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CarlCX posted:NOAH has left money on the table by not having a Sakuraba/Skarbowsky tag team based entirely around them showing up to matches drunk and legitimately kicking the poo poo out of their opponents. Sleepless nights because of cocaine aren't the same as paying dues.
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You should climb the rungs of the ladder and pull yourself up, much like the rich guy who got rich by... *squints at notes* knowing some rich people who gave him their scrap money did
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Dana White would be unironically more of a self made man than he is now if he had just paid his protection money to Whitey Bulger
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Boco_T posted:You should climb the rungs of the ladder and pull yourself up, much like Chandler's adopted kid asked to be adopted and not the other way round.
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Bluedeanie posted:Dana White would be unironically more of a self made man than he is now if he had just paid his protection money to Whitey Bulger
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i remember renting ufc 1-3 on video tape in the mid to late 90s and was spellbound by the awesome work of the money people and not the absolute freaks that got brain damage for basically zero money
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the good ol memories inspired me to look up some old cards and lmao i miss cans like this they signed a guy that beat kimbo slice once in a street fight then he promptly got wrecked by branden lee hinkle
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SquirrelGrip posted:No mention of Genki Sudo’s pride walkouts is shameful "Walk"outs. If you can dance, you can fight is burned into my mind now
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CARL'S FIGHT BREAKDOWNS, EPISODE 17: THE BATTLE OF WHO COULD CARE LESS PRELIMS 1:00 PM PST/4:00 PM EST VIA ESPN+ | MAIN CARD 4:00 PM PST/7 PM EST VIA ESPN+ We were safe for so long, but Holly Holm is back, and we are all doomed. This is a card built around weird matchmaking and very little of importance. Dehumanize yourself and face to non-bloodshed.  this card belongs in jailton MAIN EVENT: THE VIOLENT AISH WOMEN'S BANTAMWEIGHT: Holly Holm (14-5, #2) vs Ketlen Vieira (12-2, #5) It doesn't matter how far or long you run: One day we are all called to atone for our sins, and there, at the end of all things, are five-round Holly Holm fights. Holly Holm is a study in frustration. She is, unquestionably, one of the greatest female combat sports athletes of all time--not just MMA, but combat sports altogether. She started out as a kickboxer, won an amateur championship and moved on. She tried boxing: She won world championships in three weight classes, dominated nearly all of her opponents and left the sport with a 33-2-3 record and her place in history as one of the best female boxers ever. While still a defending boxing champion she began competing in mixed martial arts, and after transitioning to MMA fulltime in 2013 she blitzed through a perfect 10 fights that culminated in the biggest moment of her career: A massive underdog win in which she not only defeated but absolutely crushed Ronda Rousey, the biggest star in the history of women's combat sports, at the height of her power. She's an incredibly skilled fighter, she's the only person in history to win world championships across both boxing and MMA and she did the latter by killing its queen, she's been a main-event mainstay of multiple combat sports for twenty years. She's currently talking about returning to boxing to take on the current best, Katie Taylor, and she could absolutely do it. She's undeniably one of the greatest women's fighters in history. So why don't people really care about Holly Holm the way they do everyone else at her level? It's because, in all objectivity, she's infuriating to watch. Holly Holm is an incredibly talented striker and an incredibly tough competitor, she has power in her hands and feet and the cardio to fight for five rounds, and she tends to use all of those gifts as sparingly as is humanly possible. It's not just that she doesn't finish people; it's that most of the time it seems like she's barely even trying to hurt them. She uses her footwork, she uses her jab, she uses her teep, and she connects so few significant strikes that her fights are often scored based primarily on who the inaction favored most. This isn't a thing that's unique to Holly Holm--many a fighter has this problem--but her stature as legitimately one of the greatest of all time makes the performances even harder to watch. When she fought an impossibly outmatched Bethe Correia she landed a grand total of 22 strikes in three rounds and only knocked her out with the 23rd-25th after Bethe Correia very literally put her arms down, pointed at her head, and requested to