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| A time of festivities with family and friends that reminds you of life and love |
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5 | 13.89% |
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| A time of quiet, cloudy depression where you fold yourself in shows and video games until it's over |
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17 | 47.22% |
| A time to smoke just so much god damned weed |
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10 | 27.78% |
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ilmucche posted:How did they end up a draw? Why is Dana so angry beyond his usual level of anger? He's personally embarrassed his plan didn't work and he's taking it out on them for daring to go to a decision. Also:  The UFC Rio main event WAS Figueiredo/Moreno 4. Now it is not. This was going to be the first flyweight main event since December of 2020, but by god, fill that light heavyweight hole
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Glover getting that title shot is what should have happened in the first place, so at least we're getting that now.
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Dec 11, 2022 17:50
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Dana should be mad at the judges that Paddy won then
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Dec 11, 2022 20:51
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The PPV was horrible from the perspective of Dana getting anything he wanted - even the Paddy W went over like a lead balloon to an audience of people in bespoke Paddy wigs
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Dec 11, 2022 20:57
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Brut posted:Unfunny tweets from twitter trolls, unless of course they're notable (fighters, managers, journalists, fight org officials, etc are all fine)  , no comedy/trolling posts should ever be tolerated on the Something Awful forums.
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Dec 11, 2022 22:08
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http://twitter.com/ZidanSports/status/1602001590738898944 Oh nooooooo, the gay murdering warlord is upset his preferred guy didn't win.
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Dec 11, 2022 22:14
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The irony of Kadyrov boohoo'ing about politics in MMA is making my loving head spin
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Dec 11, 2022 22:20
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Yeah someone so involved with sportswashing crying about supposed political bias when his doesn't get a belt is pretty comically pathetic.
Mekchu fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Dec 11, 2022 |
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Dec 11, 2022 22:52
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CarlCX posted:This was going to be the first flyweight main event since December of 2020, but by god, fill that light heavyweight hole I bitch about the flyweight division and its mistreatment constantly, but I've never done/have never seen anyone do the actual comparative analysis of how it's been treated. So I went back to the pay-per-view at which the flyweight championship was inaugurated, UFC 152: Jones vs Belfort on September 22, 2012, and starting that night collated every single main event the UFC has put on for the decade-ish of the flyweight division's history to see how many main events each division has gotten. The rough results:
But people just don't like flyweights, for some loving reason.
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Dec 11, 2022 23:21
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Even more baffling was that mighty mouse wasn't just decisioning guys. He finished top dudes regularly, sometimes with moves pro wrestlers wish they made up.
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Dec 11, 2022 23:56
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Does this mean Vacant, the true champ champ, now has a title defense? How many times had they successfully defended the belt before?
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Dec 12, 2022 00:36
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It’s now an annual tradition  e: can’t believe it’s been more than a year since the Venum deal.
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Dec 12, 2022 00:36
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ilmucche posted:Does this mean Vacant, the true champ champ, now has a title defense? How many times had they successfully defended the belt before? Depending on if you define championship life as beginning at conception or not, the first standing championship match in UFC history was Dan Severn and Ken Shamrock fighting to a draw for the UFC Superfight championship and leaving it vacant, so that's either a win or a defense. If you mean just cases where the title was vacant going into a fight and remained vacant afterward, other than last night I think the only UFC case was in 2002; Jens Pulver dropped the lightweight title over pay disputes, the UFC held a tournament to fill the vacancy and it ended in BJ Penn and Caol Uno going to a draw, which the UFC initially said it might do something about and then 'something' wound up being just pretending the belt didn't exist for like four years.
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Dec 12, 2022 00:49
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Brut posted:Glover getting that title shot is what should have happened in the first place, so at least we're getting that now.
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Dec 12, 2022 00:58
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CarlCX posted:If you mean just cases where the title was vacant going into a fight and remained vacant afterward, other than last night I think the only UFC case was in 2002; Jens Pulver dropped the lightweight title over pay disputes, the UFC held a tournament to fill the vacancy and it ended in BJ Penn and Caol Uno going to a draw, which the UFC initially said it might do something about and then 'something' wound up being just pretending the belt didn't exist for like four years. Something like this yeah. Vacant defending the belt by winning a tournament. Excellent
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Dec 12, 2022 00:59
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JOHN CENA posted:nope What?
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CarlCX posted:Depending on if you define championship life as beginning at conception or not, the first standing championship match in UFC history was Dan Severn and Ken Shamrock fighting to a draw for the UFC Superfight championship and leaving it vacant, so that's either a win or a defense. Wasn't the belt vacant for the first Figueiredo vs Benavidez fight that Deveison missed weight for, so only Joe could be champ, and Joe got smoked?
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Dec 12, 2022 01:11
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CarlCX posted:So a) this kept bugging me and b) I'm having kind of a dissociative day and wanted to dive into an afternoon data project. This also means this is going to be long, dry and effortposty, so feel free to scroll.
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LobsterMobster posted:Wasn't the belt vacant for the first Figueiredo vs Benavidez fight that Deveison missed weight for, so only Joe could be champ, and Joe got smoked? You're absolutely correct, that one slipped my mind because the fight had a definitive ending, but yup, totally. JOHN CENA posted:i like flyweights you're one of the good ones, JOHN CENA
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Dec 12, 2022 01:19
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Brut posted:What? the heart of a real champion would not accept a false title, it is bushido. he should wait for jiri.
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Dec 12, 2022 01:23
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JOHN CENA posted:the heart of a real champion would not accept a false title, it is bushido. he should wait for jiri. Jon Jones is holding the true belt anyway, all these other lhw title fights are pretenders.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:Frank Shamrock is holding the true belt anyway, all these other lhw title fights are pretenders.
