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 Welcome to the GDT for UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi, 10 p.m. ET  SUNDAY Jan 14, 2018 on Fox Sports 1!It took a long time comin’ but it’s finally here: The UFC is coming to my beloved hometown of St. Louis. A city so (unfairly depicted as) prone to violent crime that posters from Nashville think they have the moral high ground. A place where our signature pizza is a cracker covered in fake cheese and if you don’t like it you can go back to Chicago. A city where all our local celebrities actually aren’t too terrible except that goddamn loving no talent Doobie Brothers ruining assclown Michael McDonald, and yet for some reason we still felt compelled to adopt Sammy Hagar. So grab a batch of toasted ravioli and throw it all up from vertigo at the City Museum and watch an extremely fun-looking night of fights down by the river. Featherweight  Jeremy Stephens vs.  The Korean Superboy Doo Ho Choi Des Moines is not home to any major baseball or hockey teams that could have rivalries with the Blues or Cardinals, so the average white St. Louisian will not know much about it, but most of those people DO have a belligerent violent friend or family member who starts poo poo in bars and is wanted in their hometown, so I think Jeremy Stephens will fit right in for the UFC’s debut in the Gateway to the West. Stephens just dropped a split decision to Renato Moicano in the UFC’s first trip to the Show-Me State so some people are starting to wonder whether he’s fading back into journeyman obscurity, but an easy fight of the night win over Renan Barao and a very competitive loss to perennial title challenger Frankie Edgar suggest the 31-year-old still has a little tread on the tires. He’s got heavy hands and has pulled off beautiful finishes over Dennis Bermudez and Rafael dos Anjos (way back in 2008 :popeyes: ) so he always has people excited for the possibility of a cool KO. St. Louis does not have a Koreatown that I am aware of but we do have a popular Korean-Mex fusion restaurant, Seoul Taco. Their gogi bowls are the good poo poo, and so are the Korean Superboy’s fights. His bout with Cub Swanson was on everyone’s short list for fight of the year and is so good the UFC have used it to hype this fight even though he lost. That fight also pulled the plug on his undefeated streak in the UFC, all of which were by KO finish and two of which won him a cool $50,000 bonus check. We probably only have a year left before Choi has to perform his patriotic duty of staring somewhat nervously across the DMZ for a few years while wondering if today is the day that Kim Jong Un or Donald Trump will finally posture too hard to compensate for being tiny-handed fat idiots, and that makes us all very sad, so be sure to tune in for this one. Middleweight  Vitor “the Phenom” Belfort vs.  Uriah “Stay Black” Hall Have you guys ever heard of the Lemp Brewing Company and the associated family’s home, the Lemp Mansion? The St. Louis manor is said to be super haunted, in large part because the last Lemp patriarch to occupy the home, Charles, was so depressed from being financially ruined by prohibition that he committed suicide in the house after shooting his dog. I just thought that was interesting, considering that after Vitor loses this fight embarrassingly he is going to appear in Bjorn Rebney’s start-up Tijuana fight league looking like Michelangelo’s gayest daydream about Pride era Alistair Overeem. With that said, this fight could be as strong as Nelly’s solo debut “Country Grammar” or as weak as that mixtape you got pressured into buying off of a 15 year old with a knife hanging outside the MetroLink station off North Hanley. Vitor has his weird party trick of being extremely dangerous for three minutes and wilting immediately at that point, and since he got older and USADA came along he hasn’t even been able to rely on that. Uriah Hall meanwhile is also prone to extremely flashy KOs and strong performances — if he feels like it. I personally hope his management team makes sure he does not go up in the Arch or at least is aware that it sways a little in the wind by design, because the resulting weeks-long anxiety attack it puts him in will likely make him refuse to pull the trigger. The guy just needs to relax and let loose. Maybe find one of our fine adult barcade establishments where he can play Street Fighter 2 and drink lemonade in a corner by himself. Then we will see a flying triple spinning lutz kick KO for sure. Women’s Strawweight  Paige “Women Fighters I Can No Longer Bring Myself to GIS” VanZant vs.  Jessica Rose-Clark There’s a trashy supernatural romance-thriller paperback series out of St. Louis called the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. It might tragically be our chief literary export, as it got big enough that the titular character had a comic book crossover with Wolverine for a bit. Anyway, it’s about this woman, Anita Blake, who is like a professional zombie raiser or some poo poo, and she also fights vampires and fucks werewolves and provides consultation services for the gestapo responsible for policing this poo poo and making sure it stays in places like Delmar or Ferguson, where no one will turn a blind eye at dozens of corpses turning up with all their blood drained because they were all Paige VanZant reportedly ducked several already-middling potential opponents to make this fight happen. Rose-Clark just made her UFC debut with a split decision win over Bec Rawlings for which she missed weight. She’s 3-3, 1 NC over the past few years. Honestly she has pretty good odds here. Welterweight  Kamaru Usman Vs.  