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STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

Unfunny Poster posted:

Yeah yeah yeah but did TNA invade WWF on that month's PPV or was this just a bunch of steroid junkies trying to pretend they didn't do steroids off of TV?

there have not been any cross promotional storylines in the past 20 years with wwe/f except for ufc, where kevin randleman, vernon white ken shamrock, and dan severn all had roles.



correction randleman only did work for an All Japan off-shoot, tag teaming with forums favorite mark coleman.

STING 64 fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Jun 8, 2016

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Tr33
May 26, 2007

Love is a tiny lion holding a donut!
pro wrestling is actually the hardest of the mixed arts which is why many mma favorites quit and go back to "real fighting"

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Can you idiots start your own thread about drugs in fake fighting and pro wrestling and just stfu

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

thanks lesnar

Tr33
May 26, 2007

Love is a tiny lion holding a donut!

Google Butt posted:

thanks lesnar

my hope is this will replace thanks obama when ever something bad happens.

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

Google Butt posted:

thanks lesnar
i think we should wait for him to fight before we thank him!!

Ewar Woowar
Feb 25, 2007

Auron
Jan 10, 2002
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-auron.jpg"/><br/>Drunken Robot Rage

Also Aldo is injured but playing off that he's not injured so don't expect him at 200

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

He had a sore throat

SquirrelGrip
Jul 4, 2012

Auron posted:

Also Aldo is injured but playing off that he's not injured so don't expect him at 200

huh

mistakinder
Mar 19, 2010

YES

Tr33 posted:

pro wrestling is actually the hardest of the mixed arts which is why many mma favorites quit and go back to "real fighting"

CM Punk used to get smacked about with steel chairs several times a week in front of rednecks . Now he alternates between playing grabass at Roufusport, awkward interactions with Mickey Gall and convenient surgeries every few months. I know which I'd rather do.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

I really like Pettis but I don't think a drop will do him much good. He needs to keep up the wrestling he's been doing at Jackson's. In the Alvarez fight he'd get right of the cage whenever he followed Izzy Martinez' instructions.

Auron
Jan 10, 2002
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-auron.jpg"/><br/>Drunken Robot Rage


There were rumors that Aldo was injured (which are probably 100% true), so he came out with a picture of him and a bunch of dudes in his gym (including a Brazilian soccer player) posing for a picture "proving" that he's not injured.

Auron
Jan 10, 2002
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-auron.jpg"/><br/>Drunken Robot Rage

EmmyOk posted:

I really like Pettis but I don't think a drop will do him much good. He needs to keep up the wrestling he's been doing at Jackson's. In the Alvarez fight he'd get right of the cage whenever he followed Izzy Martinez' instructions.

I don't believe he's ever said he's dropping to featherweight has he? I know there was that one time he was going to fight Aldo but got injured

Shirkelton
Apr 6, 2009

I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.

Auron posted:

There were rumors that Aldo was injured (which are probably 100% true), so he came out with a picture of him and a bunch of dudes in his gym (including a Brazilian soccer player) posing for a picture "proving" that he's not injured.

Woah, are you a detective.

Auron
Jan 10, 2002
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Dan Didio posted:

Woah, are you a detective.

No I just read MMA news/rumors.

Also Aldo's track record of pulling out big fights...

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Someone get a dude to tell Ariel Helwani that Aldo is injured so Helwani can ask a different dude if it's true and then ask a different dude if that dudes fibbing and then get him a taxi so he can go to Columbia University to pick up a Pulitzer.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Auron posted:

I don't believe he's ever said he's dropping to featherweight has he? I know there was that one time he was going to fight Aldo but got injured

Half the last page was about it

Charles Gnarwin
Jul 31, 2014

I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.
:boom:
he knows...


EmmyOk posted:

I really like Pettis but I don't think a drop will do him much good. He needs to keep up the wrestling he's been doing at Jackson's. In the Alvarez fight he'd get right of the cage whenever he followed Izzy Martinez' instructions.

Agreed about the cut not changing anything. If you can pressure your way inside of kicking range, you will have success against Pettis. It's not just his wrestling but also his boxing that need work before he can be a threat to a fighter who will just keep coming forward.

I'd like to see him matched with Bermudez as his first FW fight to see whether he can handle the pressure from a fighter who is also really hittable.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


I feel like his name alone could get him a pretty big match up for his FW debut despite his recent record. Possibly someone like Max Holloway, which is probably a nightmare match up for him right now.


e: Bisping is #9 in the UFC's P4P rankings now. What a crazy weekend that was. He'd gone from arguably never beating a current Top 5 ranked Middleweight to in the top 10 P4P fighters.

Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jun 8, 2016

Foul Fowl
Sep 12, 2008

Uuuuh! Seek ye me?
mma is pretty cool because if someone just works really hard for a really long time, odds are they're eventually gonna win the big one because it's a weird sport with so many ways to lose. granted it took bisping to have the best performances of his career back to back but still, it seems like anyone can have a career renaissance and their big moment.

handsome only face
Apr 22, 2010

Cockroach went out of the room in anger. And roach's go to empty room...

