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Finished watching the documentary. Very well made, the music scoring was exceptional. Past events like chael/sonnen came to life which must be the aim of any documentary. It helped illustrate the appeal of pride to me since I missed most of its run. I think the wider political stuff should have been cut. Very jarring to be watching a doc about MMA and then it's "so anyway while Reagan and Thatcher were destroying the social safety net,".. spent a minute explaining how the Fertittas are mobbed up but then more time playing tape of Dana's RNC speech with ominous background music. Blaming USADA in part for making the UFC bland is sadly mistaken. Blaming USADA for derailing Jon Jones' career is absurd. Had some other small quibbles like the first chapter is called "the history of fighting for money" and talks about Gracie history instead of prize fighting. Then Anderson is introduced as the widely recognized GOAT when I think that's debatable with his failed drug tests - noticed more stuff like that early in watching and had to recognize there would be a lot of opinion mixed with facts
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A TUF1 marathon on spike in 2005 was what started me on mma
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Untrustable posted:I like Hunt, I like Pedro, and I like Tuivasa. Do the fight Gods hate me? No my son, they hate australia
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Bluedeanie posted:It doesn't stay that good and generally peaked after 5, but there are still some gems here and there. The GSP vs Kos and Jones vs Sonnen seasons were good. GSP vs kos season had Cody McKenzie dunking on koschek
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:anyway i forgot to say this last night but theres a part in 103 where the guys find out they're not getting paid to figt and get upset because they're going out there and getting the poo poo beat out of them for free, and dana literally yells at them about being paid in opportunity, and i dreamed of one of those light heavies just clobbering him in the fuckin head Is that the legendary "do you wanna be a fuckin fighter" speech?
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Stealth Tiger posted:which season does the bro wanna bang? That was Julian Lane on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson
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old.flv posted:the heavyweights season was fun and can be summed up by this wiki quip: The Rashad/Rampage rivalry was weird and cringey. It's too bad Marcus Jones never had a career after Mitrione KO'd him
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Skip My Posts posted:Literally? Lol I gotta see that Cody was from alaska and had worked on fishing boats and poo poo so he was tough as nails but koscheck was every dumb jock stereotype rolled into a yellow tinted ball so they would taunt each other and cody would frequently get the upper hand even tho he wasn't the brightest bulb in the christmas tree either
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Wise Learned Man posted:My favorite part about that was right before the Kimbo reveal, Dana said something like "I know I've talked a boatload of poo poo about this guy, but he's here now" and Rampage goes "Who, Tank Abbott?" Rampage was streaming on twitch a few years after the show and called up rashad and asked "do you like dragons?"
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LobsterMobster posted:Here's Cody's pre-fight talk I've got no audio for any of these :/
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CarlCX posted:That's part of the problem, though. Holloway/Ortega is a loving great fight that I am going to be quietly tense about somehow not happening until they're actually in the cage. But if you're A UFC Fan, you've only had about three days to focus on it because three days ago was JDS/Tuivasa and The Ongoing Tragedy of Shogun, and two days before that was RDA/Usman and Bryan Caraway getting loving murdered which in a just world we would still be celebrating, and six days before that was Blaydes/Ngannou and the return of Overeem, which was seven days after Magny/Ponzinibbio and Lamas/Elkins which was seven days after TKZ/Yair and Cerrone/Perry which was seven days after Cormier/Lewis and Jacare/Weidman. So you're saying with the packed schedule the ebb & flow of hype is disrupted, and the climaxes are too frequent? They keep coming and coming and it's hard to get excited anymore?
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Skip My Posts posted:How hosed up did max look? Ha ha.. I tell ya the thing is people are wondering I am ready for thsi fight
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mewse posted:I've got no audio for any of these :/ I figured it out guys. I reinstalled windows and it thought I had a 5.1 system when I've got plain ol stereo. Eleven and ONNNEEEE
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I.N.R.I posted:anti doping is crucial to sport. PED abuse is every bit as sordid and miserable as hard drug addiction and leaving the door open for it ends up attracting all of the same sorts of people. I dont know what those guys said in the documentary but they are probably ignorant on the matter The last section of the doc blames the UFC being watered down on three factors: major network deal, fighter uniforms, and USADA. It then straight up blames USADA for killing Jon Jones' career
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spb posted:What does Ortega need to do to improve? Just work on striking defense? Maybe more wrestling? He needs to improve his striking a lot and/or get better at avoiding striking entirely. The first time I watched him I saw he took a lot of damage before implementing his grappling game. e: may have been the cub swanson bout a year ago
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FishBowlRobot posted:Also said that Randy Couture has been fappening-ed. So if you ever wanted to see The Natural jerk it, it's your lucky day. Save it in the same folder as titodick.jpg. Wasn't couture reviled for cheating on his wife forever ago
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1st AD posted:which one? I don't remember just when I started posting here everyone said couture was a shitbag, I don't remember what the story was
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kimbo305 posted:HOLY loving poo poo. 
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kimbo305 posted:Why is that better? You get to make the rules here. Because he's already under USADA and nobody's done the homework as to whether VADA is actually feasible so making it a requirement could cause problems they didn't anticipate and they just wanted JJ out of there
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Bisping was on Rogan's podcast last night. He was legally blind in his wonky eye by the end and he's essentially blind in it now. MW GOAT. His gimp eye that wouldn’t look in the right direction wasn’t working??????? Wow how did he keep that a secret
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IcePhoenix posted:Why does Tony capitalize every word in his tweet? It’s his brand, playa
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The difference in language between this tweet and okomoto's is neat
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kimbo305 posted:Okamoto's is way more press releasy. Yeah seems like he was regurgitating what the UFC told him whereas Ariel unvarnished it
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Lid posted:Two sides of the coin Was max the betting underdog? I forget
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Dec 12, 2018 23:46
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kimbo305 posted:I feel like 3 or 4. His base mobility really dictates that he not throw kicks. Reminds me of a certain other Hawaiian... Ahh, Kendall Grove
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Skip My Posts posted:Dana is going off on Oscar de la Hoya and released a spreadsheet of chuck’s income lmao Spreadsheets to win an argument?? Maybe the computer programmer career track is promising after all
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Skip My Posts posted:That’s accounting dude 
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Wise Learned Man posted:The final showdown between suspect cardio and papier-mache knees Extreme cowardice vs disintegrating human construct
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Zuffa/Pilligan tried to make a boxing version of TUF and it failed horribly e: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2014/01/21/ufc-dana-white-launches-boxing-reality-show/4739957/
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Le Saboteur posted:I really don't feel like Kamaru Usman has anything for Woodley. Not hyped for that fight really.  Brut posted:Are you hyped for Woodley vs any current welterweight fighter, theoretically?
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kimbo305 posted:Apparently not only is Conor set for life, but so is Kavanaugh I saw he made these comments a bit ago and I think Kavanagh is prob sick of Conor tarnishing his reputation
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LobsterMobster posted:Looks like UFC is flagging gyms on Instagram that post pics or vids of fighters, since ATT, Jackson-Wink, and a few others have been banned What the gently caress?
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Gus can win because 1) He won the first bout 2) Jones is not on steroids 3) Greg Jackson isn't coaching anymore But Jones will win because the bad guy always wins 
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TheKingslayer posted:
Hey you gotta start a title run somewhere
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Oh my god and he's all the way at the bottom of the prelims. loving hang it up, guy.
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old.flv posted:I'll always respect fatherdog for dying on a hill nobody cared about Nope
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I see Nick has entered the Dan Quinn phase of his career
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I Mildly Disagree With This Fighters Tweets
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Skip My Posts posted:This is just gbs now lol Actually,
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