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Last month's thread is here. November was a very busy month in the world of the UFC thread. We had weekly UFC events, our Lord & Savior Sage was cut from the organization, and more. We were treated towards the end of the month to a series of documentary videos by SBNation entitled “Fighting in the Age of Loneliness” by Felix Biederman and Jon Bois which gave us the title of our thread for the month. The five video series was really good and worth watching. Enjoy the first episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNB6tlSZ2A November Recap The UFC events in November were fast and they were certainly furious. First we had UFC 230 featuring a Heavyweight title bout between the Hot Balls of Derrick Lewis and the Cool Dadness of Daniel Cormier. The main event saw Cormier dispatch Lewis handily with an early submission in the 2nd round. The co-main event saw Middleweight contenders Ronaldo Souza and Chris Weidman square off. The two came into the event on losing streaks, and it was Weidman who suffered another loss. The fight was great and saw Weidman taking the lead early, but succumbing to the curse that is fighting in New York if your name is Weidman. Jacare mounted a comeback and a glancing blow to the top of Weidman’s head sent the Strong Island native to the mat until the awkward moment when the referee decided to step in while Souza stood asking for the fight to be done. Also on the UFC 230 card was a solid Middlweight matchup between Derek Brunson and Israel Adesanya. The fight was fairly one sided as Brunson failed to mount any significant offense and his area of strength in the fight, wrestling, was nullified by Adesanya’s takedown defense. The bout didn’t last long as Adesanya put Brunson away with a clear TKO after a series of knockdowns. https://i.gifer.com/3NoiN.mp4 The rest of the card was stacked with a series of solid matchups and worth catching if you haven’t already. The next week the UFC traveled to the Mile High City to celebrate 25 years of Dana White being a fight genius with UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs Rodriguez. The card saw a serious candidate for fight of the year between Yair Rodriguez and The Korean Zombie Chan Sung Jung. The fight was, per the judges, Jungs going into the final round. However in a final flury Rodriguez landed an awkward to spot elbow that clipped Jungs jaw knocking the Korean fighter out in the final second. It’s a hard thing to describe so take in the gif and watch it multiple times to comprehend it. https://i.imgur.com/PHYi8Hy.mp4 In the co-main event of the evening we saw Donald Cerrone and Mike Perry settle their Jackson-Wink beef in the cage and witnessed Cerrone cement himself as a bonafide legend within the UFC earning himself the distinction of being the fighter with the Most Finishes (15) and also holding the title of Most Wins in the UFC (21). Cerrone clinched his titles via a first round armbar submission. Part of his celebration saw him bring out Dacson, his son whose name is basically Donald Anthony Cerrone’s Son, who himself was wearing a Bad Motherfucker Ranch belt buckle and cowboy boots. The week after that the UFC traveled south to Buenos Aires for UFC Fight Night: Magny vs Ponzinibbio. The card continued November’s trend of a handful of great fights. One such fight was between Johnny Walker and Khalil Rountree, where the Brazilian fighter scored an impressive knockout via an elbow from the clinch on Rountree. https://i.imgur.com/Ow9KLIj.mp4 We also saw Santaigo Ponzinibbio take on Neil Magny in the main event where the Argentinian worked over Magny with painful to watch leg kicks throughout the entire fight. Magny seemed to have had trouble with his leg early into the fight and, after a prolonged beating they took including several knockdowns causing Magny to drop to the canvas, Ponzinibbio scored a clean knockout halfway through the 4th round. https://i.imgur.com/3NSWzAT.mp4 The next weekend the UFC traveled to China and held their first event in Beijing with UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs Ngannou 2. The card had a handful of fun fights, some of them featuring local Chinese fighters. One such fight on the undercard was the bout between Welterweights Li Jingliang and David Zawada where The Leech, Jingliang, scored a nice spinning back kick right to Zawada’s liver, setting up a clean TKO victory. https://i.gifer.com/3NpIk.mp4 Alistair Overeem took on Sergey Pavlovich in the co-main event in Pavlovich’s UFC debut. The two heavyweights spent little time trying to put each other out. Overeem was able to take the fight to the ground from the clinch, and quickly followed up with a strong series of punches that put Pavlovich out giving The Demolition Man a TKO