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Which PFL champion are you most looking forward to seeing this month? This poll is closed. |
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| Olivier Aubin-Mercier |
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1 | 3.85% |
| Larissa Pacheco |
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4 | 15.38% |
| Sadibou Sy |
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1 | 3.85% |
| Lance Palmer |
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0 | 0% |
| Nicco Montano |
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1 | 3.85% |
| Alexander Shlemenko |
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2 | 7.69% |
| Bobby Southworth |
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3 | 11.54% |
| Hardcore Holly |
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14 | 53.85% |
| Total: | 26 votes | ||
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nunes rousey
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Nov 20, 2023 12:19
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Wandy knocking out Brian Stann was pretty good catharsis for both Wandy fans and SA MMA. GSP-Hughes 2 and GSP-Bisping got huge cheers out of me, but I think GSP-Serra 2 might have cracked some of the concrete in the Bell Centre. Both of the Anderson-Chael fights were probably the reigning feel-good champs until Nate-Conor, Khabib-Conor, and Dustin-Conor 2/3. I think I woke up my entire house when that triangle went on.
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Nov 20, 2023 13:38
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My top 5 most satisfying rear end-whoopins Holm kicking Rouseys head off Diaz choking out Conor Khabib destroying Conor GSP dominating Koshcheck GSP dominating Niaz And out of all those fighters, I only like one of them.
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Nov 20, 2023 14:06
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Shumagorath posted:Wandy knocking out Brian Stann was pretty good catharsis for both Wandy fans and SA MMA. this just reminded me. i used to throw $2 on whole-card parlays and i only ever hit one, this card, picked all of them. it was like 500 bucks payout. thanks wandy.
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Nov 20, 2023 14:30
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anderson/chael was a heartbreaker. chael was like half a round from becoming champ and then getting stripped of the belt for steroids which would have been incredible. this was when anderson was massively dominant but aside from the forrest destruction, he was coming off a bunch of really loving boring title fights. and chael knocked him down in the first round and beat the poo poo out of him. we were all rooting for him. but it's chael and he'll find a way to lose drat it.
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Nov 20, 2023 14:40
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also thinking of the time i think johny hendricks posted his fight camp budget and there was some insane number for the nutrition portion and dunc said “life is difficult for a fighter, you think making $50k a fight is a lot, you need to buy food to eat, and toilet paper for your rear end, it adds up” rip
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Nov 20, 2023 15:02
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nunes/cyborg I don't think anyone thought that would be so one sided. I screamed so loud at those knockdowns
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Nov 20, 2023 15:10
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Foul Fowl posted:anderson/chael was a heartbreaker. chael was like half a round from becoming champ and then getting stripped of the belt for steroids which would have been incredible. i wanted chael to win that because he talked himself into a title fight by playing a ridiculous heel then nearly went out and did the drat thing. in retrospect was he the catalyst for saying lovely right wing baiting bullshit to get a push?
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Nov 20, 2023 15:22
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ilmucche posted:i wanted chael to win that because he talked himself into a title fight by playing a ridiculous heel then nearly went out and did the drat thing. in retrospect was he the catalyst for saying lovely right wing baiting bullshit to get a push? i recently watched his classics. i was stunned at how tame it seemed in the modern era.
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Nov 20, 2023 16:03
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ilmucche posted:i wanted chael to win that because he talked himself into a title fight by playing a ridiculous heel then nearly went out and did the drat thing. in retrospect was he the catalyst for saying lovely right wing baiting bullshit to get a push? Yes. He was a boring fighter who racism/xenophobia baited his way into a title shot and it was obvious even then. I was very happy when Anderson submitted him, it was both the funniest and the best outcome.