be hit. She could be better. She should be better. And it's impossible to watch her fight and not feel that friction. She's facing Ketlen "Fenômeno" Vieira, who feels like a relatively recent addition to the UFC even though that feeling is completely wrong and she's been around since 2016. She's a black belt in judo and jiu-jitsu, the latter under the legendary Chute Boxe kingpin André Pederneiras, and a national wrestling champion in Brazil, and she was a promising law student before making the smart career decision to abandon the courthouse in favor of mixed martial arts. I have a great deal of appreciation for Vieira's pre-recognition career in the regional MMA scene, not because of any particularly impressive victories or high-level competition, but because she won championships for organizations named BIG WAY FIGHT NIGHT and MR. CAGE, which remain some of my favorite mixed martial arts names ever. Her career has a similar mystery, though: She's 12-2, she's #3 in the world, she's coming off a main event victory against one of the most popular women's fighters ever in Miesha Tate and she's in what's almost certainly a title eliminator. Why aren't more people talking about Ketlen Vieira? Unfortunately, it's the same answer: She can be extremely frustrating to watch. Ketlen Vieira has a better-rounded skillset than the vast majority of her competitors and she tends to use it defensively. This is often problematic for her, because she also isn't blessed with particular punching power and her tendency to backpedal, stick and move means she's rarely sitting down on her strikes, nor is she often hunting for ground and pound or submissions. Consequently she wins most of her fights, but many of them come entirely too close for comfort. She barely got past Cat Zingano, she squeaked by Miesha Tate while having all of her punches walked through, she has one stoppage victory in eight UFC fights. It's a battle between two extremely talented yet conflict-averse fighters. And Holly's better at it. She throws with even less volume than Vieira, but she's much more accurate, she's got a much more well-rounded striking game, and she's good enough at grappling to keep the fight on her feet, which means it's under her control. This is the polar opposite of a pissometer fight. It's almost certainly not going to be fun or exciting, but even more frustrating, it's probably not going to be a great exhibition of technique. It's almost certainly going to be tentative, slow, and heatless. And Holly Holm will win a decision. CO-MAIN EVENT: STOP DANCING AROUND AND FINISH YOUR P'S  WELTERWEIGHT: Santiago Ponzinibbio (28-5, #14) vs Michel Pereira (27-11 (2), NR)Fresh off the battle of struggling would-be champions, it's a battle of struggling would-be contenders. Santiago Ponzinibbio was supposed to be the welterweight champion, like, four years ago. He was the TUF Brazil winner in 2013, he'd overcome some early difficulties and he'd established himself as one of the most dangerous men at welterweight thanks primarily to his laser-accurate striking. He had a seven-fight win streak that included absolute destructions over guys like Gunnar Nelson and Neil Magny, he was considered by some the favorite in a match with then-champion Tyron Woodley. And then he busted his hand, got a staph infection and very nearly died. After two and a half years of recovery he made his triumphant return in early 2021, vowing to pick up right where he left off; he was immediately knocked out by Li Jingliang. He's 1-2 since his return, having most recently fought to an ultra-close split decision loss against Geoff Neal, and how much of that is his having lost a step and how much is the competition having caught up doesn't seem quite like an answered question yet. Michel Pereira is not here to help him find clarity. Pereira is an interesting and confounding fighter thanks as much to his style as his strategy. He blends the straightforward jabs and kicks of kickboxing with the footwork of karate with the flash of Capoeira, making him one of the most eclectic strikers to watch in the sport but also one of its most periodically infuriating. When he's firing on all cylinders he's a creative terror who attacks from oblique angles and stifles conventional counters; when he's not, he's a dancer and staller who focuses so much on footwork that he forgets to land punches and lets opponents get back into fights. He has an honest to goodness loss to Diego Sanchez in the year twenty goddamn twenty because he could not stop himself from kneeing him on the ground. When Pereira is in control he's a monster, but that control slips far too often. This is a tough one. Odds have it as a pick 'em and I think that's fair, but I'm leaning towards Santiago Ponzinibbio by decision. Pereira has more weapons, but Ponzinibbio's boxing still looked crisp in the Neal fight and Pereira's desire to screw around regularly gets him caught by accurate punchers. I think Ponzinibbio ultimately