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What should have main-evented UFC 300? This poll is closed. |
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| Alex Pereira vs Tom Aspinall |
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2 | 5.88% |
| Georges St-Pierre vs Khabib Nurmagomedov |
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6 | 17.65% |
| Mark Hunt vs Dana White |
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19 | 55.88% |
| Mark Coleman vs A Fire |
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5 | 14.71% |
| Mark Twain vs The Tainted Legacy of Americana |
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2 | 5.88% |
| Total: | 34 votes | ||
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sorry, carl B-League Round-Up PFL 2024 1: Thursday, April 4. 6PM ET, ESPN+ PFL is back for 2024. Things kick off with Heavyweights and Women’s Flyweight. The card has already had some shakeups a week out, so let’s figure out who’s allegedly fighting before any more changes gunk things up. The main event sees 2022 PFL winner Ante Delija take on former Bellator interim champ Valentin Moldavsky. Delija is fairly well-rounded with good power and decent grappling. Moldavsky has had issues on the ground, losing to Ryan Bader’s wrestling attack by decision, and having gotten elbowed into paste by Linton Vassell’s ground and pound. The co-main features Denis Goltsov taking on Linton Vassell. Goltsov lost in the PFL championship finals last year to Renan Ferreira. Vassell has lost in two attempts at the Bellator Light Heavyweight title. Which perpetual runner-up will get the win and move one step closer to finally achieving championship gold? My guess is Goltsov, since Vassell is a 40-year old English wrestler, and that’s just a severely unfortunate combination of words. Also on the main card, Bellator 125lb champ Liz Carmouche meets former champ Juliana Velasquez for the third time, but this bout is three rounds and it is inside the PFL SmartCage! Since moving from UFC to Bellator, Carmouche has won 7 in a row, with 3 wins by TKO and 3 by submission. Velasquez hasn’t fought since the end of 2022, when she lost the rematch to Carmouche. WIll Liz continue her winning ways? Will Juliana have accumulated an insurmountable amount of cage corrosion? The main card opener sees Dakota Ditcheva face off against Lisa Mauldin. Ditcheva is undefeated at 10-0, including going 5-0 in PFL over the last two years. Granted, she was competing in the Euro series in 2023, and those 3 opponents are currently a combined 13-13. Mauldin is 6-3, with 2 wins last year in non-season PFL bouts. Down on the prelims, we’ve got Marcelo Golm versus Daniel James having a rematch from last year in Bellator that saw James knock out Golm in the third round. But this time, points are in play! Also on the prelims, Blagoy Ivanov is replacing Bruno Cappelozza in a clash with Sergey Bilostenniy. Blagoy hasn’t won since 2022, hasn’t won two in a row since 2019, and hasn’t won by stoppage since 2017, back when PFL was still called World Series of Fighting. Bilostenniy does cool stuff like win by spinning back kick, or get disqualified for hitting his opponent in the brain stem. So expect Ivanov to clinch Sergey against the cage for fifteen excruciating minutes. Former UFC title challenger Talia Santos meets Ilara Joanne, my dude Tall Steve Mowry faces Oleg Popov, while Kana Watanabe takes on Shana Young, and Chelsea Hackett is matched up with Jena Bishop. Santos has lost her last two, a split decision to Valentina Shevchenko and a unanimous decision to Erin Blancfield. Apparently coming up just short against top contenders in the division isn’t good enough to keep your job in this modern, cutthroat UFC. Mowry is tall and I am apparently dumb enough to let that sway me. I am unabashedly a Steve Mowry fan, even though he had a lackluster fight last time out and did precisely zero things en route to a decision loss. Kana Watanabe is cool, I hope she does well. On the prelims without season points at stake, Lucas Brennan faces Dimitre Ivy in a Featherweight bout, while we kick things off at Bantamweight when Bryce Meredith puts his 5-0 record on the line against Ty Johnson.
