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| Mark Zuckerberg |
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| Conor McGregor |
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trip report of the 30+ page regional-even-for-australia card. sorry i know no-one asked for this but i had a lot of fun reading about hunt / bigfoot 1. you'll definitely enjoy the photos though. the australians in the thread are drunker than usual. tedious wait after the first fight ends instantly causing a 30 minute wait before a continuation of the broadcast (the early prelims were occasionally just broadcast online with the tv broadcast starting at a set time). poor justin scoggins nearly needed a security escort out after beating hometown favorite richie 'vas' via incredibly bad ref stoppage. loving nam motherfucking phan. i had forgotten about this guy which is a shame because he loving owns. he was on the gsp / koscheck tuf (sporting a 16-7 record) and did some really sick stuff such as knocking out aspiring hobo cody mckenzie. he also fought loving michael johnson - a legit good fighter as a prospect - to probably the closets fight i've ever seen on tuf. they each won a round, so a third was called, and that was so close kos and gsp started arguing and after much loving around johnson was declared the winner. nam came so close to having a win over michael johnson. dude was so enjoyable to watch he had 8 fights in the ufc while only winning 2. the caveat to that is his decision 'loss' to leonard garcia which was so egregious that it even took the coveted 'robbery of the year' award. he fought takeya mizugaki (another personal / thread fav) on this card but i was still cheering for phan. and the dude took a loving beating. mizugaki put it on him but phan was still there, and so loving gutsy that he even took the third round from takeya despite having being beaten half to death for 10 minutes already. it was the best fight on any other night and i remember thinking 'ticket was worth it just for that'. what a character. greg jackson being a loving squeezer in the corner of julie kedzie reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_sNUQlPl9A the bad stoppage from earlier was so bad that when buffer introduced the ref for his next assignment a few fights later, the crowd remembered and erupted into boos. i can't remember that happening any other time though i'm sure it has. soa paleilei killed pat barry in 2 minutes delighting the homers. this was the fight that retired pat barry. good decision by barry? well, this tweet: Mike Chiappetta MMA @MikeChiappetta 13s Palelei KO's Pat Barry with ground and pound. Barry got up, walked 10 feet and fell face first into the fence & mat. Scary. gently caress. anthony perosh looked like and was a 41 year old suburban dad. he also just happened to be really loving good at bjj. he was slow as gently caress, looked like he learned how to punch and kick yesterday, but somehow it coalesced into a reasonably effective cage fighting career. australians loved him. ryan bader beat the poo poo out of him for 15 minutes. blood loving everywhere. perosh was a mess. it should have been stopped about a billion times but being the fan favorite in his homeland the ref let it go on way too long. the crowd would actually have been really glad. i have had a burning, personal hatred for ryan bader forever so this one hurt. i knew it was going to happen and i was still upset. loved this post after a poster took a look at perosh's stand up for about 30 seconds: "Please tell me that perosh is a bjj ace" then i appear in the thread again, drunk as gently caress, with this: "Brandon loving Vera's here and hunting hot dogs" forgot i met brandon vera in line for hotdogs. really, really chill dude. loving huge. shogun and australian james te huna faced off with people remarking that shogun looked a little less embarrassingly chubby than usual. he then loving killed te huna in one minute. it was loving vicious. luckily the crowd loved shogun enough to not be dipshit homers too badly.  i had forgotten that when they needed to make up for time, the ufc would just re-run fights that had happened. keven reminded me: "Shogun punched that guy so hard he made time go backwards and old fights replay " they put on mizugaki / phan again and everyone was very happy. the main event. hunt / bigfoot. forums poster novum with this: "Both win somehow please." inshallah. 'that' referee is reffing the main event. crowd still very and audibly angry. forgot bigfoot floored hunt early, but hunt rallied by going deep into his bag of tricks: "Mark Hunt has better wrestling than Bigfoot Silva. Let this sink in." and i forgot about this pattented hunt-ism: "Gif mark hunt pulling out a wedgie" the thread is having a lot of fun. hunt loving floors bigfoot and with zero urgency just strolls towards him allowing bigfoot to recover. hunt passes bigfoot's guard. bigfoot the bjj black belt. mark hunt ankle picks bigfoot. "THIS IS THE GREATEST NIGHT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR SPORT" and this pretty much perfect call "Henderson-Shogun, the Supersized edition" by the end of the 4th i've seen calls for fight of the year, decade, and century. no one said fight of the night. they all knew. forums poster jediguy backs up the way i remembered the noise for this fight: "Holy gently caress this arena is about