victory. https://i.gifer.com/3NpIb.mp4 Finally in the main event, Francis Ngannou and Curtis Blaydes faced off in a rematch of their 2016 meeting. Two year prior, Ngannou beat Blaydes after causing swelling so bad that it blocked Blaydes’ vision. The rematch resulted in the same outcome, albeit a bit different in terms of a finish. Ngannou remained the victor, but his finish of the fight was far cleaner as he dropped Blaydes and left him rocked as he scrambled back to his feet. The referee had seen enough however and Blaydes protested as Ngannou celebrated his first victory since his bid for the UFC Heavyweight title. https://i.gifer.com/3NpIn.mp4 Finally, the returned home to Vegas for the TUF: Heavy Hitters finale. In the main event, former UFC Lightweight Champion and Welterweight Interim Champion contender Rafael Dos Anjos squared off with perennial contender Kamaru Usman. The fight saw Usman use his size and strength to outwork RDA and smother him from bell to bell for all five rounds earning the Nigerian Nightmare a Unanimous Decision. In the co-main event and featured fight, the TUF 28 brackets were finished with fighters in the Heavyweight and Women’s Featherweight division crowned as the newest TUF Winners. In the Heavyweight final, Juan Espino secured a first round submission (straight armlock) against Justin Frazier. Macy Chiasson took a bit longer and needed two rounds to win her contract via a RNC over Pannie Kianzad. Also on the card Valentina Shevchenko’s sister, Antonina, earned a Unanimous Decision win over Korea’s Ji Yeon Kim. In addition we witnessed the return of Edmund “Greatest Trainer in History” Tarverdyan walk his new meal ticket, Edmen Shhahbazyan, to the ring against Darren Stewart via a decision victory. Both Shevchenko and Shahbazyan are pickups from this summer’s edition of Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series. In addition, Joeseph Benevidez showed he is still game to fight as he took out Alex Perez in a Flyweight fight. UFC events in December The UFC will be celebrating the end of 2018 with four fights to close out the end of the year and say good bye to the FOX landscape on their way over to ESPN. First on December 2nd, the UFC travels down under to Austrial for UFC Fight Night: dos Santos vs Tuivasa live from the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The main event will see Heavyweight slugger Tai Tuivasa take one former UFC Heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos. The card will also host the final fight of Mark Hunt’s career as he looks to take on fellow heavyweight Willis. Included on the card is also Mauricio “Shogun” Rua facing off in another Light Heavyweight bout against yet another up and coming talent in the form of Tyson Pedro. Most of us just want Rua to retire as he’s well past his prime but then again, he could pull out a crazy win so hey why not I guess. A week later the UFC will travel back to Canada for UFC 231: Holloway vs Ortega. The main event is the long awaited Featherweight title clash between Brian Ortega and Max Holloway. The pair were expected to fight back at UFC 226 but Holloway was pulled due to having “concussion like symptoms” just a few days from the event, with no further details being provided on it since. The co-main event will see the UFC Women’s Flyweight Championship be claimed by former Muay Thai competitors Valentina Shevchenko and Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The two have yet to face off in MMA but their Muay Thai history provides an interesting backdrop for the title that was vacated earlier this year. One week after that the UFC will visit Wisconsin for UFC on Fox: Lee vs Iaquinta 2 which will also serve as the final full card the UFC will host on FOX (this is not including prelims). The main event is a rematch between former Lightweight title contenders Kevin Lee and Al Iaquinta. The two faced off in 2014 where Iaquinta won the bout via a Unanimous Decision in an exciting fight. Included on the card is Edson Barboza taking on Dan Hooker, Rob Font () facing off against Sergio Pettis and Bobby Green fighting Drakkar Klose (Skyrim boss?). To finish off the month, the UFC returns to their home in Las Vegas for UFC 232: Jones vs Gustafsson 2 on December 29th. We will witness the return of Jon “WTF USADA?” Jones as he looks to claim his 3rd UFC Light Heavyweight Championship against not Daniel Cormier but his original rival, Alexander Gustafsson. The two had a fight of the year contest back in 2013 where Jones came out the victor via judges decision. Most felt that Gustafsson had given Jones the hardest test of his career, outside of actual drug tests. Will Jones return equally as impressive as he was in the past, or will he show up and look like he did against OSP? Or, will he show up, look