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Nate is right Fighters who tone down their personalities and try to be "professional" infront of the camera are dull and the audience never connects with those dudes. Just be yourself bro Just look at Jones, he tried so hard to be something specific infront of the camera when in reality he's a total fuckup who tells people he's gonna kill them when he thinks the cameras arent rolling
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Mar 7, 2017 09:09
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additionally i would say that the fighters who choose to have a professional face are actually being themselves
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Mar 7, 2017 09:11
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I don't think Jon Jones is that big of an rear end in a top hat in real life. He just finds Cormier and Rashad annoying. Also I would hazard a guess that 95% or more of all fighters are being themselves. It's just fighters are more concerned with being highly-skilled athletes instead of charismatic entertainers. Like the one time a fighter let loose it was Forrest Griffin immediately making a rape joke and it never happened again. Derrick Lewis is good poo poo though
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I.N.R.I posted:additionally i would say that the fighters who choose to have a professional face are actually being themselves saw an interview with cruz where he said thompson was absolutely not being himself when he was being professional. cruz saw a different side to thompson off camera that was more.... err, human? and full of actual emotion than the clean cut all-american who enjoys good sportsmanship and a firm handshake. unless you're gsp getting on camera and being valium is better than not being on camera but only just. if you've got any personality at all so long as it isn't rampantly criminal (jones) i'd suggest running away from the odd interview or smiling all the time and calling out people no one has ever heard of.
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Mar 7, 2017 09:20
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I.N.R.I posted:on the other hand, fighters have their livelihoods to think about The ones with the best livelihoods are the ones who aren't giving canned responses tho Conor and Ronda is the best example
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Bubba Smith posted:I don't think Jon Jones is that big of an rear end in a top hat in real life. He just finds Cormier and Rashad annoying. hands a waitress his number while married. crashes a bentley drunk full of women not his wife. crashing into pregnant women while almost certainly intoxicated and fleeing the scene. purporting to be christian then asks pussies if they're there. SNITCHING ON WEED. snowball king. that osp fight. steroids. these are all pretty bad things and as a not perfect human i still feel comfortable saying some of these things are assholish traits.
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Zzulu posted:The ones with the best livelihoods are the ones who aren't giving canned responses tho true although they are both still fronting in their own way. but at the same time they were toned right down before they blew up. most fighters, even ranked ones, dont have the financial or job security like those guys do
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Marching Powder posted:hands a waitress his number while married. crashes a bentley drunk full of women not his wife. crashing into pregnant women while almost certainly intoxicated and fleeing the scene. purporting to be christian then asks pussies if they're there. SNITCHING ON WEED. snowball king. that osp fight. steroids. these are all pretty bad things and as a not perfect human i still feel comfortable saying some of these things are assholish traits. Those are mostly Jon Jones being a fuckup, which he is, but I don't really see much that makes him mean. Hector Lombard is an rear end in a top hat. jon Jones.. eh, he's a pothead who likes to pet his exotic cat. Even when he goes on Instagram and calls his fans ugly or whatever he does, usually it's cause they started it.
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Zzulu posted:The ones with the best livelihoods are the ones who aren't giving canned responses tho Conor does give canned responses, though. He just cans them himself. Bubba Smith posted:Those are mostly Jon Jones being a fuckup, which he is, but I don't really see much that makes him mean. Crashing into a someone, then fleeing, returning only to get cash and then continuing to show no remorse or concern is a pretty good example of being mean.
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i can't speak to whatever ridiculous moral posturing is being debated here but jon jones is a major league retard
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Triticum Guzzler posted:jon jones is a major league retard The game director is a cool guy, though.
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while I like Nick Diaz for many Nick Diaz-related reasons, to be the best example of a professional fighter one must fight professionally
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I.N.R.I posted:true although they are both still fronting in their own way. but at the same time they were toned right down before they blew up. most fighters, even ranked ones, dont have the financial or job security like those guys do Conor toned down? What when he turned up to that press conference in the fur, or when throwing cans at nate diaz? Wtf
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ICHIBAHN posted:Conor toned down? What when he turned up to that press conference in the fur, or when throwing cans at nate diaz? Wtf neither
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Bubba Smith posted:Those are mostly Jon Jones being a fuckup, which he is, but I don't really see much that makes him mean. Lmao, what the gently caress?
