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| Colby Covington |
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2 | 3.51% |
| Belal Muhammad |
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17 | 29.82% |
| Shavkat Rakhmonov |
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| Matt Serra |
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| Marius Zaromskis |
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4 | 7.02% |
| Ben Quadrinaros |
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5 | 8.77% |
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https://twitter.com/BloodyElbow/status/1648035484524769313 good news https://twitter.com/mma_kings/status/1648058410368131072 bad news
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tkz should not be sanctioned to fight a top 15 fighter in any division
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Apr 18, 2023 02:49
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yea, after what Volk did to him I don't want to see Max do the same to him
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Apr 18, 2023 02:51
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tkz is well past any sense of being in his prime and should have retired a long while ago
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Apr 18, 2023 02:52
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I would rather TKZ get sent out to pasture by one of the best the division has ever seen than have his corpse fed to Dana White Contender Series alum Colton Burpo in front of Mark Zuckerberg at The Apex.
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Apr 18, 2023 03:01
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Max is great to watch. Volkanovski too. Carl does breakdowns for every card and even just skimming those can give you a sense of what's worth watching
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Apr 18, 2023 03:02
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Gramps posted:I would love to hear who everyone really likes watching these days so I can get back into it a bit. I had no idea who Volk was when I saw him win the title. That should tell you how much less I watch MMA since I had a kid 13 goddamn years ago. Not nearly as much time for trying to take the Pro Posting Championships title as I had back when I was in every martial arts thread on here every loving day. So yeah. Who is awesome, and what fights are coming up that I should clear my schedule for? The industry things that matter in single sentences:
The fighters who rule:
The next couple weekends of events are in the okay-to-middling category, UFC 288 on May 6th should be a lot of fun, and the UFC on ABC card on the 13th is basically loaded with network-television-friendly fights. CommonShore posted:Max is great to watch. Volkanovski too. Also this. If you want an essay to read on the toilet, there are previews of each event here typically on Wednesdays.
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Apr 18, 2023 03:15
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if you are getting back into combat sports in 2023 you should watch one friday fights and nothing else
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Apr 18, 2023 03:17
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Boco_T posted:if you are getting back into combat sports in 2023 you should watch one friday fights and nothing else To clarify on this, they broadcast these for free on youtube and the VODs stay up, youtube now puts these in a separate tab from just "videos" (loving finally), so check them out here to know what we're talking about : https://www.youtube.com/@ONEChampionship/streams
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Apr 18, 2023 03:22
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Also on the topic of this week's card being a little meh, we can now downgrade it from "meh" to "dire" because it just lost its co-main event: https://twitter.com/aaronbronsteter/status/1648152888647069696
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Apr 18, 2023 03:36
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:
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Apr 18, 2023 03:51
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CarlCX posted:The industry things that matter in single sentences: Annnnd it's effortposts like this that will keep me coming back here forever. gently caress yeah man thank you. Give this person their Pro Posting Championship title shot asap. I definitely will try to catch some fights with you fellers sometime soon. It used to be a gas back in the day staying up super late watching bootleg streams of K1 and DREAM and all that wackadoo poo poo and talking poo poo with goons the whole time. Misaki/Akiyama was the peak of that I think. I'll keep checking back in. I typically only really follow the guitar and audio threads anymore. I need to relax a bit more so making it a point to set aside some time for watchin' fights sounds pretty awesome.
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Apr 18, 2023 04:03
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Boco_T posted:if you are getting back into combat sports in 2023 you should watch one friday fights and nothing else Very strange way of saying fight circus, the home of sloppy balboa
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Apr 18, 2023 04:40
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Commonshore, CarlCX & I just put out a new update on our collated rankings for MMA https://twitter.com/RealFightIsland/status/1648171273871331329
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Apr 18, 2023 04:53
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Yeah fight circus is pretty good actually.
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Apr 18, 2023 05:00
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cagliostr0 posted:Very strange way of saying fight circus, the home of sloppy balboa i caught the ones on the porn site thanks to twitter. hilarious posting this from vr which is nuts to me. soon i will achieve supreme posting power ahahahah
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Apr 18, 2023 05:03
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Gramps posted:i caught the ones on the porn site thanks to twitter. hilarious hey man, good to see you're alive and well. i've become disconnected from mma as well but i still haunt these threads for the good posting from everyone. my niche at the moment is going through old gdt threads for big cards and doing a commentary and recap of all the funny posting so i've seen you around. you already appreciate carl / lobster's work so i think you're good!