good, but piss hot again? Tune in to find out in the continuing adventures of Jonny Bones Jones and USADA! The co-main event will see UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes step up to 145 lbs to take on UFC Women’s Featherweight Champion Cristiano “Cyborg” Justino. This is, most genuinely, the hardest test Justino has faced in probably her whole career, though you could probably argue Holly Holm was one as well. The rest of the card features Chad Mendes, Ilir Latifi, and a really confusing matchup between Ryan Hall and BJ Penn because apparently BJ Penn still had a fight contract despite not fighting in a year and being on a 5 fight losing streak. Again, just like Rua, we kind of want BJ to just retire and save his body for surfing and smoking weed on the beach instead. UFC News Following their trading of former UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrius Johnson, the UFC hinted at shutting down the entire Men’s Flyweight division, something current champion Henry Cejudo alluded to on his JRE podcast appearance. The division is set to be shut down by the end of the year, meaning this is the last month the child fighters will be watchable in the UFC before heading off to Asia to fight in Rizin and ONE. However at the TUF 28 post-fight press conference White stated things are still being sorted out so we may still see tiny punch men, or we may know. Who the hell knows anymore. Speaking of ONE Championship, it was revealed towards the end of the month that the hero of the UFC Thread and UFC Welterweight & Lightweight fighter, Sage Northcutt, was released by the UFC and quickly found a new home with ONE Championship. Our remarks about his Twitter posts will now be relegated to the B-League thread. Former Bellator and ONE Championship champion Ben Askren has been linked to a fight against former UFC Welterweight champion Robbie Lawler, which would be Askrens first fight in the UFC. Certainly a kind way for Dana to welcome Askren, who is still blocked by Dana on Twitter last I recall. Your Current Champions Men's Heavyweight Champion - Daniel Cormier (21-1-(1)) Starting his career as a Heavyweight, Daniel Cormier went 13 fights in the division undefeated. When he moved down to Light Heavyweight many thought he would never return to the division nor ever get the chance to become the UFC Heavyweight Champion due to his friendship with former Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez. That all changed when the opportunity for a superfight presented itself with Cormier stepping back into the Heavyweight ranks to take on the UFC’s longest reigning champion, Stipe Miocic at UFC 226. The stars aligned for Cormier, as well as getting a little bit of help from a few errant eye pokes, as he knocked out Miocic and become the UFC’s second person ever to hold two division titles at the same time. Following his win DC faced off a returning Brock Lesnar in a post fight trash talk session inside the cage and the two seem to be destined to fight. This will have to take place before Cormier’s previously announced retirement date of March 20, 2019. Lesnar will also be undergoing 6 months of USADA testing, which puts his earliest fight date at around January 2019, just a few weeks from Cormier’s intended retirement day. Men's Light Heavyweight Champion - Vacant Daniel Cormier won the belt initially in May of 2015. After a series of defenses, Cormier lost the title in a rematch against Jon Jones, who himself was stripped afterwards due to testing positive for a PED. Jones eventually settled with USADA after a 15 month investigation. Cormier was reinstated as the champion, before himself being stripped due to being a dual-weight champion and competing more recently at Heavyweight. To determine the new champion, the UFC decided to pit Jon Jones against Alexander Gustafsson in a rematch of their barn burner from 2013. There is a betting pool on which PED Jones will test positive for if you want to get in on that action. Men's Middleweight Champion - Robert Whittaker (19-4) Whittaker rode a seven-fight winning streak, including shutting down the deadly takedowns of Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza to slot himself into an Interim Middleweight championship match against Yoel "Soldier of God" Romero. The canny Australian showed incredible heart in taking it to the Cuban Olympic silver medalist over five rounds, and even with a severe knee injury coming in the first he managed to outpoint his opponent to take the unanimous decision. With Georges St-Pierre vacating the Middleweight championship in early December 2017, Whittaker has now been promoted to Undisputed Middleweight Champion. After a layoff to get his health back together, Whittaker took on Yoel Romero at UFC 225 in another great showdown between