to collapse" the 5th starts and mark hunt - peroxide hair now bright red - and bigfoot hug it out in the middle. "Mark Hunt appears to be the fresher fighter". "Blood EVERYWHERE" "This is the craziest poo poo" "this is the loving best fight in the history of UFC" bigfoot, about do die in the cage of dada5000 type problems and with barely enough blood to function, attempts a flying knee in the 5th round. the doctor is called in to check the mess of open wounds on hunt's face and head. crowd going berzerk. no doctor on planet earth would stop this fight here. australia would not permit it. the passion is so high it's effecting those local to any goons: "My wife is screaming for Hunt to win now too" nobody is sure of the result, though most are desperately posting 3-2 hunt?! which is obviously more of a prayer than a sincere evaluation of the fight. nobody knew. nobody was counting who won what round. this is pure emotion. the type you are unable to regret. "I have a final in 12 hours that I have to write that I'm under prepared for. I watched this instead. I have no regrets." "I just stood up and applauded in my living room." the scores are taking a while "Judges are like "..poo poo I wasn't actually scoring I didn't think I'd need to"" loads of people start calling for a draw. declaring one of them a loser sat right with nobody. as we wait goons are desperately try and act like they were paying attention to scoring. finally, we get the results. "THE BEST loving ENDING" "The only draw I will ever like." general celebration. it's just a perfect vibe. a goon notes that it feels like a storybook ending and it really does feel like that. an aussie goon reports that bigfoot hung back and was SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AFTER THAT, which eased the sting of bigfoot making brazilian excuses in the post fight instead of just being satisfied that he was in the best fight in history. though a goon does provide another possibility: "It wasn't an autograph, it said "please call an ambulance."" another goon brings up that 2 judges officially scored that fight 47-47, and in the bader / perosh fight two judges gave it 30-27, and one 30-26. for reference, the thread thought 30-25 was more justifiable than 30-27. it makes the draw here feel so much more surreal. Dana White @danawhite 46s Both Hunt and Silva win FON and both get their win bonus and I might buy them both their own private ISLANDS!!!! Sickest HW fight ever!!! gently caress dana for not buying them an island. my personal assessment reads like somebody still in shock: "I don't know what that was like on television but live it was indescribable" i wasn't the only one: "Being in that crowd is one of the top tw/o experiences of my life that was absolutely incredible" "I lost my voice screaming, that fight was awesome and so intense man, crowd was crazy, holy poo poo, best first live UFC eve"   hunt broke his loving hand on bigfoot's face. so what does hunto do?  i mean the entire fight was just so.... photo-graphical(?)       
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Amazing post! Brings back some good MMA memories.
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Oct 13, 2022 16:45
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I think we have a spread of time-as-MMA-fan posters in here, which is really good. Whenever we get in nostalgia mode, I think it's great when people given their recollections of entertaining moments in MMA. On that note, Marching Powder posted:loving nam motherfucking phan. i had forgotten about this guy which is a shame because he loving owns. he was on the gsp / koscheck tuf (sporting a 16-7 record) and did some really sick stuff such as knocking out aspiring hobo cody mckenzie. he also fought loving michael johnson - a legit good fighter as a prospect - to probably the closets fight i've ever seen on tuf. they each won a round, so a third was called, and that was so close kos and gsp started arguing and after much loving around johnson was declared the winner. nam came so close to having a win over michael johnson. dude was so enjoyable to watch he had 8 fights in the ufc while only winning 2. the caveat to that is his decision 'loss' to leonard garcia which was so egregious that it even took the coveted 'robbery of the year' award. he fought takeya mizugaki (another personal / thread fav) on this card but i was still cheering for phan. and the dude took a loving beating. mizugaki put it on him but phan was still there, and so loving gutsy that he even took the third round from takeya despite having being beaten half to death for 10 minutes already. it was the best fight on any other night and i remember thinking 'ticket was worth it just for that'. what a character. Nam Phan was a very game fighter but imo, his career got somewhat overshadowed by his jerking off in the shower episode on TUF. Like very possibly he was jerking it in the shower, but it was a dick move by the other insanely bored fighters to call it out and bust open the shower stall. IIRC, the show used censoring as vaguely as possible, so he could have been doing anything but it certainly could have been him getting caught cranking it. https://twitter.com/basruttenmma/status/11001619437068288
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What I never got was where would they have preferred he jerk off? A tray of sushi?
