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Bean Fried posted:I'm surprised the UFC hasn't tried to run a show in Seoul yet. Running a show in Seoul seems like so much of a slam-dunk over all the other asian shows they've done that I'm starting to think there's some kind of behind-the-scenes thing preventing them.
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Seltzer posted:For now the UFC shows have taken place in Macau which is a SAR (special administrative region) largely beholden to it's own laws and it is the Vegas of the east so it makes sense to hold shows there. To expand on this a little - the people that own the casinos in Macau are largely the same people that own the casinos in Vegas, so the UFC has an existing working relationship with most of them that makes holding shows there orders of magnitude easier.
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Sprecherscrow posted:Does Station have holdings out there? Not sure, but Zuffa never does shows at casinos they own.
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TAM were a good gym before and will be a good gym after Ludwig leaves, but before Ludwig all of them sucked out loud at striking and I suspect much the same will be true afterwards.
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caff was a fun poster. w00bi was and is an idiot.
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Apr 3, 2014 20:26
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MassRafTer posted:Wanderlei Silva tries to get people to donate to charity and do good things for society, Chael Sonnen says funny things and scams people out of their livelihood. I can see why people are so apt to support Chael's sociopathic tendencies, but I'll stick with Wandy. I don't actually think either thing you said is true.
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SUPER NEAT TOY posted:I'd probably take 'being the fall man in a real estate scheme' over 'physically assaulting teenagers'.
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-Atom- posted:Same but Chael / 
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Apr 8, 2014 09:51
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Pretty Lady Blob posted:Pretty sure FS1 is about the break the news on Ronda vs. Gina in a few minutes. I expect that'll go just as well as their last chinny heavyweight who looks like an action figure
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"I don't love to fight, I don't want to fight" is indeed something coming from a guy who jumped his opponent in a hospital because he was pissed about the decision.
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Xguard86 posted:poo poo I was just coming here to post that. He more closely resembles the next Magic Mike
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ChampRamp posted:I didn't see it posted, but Reem is switching to Greg Jackson's camp. I feel so conflicted. fatherdog posted:I expect that'll go just as well as their last chinny heavyweight who looks like an action figure
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Apr 11, 2014 18:20
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When I say International you say FIGHT WEEK FIGHT WEEK
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Apr 12, 2014 04:03
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Bubba Smith posted:Yeah. Rousey, Weidman, Machida, Hendo, Cormier, Sonnen, Wanderlei, and even a popular bum with Uriah Hall. And that's only half the card so far. After Weidman/Silva II did over a million, I'm somewhat interested to see what Weidman's next card does.
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Bundt Cake posted:Because I bought fightpass to see bad fighters who I don't like beat great fighters who I love, I watched Mike Pierce v Johny Hendricks. Its fun to look back on the best welterweight in the world when he was on his way up. The fight was actually really good and competitive. Rogan's rap was that they were mirror images of each other. Knowing what we know now, I don't think he can be knocked out. Hendricks hit him with clean shots from both hands. Neither guy had any success with takedowns, but I guess Hendricks was pushing harder in the first two rounds. In the third Hendricks got tired and Pierce put him on his back, where hendricks tried to hold his head with both hands, and also did some hip escapes that didn't work while Pierce landed elbows to his face. But he got up after a little bit when he landed an upkick while spazzing out. After that Hendricks actually attacked again and did some good stuff but ended the fight failing at a takedown. And um in other news people here might be interested in, Chael was Pierce's cornerman. Hendricks had a lot of really close fights coming up, as I believe you noted when he was bitching about the GSP decision. I think he turned a corner sometime shortly before the Condit fight; as I said at the time he seemed to have improved technically by a pretty big leap in that match.
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Bundt Cake posted:I happened to have watched Condit v Hendricks just now, and its interesting. I only ever noticed it before now in the Woodley fight, but somehow even if a guy can land clean punches on condit, and can take him down reliably, Condit can still cut the cage off and land big combinations on the guy. Also Hendricks didnt pace himself at all, and got real tired in the third. In the third round theres a perfect shot with the camera right down the pipe on a right hand Condit hits where you can see Hendricks eyes roll back in his head. I'm not sure how much of that is Hendricks not pacing himself and how much is Condit just setting a pace he can't keep up with. Condit has ruined a lot of guys in later rounds and I don't think that's by accident. quote:From the fights I've watched so far, I haven't seen much on the ground from Hendricks. Condit's guard was too good for him to do anything. When Pierce had him on his back, he couldn't do much do defend himself until the upkick bought him some space, but Pierce had a lot more energy than he did at that point. An interesting difference between Hendricks and GSP is that they're both about equally good at taking guys down/preventing themselves from being taken down, but when GSP takes a guy down they're pretty much down for the duration but Hendricks seems to have a really hard time keeping guys on the ground after he gets them there.
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Bundt Cake posted:I just finished Hendricks v TJ Grant. Great fight. The first round was amazing. They were already pretty good at striking. Goldberg said Hendricks told him that he'd been focusing only on striking for a year. Grant landed two low blows to Jonny, one in the first round, where the ref left Hendricks near his corner where he got advice from Marc laimon. The first round was at an insane pace, and both guys were only in decent shape, not incredible like they are now. Looking back at both these and the GSP fight, it seems to me that Hendricks started as a guy that was really good at wrestling and blessed with punching power, and that now he's a guy who's really good at wrestling, pretty good at striking, blessed with punching power and mediocre at bjj/ground game. His striking has obviously improved, his striking defense against Condit was impressive, his wrestling is still great, but he still doesn't get much done on people once he gets them on the ground.
