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Previous thread - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3749528 *HELP SANCTION MMA IN NEW YORK http://www.mmafacts.com We've probably had 3 belts on the line before in one month, but I can't remember them all being this good fights. Also Frankie vs Chad Money headlining a respectable TUF finale card? Count me loving in. Important champions - Heavyweight Champion Fabricio Werdum Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier Middleweight Champion Chris "The All-American" Weidman Welterweight Champion "Ruthless" Robbie Lawler Lightweight Champion Rafael dos Anjos Featherweight Champion Jose "Scarface" Aldo Interim Feather Champion "Notorious" Conor Mcgregor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeStR_RZFWI Bantamweight Champion TJ Dillashaw Flyweight Champion Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson Women's Bantamweight Champion Holly "The Preacher's Daughter" Holm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=340-RufLNTo Women's Strawweight Champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk Upcoming Events: UFC Fight Night - December 10 TUF 22 Finale - December 11 UFC 194 - December 12 UFC on FOX - December 19 Credible news sources: http://www.mmabuzzsaw.com/ http://www.mmajunkie.com http://www.fightopinion.com http://www.mmapayout.com http://www.mixedmartialarts.com Yahoo! Sports MMA http://www.mmaweekly.com http://www.mmamania.com http://www.mmarated.com http://www.cagepotato.com/ http://www.f4wonline.com/ Other news: http://www.sherdog.com http://www.bloodyelbow.com Other: Sherdog Fight Finder Unified rules of MMA http://www.fightmetric.com MMA IRC chat room at #mma on SynIRC.net Welcome to MMA, here's the history of the sport Comparison of MMA betting lines Understanding Sports Betting mewse posted:If MMA can land a proper new york venue I will eat a hat
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 04:15 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 16:17 |
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Whomever taught Joanna how to make vines recently deserves all our love.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 04:21 |
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Trast posted:Whomever taught Joanna how to make vines recently deserves all our love. 115 really lucked out with her as champion. Otherwise Carla would have killed it before it happened. DumbWhiteGuy posted:
This is so weird. But it's also nice to finally know Holm's pretty sick nickname.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 04:24 |
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fatherdog posted:Yeah, and that's a fine reason for the UFC to not mandate it at the time, but there's a difference between not mandating it and saying "no comment", and saying that your champ is making himself look stupid by trying to get more stringent testing. Read this and remember how stupid the whole situation was in 2013, with Kizer, and people did not even know what WADA or VADA was. It was completely stupid how no one knew anything about anything. In hindsight, it's pretty amazing how far we've come I think but a large part of that might just be Kizer being gone. Anyway, maybe Dana should've come out and said "His heart is in the right place but this is turning into something stupid" instead of "It makes them both look stupid" but who cares.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 04:39 |
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:Read this and remember how stupid the whole situation was in 2013, with Kizer, and people did not even know what WADA or VADA was. It was completely stupid how no one knew anything about anything. Who were "people" who didn't know what WADA or VADA were because I knew and so did anybody else that was actually paying attention. GSP went with VADA for a voluntary testing, Hendricks claimed that he didn't trust VADA and would prefer WADA and therefore... didn't go with any testing at all. The UFC threw their hands up and said everybody was an idiot, and then three months later announced they were doing all the testing GSP wanted to do. GSP is not the guy who looks bad here.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 04:53 |
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GSP never looks bad. He is a very handsome man, as evidenced by the Hollywood film "Captain America - The Winter Soldier"
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 04:56 |
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fatherdog posted:Who were "people" who didn't know what WADA or VADA were because I knew and so did anybody else that was actually paying attention. GSP went with VADA for a voluntary testing, Hendricks claimed that he didn't trust VADA and would prefer WADA and therefore... didn't go with any testing at all. The UFC threw their hands up and said everybody was an idiot, and then three months later announced they were doing all the testing GSP wanted to do. GSP is not the guy who looks bad here. His crew didn't know what WADA was or what it's testing was like and then Kizer rage quit the whole thing because he can't be hosed to return phone calls. quote:The two sides split on who would pay for the testing. St-Pierre’s camp expressed a preference to use VADA, which they said had agreed to partially pay for costs, according to Kizer. But Hendricks’ camp balked at the idea of their opponent partnering with a drug testing body that was supposed to be independent, and they favored the WADA program.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 05:06 |