Emil Weber Meek Kamaru Usman is a lot like the Museum of Westward Expansion under the Arch. I know I have seen it multiple times. I even vaguely feel like I liked some of the things I saw. But like hell I can tell you a single thing about it. My fellow white folk from the county may be somewhat distrustful of foreign visitors to our fine city and ignorant of their ways, but you only had to overhear chatter in the stands at a single Cards game in the year and a half that followed the Ferguson protests to understand that the Nord will be the heavy favorite here over the Nigerian-American. With that said he probably deserves it — his UFC debut was a solid if not somewhat unmemorable win over Jordan Mein, but right before that he embarrassed Rousimar Palhares in Italy and that owns. OTHER poo poo TO WATCH FS1 Prelims, 6 ET Featherweight Darren Elkins vs. Michael Johnson Lightweight James Krause vs. Alex White Lightweight Matt Frevola vs. Marco Polo Reyes Welterweight Thiago Alves vs. Zak Cummings Lord Waffle Beard Memorial Fight Pass Prelims, x ET Women's Flyweight Kalindra Faria vs. Jessica Eye Women's Bantamweight Talita Bernardo vs Irene Aldana Women's Strawweight Danielle Taylor vs. JJ Aldrich Featherweight Mike Santiago vs. Mads Burnell Bantamweight Kyung Ho Kang vs. Guido Cannett OFFICIAL MMA SNACK RATING: If you’re in North County then the Cecil Whittakers on Howdershell, but all Cecil’s locations are independently owned and operated and can vary pretty wildly in terms of quality and service, and also the Howdershell location took out its Street Fighter 2 machine several years ago in a testament to how our childhoods cannot truly stay golden and I am still unreasonably upset about that, so basically if you’re elsewhere in town I would probably recommend Imos over Cecil’s for a more consistent and reliable experience, but regardless of where you go be sure to get some T-Ravs and get bacon and sausage on your pizza 
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Jan 13, 2018 19:23
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that was some vintage 2010 double futile leglock grappling
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Jan 15, 2018 01:42
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*Herb Dean wades into Melendez vs Sanchez* come on lets work
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Jan 15, 2018 02:00
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a little insider knowledge from the ground floor, Frevola is walking out to Kung Fu Fighting and thus will win
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Jan 15, 2018 03:02
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the music was wrong
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Jan 15, 2018 03:06
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i like that paul felder is nodding sagely like he understood that
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Jan 15, 2018 03:12
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Alex White and I have something of a willie dee/JT relationship, except it started with actual for real journalism and it doesnt involve prolonged sporadic contact long after the fact or severe mental illness. gotta root for him
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Jan 15, 2018 03:41
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gotta say, thats not a great decision
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Jan 15, 2018 03:53
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he looks like the type of frankenstein that rockabilly people believe in
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Jan 15, 2018 04:25
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im that one guy in that famous black and white photo in the crowd who refused to heil hitler rn
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Jan 15, 2018 04:35
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I'm not gonna boo a man for thoroughly exploiting his opponent's weakness to shut down his entire game, and I am especially not going to boo that man for 'stalling' when the main reason for inactivity is because his opponent's only solution to getting schooled on the ground was to grab his arm or leg and hold on for dear life. Good show from Usman.
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Jan 15, 2018 05:05
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El Roncho posted:Your co-main event, everybody. at least we got provel
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Jan 15, 2018 05:38
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man black mirror has really hosed up burglars' relations with their victims' harmless pets, hasnt it
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Jan 15, 2018 05:41
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kim jong un please end it all now
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Jan 15, 2018 06:10
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Choi's translator posted:This white devil has cursed the name of the great republic of south korea, please do what you must in the parking lot
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Ulio posted:30% Usman vs Sea Level Cain make it happen Dana.
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