the two with Whittaker again taking the victory and continuing his reign as MW king. Currently Whittaker is nursing an arm injury and served as coach for The Ultimate Fighter 28 against his next opponent, Kelvin Gastellum. Men's Welterweight Champion - Tyron Woodley (18-3-1) Woodley was promised a title shot against the Welterweight champion 17 months before the fight took place. After Robbie Lawler put in Fight Of The Year performances against Rory MacDonald in July 2015 and Carlos Condit in January 2016, Woodley went into their fight in July of 2016 as a significant underdog. This meant nothing, with Lawler going down to strikes in the first round. Woodley defended his belt against Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson, putting on an incredible fight that ended in a majority draw at UFC 205 in New York in November 2016. A rematch for this fight was held in March month at UFC 209, with Woodley again the winner in a stilted affair. He defended the title again at UFC 214 in late July 2017 against Demian Maia, following a conservative but sharp gameplan that saw him stop all 22 of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ace's takedown attempts. It was announced that at UFC 228 on September 8th, 2018, and on that night Woodley not only derailed the Dareen Till train, he did it within two rounds and then dropped a rap song the week after. It is now believed that Woodley will face fellow ATT fighter (presuming Woodley is still affiliated with ATT) & rival Colby Covington at an unknown date. Enjoy the rap styles of Tyron “TWooodley” Woodly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOyj8_XSYlY Men's Lightweight Champion - Khabib Nurmagomedov (27-0) Finally, it's Khabib Time. After going 16-0 in regional promotions in Russia and The Ukraine, Khabib signed a deal with the UFC in late 2011. He then went on a near-unprecedented tear in the promotion, racking up a 9-fight UFC winning streak, including setting the record for the most takedowns in a single UFC fight with 21 against Abel Trujillo. While he seemed to have some issues with his weight, coming in heavy a few times and pulling out of a bout, and had recurring issues with his knees, causing the cancellation of more than one fight, it seemed like only time would be the barrier betewen him and a Lightweight title shot. Finally in 2018, the fight was booke for UFC 223 against Tony Ferguson. The week of the fight it seemed that literally nothing could go right, and after Ferguson seriously injured his left knee at a press event, and the late replacement Max Holloway was pulled out with 36 hours to go via a NYSAC ruling that he "didn't look good" , finally it was settled that Al Iaquinta would be Nurmagomedov's Men's Featherweight Champion - Max Holloway (19-3) Holloway put together a 9-fight win streak, with several Performance of the Night bonuses, before answering the call to contend for the Interim Featherweight Championship at UFC 206 in December 2016. Taking out Anthony Pettis with a body kick and punches late in the third round, he set himself up for a unification bout against Jose Aldo at UFC 212. At that event in early June 2017, he defeated Aldo in the third round with focused ground and pound, and unified the belts. Frankie Edgar was announced as Holloway's first defense, but with Edgar out with a broken face, the rematch with Jose Aldo Jr took place at UFC 218 in early December 2017. It was a carbon copy of the first match, with Aldo unable to weather the combinations of The Blessed One, this time being stopped in the third round. Holloway was again scheduled to defend against Frankie Edgar in March 2018, however a leg injury to the champion has forced that fight to the co-main with Brian Ortega stepping in. Travesty struck once again as Holloway had to pull out of UFC 226 with “concussion like symptoms.” An Ortega vs Holloway title fight is among the fights for UFC 231. Men's Bantamweight Champion - TJ Dillashaw (18-3) When he was announced as the coach on The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption against then-champion Cody Garbrandt, the outcome was planned to be a fight between the two for Garbrandt's Bantamweight championship. While the fight between the two was originally announced for July 8 2017 at UFC 213, Garbrandt dropped out with a back injury during May, and it was re-booked for UFC 217 in November. Dillashaw started a slight underdog, but got the job done in the second round with a solid right hook and follow up ground and pound. With his second title reign starting, Dillashaw's shut down Garbrandt again this time in one round. Following his win, Dillashaw accepted the challenge the newly crowned Henry Cejudo threw his way for a Champion vs Champion bout. Men's Flyweight Champion - Henry Cejudo (13-2) Two years