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:Read this and remember how stupid the whole situation was in 2013, with Kizer, and people did not even know what WADA or VADA was. It was completely stupid how no one knew anything about anything. In hindsight, it's pretty amazing how far we've come I think but a large part of that might just be Kizer being gone. Anyway, maybe Dana should've come out and said "His heart is in the right place but this is turning into something stupid" instead of "It makes them both look stupid" but who cares. You're probably right that Kizer was the biggest problem in that situation. All the attempted quotes to make GSP look bad/suspicious came from Kizer or Hendricks's team and if you read between the lines it's actually Kizer being inept and lazy on his points. Everything GSP's team did there is what they should be doing. Saying they are being suspicious there is like saying someone asking to have their lawyer see the paperwork before signing is being suspicious instead of just 'moving it forward'. 1) VADA is suspicious because they partnered with GSP It's the opposite. They are showing legitimacy by partnering with professional athletes looking to help clean up the sport and endorsements like that will get the program momentum. Just like any intermediary trying to offer a service/product, you do sponsorships/endorsements to gather more buy-in. Yes, that also means that GSP will favor VADA over any other one that isn't free for him. That's not suspicious; that's common sense. Besides, he was going to pay for Hendricks tests anyway so Hendricks was the one getting a free testing in that scenario. WADA was money out of both guys' pockets. 2) GSP's team was being difficult asking for WADA's list of banned substances and testing procedures Kizer had no idea what the banned substances are or the procedures and instead of admitting he doesn't know and doing some loving work to get that sorted out (eg. "we can direct you to the right people" or "we can email you details at a later time") he doesn't do anything to help. Asking for the list of banned substances is obviously important for professional athletes and how/when tests could be conducted. As an extreme example, that could be the difference between taking cold medicine or not taking cold medicine during camp. GSP already knows/approved the testing methods and substance list of VADA so he needs to know if WADA is better or worse before shelving VADA for it. Kizer has no reason to not provide details of a program they endorse when asked for it. He's a lazy poo poo.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 05:12 |
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Kurohashi posted:You're probably right that Kizer was the biggest problem in that situation. All the attempted quotes to make GSP look bad/suspicious came from Kizer or Hendricks's team and if you read between the lines it's actually Kizer being inept and lazy on his points. Everything GSP's team did there is what they should be doing. Saying they are being suspicious there is like saying someone asking to have their lawyer see the paperwork before signing is being suspicious instead of just 'moving it forward'. I will concede whatever if we can just blame this whole thing on Kizer and enter it into the official PSP canon, along with Fedor being a racist and Rich Franklin going out on thrilling win over Wanderlei
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 05:33 |
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Trast posted:Whomever taught Joanna how to make vines recently deserves all our love. At first I was ready to be mad at the omission of JJ from the OP, then I saw the link.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 05:56 |
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Kurohashi posted:You're probably right that Kizer was the biggest problem in that situation. All the attempted quotes to make GSP look bad/suspicious came from Kizer or Hendricks's team and if you read between the lines it's actually Kizer being inept and lazy on his points. Everything GSP's team did there is what they should be doing. Saying they are being suspicious there is like saying someone asking to have their lawyer see the paperwork before signing is being suspicious instead of just 'moving it forward'. The whole situation was representatives of two fighters being retards in dealing with a third retard. It was just a merry go round of bullshit that dominated the mma media for a few weeks. GSP got what he wanted anyway, it just happened to be after he (reasonably) called it quits.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 06:36 |
“OK, fine, use VADA,” Kizer said of his response. “That’s not the question. The question is do you want to do outside testing through the athletic commission? And basically, they said we want to know all the tests you do so Georges’ medical advisors can vet the test first before we decide.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 06:46 |
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quote:would like to know more about this
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 06:46 |
GSP got what he wanted in the sense that he successfully gave up millions of dollars because he's afraid to fight. In another, different sense, he's a coward.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 06:46 |
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Lid posted:would like to know more about this That's just a regular sized piece of meat
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 07:01 |
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hendricks beat the fear into GSP and retired him
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 07:09 |
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I still can't believe Jose F'ing Aldo is the underdog. I got in with $200 when he was +150, the odds have since tightened a bit, but he's still +130. Yes, he CAN lose, Conor has a deadly left, but loving christ, this is scarface we're talking about, why do people think he is more likely to lose?