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Oct 13, 2022 17:36
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Bluedeanie posted:What I never got was where would they have preferred he jerk off? A tray of sushi? right?! nam jacks off in just about the most appropriate place and gets poo poo on when he should have just done it in a way that has got to be illegal. nam fought like like a fotn bonus would mean the jacking off footage would disappear.
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Oct 13, 2022 17:42
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also i really enjoyed doing that retrospective and i'd like to do one a month for funsies if people might like that or at least if nobody really minds if i do that.
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Marching Powder posted:also i really enjoyed doing that retrospective and i'd like to do one a month for funsies if people might like that or at least if nobody really minds if i do that. Im down!
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Oct 13, 2022 18:07
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drat, in trying to find a clip of the incident, I stumbled into this  https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comments/hfecxn/is_nam_phan_okay/ That links to two IG posts from Phan where he's slurring really badly, back in 2020. I can only find a couple newer videos and it's about leveled off. Real bummer. He never struck me as someone who took an inordinate amount of damage, but obviously brains vary a lot.
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Oct 13, 2022 18:10
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kimbo305 posted:drat, in trying to find a clip of the incident, I stumbled into this yo..... i don't feel real good. i mean i'm fine next to poor nam but this made me feel bad. better get used to it i guess as i doubt this is going to slow down. LobsterMobster posted:Im down! i can't remember anyone directly contradicting you about basically anything so i'll take this as general consent.
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kimbo305 posted:drat, in trying to find a clip of the incident, I stumbled into this He had a 16 year MMA career and did martial arts all of his life. He's probably accumulated a lot of damage. He's doing Muy Thai now too. If you can avoid it, don't look up any recent Nam Phan videos. He looks....rough.
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Yeah, Nam's condition is deeply depressing. When I get mad about the Contender Series ethos paving over MMA I think of him and Gary Goodridge, and I wonder how many people will wind up with that kind of punch-drunk CTE with absolutely nothing to show for it except some youtube clips from that time Dana White told them they were a warrior and they made minimum wage to get punched repeatedly in the head by Dagestani wrestlers.Marching Powder posted:also i really enjoyed doing that retrospective and i'd like to do one a month for funsies if people might like that or at least if nobody really minds if i do that. I loved reading the post and I think it's a great loving idea. Also in modern news, hey, how's ONE handling Angela Lee losing the rubber match and thus trilogy to Xiong Jingnan? https://twitter.com/ONEChampionship/status/1580430631506427904 Oh.
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Oct 13, 2022 18:39
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the fights will continue until angela wins
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Oct 13, 2022 18:44
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mike jackson going to be kept on for one more fight https://twitter.com/btsportufc/status/1580601113447133186?t=TQOwGv6LepKDQjBtPREghQ&s=19
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Oct 13, 2022 18:55
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Wow. Conor McGregor is coming back. And he will lose again
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Oct 13, 2022 18:57
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mariooncrack posted:He had a 16 year MMA career and did martial arts all of his life. He's probably accumulated a lot of damage. Do Bronx and Poirier are at 15y, as a point of comparison. quote:He's doing Muay Thai now too. Yeah, someone needs to try to reason with him. His recent pad work video is woof. Not like Chuck training for the Tito fight, but still shouldn't be competing, ignoring the CTE symptoms.
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Oct 13, 2022 19:00
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Bluedeanie posted:Wow. Conor McGregor is coming back. And he will lose again On trial?
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Oct 13, 2022 19:17
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One thing with Nam Pham is he took a ton of fights above his appropriate weight class becuase he came up in that era where divisions below 155 simply didn't exist.
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Oct 13, 2022 19:17
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His majesty approved of his dinner entertainment and has decided to invest in the Medieval Times franchise https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1580619471794081792
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Oct 13, 2022 22:34
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I hope the fighters have to fight wearing those motion capture ping pong balls
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Oct 13, 2022 22:52
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I hope i can enter the octogon myself...in VR! I want to open mouth kiss charles oliveira.
