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origami posted:The Ivanov fight makes the most sense so rest assured it won't happen Probably because Blagoi is in WSoF now
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LobsterMobster posted:Probably because Blagoi is in WSoF now See? Won't happen
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It'll be Rico Verhoeven or Sakuraba or something. They both want to fight in that new Sakakibara promotion
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I marked out so hard when Sakaikibara did his ultra stumbling promo. I could hear the Pride theme playing.
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There hasn't been enough non-ironic joy about Fedor coming back. I thought his suit was dapper and he had twenty eight times more expression than usual. Which means nearly no expression was showing.
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Captain Log posted:There hasn't been enough non-ironic joy about Fedor coming back. I thought it was kind of interesting that a lot of the common folk on Reddit are finally coming around to the fact that Fedor is a huge coward. I figure at this rate, it'll only be a few more years until they figure out how much of a racist he is too.
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People at my gym think that the Tito fight was a work because of the amount of space in the triangle. Thoughts? These same people are also convinced that Shamrock-Kimbo was a work.
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Technical aspects of the triangle aside: What benefit would Scott Coker or Viacom get from Tito losing that fight?
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Bluedeanie posted:Technical aspects of the triangle aside: What benefit would Scott Coker or Viacom get from Tito losing that fight? Yeah that's a good question that I didn't ask. My remark was that if Tito did tap early, it was more likely because he was old, beaten up, and tired, and wanted out of the fight once he found that he couldn't finish McGeary. I guess the benefit that Bellator gets is that their young, mostly unknown, champ has now dramatically finished a famous fighter in a high profile fight. For Shamrock my point was that Shamrock is bad and only ever got submissions by taking tons of steroids and muscling people's joints, so him failing to RNC Kimbo is actually consistent with his entire career. Someone's response was that he beat up Royce Gracie so his jits should be good enough to finish Kimbo, and I didn't have time to go down that rabbit hole because the lights were going off and I had to leave.
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I don't see why collusion between Kimbo and Shamrock is so ludicrous. Hrm yes the guy with an extremely fishy boxing match fighting the guy with worked matches in Pancrase could only result in an above the board match. If Kimbo's camp approached Ken and told him go out there and fight, but if you'll make ten grand if you don't submit Kimbo in the first or second round, you'd see exactly the fight we got.
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Street Horrrsing posted:I don't see why collusion between Kimbo and Shamrock is so ludicrous. Hrm yes the guy with an extremely fishy boxing match fighting the guy with worked matches in Pancrase could only result in an above the board match. Counterpoint - Shamrock never did a worked match in Pancrase or pro wrestling that looked half as good as that mess.
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I don't think the match was literally a worked spot. Remember that the orginal Kimbo Slice scandal wasn't that Seth Petruzelli was supposed to throw the match, but rather he'd get paid a bonus for fighting with a suboptimal strategy by not taking it to the floor.
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CommonShore posted:Counterpoint - Shamrock never did a worked match in Pancrase or pro wrestling that looked half as good as that mess. counter-counterpoint- Kimbo Slice wishes he was Val Venis.
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CommonShore posted:I guess the benefit that Bellator gets is that their young, mostly unknown, champ has now dramatically finished a famous fighter in a high profile fight. The fight I saw was their young(er, 32 isn't a spring chicken in mma), mostly unknown champ got taken down and controlled for a third of a round by a 40-year-old Tito Ortiz. Meanwhile an Ortiz win means their guy with a built-in fan base has a belt, which is probably always more profitable in at least the short term than trying to make a name for McGeary. And I like McGeary reasonably well, not trying to rag on him. Just the story that fight tells and the outcome it creates for the promotion don't really lend themselves to a work.
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Can't we all just agree that Tito losing is always the best case scenario regardless of the situation?
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El Roncho posted:Can't we all just agree that Tito losing is always the best case scenario regardless of the situation? On all moral, emotional, sporting and comedic levels, unquestionably.