boxes through the kicks. MAIN CARD: IT'S BEEN FIVE YEARS AND I STILL DON'T REALLY GET THE POINT OF ERYK ANDERS MIDDLEWEIGHT: Duško Todorović (11-2) vs Chidi Njokuani (21-7) Duško Todorović is an odd fighter in an odd position. His fighting style centers around tight, chipping boxing and head movement, but his actual martial roots come from taekwondo, so every once in awhile he throws a spinning hook kick out of nowhere. He entered the international radar by becoming the only man to ever knock out Michel Pereira, winning the middleweight championship of his native Serbia along with it; one fight prior, he'd been matched against the 49 year-old, 29-28-3, Pancrase 1 veteran Kazuo "Cannibal Yoshiki" Takahashi. He reached the UFC through the Contender Series and established himself as a smart striker who was then destroyed repeatedly by people whose primary strength involved wading forward throwing 1-2s until their target stopped moving. He came back from the first two loses of his career by spending the entirety of his last fight shooting takedowns and landing ground and pound. He's young, he's talented and he's clearly capable of adaptation, but that adaptation is coming from having been shaken out of his chosen style. Chidi "Bang Bang" Njokuani, brother of WEC star Anthony Njokuani, is the kind of striker you do not want to be shaken against. He has vicious kicks, he has distressingly accurate punches, and at 6'3" with 80" reach he has a range advantage over drat near everyone in the division not named Israel Adesanya. His UFC debut was just three months ago at the ill-fated Hermansson vs Strickland, and it saw him knock Marc-André Barriault the gently caress out in sixteen seconds. He's taken people out with his hands, with his clinch knees, with his body kicks--Njokuani's a very complete striker and anyone who can't get inside on him is basically hosed. This is also how he loses: All but one of his losses (Brandon Thatch knocked him out a decade+ ago) have come from people outwrestling and outgrappling him, which he finds very, very irritating. Duško Todorović tried to wrestle more in his last fight, but he's still not a wrestler. I don't think he'll be able to shoot hard enough on Chidi to get him down, and that means this is a striking battle, and that means he's in trouble, because his best striking success comes from the inside. Chidi Njokuani gets the TKO. WOMEN'S STRAWWEIGHT: Polyana Viana (12-4) vs Tabatha Ricci (6-1) I'm tentatively intrigued by this one. Polyana Viana is a talented grappler who's still trying to come back from a bad skid--after entering the UFC as a 9-1 Jungle Fight champion who stopped everyone she fought, she fell into a three-fight losing streak against competition she seemingly should have been above. When you're a fighter noted primarily for your grappling, and you get armbarred by someone who was outgrappled handily by Ashlee Evans-Smith, something is wrong. She's since won two fights that could be gently noted as tune-ups by first-round armbar again, so her yips are gone, but as her reintroduction to higher-level competition could be interesting. Tabatha Ricci being higher-level competition is, of course, up for debate. "Baby Shark" (argh) is a very promising fighter, a judo champion and a Mackenzie Dern training partner with a lot of grappling experience under her belt, but she had the deep misfortune of making her UFC debut as a late replacement against Manon Fiorot, who is almost certainly going to be fighting for the championship soon and who massively outsized and outstruck her. She rebounded with a dominant decision over Maria Oliveira in her next fight, but this is sort of the problem with evaluating Ricci: Everyone except Oliveira that she's defeated had either a losing record or no fights at all, and Oliveira's 12-4 is impressive on paper, but on actual examination, she, too, recorded all of her victories over rookies and jobbers, and lost against the only notably good fighters she had faced. This doesn't make them by any means bad fighters, but it does mean they're somewhat untested. As it stands, they're both grappling stylists but Viana has a decent size advantage, throws the harder strikes and is herself a dangerous grappler, and I can't help thinking that's going to make her too much for Ricci. Polyana Viana by decision. MIDDLEWEIGHT: Eryk Anders (14-6) vs Jun Yong Park (13-5) Like, genuinely, I don't get it. I don't get Eryk Anders. The UFC made a big deal out of his being a former NFL player, but he never actually played for the NFL, he got signed and cut immediately. He joined up with the UFC in 2017 and they strapped a rocket to him and had him main eventing against Lyoto Machida within six months--which he lost. Eryk Anders has a UFC record of 6-6, and only one of the people he beat is still in the UFC, and it's Gerald Meerschaert, and not only did he have to go to a split decision with Gerald goddamn Meerschaert, it was a terrible decision he should have