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Akiyama coming out to Con Te Partiro Cemented him as one of my favorite fringe mma characters of all time.
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CarlCX posted:Brazilians.txt Lmao. Thanks for sharing this.
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Seltzer posted:When? Synthol and photoshop are a hell of a mix.
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no Iranian Hulk really does look like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKK__6xLK_U
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coconono posted:no Iranian Hulk really does look like that. Surprisingly no video of him with his shirt off. Only stills. Will he take his shirt off for the fight and have a big old belly?
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Extremely boring post ahead. Was combing the OP and saw this quote which almost exactly describes my experience with UFC quote:Well, if you’re reading this you’re probably an MMA fan, and the odds are you probably have said something like “I used to follow MMA, but I don’t know who the fighters are anymore.” It’s true – the UFC has purged the fighters of their own identities underneath brand-centric promotion and uniforms and poo poo. There’s a lot of nostalgia for the days when we could watch a fat dude with tribal tattoos and shorts with CONDOM DEPOT on the rear end get his face broken open. That was the dream of the 00s I went from watching basically every UFC card to 2-3 supercards a year about three years ago. My MMA viewing just fell off a cliff. Between the fighter sanitization via reebok and Dana's insane micromanaging of what level of personality is acceptable (vetoing walkout music destroying basically all theatrics except for a chosen few teachers pets). Every undercard fight seems to be a battle between a charismaless midwestern wrestler who can punch vs a charismaless Brazilian BJJ practitioner with suspect kickboxing. I'm sure a lot of what I'm experiencing is nostalgia, and that some lessening of fighters as characters in mma has come via pressure to be bland because of social media and the fact that MMA as a discipline and career path is now an actual avenue instead of a sport crazy people fell into, but I still think most of the blame is to be shouldered by the UFC. The other thing that killed UFC for me and plays into the first point is the complete oversaturation of cards. Back when they were running ~1 card every one to two months you would watch a UFC card off the strength of it being a UFC card. Nowadays you have way too much going on and the cards are completely watered down. Instead of five fights being interesting I found my self thinking "I want to see that Stun Gun Kim fight on the prelims and the main event for the belt" and that's not enough to devote a whole night watching a card for. Fighters are less spotlighted and cards are bloated with boring fighters and matchups. I called that happening as soon as the fox deal started ramping up the amount of cards. At the time I was told "how can you be mad about more stuff to see" but I was right (not trying to score points just remembering). Add into the fact that Ronda and then Conor brought in some of the worst fans on earth and the PSP threads started to nosedive in quality and I just kinda gave up entirely on watching MMA. It's hosed, I've been enjoying boxing way more these past years despite the scoring being criminal and my favorite fighters getting screwed. I know I unleashed a boring rant but the quote in the OP hit home. Also when I read the rosters outside the UFC I was surprised by all the names I didn't realize were cut/ how I actually knew those names and was interested in a lot of them. Mousasi, Nelson, Rory, Josh Thomson, Cruickshank. Those are all fighters I would be excited to see on a card and have interesting personalities for better or worse. Bellator actually looks fun after reading that OP. I kinda want to get back into watching MMA a little bit but probably stick to B-league. Is there a discord for watching these cards? I remember years ago the IRC channel was still really active and a lot of people would get on for funny B league cards but IRC is basically dead now. Seltzer fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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If you're watching just post in the thread. In the literal worst-case scenario of shitloads of people posting and people geting pissed off, and the people posting can make a GDT. It's more likely that your posts will remind people that there's a card on, and then there's discussion. Problem we want to have imo, and far superior to silence. FWIW the weird goddamn thing about UFC right now is that there are shitloads of amazing fighters, fights, and cards, but the blanket of anonymity that has fallen over all of them makes it more effort to watch now than in the days where poo poo was weird and obscure.
