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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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| Jon Jones goes on a mid-fight bender in Vegas |
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| 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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| No Contest on account of simultaneous dick kicks |
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10 | 27.03% |
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Yeah, Jones planning to take him down and kill him was never in question, the question was what would happen when Gane made him work for it, and then Gane decided that instead of his attacks at angles or countering Jones coming in or pecking with leg kicks and taking his time he was going to a) footwork himself into the wall and repeatedly panic, b) throw jabs to the body, and c) throw loving Dan Henderson big right hands
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Mar 5, 2023 22:29
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CarlCX posted:Yeah, Jones planning to take him down and kill him was never in question, the question was what would happen when Gane made him work for it, and then Gane decided that instead of his attacks at angles or countering Jones coming in or pecking with leg kicks and taking his time he was going to a) footwork himself into the wall and repeatedly panic, b) throw jabs to the body, and c) throw loving Dan Henderson big right hands hey he also tried to kick him in the cock and balls
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Mar 5, 2023 22:35
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Fighters should always throw a dick kick or two because they never get a point taken for the first or second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5JE5sYtWg
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Mar 5, 2023 22:43
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Alaois posted:hey he also tried to kick him in the cock and balls What do you mean tried
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Mar 5, 2023 22:56
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beep by grandpa posted:What do you mean tried i mean it connected but i would still call it an unsuccessful attempt
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Mar 5, 2023 23:00
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Alaois posted:okay that's where my confusion was, I thought that the Tuivasa fight was for the interim belt again after Ngannou was stripped Ngannou was still in the UFC when the Tuivasa fight happened.
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Mar 5, 2023 23:42
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Alaois posted:i mean it connected but i would still call it an unsuccessful attempt How is it considered unsuccessful if the kick connected with Jones' cup and caused the fight to need a break in the action for Jones to recover from the nut shot?
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Mar 5, 2023 23:47
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Mekchu posted:How is it considered unsuccessful if the kick connected with Jones' cup and caused the fight to need a break in the action for Jones to recover from the nut shot? I guess because in hindsight the fight getting stopped as a No Contest there would seem less embarrassing to Gane and potentially get him an "immediate rematch"? I dunno
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Mar 5, 2023 23:53
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Mekchu posted:How is it considered unsuccessful if the kick connected with Jones' cup and caused the fight to need a break in the action for Jones to recover from the nut shot?
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Mar 5, 2023 23:58
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Mr. Nice! posted:Fighters should always throw a dick kick or two because they never get a point taken for the first or second. Seems like you always get at least one free foul each, so might as well cash in your free eye poke/dick kick/cage grab per fight Maybe cage grab isn't a good example, you can sometimes do that all night and only have the ref lightly slap your hands a few times
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Mar 6, 2023 00:01
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DON’T HOLD DE SHORTZ
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Mar 6, 2023 00:11
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Brut posted:I guess because in hindsight the fight getting stopped as a No Contest there would seem less embarrassing to Gane and potentially get him an "immediate rematch"? I dunno its this
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Mar 6, 2023 00:21
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Shumagorath posted:I can't substantiate this, but back when Jones was at his peak I recall people on this very forum saying he out-earned both his brothers. Sort of His brothers said he outearned them. https://twitter.com/Artj97/status/381992588104183808?t=ve6vuflWgKBOwCmYaA0DLg&s=19 https://twitter.com/Artj97/status/381999350819606529?t=-xkfSRfo8yaI8SbgZad8sw&s=19
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Mar 6, 2023 00:36
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I was in desperate hope after the first dick kick we were going to get a vintage French kickboxing performance from gane
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Mar 6, 2023 00:50
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Still mad but also laughing at jon doing an unironic Carlton-style dance afterwards
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Mar 6, 2023 00:55
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Lid posted:Sort of That was before he signed $6 and $9 million contracts. Anyway practice squad dudes are out earning the average ufc fighter lol
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Mar 6, 2023 01:05
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That's true but the point was people saying at his peak he outearned his brothers is substantiated by his own brothers. A decade since does change the contracts and situation but it wasn't like people were trying to claim the average ufc fighter made more than an nfl player. Also the sponsorship era.
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Mar 6, 2023 01:11
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Lid posted:That's true but the point was people saying at his peak he outearned his brothers is substantiated by his own brothers. A decade since does change the contracts and situation but it wasn't like people were trying to claim the average ufc fighter made more than an nfl player. Also the sponsorship era. I think the point was why does the heavyweight division suck: Shumagorath posted:maybe if the UFC paid fighters instead of anyone reasonably athletic and north of 225lbs seeing the NFL as safer, more ethical, and vastly more lucrative Which is why I think the comparison to Jon Jones specifically is a bit unwarranted, the average athletic dude considering both options is comparing 750k/year with like, 10k/10k per fight or something, it's not even close.
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Mar 6, 2023 01:22
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Mar 6, 2023 01:45
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Heavyweight is trash
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Mar 6, 2023 02:44
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God bless Mark Hunt
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Mar 6, 2023 02:53
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Chandler Jones has made 116 million in salary in the NFL despite being a fringe top 10 player at his position for most of his career
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Mar 6, 2023 03:03
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mark hunt is correct lol
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Mar 6, 2023 03:17
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Marching Powder posted:mark hunt is correct lol
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Mar 6, 2023 03:27
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Fentry posted:Chandler Jones has made 116 million in salary in the NFL despite being a fringe top 10 player at his position for most of his career For those who don't know the NFL, how many positions are there? Its not like he's a top 10 player of the NFL, he's top 10 out of how many positions?