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B-League Round-Up PFL 2024 2: Friday, April 12. 6:30 PM ET, ESPN 2 PFL is showing off maybe their premiere division, Lightweight. The Light Heavyweights are also here, if you’re into that kind of thing. In the main event, last year’s 205 lb champ, Impa Kasanganay takes on Alex Polizzi. Kasanganay had a very close fight with Johnny Eblen at the big Bellator champs vs PFL champs event last year. Polizzi is on a two-fight skid, having gotten punched out at the last possible second by Yoel Romero, and then dropping a decision to title challenger Karl Moore. This should be a showcase fight for Impa, since Alex is most known for sporting a temporary Arby’s tattoo. The co-main features Rob Wilkinson taking on Tom Breese because Phil Davis withdrew. Wilkinson notably tested positive for a big pile of steroids last year, knocking him out of the 2023 PFL season. Breese is on a three fight win streak, most recently winning at PFL Europe in December. In what should be the main event, Clay Collard takes on Patricky Pitbull in Lightweight action. With Olivier Aubin-Mercier’s retirement, the division will finally have a new champ, and Collard and Pitbull are probably the two biggest names in the division. Expect bunches of punches! Mads Burnell takes on Michael Dufort in another Lightweight season bout. Both guys have a slew of submission wins, so that probably means we’ll get fifteen minutes of Tepid Kickboxing. Back up at 205 lbs, former Welterweight champ Sadibou Sy moves up two weight classes to take on Josh Silveira. Both guys lost in the 2023 tournament finals, so they have that in common. Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov takes on Jakob Nedoh in another Light Heavyweight contest. Yagshimuradov is on a 3-bout Bellator win streak, while Nedoh hasn’t lost since his pro debut, running up a total record of 8-1. Nedoh won the PFL Europe title last year, finishing all three bouts by first round KO. The main card starts with FACE SHOE taking on Simon Biyong. I don’t give a hoot or a honk about the other 205ers, I care only for FACE SHOE. Down on the prelims, we’ve got Bruno Miranda taking on Brent Primus. Miranda most recently lost to OAM in the playoffs, while Primus No Contested with Usman Nurmagomedov. Both guys are solid enough, so the bout should be pretty decent. Gadzhi Rabadanov faces Solomon Renfro. Rabadanov is on a six-fight win streak, while Renfro most recently lost to Magomed Magomedkerimov. This would mark Renfro’s first fight at 155 lbs. Next up, my dude Jay Jay Wilson takes on Adam Piccolotti. WIlson is 10-1 with his lone loss coming against Gadzhi Rabadanov, and I just think he’s real neat, while Piccolotti became my nemesis after he defeated my other dude, Mandel “Rat Garbage” Nallo. Elvin Espinoza takes on Anthony Romero and Marcelo Nunes faces Jordan Heiderman to start the prelims. Those sure are four men.
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Apr 9, 2024 23:11
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carl bless
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Apr 11, 2024 01:56
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BlindSite posted:Also, I don't care about the circumstances of his reign, DJ is the best fighter of all time he had exactly one deficiency in his game that I could see in hours of watching him fight and no one was good enough to exploit it because they were too busy being poo poo whipped in a variety of ways. was his deficiency that he just a lil smol guy?
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Apr 13, 2024 01:35
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Unperson_47 posted:They should make the gloves glow and turn the lights off in the arena for the second round. They should put me in charge Cosmic Bowling, but for fist fights. I like it!
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Apr 13, 2024 02:23
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Also, I know everyone is hyped up for UFC 300, but I just want to note from PFL: Face Shoe is back, baby!
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Apr 13, 2024 02:32
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Clay Collard punches a lot and is cool and good.
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Apr 13, 2024 03:11
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ilmucche posted:what was this about him getting told he wasn't a samurai? Rakic said "hey, you know you're not a real samurai, right?" And Jiri was outwardly calm, but internally was a raging inferno and said "heh, we'll see"
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Apr 15, 2024 21:31
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uber driver sucked me off???