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Nov 20, 2023 16:43
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ilmucche posted:i wanted chael to win that because he talked himself into a title fight by playing a ridiculous heel then nearly went out and did the drat thing. in retrospect was he the catalyst for saying lovely right wing baiting bullshit to get a push? He absolutely was, and I think it's bizarre how we've allowed him to rehabilitate himself into good ol' uncle Chael. Had he won against Anderson and avoided getting popped for the roids, we would never have heard the end of it. Instead he lost, got popped, very cleverly tuned his character and the MMA community lapped it up. gently caress Chael Sonnen. He's a carny huckster who used racism and right-wing talking points to cover up his lack of skill. The promos he stole off Superstar Billy Graham weren't even good, it's just that the bar for speaking is so low in MMA that he somehow got branded as the vanilla version of the Rock.
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Nov 20, 2023 16:43
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Was there ever a more satisfying rear end whipping than was handed to Koschek by GSP? Masvidal getting his brains wrung out by Usman hit me like a quaalude, I can still lower my blood pressure just by thinking about it 
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Nov 20, 2023 16:52
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ilmucche posted:i wanted chael to win that because he talked himself into a title fight by playing a ridiculous heel then nearly went out and did the drat thing. in retrospect was he the catalyst for saying lovely right wing baiting bullshit to get a push? i don't think the two are related, unless you think chael is the reason that dana got in bed with trump, and the reason why U.S. politics in general have become this bizarre battle for pop culture relevance. he might be the reason a lot of fighters try to talk trash even though they're terrible at it, though.
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Nov 20, 2023 17:53
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beep by grandpa posted:nunes/cyborg gently caress, I forgot that one.
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Nov 20, 2023 17:59
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It's official https://x.com/MMAJunkie/status/1726640819770466792?s=20
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Nov 20, 2023 18:31
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Foul Fowl posted:i don't think the two are related, unless you think chael is the reason that dana got in bed with trump, and the reason why U.S. politics in general have become this bizarre battle for pop culture relevance. he might be the reason a lot of fighters try to talk trash even though they're terrible at it, though. Yeah, Chael always transparently did not mean what he was saying and said things that were so ridiculous that they were difficult to take seriously. The impetus for fighters now coming out and unironically saying xenophobic stuff is just Trump and Dana coming out to be a hardcore trump supporter/insider.
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Nov 20, 2023 18:43
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Chael thrived off the ambiguity of whether the poo poo he was spewing was only part of the character he was playing or not. It's different from Colby in magnitude not kind. Saying racist stuff to make more money isn't better than saying racist stuff because you really believe it. The persona he was playing, while a heel, was as much American Hero as it was Braggadocios Villain. While I've mostly managed to tune him out in the intervening years, I'm not aware of him ever dropping kayfabe since becoming inactive to say that his statements were wrong, harmful, and intended to make him a villain.
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Nov 20, 2023 19:28
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Derrick Lewis busting Travis Browne's rear end is one of my all time feel good wins. For no particular reason other than watching Travis Browne fail was very amusing.
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Nov 20, 2023 19:31
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Not only did Chael lose, and chirp that steroid use gave people ball cancer before himself popping, but his mother told the athletic commission he bad tiny balls. Maybe I’m conflating the mom part with GSP-BJ 2: Greasegate, but someone definitely told the AC that he needed exogenous testosterone for very funny reasons.
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Nov 20, 2023 19:49
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TheKingslayer posted:Derrick Lewis busting Travis Browne's rear end is one of my all time feel good wins. For no particular reason other than watching Travis Browne fail was very amusing.
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Nov 20, 2023 19:52
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Shumagorath posted:Not only did Chael lose, and chirp that steroid use gave people ball cancer before himself popping, but his mother told the athletic commission he bad tiny balls. Chael's mom claimed he never hit puberty.
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Nov 20, 2023 19:55
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TheKingslayer posted:Chael's mom claimed he never hit puberty. Chael himself said that
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Nov 20, 2023 20:09
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mewse posted:Chael himself said that Ohhh that's right. She was there to confirm the tiny balls thing. Now it's coming back to me.
