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| End sponsorships so fighters are completely dependent on the UFC's pay |
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62 | 10.56% |
| Ban elaborate entrances and custom gear unless you're a company favorite |
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43 | 7.33% |
| Align himself and the UFC with Donald Trump |
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53 | 9.03% |
| Abuse his wife and somehow guilt MMA media for reporting about it |
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60 | 10.22% |
| Go on a homophobic, misogynist rant about Loretta Hunt and play free speech martyr thereafter |
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48 | 8.18% |
| Compare pay-per-view pirates to Osama bin Laden |
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40 | 6.81% |
| Argue so poorly that he somehow made Jake Paul the good guy |
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46 | 7.84% |
| Allow Logan Paul to own the colors Red and Blue |
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36 | 6.13% |
| Create Conor McGregor |
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36 | 6.13% |
| Blackball the entire American Kickboxing Academy until they signed away lifetime likeness rights |
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49 | 8.35% |
| Use Marlon Vera's daughter's medical needs for advertising, then make fans crowdfund it |
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49 | 8.35% |
| Create the Power Slap League |
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54 | 9.20% |
| Post your own and then vote for it |
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11 | 1.87% |
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Pwny_Xpress posted:Hey goons! Good to see punchsports are still alive and well on the SF forums. I learned basically everything I know about MMA watching totally legal streams and reading on these forums. Then college happened, and the UFC watered down their product, and I unplugged Welcome back, dude. DJ still rules and is canonically the best again after murdering the poo poo out of Adriano Moraes, so no, that's perfectly acceptable. I'll tell you all what's not acceptable, though: Heavyweight. https://twitter.com/AndyHickeyMMA/status/1627443569802838018 When you consider that Stipe hasn't fought in 2+ years and is one foot out the door, Aspinall only just started sparring again, Jon Jones is almost certainly giving up if he doesn't beat Gane next month and the sun is setting on guys like Tai, Lewis and Ivanov, your reliable top ten for the forseeable future is, like,
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I just don't get what's hateful about talking about the people I hate for being who they are..
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Feb 20, 2023 01:17
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CarlCX posted:Jon Jones is almost certainly giving up if he doesn't beat Gane next month now thats a lie he's giving up if he wins it too
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Feb 20, 2023 01:20
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I'm ready for Nate Marquardt tweets to get moved to the dumb people thread.
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Feb 20, 2023 01:27
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CarlCX posted:I'll tell you all what's not acceptable, though: Heavyweight. And let's look at the upcoming cards. UFC record for each and ranking if they have one 2/25: Augusto Sakai (4-4) vs Don'Tale Mayes (2-2-1) 3/3: Jones (20-1-1) vs Ciryl Gane (#1, 8-1) 3/11: Volkov (#8, 9-4) vs Alexandr Romanov (#13, 5-1), Lukasz Brzeski (0-0-1) vs Karl Williams (0-0-0) 4/8: Chris Barnett (2-2) vs Chase Sherman (4-10) Beside the title fight, none are that interesting or impactful at all in the standings.
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Feb 20, 2023 01:53
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Jon Jones hasn’t fought in three years, and I think it’s been about two since I was excited to see him at heavyweight.
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Feb 20, 2023 02:27
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blue footed boobie posted:Jon Jones hasn’t fought in three years, and I think it’s been about two since I was excited to see him at heavyweight. This is true, but imo it still paints an inaccurate picture of how good Jones is likely to look in his return. He hasn't won a fight decisively and unquestionably/without controversy in FIVE years.
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Feb 20, 2023 02:46
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I think I worked out why William Knight did William Knight things https://twitter.com/tommyspoore/status/1626953458963152898?t=8zbm0VzMDGi0fB4HWTTdkQ&s=19
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Feb 20, 2023 02:49
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blue footed boobie posted:Jon Jones hasn’t fought in three years, and I think it’s been about two since I was excited to see him at heavyweight.
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Feb 20, 2023 03:33
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CarlCX posted:Welcome back, dude. DJ still rules and is canonically the best again after murdering the poo poo out of Adriano Moraes, so no, that's perfectly acceptable. Glad to see some things never change. Member when Roy "Big Country" Nelson was top heavyweight? I member.
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Pwny_Xpress posted:Hey goons! Good to see punchsports are still alive and well on the SF forums. I learned basically everything I know about MMA watching totally legal streams and reading on these forums. Then college happened, and the UFC watered down their product, and I unplugged Yes it's still cool and good and DJ is still cool and good. You'll also see Reece McLaren so make sure to cheer for him loudest cause he's my friend and a top loving bloke. He also needs some pop because one doesn't pay enough and he has a little baby now and so he has to work while trying to maintain a professional standard of training.
