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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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Mekchu posted:What threshold do you think needs to be met for Dana to strip Leon? Is Leon in the end of his contract? He should be fine if he can get ahold of the Diazes’ lawyer.
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Mar 27, 2023 03:29
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CommonShore posted:I've gone from holding out hope that the UFC will start doing things right to hoping that they keep making all of the worst loving decisions and that they gently caress up their business. I think many of us are hate watching at this point
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Mar 27, 2023 03:41
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CommonShore posted:I've gone from holding out hope that the UFC will start doing things right to hoping that they keep making all of the worst loving decisions and that they gently caress up their business. Same, except all of humanity's wretched endeavors and not just the UFC
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Mar 27, 2023 03:45
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Orange Carlisle posted:I think many of us are hate watching at this point
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Mar 27, 2023 03:52
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maybe jake paul will save us
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Mar 27, 2023 04:42
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Tweak posted:maybe jake paul will save us
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Mar 27, 2023 04:44
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Tweak posted:maybe jake paul will save us gently caress you I'd rather drown
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Mar 27, 2023 04:51
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was there a third option in sophie’s choice where everyone dies i never saw it
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Mar 27, 2023 04:57
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This act of drowning brought to you by PRIME HYDRATION
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Mar 27, 2023 04:58
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Shumagorath posted:Pirate streams only. I will never give dana white my money. its not like if ppvs got more buys they'd up the minimum pay from 12k/12k.
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Mar 27, 2023 05:02
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CommonShore posted:gently caress you I'd rather drown
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Mar 27, 2023 05:09
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Tweak posted:maybe jake paul will save us Lol
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Mar 27, 2023 05:22
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I thought well maybe Jake could get under Dana’s skin and give him a stroke. But then I remembered that Mark Hunt managed to scare Dana straight in a meeting, but he didn’t budge for Francis. So the man is evolving his rear end in a top hat game.
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Mar 27, 2023 05:44
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I think it is perfectly reasonable to be more scared of an angry Mark Hunt than an angry Francis. I feel like Mark Hunt is much less likely to be reasonable when angry.
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Mar 27, 2023 05:48
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kimbo305 posted:But then I remembered that Mark Hunt managed to scare Dana straight in a meeting what's the story here? i remember sakakibara trying to play like he was a gangster and mark hunt navigated the situation by threatening to throw him out the window.
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Mar 27, 2023 05:54
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UFC is too big to fail and we all know it
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Mar 27, 2023 06:50
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Marching Powder posted:what's the story here? i remember sakakibara trying to play like he was a gangster and mark hunt navigated the situation by threatening to throw him out the window. gently caress, I think I got him and Dana mixed up.
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Mar 27, 2023 07:23
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I have a strong dislike of dana white. Why would you even say poo poo like this? He does that stupid grin like an idiot so he looks more legit while saying stuff he knows is a lie thing too
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Mar 27, 2023 08:44
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How do people think Edwards Covington would go? He doesnt deserve it but if its an easy defence for Edwards then it may help him cement a rep as champion?
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Mar 27, 2023 13:19
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Ringo Roadagain posted:I will never give dana white my money. its not like if ppvs got more buys they'd up the minimum pay from 12k/12k. Far as any reporting I've seen with the ESPN+ deal UFC gets paid the same amount for a PPV regardless how many buys it does. It's just garuentee money they knew they would get every PPV moving forward. I think it came out a few weeks ago that when the ESPN+ deal comes up they intend to shop it around because they believe they are leaving extra money on the table they should be getting when the PPV does sell well It's sort of why the 'the fighter is a draw' isn't that important anymore. They are still getting the same money for 100K buys vs 500K buys, far as the reporting goes that I've seen or heard of. (What any of those numbers are only they know).
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Mar 27, 2023 13:35
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GTO posted:How do people think Edwards Covington would go? He doesnt deserve it but if its an easy defence for Edwards then it may help him cement a rep as champion? The thing is, there are no easy fights against Colby Covington. Leon should chew Colby up in a striking battle, but unlike Usman Colby isn't aging and doesn't have bad knees. Usman's a stronger wrestler, but Colby's faster and just as likely to force a grinding clinchfest. I'd still favor Leon, especially the Leon we saw in the last Usman fight, but it's unlikely to be a big, fun highlight performance. It's more likely it'd look a lot like this last fight did. Unrelatedly: Hey, guess what, everyone, Sergio Pettis is back! Remember when it was a huge shock that he won Bellator's bantamweight championship at all? Remember when he knocked Kyoji Horiguchi the gently caress out and it was a huge deal and then he was injured for a year and a half? Well, the Bantamweight Grand Prix that's been going on basically ever since is finally ending in April, and by then Bellator will have had an interim Bantamweight champion for a full year, so it's awesome that they're finally going to schedule the reunification of those t-- https://twitter.com/BellatorMMA/status/1640379584020398083 I love Pitbull but god dammit I hate the terminal double champ disease Conor infected the entire loving mixed martial arts world with
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Mar 27, 2023 17:43
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If you ignore the part where it’s shooting that colby gets endless title shots while the rest of the division gets held up, it’s him versus Leon is a very interesting matchup. I’d ultimately give Leon the edge, but I’m also interested in seeing how much of his victories over Usman were because of Usman declining versus Leon just being good.
