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Georges St. Pierre, a humble young man with the heart of a great warrior. Soon that heart will be tested as he fights for his home. Georges will make his stand in the tournament called the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Here the MMA gods will grant the greatest fighters of the universe the right to face the warriors of the dark realm called Las Vegas. The rules are simple; every generation the chosen fighters from each world are transported to Dana White’s private fight island, an outpost between realms. If they lose their battle their realm falls to darkness forever. Absorbed in the desolate expanse of Endeavor. Another victory for it’s emperor, Ari Emanuel. Over decades of combat, Emanuel’s champion Dana White has remained undefeated, laying to waste an untold number of fighter’s careers with his genius booking decisions. Last month's thread is here. April Recap OK so April basically had almost nothing going on but let’s do a recap real quick. First we had the whole coronavirus thing that caused a few of the events like a few UFC Fight Night’s get cancelled. Not to be deterred UFC president Dana White promised that UFC’s next PPV, UFC 249, would go through regardless. Originally this was scheduled to take place in New York and feature the long awaited and previously booked Tony Ferguson vs Khabib Nurmagamedov bout we’ve seen attempted 4 times previous. The virus hit the USA a few weeks out but it seemed that hey maybe this could happen. Then things went sour and New York went full Escape from New York. So the UFC said “you know what, we have this big rear end facility in Vegas we could use if its that bad!” but then the Nevada Athletic Commission came out and said “sorry no, no sporting events because it could risk more infections.” Determined to claim the soul of either Tony of Khabib, Dana then decided he was still gonna have the event and was working on a secret location which turned out to be Tachi Palace in California. However Khabib wasn’t going to be able to show up due to Russia being locked down, so Tony was booked to face Justin Gaethje for the Interim Lightweight Title (despite Tony having previously fought for the I-LW previously and not losing since then). Then the Governor of California caught wind, called the UFC’s business partner in Disney/ESPN and told them to tell the crazy bald man to stop. This resulted in the event being cancelled. HOWEVER, Quan Chi….err….Dana White would not be stopped. You see on top of trying to get UFC 249 to happen, he also announced he was working on securing a private island (those are a thing apparently) to also host weekly MMA fights and apparently this is all outside of any known government’s jurisdiction? If you can comprehend and explain all this without sounding crazy please help us all out as we’re still trying to figure it out. UFC events in May All of this is highly subject to change and the below UFC events and fights are solely what was available at the time of writing. Florida has allowed stuff like MMA and pro-wrestling to happen just sans spectators in attendance so the UFC are doing events in the state until F I G H T I S L A N D begins. On May 9th the UFC are heading to Jacksonville, Florida for UFC 249: Ferguson vs Gaethje which would be the 3rd time this event has been booked/scheduled in roughly 2 months. The main event is an Interim Lightweight Championship fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje after the original plan to have Ferguson finally face Khabib for the Lightweight Championship fell apart. (We were so close  ). This is a great fight on paper and honestly would be amazing on it’s own if it didn’t mean we were robbed of Khabib/Tony. If Gaethje wins then that’d be an amazing moment in MMA history given how beloved he is with us, but also a sad moment because all of us also love Ugly Tony. The co-main event will be a Bantamweight Championship bout between reigning champion Henry Cejudo and two-time champion Dominick Cruz, in what could be an incredible fight but also a fight where we see that Dominick Cruz finally accept he is no long able to fight (it’s been like 4 years since he fought last). We will see a Heavyweight contenders tilt as Francis Ngannou takes onJairzinho Rozenstruik, which was scheduled for a UFC Fight Night card but that got canceled/reshuffled. For some reason there’s also this dumb ex-NFL guy nobody knows the name of fighting Yorgan De Castro on the PPV which makes no sense. On the ESPN Prelims we’ll see a