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Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
Is it public how much is being wasted on Fedor yet?

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MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo
https://twitter.com/kokings4/status/880511073664860161

:staredog:

TheRationalRedditor
Jul 17, 2000

WHO ABUSED HIM. WHO ABUSED THE BOY.
:knope:

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



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

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Miching Mallecho posted:

The funniest thing after the chael fight is Chael calling Randy to get him a bottle of water while Tito just stands there looking like an idiot.

I thought it was Chael cutting a heel promo on New York and then later discovering they hadn't actually been booing him, so he apologized.


Pretty sure that guy's soul departed his body. :stare:

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Sir, those men were boxing

but with kicks.

Soothing Vapors
Mar 26, 2006

Associate Justice Lena "Kegels" Dunham: An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.

jesus christ the way he falls

rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


I'm pretty sure I've seen Street Fighter falls less dramatic than that.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Soothing Vapors posted:

jesus christ the way he falls

woo

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
Gabi Garcia is fighting a 45 year old bantamweight in shootboxing

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

MassRafTer posted:

Sir, those men were boxing

but with kicks.

seems pretty immature

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

Soothing Vapors posted:

jesus christ the way he falls

And the way the ref just stands there like, "Yep, that's gonna be a good one."

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
I swear I saw that KO years ago. loving sick either way.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Holy poo poo that looks exactly like a video game. Like you hit the right button combination and the guy goes into his finishing move animation.

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"

Mr. Nice! posted:

I swear I saw that KO years ago. loving sick either way.

yeah, it's from 2014

some things weirdly get new legs, and i never understand how or why a particular thing suddenly is HOT poo poo after months/years of dormancy

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
Tonight was the first card of Professional Fighters League, which is the re-branded WSoF under its new ownership. Jon Fitch finished a fight for the first time in over 10 years against Brian Foster. Foster was kicking his butt for most of the fight, but the event was outdoors on a humid night at the Daytona Speedway and he slipped, hurt himself and got choked out.

Apparently, the gimmick of this new promotion is that it's tournament based. Fighters with "the best records" will advance to a tournament which will determine a champion. The champion wins $1 million. I can't see where this goes wrong.

Wise Learned Man
Apr 22, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

MysteryNad posted:

Tonight was the first card of Professional Fighters League, which is the re-branded WSoF under its new ownership. Jon Fitch finished a fight for the first time in over 10 years against Brian Foster. Foster was kicking his butt for most of the fight, but the event was outdoors on a humid night at the Daytona Speedway and he slipped, hurt himself and got choked out.

Apparently, the gimmick of this new promotion is that it's tournament based. Fighters with "the best records" will advance to a tournament which will determine a champion. The champion wins $1 million. I can't see where this goes wrong.

So Bellator became Strikeforce and WSOF became Bellator?

Scrapez
Feb 27, 2004

Am I the only one watching the Pro Fighting League?

Fighting outdoors, in Florida, in the summertime. Excellent idea.

Edit: oh this is a replay. Lol

Michael Transactions
Nov 11, 2013

Tournament style owns

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

HAHA! WOOOOOOO WOOO!
Fun Shoe

Wise Learned Man posted:

So Bellator became Strikeforce and WSOF became Bellator?

sounds about right. they should do an openweight GP with their LHW/HW guys

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
Brutal slam KO from somewhere in the Z-leagues.

https://zippy.gfycat.com/WarpedTintedFowl.webm

david carmichael
Oct 28, 2011
I am laughing aloud

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


vaginal facsimile posted:

Tournament style owns

Bellator's mistake was that the tournaments were for title shots. They should have just thrown the champion into a seeded tournament bracket and let the belt get pushed along like in any other sports league.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

CommonShore posted:

Bellator's mistake was that the tournaments were for title shots. They should have just thrown the champion into a seeded tournament bracket and let the belt get pushed along like in any other sports league.

No one gave a poo poo about the Bellator tournaments and slightly tweaking the format would have made the promotion less hilarious which is bad. At least then we'd get situations where champions would lose non title matches and the guy who won had to enter a tournament to get a shot. That's funny for months. Seeing the champion put in a tournament where the crowd doesn't give a poo poo about anyone in the tournament? Boring.

