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CarlCX posted:he's insufficiently self-aware to feel shame CarlCX posted:Tim Sylvia
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Tim Sylvia is a big hick doofus, but has there ever been a more universally poo poo on heavyweight champion of anything? I'm including e-sports and competitive eating here.
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Oct 30, 2017 21:24
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Tommy Morrison went through some poo poo and then died.
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Oct 30, 2017 22:52
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We really need to never forget he put this video out to convince Dana White he was ready for a UFC comeback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOXHy4oni9k Captain Log posted:Tim Sylvia is a big hick doofus, but has there ever been a more universally poo poo on heavyweight champion of anything? Randy, during his scarf-wearing Hollywood phase where he somehow became a more grating public figure than Dana White. Honorable mention for Fedor, not for Fedor himself but for his two-year reign as the champion of WAMMA
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Oct 30, 2017 22:56
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Captain Log posted:It can always get worse. that's the best picture they could get sylvia/monson was enough combat between sylvia and a high level bjj player for my lifetime, i think
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Oct 30, 2017 23:28
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Neurosis posted:that's the best picture they could get I might go to that event. It feels like is will be a piece of performance art. Sylvia getting choked in ten seconds by a dumpy Russian looking motherfucker and Chael tapdancing about how it was THE BEST match ever. Could be funny. And cheap. Very cheap.
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Oct 30, 2017 23:38
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Captain Log posted:I might go to that event. It feels like is will be a piece of performance art. I've got tickets to the Foo Fighters that same week but this sounds like fun too...
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Oct 31, 2017 16:06
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kensei posted:I've got tickets to the Foo Fighters that same week but this sounds like fun too... If I knew the dap emote, I’d put it here. Keep a brother updated.
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Oct 31, 2017 20:11
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*sotto voce* open weight grand prix http://mmajunkie.com/2017/11/bellator-ryan-bader-interested-in-heavyweight-tournament
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Nov 2, 2017 14:15
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I would pay good money to see Ryan Bader lose to a fat man.
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Nov 2, 2017 16:41
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Go watch Bader vs Rumble again.
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Nov 2, 2017 17:22
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Everyone should watch Bader vs Rumble again because it is one of the few times in your life that you will see an extremely large cage fighter absolutely terrified. Forrest vs Silva and Lesnar vs Cain are the only two even close.
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Nov 2, 2017 17:35
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Tbf, Forrest was never terrified. He kept doggedly running into those strikes.
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Nov 2, 2017 18:55
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Forrest has said himself that he was drowning in xanax to even make the walk to the cage.
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Nov 2, 2017 18:58
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Forrest is literally the most terrified MMA fighter of all time. Followed closely by GSP.
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Nierbo posted:Forrest is literally the most terrified MMA fighter of all time. Followed closely by GSP. “Hit him with your groin!” - A MMA coach of champions.
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Nov 2, 2017 19:31
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Cowardly fighter chat and no mention of Kalib Starnes?
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Mr. Nice! posted:Everyone should watch Bader vs Rumble again because it is one of the few times in your life that you will see an extremely large cage fighter absolutely terrified. Forrest vs Silva and Lesnar vs Cain are the only two even close. Rich Franklin's look of resigned terror while Anderson was rearranging his face with knees was cool.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:Rich Franklin's look of resigned terror while Anderson was rearranging his face with knees was cool. I still think Anderson was a pretty unique fighter. Which made him loving terrifying. That dude would walk out of fights without breaking a sweat.
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Nov 3, 2017 04:26
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That period where Anderson and Machida had mystique about the strategy to beat them was cool because the answers turned out to be punch them really hard
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Triticum Guzzler posted:That period where Anderson and Machida had mystique about the strategy to beat them was cool because the answers turned out to be punch them really hard Hendo hit Anderson with a BRH and it did nothing.
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Anderson kept dropping his s hands to dance, its only normal someone would finally oblige him. The leg break definitely took his magic away tho.
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Nov 3, 2017 12:54
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Tezcatlipoca posted:Hendo hit Anderson with a BRH and it did nothing. The trick was to throw the same hand twice. I'm just joking around but Anderson was years ahead of the pack technically, but the baseline level of boxing skill has progressively risen in the past decade and it was that more than the wrestling that felled him in the end. When I started watching MMA Bas was a respected striking coach and he thought jabbing was useless
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Nov 3, 2017 14:11
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Yeah fighters now have much better footwork, combinations and counterpunching. Silva's and Machida's physical decline is just making their flaws stand out more. Aldo too
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Nov 3, 2017 14:39
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Triticum Guzzler posted:When I started watching MMA Bas was a respected striking coach and he thought jabbing was useless That still blows my mind. I'm a striking novice and I've always been told jabs set range and disrupt the other fighter's movements.
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Nov 3, 2017 15:05
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Holloway is such a loving killer and as big of a Frankie Stan as I am I won't feel too bad watching him get violently worked over.
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Nov 3, 2017 15:08
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Tezcatlipoca posted:Yeah fighters now have much better footwork, combinations and counterpunching. Silva's and Machida's physical decline is just making their flaws stand out more. Aldo too i wonder how much of the development of those skills in mma owe to machida and silva. there was such an unbelievable contrast in skills in some of their early fights. and then as everyone got better at it, and silva and machida got older, they gradually looked more and more human until they were losing to derek brunson.
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coconono posted:That still blows my mind. I'm a striking novice and I've always been told jabs set range and disrupt the other fighter's movements. His argument was along these lines -- quote:MMA (sorta true at the time) is a power sport boiling down to major clashes/collisions. You shoot for a takedown, I sprawl.
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Nov 3, 2017 19:55
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Bas has no cartilage in his knees and let a neck injury persist to the point where he can't lift weights properly and has a single tiny arm now. What I am saying is don't listen to him.
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Nov 3, 2017 20:04
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I get what bas is saying from a philosophical standpoint. Otherwise that's loving dumb. "It's the most under-utilized strike in the sport!" (every coach ever talking about jabs)
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Nov 3, 2017 20:38
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modern sport MMA is point-based tho. Its all about volume of significant strikes, etc. Old school 2 beer bellies wailing on each other in the middle of the ring, yeah setting strikes not so useful. But those guys all died or live sad lives now.
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Nov 3, 2017 20:47
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I've always thought of a crisp jab as a way to hit someone's mental reset button. It's like reseting a Nintendo cartridge.
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Nov 3, 2017 20:49
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coconono posted:modern sport MMA is point-based tho. Its all about volume of significant strikes, etc. Yeah, and it has certainly evolved in that direction since Bas' Pancrase / 3-weight class UFC days. I think the failure in his thinking was that there was no hope of outpointing the brawler with better technique and footwork, but to level off at a hybrid level of skill.
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Nov 3, 2017 21:05
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His reasoning was that you should have a square stance to defend takedowns, which makes sense from a Bas Rutten perspective
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Nov 3, 2017 21:08
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kimbo305 sighed as he dusted off his Bas Rutten's Big Books of Combat, Volume 1.
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Even in the last decade it has evolved a shitload. I rewatched Penn-Sherk yesterday and it was actually kind of depressing. That fight wouldn't be out of place on a Fightpass prelim for a Fox card now, in terms of technique. I also forgot that the crowed was booing that fight.
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Does anyone have Nate Quarry's epiphany where after several years as a pro he learned you could throw a punch thats only intention was to throw a better, more damaging punch thereafter?
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https://twitter.com/Jonnyboy_6969/status/926594046721777664
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Ay yai yai
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Did his corner catch his soul in a towel as it left his body? This is important.
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