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off the top of my head those tournaments had the freire brothers, douglas lima, michael chandler, eddie alvarez, ben askren, cole konrad, will brooks, pat curran all putting on great performances. and joe warren's journey to cracking his iron chin in the space of like five fights was fun. plus they brought in marlon sandro and aoki to get crushed. they put a bunch of prospects together and shook out a load of good fighters. whereas coker's bellator featured antediluvian ken shamrock getting kneed in his withered balls by goblin king royce gracie
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Yeah I cared way more about some of the events when it was a semifinal and final. You wanted to see your pick progress on through the tournament. I think WSOF, with some additional talent, could put on some solid tournaments. The big issue is, do they do one or two tournaments at a time like Bellator did or do they have all 7 tournament brackets go on simultaneously with each event full of tournament matches. I think they would be better off doing one or two tournament brackets at a time to avoid overload. Speaking of tournaments, and talking about Z-League MMA, here in Korea ROAD FC have started their trials matches for their lightweight tournament called "Road to A-Sol." What is "A-Sol" you may ask? A Sol Kwon is the name of the current LW champion and the winner of the tournament will face him in a title match and also (as far as I can tell) be able to win $1 Million. It has some semi-notable names in the form of Yui Chul Nam who fought in the UFC and was supposed to have ex-Bellator fighter Mike Brounzoulis but he pulled out for some reason. The event I went this past weekend had these matches which were all pretty good. Tom Santos vs Yui Chul Nam Munguntsooj Nandin-Erdene vs Bruno Miranda Mansour Barnaoui vs. Won Bin Ki Khuukhenkhuu Amartuvshin vs. Lianru Shang Full event video, including the Young Guns (basically amateur/semi-pro fights) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SeJV13iFiw Main event stuff starts at 3:05:00 Mekchu fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Foul Fowl posted:off the top of my head those tournaments had the freire brothers, douglas lima, michael chandler, eddie alvarez, ben askren, cole konrad, will brooks, pat curran all putting on great performances. and joe warren's journey to cracking his iron chin in the space of like five fights was fun. plus they brought in marlon sandro and aoki to get crushed. they put a bunch of prospects together and shook out a load of good fighters. I think we can agree that the ideal promotion would have both a million tournaments and Ken Shamrock getting kneed in his withered balls.
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Unfunny Poster posted:WSOF posted this video today. Kurohashi and I were talking about this sort of idea a long time ago as a method to disrupt UFC, or at least have potentially viable competitor. Basically you'd have old-Bellator style tournaments with big money prizes for winning the tournaments. I think Bellator maxed out at like 100k for winning and that wasn't going to be enough to lure any decent UFC fighters away, but if you could get a bit more than that then maybe you'd have a chance. It depends on how many people compete in these tournaments so we can see how far that $10 million will go, but it's a fun idea and I'd like to see what happens.
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Tournament Bellator was cool, tournaments in MMA are cool, but due to injuries and how infrequent the cards were Bellator would sometimes have 3 tournament winners all waiting for their title shot. Dave Jansen immediately comes to mind he won a tournament and had to wait around 2 years for his title shot.
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Lord Waffle Beard posted:Tournament Bellator was cool, tournaments in MMA are cool, but due to injuries and how infrequent the cards were Bellator would sometimes have 3 tournament winners all waiting for their title shot. Dave Jansen immediately comes to mind he won a tournament and had to wait around 2 years for his title shot. That problem is easily solved by starting up with 8-man initial tournaments and then giving the defending champion a first-round bye or a first-round match against the 8th-seeded fighter instead of having any separate title.
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Also elbows were banned in tournament fights due to injury concerns, but I like elbows
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Sage Northcutt's sister (4-1 as an amateur) will make her pro debut June in LFA http://www.mmafighting.com/2017/4/21/15385912/colbey-northcutt-sages-sister-set-to-make-pro-mma-debut-in-june
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:format(webp)/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/54383253/12141560_834496200000960_4246529692267220637_n.0.jpg) What the gently caress
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Rigel posted:Sage Northcutt's sister (4-1 as an amateur) will make her pro debut June in LFA I hope she's exactly like Sage.
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kimbo305 posted:I hope she's exactly like Sage. She is... shes retarded
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kimbo305 posted:I hope she's exactly like Sage. she is . you can see for yourself in the picture
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I.N.R.I posted:she is . you can see for yourself in the picture Haha, haha, thanks Mr. I.N.R.I!