Fat Twitter Man
Jan 24, 2007

by R. Guyovich

DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:

sounds about right. they should do an openweight GP with their LHW/HW guys

They've spent a lot on building up their LHW division but don't really have any good HWs other than, uh, Nelson? If they got some big scary Bob Sapp type cans and matched them up with MW/LHWs for some kind of Absolute Undisputed Superweight championship, it might get some eyeballs. I've never watched Bellator at all other than Chandler/Alvarez 2 but I would probably tune into Melvin Manhoef vs Roy Nelson

Fat Twitter Man
Jan 24, 2007

by R. Guyovich

Fat Twitter Man posted:

They've spent a lot on building up their LHW division but don't really have any good HWs other than, uh, Nelson? If they got some big scary Bob Sapp type cans and matched them up with MW/LHWs for some kind of Absolute Undisputed Superweight championship, it might get some eyeballs. I've never watched Bellator at all other than Chandler/Alvarez 2 but I would probably tune into Melvin Manhoef vs Roy Nelson

basically if you're going to go freak show then go full freak show

david carmichael
Oct 28, 2011

Fat Twitter Man posted:

They've spent a lot on building up their LHW division but don't really have any good HWs other than, uh, Nelson? If they got some big scary Bob Sapp type cans and matched them up with MW/LHWs for some kind of Absolute Undisputed Superweight championship, it might get some eyeballs. I've never watched Bellator at all other than Chandler/Alvarez 2 but I would probably tune into Melvin Manhoef vs Roy Nelson

Sergei.

Fat Twitter Man
Jan 24, 2007

by R. Guyovich

I'm thinking of potential Bellator openweight matches and hooting and hollering quietly

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

MassRafTer posted:

No one gave a poo poo about the Bellator tournaments and slightly tweaking the format would have made the promotion less hilarious which is bad. At least then we'd get situations where champions would lose non title matches and the guy who won had to enter a tournament to get a shot. That's funny for months. Seeing the champion put in a tournament where the crowd doesn't give a poo poo about anyone in the tournament? Boring.

easy fix would be to put the current champ in the seed and make it a one night tournament. Call it Battle Of ____ whatever major city they run in.

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

HAHA! WOOOOOOO WOOO!
Fun Shoe

Fat Twitter Man posted:

basically if you're going to go freak show then go full freak show

yeah exactly and also:


i'd like to see:

Mitrione
Sergei
King Mo
Nelson
Fedor
Rampage
Bader
Davis
Bonnar
Tito
Chael
Wanderlei
Kongo
Joey Beltran
Sakara
Bobby Lashley

Subs:
James Thompson
Melvin

16 man GP. hire me scott coker

willie_dee
Jun 21, 2010
I obtain sexual gratification from observing people being inflicted with violent head injuries

DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:


Subs:
James Thompson
Melvin

16 man GP. hire me scott coker

How dare you. (to be fair hes not ready to come back I don't think)

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
I like tournaments but they're a loving mess in modern MMA which is why they stopped doing them 50 years ago

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Congrats to joey Beltran. Open weight 2017 champ

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
WSOF did that one-night lightweight tournament last year and the guy who ended up winning it lost in the first round.

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

MysteryNad posted:

WSOF did that one-night lightweight tournament last year and the guy who ended up winning it lost in the first round.

This sort of poo poo has happened in every single tournament ever staged in the last 10 years. Some people made insane money betting the field in the Strikeforce tournament DC won

El Roncho
Oct 15, 2006

I'm not necessarily proud of this but I'm gonna leave it here anyways.
Steve Jennum's Ninjitsu Curse will affect all tournaments until he dies. It's in an ancient scroll housed in an even more ancient temple in backwoods Nebraska.

Fat Twitter Man
Jan 24, 2007

by R. Guyovich

Triticum Guzzler posted:

I like tournaments but they're a loving mess in modern MMA which is why they stopped doing them 50 years ago

I agree that tournaments are stupid as hell but it's not like we lose anything by Bellator matching up all its fat old men in a stupid boondoggle

and the way of tournaments is such that Francis Carmont vs the Mexicutioner might determine the Openweight Baddest Man on Earth

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

coconono posted:

easy fix would be to put the current champ in the seed and make it a one night tournament. Call it Battle Of ____ whatever major city they run in.

You can't do a one night tournament in any commission state without rules that completely defeat the purpose of a tournament.

Nierbo
Dec 5, 2010

sup brah?
Which is why Rizin exists no? I wonder what its like to live in a parallel universe where Baruto won. Probably the same as this one actually....

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Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
What? Japanese MMA is completely legitimate, why do you ask?

https://twitter.com/shiroobi/status/882900071892660224

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