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Dec 12, 2022 03:12
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Frank's was called middleweight :-P
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CarlCX posted:but #4 is so pissed off he's not sure he wants to fight anymore He clarified that translation: https://www.lowkickmma.com/magomed-ankalaev-post-fight-mistranslation/ Unless it was saving face? Brut?
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Dec 12, 2022 07:20
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kimbo305 posted:He clarified that translation: I stopped listening to the interview when his first two answers were "Waaaaah, where's my belt, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah". If you have the footage I'll listen to it again but otherwise since it's PPV I don't have access to it. fakeedit: okay I checked youtube and it's just available, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Q1s_MKO9w, hang on. First answer: I don't know what to say, I won the fight, for some reason they didn't give me the belt, I don't know what this is. Second answer: Well I can't win (in the eyes of) these judges that are sitting here judging, but I won the fight, I won the belt, where's my belt? (note: this got translated as "I can't choose the judges", but I think the translator misheard him there) Third answer: It doesn't matter if my legs hurt or not, but I did everything to achieve victory Fourth answer: I always do everything to achieve victory, if I'm losing in the standup I start wrestling, if I'm losing at wrestling I'll fight standing, I can do it either way it makes no difference, but I don't know what this is, will I fight here again I also don't know. Yeah it seems like the translator ran with that and said organization when he shouldn't have, to the point where when Rogan (and the translator relayed) said the organization does not choose the judges or who the winner is, Ankalaev's first response is basically "what do you mean?", translator says well meaning that it is the judges fault and not the organization's fault, Ankalaev goes on to thank his supporters/club and all that stuff. tl;dr: he said "here" and I don't think he meant UFC as a whole.
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Dec 12, 2022 13:44
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When I was watching I thought the translator was adding some drama for effect, his tone of voice in general was much more dramatic than Anlalaev's
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Dec 12, 2022 15:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyPTYftciU lmao this kid getting absolutely eviscerated in the comments. its relentless  i dont think ive ever seen a prospect lose so much stock just from one fight, much less one that he """won""". just a textbook case in how to handle everything completely wrong.
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Dec 12, 2022 19:33
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I didn’t watch the card; how did PP bomb so badly?
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Shumagorath posted:I didn’t watch the card; how did PP bomb so badly? It was just a really unimpressive performance and most onlookers agreed he'd lost, when the judges handed him the decision it was met with a lot of grumbles - that would be enough to take a little shine off the big PPV debut, but him boasting during the interview and strutting around on a hugely unearned ego trip took it from a contentious win to a public embarrassment
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Dec 12, 2022 19:44
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hes behaving as tho he produced the highlight knockout of the year in a championship bout he was the underdog in or something. he should be summarily demolished fighting someone in the top 15 which i'm sure tonnnns of people will tune in to watch happen, us included. but i think we've been around long enough to know ppl have short memories so if he somehow produces an impressive win with his next fight, then this last fight may as well never happened lol
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Dec 12, 2022 19:57
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Shumagorath posted:I didn’t watch the card; how did PP bomb so badly? You should watch the card, it was good until the co-main/main (I didn't think the main event was that bad either but my expectations were low for it)
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Dec 12, 2022 20:32
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He yelled about it being the fight of the night after going to the first decision after 10 straight finishes including several round 3 finishes
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Dec 12, 2022 20:33
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Boco_T posted:He yelled about it being the fight of the night after going to the first decision after 10 straight finishes including several round 3 finishes Don't forget they got booed several times during the fight lol
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Dec 12, 2022 20:52
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Sounds like the best way to try to remain marketable after stinking up the octagon
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Dec 12, 2022 21:04
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Yeah, like, Paddy Pimblett is a dumb rear end in a top hat, but he's made the conscious choice to be a dumb rear end in a top hat. He's long since committed wholesale to the Conor-lite thing, it's not like he can dial it back now. He's going to ride it without ever deviating right up until the moment someone completely breaks his poo poo, and I can only hope that it is Ilia Topuria.
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Dec 12, 2022 21:12
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DoombatINC posted:It was just a really unimpressive performance and most onlookers agreed he'd lost, when the judges handed him the decision it was met with a lot of grumbles - that would be enough to take a little shine off the big PPV debut, but him boasting during the interview and strutting around on a hugely unearned ego trip took it from a contentious win to a public embarrassment Sort of like when Rose went "I'M THE loving BEST" in her rematch with Carla which she very clearly lost a boring lovely fight.
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CarlCX posted:Yeah, like, Paddy Pimblett is a dumb rear end in a top hat, but he's made the conscious choice to be a dumb rear end in a top hat. He's long since committed wholesale to the Conor-lite thing, it's not like he can dial it back now. He's going to ride it without ever deviating right up until the moment someone completely breaks his poo poo, and I can only hope that it is Ilia Topuria. I just want an entertaining fighter who also does good food/cooking related stuff. Paddy could've easily been the Man vs Food MMA variant. At least we have Cookin' with Volk.
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Dec 12, 2022 21:16
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I want Paddy to lose spectacularly in the main event so the arena and surrounding area outside can be strewn with discarded M'lord wigs in disgust
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Mekchu posted:I just want an entertaining fighter who also does good food/cooking related stuff. Leech cooking for his family and the camera crew on the last Embedded he was on 
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Dana.flv https://twitter.com/hektic_one/status/1602397414228430864?s=46&t=R71zwRCDWj8wRBb_ioCV4A
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