rematch between Donald Cerrone and Anthony Pettis, which was a great fight last time around. Uriah Hall takes on Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza which could be a ton of fun. Fabricio Werdum is back and taking on Alexey Oleynik in what could be a great grappling match that probably will feature no grappling. Also Carla Esparza is facing Michelle Waterson in a fight we’ll probably forget happened the next day. Also a fight that is criminally low on the card is Niko Price taking on Vicente Luque in what should be the most “what the hell” fight of the night in awesomeness. Following this the UFC have planned more UFC Fight Nights to take place at the same arena as UFC 249 in Jacksonville Florida but at present no fights are formally confirmed. Also according to the UFC’s website some of the events will also occasionally be on a Wednesday night. They will be UFC Fight Night 175 on May 13, UFC Fight Night 176 on May 16. What If FIGHT ISLAND Isn't Real? You shut your mouth. Fight Island is real. It's a real thing and the infrastructure is being built. What To Keep Busy With Since this whole shutdown of UFC events started there have been two great sources to get your MMA fix as of late. First is the Goonweight Grand Prix where we’ve taken to simulating UFC Fight Cards using EA Sports UFC 3 every week and basically guessing what will happen and getting it wrong. Head over to the Goonweight Grand Prix thread to check it out and get involved: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3917928 Goon FC will end this weekend as we will expect the UFC 249 event to at least satiate our bloodlust. We have also been watching old or random MMA events on the MMA Goons Discord and have floated the idea of watching some of the awful/silly 1960s martial arts movies they added to UFC Fight Pass (or potentially other stuff like Bloodsport, etc.). The link to join is here - https://discord.gg/SkR8ZeC You can also watch an old event from the UFC Fight Pass library (or any non-Fight Pass library event) and do your own write up over in the Let's Watch: Random Old MMA Events! Thread - https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3918401 Your Current Champions  Drawing by Macksy Baddest Motherfucker Champion - Jorge Masvidal (35-13) From the backyard street fights featuring fellow MMA icon Kimbo Slice, Jorge Masvidal has made a living off being as real as real can be. An MMA veteran of 16 years it’s hard to describe Masvidal’s career other than “consistently growing and adapting. Being brought over to the UFC following the Strikeforce purchase, Masvidal was somewhat viewed as a gatekeeper of sorts for the Lightweight and later Welterweight divisions. Losing only to surging title challengers via split decisions, Masvidal changed his approach to fighting ultimately looking to “baptize” his opponents with violent KOs. This change in strategy worked and Masvidal accrued two beautiful KO victories. Following Nate Diaz’s return to the UFC, Diaz called out Masvidal respectfully to fight to see who is the true Badded Motherfucker in the UFC. This gimmick somehow gained traction and an actual belt was made for the winner, which would be determined at UFC 244. The fight was competitive and exciting, with Masvidal taking an early advantage but Diaz working his way back into the fight. However a Doctor’s stoppage resulted in Masvidal being declared the winner via TKO in an anticlimactic fashion, prompting everyone to wish for a rematch to see the full fight play out in its entirety. Masvidal is a great fighter for you to watch the growth of on UFC Fight Pass if you haven’t seen it already.  Drawing by FishBowlRobot Men's Heavyweight Champion - Stipe Miocic(19-3) Having worked his way up to the Heavyweight Championship, Stipe Miocic went on to be the winningest champion in the division amassing a startling title defense record of 3 title defenses. However Stipe’s legacy was stopped short after being knocked out by Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier (who went on to be a Champ-Champ) in the first round of their fight at UFC 226. Miocic disputed the loss, even though he was cleanly knocked out, and lobbied for a rematch. This took a full year to materialize and the whole time while Cormier was riding high as a defending champion in two divisions, Miocic stayed in Cleveland working his argument via Twitter. Eventually the rematch came to be thanks in part to Brock Lesnar using his appeal to the UFC to get a better paycheck off the WWE, making a DC/Lesnar fight disappear. Miocic was put in as a new opponent for Cormier for UFC 241 in 2019, a little over a year after their first meeting. This time however, Miocic went on to get revenge on Cormier and knocked him out following a setup via body punches earning his Heavyweight Title for the second time. Given the state of the UFC Heavyweight division, Miocic’s next opponent may be Daniel Cormier for a third time and a chance for DC to finally retire from MMA.  