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CommonShore posted:If you're watching just post in the thread. In the literal worst-case scenario of shitloads of people posting and people geting pissed off, and the people posting can make a GDT. It's more likely that your posts will remind people that there's a card on, and then there's discussion. Problem we want to have imo, and far superior to silence. Yea, just seems like there should be a discord by now. I mean theres one for everything. Also when I used to watch the B - Leagues I thought this thread didn't really get much traction outside like real big Bellator events? Idk it kinda sucks in the kickboxing thread watching a big card and it's you and one person posting lol.
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Seltzer posted:Extremely boring post ahead. #mma is still going but there were a core group of crazy people that would watch every single b league card and they're all either homeless, dead, or in prison now. it's still pretty good for every UFC and most bellator cards though
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willie_dee posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-GrV8alTOk Making money off his toddler seems to not have been enough to pay the bills.
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Seltzer posted:Extremely boring post ahead. This is me, also. The UFC’s average fighter skill level is probably the highest it’s ever been, but I could not care less about the sport. Maybe I’ll catch highlights on YouTube later, but sitting down to watch an entire card spread across 6 hours on 3 channels and a streaming service will never happen. I would rather go to a local b league card, or watch former ufc dudes on bellator, than watch ufc. I think the fox deal could have been good as a a feeder-style system to hype up new prospects and get casual viewers interested, but they decided to oversaturate with a card every weekend instead, occasionally two. Combined with the rebook deal it just watered down every event and killed all the personality that makes it fun to watch. red19fire fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Dec 6, 2018 |
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Speaking of former UFC dudes on Bellator! https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/1070543653888774144
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Crop Crop, stop it. You're embarrassing your grand kids.
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He's on the longest winning streak of his career.
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TastyAvocado posted:He's on the longest winning streak of his career. Huh. You’re right. However, his last three wins were against a guy with no Wikipedia page, a guy who is almost fifty and has a 27-20 record, and a guy whose entire MMA resume is like seven C-league fights. I guess as long as Cro Cop swims in shallow waters, it might not be so bad to have him around for a few more years.
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Let's not forget that he first retired after getting KO'ed by Nelson seven years ago. While not completely shot like Chuck, I do worry about the permanent damage that a Big Country haymaker could do.
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Ditch posted:Let's not forget that he first retired after getting KO'ed by Nelson seven years ago. While not completely shot like Chuck, I do worry about the permanent damage that a Big Country haymaker could do. I recall he just fatly laid on him dealing weak shots, it's probably going to be more of the same.
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My MMA viewership started with Tito/Ken 2 and also fell off a cliff, sometime around 2013 when Silva snapped his leg. I caught UFC 229 and it felt like a completely alien experience even before Khabib jumped into the crowd I watched Fighting In The Age Of Loneliness and it does kind of make me want to seek out some new stuff, though. I've never seen a Bellator show and barely watched Pride when it existed.
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Memento posted:Speaking of former UFC dudes on Bellator! I wonder if it's money or just not being able to not fight/train.
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am0kgonzo posted:I wonder if it's money or just not being able to not fight/train. i doubt its money. he has been really successful in rizin .. if you ask me, you might as well do something interesting with your time while you're still alive. lots of athletes compete past their peak, some even go into the amateur or masters ranks to do it purely as a hobby I.N.R.I fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Dec 6, 2018 |
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FishBowlRobot posted:When’s the last time Roy hurt anyone with a punch? bigfoot?
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I.N.R.I posted:i doubt its money. he has been really successful in rizin .. if you ask me, you might as well do something interesting with your time while you're still alive. lots of athletes compete past their peak, some even go into the amateur or masters ranks to do it purely as a hobby A Masters circuit would be cool. In reality, they send these aging lions in to be smashed by powerful young up-and-comers. I mean, not in the Roy Nelson case, but in general. It’d be good if we had a division just for fading legends, so they could continue competing without being used as resume padding for rising stars.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:A Masters circuit would be cool. In reality, they send these aging lions in to be smashed by powerful young up-and-comers. I mean, not in the Roy Nelson case, but in general. It’d be good if we had a division just for fading legends, so they could continue competing without being used as resume padding for rising stars. i agree .. everyone made fun of vitor for suggesting it but most sports have masters brackets. i think people will watch it for one reason or another
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We just had a Master's circuit fight and I'm still scrubbing the shame off.
