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Sean Strickland world championship match. This poll is closed. |
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| I stopped watching the UFC years ago. |
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9 | 21.95% |
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Just thought of this and I am going to  it before I forget it rather than waiting until it actually becomes relevant to the discussion.ahem... Ian Machado "About Nothing" Garry. Thank you and good night.
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Sep 10, 2023 01:23
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Izzy getting confidently beaten by Strickland proves that MMA makes no fuckin sense
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Sep 10, 2023 06:29
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Izzy didn’t even try for an Imanari roll smh. Just moonwalked around the cage. Very shameful.
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Sep 10, 2023 06:33
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UFC game cover curse undefeated
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Sep 10, 2023 07:43
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Izzy getting confidently beaten by Strickland proves that MMA makes no fuckin sense
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Sep 10, 2023 10:40
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lmao strickland sucks so bad but watching izzy lose to a bad fighter doing the same thing he's done in his last 20 ufc fights is very funny
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Sep 10, 2023 11:22
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CarlCX posted:This fight is bullshit, but unlike the last time around, I cannot say I don't care about who wins this bullshit fight, because the idea of Sean Strickland losing two fights, beating two guys so comically irrelevant that I said one of their names three times in this essay and I bet you've already forgotten what it was, and becoming the world champion because the UFC didn't want to wait another month for a title fight and the #1 guy forgot to duck? That would mean more of these writeups. And I actually prefer it when I can stand this stupid loving sport I love. This is when I knew it'd happen, tbh
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Sep 10, 2023 11:23
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that was insane. holy poo poo...like watching Jack Burton beat up Muhammad Ali
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Sep 10, 2023 12:19
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Thinking back to 00’s / early 10’s MW and how Anderson would have clowned Strickland so hard the Griffin and Bonnar fights would have looked competitive…. Izzy looked like he was in the Romero fight but without a reason to behave that way.
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Sep 10, 2023 14:37
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He got stunned in the first and then behaved in a way that most threatened him getting caught again.
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Sep 10, 2023 16:52
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how does one lose a kickboxing match to a guy in bolt-upright philly shell
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Sep 10, 2023 16:56
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If you don’t do the bare bones fundamentals and also that guy is pretty fast and hits hard. I want to see a stat of how many single kicks Izzy threw. He does that in his other fights, but it didn’t phase Strickland at all.
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Sep 10, 2023 17:00
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I think i know the answer but were the slurs addressed in the post fight conferences
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Sep 10, 2023 19:21
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beep by grandpa posted:I think i know the answer but were the slurs addressed in the post fight conferences One intrepid reporter asked Kape ''do you feel bad for saying homophobic slurs?? Dana says you feel bad wink wink'' and Kape smiled and said he did indeed feel bad  Everyone seemed pretty comfortable or at least completely silent letting Strickland continue to call Adesanya a ''Chinaman'' over and over again Not even gonna pretend to care about the other dude on the prelims using a dumb slur, would prefer it if he was just ignored until he inevitably fades into irrelevance
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Sep 10, 2023 19:30
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Jfc, ty
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Sep 10, 2023 19:40
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A Passing Feeling posted:Everyone seemed pretty comfortable or at least completely silent letting Strickland continue to call Adesanya a ''Chinaman'' over and over again
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Sep 10, 2023 19:56
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Shumagorath posted:Surely I'm late to this party but That Doesn't Even Make Sense When Izzy was kickboxing for a Chinese organization, he would come out with Chinese flags and so forth. It is a a very clever goof on the internet to say Izzy isn't Nigerian or New Zealander, but a Chinese fighter.
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Sep 10, 2023 20:34
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Being Black in China is an experience more racist than a UFC event so I can't blame him for trying to offset that.
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Sep 10, 2023 20:37
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Jack Slack fans knowing the real best technique in MMA is a 1-2 stay winning The fun thing about the UFC having people like Strickland and Kape go on bigoted rants is that it's causing a political scandal because the government paid for them to come then they went full Jordan Peterson.
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Sep 10, 2023 22:58
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I don't think izzy should get an immediate rematch, but if he does, I am curious to see how much he can adjust.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:12
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They should absolutely keep Dricus vs Izzy as a non-total fight and give Whittaker a shot against Strickland. It’s a shame that Izzy will get another immediate rematch. I am curious as to whether this will see Izzy being permanently exposed. Strickland essentially just stood in front of Izzy at an uncomfortable range with a defensive posture, and Izzy had no answers.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:37
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If they don't do the rematch, I wouldn't be shocked if they give it to Chimaev if he wins against Costa next month.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:43
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:I don't think izzy should get an immediate rematch, but if he does, I am curious to see how much he can adjust. kimbo305 posted:Sanko said Izzy is good at dominating the air with hands, which is normally a fair assessment, but those small movements are part of Strickland’s game. He needs to move into his defensive guard really quickly to pick up incoming straight punches. The small moves disguise both his offensive and defensive intent. blue footed boobie posted:I am curious as to whether this will see Izzy being permanently exposed. Strickland essentially just stood in front of Izzy at an uncomfortable range with a defensive posture, and Izzy had no answers. I think it takes all of the shine off of City Kickboxing coaching without necessarily ruling out Izzy’s rematch chances.