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 07:28 |
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Lid posted:would like to know more about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamon_iberico
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 07:33 |
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Work Friend Keven posted:GSP got what he wanted in the sense that he successfully gave up millions of dollars because he's afraid to fight. In another, different sense, he's a coward. Keven is doing a really good job on creating his own awards category, "Best Poster With The Stupidest Opinions"
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 07:42 |
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niethan posted:That's just a regular sized piece of meat drat
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 07:44 |
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@The goon tooking for technical fights: Shogun/Machida I
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 07:48 |
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Korean Zombie vs Poirier, Cub Swanson vs Dennis Siver (personal underrated favorite), Aldo vs Mendes 2, Lawler vs Hendricks 1 are my recommendations. Most of these have probably been named already.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 07:55 |
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fatherdog posted:Keven is doing a really good job on creating his own awards category, "Best Poster With The Stupidest Opinions" i unironically agree with ~15% of the things he posts and that's probably way too high but it's easier to just look at it as art instead of opinions held by a real person
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:03 |
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who, or what, is work friend keven?
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:05 |
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Keven makes me smile. Thank you, Keven. Keven.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:06 |
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Northjayhawk posted:I still can't believe Jose F'ing Aldo is the underdog. i'm picking Mr Aldo , but i'm not putting any money on him. :P
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:12 |
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I.N.R.I posted:i'm picking Mr Aldo , but i'm not putting any money on him. :P I am, he hasn't lost a fight in over 10 God drat years, and he has a clear, logical, safe path to victory, (destroy Conor's lead leg with that leg kick he's so great at, then obliterate Conor when he can't move properly) If Aldo just waded in for a stand-up boxing match from the beginning then I'd be worried, but he's smarter than that
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:26 |
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Northjayhawk posted:If Aldo just waded in for a stand-up boxing match from the beginning then I'd be worried, but he's smarter than that While I think you are probably right, if I were looking for a reason not to bet on Aldo, "Brazilian Machismo + Irish Shittalk == Stupid Gameplan" would be high on the list.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:31 |
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fatherdog posted:While I think you are probably right, if I were looking for a reason not to bet on Aldo, "Brazilian Machismo + Irish Shittalk == Stupid Gameplan" would be high on the list. I have the same fear. Its not enough to scare me away from jumping all over that absurd Aldo +150 line (lol, really?!?, OK!), but if I lose my bet, that is the most likely reason for it.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:37 |
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good technical while exciting fights to watch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qCuW4a0ZbA
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:39 |
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Hendricks is a fat sack of poo poo who is going to eat himself into SharkFights2k25 as he attempts to rebuild his life after his failed steakhouse, I agree OP.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:43 |
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If you are prepping boxing fans for a UFC, you might be better with fights that show how dangerous grappling can be. Any fight with a cool submission finish can really alter the "just hugging" perception. Gomi v Nate Gomi v Nick Mir v Nog 2 Any Palhares BJ Penn v Joe Stevenson Jones v Machida TKZ v Poirer and the Garcia twister Fedor v Randleman Rousey v Tate 1
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:46 |
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if your friends like boxing then uhhhh Barnett vs Nogueira 1, Pulver vs Sakurai, Gomi vs Pulver, Machida vs Rashad, Edgar vs Griffin, Sergei vs Rizzo, Diaz vs Daley
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 08:58 |
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Emmy should really do Aldo vs Hominick because it's got both dudes slinging combos inside the pocket and at range and then since his friends are pro Conor they will appreciate Aldo getting beat up a bunch in the 5th
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 09:46 |
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this has got me watching a bunch of old fights and even though the organisation driven promotional model is poo poo for a lot of reasons i'm grateful for the existence of all action fighters with double digit losses even in the big leagues
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 10:00 |
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Triticum Guzzler posted:i'm grateful for the existence of all action fighters with double digit losses even in the big leagues i thank the real jesus every day for robbie lawler
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 10:05 |
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UFC just released first fights for London card next February Bisping vs Mousasi Amirkhani vs Wilkinson Parke vs Khabilov
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 10:13 |
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TheCool69 posted:UFC just released first fights for London card next February rustam is going to absolutely gently caress up parke which will be rad
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 10:31 |
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Ok I have an absolute rake of recommendations now. I just gave some of them my FightPass login and copy pasted the responses people gave into a list! I have also been getting them excited for a fight between a man who loves America too much and a white trash Greek god.
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 11:08 |
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Lawler/Brown owns too. It's two guys who are really good at suckering people into what look like stupid brawls in the pocket, while knowing exactly what they are doing there (seriously, Lawler's head movement is a wonder to watch)
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# ? Dec 1, 2015 11:57 |