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Bubba Smith posted:Those are mostly Jon Jones being a fuckup, which he is, but I don't really see much that makes him mean. Do you have a class project to see what happens when you post the most indefensibly retarded opinions online or what
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i fell asleep during woodley wonderboy. should i bother to rewatch it? sure doesn't seem like it from the last couple of pages.
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Mar 7, 2017 14:44
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It was poo poo, Woodley waits 24 minutes to go on the offense. I think theres takedown in round two or three, but over all nah. Skip it.
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jon jones rules, and is the best
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david carmichael posted:jon jones rules, and is the best 
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david carmichael posted:jon jones rules, and is the best David has CTE which explains that awful opinion, maybe Bubba does too I dunno
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If you don't look at Jones outside the cage resume and conclude hey this guy is a bad person then you're a loving loony tune, however
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david carmichael posted:jon jones rules, and is the best i liked the way he got out of vitors arm bar
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cis autodrag posted:i fell asleep during woodley wonderboy. should i bother to rewatch it? If you require relief from insomnia then yes you should definitely watch it again.
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I still think Conor and Ronda gave canned responses tbh, they weren't the generic "I will fight anyone the ufc puts in front of me" type you're referring to but at least a portion of what they say are definitely rehearsed to some degree, they're just charismatic enough to make it all seem super natural and off the cuff. Plus lots of people try to break free and let their personalities show and it just makes them look like Tobias Funke and most people still don't care about them because they are outweighed by many household pets, so "just be yourself" isn't some magic One Weird Trick to getting fans.
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Detroit_Dogg posted:Eddie Bravo could beat Michael Bisping. I would watch the hell out of a sub grappling match between these two. Do it as a superfight at EBI. I would predict Eddie wins by overtime submission.
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Sprecherscrow posted:I would watch the hell out of a sub grappling match between these two. Do it as a superfight at EBI. I would predict Eddie wins by overtime submission. Eddie would sub Bisping within 5 minutes of regulation.
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Put them both in a gi.
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cis autodrag posted:i fell asleep during woodley wonderboy. should i bother to rewatch it? sure doesn't seem like it from the last couple of pages. Doing anything else is more worthy of your time than watching that fight.
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manyak posted:This will seem like a "___ was always bad" post but Im thinking Stephen thompson isnt as good as a lot of people wanted him to be, his wins leading up to the title fight dont look as good in retrospect Was the Rory fight good to watch? I can't remember.
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cis autodrag posted:i fell asleep during woodley wonderboy. should i bother to rewatch it? sure doesn't seem like it from the last couple of pages. Unless you need a sleep aid again I would pass. Woodley knocked him down with like 30 seconds left, watch a gif of that and you've got most of the action in the entire fight.
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tumor looking batty posted:Was the Rory fight good to watch? I can't remember. it wasnt very memorable. it was basically a point fight
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cis autodrag posted:i fell asleep during woodley wonderboy. should i bother to rewatch it? sure doesn't seem like it from the last couple of pages. That fight wasn't even novelty-bad, where so little is being done and the crowd is booing so loudly that it becomes funny, nope they just barely did enough to make it a terrible, unwatchable debacle.
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JaySB posted:Eddie would sub Bisping within 5 minutes of regulation. Believe it or not, Bisping's first sport was BJJ (when he was 8) and he is a brown belt rather than a black primarily because he doesn't focus on gi bjj training. But Eddie doesn't really focus on that either. I think a Bisping Bravo grappling match might be more interesting than you're thinking.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyiNg4-kc1s This is the only time I have enjoyed Eddie Bravo talking. It's a really funny breakdown of his rematch vs Royler Gracie
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cis autodrag posted:i fell asleep during woodley wonderboy. should i bother to rewatch it? sure doesn't seem like it from the last couple of pages. The literal last minute isn't bad.
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tumor looking batty posted:Was the Rory fight good to watch? I can't remember. Oh good god no
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