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Mar 27, 2023 19:20
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I hope Colby doesn't get the title shot, but if he does, I hope Leon knocks him out in the first round and he goes away for a long time.
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Mar 27, 2023 19:41
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Brut posted:I hope Colby doesn't get the title shot, but if he does, I hope Leon knocks him out in the first round and he goes away for a long time. Dana while turning red: "Colby was ASSAULTED"
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Mar 27, 2023 20:24
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Brut posted:I hope Colby doesn't get the title shot, but if he does, I hope Leon knocks him out in the first round and he goes away for a long time. 
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Mar 27, 2023 20:33
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Umar Nurmagomedov says he's been offered a main event against Merab for this summer. If true, this would mean the second time in less than a year that a promotionally favored guy outside of the top ten at bantamweight goes from a victory over an unranked opponent to fighting for the #1 spot in the rankings. I'm wondering how much longer they're even going to bother with rankings.
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Mar 27, 2023 20:34
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They're going to keep up rankings because it's an excuse to make you think "heavyweight #6 vs. heavyweight #8" is a reason to tune into a UFC Apex show that costs them nothing to create. I doubt they've ever influenced matchmaking.
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Mar 27, 2023 20:39
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They're going to keep the rankings if only because Dana enjoys lying to press and every time they ask him at pressers "So where do you think this fighter's gonna be ranked after this amazing performance" he replies "Well that's up to you guys" knowing full well it's total bullshit.
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Mar 27, 2023 21:14
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Colby's been out for so long and in a newish camp situation so what he looks like could be substantially different, but if he picks up where he left off I think he's pretty likely to win rounds while Edwards is pretty likely to KO him. Colby's pace and pressure are similar to what Usman was doing when he was clearly troubling Leon, and I don't think Leon will push forwards enough to force Colby to go backwards like Usman did. Colby is also way more willing to take a clean hit to apply his pressure than Usman.
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Mar 27, 2023 21:32
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Remember when UFC rankings first rolles out and all the media people has their ballots published and the one French guy they had kept insisting Francis Carmont was like the third greatest pound for pound fighter of all time? And all the Brazilians put Aldo higher in the p4p and Conor lower after their fight? Rankings rule
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Mar 27, 2023 22:42
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As bullshit as it is, the more I think about Colby vs Leon the more I like the fight itself..Colby's style of pressure and grind doesn't suffer too much from not being super active lately. His style isn't reflex based or timing based or rhythm based
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Mar 28, 2023 00:12
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Colby is 35 btw. He's barely younger than Usman. Fighters 35 and up have like a 10% win rate in title fights at 170 and lighter
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Mar 28, 2023 00:15
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The only ethical MMA to pay for is fight circus. UFC would be a lot better if Dana White had to fight volkanovski and aljo at the same time.
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Mar 28, 2023 00:37
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I dunno, I kinda feel like Jon Nutt sold out to "the man" when he moved away from Camsoda for Fight Circus.
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Mar 28, 2023 00:51
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Colby is genuinely amazing. He had a multi fight win streak at WW without a single actually impressive performance but which did include him getting outboxed by Damian Maia for a round. This win streak concluded four years ago, and somehow there's still people convinced he's near the top of the division despite not beating anyone in it.
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Mar 28, 2023 01:01
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I'm trying to think of fighters who were mostly highly rated off competitive performance in title losses and how they did after that. Yan in the Aljo fights, gets beaten twice more. Gustafsson after Jones 1, lost to AJ and DC but his wins over Blachowichz and Teixiera were okay then but have aged well. Gastelum fought the fight of his life vs. Adesanya and has otherwise been mediocre. Who else?
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Mar 28, 2023 01:11
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:I'm trying to think of fighters who were mostly highly rated off competitive performance in title losses and how they did after that. Fitch went back to winning fights dully but reliably. That wasn't really competitive though, it was a steamrolling. It's just hard not to be impressed by Fitch just constantly getting up despite being comically outclassed. He really wanted it. Mendes, after the second Aldo fight, never got on a win streak again, but only lost to champions or future champions. Nearly knocking out Volk has aged as well as anything else in MMA.
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Mar 28, 2023 01:15
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https://twitter.com/bullyb170/status/1640532528401612800 Well, there goes half of Leon's leverage.
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Mar 28, 2023 03:08
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Dude has less furniture than Neal McCauley; definitely watch out for him.
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Li Jingliang has been having a rough 2023quote:Li Jingliang is out of UFC 287.
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