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seeing him lose his poo poo joyfully at having won was a solid payoff for the heartache of seeing gus lose his title shot in front of his whole country after two of his countrymen lost, and on top of it he lost to somebody who looked really damned surprised that happened i am still not over that, you poor huge violent man. silva probably shouldn't fight much anymore, but it was really good to see him do it well again after that crazy injury Agreed fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Feb 1, 2015 |
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Heres the kick in glorious hi-res: http://gfycat.com/FalseTotalBobcat I couldn't find the Meinsault  Also here's Lineker yukking it up about being fat and useless: http://gfycat.com/TautJollyAntelope
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colonel_korn posted:Also here's Lineker yukking it up about being fat and useless: http://gfycat.com/TautJollyAntelope
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NObodyNOWHERE posted:To be fair, Diaz showing damage is usually a poor metric for gauging who won a fight. Diaz pretty much gets cuts around his eyes if he walks into a draft because a box fan is running. It was even worse before he had his eye surgery, as I recall. Silva, on the other hand, is someone who shows little damage even when he gets clobbered throughout a fight. The Stockton metric clearly states that the guy with the more hosed up face lost. If the Diazes can't claim the Stockton metric as their own anymore, they are running out of metrics.
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JHomer722 posted:Man, Diaz has fought some of the biggest names of the previous decade: BJ, GSP, and now Silva. Let's go for 2 out of 3. I was just thinking about this. He's fought the UFC's most dominant champs at 155, 170, and 185. He just has to fight Aldo and Jones and then he can retire.
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That kick looks like it barely landed from that angle. All toe
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if Mein hadn't lifted his arms to try to block that knee, he might have been able to get a DQ win
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Triticum Guzzler posted:how did Alves look by the way? I've always enjoyed his fights but the play by play I read referred to Mein as "the larger man" which was funny to me given that Alves was too fat for 170 in his day mein landed like 40 power shots during round 1, and rogan was screaming about how powerful they all were, and alves' face didn't looked marked up at all. you looked a little hurt, but never in danger, but it really looked like mein should have put him out with how easily he was landing
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gimpsuitjones posted:That kick looks like it barely landed from that angle. All toe It didn't look bad from any angle, or at full speed. Caught him just right I guess.
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Mein Fuhrer, I can roll! https://gfycat.com/PlumpBiodegradableGreathornedowl
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Fat Twitter Man posted:I was just thinking about this. He's fought the UFC's most dominant champs at 155, 170, and 185. He just has to fight Aldo and Jones and then he can retire. Nick Diaz never fought Frankie Edgar though?
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He expended too much energy and got tired
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Dangersim posted:Nick Diaz never fought Frankie Edgar though? and soon to be Anthony Pettis 
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Feb 2, 2015 05:19
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Sorry but I'm putting this in both threads:
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EvanSchenck posted:Mein had trouble circling out, to the point that he did a bizarre tactical somersault to escape, but Alves backed him up again and destroyed his ribcage with a horrifying body kick as he was trying to circle out. It's a mixed performance for both of them. Mein was much better than him in exchanges in the open, to the point that Alves was clearly outmatched, but Alves eventually won because of superior ringcraft.
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Feb 2, 2015 07:23
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Dangersim posted:Sorry but I'm putting this in both threads: Both excellent
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Dangersim posted:Nick Diaz never fought Frankie Edgar though? Frankie only had three title defenses, making him exactly as successful a LW champ as Penn and Bendo. One of them was a draw and shouldn't really count. Pettis will make his fourth title defense some time in 2020 at his current rate. I mentioned Penn instead of Edgar or Bendo because people actually cared about the LW division when he fought.
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david carmichael posted:mein landed like 40 power shots during round 1, and rogan was screaming about how powerful they all were, and alves' face didn't looked marked up at all. you looked a little hurt, but never in danger, but it really looked like mein should have put him out with how easily he was landing I think Mein's success in the first round was overblown. He was definitely winning, but I think there were a lot of big reactions for strikes that Alves blocked or that barely landed. Thiago's forearms took more of a beating than his face did.
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Bubba Smith posted:and soon to be
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kimbo305 posted:As he was getting pressed to the fence, Mein switched briefly to southpaw. He went back to orthodox, and then Alves closed in more. Mein bounced off the fence and went back to southpaw. Both times he was in southpaw, he was trying to keep his rear foot on the side he was circling out (away from the fence) toward. Given his limited space, he was trying to get more of his body further from Thiago. I don't know how much time he trains footwork in southpaw, but I'd guess he didn't have his defense keyed up in the less familiar off-stance. It's just generally hard to protect yourself when you're circling out like that. By choosing which side to put more pressure on the other guy can choose which direction you circle out, and the power strike is waiting for you. When Mark Hunt is leading he likes to make guys circle to their right and then he pops them with his left hook as they exit. A hard body kick is pretty standard for that tactic. I don't know that Mein got hit because he changed stances. He might have changed stances because he anticipated a body kick to his left side as he circled out, and he thought he'd survive it better from southpaw. Alves placed it marvelously, though, his foot whipped right through Mein's guard and nailed him in the gut.
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EvanSchenck posted:It's just generally hard to protect yourself when you're circling out like that. It's true -- you have to get the right balance of moving to the side and moving away out of range. Mein had enough space to move back, but I'm claiming from southpaw, he might not have had the muscle memory to slide back as much as he would have wanted, or to move as fast as he'd want. What I'm saying is I guess Alves learned the right lessons from Rick Story clock theory.
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Toksai posted:Mein Fuhrer, I can roll!
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Grifter posted:This should now be the new standard way to get off the cage. At heavyweight it should be the only legal way. 
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Grifter posted:This should now be the new standard way to get off the cage. At heavyweight it should be the only legal way. If kicks to the head of a grounded opponent were legal, I'm pretty sure that maneuver would result in a head flying into the stands at least once per event.
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