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BlindSite posted:Yes it's still cool and good and DJ is still cool and good. Perhaps Reece should simply ask benevolent godking Chatri for an additional FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAS
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Feb 20, 2023 06:17
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I needed a break from trying to write about Ryan loving Spann, so I decided to dive into my data fetish and see just how bad the heavyweight picture and every fighter's respective UFC record was. I consequently give you a post you really should not bother to waste the time to read, THE HEALTH OF THE UFC'S HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION: CURRENTLY WINNING AND RECENTLY ACTIVE
A grand total of seven fighters in the heavyweight top fifteen are a) not coming off losses and b) currently active, and one of those five (Almeida) has spent more time in the UFC fighting at a 220-pound catchweight than an actual division.
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Feb 20, 2023 07:33
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CarlCX posted:CURRENTLY WINNING AND RECENTLY ACTIVE Marcin Tybura has fought in the UFC 17 times??
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Feb 20, 2023 08:11
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Yup. Marcin Tybura has been in the UFC since early goddamn 2016. 2022 is actually the first time he only managed one fight in a year, and even then it's only because he got pulled the day before UFC 273 for
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Feb 20, 2023 10:40
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Getting ads to buy tickets for a UK Brandon Schaub "comedy" tour... Think getting my brain smashed by a mallet would be preferable
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Feb 20, 2023 17:32
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They've already fought, but dig a hole, put Sherman and Vanderaaaaaaa in there and make them sloppily paw at each other until the heat death of the universe
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Getting ads to buy tickets for a UK Brandon Schaub "comedy" tour... Sorry, Gallagher died recently
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Getting ads to buy tickets for a UK Brandon Schaub "comedy" tour... What's the difference
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CarlCX posted:I needed a break from trying to write about Ryan loving Spann, so I decided to dive into my data fetish and see just how bad the heavyweight picture and every fighter's respective UFC record was. Speaking of data fetishes, I recently made a spreadsheet to see historical UFC rankings so I could figure out what fighters were ranked when they fought each other. The data source I used was last updated in mid 2022 and sheets has limits on filterability, but it's still been pretty useful. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EzmIt61wfCZHZtrWnWwCo0oTkB660aFg8yZfxyZZLFg/edit?usp=sharing
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Feb 20, 2023 19:18
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Feb 20, 2023 20:16
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Good fight, and good that O'Malley didn't get it
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beep by grandpa posted:What's the difference you might survive a mallet attack without fatal brain trauma
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I am so loving keen for this.
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I'm not even gonna try to say it's not an interesting fight with a lot of interesting possibilities, but I am going to say that in a division where guys like Vera, Sandhagen, Dvalishvili, Yan and (unfortunately) O'Malley are all fighting to justify contendership, having Henry Cejudo walk off three years of retirement into an immediate title shot makes me feel very, very tired.
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Feb 20, 2023 23:03
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CarlCX posted:I'm not even gonna try to say it's not an interesting fight with a lot of interesting possibilities, but I am going to say that in a division where guys like Vera, Sandhagen, Dvalishvili, Yan and (unfortunately) O'Malley are all fighting to justify contendership, having Henry Cejudo walk off three years of retirement into an immediate title shot makes me feel very, very tired. Imo the fact that none of them are obvious contenders means an immediate title shot for Cejudo makes sense. Each of those dudes probably needs one more win before they should really get a shot, so why not slide Cejudo back in? The more annoying part is that Dana’s fighter pay policy made Cejudo sit out for three years in the tail end of his prime.
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Feb 20, 2023 23:19
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Do. You guys think Monster is pissed about the UFC bringing in another energy drink sponsor?
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reeg posted:Good fight, and good that O'Malley didn't get it I wonder what they do with O'Malley now? The Chito rematch would have made sense but he's booked against Sandhagen. Merab would be good from a sporting perspective but I don't think the UFC will want to risk that fight since he will probably outwrestle O'Malley and he won't fight Aljo. Rematch Yan maybe if he's backed down from asking to be released?
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mister posted:I wonder what they do with O'Malley now? Merab is booked vs Yan for March 11
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O'Malley loving sucks and it's poo poo that we have to pretend he's a real contender.