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Sep 10, 2023 23:50
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Digital Jedi posted:If they don't do the rematch, I wouldn't be shocked if they give it to Chimaev if he wins against Costa next month. I had legitimately forgotten Chimaev existed.
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Sep 11, 2023 00:03
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I would greatly enjoy another Costa Nut Uppercut on Strickland. Someone tweet at Costa that I will crowdfund his win bonus if he loses by DQ.
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Sep 11, 2023 00:07
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Further proof of what Mighty Mouse DJ was saying, MMA is the easiest sport to win a championship in. Striking/footwork in MMA is trash. How are you going to call yourself Stylebender, and then lose to a guy who spams 1-2? e: Izzy is 1-2 in his past 3, and 4-3 in his past 7, I hope he doesn't get an immediate rematch.
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Sep 11, 2023 00:47
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Fozzy The Bear posted:Striking/footwork in MMA is trash. Just confoundingly embarrassing given that Izzy was a reasonably high level kickboxer and we spent the past 5 years pumping up his gym as on another level. Izzy himself said that coming to the US and sparring people, that the kickboxing coaching and skill level in NZ were different. At this point I assume City is contributing little to Volk’s success.
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Sep 11, 2023 00:55
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I like Izzy, but he had zero successful defenses of that belt + he didn't really show anything impressive against a guy who pressed and held the up & block buttons for 25min so he doesn't deserve poo poo. Get an impressive win or two then challenge again. We win too cause Champion Defense izzy has only had like 2 good fights whereas contender/challenger izzy is fun as hell
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Sep 11, 2023 00:59
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Unfortunately I didn't see the fight, just a couple highlights on the sports news, but was Izzy rocked pretty hard in the first round? Did he shell up after that, or was the fight different from that?
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Sep 11, 2023 01:33
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I’m redoing all my middleweight MMAth now based on Izzy’s losses. I’m sorry Bobby Knuckles.
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Sep 11, 2023 01:39
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Kragger99 posted:Unfortunately I didn't see the fight, just a couple highlights on the sports news, but was Izzy rocked pretty hard in the first round? Did he shell up after that, or was the fight different from that? He was messed up in the first round, but it didn't seem like it compromised him in the fight. Hell, the second round was by far his best round and he won it on every card.
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Sep 11, 2023 01:43
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i didn't watch it because i didn't want to watch izzy beat the poo poo out of a what i thought to be far outmatched opponent and i didn't want to see strickland as a champion when what happens in mma happens in mma. but strickland by 5 round decision absolutely breaks my brain and izzy and anyone who ever lost to izzy should be embarrassed.
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Sep 11, 2023 01:48
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Kragger99 posted:Did he shell up after that, or was the fight different from that? He did the scared high guard he’s always done after getting rocked from a pretty vulnerable position, then stood up and got punched more, and seemed pretty clear headed as he complained to the ref about something, maybe the punches being too close to the back of the head. He might have been fractionally behind on his moves cuz of being rocked, but his corner should have given him any advice, like when he complained his jab was not landing. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Sep 11, 2023 02:30
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Cool, appreciate the summaries!
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Sep 11, 2023 02:32
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I didn't think Sean's jab would have enough range to touch Izzy and set up his 2. Definitely knew Izzy would be circling around the entire time, also underestimated Sean's ability to trap him against fence.
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Sep 11, 2023 03:15
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After the first round Izzy looked scared the whole time. He was basically: feint , feint , leg kick, feint... move out of the way of Sean's 1-2 and reset, feint , feint , leg kick, feint... move out of the way of Sean's 1-2 and reset, feint
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Sep 11, 2023 03:48
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Yea that's what I thought, and the times he got caught clean after that seemed to really effect him. I wondered about how much he had actually recovered from the end of the 1st, but he seemed fine enough inbetween the later rounds, so hosed if I know.
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Sep 11, 2023 04:29
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The single leg kicks was an obvious sign to me that he was extremely averse to getting hit again, to the exclusion of having a winning game. Again, soooo many times Izzy’s 1-2 had Sean leaning back — perfect time to plant the low kick. Throwing it alone just had Strickland checking it from a mile away.
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Sep 11, 2023 04:39
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gently caress Sean Strickland, dgmw, but actually unreal that a title challenger is on the 16k show/16k win contract. Even if ends up with more through back stage bonuses or whatever, what a joke. Every fighter should be on significantly more, but title fighters should be getting way more on their base pay for a title fight.
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https://twitter.com/Jon_Anik/status/1701216954433130692?t= The 9/11 tribute we needed 
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