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Oct 13, 2022 23:15
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Aspen Ladd gave Helwani an interview and says she tried to make bantamweight again even knowing she couldn't because the UFC wouldn't offer her any fights at 145 and it was her only option. Please stop pretending the weight class exists.
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Oct 14, 2022 01:26
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UFC posted this on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKXdbkxH9g It's from back when Cub Swanson was an extremely entertaining brawler rather than an actual good fighter. He and his opponent, Mackens Sermezier, both appeared on the first FOX card. Both lost, but in kind of funny ways. And yeah, Hunt/Bigfoot being one of the best fights ever was a fantastic surprise. Also, the aftermath produced the most Mark Hunt thing. It was a draw, but Bigfoot failed a post fight drug test. Hunt was awarded part of Bigfoot's purse, but asked if, instead, they could simply change it to a win.
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Oct 14, 2022 02:10
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CarlCX posted:Aspen Ladd gave Helwani an interview and says she tried to make bantamweight again even knowing she couldn't because the UFC wouldn't offer her any fights at 145 and it was her only option. Please stop pretending the weight class exists. Good to see that UFC is so concerned with fighter safety that they forced someone who was clearly incapable of cutting the weight to keep cutting weight.
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Oct 14, 2022 02:43
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We're about a week out from ONE on Prime 3 and below the URL where the show will air they started putting up preview clips https://www.amazon.com/ONE-Prime-Video-Lineker-Andrade/dp/B0BCC8224Q/
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Oct 14, 2022 03:29
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Snowman_McK posted:Mackens Sermezier not a real name; stop making poo poo up
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Oct 14, 2022 09:35
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Trillhouse posted:I hope i can enter the octogon myself...in VR! I want to fist bump Bruce Buffer. 
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Oct 14, 2022 10:52
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 https://calfkicker.com/brendan-schaub-was-caught-using-a-green-screen-amidst-talk-that-his-channel-is-struggling/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thefighterandthekid/comments/xl7ar4/why_does_it_look_like_theyre_standing_in_front_of/ Apparently renting a food truck to film his YT show was too expensive for Schaub
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Oct 14, 2022 13:02
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that explains the "unregistered hypercam" watermark
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Oct 14, 2022 13:29
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kimbo305 posted:I think we have a spread of time-as-MMA-fan posters in here, which is really good. One of my oldest recollections of MMA in general is JBJ post fight interviewing and realizing his toe is loving destroyed, so I’m a relative newbie compared to most of y’all  Who glued a Sasquatch ear on the zucc 
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Oct 14, 2022 14:13
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CarlCX posted:His majesty approved of his dinner entertainment and has decided to invest in the Medieval Times franchise Not sure how they're going to make this work when Meta doesn't render legs. 
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Oct 14, 2022 14:17
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Mekchu posted:
Was this article written by someone having a stroke?
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Oct 14, 2022 14:41
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Mekchu posted:
I think the explanation in the Reddit thread that there's just higher contrast to the background cuz they've got a big diffuser shade overhead for the noon day sun is more likely.
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Oct 14, 2022 14:58
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Yeah Schaub is literally wearing a green jacket and had in one of those pics lmao
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Oct 14, 2022 15:22
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w e l p https://twitter.com/The_MMA_Media/status/1580927302137151488?t=A-kd_r324pV0wEgbmH7T8w&s=19
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Oct 14, 2022 16:45
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man we've had some bad cards lately.
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Oct 14, 2022 16:51
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why would shcaub need to rent a food truck just go to a food truck that already exists and buy some stuff
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LobsterMobster posted:w e l p We’re rapidly approaching the point where UFC will just be bumfights. CommonShore posted:why would shcaub need to rent a food truck just go to a food truck that already exists and buy some stuff Yeah the whole thing doesn’t make sense to me. Surely just grabbing an iPhone and finding a food truck is cheaper than green screening the whole thing.
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Oct 14, 2022 17:01
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Okay now this might be worse than the Paddy Holohan card
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Oct 14, 2022 17:21
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CommonShore posted:why would shcaub need to rent a food truck just go to a food truck that already exists and buy some stuff I only seent the clips used in that allegation, but it seems like the idea is that they actually don't stand in line and mix it up with people, but actually have the food truck exclusively for the shoot?
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Couldn't imagine Brendan Schaub would put himself in situations to be repeatedly owned by the general public for his youtube show
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