fatherdog posted:

Hahahaha South Carolina is sanctioning loving Hip Show

fatherdog posted:

Hahahaha South Carolina is sanctioning loving Hip Show

Sprecherscrow posted:

I hope they pick up Paul Harris.

quote:

Kinberly Novaes was expected to make her RFA debut next week against Jocelyn Jones Lybarger, but won’t be able to step inside the cage.

The Brazilian strawweight had some trouble cutting weight as soon as she signed her bout agreement to fight on Aug. 21, and eventually found out that she’s six months pregnant. When she did the math, Novaes realized she fought and won a MMA fight in Brazil while pregnant. She’s having a boy.

Novaes (8-2) defeated Renata Baldan (4-2) on May 17 to win the Noxii 115-pound title, and she was 12 weeks pregnant that day. Primeiro Round first reported the news.

"We did a morphology ultrasound last week and the doctor said I’m 24 weeks pregnant, almost six months, and my baby is healthy and strong," Novaes told MMAFighting.com. "I was worried because I trained hard, fought, cut weight. I suffered a lot to make weight for my last fight, couldn’t dehydrate properly, and I was already training to fight again next week, but the doctor said everything is fine."

Jacson Carvalho, her boyfriend and also a MMA fighter, went to the hospital with Novaes, and only found out about her pregnancy because she was having trouble cutting weight for her first RFA bout.

"I’m a little stubborn, I don’t like to go to the doctor," Novaes said with a laugh. "I’ve been feeling sick for a while, colic, headaches and cramps. I was feeling tired recently, couldn’t even run, and it was really tough for me to cut weight. I was cutting weight for my RFA debut, but couldn’t lose weight. I did a stricter diet four weeks before the fight, and I actually gained 2.2 pounds in six days. I was desperate. I realized my belly was hard, so I thought I had some intestine issue. I took laxative and other things, but a guy that does massages for me told me to go to the doctor."

"I finally decided to go to the hospital, and the doctor immediately asked me if I was pregnant," she continued. "I insisted I was not, that I had an intestine issue, but he asked for a blood test. One hour later, he told us I was pregnant. I cried a lot, ran out of the hospital, but I realized that was good news. I thought I was sick, but I had a baby instead."

Noxii is not regulated by the Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA), and Noxii promoter Bruno Barros admits he’s the one to blame for the entire situation.

"I didn’t ask for the exam. That’s the truth," Barros told MMAFighting.com. "I didn’t even think about the possibility of a woman fighting while pregnant, going through a camp and dehydrating and everything."

"That was my first event," he continued. "I asked for HIV and hepatitis tests, but some fighters didn’t send me the results. I didn’t pull them out of the fights because they all wanted to fight. Some fighters claimed they had no money to pay for the tests, others said they didn’t have time to do it, but that’s my fault that I let them fight anyway. But thank God everything is fine with the baby."

Novaes won’t return to MMA until next year, but the family won’t be inactive for long. Soon to be father, Carvalho, faces Wagner Lima at tonight’s edition of Aspera Fighting Championship in Joinville, Brazil.

coconono posted:

that's gotta be a huge blackeye to Brazil's AC. Not only did they miss screening the lady if she was pregnant but also some fighters didn't have proper bloodwork on file.

"acai moonsault posted:

Noxii is not regulated by the Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA),

fatherdog posted:

Hahahaha South Carolina is sanctioning loving Hip Show

Ty1990 posted:

I was unaware of what Hip Show was prior to reading the article and watching the video and it is the dumbest loving thing I've ever seen.

Ty1990 posted:

I was unaware of what Hip Show was prior to reading the article and watching the video and it is the dumbest loving thing I've ever seen.

Seltzer posted:

Hipshow rules


The last episode I saw one guy was fighting off an armbar and a leglock at the same time and was saved by the bell.

1st AD posted:

Gregor Samsa, you'll be happy to know that Parillo is now getting paid in RVCA shirts instead of Tito's poo poo

1st AD posted:

Gregor Samsa, you'll be happy to know that Parillo is now getting paid in RVCA shirts instead of Tito's poo poo

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

She was just born with a frame bigger than even most average men.

Right around the time Will Brooks was wondering why he’d threatened to slap another MMA champion in the mouth on sight, experiencing something of an anger blackout on Twitter, a name popped up on his phone.

It was mom.

“Please Jesus, don’t let this be what I think it’s going to be,” the Bellator lightweight champion thought.