Cockroache's Anarchist


Pettis vs. TKZ plEASE

handsome only face
Apr 22, 2010

Cockroach went out of the room in anger. And roach's go to empty room...

Cockroache's Anarchist


Foul Fowl posted:

mma is pretty cool because if someone just works really hard for a really long time, odds are they're eventually gonna win the big one because it's a weird sport with so many ways to lose. granted it took bisping to have the best performances of his career back to back but still, it seems like anyone can have a career renaissance and their big moment.

in a sport where everyone was always bad, Bisping was always good

homercles
Feb 14, 2010

fatherdog posted:

The idea being "He's open about being on tons of steroids now so why would he bother lying about whether he was then." It's not a difficult line of thought to follow.

Never broke kayfabe, a true wrestler.

Foul Fowl
Sep 12, 2008

Uuuuh! Seek ye me?

acai moonsault posted:

in a sport where everyone was always bad, Bisping was always good

you get at most three or four fights of being always good unless you're gsp

Sprecherscrow
Dec 20, 2009

mistakinder posted:

Now he alternates between playing grabass at Roufusport

I am quite offended, the PC term is "touch butt". Preferably done in a park with a goofy motherfucker with a pony tail.

Raffles
Dec 7, 2004

Dan Didio posted:

Woah, are you a detective.

This thread is full of cunts. smh

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Brock's doing his camp for Hunt the same he did before he left. Hiring in trainers and partners, same head coach. I would hazard a guess at that meaning Pat Barry is going to be helping him again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwJIC2vgtJc

mistakinder
Mar 19, 2010

YES

Auron posted:

There were rumors that Aldo was injured (which are probably 100% true), so he came out with a picture of him and a bunch of dudes in his gym (including a Brazilian soccer player) posing for a picture "proving" that he's not injured.

how can you be so cynical when he is shirtless and throwing the hang loose hand gesture. Could an injured man extend his thumb and pinkie finger in different directions?

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

Josuke Higashikata posted:

Brock's doing his camp for Hunt the same he did before he left. Hiring in trainers and partners, same head coach. I would hazard a guess at that meaning Pat Barry is going to be helping him again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwJIC2vgtJc

Pat Barry's probably the best sparring partner possible for the matchup in that he's short, fast, and nominally a kickboxer. Sort of in the same way everybody wanted Diabate in their camp for Anderson Silva. But the styles are so different I hope for Brock's sake he has a boxing coach with a serious analytical mind because Hunt has forgotten more about standup than Brock will ever know. Hiding a double behind a punch could actually be much more dangerous than just shooting from range. It's a really delightfully odd matchup.

CRISPYBABY
Dec 15, 2007

by Reene

I feel like anytime a young wunderkind fighter with a parent coach comes up, it inevitably turns out that the parent is an insane psychopath.

mewse
May 2, 2006


As much of a bad look it is to publicly complain about a training partner, this reminds me of a parent I've had to deal with locally

LobsterMobster
Oct 29, 2009

"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."

"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
Just got UFC 201 tickets.

250 if anyone wants to see Brutal Bob

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Pettis vs Yair Rodriguez would own

Lloyd Boner
Oct 11, 2009

Yes officer, my name is Victoria Sonnen...berg
Just cartwheel kicks for 15 minutes.

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Meh, even though he's a dork, Pettis deserves a tuneup fight. Give him Stephens or Guida rematches or put him against someone medicore. Peepee or Feeley would be good.

Keg
Sep 22, 2014

JOHN CENA posted:

because when congress called for an investigation on performing enhancing drug use and concussions within wwe tna took it upon themselves to also be investigated despite nobody asking them, and their owner went on to perjure herself and promised that their drug testing would be zero tolerance.

Now tell us about the time you gave CM Punk less veggies than normal on his submarine sandwich to try and make it extra good for him

Work Friend Keven
Oct 24, 2015

I'M A BIG STUPID IDIOT WHO GETS TRIGGERED FROM THE WORDS SPORTS BALL AND HAS SHIT OPINIONS ABOUT CARD GAMES. ALSO I SAID I WAS GOING TO QUIT HEARTHSTONE OUT OF SPITE OF A TAIWANESE WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP SO REPORT ME IF YOU SEE ME POST IN A HS THREAD
The only drugs in fake fixed fights I care about were the ones in pride, where Mark hunt fought.

Work Friend Keven
Oct 24, 2015

I'M A BIG STUPID IDIOT WHO GETS TRIGGERED FROM THE WORDS SPORTS BALL AND HAS SHIT OPINIONS ABOUT CARD GAMES. ALSO I SAID I WAS GOING TO QUIT HEARTHSTONE OUT OF SPITE OF A TAIWANESE WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP SO REPORT ME IF YOU SEE ME POST IN A HS THREAD
I hope from now till when Brock Lesnar wins the title in 6 months everyone has to read at least 500 posts about "TNA wrestling"

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Dangersim
Sep 4, 2011

:qq:He expended too much energy and got tired:qq:

I'M NOT SURPRISED MOTHERFUCKERS
Considering one of pettis' problems is getting wrestled and bullied against the fence I would think fighting smaller guys would be beneficial for him.

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