lost. He doesn't hit particularly hard, he doesn't have particularly great striking, his grappling is nothing to write home about, and for a lifelong professional sportsman, his cardio really isn't that impressive. And somehow, he is still here. And he's facing The Iron Turtle himself, Jun Yong Park. I cannot say this without it being both the highest praise and a terrible condemnation: Jun Yong Park reminds me of Akira Shoji. For the fans who got into the sport at a more sanely recent time, Akira Shoji was so central to Pride FC back in the day that they literally nicknamed him Mr. Pride, and that is largely because he wasn't very good. His two big strengths were being a solid grappler and being too tough for his own good, and those propelled him much further than anyone would've thought possible, but they also led him to fighting heavier than he should have and getting repeatedly bludgeoned. Jun Yong Park is far BETTER than Akira Shoji, but his best striking still comes from hockey punches in the clinch and his best performances come from dragging opponents to the ground, and he tends to rely on his inherent toughness to walk through punches to get there. But he's also a 5'10" guy fighting at middleweight, and what's worse, he's relying on his strength in the clinch against a guy who pretty much only has that going for him. Being a human meat-brick is the one strength Anders has as a fighter, and it's going to make Park's desired gameplan very hard to use. I think that turns this into a lamentable clinch-and-punch session, and I think Anders is able to outpower Park in that situation. Unfortunately, Eryk Anders wins a decision and we all live with him for another three years. PRELIMS: PARKER PORTER'S PRECARIOUS PUNCH-OUT MIDDLEWEIGHT: Joseph Holmes (7-2) vs Alen Amedovski (8-2) It's sacrifice time, baby. Joseph "Ugly Man" Holmes is a Contender Series baby, but his victory there was apparently insufficient, as he then had to fight on Fury FC 53: LOOKIN' FOR A FIGHT to clarify his intentions. He's a giant 6'4" for the middleweight division, he has 80" reach, and despite his stylistic base coming from Muay Thai, most of his come by submission, from jumping guillotines to standing RNCs. Alan Amedovski, with respect, is someone the UFC is trying to get rid of. He was signed as a last-minute replacement for Krzysztof Jotko in 2019, he lost, badly, twice in a row, and he spent the subsequent two and a half years pulling out of fights. This is why his return to the sport is against someone with half a foot of height and reach on him. Amedovski's a scrapper who wants to come forward winging punches until someone falls over. Ironically, that's his best chance here. Holmes has a massive size and reach advantage, but he's kind of bad at using it, which is why so many of his finishes come from clinch trips. Unfortunately for Amedovski, the clinch is not his strength, as the Jotko fight demonstrated. Despite that he could easily jab his face off from the next neighboring city, this fight is most likely clinch drags and, ultimately, a rear naked choke. Joseph Holmes by submission. HEAVYWEIGHT: Parker Porter (13-6) vs Jailton Almeida (15-2) It's sacrifice time again, baby. Boy, these used to be farther apart. Jailton Almeida is one of the most-hyped Contender Series babies, a 6'3" ace from a family of professional fighters who was basically boxing straight out of the womb and started jiu-jitsu before he hit puberty. His last loss was almost five years ago and he's mauled everyone he's fought since thanks to a combination of surprisingly quick hands and dominant grappling. Maxim Grishin was his original opponent here, but after pulling out back in April, Jailton decided to pop up to heavyweight to face late replacement Parker Porter, and to be polite, I do not believe in Parker Porter. He's won more fights than he's lost, he's 3-1 in the UFC, but he doesn't do much damage, he doesn't present a submission threat and he struggled with Alan Baudot, who is not very good. He's just sort of an aimless wrestler. And that's a bad thing to be against someone who's as good at strangling people as Jailton. Parker's biggest advantage here is probably going to be straight-up mass--up until a month ago this was a 205-pound fight and Parker weighs in right around 263--but Jailton's actually taller and longer. Jailton Almeida winds up getting a submission, but he might have to do it from the bottom. LIGHTWEIGHT: Omar Morales (11-2) vs Uros Medic (7-1) Omar Morales is a fighter from Venezuela, which is why his nickname is "Venezualen Fighter." He's from the Contender Series. I'll spoil that his opponent Uros Medic is, too, from the Contender Series. Vince Morales, in the next fight down, is from the Contender Series. Chase Hooper is from the Contender Series. We are approaching the talent singularity, and by god, I don't want it to come. Medic is bigger, more explosive and more willing to take wild risks, but Morales is more technically measured