is what it took for Henry Cejudo to claw his way back to a title shot against the man who gave him his first professional defeat. Over that two year span Cejudo changed his style of fighting up in various ways, and worked hard to show why he could and should be the man to dethrone the UFC’s longest reigning champion. Cejudo’s second fight against Demetrius Johnson did not go as many expected it to. Many assumed Cejudo would get outstruck by Johnson early, but The Messenger was able to take the champion to a decision utilizing his wrestling which some argued Cejudo used more to stall and less to offer offense. Regardless the judges gave the nod to former Olympian who quickly took his first moments as champion to call out the winner of the UFC Bantamweight fight. No opponent or date have been announced. Though the future of the Flyweight division is up in the air as the UFC seems keen on shutting it down entirely. Women's Featherweight Champion - Cristiana Justino (20–1 (1)) With the vacating of this championship by Germaine de Randamie in May 2017, a match was set up for UFC 214 between Justino and Megan Anderson. Anderson pulled out of the fight in late June, and was replaced by current Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Tonya Evinger. The significantly larger fighter on the day, Justino dominated a one-sided affair and won the fight in the third round with brutal knee strikes. Justino defended her championship against Holly Holm at UFC 219 in December 2017, again being the much larger fighter and keeping Holm at bay to take a comprehensive decision victory. Justino made her next defense against promotional newcomer Yana Kunitskaya in March 2018, flattening another promotional newcomer and Featherweight debutant in a very one-sided matchup. UFC announced Justino will in fact take on Amanda Nunes in the first ever Women’s Champion vs Champion superfight at UFC 232. Women's Bantamweight Champion - Amanda Nunes (16-4) Nunes headlined UFC 200 in July of 2016, putting a vicious beating on Miesha Tate and securing a rear-nake choke victory in a little over three minutes. She backed this up with a brutal 48-second TKO victory against former Women's Bantamweight Champion and WMMA pioneer Ronda Rousey in late December 2016. Nunes was slated to take on Valentina Shevchenko in a rematch of their March 2016 fight, with that match being moved to UFC 215 in September 2017. Nunes retained by a razor-thin split decision. Her next fight was against Raquel Pennington at UFC 224, which was held this month in Rio de Janeiro. Nunes spent four rounds mauling Pennington, then pounded out a clearly already finished Pennington in the fifth, to retain her Championship. Nunes has been scheduled to move up to 145lbs to face Cyborg for the Featherweight championship at UFC 232. Women’s Flyweight Champion - Vacant The UFC’s Women’s Flyweight title is currently vacant after Nicco Montaño failed to make it to the weigh-ins at UFC 228, citing a need to visit the hospital. This, in turn, left her bout with Valentina Shevchenko nullified. Having not fought in roughly 9 months, the UFC decided Montaño was no longer the champion of the division that they just made 10 months ago and instead opted to vacate the title. As a result of this, Shevchenko has picked up a new challenger for the title in Former Champion Joanna (Jędrzejczyk) to take place later in 2018 at UFC 231 in December. Women's Strawweight Champion - Rose Namajunas (11-3) After cleaning out the Women's Strawweight division, Joanna Jędrzejczyk seemed to have no more mountains to conquer. After beating Michelle Waterson by rear-naked choke in April 2017, Namajunas was announced as the next contender for want of any other new challengers. In a massive upset, Namajunas beat Jędrzejczyk by TKO in the first round of their championship fight at UFC 217. A rematch for this fight took place at UFC 223 in April 2018, and while it took longer to decide the result was the same, with Namajunas taking a solid unanimous decision over the former champion. No title defense is scheduled at this stage though many feel Jessica Andrade’s vicious KO over Karolina Kowalkiewicz earned her a spot at “Thug.” Other poo poo Go to the MMA's Best and Worst, 2018 Edition thread administered by Fentry to refresh your memory on what has been considered by your fellow PSP-MMA posters as the best (and worst) of the MMA world this year. Nominations for hilarious and/or awesome things are always appreciated. The Goonweight Grand Prix is back for Season 25 managed by MassRafTer. Make predictions and talk about how bad you are at comprehending this sport. This is a fun way to get even more worked up about half naked men rolling around in blood and Vaseline on a Saturday night. If you’re itching for some UFC or even Z-League