Drawing by Macksy Men's Light Heavyweight Champion - Jon Jones (25-1-(1)) 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. Jones subsequently was able to best Gustafsson and win via third round TKO victory, becoming Light Heavyweight Champion again. Jones recently defeated Thiago Santos but another legal issue has come up for the champion involving assault at a strip club in Albuquerque so maybe Jones will be stripped of the title...again. Jones will possibly face Reyes but some people think a rematch with Santos is warranted. In March, Jones got arrested for a DWI and improper use of a firearm (read: he was drunk driving and shooting his gun off) despite the quarantine situation in the US. As usual Jones got a slap on the wrist and then shortly after mocked former opponent Anthony Smith over Smith’s home being invaded by some random dude. Jones is still somehow beloved by some idiots.  Drawing by Lucasar Men’s Middleweight Champion - Israel Adesanya (19-0) Israel Adesanya entered the UFC for his first bout on February 11, 2018. In less than a year (by 1 day) he was headlining a UFC PPV, thanks in part to the main event falling out, against Anderson Silva. To say he was a rising star is an understatement and fate seems to be willing to back him on that notion. Following Robert Whittaker getting another injury that put him on the shelf, Whittakers initial opponent Kelvin Gastelum was paired up with Adesanya to determine who would be the Interim Middleweight Champion while Whittaker recovers. At UFC 236 Adesanya was pushed to his limits by Gastelum, but the man known as “The Last Stylebender” showed that he wasn’t all hype and nearly finished Gastelum in the final moments of the fight, which certainly helped him clinch his Unanimous Decision victory and become the UFC Interim Middleweight Champion. His followup performance was that of near perfection as he faced reigning champion Robert Whittaker, who Adesanya KO’d with a solid counter hook in just two rounds. To follow that up, Adesanya wanted to face Paulo Costa but the latter was out with injury so Yoel Romero was sent in. The two more or less half fought for 5 rounds but saw Adesanya win the Unanimous Decision.  Drawing by Cavauro Men's Welterweight Champion - Kamaru Usman (16-1) Debuting in the UFC back in 2015, Usman took a slow and methodical approach towards working his way up the UFC’s Welterweight division en route to a title shot. Running through opponents Damian Maia and Raphael Dos Anjos most recently with dominant performances, Usman earned the opportunity to face Tyron Woodley in Woodley’s fifth title defense. Many presumed that Woodley’s size and power would be too much for The Nigerian Nightmare, but boy were those people wrong. Throughout the entire contest, Usman controlled Woodley easily on his way to a Unanimous Decision victory with Usman winning all five rounds on all three judges scorecards. Woodley essentially never got any offense going throughout a 25 minute fight thanks to Usman’s style of smothering pressure. The next challenger for Usman was Colby Covington, who put up a challenge but ultimately was TKO’d in the 5th round of their fight. Who is next is a little unsure but some think Masvidal would be a worthy scrap though Leon Edwards is also in the wings waiting.  Drawing by Jerusalem Men's Lightweight Champion - Khabib Nurmagomedov (28-0) Finally, it's Khabib Time. At the UFC 25th anniversary press conference, it was announced that Conor McGregor would be Nurmagomedov’s first opponent as champion. The bout went down at UFC 229 and, surprising some, Khabib dropped McGregor early in the fight but unsurprisingly relied on his wrestling to keep the Irishman down before submitting him with a crank. Post-fight however, chaos erupted as both teams got into various brawls. Khabib has said he would sit out his suspension, which he did until September before handily schooling Interim Champion Dustin Poirier. We really want Tony vs Khabib to actually happen this time as it’s scheduled to take place in April but because of Coronavirus Khabib is in lockdown in Russia. In the mean time Tony Ferguson will face Justin Gaethje for the Interim Lightweight Championship.  