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Dangersim posted:Diego Sanchez is not a good fighter. nope, but I give him a better shot at beating Conor than Poirier had tbh. It ain't like Conor is going to run a wrestling clinic on Diego and winning striking exchanges with Diego has never mattered in the eyes of the judges.
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Bubba Smith posted:nope, but I give him a better shot at beating Conor than Poirier had tbh. It ain't like Conor is going to run a wrestling clinic on Diego and winning striking exchanges with Diego has never mattered in the eyes of the judges. Or in Diego's
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Oct 2, 2014 08:17
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Conor is going to make so much loving money to decimate a Can.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:21
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He's gonna get knocked out fast and then look really disappointed.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:21
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He expended too much energy and got tired
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CarlCX posted:Conor McGregor is going to get a title shot based on beating a dude who hasn't won a fight in 4+ years and it's going to be hilarious. Gilbert. Melendez.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:25
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Brett Okamoto @bokamotoESPN 18m 18 minutes ago Dana White on Conor in Mexico: That kid is nuts. No he's not. He wants to but he's not. Sorry gang. Besides, doing Conor vs Diego on that card would be dumb when Lamas and Bermudez are supposed to appear and both guys would actually be sensible matchups for McGregor.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:30
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I don't really have any specific reasons but I'm not nearly as high on Bermudez as some people are.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:33
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Sorry Conor you can't do the thing Chael just told the media about, it doesn't work like that
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Oct 2, 2014 08:39
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Triticum Guzzler posted:Sorry Conor you can't do the thing Chael just told the media about, it doesn't work like that lmao, you're right.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:41
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Dangersim posted:I don't really have any specific reasons but I'm not nearly as high on Bermudez as some people are. It's because he lost to Holloway, isn't it?
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Oct 2, 2014 08:45
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It's a pretty simple process. Step one, get GSP to unretire. Step two, say you're fighting on the same card as him. Step three, release a video of yourself training by running with a keg of beer on your shoulder and drinking the keg as you run just like Minnesota Wrecking Crew legend "The Crusher". Another good option would be to eat a turnbuckle like George "The Animal" Steele.
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JuanGoat posted:It's because he lost to Holloway, isn't it? I'm not even sure if I saw that fight but wikipedia tells it was a split. I dunno it was more when he beat Guida everyone seemed to think he was the next big thing but Guida was never that great, and now he's old with a million miles on him.
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Triticum Guzzler posted:Sorry Conor you can't do the thing Chael just told the media about, it doesn't work like that Chael's streak of literally never saying anything of substance or truth improbably continues
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Oct 2, 2014 09:10
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Bermudez is a Division 1 wrestler who can withstand a ridiculous beating (and give it back) and manhandled Guida in a way that very few, if any, had done before. He's also seemed to have gotten progressively better every fight even as he's moved up in competition. However, I do get that he hasn't faced real top competition yet, but if he wins the fight with Lamas he would have to be taken seriously as a contender. I'm pretty hyped on him though.
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Oct 2, 2014 09:14
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Dennis Bermudez is a guy I like quite a bit but I think he'll be at his peak in a year or two. Right now he's still a little wild and has a tendency to leave a lot of openings for guys looking to counter, but he's tough as an old boot and probably the best non TAM wrestler in the division. There'd be a lot more to like about him if he fought smarter. I think he'll end up getting beaten by someone higher up the rankings - in a tight fight and end up actually becoming a contender once he acknowledges his deficiencies. He needs to get better at putting his grappling and striking together because at the moment he has a slight tendency to stand off a little bit and then commit to one or the other rather than flowing between them like the elite grapple punchmen like Cruz, Melendez, and mighty mouse. He's a lot like Faber is in that department. Since the Grice fight he's been a little bit smarter, but he could benefit from doing away with the "war" mentality and actually game plan for guys, because he should've destroyed Holloway with his wrestling alone.
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Oct 2, 2014 09:53
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Can someone please inform me of a good fighter who is box-of-hammers dumb that could be taught to fight smarter / could fight so well that fight iq doesn't matter?
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Marching Powder posted:Can someone please inform me of a good fighter who is box-of-hammers dumb that could be taught to fight smarter / could fight so well that fight iq doesn't matter? I think Tarec Saffiedine is a very talented fighter, but he made some dumb decisions in the Lim fight. He could have stopped that fight at multiple points in the third round and beyond when Lim could barely walk, but didn't do it and ended up giving Lim the chance to almost TKO him in the fifth round. Still have no idea what he was thinking to let that fight go to decision.
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Marching Powder posted:Can someone please inform me of a good fighter who is box-of-hammers dumb that could be taught to fight smarter / could fight so well that fight iq doesn't matter? Uriah Hall clearly has ungodly power and ability, but he also has maybe the worst fight IQ I've ever seen. Thankfully he seems to be trying to change that. I just want the lemonade drinkin', spinkickin', KO from the bottom monster that we were promised by a season of reality television.