and a sufficiently tough motherfucker that he lasted three rounds with Giga Chikadze despite having basically one leg and no face by the end of it. Unless Medic lands a home run shot early I don't think he's got the skillset to outfight Morales. Omar's too tough, too well-rounded and in a pinch he actually knows what takedowns are. By contrast, Medic has only made it out of the first round once in his career and it was four years ago. Omar Morales by decision. BANTAMWEIGHT: Jonathan Martinez (15-4) vs Vince Morales (11-5)Brawlfest, we are here for you. Both of these dudes are strikers who spurn nearly all attempts at grappling, both have been in the UFC since 2018, and struggle to get off of the prelims, both have a fairly recent brutal battering loss--Morales got leg kicked to death by potential contender Chris Gutierrez and Martinez got atomized by a left hand from the recently resurgent Davey Grant. They are both die-by-the-sword fighters who will continue attempting to win the striking game even when being actively battered. If there's a difference between them, it's Martinez's kicks. They're both fairly good punchers, but Martinez has a more versatile kicking game and has shown a capacity for peppering them in with his strikes, where Morales is a little more of a rush-and-chuck-hooks brawler. Jonathan Martinez by decision after picking Morales apart just a bit more. FEATHERWEIGHT: Chase Hooper (10-2-1) vs Felipe Colares (10-3)Chase "The Dream" Hooper is one of the earlier Contender Series babies--too early, in fact, as the UFC elected to give him a developmental contract and sent him back to the minor leagues for another year before calling him up, whereupon he became the youngest UFC fighter ever. At 6'1" he's one of the tallest and rangiest featherweights in the world, and he capitalizes on it by being really bad at striking and focusing completely and wholly on grappling, even when that means pulling guard and accomplishing nothing but getting his face punched in. Felipe Colares was Jungle Fight's featherweight champion when he got picked up in 2019, and he's gone on to three years of back and forth, having yet to string together two consecutive wins or losses. He's a solid grappler with black belts in judo and jiu-jitsu, and he'd probably be more successful if he stuck to those disciplines, but like so many in the UFC he for some mysterious reason feels the need to stand and bang, and it regularly doesn't work out for him. But this is Chase Hooper. It's inevitably going to be a grappling match, and Hooper's probably going to be on top. Colares is good on the ground but his bottom game isn't the most impressive, and I think Hooper's going to ultimately control him enough for the judges. He'll eat some bad punches getting there, though. Chase Hooper by decision. WOMEN'S STRAWWEIGHT: Elise Reed (5-1) vs Sam Hughes (6-4) I underestimated Elise Reed back in March and she managed to just barely squeak by Cory McKenna. You would think I would learn a lesson from this: I refuse. "Sampage" isn't the best either, but she's still an ultra-aggressive wrestler bent on getting fights to the ground by any means necessary, and Reed is a more well-rounded but tentative fighter who tends to give her opponents too much space to operate. There's gonna be a lot of bad takedown attempts but I think enough will work for Hughes to win on control time. Sam Hughes by decision. CarlCX fucked around with this message at 22:30 on May 19, 2022 |
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FWIW Jack Slack, who usually describes heavyweight in at least as rude of terms as us, is generally positive about Parker Porter, on the basis that he throws technically sound and accurate strikes from a good balanced base, and in varried combinations up and down the body. If the size difference counts here, because Porter despite being soft, has some of the biggest legs I've ever seen, we might see him just land some shots that are too heavy for Almeida to withstand. Porter is fat like the winner of this, not like the losers: https://twitter.com/Matysek88/status/1526863543596900353
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See, I did a deep dive on Parker Porter for the Hill/Walker card earlier this year and with respect to my smarter elder in Jack Slack I just don't agree. He's definitely better than the average bad heavyweight, no disagreement there, but he has virtually no footwork to the point of sometimes getting caught punching out of a nearly square stance, he likes to dip his head Bald Bull-style when he throws power shots which is inevitably going to get him killed when he finally fights someone who knows what an uppercut is, his takedowns aren't so much technically apt as his just charging into opponents and grabbing for their legs, and he has about a round and a half of reliable gas before he's just walking headfirst into strikes. Struggling against Chase Sherman is not a great sign for a heavyweight prospect.