content check out the UFC Fight Pass thread UFC Fight Pass Thread - Earning Your 3rd Degree Blackbelt In MMA Posting. This thread is being updated approximately every week by me with information on new and upcoming additions to the streaming service, random fight cards like Quintet (it’s really good!), Glory SuperfightSeries, Eddie Bravo Invitational, and is also good for general banter about old fights. December’s UFC Fight Pass Fight Of the Month is [https://www.ufc.tv/video/jon-jones-vs-alexander-gustafsson-ufc-165] Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson from UFC 165[/url] Shout out to DumbWhiteGuy for providing details for the MMA IRC channel. irc.synirc.net #mma Join your fellow MMA fans in discussing all things MMA in a place probably secure against nuclear armageddon - IRC has been around for so long I'm not convinced anything could kill it. As usual if there’s any mistakes please let me know and I’ll fix it as soon as I can. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 13:09 |
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Sorry if the fight highlight gifs or MP4s are obnoxiously large. I had a bunch of smaller ones but they got lost sadly
Mekchu fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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BlindSite posted:Did any Australians win yesterday lol? I only watched the last three fights. Jimmy Crute
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 01:51 |
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Charles Gnarwin posted:The UFC is looking to make Greg Hardy's debut on the same card as Rachel Ostovich fighting despite her husband attacking her recently. So there's your "gently caress the UFC" moment of the week. That is insanely dumb and bad.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2018 14:53 |
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Yeah Gunnar vs Oliveira sure wasn't something to behold. The blood gods found it mediocre. Watch it and behold the blood bath
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2018 07:35 |
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Dana is claiming that the UFC/Zuffa are "for sure" going to start promoting boxing fights in some ESPN interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsSPnNPxKMM
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2018 01:29 |
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Brut posted:Would you want it to be a separate event or just sprinkle in some boxing matches in UFC events the way ONE does it with kickboxing and such? Octagon boxing sounds fun. (but probably isn't) I would be down with a seperate show, in the new TUF/DWTNCS Gym on a regulary basis (like every week have 5 or so fights). Basically, don't make it some huge pomp and circumstance sort of show and make it more about building up contenders etc. for a big boxing card down the line they throw together once every 4 months or so. They do that caged muay thai with John Wayne Parr in Australia, and yeah ONE does their MMA Kickboxing as well. Both of which are fun so maybe that could work.
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2018 02:45 |
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Brut posted:Yes that's 3 tweets comparing himself to Muhammad Ali and one tweet that seems to do nothing but go out of way to piss off women. Actually that last tweet is funny and is making fun of himself, not women nor the #metoo movement or whatever you're conflating it into.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 02:39 |
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Six AM posted:Dudes listening to some good songs and thinking about his own ambition and a dude that inspires him. You cant tell hes just feelin himself at the moment? Sports fans get way too rigid in how they feel poo poo should be presented to them. HE DIDN'T BOW WHEN HE ENTERED THE CAGE BUT INSTEAD PRETENDED HE WAS A DOG AND MARKED HIS TERRITORY! HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF!!!!!!!!
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 02:44 |
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Skip My Posts posted:This is just gbs now lol In what way op?
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 02:56 |
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The Automator posted:Y’all bitch about too many cards and then this is what happens on the first Saturday in forever without a card spot on op
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 05:22 |
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Skip My Posts posted:tj is training with jason parillo right now. sick link on this? also does that mean no more bang or is this more of a "hey i'm gonna go learn some stuff from this other dude, still love you #nohomo" thing?