Drawing by kimbo305 Men's Featherweight Champion - Alexander Volkanovski (21-1) Quietly working his way up the ranks over the past year or so, Volkanovski finally assumed the throne of Featherweights in the UFC at the tail end of 2019. Besting Max Holloway in a 5 round banger by solid gameplanning and scouting of his opponent, Volkanovski was as humble in his victory as Holloway was in his defeat and promised to be a respectful champion. There is no immediate challenger for Volkanovski’s title that stands out but a rematch with Holloway wouldn’t be absurd.  Drawing by NAG Men's Bantamweight Champion - Henry Cejudo (15-2) Having claimed his second UFC Bantamweight Championship TJ Dillashaw accepted the challenge of moving down to the Flyweight division to face Henry Cejudo for the Flyweight title. However things didn’t go as planned and Dillashaw was TKO’d in just under 90 seconds. Things didn’t get better as Dillashaw was then confirmed to have tested positive for EPO in not only that fight but the rematch he had with Cody Garbrandt. With the title vacated, totally of Dillashaw’s own choosing and not UFC punishing him, Cejudo was matched with Marlon Moraes to determine who would be the king of the Bantamweights. After a cringey week of fight hype, mostly on Cejudo’s part, the pair faced off in June of 2019 at UFC 238. Moraes looked to be be dominant in the first round but Cejudo rallied back in the second and third rounds to eventually put away “Magic” Moraes. Now the king of two divisions, Cejudo is very vocal about how he is the greatest combat sport athlete ever. I mean, he has an Olympic Gold Medal and two UFC championships to his name. Clearly he is the greatest and we should just get used to watching his own form of performance art. Cejudo is scheduled to face Dominick Cruz next.  Men's Flyweight Champion - Vacant Having clawed his way back to a second fight against Flyweight Champion Demetrius Johnson, Henry Cejudo claimed the title at 125lbs. Next “The Messenger” only had one defense at Flyweight, against TJ Dillashaw who at the time was the UFC Bantamweight Champion. 11 seconds into their fight Cejudo was the victor and then announced he planned to move up to Bantamweight to fight Dillashaw for Dillashaw’s title. That fell apart however, and Cejudo bested Marlon Moraes for the Bantamweight championship. However inactivity at Flyweight due to injury has resulted in the title being vacated with the winner of Joe Benevidez and Deiveson Figueiredo being crowned. The MMA gods then decided to do their thing and Deiveson came in overweight thus inelligible to win the title while Benavidez was. However Deiveson then won by KO thus leaving the title still vacant.  Drawing by NAG Women's Featherweight Champion - Amanda Nunes(19-4) Amanda Nunes claimed the Featherweight Championship with relative ease given the opponent she was facing was the long time problem known as Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino. After a quick KO in the first round we’re now left wondering “What is the Featherweight Division really for now that Cyborg is dethroned?” With Cyborg no longer in the UFC, and Nunes seemingly more interested in fighting at Bantamweight we’ll probably see the 145lbs division for women shut down. Drawing by NAG Women's Bantamweight Champion - Amanda Nunes (19-4) Nunes headlined UFC 200 in July of 2016, putting a vicious beating on Miesha Tate and securing a rear-naked 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 then faced Cyborg for the UFC Women’s Featherweight Championship and much to the surprise of pretty much everyone, beat the long time feared Featherweight with relative ease. With her victory, Nunes became the first two division champion in Women’s UFC History as well as the first Champ-Champ in UFC Women’s History. Nunes next defeated Germaine de Randamie at Bantamweight and is awaiting for a new challenger to arrive.  Drawing by awesomeolion Women’s Flyweight Champion - Valentina Shevchenko(17-3) The UFC’s Women’s Flyweight title was vacanted 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 faced Former Strawweight Champion Joanna (Jędrzejczyk) at UFC 231 winning a clear decision victory. The next opponent for “Bullet” was Jessica Eye at UFC 238, who Shevchenko basically murdered and it was not a fun KO. Seriously, it was pretty heartbreaking if you have an ounce of sympathy in your body. Following this up, “Bullet” faced and avenged a loss to Liz Carmouche in a showdown in South America that nobody really remembers. Shevchenko then faced and defeated Katlyn Chookagian at UFC 247. Flyweight is a bit of a wasteland and thus a new challenger has yet to amerge.  