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 B League Preview One Championship 157 - Friday, May 20 Main Card - 8:30AM ET Lightweight Title (Muay Thai) - Petchmorakot Petchyindee vs Jimmy “Le Guepard” Vienot Here is what I know about Muay Thai: It is cool and I enjoy it. Flyweight Title (Muay Thai) - Prajanchai PK Saenchai vs Joseph “The Hurricane” Lasiri SEE ABOVE Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal (Muay Thai) - Rodtang “The Iron Man” Jitmuangnon vs Jacob Smith SEE ABOVE Welterweight (Grappling) - Garry “The Lion Killer” Tonon vs Tye Ruotolo Fresh off getting his face punched into unconsciousness, Garry Tonon has returned to the safe space that is grappling. I don’t know anything about Tye Ruotolo. Welterweight (Grappling) - Shinya “Tobikan Judan” Aoki vs Kade Ruotolo Aoki is the gravel-voiced prick who can’t stop flipping the bird when he snaps an opponent’s limb. He’s most well known for getting knocked out by a cosplaying kickboxer in the opening seconds of the MMA round in a mixed rules bout. Kade Ruotolo looks to be about 15. I refuse to research his date of birth, but I’ll put it as coming after Aoki made his MMA debut in 2003. Despite his high level submission skills in MMA, Aoki hasn’t done great in pure grappling matches. He’ll probably lose to this assumed child. Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal (Muay Thai) - Jonathan Haggerty vs Walter Goncalves SEE ABOVE Prelims - 5AM ET Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal (Muay Thai) - Superlek “The Kicking Machine” Kiatmoo9 vs Taiki Naito SEE ABOVE Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal (Muay Thai) - Savvas “The Baby Face Killer” Michael vs Amir Naseri SEE ABOVE Strawweight - Asha “Knockout Queen” Roka vs Alyse “Lil Savage” Anderson Roka is 4-2, with 2 knockouts and 2 subs. Knockout Queen seems a little disingenuous. Also, all 4 of Roka’s wins came in SFL (SUPA. FIGHT. LEAGUE. BOOM, POW, PUNCH KICK WOW. DROP EM TO THE MAT WITH THE BISHA-BISHA POW). She’s 0-2 in ONE. The B-Leagues can be tough! Anderson is 5-2 as a pro, 6-0 amateur. She’s got 2 TKOs and 1 submission win. She went 2-1 in Invicta, and is 0-1 in ONE. Anderson looks to have beaten better competition. She’s also fought more recently, as Roka’s last bout was in 2020. Lightweight (Kickboxing) - Davit Kiria vs Mohammed “Too Sharp” Boutasaa The only memory that’s been seared into my brain of Davit Kiria is his amazing comeback win over Andy Ristie back in 2014 for the Glory Lightweight title. It’s a rad fight. Flyweight - Wondergirl Fairtex vs Zeba “Fighting Queen” Bano Wondergirl is 2-1 in ONE Muay Thai, and is making her MMA debut here. Bano is 1-0 in MMA, with an additional 4 exhibition bout victories. She hasn’t fought since 2020. Got a strong feeling that Chatri searched real hard to find someone to feed to Wondergirl to make her look good. But hey, I’ve been hilariously wrong before. Bantamweight Grand Prix Alternate Bout (Muay Thai) - Panpayak “The Angel Warrior” Jitmuangnon vs Josue Cruz SEE ABOVE Bantamweight Grand Prix Alternate Bout (Muay Thai) - Denis “The Bosnian Menace” Puric vs Sherzod Kabutov SEE ABOVE Flyweight - Elipitua “The Magician” Siregar vs Robin “Ilonggo” Catalan Siregar is 4-2, with 3 RNC wins and 1 by GnP. He’s billed as a wrestler. Catalan is 9-7 with 3 TKOs and 2 submission wins. Catalan also has 5 losses by submission, including 3 RNCs. He’s definitely getting Mata Leon’d
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B League Preview Eagle FC 47 - Friday May 20 Main Card - 6PM ET Heavyweight - Yorgan “The Mad Titan” de Castro vs Junior “Cigano” Dos Santos Yorgan is a kickboxer in name only. He’s 8-3 with 5 TKO wins. All 3 of his losses came in the UFC, including a most lamentable defeat at the hands of Greg Hardy. JDS is back and he’s smoother than ever. By that, I mean his picture on the event poster was airbrushed to hell and he looks weird as gently caress. He’s a boxer, but his last win by KO was in 2019. He’s on a 4 fight, 4 KO losing streak. Yorgan isn’t very good, but JDS has looked incredibly washed. I think we get very sad and Junior takes another nap. Light Heavyweight - Hector “Showweather” Lombard vs Thiago Silva Lombard isn’t a crime guy, he’s just an rear end in a top hat. He goes too hard in training/sparring, and there’s a slew of guys who’ve called him out for being a prick. Thiago Silva is a crime guy. Specifically, he beat his wife and then had a drug-fueled armed standoff with police. gently caress him, and honestly? gently caress Khabib for signing this guy. Let’s hope the lighting rig falls and smooshes both these guys, but if that isn’t