actually in town and we rolled on tuesday). He is a genuinely nice guy and a real southern boy. As for his nickname, it was never "The Gutter", just "Gutter". Hopefully he will break out the "Guttertine".
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Apr 18, 2014 19:01
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Ariza posted:Even though Lyman Good didn't get in, 3 dudes who got booted from Bellator for being lovely did get in. They probably threw the best wrestler they had there at Lyman so Dana could go "Bellator, LOL, amirite?", which is kind of unnecessary because Bellator does a good enough job of looking stupid by itself without having to drag their former fighters into it.
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Apr 18, 2014 20:56
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Max Awfuls posted:They probably threw the best wrestler they had there at Lyman so Dana could go "Bellator, LOL, amirite?", which is kind of unnecessary because Bellator does a good enough job of looking stupid by itself without having to drag their former fighters into it. It's debatable if he was the best wrestler or not, but he was 4-0 so it's not like they were throwing a monster at him.
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Apr 18, 2014 21:32
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:It's debatable if he was the best wrestler or not, but he was 4-0 so it's not like they were throwing a monster at him. Yeah, Good is 18-3 and has been fighting professionally for nearly 10 years, on paper this was a hugely lopsided in his favor.
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Apr 18, 2014 21:39
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Thats all part of the plan
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Apr 18, 2014 21:40
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The dude who beat Lyman Good wrestled a goon whose username I don't remember on XFC like three years ago. e: We all cheered when said goon got rubber guard and then lost 30-27. Foul Fowl fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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Apr 18, 2014 22:00
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I guess this is the TUF I want to be watching just now. I stopped at TUF4 when trying to watch through from the start and haven't watched anything since
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Apr 18, 2014 22:04
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Foul Fowl posted:The dude who beat Lyman Good wrestled a goon whose username I don't remember on XFC like three years ago. Somethingsomething Flash was his username, iirc. Have you ever thought about doing the Philly/Jersey TUF tryouts, FDog? I think they show up at the Migliarese school every so often. Anton is one of Ricardo's dudes I think. Maybe I'll stop being a baby and try someday.
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Apr 18, 2014 22:50
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omg chael crash posted:Somethingsomething Flash was his username, iirc. fatherdog posted:I don't think they're accepting 0-1 amateur fighters anymore, even if I were interested in spending six weeks of accrued vacation time on being in a frat house for people with father issues at this point in my life. I should go watch the next ones, though.
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Apr 18, 2014 22:51
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Yeah, fair enough. Don't think I would want to sit out of a semester of grad school either. I did get to hang around a year or two ago and watch. Bellator tryouts as well.
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Apr 18, 2014 23:06
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fatherdog posted:Yeah, Good is 18-3 and has been fighting professionally for nearly 10 years, on paper this was a hugely lopsided in his favor. I was genuinely shocked when he got wrestlefucked out of TUF. Are any of his Bellator wins any good? The only two guys I recognize from his record are Rick Hawn and Askren, both of whom beat him. He won the inaugural Bellator WW belt, which could mean absolutely jack poo poo because he immediately lost it to Askren.
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Apr 18, 2014 23:36
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Stephens was the first picked, wasn't he? He must have looked pretty good in the cut footage.
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Apr 18, 2014 23:58
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vainman posted:Stephens was the first picked, wasn't he? He must have looked pretty good in the cut footage. Unfortunately, I don't think Stephens can ever look good.
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Apr 19, 2014 00:55
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Walsh and Berzin looked the sharpest in my untrained eye
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Apr 19, 2014 01:41
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Ariza posted:I was genuinely shocked when he got wrestlefucked out of TUF. Are any of his Bellator wins any good? The only two guys I recognize from his record are Rick Hawn and Askren, both of whom beat him. He won the inaugural Bellator WW belt, which could mean absolutely jack poo poo because he immediately lost it to Askren. Good won back when Bellator was on ESPN Deportes with a welterweight division featuring absolutely nobody you've ever heard of, which is why I picked Askren to take his belt the instant they announced he was signed.
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Apr 19, 2014 01:48
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omg chael crash posted:Yeah, fair enough. Don't think I would want to sit out of a semester of grad school either. I did get to hang around a year or two ago and watch. Bellator tryouts as well. Next time they do the tryouts, we should try and get NJ/Philly psp goons to get together and spectate, I remember the footage of the last NYC tryouts being entertaining.
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Apr 19, 2014 01:50
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fatherdog posted:Next time they do the tryouts, we should try and get NJ/Philly psp goons to get together and spectate, I remember the footage of the last NYC tryouts being entertaining. I'm in NYC but I'd be up for that.
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Apr 19, 2014 01:52
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Who would be the likeliest goon to get on the show? We need an inside man. Or woman. (LobsterMobster, learn to fight and get on a show please.)
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Apr 19, 2014 02:49
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Captain Log posted:Who would be the likeliest goon to get on the show? We need an inside man. mobn
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Apr 19, 2014 03:10
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I have the back problems of Dan Henderson once shook Dan Severn's hand so I think I'm pretty much ready to go.
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Apr 19, 2014 03:13
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I have a 1 - 2 record and a purple belt but I did wrestle in highschool for 2 years. Am I ready, coach? Fdog as my grappling couch, Gregor my Thai couch, Atom as my PR guy, and Twitter man as my groupie. Put me in omg chael crash fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Apr 19, 2014 |
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I found it odd that the pre fight interviews made it a point to mention two guys were getting a second chance to get in the TUF house, but made no mention of Nordine Taleb actually being on the just finished TUF Nations: Canada v Australia. He lost to that dumb Aussie with the racist instagram post. Poor guy, he was in two awesome fights that could have gone either way. Also that [inverted?] kneebar bent his knee in a gruesome way. That was more cringworthy than Andersons leg kick. This episode was better than the whole season of TUF Nations. tesilential fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Apr 19, 2014 |
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