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CommonShore posted:We just had a Master's circuit fight and I'm still scrubbing the shame off. that's like grand master's for chuck. i would pay to see vitor freed of drug testing and fighting tito and rampage and sonnen. i don't want to see any of those guys younger than 35
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https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1070868064286195713 Its going to be three 3 rounds of pure boxing!
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I.N.R.I posted:i agree .. everyone made fun of vitor for suggesting it but most sports have masters brackets. i think people will watch it for one reason or another I’d watch it. I think the whole “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” thing is a problem in all sports, but even more so in combat sports. No matter how far over the hill you are in MMA, some promoter will put you in a cage, and let you add another concussion to your resume, in order to make you a stepping stone for their fighter, or their promotion. Let’s give these guys a slightly less dangerous way to compete and get paid. Of course... CommonShore posted:We just had a Master's circuit fight and I'm still scrubbing the shame off. This is also true.
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Three rounds and no decision.... Thats so loving stupid. The only upside is that Tenshin can go all out looking for power punches if the fight is 9 minutes but this just screams scam.
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mewse posted:Exhibition boxing bout Floyd continuing his rich tradition of leaving people feeling like they wasted their time and money watching him in a ring.
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SA Forums Poster posted:https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1070868064286195713 Somehow this is even lamer than I expected. I really appreciate Floyd not wanting to give the tiniest advantage in the rules to the guy he outweighs by 25 lbs.
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Are there any legends of gentler fixing in Pride than straight up works? I'm watching a few Pride grappling fights right now and dudes are fighting as if they were told "don't throw too many strikes in this one."
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its a fine line between exhibition matches and match fixing .. in cycling there is the saitama criterium, a japanese road race with predetermined winners, usually the world champion and the years tour de france winner take the first two spots, and then a popular japanese rider finishes third. there's also the keirin which is gambled on but also heavily fixed. on the other hand in sumo match fixing is a huge scandal whenever it happens. so i guess the nuance is really the difference between bob sapp and illegal fraud
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I.N.R.I posted:in cycling there is the saitama criterium, a japanese road race with predetermined winners, usually the world champion and the years tour de france winner take the first two spots, and then a popular japanese rider finishes third. there's also the keirin which is gambled on but also heavily fixed This is so weird
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Seltzer posted:This is so weird well, wrestling has its own appeal too, right? though keirin results are fixed because of yakuza influence and i imagine most of the betting is essentially some form of money laundering. or maybe you might have two or more separate gambling rings trying to have their guy win .. very hard in bike racing because its much easier to take another rider out of the race with tactics than it is to actually win yourself. regardless though, it remains really popular cos the riders are very seriously skilled and uniquely strong
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I.N.R.I posted:its a fine line between exhibition matches and match fixing .. in cycling there is the saitama criterium, a japanese road race with predetermined winners, usually the world champion and the years tour de france winner take the first two spots, and then a popular japanese rider finishes third. there's also the keirin which is gambled on but also heavily fixed. on the other hand in sumo match fixing is a huge scandal whenever it happens. so i guess the nuance is really the difference between bob sapp and illegal fraud Sorry I don't mean exhibition matches - I mean matches that played out as grappling heavy. I hate to draw attention to it because Sakuraba owns and he's a saint and probably the coolest ever, but in his fights against Carlos Newton and Vernon White, his opponents throw conspicuously few strikes from really any position. There's one point where Newton is in the perfect position to start unloading for what could become fight-ending ground and pound and he just sorta sits there and looks out into the crowd. And then you have Bas going on like "uhhh... it's a code of honour thing" on the post-facto pbp.
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:#mma is still going but there were a core group of crazy people that would watch every single b league card and they're all either homeless, dead, or in prison now. it's still pretty good for every UFC and most bellator cards though im dead but last time I watched a live card at home #mma had the same guys as 2007 in it Bundt Cake fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Dec 7, 2018 |
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