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Nov 20, 2023 20:09
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I don't know why that hearing is seared into my memory. The weirdly deferential tone of the commission members towards Chael, Chael claiming he never went through puberty, every supplicant repeatedly saying "your honor" and being reminded they weren't in a court room
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Nov 20, 2023 20:23
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they both fell off hard but that first dillashaw/barao fight was a straight-up mugging. dillashaw had the perfect gameplan
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Nov 20, 2023 20:48
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Shumagorath posted:Reminded that Fabricio Werdum, in another masterful in-ring troll, got Browne to look at his own bare foot by pointing at it with a “your shoe’s untied” gesture then iirc hitting him in the face when it worked.
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Nov 20, 2023 21:48
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Kragger99 posted:My top 5 most satisfying rear end-whoopins What do you got against GSP??  My top 5 most satisfying rear end-whoops: GSP over Koscheck GSP over BJ Penn GSP over Serra GSP over Bisping Hendo over Bisping  I can't tell you how long I laughed at this image when I first I saw it, but it felt like FOREVER. I was in actual pain from how much I guffawed at this Photoshop I loved that knock out so goddamn much.
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Nov 20, 2023 22:11
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Was there ever a more satisfying rear end whipping than was handed to Koschek by GSP? 
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Nov 20, 2023 22:17
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Hahaha 
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Nov 20, 2023 22:20
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Both fights ended up mentally tormenting the loser as well. Bisping said he was sent the redcoat photoshop daily for months if not years. Koscheck couldn't get on a plane for I think a few weeks because his orbital was so shattered
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Nov 20, 2023 22:21
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Do you have his email address? I'll send it again right now
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Nov 20, 2023 22:27
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The H Bomb was glorious but that fight also gave us the British Double, and Hendo's subsequent look of utter contempt.
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Nov 20, 2023 22:34
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LobsterMobster posted:Both fights ended up mentally tormenting the loser as well. Omg, I know laughing at mental health issues is a faux pas but  I am now this close to getting a high quality print out of that redcoat Photoshop and framing it. Skulker posted:The H Bomb was glorious but that fight also gave us the British Double, and Hendo's subsequent look of utter contempt. Are you serious? "The British Double"? I love that so much. God, Bisping was such a poo poo-heel in his prime!
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Nov 20, 2023 23:18
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LobsterMobster posted:Koscheck couldn't get on a plane for I think a few weeks because his orbital was so shattered
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Nov 20, 2023 23:33
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Robbie Lawler and Tyron Woodley had absolutely brutal knockouts of Kos too. The short left Robbie hits Kos with from the sprawl sounds like he had a brick in his hand.
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Nov 20, 2023 23:51
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One other fun little bit from Hendo vs Bisping: Between rounds, his corner yells at Mike that he's moving to the left too much, or "YOU'RE WALKING ONTO HIS BACK HAND, IT'S ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC!" but he just can't help himself and keeps circling left, right into his own demise
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Nov 20, 2023 23:59
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bigfoot vs overeem
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Nov 21, 2023 00:10
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STONE COLD 64 posted:bigfoot vs overeem 
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Nov 21, 2023 00:16
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It seems impossible that this trial will ever reach a conclusion but we might be closing in on something. https://twitter.com/erikmagraken/status/1726747888448118877
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Nov 21, 2023 02:16
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For satisfying beatdowns, a lot of the good ones already got mentioned, so I'll put in an obscure one: Mike Brown Leonard Garcia. Not that Garcia was scummy or anything. He's always seemed like a pretty nice guy. But his wild, flailing style could result in as many frustrating fights as great ones, sometimes beating guys that absolutely should have known better. Then, against Brown, Garcia throws one of his trademark looping punches and Brown just counters straight over the top and loving flattens him. I thought Garcia might have been dead. It was just amazing to see someone pull off, so effortlessly, a counter than had seemingly always been there but no one had ever managed to pull off. One of those 'why don't they just do X' and then someone went and did X. LobsterMobster posted:Both fights ended up mentally tormenting the loser as well. It was more like months for Kos. I remember that he was talking how it still hurt a full year later, around the time of the Woodley or Lawler fight.
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