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Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

hahahahahahhaha

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handsome only face
Apr 22, 2010

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

Cockroache's Anarchist


beautiful

handsome only face
Apr 22, 2010

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

Cockroache's Anarchist


Karim Zidan also just wrote an article about every family's favourite promotion

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/7/12/12159990/how-an-mma-promotion-harboured-a-pro-russian-militia-in-ukraine-maidan-politics-ufc

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS


If they really wanted to up the stakes, they could make it for a villa in the Kashmir.

Eat Bum Zen
Jul 19, 2013

*mumbles*
Rated T for Teen
gently caress yeah

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



Justice

handsome only face
Apr 22, 2010

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

Cockroache's Anarchist


gah

https://twitter.com/ZidanSports/status/753970297494245376
https://twitter.com/ZidanSports/status/753975811087011840

TheUltimateDoofus
May 21, 2016
awesome

https://twitter.com/grabakahitman/status/754179017880797185

edit: oh it doesn't show the other tweet it's Andy Souwer vs Cruickshank

TheUltimateDoofus fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Jul 16, 2016

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

This article needs some work, the timeline is all wrong. OPLOT predates the annexation of Crimea but the way its written is you get the impression they were simultaneous and that being war criminals was where it all began.

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

TheUltimateDoofus posted:

awesome

https://twitter.com/grabakahitman/status/754179017880797185

edit: oh it doesn't show the other tweet it's Andy Souwer vs Cruickshank

that's a loving fantastic fight, potentially

TheCool69
Sep 23, 2011
Rizin announced a three event 16-man openweight GP.

CroCop,Silva,Fujita are part of the GP

Starts on 26 of september and ends on 31 december

willie_dee
Jun 21, 2010
I obtain sexual gratification from observing people being inflicted with violent head injuries
Are Bellator and Rizin potentially able to work together?

TheCool69 posted:

Rizin announced a three event 16-man openweight GP.

CroCop,Silva,Fujita are part of the GP


JT would have all three of them on point

Biafraid
Jan 31, 2008

yeah.
It is Not Cool to make Fujita keep fighting

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

willie_dee posted:

Are Bellator and Rizin potentially able to work together?


JT would have all three of them on point

hey if he ends up fighting in japan again and needs a translator hit me up

afatwhiteloaf
Oct 19, 2012
Bendo is fighting the featherweight Pitbull brother at lightweight. Lol

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Please watch Bellator

https://twitter.com/BellatorMMA/status/754419055788904449?lang=en

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
it's on tv live here but i'm not watching it

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Michael Page loving owns.

MysteryNad
Dec 5, 2003

Here in my guard
I feel safest of all
I can lock up my guard
It's the only way to fight
In guard

Triticum Guzzler posted:

it's on tv live here but i'm not watching it

It's not actually live on channel 5 for some reason. The Carmont fight just ended but sherdog already has the results of the Mitrione fight.

Bellator

handsome only face
Apr 22, 2010

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

Cockroache's Anarchist


MysteryNad posted:

It's not actually live on channel 5 for some reason. The Carmont fight just ended but sherdog already has the results of the Mitrione fight.

Bellator

viacom owns channel 5

Eat Bum Zen
Jul 19, 2013

*mumbles*
Rated T for Teen
what happened to that guy?

vainman
Nov 2, 2012

I find your lack of faith... disturbing

Mr. Nice! posted:

Michael Page loving owns.

I'm really okay with him never fighting anyone and just keeping his shtick up

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

brutal

Northjayhawk
Mar 8, 2008

by exmarx
I would have watched Bellator this afternoon live, but its on tape delay and we know what happened, so gently caress that card.

EBI7 is coming up on fight pass in a few minutes.

fatherdog
Feb 16, 2005

https://twitter.com/BitaNick/status/754453869258760193

:stare:

Wise Learned Man
Apr 22, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

Jesus. Hope he retires. He took a brutal, extended beating from Saad Awad just two months ago too. Shouldn't have even been fighting again so soon IMO.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



Yikes. Hope he makes a full recovery. Going to agree with Wise Learned Man that he should probably call it a career.