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 April 23, 2017 - Starts at 1500 in Japan (0200 Eastern) Pancrase 286 on UFC Fight Pass (https://www.ufc.tv/video/pancrase-286) Lightweight: Takasuke Kume vs Matija Blazicevic^* Bantamweight: Kenta Takizawa vs Shuichi Kanda Featherweight: Isao Kobayashi vs Marko Burusic* Welterweight: Takashi Sato vs Anton Radman* Flyweight: Shohei Masumizu vs Takeshi Kasugai Featherweight: Koyomi Matsushima vs Yojiro Uchimara Strawweight: Daichi Kitakata vs Ryo Hatta Lightweight: Genpei Hayashi vs Yusaku Inoue Bantamweight: Kosuke Terashima vs Nobuki Fujii Featherweight: Kyosuke Yokoyama vs Suguru Nii Flyweight: Toru Ogawa vs Alex Okabe Welterweight: Yuta Nakamura vs Hiroyuki Tetsuka * = Team Pancrase vs Team Cikatic match ^ = Kume is the Lightweight King of Pancrase but I can't find any solid info if this match is for the LW championship. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Apr 22, 2017 |
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I don't know names good. Perez/Martinez on LFA just now was extremely good. There was a simultaneous knockdown and a samoan drop and something Pat Miletich insisted is a "banana split."
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Triticum Guzzler posted:I hope they make Bader Vs Davis the ppv lead in fight and nobody buys it as a result getting closer to being a loving stupid reality https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/855515744729264129
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Chandler's a warrior, world champion and he's only been getting better, but I think it's a little early for him to be fighting for the All-Spark.
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Triticum Guzzler posted:getting closer to being a loving stupid reality Am I the only one who see's that lineup and goes "meh"? Lima/Larkin is good, Chandler is fun to watch but the rest is rather lack luster. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Apr 22, 2017 |
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Dan Didio posted:Chandler's a warrior, world champion and he's only been getting better, but I think it's a little early for him to be fighting for the All-Spark. primussucks
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Unfunny Poster posted:Am I the only one who see's that lineup and goes "meh"? It's just you, 7 billion people on earth definitely want to pay 50 dollars to see Fatt Shitrione
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Triticum Guzzler posted:It's just you, 7 billion people on earth definitely want to pay 50 dollars to see Fatt Shitrione Oh ok good to know it's just me.
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lima/larkin probably makes that card worth not spoiling before you illegally download it the day after. and chandler will probably beat the poo poo out of that guy he's fighting. as far as i know mitrione is still quite good at punching so maybe the slightly less objectionable lump of poo poo will win.
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i still think the first alvarez/chandler fight is the best brawl in mma history. and should not have been overshadowed by henderson/shogun which was much worse.
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Triticum Guzzler posted:getting closer to being a loving stupid reality i'd never heard of pico or freeman so i did some googling and it looks like this is pico's first mma fight and he is a pretty decorated wrestler, vs freeman who is a bjj guy. there's real potential for this fight to suck and i dont know why they're having it kick off the ppv.
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:i'd never heard of pico or freeman so i did some googling and it looks like this is pico's first mma fight and he is a pretty decorated wrestler, vs freeman who is a bjj guy. there's real potential for this fight to suck and i dont know why they're having it kick off the ppv. I think he's kicking off the PPV because Pico signed with Bellator in like 2013 and, as you said, has never fought, so it might be a "just loving do something, kid" Also, he trains with the same lunatic that makes Werdum do kicking leg presses on a bosu ball and poo poo
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Biodome posted:Did anyone else see Miguel Falcao get horribly hosed up in a super late stoppage last night? I feel like this just happened to him in his last fight but it may be the same fight I'm thinking about and I just now saw it. I did and that would have been terrible had it happened to anyone else.
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LobsterMobster posted:I think he's kicking off the PPV because Pico signed with Bellator in like 2013 and, as you said, has never fought, so it might be a "just loving do something, kid" if anything in that fight happens except a takedown and laying in the bjj guy's guard for three rounds, i'll be surprised
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Kai Kara-France from last year's TUF just got his second KO victory over $fighter_not_found in two months, last month was in Australia and this one was China. He's angling for a slot on the Auckland UFC card, which would be awesome for him because that's his home town. https://www.instagram.com/p/BTMNwVqj7YW/
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Memento posted:Kai Kara-France from last year's TUF just got his second KO victory over $fighter_not_found in two months, last month was in Australia and this one was China. He's angling for a slot on the Auckland UFC card, which would be awesome for him because that's his home town. that's great. he's a dude with a watchable style and i hope they give it to him. he poo poo the bed on tuf though, he really phoned in that fight he lost and dana obviously hated him for it.
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