Really, though, he already knew what was coming. It wasn’t that he’d flown off the handle at Bellator featherweight champion Patricio “Pitbull” Freire (24-2 MMA, 12-2 BMMA), who started the whole thing with a little jab about his headliner slot at November’s Bellator 145. It was that he’d done so with such vulgarity.

He’d cursed.

“We’re not allowed to swear in front of parents,” Brooks (16-1 MMA, 8-1 BMMA), who faces Marcin Held (21-3 MMA, 10-2 BMMA) in Bellator 145’s co-main event Nov. 6 at St. Louis’ Scottrade Center, told MMAjunkie Radio.

Brooks said he’d recently gotten his sister in trouble for bad words at a family gathering. Now, he said, she’d returned the favor, ratting him out when she saw his rant online.

Brooks’ mom started the conversation by first pronouncing his full name – a giveaway to the earful ahead.

“She went right in on me,” he said.

So the 28-year-old MMA champ took his medicine. She was mad that he’d carried himself in that manner. She wanted to know why he’d let another man get him so upset and made him so thoroughly lose his cool. But mainly, she wanted to pass on an important message: knock it off.

“When mom tells me to stop doing something I shut it down quick,” said Brooks.

Of course, like any young man trying to talk his way out of trouble, he couldn’t let the entire conversation pass without a word in his defense. There was a reason he’d come back so hard at Freire.

“I said I know you raised me better to approach in controlled manner and using language,” Brooks said. “But there’s one thing I’ve learned in this line of work. You can’t do the whole modest thing. You can’t just let guys walk over you, because when you do, it gets out of hand.”

“Not only the fighters, but promoters in other organizations. They subconsciously get a little comfortable.”

The feud also didn’t come out of nowhere. Freire’s brother, Patricky, resides in the Bellator lightweight division and recently went on his own online offensive. The three have history.

While a full reprieve wasn’t forthcoming, Brooks said he earned a little bit of understanding from the opponent he most fears.

“She understands there are types of people like Patricio ‘Pitbull,’ who’s just a very ignorant and small-minded person, that you do have to let them know that I’m going to whup your butt; I’ll slap you in your mouth, because that’s the way I’ve been raised,” Brooks said. “That’s a different type of message, and I just need to express that to him.

“My mom just didn’t like the way I was cursing and swearing. I have friends that have kids that look up to me. She was more disappointed that I didn’t think of that.”

fatherdog posted:

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Gregor Samsa posted:

He's movin' up in the world (Pat, the guy who started RVCA, is a childhood friend of Parillo's and takes good care of him, i.e. also gives him trunks).

For size comparison for Cyborg, that dude on the right of the photo fights MT at 154 and walks just under 170 (I used to train him). Cyborg must be enormous.

vainman posted:

She weighs 175lbs before cutting. That's big

1st AD posted:

If Ronda can skirt a million buys against a nobody, she can pretty much fight anybody and get paid. she doesn't need to fight Cyborg and risk brain damage against a steroid cheat.

-Atom- posted:

Ronda for sure doesn't need to take the fight but she seems like a competitive freak so I bet she considers her legacy, and without fighting Cyborg there's always going to be that looming question

Mr. Nice! posted:

Besides Ronda has better striking at this point than Cyborg and would probably just knock her out anyways.

mewse posted:

I'm sure this has nothing to do with ingesting a boat load of male hormones

vainman posted:

Beche is a no one but she did a lot of self-promotion for the fight. I wonder how much affect that ended up having

colonel_korn posted:

I totally understand why they won't do it, but it's really a shame that Ronda just won't fight her at 145. Even if Cyborg does make 135 by some miracle, the cut will be so rough that I'm sure people will just discount it anyways when she loses.

-Atom- posted:

Ronda gets hit in every fight though

colonel_korn posted:

I totally understand why they won't do it, but it's really a shame that Ronda just won't fight her at 145. Even if Cyborg does make 135 by some miracle, the cut will be so rough that I'm sure people will just discount it anyways when she loses.

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

Dude, steroids don't make you literally get taller and grow a broader collarbone.

Zwachro posted:

She's 173 cm tall, which, while tall-ish, is below average for the sport she started in (handball) and on par with several 135-pounders. She isn't that huge if you take away the muscle.

And yea, she's been bulking up the past couple of years after declining the first offer of a UFC contract because reasons.

quote:

With each dominant victory Ronda Rousey records — the most recent being her Aug. 1 first-round knockout of Bethe Correia — the heat turns up on a showdown with Cris “Cyborg” Justino, the only other woman in MMA with a streak of dominance comparable to Rousey’s. Justino has not lost in 10 years.