I honestly don't know why they let him fight. Bellator debut in late April, another fight 3 or 4 weeks later, and now this fight. With the previous fight being a KO loss to Saad this especially looks like a really dumb decision on their part to let this fight happen.

Skinty McEdger
Mar 9, 2008

I have NEVER received the respect I deserve as the leader and founder of The Masterflock, the internet's largest and oldest Christopher Masterpiece fan group in all of history, and I DEMAND that changes. From now on, you will respect Skinty McEdger!

I'm going to go with "Bellator doesn't give a poo poo about fighter safety" as an answer.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
They let him fight because Bellator really does not give a poo poo about fighter safety or well being at all

fatherdog
Feb 16, 2005

fatherdog posted:

How does literally every promoter in MMA continuously fail to clear the incredibly low bar of "is as ethical as Dana White and the Fertitta brothers"?

Wise Learned Man
Apr 22, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

My dad was really into boxing back in the day, and he always laughs and shakes his head when I suggest that a guy that got run out of Boston by Whitey Bulger (not that Dana was a criminal or anything; it just sounds funnier to describe him that way) and a pair of union-busting casino moguls are probably the least-scummy combat sports promoters of all time.

This is some next level poo poo from Bellator though. I don't recall Coker being especially lovely in this particular direction when he was running Strikeforce (though maybe the Showtime people were more involved than the Viacom suits are now?), but especially on the heels of Dada5000 and Kimbo (not to mention that whistleblower's claims about falsified medicals), you'd think they wouldn't be scheduling he-borg so soon after a bad beating, or Mitrione just a few weeks after getting hit so hard he didn't remember getting dropped. Even just for the sake of appearances.

Rubellavator
Aug 16, 2007

maybe they're trying to make him into an actual cyborg

Northjayhawk
Mar 8, 2008

by exmarx
After the first round of EBI7 they brought out their first super fight to give their fighters a chance to rest up for the 2nd round, and the first "super fight" was kind of a cool concept.

They brought out 2 13-year old girls as possible future prospects for MMA. The match took the full 10 minutes of regulation and 3 minutes of overtime. They were fighting under a more restrictive ruleset where some of the more dangerous submissions were forbidden, and it went into overtime before one of the girls finally got a submission. The crowd understood what was going on, applauded every escape, and cheered the victory.

Northjayhawk fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Jul 17, 2016

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad
Lol at Jimmy Smith not understanding or pretending not to understand MVP's Pokemon celebration.

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

argondamn posted:

maybe they're trying to make him into an actual cyborg

if he keeps taking knees like that he's gonna need a neural net processor, a learning computer

Foul Fowl
Sep 12, 2008

Uuuuh! Seek ye me?
michael page is cool but he's almost 30, he shouldn't be fighting a nearly 40 year old cyborg who, i just learned, lost the rematch to manhoef in 46 seconds at Gringo Fights 10 two years ago

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

HAHA! WOOOOOOO WOOO!
Fun Shoe

Foul Fowl posted:

michael page is cool but he's almost 30, he shouldn't be fighting a nearly 40 year old cyborg who, i just learned, lost the rematch to manhoef in 46 seconds at Gringo Fights 10 two years ago

agree that people should take more than two years off after getting KOed by melvin but i wouldn't be surprised if you had said prime fujita or an actual brown bear was knocked out by melvin in 46s

Bushmeister
Nov 27, 2007
Son Of Northern Frostbitten Wintermoon

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH-FKJkBj5o/ So this is what happened to Cyborg, holy poo poo :stare:

Charles Gnarwin
Jul 31, 2014

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


That might be the most legit upsetting injury I've seen from MMA. A skull should not have a dent in it.

Charles Gnarwin fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jul 17, 2016

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Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Holy gently caress, that's crazy.

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