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Under the right circumstances I think CM Punk would beat Tron Bonne but Gambit is a bad style matchup for him imo
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Vince McMahon fooled Insane Clown Posse into wrestling for him for free in exchange for an album commercial he never had aired. He owns and understands how a fake business needs to be ran.
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Mar 22, 2015 18:51
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What's the source? Poking around on twitter, I'm not seeing it.
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Mar 26, 2015 20:48
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Are gay pinups a thing, because I feel like that's the exact pose a gay pinup tattoo would have
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Apr 22, 2015 02:32
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Aesop Poprock posted:actually no, gay people don't enjoy porn or nude depictions of people of the same sex so the idea of this is ridiculous It's not the porn element I was asking about but the very specific aesthetic of pinup culture, but if that's how you wanna read it then swing away, Johnny!
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Apr 22, 2015 14:58
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That "The Time Is Now" huge groundbreaking press conference that turned into "we didn't get the deal signed yet lol" was supposed to be the CM Punk signing announcement. Somehow that would have been even more underwhelming than what happened.
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Jul 24, 2015 16:32
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HulkaMatt posted:PREDICTIONS FOR 2016
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Feb 10, 2016 18:16
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I don't doubt it for a second, but how would Bisping know?
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Feb 14, 2016 05:50
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:john cena was really funny in trainwreck, a thing i have seen. cm punk has been ? in ? because i have not seen him do anything. therefore john cena is better. Cena was also funny as the drug dealer in Sisters, a thing which CM Punk could not do because he's too straight edge.
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Apr 14, 2016 19:42
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Basically I think we can all agree it's a goddamn shame we never got Tank Abbott vs Captain Lou Albano in the UFC
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Apr 14, 2016 19:54
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Discount Trombones posted:"If it isn't my old nemesis, A TRUCK" I didnt realize CM Punk had been training with the Nogs
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May 21, 2016 14:10
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When this thread was posted there were still people around here besides me who liked Johny Hendricks, that's a trip.
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May 24, 2016 04:36
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MassRafTer posted:Bring back Kimbo. To fully appreciate the time capsule of tragedy this thread has become, this post was from the first page and I don't think MassRafTer or anyone else could have possibly predicted the dire consequences of ironically demanding Kimbo return to fighting at that time.
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May 24, 2016 15:51
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afatwhiteloaf posted:Didn't he already have bum knees when he got into the WWE? Who knows how bad they are now Bum knees have not stopped former champion Cain Velasquez from fighting as many times as once every two years, so CM Punk is still behind the curve there.
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May 24, 2016 22:27
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:cm punk worked ufc into paying for his medical bills and that is actually very cool I'll be the first to admit I don't know a whole ton about any given wrestleman so maybe CM Punk really is a sly business dealer like that, but I get the impression that this wasn't his angle at all and he really is a doof who thought high-level MMA would be a cool thing for him to do and he simply got the fringe benefit of covered medical care.
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May 26, 2016 22:24
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:The basic background, and really the reason Punk left wrestling, is that wrestling provides no medical care other than what Vince McMahon decides to pay for out of the goodness of his heart. There is nothing contractual. Most of the reason wrestlers do commercials and whatever is so they get a SAG credit and therefore insurance. That may all be true, but if it truly was always just about the insurance all along, why not do what everyone else does as you say and get a SAG credit, sparing his fragile ego the embarrassment or inconvenience of redundant interview questions, losing Kumite-style Rufousport smokers and being called a coward on the internet for ducking Mickey Gall? Surely the man with the Pepsi logo tattooed on his flesh is not above selling out for a few TV spots. Basically, manyak posted:I dont know anything about CM punk and i stop listening when wrestling guys start talking about Works and Shoots and Cutting Angles on everyone, but what happened was CM punk was an MMA fan and fantasized about doing it himself, was given an opportunity to do it because he is famous and is now realizing that its actually too hard to do so hes not going to.