But the mega fight has proved frustratingly elusive for years, as Justino and her management have repeatedly expressed doubt the perennial 145-pounder, who enters the cage around 168 after rehydrating, could make the 135-pound weight class Rousey commands.

Enter George Lockhart, a Marine and former fighter turned MMA nutrition and diet guru. Seeing big dollar signs in a Rousey/Justino fight after a standoff reminiscent of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, the UFC and Justino’s management are chipping in to pay Lockhart to encamp himself with Justino and verify she can make the weight. Lockhart, who’s worked with Justino for her past two fights, will return to Justino’s California training camp in two weeks.

“I’ll probably be with her for 3-4 months, basically living with her,” Lockhart told the Herald last week. “I sit there, I watch everything she does, go to her training sessions while she’s training, I see how intense her training is.”

“The one thing that we have to do this time is really concentrate on nothing but sport-specific movement. So no random lifting, no random anything. If you want to lose the weight . . . you are going to lose muscle. If you’re losing muscle, you want to make sure you’re losing the muscle that you don’t need.”

The weight issue is particularly charged because Justino failed a 2011 drug test for the steroid stanozolol, which she claimed came from a supplement a doctor provided her to assist in cutting to 145. Rousey has seized on that, saying Justino would be able to make the weight if she stopped doping.

Lockhart said he’s had to overcome some trust barriers with Justino because of her drug scandal, which shelved her for a year just as the UFC integrated women after purchasing the Strikeforce organization, where Justino was reigning champ and on a collision course with Rousey.

“When I got out there, she didn’t 100 percent trust in me,” Lockhart said. “And as I got closer to Cris, I kind of found out the reason why. Because back in the day, she trusted her coach 100 percent, and that backfired and she (tested positive). She was taking stuff that her coach was telling her to take. She just had faith in her coach. Now that she’s been with me for a while, she 100 percent trusts me. It took a while. It really did.”

Some have questioned Justino’s commitment to making the weight, observing that she appears as big as ever when she’s between bouts. Lockhart said that’s a function of her leaning out.

“A lot of people don’t realize that when you lean out, you look bigger,” Lockhart said. “A lot of people think that Cris lifts heavy. Man, I think this last camp, I don’t think I even saw her lift. We carried bags one time, but other than that, that’s all she wrote, man.”

Lockhart will put Justino on an obsessive dietary regimen, designed to boost her metabolism and balance her system’s water and sodium quotient in a way that maximizes weight loss while maintaining the strength needed to execute strikes and throws. One thing that will be cut back, for instance, is uphill sprinting, which Lockhart said Justino has long done, but serves only to add bulk to the legs, which has limited utility in a fight.

Even at 135 pounds, Lockhart thinks he can maintain Justino’s signature hitting power and still get her back up to her 168 in-cage weight on fight night.

“My goal is to get her to the weight of that she fights at right now,” Lockhart said. “We keep the water intake super, super high, keep sodium high. Three days prior, we cut out carbs and then we cut out the sodium and increase the water. So basically through osmosis, your body starts removing water because of the unbalance.”

Under a new doping testing regime, the UFC reportedly plans to crack down this fall on fighters using IV bags to replenish water weight after a cut. Lockhart said this won’t present a problem for Justino, because a certain mix in recovery shakes can achieve about the same affect.

“You’re looking at doing about three to four shakes, and it’s going to give you the same thing that you’d get from like a saline bag,” Lockhart said. “The thing is, we also have to reload the glycogen properly, make sure we give her just enough, not too much, not too little. We do everything based off of math.”

Lockhart is working on the idea that Justino will have her first fight at 135 in late November or December in the UFC-affiliated Invicta Fighting Championship. Meanwhile, Rousey is tracked to face nemesis Miesha Tate for the third time, likely in early January.

In May, Rousey — whose celebrity is exploding and was recently signed to star in a Paramount movie about her life — told the Herald she sees the Justino fight as the last of her career.

“In my mind, in a perfect world, I would fight her as my last fight and beat her in front of everybody, and then take off my belt and hand it back to (UFC president) Dana (White) and move on with my life,” Rousey said

colonel_korn posted:

Here's a pretty in-depth article about Cyborg trying to make 135. I didn't realize that the UFC was chipping in to have this guy live with her. I still won't believe it til I see it though.

https://www.bostonherald.com/sports/other/ultimate_fighting/2015/08/cyborg_in_down_time