feasible, I’ll hope for a Lombard win, I guess? Middleweight - Maki “Coconut Bombz” Pitolo vs Doug “Yamato” Usher Pitolo is 14-9 with 7 KOs. He went 1-5 with 3 stoppage losses in UFC after winning a contract on the Contender Series, which is a good encapsulation of both the point of the Contender Series (cheap warm bodies to fill cards) and Dana White’s eye for talent evaluation (doodoo). Usher is 13-3 with 10 TKOs. He’s on a 9-fight win streak, dating back to 2016, with just one decision during that time. Has Usher beaten anyone that someone’s heard of? No, but neither has Pitolo. I’m going with Usher in this one. Light Heavyweight - Gabriel “Zangief” Checco vs Andrew “El Dirte” Sanchez Checco is 12-6 with all wins coming by stoppage (7 TKOs, 5 submissions). Last time out, he dropped a decision to Rashad Evans, which is pretty bad these days. Sanchez is 12-7 with 6 TKOs. He got drummed out of the UFC on the back of two straight third round TKO losses, having amassed a 5-5 record there. Both guys are not great, but I think Sanchez is less bad. Lightweight - Akhmed “Butcher” Aliev vs Darrell “The Saint” Horcher Aliev is 20-7, with 11 TKOs. Most of those stoppages came in Russia, in stuff like Fight Nights Global, S-70, and perhaps the worst named MMA event, Dictator Fighting Championship. Aliev has gone 3-3 across 2 PFL seasons, most recently getting knocked out in 27 seconds to everyone’s favorite, the Jaguar Paw himself, Loik Radzhabov. Horcher is a wrestler, coming into this at 14-5 with 7 TKOs. He went 1-3 in the UFC, most famously getting grounded and also pounded by Khabib as a short notice replacement for one of the many attempted Nurmagomedov vs Ferguson bookings. This feels like Khabib, having beat up Da Scorcher years ago, is now bringing friends in to beat him up. Feels bad, man. Prelims Lightweight - Islam Mamedov vs Zach “God’s Warrior” Zane Mamedov is 20-2 with 9 submissions and 4 TKOs. He had a 19-fight, 11 year win streak (Well, minus a draw tossed in there) before losing a split decision to Benson Henderson in January. Zane is 15-12. He’s got 10 wins and 7 losses by submission. Zane was supposed to be a showcase fight for Tofiq Musayev in April for Bellator, but he pulled out. He lost via triangle choke to Luis “Violent Bob Ross” Pena on May 6th. That’s a pretty quick turnaround, even though Zane lost in under a minute. Mamedov is going to do Grappling Crimes to Zane for probably 3.5 minutes Light Heavyweight - Ronny Markes vs Reggie “The Regulator” Pena Markes is 21-9 and is perfectly balanced. 7 wins each by TKO, submission, and decision. Pena is 15-6, with 7 TKOs and 6 submissions. He’s fought as low as welterweight. I hate to disrupt an equilibrium, but I think Markes wins this with his strength and muscles. Lightweight - Alexandre "Capităo" de Almeida vs Roosevelt “The Predator” Roberts Almeida is 21-10 with 14 submissions. He’s fought in both Jungle Fight, and the Wish dot com knockout, Amazon Forest Combat, as well as the delightfully named Mr. Cage organization. He’s gone 5-5 in WSoF/PFL, with 2 losses each to Lance Palmer and Steven Siler. Almeida has not fought since 2019. Roberts is 11-3, with 4 TKOs and 5 submissions. He went 4-3 in UFC, plus an extra loss that was overturned because his opponent was on that Plus Weed. This is a tough one to call. You’d think Roberts would have the edge on strength of schedule, but he lost to the good fighters. Almeida isn’t facing Palmer or Siler, so he might have a chance here. Lightweight - Sean Soriano vs Paulo “Bello” Silva Soriano is 14-8 with 7 TKOs and 4 submission wins (He’s also got 5 sub losses). He went 0-3 with 2 sub losses in his first UFC run (2014-15), and 0-2 with 1 sub loss in his 2nd UFC run (2021). Silva is 6-6 with 1 TKO and 2 sub and 3 decision wins and the same for his losses, which is impressively eerie. His last fight was a 1st round sub loss in 2020. His last win was in 2019, a 2nd round TKO. Oh boy, both these guys seem pretty bad. If I had to pick someone, I guess I’ll go with Soriano? Bantamweight - Adi Alic vs Shawn Bunch “The Great” Alic is 8-4, notching 2 TKO and 3 sub wins. His last finish came in 2018. Bunch is a wrestler with an 11-5 record, with just 3 finishes. He went 6-4 in Bellator, split between two runs. Bunch will probably grind out a decision. Lightweight - “The Quiet Man” Dylan Mantello vs Dennis “DJ” Hughes Mantello is 4-2 with 2 TKOs and 1 sub win. He’s currently on a 2-fight skid. Hughes is 7-4 with 3 TKOs and 3 subs. He lost in the PFL Challenger Series in March, snapping a 3-fight win streak. This is a rematch from 2019, at Ring of Combat 69 (Nice), where Mantello won a decision.