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May 26, 2016 23:00
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It's by no means on the level of Frank Dux or anything, but a ton of pioneer-era MMA fighters have questionable spots on their early records from back in the day when copycat promotions and one-off events were popping up everywhere under no real athletic commission supervision so everything was kind of on the honor system. If you take a look at Chris Lytle's record, he's got an RNC win from 2000 over touted newcomer Beaver "Beaver" Beaver in the touted BBC - Bad Boy Competition, which we only knew took place at an indeterminate location in the US. Lytle also allegedly had another fight on the same card, but only he and one other person actually fight more than once so it doesn't seem like it was a traditional tournament setup. In this specific case, the obvious answer is "most if not all of what happened at this odd mystery event is highly embellished but it's from a time when recordkeeping wasn't good enough for anyone to call anyone else out on it, but I like to believe it really did happen and it was just like in the first X-Men movie when some jackass called "Wolverine" beat up people in front of a dozen drunk Canadians in a bar for $200 and free beer, except instead of Wolverine it was some beaver-themed mutant who got his rear end kicked by a firefighter from Indiana instead.
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May 31, 2016 21:15
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:i don't know what smoker fights are, but i remember hearing about his practice fights where he had about twenty and they said he maybe won one of them. Smokers are unofficial things where your gym brings in people to spar hard with you like an actual fight, oftentimes while a bunch of people crowd around the cage to cheer on and some people judge the fight in the event it should go to a decision. The idea is it helps you get a feel of where you are at on a competitive level and helps you understand what it's like to be in an actual fight, if you haven't yet. I don't know how effective they are at accomplishing these goals and hard sparring often has very bad consequences in terms of unnecessary damage and risk of injury, but that's what they are and it probably is not a great sign he's 1/20, and it's also probably bad that he's had in the neighborhood of 20 at a gym like Roufusport that is already known for going too hard and having a gym bully problem.
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Jun 22, 2016 19:31
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BGrifter posted:So he gets to hang around in the gym all day, collect free healthcare and have fake fights with his buddies in front of a crowd of screaming people? I can't imagine he ever wants to actually fight, he must be having the time of his life. It's like kids space camp but for MMA-loving ex-pro wrestlers. Minus the part where he's reportedly losing fights and getting the poo poo kicked out of him roughly 95% of the time, sure I guess
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Jun 22, 2016 19:57
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Kurohashi posted:If CM Punk had a dad like Sage's then maybe he'd be ready by now. What do his knuckles say, Kurohashi?
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Jun 22, 2016 20:21
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Josuke Higashikata posted:The WHAT. DO. MY. KNUCKLES. SAY live journal is a good decade old too Actually if you read carefully it is the cop who gets embarrassed and owned
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Jun 23, 2016 15:01
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Skip My Posts posted:drat i wanna bet against him, is mickey gall terrible? That's pretty impossible to say because he's only had two pro fights against nobodies, but his one bout in the UFC was against a 31-year-old debutante and Gall absolutely obliterated him. Punk has the same record as that guy and is older and way more beat up.
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Jun 23, 2016 18:57
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Chris James 2 posted:Huh. 203 is happening in Quicken Loans Arena, the same arena where Punk walked out of the WWE backstage. Wonder if that was intentional That seems like the kind of thing only 12 people in the world will know and care about, so I doubt it. Besides, the whole real reason they're rushing to Cleveland for the first time ever is because Stipe broke the curse.
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Jun 23, 2016 22:32
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IcePhoenix posted:Yeah but CM Punk and Vince McMahon are two of those people. The UFC isn't in the business of trying to gently caress with the WWE in any meaningful way, so the fact that it's the sort of thing that Vince McMahon would get irrationally upset about is all the more reason that is not a deliberate choice on the UFC's part.
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Jun 27, 2016 14:36
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What CM Punk actually believes posted:EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A DVD INTO THE SLOT. IT'S GRACIE UNIVERSITY (R) GLOBAL GRACIE JIU JITSU (R) INSTRUCTION AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, RENER. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN ON THE MAT GOING FOR AN INVISIBLE ARM BAR OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY HAVE WON FIGHTS WITHOUT EVEN STEPPING IN THE UFC CAGE. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE ON MY BLOG AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE ONLINE CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE SUBMISSIONS AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY MANSION LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING OSS. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng
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Cavauro posted:Himself via asphyxiation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7yaCKV-j0
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Jun 29, 2016 13:43
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Josuke Higashikata posted:How do I submit a petition to the UFC to have Mark Hunt replace Mickey Gall after UFC200? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Ohio?wprov=sfla1
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E: wrong thread but Ronda had people who didn't like her before she lost, they just got insanely vocal and mean about it immediately after
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I am not mad, and though I will argue with them, I do not assume wrestling fans itt are mad either. Just my observations of how I think and feel
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Chris James 2 posted:
The new Pokemon games look fun but it seems like Moon has way cooler exclusives than Sun imo
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Aug 2, 2016 19:12
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Brock Lesnar's UFC debut and his second-ever fight was in the comain of a ppv against former heavyweight champ Frank Mir. I have no clue how CM Punk's popularity with wrestling fans compares to Lesnar's back then and I also know Frank Mir obviously carries a different level of name recognition than Mickey "Some Guy" Gall, but regardless I think it is safe to assume that people will buy into a new product if a pro wrestler they like is involved. Also keep in mind the UFC itself is much more popular and immediately recognized now than in 2008, so there's probably less of an unfamiliarity hurdle for Punk to clear.