Drawing by NAG Women's Strawweight Champion - Zhang Weili (21-1) With the fall of Joanna Jędrzejczyk, Strawweight seemed to be lost with anyone who could serve as a dominant champion. Rose Namajunas had the best run with two bouts as a champion but fell to Jessica Andrade via a powerful slam. So understandably the idea Andrade is the new ruler of the division and would be for a while was held. However Andrade’s reign came rather abruptly short when she took on Zhang Weili in her first defense. The Chinese fighter has been on a tear since arriving in the UFC. Defeating the likes of Tecia Torres and Jessica Aguilar, the UFC promoted her to be the first challenger as they began their push further into China’s entertainment market. The gamble paid off as Zhang won in less than a minute. However, Zhang is not just a fluke fighter. She’s been undefeated in 20 fights in a row, with her lone loss being her professional debut back in 2013. Zhang then called out former champion Joanna, with the two facing off in an all out barn burner of a fight at UFC 248. Zhang was tested but persevered and ended up taking home the victory extending her win streak to 21. In happy news, Zhang got back home to China about 3 weeks after the event due to the coronavirus issues to be with her family. Other Stuff In the ever crazy landscape that is MMA fight rosters, you can always head over to the B-League MMA: Grand Prixs and Untested Pee thread by CommonShore if your favorite fighter is unceremoniously fired via Twitter by Dana White. Head over to the 2020 Best & Worst of MMA thread to post your memorable moments of 2020. We have the Let's Watch: Random Old MMA Events! Thread thread which has been great to read about/relive events through other people’s eyes and worth getting in on yourself if you like writing. Finally, 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 previously mentioned there is also the MMA Goons Discord if you no longer use IRC because you are living in the 21st century - https://discord.gg/SkR8ZeC As usual if there’s any mistakes please let me know and I’ll fix it as soon as I can. Somebody fucked around with this message at 02:48 on May 5, 2020 |
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someone asked about bjorn rebney in the kast thread. his dad is the winnebago man
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:someone asked about bjorn rebney in the kast thread. his dad is the winnebago man Comically I used to work for a subsidiary of Viacom that also had the rights to the Winnebago Man documentary about his dad and one of the nights we aired Bellator's prelims (for some reason it was on our channel back when Bellator was on MTV2) they aired the Winnebago Man documentary immediately afterwards and that was the best form of TV programming synergy I had seen in a few years.
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If Disney was gonna stop Dana from having these Florida cards they would've done so by now right? Is this actually going to happen?
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Brut posted:If Disney was gonna stop Dana from having these Florida cards they would've done so by now right? Is this actually going to happen? I think Disney are OK with Florida based events because they're not violating or working around what a Governor told the UFC not to do. That and also because Disney own actual towns in the Orlando area (on top of basically owning Orlando's value as a city). So I would guess they would want FL to re-open as well. I think having the events in Jacksonville is more surprising since Disney/ESPN own actual venues in Orlando at ESPN's Wide World of Sports that could conceivably host the event. Though that may be down to specific city ordinances.
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Mekchu posted:I think Disney are OK with Florida based events because they're not violating or working around what a Governor told the UFC not to do. That and also because Disney own actual towns in the Orlando area (on top of basically owning Orlando's value as a city). So I would guess they would want FL to re-open as well. Didn't the owner of the Jacksonville football stadium already offer to let events happen there early on? I seem to recall the AEW crew talking about getting Tony Kahn to put events on there before they were cleared to use their training center.