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LobsterMobster posted:Thiago Silva is a crime guy. Specifically, he beat his wife and then had a drug-fueled armed standoff with police. gently caress him, and honestly? gently caress Khabib for signing this guy. Never forget that the UFC fired Thiago over this, and then re-hired him one day after the charges were dropped when his wife fled the country because he and his friends were threatening to murder her, and only reluctantly fired him again when it turned out she had recorded him. also your work is awesome and i'm mad i forgot eagle FC had a card this month but seriously gently caress thiago silva and anyone who pays him to fight
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May 20, 2022 02:46
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LobsterMobster posted:Eagle FC 47 - Friday May 20  Please join our Tapology group and make bad picks with the rest of us https://www.tapology.com/groups/998 Deadlines coming up to make picks One Championship 157 2 hours Eagle FC 47 16 hours UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira 42 hours Digital Jedi fucked around with this message at 03:00 on May 20, 2022 |
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May 20, 2022 02:57
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One and Eagle don't count for the group, for whatever reason, but you can still make picks
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May 20, 2022 03:23
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Didn't even notice that. I just do picks regardless and assumed it was in the group as well. The group setting is for major events so I guess it counts those as regional or b-league
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May 20, 2022 03:40
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Digital Jedi posted:And the poster really does JDS bad lmao yeah if i ever get a new av it's definitely this 
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May 20, 2022 03:41
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Digital Jedi posted:Didn't even notice that. I just do picks regardless and assumed it was in the group as well. The group setting is for major events so I guess it counts those as regional or b-league
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May 20, 2022 03:46
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why does lombard have a huge hand
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May 20, 2022 04:49
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I like how they’re all giving some sort of side eye to their opponents, like it’s going to be a caper movie of trained cat burglars instead of washed up punch men.
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May 20, 2022 07:46
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I like how they’re all giving some sort of side eye to their opponents, like it’s going to be a caper movie of trained cat burglars instead of washed up punch men. This is exactly the vibe, you nailed it. Also I'd probably watch that movie.
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May 20, 2022 07:56
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reading that khabib brought horcher in made me momentarily forget about him signing the absolutely lamentable dustman from att, as i thought it was maybe a late thank you for taking the fight all those years ago, but nope. looks like khabib just likes to see da scorcher pounded into goo
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May 20, 2022 18:44
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Eagle FC is on for the rest of the night on goflx.com, it asks you to register but you can put any email address it doesn't even make you verify it. As usual the player is very bad. https://twitter.com/Boco_T/status/1527773367436251136
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May 20, 2022 23:09
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Not going to recommend  but there may be better alternatives to the official goflx player.
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May 21, 2022 02:29
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Well Eagle FC just become posibly the worst promotion around by practically airing a #FreeCain promo video with JDS
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May 21, 2022 02:46
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And JDS just popped his shoulder out and that's the end of the fight. Way to go ref not doing anything for a minute as it was clear it popped out
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May 21, 2022 03:32
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The PFL commentators desperately trying to continue selling JDS as looking just like his old self and JDS/Fedor as an exciting heavyweight bout in 2022 over the image of JDS on the ground screaming because throwing a punch made his shoulder explode is maybe the best encapsulation of b-league MMA in 2022
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May 21, 2022 03:43
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Eagle FC has the worst commentary in all of combat sports. John McCarthy is a voice of reason and personality in comparison.
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May 21, 2022 03:46
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4002587 GDT for Holm/Vieira is up. Watch it, if you dare.
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May 21, 2022 20:15
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Giga Chikadze is getting the Forrest Griffin Community Service Award during Fight Week for his charity that he has to help women fight cancer in honor of his mother, toss a few bucks if you can spare them https://www.kocancer.charity/
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May 22, 2022 00:42
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Anyone recommend which fights to catch up on?
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May 22, 2022 02:44
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evilpicard posted:Anyone recommend which fights to catch up on? Joseph Holmes (7-2) vs. Alen Amendovski (8-2) Omar Morales (11-2) vs. Uros Medic (7-1) Chase Hooper (10-2-1) vs. Felipe Colares (10-3) Carl says Martinez/Morales too Main Card #14 Santiago Ponzinibbio (28-5) vs. Michel Pereira (27-11) Chidi Njouani (21-7) vs. Dusko Todorovic (11-2)
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May 22, 2022 02:51
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That elbow last night was nasty. Were any decisions worthwhile or were they all Holmsesque? I typically just scroll through previous night’s fights and watch any fight that has a finish while skipping the decisions.
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Ponzinibbio vs. Pereira was the highlight of the event.
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