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Tito losing a fight? No... No. *splays fingers through my dusty, lovely ikea blinds so that I can peer into the night from my detective office, causing me to cough* Something sinister is afoot.
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coconono posted:counter-counterpoint- Kimbo Slice wishes he was Val Venis. 
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I don't know Tito that well (and feel free to call me naive), but he strikes me as a guy who takes himself way too seriously to ever take a dive.
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gunblade posted:I don't know Tito that well (and feel free to call me naive), but he strikes me as a guy who takes himself way too seriously to ever take a dive. Yeah, no way he takes a dive right after re-nicknaming himself The People's Champ
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That shitarse Dynamite show only did 800k viewers, which is distinctly average for Bellator, and was of course crushed by the dependable titan of combat sports: COPS reruns. Weird that booking a 150 fight card featuring Giblert's wife vs a waitress didn't set the world on fire.
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Triticum Guzzler posted:That shitarse Dynamite show only did 800k viewers, which is distinctly average for Bellator, and was of course crushed by the dependable titan of combat sports: COPS reruns. Weird that booking a 150 fight card featuring Giblert's wife vs a waitress didn't set the world on fire. She's a pretty good waitress...
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Triticum Guzzler posted:That shitarse Dynamite show only did 800k viewers, which is distinctly average for Bellator, and was of course crushed by the dependable titan of combat sports: COPS reruns. Weird that booking a 150 fight card featuring Giblert's wife vs a waitress didn't set the world on fire. Also pretty solid evidence that zero casual fans care about Phil Davis, much to their credit.
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Ditch posted:The GLORY stuff can't have helped, and I wonder whether that was more from Coker being a K1/Japan fanboy or Viacom trying to push GLORY. The "Glory" portion of the card was mostly booked by Coker and Chou without using actual Glory talent. Glory's status with Spike is a bit up in the air right now.
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Triticum Guzzler posted:That shitarse Dynamite show only did 800k viewers, which is distinctly average for Bellator, and was of course crushed by the dependable titan of combat sports: COPS reruns. Lol
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Triticum Guzzler posted:That shitarse Dynamite show only did 800k viewers, which is distinctly average for Bellator, and was of course crushed by the dependable titan of combat sports: COPS reruns. "Well, last night's episode was a very special episode. They revealed that the Incredible Hulk has an evil twin. And he's not green. He's red."
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kevin kay's a loving dumbass for agreeing to pay rampage and cross promoting with tna instead of cops
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Triticum Guzzler posted:kevin kay's a loving dumbass for agreeing to pay rampage and cross promoting with tna instead of cops The future of MMA is Bellator poaching Phoenix Jones and having the COPS/MMA crossover we never knew we needed
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Triticum Guzzler posted:Tito losing a fight? No... No. *splays fingers through my dusty, lovely ikea blinds so that I can peer into the night from my detective office, causing me to cough* Something sinister is afoot. Stop watching me post.
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Pwny_Xpress posted:Has it been posted here that Arona has signed to Sakikaibara's new promotion along with Kron Gracie and Gabbie Garcia, per FRB on Chael's podcast No, because FRB is wrong a lot
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Sep 25, 2015 16:47
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Some Bellator guy weighed in for a LW fight at 172.5
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LobsterMobster posted:No, because FRB is wrong a lot Werdum vs Arlovski is a done deal! *a day later Arlovski vs Mir and Werdum vs Cain 2 is announced*
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Bloody Elbow is reporting Garcia herself has said she will be on the (a?) Japanese NYE card so if seems it's one of the two times a day his clock is right.
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EFN: Dagestan just started on fightpass http://www.ufc.tv/video/efn-dagestan
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acai moonsault posted:EFN: Dagestan just started on fightpass http://www.ufc.tv/video/efn-dagestan Bellators HW Champion is fighting on Fight Pass
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Pwny_Xpress posted:Has it been posted here that Arona has signed to Sakikaibara's new promotion along with Kron Gracie and Gabbie Garcia, per FRB on Chael's podcast Sounds credible
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