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i cannot wait for the may 9 card -- hope everyone is able to prep the way they need/want to and the fights live up to what you'd expect given the names involved. also hope tony cutting weight for no reason for a card that didn't happen doesn't somehow affect him for his fight vs gaethje -- i kinda expect that he'll be totally fine since he's a goddamn lunatic and fought 6 months after his knee exploded.
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Nis posted:i cannot wait for the may 9 card -- hope everyone is able to prep the way they need/want to and the fights live up to what you'd expect given the names involved. Just gonna quote myself from the previous thread here (Thanks SA admins for recently making it possible to easily quote locked threads) Brut posted:So this of course sets up the may 9th event somehow happening and Tony missing weight but winning the fight thus creating the first vacant interim belt. UFC on a loving Wednesday is gonna be weird too.
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Great op, though I'm disappointed you didn't put in that dana white admitted he's a tomato.
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Brut posted:UFC on a loving Wednesday is gonna be weird too. I wanna say that in ages past, previous Fight Nights on SpikeTV were on a Wednesday.
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Mekchu posted:I wanna say that in ages past, previous Fight Nights on SpikeTV were on a Wednesday. 2000s - early 2010s Fight Nights and WEC events were usually on Wednesdays or Sundays
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Fentry posted:2000s - early 2010s Fight Nights and WEC events were usually on Wednesdays or Sundays I remember watching Faber vs Pulver on some weird night of the week randomly in a bar.
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Fentry posted:2000s - early 2010s Fight Nights and WEC events were usually on Wednesdays or Sundays I remember putting late night WEC replays on the TV in my college radio station as I did a late night radio show. It was kinda dope to just put on music, run ads, and watch WEC for college credit.
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Mekchu posted:I wanna say that in ages past, previous Fight Nights on SpikeTV were on a Wednesday. Fentry posted:2000s - early 2010s Fight Nights and WEC events were usually on Wednesdays or Sundays Oh cool, I had no idea about this, appreciate the info. CommonShore posted:I remember watching Faber vs Pulver on some weird night of the week randomly in a bar. Woah they held fights at a bar? https://twitter.com/AngieOverkill/status/1256343178682044416 OH gently caress YEAH Brut fucked around with this message at 07:37 on May 2, 2020 |
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Brut posted:Oh cool, I had no idea about this, appreciate the info. If Angie wins this and maybe another fight, I would argue she should get a crack at Zhang.
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#BitchFuckingSeason and #UFCKumite are great and I love Angie for those now.
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Mekchu posted:If Angie wins this and maybe another fight, I would argue she should get a crack at Zhang. Yeah why the gently caress not.
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All in on Angie vs Gadelha, holy poo poo that's a _fight_
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If Angie beats her, who else would she have to beat? Like you don't throw JJ back into the mix that soon do you?
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Shadow225 posted:If Angie beats her, who else would she have to beat? Like you don't throw JJ back into the mix that soon do you? If she says she's up to it, why not? It's not like it would be scheduled for next week, probably something like July, that's a good distance from March 7th. Otherwise, Andrade doesn't have an opponent. That being said, Angie's not on the rankings so realistically she's a bunch of fights away, I don't think they'll bump her up from unranked to #6 even though that's the thing that would make sense when she beats the currently #6 lady. They'll probably put her to like #9 or so and have her fight Xiaonan, Ribas, or someone else around there. Brut fucked around with this message at 09:40 on May 2, 2020 |
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Memento posted:Yeah why the gently caress not. Andrade winning a fight in the meantime (even though she lost to Zhang pretty one-sidedly), I can't think of any other top Strawweight contenders at the moment. JJ lost and should probably not get another title shot given she has gone 0-4 in the last 4 title fights she's been in, being 2-4 overall in the past 6 fights. Angie having beaten Gadelha and one other chick would at least put her in the higher end of the rankings and present fresh blood/opponents for the championship. Brut posted:If she says she's up to it, why not? It's not like it would be scheduled for next week, probably something like July, that's a good distance from March 7th. I forgot Rose/Andrade 2 was called off. And yeah the rankings are a bit screwy and as I said I can't think of anyone else in the top of the division than JJ, Rose, Andrade, Gadelha. gently caress it, give the fight to Kim Ji Yeon and put it in Korea because I think Koreans would go apeshit if she won the title on home soil. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 11:25 on May 2, 2020 |
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With Covid-19 shutting down so many noisy factories, you can hear Face the Pain returning to the wild. Nature is healing.