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Dangersim posted:Diego Sanchez is not a good fighter. Yeah, what's his best win, Gomi? (I love Diego, but will admit he is severely lacking in both brains and fighting abilities) Charles Gnarwin posted:Uriah Hall clearly has ungodly power and ability, but he also has maybe the worst fight IQ I've ever seen. Thankfully he seems to be trying to change that. I just want the lemonade drinkin', spinkickin', KO from the bottom monster that we were promised by a season of reality television. All he has to do is hang out with Chael P 24 hours a day and he'll be back in top form.
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LobsterMobster posted:Yeah, what's his best win, Gomi? It was kind of obvious to everybody except the judges that he lost to Pearson and Gomi. In fact if I remember the Gomi fight even Sanchez was surprised and confused when the split went his way. The Kampmann fight wasn't as bad as those, but still highly dubious. Like somebody else said above, Diego maybe hasn't won a fight in 4 years. His best win in his career is probably Nick Diaz a million years ago (also his best fight).
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There was a time right after TUF where Diego looked like an absolute beast, then he fought Josh Koscheck and laid an egg and never really got the hype back. Edit: Also at that point he was crazy because Diego has always been crazy, but he hadn't lapsed into the self parody we see today. Dangersim fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 13:54
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Dangersim posted:There was a time right after TUF where Diego looked like an absolute beast, then he fought Josh Koscheck and laid an egg and never really got the hype back. Was it the Kos or the Fitch fight where Diego was riddled with staph? Also, I think his run at lightweight was good, beating up Joe Stevenson when that was stated to be An Impressive Thing. Then BJ Penn proved that Diego was too stupid to get knocked out. But hey, at least he's a 3-time Wrestling Observer Newsletter Fight of the Year winner
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Oct 2, 2014 14:06
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I think it was Kos, because he pretty much didn't do anything in that fight.
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Oct 2, 2014 14:13
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My favourite thing about Diego is the fact that he managed to get kicked in the head by BJ Penn.
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I really loved that time where Diego sprinted at a guy and kneed him senseless.
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Brasseye posted:I really loved that time where Diego sprinted at a guy and kneed him senseless. Joe Riggs. His tooth flew out of his mouth iirc.
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gently caress. I didn't get to check twitter this morning so when I saw the McGregor post in here I was praying there wouldn't be a post proving it to be false. I remember in the Gomi fight when Greg Jackson gave Diego a big speech before the third round about fighting for his family and a bunch of poo poo and then Diego came sprinting at Gomi to start the round and he got punched in the face.
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I think it's reasonable to assume Conor has been reading Chaels recent articles on booking your own fights for fun and profit, and being unashamed to call out the absolute worst person you think you can get booked against. Diego is too hyped up just fighting on his own, he would probably burst a brain vein getting trolled by Conor for an entire fight camp. I'm pretty sure he was one of the most aggrieved dudes when Conor originally went on that tear where he gave quick poo poo talk soundbites on all of FW after he beat Brimage and he's not even in that weightclass. Conor did talk about fighting at 155 in his little post fight scrum though, about how he's done it before, and said he'd really enjoy being able to eat a steak (which he described in lurid detail) 2 weeks out.
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Street Horrrsing posted:Chael's streak of literally never saying anything of substance or truth improbably continues Lmao sure dude
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Dangersim posted:Joe Riggs. His tooth flew out of his mouth iirc. The tooth thing was Karo, I think.  Riggs fight:  Diego used to be really fun to watch  Now there's just kind of this air of perfunctoriness about most of his fights.
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Oct 2, 2014 16:51
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That was Karo's veneer. for actual flying teeth watch that old UFC where the Sumo gets kicked by the eye-gouging devil or Machida waxing on Randy Couture's face.
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colonel_korn posted:The tooth thing was Karo, I think. I think if Joe gets back to his wrestling background he'll do ok. He's shown to have a single leg shot.
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Bubba Smith posted:Brett Okamoto @bokamotoESPN 18m 18 minutes ago That sucks, I'd have really looked forward to that as a fan of both guys.
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Oct 2, 2014 16:57
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Pretty sure all Randy's chompers were veneers by the time he No Could Defend.
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Oct 2, 2014 16:57
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Conor calling out Diego probably means he's been told the Edgar v Swanson winner gets the next title shot, which is cool.
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LobsterMobster posted:I think if Joe gets back to his wrestling background he'll do ok. He's shown to have a single leg shot. 
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Oct 2, 2014 17:08
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I really want to know why the gently caress Diego doesn't wrestle anymore. We are well past the point where he should've taken stock of his idiotic brawling style and fell out of love with his own striking, which was never as good as his grappling anyway. At least if he was still taking people down in between bouts of winged arm spaz punches there would be some reason behind gifting him dumb decisions. Maybe some kind of back injury? Did John Hathaway embarrass him that badly? Hath G-d forsaken him?
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Oct 2, 2014 17:16
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He can't close the distance on anybody these days.
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Oct 2, 2014 17:24
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The answer is because Diego Sanchez is punch drunk at the best of times and probably legally retarded.
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