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Apr 16, 2024 21:33
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guess what fukers, u only have me to deal with this week! sorry, there's also the karate combat guy B-League Round-Up PFL 2024 3: Friday, April 19. 6:30 PM ET, ESPN Welterweights! Featherweights! Nothing else going on this weekend! In the main event, we’ve got Andrey Koreshkov taking on Magomed Umalatov in a classic Russia Fight. Koreskhov has been killing it recently, running up a five fight win streak. Umalatov is 14-0, including a 5-0 record in PFL that has been marred by visa issues and fight withdrawals that has kept Umalatov from making the playoffs or championship finals. Umalatov has looked solid when he’s gotten inside the SmartCage, but the question is can he consistently show up? In the co-main, Brendan Loughnane faces Pedro Carvalho. Both guys are coming off losses, with Loughnane getting knocked out by Jesus Pinedo to keep him from the PFL Playoffs, while Carvalho got groundedly pounded by Aaron Pico. Both guys are decent enough, especially for the rest of the PFL crop, but I’m pretty confident the loser of this fight isn’t making the playoffs. Next up, former interim champ Logan Storley meets Shamil Musaev. Storley is 15-2, 10-2 in Bellator, most recently punching Brennan Ward in the face last August. Musaev is 16-0-1, mostly beating up no-hoper scrubs in M-1 and Fight Nights Global. Storley will probably attempt to grind Musaev into a fine paste of Wrestled Man, while Musaev is looking to lumpen Logan’s looks with long looping limbs. Gabriel Alves Braga takes on Justin Gonzales. Braga lost in the 2023 finals, while Gonzales is on a two-fight skid under the Bellator banner. Braga has looked pretty good, and I hate doing this, but heck, he was mostly winning that finals fight until he wasn’t. Now we get My Main Man Goiti Yamauchi fighting the vile Neiman Gracie once again. This is a rematch that ended super decisively when Yamauchi knocked out Gracie in the second round. Whatever to get Goiti a nice and easy win. Let’s Go(iti) The first main card bout is Bubba Jenkins versus Kai Kamaka III. Jenkins lost to Jesus Pinedo in the PFL Playoffs most recently, while Kamaka is on a three fight win streak inside the Bellator Circlegon. The prelim main event sees Adam Borics take on Enrique Barzola. Both guys are former Bellator Boys, with Borics going 9-2, but he hasn’t fought since a 2022 loss to Patricio Pitbull. Barzola is 4-2, riding a two fight win streak. Timur Khizriev takes on Brett Johns in Featherweight action. Khizriev is 14-0, including his last 3 taking place in Bellator. Johns is 20-3, on a 3 fight win streak, but only his most recent has been at Featherweight. I think Johns is going to be too undersized. Laureano Staropoli faces Murad Ramazanov in a Welterweight contest. Staropoli went 2-4 in the UFC, but has since then gone 4-0 in Europe, most recently winning at PFL Europe. Ramazanov is 11-0, with a 3-0 mark in ONE Championship. He hasn’t fought since 2022, a bout against Roberto Soldic that was rendered a No Contest after an accidental groin kick. Is Ramazanov going to be too rusty? Is the fact that Staropoli is one of Jamie Pickett’s two UFC wins extremely telling that Laureano isn’t that good? Probably both things are gonna be true. Maybe, I don’t know. I’m getting into the weeds on some dang PFL Prelims. Don Madge battles Brennan Ward at 170 lbs. Madge’s last fight came in 2022, a third round loss to Raush Manfio. His last win is back from 2021. But hey, he did go 2-0 in the UFC, that’s not bad. Ward returned to fighting in 2022, going 3-1 in that stretch. This is going to be similar to every Brennan Ward fight. Either he gets to land honkin’ big punches, or he gets flummoxed. Tyler Diamond meets Otto Rodrigues at 145 lbs. Diamond is 1-2 in PFL, while Rodrigues is 1-0 in Bellator. The first prelim sees Romain Debienne face Thad Jean. Romain is 2-0 in Bellator, while Thad is 2-0 in PFL.
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Apr 17, 2024 04:09
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BlindSite posted:Yeah I've cornered a few times and a few dudes ask for it too, usually ice on the back of the neck to perk you back up and refresh you, same thing. The shock of ice water to the crotch is like being slapped. It wakes you up. I am reminded of Julie Kedzie telling the story of the first time she got ice on the back of the neck, she pooped her pants. Then, since the event was in Russia, she met Putin with poopypants
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Apr 17, 2024 13:51
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max holloway made me feel feelings about mma and that is rad.
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Apr 18, 2024 20:00
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Digital Jedi posted:First fight starting! THAD JEAN
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Apr 20, 2024 01:01
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PFL: it has been ok so far
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Apr 20, 2024 03:46
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I am glad UFC took this past weekend off to recharge and refresh. Can't wait to look up what this weekend has on offering An Apex show, featuring a main event with the fighters on a combined 4 fight losing streak? One guy hasn't won since 2020? gently caress.
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Apr 22, 2024 18:08
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CarlCX posted:Yeah, here's a super exciting sneak peek of this week's writeup: what of the white hot fire that is Bogdan, the Bog Man
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Apr 22, 2024 18:28
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Haven't seen it, but The Peaches from The Flop House said the only moments Conor is believable is when he is doing crimes.
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Apr 24, 2024 21:42
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Even though Carl makes up some of the names, he writes really good previews.
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Apr 25, 2024 03:05
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There is a Rizin card, but it starts at 2AM Monday. Sorry, Sakakibara, but I must regrettably decline
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Apr 25, 2024 20:33
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