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LobsterMobster posted:Merab is booked vs Yan for March 11 Whoops! I completely missed that. Snowman_McK posted:O'Malley loving sucks and it's poo poo that we have to pretend he's a real contender. He's obnoxious as a person and needs to work on his wrestling, but the Yan fight he actually looked decent. If the judges had scored it 29-28 for Yan I think a lot of people would have been saying that his stock had gone up despite the loss. Having him ranked as #1 is dumb but I think putting him in the top 10 is justifiable.
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CarlCX posted:CURRENTLY WINNING AND RECENTLY ACTIVE https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1627728071162793999?s=20
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 B League Preview ONE Fight Night 7 - Friday, February 24 Main Card - 8 PM ET, Amazon Prime Featherweight Title - John “Hands of Stone” Lineker vs Fabricio “Wonder Boy” de Andrade The angry brickman is back. John loving Lineker had an outstanding first half of 2022, capturing the ONE Featherweight title from Bibiano Fernandes with an incredible knockout. The second half was a complete flip-flop loop-de-loop. He lost the title on the scale in his first attempted defense, and then he took a knee to the groin so devastating it shattered his protective cup, rendering him unable to continue. He’s bringing his 4-0 (1 No Contest) ONE record to try and reclaim the belt. Fabricio de Andrade is a solid finisher, ending 6 of his 8 wins inside the distance. He also hasn’t lost since his 3rd pro fight, rattling off seven victories in a row, including 5-0 (1 No Contest) in ONE. Lineker looked to be fading in the first fight, presumably in part due to the weight cut issues. If he shows up in better shape, he’s got more than enough power to hurt Andrade. However, Andrade is a solid striker as well, and as is the case with most John Lineker fights, the opponent has a sizable physical advantage. Fabricio is 7 years younger, 3 inches taller, with nearly 5 inches of reach on Lineker. I just hope the fight has a real conclusion this time. Lightweight Title (Muay Thai) - Tawanchai PK Saenchai vs Jamal “Kherow” Yusupov Tawanchai is 128-31 in kickboxing. He was the 2018 Lumpinee Stadium and Sports Authority of Thailand Fighter of the Year. He’s the current ONE Featherweight Muay Thai champ, having won the title with a decision victory over Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy in September. Yusupov is 3-0 in ONE kickboxing and Muay Thai, with 3 other fights falling apart. You know my catchphrase by now - Muay Thai rules and you should watch it so watch this fight, it should rule. Lightweight - Martin “The Situ-Asian” Nguyen vs Shamil “The Cobra” Gasanov Nguyen is 14-6 with 10 wins by TKO and 3 by submission. He is 11-6 in ONE, having lost his most recent fight in September by first round TKO. He’s the former ONE Featherweight and Lightweight world champ, and was the first person in ONE to hold two belts simultaneously. Gasanov is 13-0, with 9 wins by submission and 2 by TKO. He is 1-0 in ONE, having submitted Jae Woong Kim in October. It took until his 7th fight for Gasanov to face an opponent who had won prior to facing him. In his first nine fights, he fought seven people who had never notched a victory. We’ve got a bit of a striker versus grappler matchup. Gasanov’s really only faced four opponents that could be considered legitimate. Nguyen has only been submitted once, and it was in 2015. 119 lb (Grappling) - Danielle Kelly vs Ayaka Miura The only names I recognize on Kelly’s grappling record are MMA fighters, and she’s beat them. Miura is a MMA fighter, with a 11-5 record, boasting 7 submission wins. Bantamweight - Eko Roni Saputra vs Danny “The King” Kingad Saputra is 7-1, with 2 TKO and 5 submission wins. All of his fights have been in ONE, and he’s on a 7-fight win streak. Kingad is 14-3, with 1 TKO and 2 submission wins. He is 10-3 in ONE, having last fought in a losing effort to Kairat Akhmetov in 2021. Kingad has faced better competition, though his record against that better competition isn’t great. He’s also over a year out of action, and he could be rusty. Featherweight (Kickboxing) - Saempetch Fairtex vs ChenLong “Muay Thai Boy” Zhang Saempetch is 124-18 in kickboxing. Zhang’s kickboxing record on Tapology has him at 10-6, with 5 straight losses. Something tells me that the Thai fighter is the real Muay Thai Boy, but I guess that’s why they’re fighting. Heavyweight (Kickboxing) - Andrei “Mister KO” Stoica vs Francesco Xhaja Stoica is 54-13 with 30 wins by knockout in kickboxing. He is the former SUPERKOMBAT Super Cruiserweight champion. Xhaja is 1-2 in kickboxing according to Tapology. I’m pretty sure his record is a bit more extensive than that. Large men throwing meaty heat, let’s go! Postlim Card - After Main Card, YouTube Flyweight - Adrian “Papua Badboy” Mattheis vs Zelangzhaxi Mattheis is 10-6, with 5 TKO and 4 submission wins. All of his bouts have taken place inside the ONE Circle. He lost his most recent contest, getting submitted by Alex Silva in June. Zelangzhaxi is 16-7, with 10 TKO and 3 submission wins. He is 3-2 in ONE, with all 3 wins coming under the ONE Hero Series banner. He lost his last bout, getting knocked out in the first round last July. It is time for the Papua Badboy, baby! Welterweight (Grappling) - Uali Kurzhev vs Tommy Langaker Kurzhev is a judoka who was last seen getting heel hooked by Kade Ruotolo for the inaugural ONE Welterweight grappling title. Langaker is 120-29 in grappling bouts. He’s won several European grappling contests. I don’t know diddly squortch about grappling. This could be cool, or it could be ten minutes of two sweaty guys frantically grabbing at each other as they scrabble around on the ground like little lizards. Or, in other words - cool. Strawweight - Linda Darrow vs Victoria “Vick” Souza Darrow is 6-0, with 5 TKO wins. She’s fought exclusively in One Pride MMA, which has somehow not been sued into oblivion. Souza is 6-1, with 3 TKO and 2 submission wins. She went 5-0 in Gladiator CF before leaving Brazil for ONE and losing to Angela Lee. She then went back to Gladiator, winning over a 5-9 opponent last September. Souza’s first 5 opponents are a combined 0-5. To a woman, they made their pro debut to get beat up by Souza and have never fought again. Her other victory came against someone who is now 5-10, putting her combined opponent record to 5-15. Darrow’s opponents are 11-12. 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Snowman_McK posted:O'Malley loving sucks and it's poo poo that we have to pretend he's a real contender. I disagree. I think him winning the fight against Yan was defendable, but regardless of whether he won, he for sure belongs. His striking is really really good. Brut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU_-MJSfocY I mean, "UFC employee denies UFC fighter cheated" is not too convincing to me. I dunno if Islam took an IV or not, but Novitzky's whole reason for being is to provide a veneer of respectability/denial/"hey look we have the best program there is" for when stuff like this happens. But Novitzky has been there for the Lesnar exemption and the Conor "he can juice as long as he pisses good for 6 months" and God knows what else. He lost a ton of credibility with the Jon Jones stuff especially. His explanations/justifications for Jones's stuff just didn't make sense. also Victor Conte thinks he's full of poo poo but uh...not sure he's exactly the paragon of truthfulness either DO YALL WANT A BOXC fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Feb 21, 2023 |
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Fight Week, Pets Week - ONE Prime 7 edition Lineker's dog  Ayaka Miura's rabbit 
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So last weekend Diego Sanchez took an unbelievably ill-advised bareknuckle boxing fight against literal boxing world champion Austin Trout, where he, unsurprisingly, landed maybe three punches total before the fight was stopped on account of all of his face blood being outside of his face. Diego Sanchez, after his multiple decades in combat sports, has reasonably agreed that the fight was a bad idea, that he was clearly beaten, and that it's time for him to move on from competition, train the next generation of fighters ayeah he says he had Trout dead to rights based on his unbeatable gameplan of 'clinch uppercuts' but Trout cheated by greasing and he's going to sue BKFC if they don't overturn the decision, give him the win and a rematch and force Trout to let BJ Penn's mom watch him take a showerquote:“And maybe this was just pure coincidence that I said publicly my game plan was to get inside grab his neck mma style and work from that position! I’m not baring false witness on any one nodoubttrout or @bareknucklefc or G the guy doing it,” he wrote. quote:First of all I didn’t get any Vaseline put on me! Secondly, I did feel that Vaseline all on his shoulder and his neck during the fight it was put on so heavy I could not utilize the clinch this is cheating everybody so with that being said, I am the victorious champion and I count this as a win.
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mister posted:Whoops! I completely missed that. You'd hope he looked loving decent. He's been in the UFC for longer than Yan or Sandhagen. That he's failed to get a single convincing win over a good opponent is why he sucks. He's gotten absolute kid gloves treatment and still hasn't managed a good win.
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Breaking news, Bellator fighters are drug tested out of competition https://twitter.com/mma_kings/status/1628122195640651789?t=Fj8edkFcb2YU9HzlcYqTIQ&s=19
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