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Apr 18, 2023 05:57
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Boco_T posted:if you are getting back into combat sports in 2023 you should watch Ftfy
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Apr 18, 2023 08:18
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While we're in the mood, Intel & Sebastian, you still lurk?
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Apr 18, 2023 08:44
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Nierbo posted:While we're in the mood, Intel & Sebastian, you still lurk? i love the idea of finding and reassembling the old crew hell yeah. I still talk to Keven on Tweeter sometimes, so thats one superstar poster accounted for. FD is still alive and kicking as well. Duncan is another story- would love to know how that dude is doing these days. Apparently he quit the internet because he's a Science guy now?
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Apr 18, 2023 13:15
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CarlCX posted:Bellator is even worse than it was when you left What’s impressive is that it’s been hanging in there this whole time, staying afloat off of truly B-league talent. CarlCX posted:Also on the topic of this week's card being a little meh, we can now downgrade it from "meh" to "dire" because it just lost its co-main event: I want someone to plot frequency of injury in scheduled fights, as well as proximity to fight date. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Mekchu posted:https://twitter.com/BloodyElbow/status/1648035484524769313 I like the apex shows Probably due to less chance of trump or other shitheads being on my tv
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Apr 18, 2023 17:34
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kri kri posted:I like the apex shows 
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Apr 18, 2023 17:41
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CarlCX posted:Also on the topic of this week's card being a little meh, we can now downgrade it from "meh" to "dire" because it just lost its co-main event: so hey, about this https://twitter.com/ArmanUfc/status/1648164996365578241 So the UFC COULD have maintained that card's main event and had a great and interesting fight between two top ten fighters in Dariush and Tsarukyan, but they didn't, for reasons.
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Apr 18, 2023 19:12
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Looks like we have another Askar Mozharov on our hands, although this guy's record is much worse lmao. He's fighting one of the guys from Korean Zombie's camp so let's see how that goes
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Apr 18, 2023 19:59
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chaleski posted:Looks like we have another Askar Mozharov on our hands, although this guy's record is much worse lmao. He's fighting one of the guys from Korean Zombie's camp so let's see how that goes So I saw this report this morning and it 100% deserves the scorn, I'm not saying it doesn't and I hope this is as embarrassing for them as Mozharov was, but it also leaves me wondering where people are drawing the line on what does and doesn't constitute record padding, because there's a loving ton of it that just kind of gets ignored. Like, if you look at this weekend's UFC card alone,
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Apr 18, 2023 20:37
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kri kri posted:I like the apex shows you sweet summer child
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Apr 19, 2023 01:03
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i'd post a picture of zuck at apex but i don't want to look one up
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Apr 19, 2023 01:35
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Trillhouse posted:i'd post a picture of zuck at apex but i don't want to look one up good news, you don't need to:
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 it's time for another B League Preview! Bellator 295 - Saturday, April 22 Main Card - 10 PM ET, Showtime Bantamweight Grand Prix Final - Raufeon “Supa” Stots vs Patchy “No Love” Mix Stots is 19-1 with 4 TKO and 4 sub wins. He’s a perfect 7-0 in Bellator as part of his overall 11 fight winning streak dating back to 2017. Mix is 17-1 with 1 TKO and 12 submission wins. He’s 6-1 in Bellator overall, with 4 straight wins. Stots had some problems with Sabatello’s wrestling, and Mix is a far more offensively-focused grappler. If Mix can get his hands on Stots, expect Patchy to look for submissions early and often. However, as we often see with people who min-max to be excellent grapplers, the rest of their game lags far behind. If Raufeon can keep the fight standing, there’s a good chance he butchers Mix on the feet. Flyweight - Ilima-Lei “The Iliminator” Macfarlane vs Kana Watanabe Macfarlane is 12-2 with 2 TKO and 6 sub wins. She’s 11-2 in Bellator, winning her latest bout in August. Watanabe is 11-1 with 3 TKO and 4 sub wins. She’s 3-1 in Bellator, winning her most recent bout by triangle last May. Got a pair of grappley gals, should be good! Featherweight - Aaron Pico vs James “The Alley Cat” Gonzalez Pico is 10-4 with 7 TKO and 2 sub wins, with all of his pro bouts taking place inside the world famous Bellator Circlegon. Prior to his shoulder falling apart last October, Pico was riding a 6-fight win streak. Gonzalez is 10-5 with 3 TKO and 2 sub wins. He’s 1-0 in Bellator, but did a brief jaunt to the PFL Challenger Series. Despite winning by first round TKO there, he isn’t in the regular PFL 2023 season. Kinda weird. My personal vendetta against Pico has mostly subsided. He’s lost enough that I can finally view him as a fighter, and not the Special Bellator Boy who gets the easy matchups (that he doesn’t always win and I get to laugh and laugh). He’s probably going to win this one, he’s got a lot of high level experience. Flyweight - Ray “The Tazmexican Devil” Borg vs Kyoji Horiguchi Borg is 16-5 with 1 TKO and 6 submission wins. He’s on a 3-fight win streak since he left the UFC in 2020. Horiguchi is 31-5 with 15 TKO and 4 sub wins. He’s 2-2 in Bellator, having dropped his two most recent bouts in the Circlegon, but he bounced back with another pair of wins in Rizin. We got two guys who were 24 and 25 when they got trounced by DJ. Borg’s career has gone pretty bad since then. He hasn’t lost a ton, he’s just been unable to step inside the cage. Horiguchi has looked good since that DJ loss, except those two Bellator defeats, which feel like huge letdowns. I feel like Horiguchi is a lot better, but it’s hard to say what Borg looks like since he’s fought so infrequently. Sure, he’s been a bit more active of late, but it also hasn’t been against the highest levels of opponents. Prelim Card - 8 PM ET, Youtube Featherweight - Mads Burnell vs Justin “J-Train” Gonzales Burnell is 16-5 with 1 TKO and 9 sub wins. He’s 3-2 in Bellator, losing his last two, both by decision. Gonzales is 14-1, with 4 TKO and 1 sub win. He’s 3-1 in Bellator, currently on a 2 fight win streak. Other than Aaron Pico, Gonzales has fought the same level of Bellator competition as Burnell. I should caveat that I am a Mads Burnell Doubter, and I’m ready to be proven disastrously wrong, as per usual. Lightweight - Yancy Medeiros vs Charlie “917” Leary Medeiros is 15-8, with 7 wins by TKO and 4 by submission. He won his Bellator debut last year by decision. Primarily a brawler, his last stoppage win was in 2017. To be fair to Yancy, he didn’t have any kind of win between that one and the Bellator fight. Leary’s record is 17-13 with 9 TKO and 3 sub wins. He’s 3-4 in Bellator, having lost his last two. Looks like we’ve got a Captain Cook situation brewing! To put it plainly, I hope a Native Hawaiian beats the hell out of a British. Featherweight - Kai “Fighting Hawaiian” Kamaka III vs Adli “Sunshine” Edwards Kamaka is 10-5 with just one TKO and just one sub win. He’s 4-1 in Bellator, notching his first career stoppage win in his latest fight. Edwards is 9-2 with 2 TKO and 3 sub wins. He is 0-1 in Bellator, getting punched out by Aaron Pico last April, snapping a 7-fight win streak. The Pico fight was a big step up in competition for Edwards. Kamaka should be slightly more his speed, but I think Kai is probably a bit better. Flyweight - Sumika “Lady Samurai” Inaba vs Veta Arteaga Inaba is a perfect 5-0, all fights in Bellator, with 3 TKO and one submission win. Arteaga is 7-4 with 1 TKO and 2 sub wins. She’s 6-4 in Bellator, currently on a two fight win streak. This will be Inaba’s biggest test to see if she can move up the 125 lb rankings. She’s early in her MMA career, but she’s 32, having gotten a pretty late start in face punching. This will also be just the second time Inaba has faced someone with a winning record, so we’ll see how prepared the Lady Samurai is. Featherweight - Keoni Diggs vs Weber “The Silverback” Almeida Diggs is 10-2 with 1 TKO and 6 wins by sub. He’s 3-2 in Bellator, ending a two fight losing streak with a decision win last October. Almeida is 7-1 with 6 of his wins coming by TKO. Weber is 5-1 in Bellator, winning his last two after tasting defeat for the first time as a professional back in 2021. Two mid-30s featherweights fighting on the early part of the Bellator Human Sacrifice Hour prelims. Let’s just hope