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| Colby Covington |
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2 | 3.51% |
| Belal Muhammad |
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| Shavkat Rakhmonov |
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| Matt Serra |
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| Marius Zaromskis |
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| Ben Quadrinaros |
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5 | 8.77% |
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crepeface posted:i'm inviting a bunch of casuals to the UFC easter weekend, how likely is it to be a snorefest? people know of masvidal from the 3 second knockout, but he's going to be wrestlefucked right? hey fucker, you going to tell us how your party went or what??
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https://twitter.com/mma_kings/status/1646616954126336003 Well, there goes our streak of good main events. Wonder if they can get anyone to fight Tsarukyan on two weeks' notice.
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Apr 13, 2023 22:09
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meant to post this here, but posted in the wwf thread by accident. This merger is killing me, I'd never clicked on the wrestling thread before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHxsv3-3cCk&t=20s
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Apr 13, 2023 22:12
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ilmucche posted:meant to post this here, but posted in the wwf thread by accident. This merger is killing me, I'd never clicked on the wrestling thread before. dont worry its relevant as Henry Cehudo is coming back and he once appeared on AEW so he was around normal sized and big people  
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Apr 13, 2023 23:37
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beep by grandpa posted:hey fucker, you going to tell us how your party went or what?? crepeface posted:my pub stopped doing brunch crepeface posted:it's okay they're selling beer UFC is on sunday morning rather than saturday night for me. the casuals didn't show up because of various reasons like "i want to hunt for chocolate eggs with my cute nephews instead of watching a man get pummelled on easter morning"  but the regular crew was around and there was a decent crowd that had loaded up on booze with minimal food so everyone was rowdy and exploded when izzy KOed pereira.then we met up with the casuals and got even more drunk so all in all, it was a pretty good UFC
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Apr 14, 2023 02:25
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Glad to hear it went well 
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Apr 14, 2023 04:12
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https://twitter.com/rayrod747/status/1646638048031981568?t=
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Apr 14, 2023 04:26
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loving amazing lmao
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Apr 14, 2023 04:53
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https://twitter.com/TonyFergusonXT/status/1646715949519626241 What does high score mean?? 
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Apr 14, 2023 05:53
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lmfao the ending
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Apr 14, 2023 05:58
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Nice narration through Izzy’s finish: https://youtu.be/UbY_zjiJ4R8 I’d missed that Izzy’s eyes are tracking where Pereira’s head is even as he gets partly caught by the left hook. Truly a game of millimeters.
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Apr 14, 2023 11:02
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kimbo305 posted:Nice narration through Izzy’s finish: I don't think I've seen a more accurate/effective combination since cowboy years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVR54NZXyKE
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kimbo305 posted:Nice narration through Izzy’s finish:  drat he really gave Pereira the ol blue steel before shutting him down
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Apr 14, 2023 17:48
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LobsterMobster posted:Oh poo poo, just found out Sam Alvey is fighting a 5-12 z-league trashweight like 30 minutes from where I live next month be careful where you sit or you may get credited for a win over scabbin' sam. it appears that they give those out like flyers in vegas
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Apr 14, 2023 20:20
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Sam Alvey has lost his last four matches. Before that, he had a draw. Before the draw, he lost four straight matches. Surely it’s time to go do construction work or something?
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Apr 14, 2023 21:53
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let it not be forgotten that while sam alvey was an especially bad fighter, he was also an especially boring one too.
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Apr 14, 2023 22:02
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It's funny to think that he actually started out being fairly enjoyable (although I didn’t watch him on TUF and maybe he was always an annoying weirdo), he was knocking all his opponents out, KO'd annoying dipshit Kevin Casey outta the UFC, and his only stinker of a fight early on was against Elias Theodorou who had possibly the most obnoxious fighting style in history
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chaleski posted:It's funny to think that he actually started out being fairly enjoyable (although I didn’t watch him on TUF and maybe he was always an annoying weirdo), he was knocking all his opponents out, KO'd annoying dipshit Kevin Casey outta the UFC, and his only stinker of a fight early on was against Elias Theodorou who had possibly the most obnoxious fighting style in history Kevin Casey, gave us that amazing photo of him and his buddies trying to look tough though.
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Apr 14, 2023 22:25
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Sam Alvey should keep fighting because it keeps him distracted from his real life pastime of plotting how to kidnap children so their actual family members can't get custody of them.