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Liquid Communism posted:Not to mention, it's smokers. They're practice. Going up against guys you might not be able to beat and trying poo poo you're not sure will work, against an opponent is who absolutely resisting you to the fullest rather than maybe holding back like a gym-mate who knows you have a match coming up would, could mean losses that don't matter for poo poo in the end. We won't know if he's learned anything until the fight. By no account is that how Rufousport operates though
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Halloween Jack posted:I haven't kept up with MMA in a looong time, so hypothetical question: Let's say Dana White and Joe Silva stopped caring about competition and respectability, and had the opportunity to book freakshow matches that would draw money--like if retired pro wrestlers and actors wanted to fight each other. How far could they go before they faced repercussions from the athletic commissions? I'm thinking they just wouldn't medically clear a match like Giant Silva vs. Akebono. Scott Coker of Bellator is currently an active case study for this almost down to a t, and the answer is "if you cherry pick your commissions and act unethically enough to falsify medical reports, extremely and dangerously far"
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:I would pay a bunch of money to see a roided up Brock Lesnar suplex a corpse for 3 minutes. I believe you might be very interested in competitive Darkstalkers streams
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LIKEINEEDTHIS posted:What's this from? Idk for sure because I just came across this posted with snide comments on a blog, but they've at least released the trailer for the CM Punk UFC documentary Fox Sports is putting together so I'd guess it's from that.
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Aug 10, 2016 02:45
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Team_q posted:I know it's a bad arm punch, but what exactly is wrong? Is he not timing his hips with his arms? Mistimes a weak distraction jab, and basically commits his whole body to a tepid uppercut to the body? I don't train and am not particularly adept at analyzing striking by any means, but the main things he's doing wrong that even I can tell are defensive. He's got his chin straight up and extended outward, he isn't moving his head and his hands are way down while he throws slow, weak, aggressively lovely combos, so anyone halfway worthy to fight in the UFC would wreck his poo poo right here in an actual fight unless he happens to just have a chin of solid granite. Without seeing his lower body it's hard (at least for me) to tell if he's doing some obvious bad things that are robbing his punches of torque and power they could have, but he's probably not trying to throw rocks at 100% power in sparring while documentary cameras are rolling, even at Rofousport. Obviously sparring is not a real fight and obviously we have no context at all for this exchange, so it could be at the end of a long day of training and he could have been doing this same combo drill for like 10 minutes so he might just be dead tired and have nothing left in his arms, so it is possible this is not as bad as it looks. He's still showcasing some really bad defense here though, and if they were filming b roll any longer than a few minutes and that's still the best footage they could pull for a trailer on a higher-end documentary, that's a very bad sign even beyond the obvious aspect of "37-year-old untrained pro wrestler."
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Aug 10, 2016 15:28
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Tim Boetsch's Jack Johnson style ko of Yushin "Thank You" Okami owned too, but those are very weird and specific
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Aug 10, 2016 20:32
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Dan Didio posted:Chris Leben really got a lot of mileage out of being too stupid for his brain to realize he was being knocked out. I'm glad we're talking about him again, feels too long since I got to type Chris Leben Owns.
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Upon seeing what is ostensibly Punk's best quality of sparring compared to Gall's, most people here (myself included) feel extremely comfortable saying Gall is going to obliterate Punk. What's most fun to consider is based on the fact that Gall's career afterward will consist of crushing three cans making their pro MMA debuts, we will still have no reason to believe Gall's even truly good enough to deserve his spot on the UFC roster.
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