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 09:10 |
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that's good and cool for tj.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2018 09:26 |
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Wait a god damned minute. UFC 232, the event they've sold out (i guess) in Vegas is getting moved to California on a week's notice?
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# ¿ Dec 24, 2018 01:18 |
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The closest thing this is related to is the whole Dothan AL fiasco. Lmao.
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# ¿ Dec 24, 2018 02:46 |
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:He never had any. He's a racist, self-serving shithead willing to ignore/sweep evidence under the rug for the people he favors. We all remember BALCO, right? Hold up. Explain how he's a racist please. Like, go into detail about how he said, did, or whatever things specifically due to someone's race.
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# ¿ Dec 25, 2018 03:36 |
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MotU posted:it means no worries for the rest of your days This is going in the January OP. Bless you.
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# ¿ Dec 25, 2018 03:46 |
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Memento posted:"Jon Jones didn't piss hot, it's residual from last year" is literally fake news but because your president constantly lies on television without being called on it no one in the late-capitalist hellscape that is the USA at the end of 2018 gives a single solitary poo poo. I get being outraged over the shadiness of this whole thing but this is a bad post and the poo poo flinging at someone randomly makes your points flounder. Chrom1um posted:Keep in mind that the UFC is USADA's biggest customer by far. They account for over a quarter of their tests in any given quarter (I just checked every quarter since the start of 2017 to be sure). USADA's continued contract with the UFC is far from a given. WME has shown they give no fucks about long term repercussions, and probably give even less fucks about perception than usual since the ESPN deal is in the bag. But they needed this fight to happen, so they probably put a ton of indirect pressure on USADA. Outside consultations were probably at their insistence. Statements like "we don't know a lot about this drug" were probably at their insistence. Statements like "we don't know a lot about this substance" and "a pinch of salt in an Olympic size swimming pool" may also have come directly from them. The argument that Jones couldn't possibly get any performance benefit may also have come directly from WME (nevermind that it's an indication that they were juicing during training). Wait, so you're insinuating that WME were actively giving USADA soundbytes and talking points on this whole thing? Like I get this is all stupid and awful to have happen and the UFC and USADA look incredibly dumb as a result, as does CSAC, but at the same time this level of is equally dumb. That's just a silly thing to insinuate and presume is happening because there's nothing to suggest that's happened at all or than randomly claiming it is. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Dec 25, 2018 |
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I thought that was a turn of phrase, but no, you were sincere and literal. How is MMA a dead sport? It seems to be doing quite well at the moment in terms of still existing.
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# ¿ Dec 26, 2018 01:51 |
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Hearing Jon throw a hissy fit over that reporter ask why there have been three positive PED test results was hilarious. I love it.
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# ¿ Dec 28, 2018 10:03 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:I don't care when or where people post poo poo I was just commenting on the fact that he was super concerned there was no thread then posted one immediately after even though someone else was probably working on one but if you wanna slap fight about it I'm gonna want to pray first Our Picogram Who Art In Bodies, Hallowed Be Thy Name. Thy Drugs Be Done, Thy Performance Begun; In The Cage As It Is In The Gym. Give Us This Day A Polygram And Forgive Us For Our Pulsing, As We Forgive Those Who Doubt Us; And Lead Us Not To Nevada, But Deliver Us From Repercussions. Amen.
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2018 02:32 |
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So I haven't had a chance to watch UFC 232 due to flying across the pacific the same day as the event but if anyone wants to suggest January thread titles feel free. I'm going to try and watch it and get the OP ready by the 1st. Also fun side thing: I was in an airport in the US and the TV showing CNN at the waiting lounge did a report on Nunes winning randomly ruining that fight result for me after I went through like four hours of aggressively not checking any news sites or social media so as not to have the results spoiled.
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 08:41 |
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MotU posted:UFC January: Should Old Taintedness Be Forgot and Never Thought Upon I like it.
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# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 06:41 |
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Happy New Year everyone. New thread is here, let's hope for an equally crazy 2019 in UFC. Thank you for a fun year and bless you all, even you the drive by shitposters. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3878536
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