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| Jon Jones goes on a pre-fight bender in Vegas |
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3 | 8.11% |
| Jon Jones goes on a post-fight bender in Vegas |
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1 | 2.70% |
| Jon Jones goes on a mid-fight bender in Vegas |
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4 | 10.81% |
| Jon Jones tests positive for supercocaine, which USADA spends the next three months pretending is normal |
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18 | 48.65% |
| A well-fought majority draw |
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1 | 2.70% |
| No Contest on account of simultaneous dick kicks |
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10 | 27.03% |
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:How much do you all think this would change if Dana hypothetically were to uh, disappear? Mr. Bulger please don't blow your cover, the world thinks you're dead.
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Mar 5, 2023 04:09
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Jerusalem posted:Mr. Bulger please don't blow your cover, the world thinks you're dead.
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Mar 5, 2023 04:12
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Bluedeanie posted:I agree with this post unconditionally. I also have been in a coma since 2015 and only just awoke CarlCX posted:Allow me to counterpoint with a brief powerpoint presentation about the last time Jon fought someone who forced him to work at range Lol Lmao
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Mar 5, 2023 06:54
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For gently caress’s sake just shut down the heavyweight division.
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Mar 5, 2023 06:58
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GSP is still my GOAT
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Mar 5, 2023 07:01
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is there a bigger threat to jones' title at heavy weight other than himself?
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Mar 5, 2023 07:03
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Tweak posted:is there a bigger threat to jones' title at heavy weight other than himself? Now that Francis is gone, no. I think him vs Stipe is an extremely intriguing match up but I'll hate when Jon inevitably wins it
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Mar 5, 2023 07:06
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Jon Jones is the champ and GOAT the UFC deserves
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Mar 5, 2023 07:06
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Weeeeell gently caress. 
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Mar 5, 2023 07:08
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chaleski posted:Now that Francis is gone, no. I think him vs Stipe is an extremely intriguing match up but I'll hate when Jon inevitably wins it It’s pretty amazing how badly UFC shot themselves in the foot there. I can’t see Stipe having anything for Jones. After that there’s Pavlovich and uh Blaydes I guess, and the division is cleared out again.
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Mar 5, 2023 07:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i8zwVIFxQg
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Mar 5, 2023 07:11
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If there’s any consolation, it’s a Saturday night in Vegas, and a Saturday night in Vegas after he won a fight. He is absolutely gonna do some stupid poo poo and we’re absolutely going to hear about it within a month Historically there’s even a 60-40 chance it’s of the variety that negates the result
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Mar 5, 2023 07:12
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Benson Cunningham posted:Heyyy I feel pretty good about this call. Brunson had some wrestling in round 1 go his way and traded for a little while, but was then just overpowered and blown out by the end of round 2. I still feel pretty good about my analysis, specifically this part: quote:Brunson has the wrestling offense to shut du Plessis down, but du Plessis has proved remarkably difficult to keep down, and unlike du Plessis, when Brunson gets tired, he's cooked, and at 39 his gas tank isn't getting any better. He was beating du Plessis easily in the first round both standing and on the floor, but the second that switch flipped and he got tired, he was just completely done. It was sad to watch. BlindSite posted:Lol Definitely don't feel good about this one, though. Jon looked better than he did in the Reyes fight so I'm glad heavyweight agrees with his mobility, but boy, Gane looked like absolute poo poo.
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Mar 5, 2023 07:13
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CarlCX posted:Definitely don't feel good about this one, though. Jon looked better than he did in the Reyes fight so I'm glad heavyweight agrees with his mobility, but boy, Gane looked like absolute poo poo. This is where I'm going to be an angry fan and disagree with that. I don't think we saw much if anything from me to really say that. Clearly he could get a take down and sub a guy that isn't good on the ground. But we don't know if his cardio holds up, does he still have a chin, can he handle pressure. I just feel like i have questions even after that easy masterfull performance. The constant "Well, he never fought a X type of fighter" is where I'm at right now. Needs to fight a true wrestler. (Which I know is a stupid to hold highly but I'm in a bad mood now) VVV I mean at heavyweight Digital Jedi fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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Mar 5, 2023 07:24
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Digital Jedi posted:
I know we're mad but he fought DC repeatedly, and Hamill, and The Janitor...
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Mar 5, 2023 07:27
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Digital Jedi posted:This is where I'm going to be an angry fan and disagree with that. I don't think we saw much if anything from me to really say that. Hes going to reign until he does something dumb off field or retires.
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Mar 5, 2023 07:44
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there is no god
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Mar 5, 2023 07:45
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Josuke Higashikata posted:there is no god God is Dead And no one cares If there is a hell I'll see you there
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Mar 5, 2023 07:46
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God is punishing you for believing in false prophets like Johnny Walker
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Mar 5, 2023 07:54
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Johnnie Walker is the only prophet I have left because Bones can still gently caress this up and Walker would help
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Mar 5, 2023 07:58
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Also, man, I'm really happy for Alexa Grasso but if she gets past the rematch Erin Blanchfield is going to kill her.