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Apr 14, 2023 22:33
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Despite it being mostly unheralded, I'm getting the big fight jitters for Holloway vs. Allen. I'm a big fan of both guys, Max is Max and obviously amazing but Arnold Allen is heavily underrated. People aren't putting much stock in his win over Kattar because of the injury, but while that was unfortunate I don't think it was the story of the fight. They had a slow rangefinding and feeling out process for a couple minutes, then Arnold Allen was completely dominating Kattar landing a bunch of solid strikes to one single good punch (a ratio far better than Holloway achieved in his own domination of Kattar, though at less of a pace), and then Kattar was desperate enough to throw a wild knee strike that he injured himself landing from. I don't see it as fundamentally that different than Yair's win over Ortega. While there's some uncertainty around just how good Allen is, I think the likely range runs from top 5 FW at the bottom to top 10 fighter in the whole sport. For the matchup itself, Allen poses some interesting problems for Holloway. He's a southpaw, which has caused Holloway some issues in the past, who likes to move in and out of range with a lot of interruptive strikes or solid combinations on an angle. Holloway really wants to build off his jab, stopping him from doing that seems to be the key to winning against him standing, as shown by Alex and Poirer. Allen also has a good low leg kick, he does a great job of covering it or throwing it after forcing movement. A prime Max is definitely a massive step above anything Allen has faced, though. It's a pace and pressure that broke one of the greats, it's fluidity and snappiness back up by an iron chin, it's a hundred subtle details underscoring the punches that never stop long enough to have a moment to think about how to address them. But is this still prime Holloway? I worry that the answer is no, that he was thrown to the wolves too young and too early in his career and while he rose from that to the championship, the wars are starting to take their toll. On paper, Yair should've been a great stylistic matchup: Holloway should've been able to force Yair onto the backfoot enough to largely take away his ability to kick safely, and even if he didn't he should've been able to outpace and out cardio someone so reliant on big actions. That didn't happen, Holloway had success on the feet but was eventually catching the losing end of exchanges more often than not and had to rely on his wrestling to separate himself on the scorecards. He lost the fifth round. Then, in his third fight vs. Volkanovski, he had his career worst 5 round performance, failing to win a single round on any card. He was left beat up and bleeding, having been heavily outlanded by the more telling strikes. But he's still Max Holloway, he bounced back from the first loses to Volkanovski by setting the significant strike record against Kattar with over 400 in a fight I christened him "Onslaught". It's going to be fantastic fight, I'm only sad one of them has to lose.
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Apr 14, 2023 23:06
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Max is gonna lose, unfortunately.
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Apr 14, 2023 23:54
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I love Max but I kinda want him to lose so he's not just there to take out all the contenders for Volkanovski
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Apr 15, 2023 00:00
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Max looks more scary without the high school mustache. 
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Apr 15, 2023 00:17
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https://twitter.com/MMAJunkie/status/1647017436288282625 bleh, was looking forward to this one
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chaleski posted:I love Max but I kinda want him to lose so he's not just there to take out all the contenders for Volkanovski Facts. Unless Yair upsets Volk a Max win has sucky divisional implications. Then again Yair will have to beat Volk twice probably so that would gum up things even further. Instant rematches suck poo poo.
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Fentry posted:https://twitter.com/MMAJunkie/status/1647017436288282625 Woof, 288's lost two main card fights in two days. Starting to look like a UFC on ESPN
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Apr 15, 2023 01:04
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if you would like to talk about PFL, go here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4029826
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Apr 15, 2023 01:10
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I dont care what it means for the division, I can never root against max
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Apr 15, 2023 01:34
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drat dariush is never gonna fight for the title in his prime
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Apr 15, 2023 03:16
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honestly, gently caress it just give him the title fight against Islam. They tried to make that fight already and it got cancelled once. Guy deserves it
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BlindSite posted:I think its still Madden tbh.
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Apr 15, 2023 03:53
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This is a goof, but some guy played the UFC game and kept playing Figuereido against Ngannou until he KOed Ngannou. Supercut of all the times he got slept and then finally getting it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CncroduBNae/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Apr 15, 2023 04:06
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Now I remember what it felt like to roll at a dojo that was half SWAT.
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Ringo Roadagain posted:I dont care what it means for the division, I can never root against max If anyone else had the nickname Blessed I would poo poo on them but for Max I hope it is true.
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kimbo305 posted:Nice narration through Izzy’s finish: cool vid thnx for posting 
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Shumagorath posted:Now I remember what it felt like to roll at a dojo that was half SWAT. I weighed 150lbs when I did bjj and mma and got invited to a gym to do some cross training. The next lightest person there was 180 and there was a middle Weight and 5 out of 8 people from their gym that attended were heavy weights. That day sucked.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4029826&pagenumber=1#post531205653 It is Max Holloway fight day, get loving hype. Return to the GDT for prelims in half an hour.
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Apr 15, 2023 21:56
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Max rocking the slick perm.
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For those of you browsing via bookmarks, just wanted to let you know the BYOB spaceship has landed on Fight Island! Have fun!
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I don't remember seeing this posted in the thread yet https://twitter.com/SandhuMMA/status/1569417145678708739
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