we get some promised mayhem, violence, and bloodshed, fellas. Lightweight - Bobby King vs Aalon Cruz King is 12-5 with 3 wins by TKO and 5 by submission. He has gone 3-2 in Bellator so far, losing to the two good fighters he’s faced, Alexander Shabily and Gadzhi Rabadanov. To King’s credit, he went the distance in both of them. Cruz brings an overall record of 10-4 to the cage, with 4 TKO and 2 submission wins. He won on the Contender Series in 2019, then got obliterated in two UFC fights in a combined 3 minutes. Since then, Cruz has won a pair of fights on the regional scene and now we are here. I don’t think Cruz is being brought in as an equal match to King. Pretty sure Bobby is going to push him over and deliver a moderate whomping. Heavyweight - Davion “All Day” Franklin vs Kasim Aras Franklin is 5-1 with 3 TKO wins. He’s fought his entire pro career thus far in Bellator, losing his last bout by RNC to Marcelo Golm. Aras is 7-1 with 3 TKO and 2 submission wins, and to show he’s a cool badass, he’s also got a loss by DQ due to CHEST BITE. An absolute savage! He’s on a 3-fight win streak, so he mentally bounced back from chomping into human flesh, and hopefully his hunger has been satiated. For now. I am a simple keyboard warrior, but I would not agree to a fight against someone that has a history, no matter how minor, of being a cannibal. Respect to you, Davion Franklin, but be careful. Flyweight - Ilara “Arya Stark” Joanne vs Bruna Ellen Joanne is 11-6, with 4 TKO and 3 sub wins. She is currently 3-2 in Bellator, having stopped a two fight skid with a pair of decision wins last year. Ellen is 6-4 with a single TKO stoppage to her name. She is 4-4 in Bellator, losing her latest bout by decision. It’s going to be interesting to see how long Joanne keeps the Arya Stark nickname as Game of Thrones slowly fades from cultural relevancy. I guess the other fun game to play is to see if she retires from fighting before Martin finishes the next book. Anyway, this is going to be a fight between people. You can watch it or you can not watch it, the choice is yours. Welterweight - Alexey Shurkevich vs Masayuki Kikuiri Shurkevich is 13-5 with 1 submission and 9 TKO victories. He is 1-0 in Bellator, winning his Circlegon debut back in 2021. Since then, he went to Shlemenko FC and, fittingly, lost by spinning backfist knockout. Kikuiri is a type of Nepalese short sword, favored by the Gurkhas. Whoops, that’s not right. Masayuki Kikuiri is 8-2 with 5 wins by TKO. He’s fought exclusively in Pancrase, where about half his wins have come against guys with losing records. This looks like another set up fight, in that Kikuiri is being set up to get beat down.
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Apr 19, 2023 02:28
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CarlCX posted:0-12 Shane Sargent, who only loses by first round stoppages, typically within 90 seconds Jesus christ, is that guy a fighter or just a brain damage fetishist?
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Apr 19, 2023 02:30
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same energy
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Apr 19, 2023 02:46
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the just bleed guy and that zuckerberg shot can stand next to each other and sum up my feelings towards mma
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Apr 19, 2023 03:20
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Pb and Jellyfish posted:Jesus christ, is that guy a fighter or just a brain damage fetishist? Regional MMA is pretty hosed up. But also really cool live.
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Apr 19, 2023 03:47
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Trump Elon Zuck Two bullets
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Apr 19, 2023 04:03
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Gramps posted:YESSS YOU'RE STILL HERE. I follow you on the tweeter but never see your poo poo anymore because Twitter is the worst run site on the entire internet. Welter weight has a lot of fun as hell dudes in it right now.
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Apr 19, 2023 04:59
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Lid posted:Trump Easy, and without even thinking twice, Elon and Zuck.
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delightful posted:Easy, and without even thinking twice, Elon and Zuck. A and C, B will run Twitter into the ground and the problem will solve itself
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Apr 19, 2023 05:59
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Shoot.zuck twice just in case
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