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Mar 5, 2023 08:00
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The heavyweight division is doomed.
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Mar 5, 2023 08:10
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Jon Jones v Ryan Bader 2
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Mar 5, 2023 08:13
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BlindSite posted:God is punishing you for believing in false prophets like Johnny Walker excuse me, i believe in johnny walker so little that i don't even like the whisky
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Mar 5, 2023 08:14
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CarlCX posted:Also, man, I'm really happy for Alexa Grasso but if she gets past the rematch Erin Blanchfield is going to kill her. It's cool that there's very interesting matchups at W125 that don't include Valentina I know instant rematches for dominant champs is the standard and no one deserves it more than Valentina but I'm liking the sound of Grasso-Blanchfield more and more chaleski fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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Mar 5, 2023 08:16
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man i'm real happy for grasso. i watched her last invicta (i think) fight and her first ufc fight. she looked really promising then, and really brought it to the champ today. to go back to your corner looking fresher than the dominant champ who spent the last 10 minutes chilling on top of you is genuinely impressive poo poo. with that said either i hadn't seen valentina fight in so long that my brain made me think she was capable of things that she really wasn't even a little, or for whatever reason she fought pretty loving poorly today. but that doesn't really diminish grasso's achievement at all. it wasn't a leon edwards hail mary. she worked to that finish from the opening second and weathered serious adversity. extremely good poo poo.
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Mar 5, 2023 08:39
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I’m loving how in multiple interviews this week they were asking Valentina what the UFC would do now she ran out of room for rubies for defenses on her belt oh well I guess we’ll never know 
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Mar 5, 2023 09:52
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I didn't know they stuck rubies on the belt for that. Do they just remove them now or something? edit: Looks like just a removable plate that has the ruby sockets on it
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Mar 5, 2023 11:04
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Unperson_47 posted:I didn't know they stuck rubies on the belt for that. Do they just remove them now or something? it used to be, every time you won you got a new belt, did they replace the new belt with a single gem now?
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Mar 5, 2023 11:22
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Looks like it's just a plate that can be removed with the fighter's name on it so they probably just change out the plate for the new champ. I would hope the previous champ keeps their plate. Here's Shevchenko holding one of them.
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Mar 5, 2023 11:29
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Lone Goat posted:it used to be, every time you won you got a new belt, did they replace the new belt with a single gem now? Allegedly mighty mouse successfully argued that he should get a new belt after each defense but it was too expensive so they went to rubies after he left
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Mar 5, 2023 11:51
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Lone Goat posted:it used to be, every time you won you got a new belt, did they replace the new belt with a single gem now? When the swapped from the old design to the new one, they put this sideplate on that has spots to put rubies into for each successful title defense rather than just giving you a new title belt. Possibly because DJ was bugging Dana a bunch about getting his new belt for each victory, which was the norm at the time because like...i think only a handful of people had beyond 6, and this is likely cheaper to do than making a whole new belt each time.
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Mar 5, 2023 13:04
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I'd be shocked if they're not cheap little plastic things rather than actual rubies tbh
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Mar 5, 2023 13:13
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quote:In addition to this, the belt is adorned with 16 white cubic zirconia stones, with eight on each side. Each time the champion wins or defends their title, one cubic zirconia stone will be replaced with a synthetic ruby, starting from those on the left. https://mmachannel.com/do-ufc-champions-keep-the-belt/
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Mar 5, 2023 13:24
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Let DC take roids and come back for another fight
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Mar 5, 2023 13:41
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grasso was cool as heck, the back take was nuts. gently caress jon jones. i had such high hopes that the fight could've been canned on the steps to the cage. Actually gane should've gotten better value off the dick kick ilmucche fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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Mar 5, 2023 13:56
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I'd be shocked if they're not cheap little plastic things rather than actual rubies tbh well yeah
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Mar 5, 2023 14:10
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Went to bed before the main, read back through the gdt when i woke up, genuinely shocked at how many people here expected Ciryl loving Gane to pose any kind of challenge to Jon Jones
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Mar 5, 2023 14:20
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a quick google shows them starting at ~£10 lol
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Alaois posted:Went to bed before the main, read back through the gdt when i woke up, genuinely shocked at how many people here expected Ciryl loving Gane to pose any kind of challenge to Jon Jones It's silly to Always Bad one of the more skilled and athletic heavyweights in history. Other than showing bad grappling IQ against and being lead blanketed by Ngannou (in a fight that could easily have been scored 3-2 in his favor if the one round where Ngannou didn't throw a strike had been scored according to the letter of the law), Gane's shown to be a good, dangerous fighter at a size Jones hasn't had to contest with before. Jones hasn't looked like a world-beater for the past half decade and barely scraped by a no-legged Thiago Santos; him completing obliterating Gane was by no means a no brainer. He sure did make Gane look like poo poo, though. Massively disappointing.
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