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Gregor Samsa posted:Could someone explain to me where the unbearably stupid "WAR ______!!!!1!1" poo poo came from in places like Sherdog and the UG? for like 10+ yearsI haven't known what it could possibly mean and for some reason I've decided I must know. While Lost For Words' link correctly identifies the Auburn battle cry as the origin, I believe using "WAR ____" to cheer on non-Auburn things originated on the Jim Rome show.
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As a longstanding Sakuraba fan my ire for Wanderlei dates back to long before he and Chael were ever mentioned in the same sentence.
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david carmichael posted:I have no idea what "fight IQ" means. Sakrabab had an excellent single, and was good enough at wrestling and catch to control a lot of dudes on the ground. He beat some very good grapplers by being much larger than them, and when he fought dudes he couldn't muscle around (who had any clue whatsoever as to what they were doing) he was crushed. Viciously. The only dudes Saku ever fought that he had a significant size advantage over were Royler and Minowa.
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Captain Log posted:Also, why does Jones have to be one of the coolest fighters in the cage and lamest out of the cage? I'm still one of the last Fedor (in his prime) fans, but Bones is too far for me because he just seems like a straight up petulant child. I would imagine that becoming the literal best in the world at something about three years after you start it probably doesn't do a lot for your sense of humility, and given that he decided to start fighting because he knocked up his girlfriend and needed to make some money he was probably a bit of a dope to begin with.
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Someone make a thread for the Frankie/BJ TUF before I give everyone Jersey-Shore-related custom titles
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Another fine Tiger Schulmann product
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1st AD posted:Why do people pay money to train there? I get the impression that it's a total McDojo. Good advertising, aggressive recruitment of guys with wrestling experience, and local promoters give TSK guys favorable matchups because every TSK fighter is guaranteed to sell 500 tickets minimum for every show they're on. Also, the two locations that actually train fighters aren't McDojos, they just aren't that great.
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MycroftXXX posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but they can also give they're fighters jobs at their mcdojos so they can basically get paid to train. Yeah, that's another reason they tend to do well on the local level, they have a lot more guys training essentially full time. In other news - quote:So, why exactly did the payoff for the long-running Wanderlei Silva vs. Chael Sonnen feud get pushed back again? Well, remember that brawl that the two engaged in that aired last week on TUF: Brazil? Apparently, there were repercussions that went past the moment. wrestling: The best art for streetfights
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The UFC is currently having a press conference in Shaq's house. God bless this idiotic sport.
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Bundt Cake posted:They definitely played up his performance against Fitch as a good one. I can't totally remember that fight, but I remember a lot of posters here knew what happened so maybe someone will tell us. Also I remember one time I remembered it wrong and got owned iirc in the Fitch fight he rightfully lost 29-28, but it was notable because the round he clearly won was round 3, and anyone winning round 3 against Fitch was kind of weird. My take on Pierce was that he's really good but fights with absolutely no sense of urgency even when the fight is obviously really close, which leads to him getting hosed on decisions. I might be exaggerating how many times that's happened, though.
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Dantu posted:I dvr'd Kennedy v Bisping. Worth watching? It wasn't a GREAT match, but it was decent. If I had missed the event I'd call it worth watching, although I doubt I'll ever watch it again.
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Bundt Cake posted:I watched Rocha's next fight today, against Mike Pierce. 29 years old, less than ten fights. First UFC fight Ellenberger. Second UFC fight Mike Pierce. Pierce is better than Ellenberger, if anything. Pierce didn't want anything to do with Rocha's guard in the first round, even when he got him down. Rocha is huge, strong as gently caress, good at striking, and great at grappling. I'd like to hear a jiu jitsu guy run down the guards/techniques Rocha uses in round 2 when Pierce decided to try out his guard. I feel like Rocha just got a chance to feel what the top level was in terms of taking hits and fighting at a tiring pace, and he got shitcanned. They should have let him fight Paul Bradley. Remind me sometime this weekend; I think I have the prelims for that on my hd somewhere and I wouldn't mind rewatching that.
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Rich Franklin posted:I have been in talks with ONE FC about taking a job with them. They offered me a position as VP. I will be heading to ONE FC headquarters in the next few weeks to work out the details. I met with Dana and Lorenzo at the end of last year and they gave me their blessing. I will keep you posted. That could have interesting implications regarding the relationship between the UFC and OneFC.
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1st AD posted:Aldo probably doesn't even get PPV points What on earth makes you think this
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1st AD posted:I always assumed that the only fighters making points were ones who actually drove PPV buys? Mighty Mouse has 'em.
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MassRafTer posted:I was under the impression he didn't when he was quoted as saying he didn't care about fighting on PPV and liked just being on Fox (or something to that effect.) It's cool that he could be making more money but is happy with his positioning. He specifically said that HIS ppvs wouldn't do enough buys for him to make more money than he does fighting on FOX. Dana and Lorenzo have already said that guys with ppv points who fight on free shows get compensated for the fact that they're on free shows.
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Nibbles141 posted:Don't fighters get PPV points automatically on obtaining a title? Nobody knows, but it's likely.
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My opponents were excellent runners and very fast, and my 4:57:09 time is very respectable considering I was running with two broken legs and an undiagnosed conjoined twin
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Obviously I don't know if she's on anything, but she'd be loving huge whether she was or not. Steroids don't make you 6'5".
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