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does anyone else not unbookmark the previous month threads? I know I should but all those memories, tears in the rain, etc and I only ever follow like 3-5 threads on SA at a time for the last few years now
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beep by grandpa posted:does anyone else not unbookmark the previous month threads? I know I should but all those memories, tears in the rain, etc and I only ever follow like 3-5 threads on SA at a time for the last few years now It's more effort to unbookmark them. They just gather at the bottom.
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beep by grandpa posted:does anyone else not unbookmark the previous month threads? I know I should but all those memories, tears in the rain, etc and I only ever follow like 3-5 threads on SA at a time for the last few years now I definitely add browser bookmarks for some of the better events. Like UFC August (2017): Return Of The King* Drug Tests Pending.
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Will the flyweight division quietly be forgotten since Dana wanted to get rid of it anyway and now is pretty much the perfect time to just wipe it from existence?
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Will the flyweight division quietly be forgotten since Dana wanted to get rid of it anyway and now is pretty much the perfect time to just wipe it from existence? I'm gonna say hell no, since their ability to make fights in general is already limited by who can get in to (read: who is already in) this country, they'll take what they can get.
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Angela Hill is good at twitter but I'm not sure I've seen anything from her that says she can hang with Gadelha her ground game especially seems like a major weak point
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Julio Cruz posted:Angela Hill is good at twitter but I'm not sure I've seen anything from her that says she can hang with Gadelha I don’t recall Claudia looking great in her last few. She’s not the beast she once was. Not saying she won’t pull it off, but Hill’s a game opponent. Should be a good fight.
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Mekchu posted:Comically I used to work for a subsidiary of Viacom that also had the rights to the Winnebago Man documentary about his dad and one of the nights we aired Bellator's prelims (for some reason it was on our channel back when Bellator was on MTV2) they aired the Winnebago Man documentary immediately afterwards and that was the best form of TV programming synergy I had seen in a few years. this owns lol
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Fight island merch is real https://ufcstore.com/collections/fight-island
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This may be the first time I've ever agreed with anything Bob Arum has said. How is Dana that bad that Bob Arum is considered the good guy in this situation? https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2020/05/bob-arum-dana-white-ufc-cowboy-behavior-florida-bad-for-sports-boxing-mma-nfl-nba quote:“Good luck to them,” Arum told BoxingScene.com. “I just hope that they’re not endangering the safety of anyone. But this kind of cowboy behavior doesn’t do anybody any good.
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Mekchu posted:This may be the first time I've ever agreed with anything Bob Arum has said. How is Dana that bad that Bob Arum is considered the good guy in this situation? While what Bob said isnt exactly untrue, his reasons and the way he says it smacks of fake concern, especially with saying "cowboy" over and over is very passive aggressive in a very "we think tanked how we can try to put down Dana while not making it look like we're mad he's getting away with something we want to do."
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One of the things that make me not really that mad at Dana for running these events (If I try to set aside me wanting to see some loving fights) is that all around the country people are ignoring basically all the rules everywhere, so I don't think these few events are gonna have that much impact. If everyone was being super obedient with the lockdown this would look a lot worse.
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