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Mar 6, 2023 03:43
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All kicks landed on Jon Jones are dick kicks. It's fitting that he won by his opponent looking like poo poo rather than him looking good. He was king of a bad division and he's moved on to a division that's even worse. Shumagorath posted:maybe if the UFC paid fighters instead of anyone reasonably athletic and north of 225lbs seeing the NFL as safer, more ethical, and vastly more lucrative pretty sure you can make more as a bouncer in a mid sized city than you can in the UFC. Actually, I said this sort of jokingly, but i picked a random heavyweight and it turns out he's on 25,000 a fight. He actually could make more as a bouncer where I live, like really easily.
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Mar 6, 2023 03:43
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Bluedeanie posted:God bless Mark Hunt
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Mar 6, 2023 03:45
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Snowman_McK posted:pretty sure you can make more as a bouncer in a mid sized city than you can in the UFC.
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Mar 6, 2023 04:00
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Fozzy The Bear posted:For those who don't know the NFL, how many positions are there? Its not like he's a top 10 player of the NFL, he's top 10 out of how many positions? There are 11 positions on offense and defense plus some special teams players like kickers and long snappers, Chandler is an edge rusher which teams generally roster 4 of and is one of the higher paid positions in the league. Punters and special teams players are usually the lowest paid players while Quarterbacks make by far the most money. The NFL does a player poll ranking everyone every year and Chandler has made it 5 of his 11 seasons ranking 15 at the highest in the 50-90 range his other years Fentry fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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Mar 6, 2023 04:25
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Bluedeanie posted:God bless Mark Hunt also this https://twitter.com/espnmma/status/1632268493738459136
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Mar 6, 2023 04:27
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Alexa Grassowns. I saw her live in Invicta on the card the Karate Hottie executed a Japanese grandmother. Glad she finally made it to the top, that's a long loving climb in MMA.
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Mar 6, 2023 04:34
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Bluedeanie posted:Alexa Grassowns.
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Mar 6, 2023 04:52
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Snowman_McK posted:Actually, I said this sort of jokingly, but i picked a random heavyweight and it turns out he's on 25,000 a fight. I’ve been wondering for a while now how many UFC guys have full time non-fighting gigs because yes, UFC doesn’t seem to pay a living wage until you break the top 10, and actually pays worse than a lot of unskilled jobs. Fentry posted:Chandler Jones has made 116 million in salary in the NFL despite being a fringe top 10 player at his position for most of his career Yeah the tweet everyone has been talking about was from 2013, when Chandler Johnson was in the second year of his rookie contract. So he has earned multiple times more than Jon at this point.
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Mar 6, 2023 04:52
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Champagne for Alexa Grasso the real champ, real pain for Jon Jones the sham champ. CarlCX posted:Tenshin Nasukawa, the world's greatest kickboxing alien, passed all his boxing tests (this isn't a funny rejoinder, in Japan you have to actually pass a written test and successfully spar three rounds in front of officials) and is officially a professional boxer This spontaneously reminded me of Joe Rogan doing an impression of Jim Brown commenting in UFC 1, talking about how he would automatically know how to fight MMA.
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Mar 6, 2023 05:25
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Show Win Sponsorship Jon Jones $3m $100k $42 Ciryl Gane $500k N/A $32k Valentina Shevchenko $500k N/A $42k Alexa Grasso $110k $100k $32k Geoff Neal $85k N/A $10k Shavkat Rakhmonov $36k $36k $6k Mateusz Gamrot $44k $44k $6k Jalin Turner $48k N/A $6k Bo Nickal $12k $12k $6k Jamie Pickett $75k N/A $6k Cody Garbrandt $85k $85k $10k Trevin Jones $30k N/A $6k Derek Brunson $210k N/A $15k Dricus du Plessis $30k $30k $6k Viviane Araújo $30k N/A $6k Amanda Ribas $48k $48k $6k Julian Marquez $33k N/A $6k Marc-André Barriault $42k $42k $6k Ian Garry $22k $22k $6k Song Kenan $48k N/A $6k And then all the Dwcs dudes got 12/12.
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Mar 6, 2023 05:34
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12/12 is loving dogshit considering prelim fighters were getting 5/5 prior to Griffin-Bonnar 1.
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Mar 6, 2023 05:40
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Wtf Derek Brunson? Presumably a typo
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Mar 6, 2023 05:42
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Shumagorath posted:12/12 is loving dogshit considering prelim fighters were getting 5/5 prior to Griffin-Bonnar 1. Literally everyone in the UFC's salary should have at least one 0 added to it
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Mar 6, 2023 05:53
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This is kinda fun. stage punches: A Gyllenhaal's footwork: C- ref's stoppage and pull off: D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvGQHhd1GHQ
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Shumagorath posted:12/12 is loving dogshit considering prelim fighters were getting 5/5 prior to Griffin-Bonnar 1. It's funny how Bo Nickal is already in his late 20's as a combat sports athlete with 5 years of free labour for his school, then 3 years of unpaid competition to try to make the olympic squad, then won an mma audition fight for free, THEN had to fight another audition just cus, then had to wait another six months while the UFC slow rolled his debut to get him on a PPV card to finally net his first $24k. I honestly don't understand how this works? Who is paying for his food, shelter, and training? Does he have a car? etc. By comparison a full time minimum wage worker in Nevada would have career earnings of $170k by age 26.
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