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Dr. Abysmal posted:It looks like Terry Etim. I think you're right. And I should remember, that armbar he eventually got him with was ridiculous. It just didn't look like Etim's weird gangly body. Must be from that period when he started to eat things.
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Oct 1, 2015 03:18
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tesilential posted:Anthony wouldn't be caught dead with leg hair. Somebody here described him as looking like a young pharaoh, and one of my mates described as looking like the son of a sleazy nightclub owner and I cannot pick which describes him more accurately.
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Oct 1, 2015 04:32
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Tezcatlipoca posted:He actually is a nightclub owner. It's where he picks up women for his uncle. He had that goatee and the universe conspired to make sure he was a nightclub owner. Pogononative determinism.
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Oct 1, 2015 05:56
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Lid posted:I trust BJ Penn's completely upright stance will truly be able to overcome a man who is a 145 pound Jon Fitch. I remember Evan Dunham tricking him into having a good fight and Mendes almost dying of the cold in the middle of beating him unimpressively. I have no other memories of Nik Lentz. Northjayhawk posted:Uriah Hall is replacing Bisping at UFC 193 Yessssss
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Oct 1, 2015 10:21
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kensei posted:Women's MMA is truly catching up to Men's MMA It's just cool how Rawlings keeps doing exactly what someone with an overactive class prejudice would expect her to. VincesUndies posted:Paige's Instagram meanwhile gently caress off, Paige.
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Oct 1, 2015 22:59
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origami posted:Excerpt from Mark Hunt's book: The way you've quoted it makes it sound like Hunt regards Sapp as two men. Which is fair.
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Oct 2, 2015 01:29
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Tyrone Woodley's one punch is faster than Hendricks' many punches, but Hendricks has many of them. That concludes my analysis of that fight.
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Oct 2, 2015 02:39
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Chain_of_Dogs posted:Pretty much. That's why he's 19-4, with losses to Jones, Glover, Machida and *sigh* Tito. And wins against Magalhes, Little Nog, Jardine, Davis, Rampage, The Janitor, OSP...yea, he's a total can. The number of wins he has is really more an indictment of the division.
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Oct 2, 2015 11:14
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freud mayweather posted:A feat only two people have ever accomplished before. Yeah, but the others who didn't were...like...Phil Davis, Sean Salmon, the shambling corpse of Chuck Liddell and the tattered ruins of Rampage's ego.
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Oct 5, 2015 00:26
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Bubba Smith posted:yeah what I think people should take away from Cormier vs Gus is that Gus vs Jones definitely was not a fluke, Gus is a tough loving guy who is still dangerous even after the Rumble loss. I do think Cormier vs Jones 2 has a chance to be closer than the first match but Cormier's 5th round still doesn't look nearly as freaky as Jones' 5th round. So I would prefer to see Gus fight Jones again before Cormier does but eh them's the breaks. There is no shortage of drastically flawed fighters for him to beat up, and it will be rad watching him do so. He's so strange to watch, how he looks all gangly and uncoordinated, then changes direction on a dime and punches their head off.
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Oct 5, 2015 03:08
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Bader's like Thiago Tavares. You never see him in title shots, and every time he pops up, you go "He's still here?"
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Oct 5, 2015 23:14
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attackmole posted:the glieson tibau of LHW, if you will. Hey, Tibau at least had that...umm...where he...gently caress. How can someone have 25 fights and produce so little of note?
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Oct 6, 2015 01:48
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Chain_of_Dogs posted:People like to draw parallels, and the Fedor comparison is closer than Royce. Both dominated their respective organizations at the time, but Fedor did it against much more well rounded competition (and yes, against some cans, too). Sure, there are plenty of differences though, and any comparison is bound to be flawed. In the sense that most of Fedor's opponents were very round, yes. Because they were fat. But no, they weren't well rounded. He was pretty much the only well rounded heavyweight.
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Oct 7, 2015 23:00
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JuanGoat posted:The best part of this is how literally no one remembers Miocic. Well, he shouldn't have gotten comprehensively outboxed by Stefan loving Struve, then. The coolest thing about heavyweight is that everyone has kind of a crap resume. Even the top 5 or 6 guys thus far, the most impressive wins on their resumes are primarily each other.
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Oct 8, 2015 00:26
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Marching Powder posted:getting stuck on the end of a 7ft tall man's reach the one time he remembers to use his length is way more excusable than being comprehensively annihilated by chael sonnen for 23 minutes or getting out kick-boxed by jake shields or indeed most low-points of most great fighter's careers Not really. Also, it wasn't much to do with Struve's reach. He got out-boxed on the inside. Even if it hadn't been, it's a hard loss to overlook. Struve has a lot of wins, but they're mostly over people who's best win is Phillip DeFries or something. Miocic is a real outlier in that fight record. It's Struve's best win by a huge margin.
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Oct 8, 2015 00:46
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Marching Powder posted:anderson was juiced out of his mind and looked like dog poo poo against nick diaz and was probably just as juiced as sonnen during that fight It was a 250 pound tall guy and it was a bunch of uppercuts and hooks. Nobody who actually takes the sport seriously would say it defines his career. It's an outlier for both fighters, it's also a terrific fight and so it's easy to see why it would pop up in someone's memory quicker than the time he decisioned Roy Nelson or Gonzaga, or the 35 second knockout of Maldonado.
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Oct 8, 2015 01:12
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Marching Powder posted:so your saying your comment that i originally responded to was stupid? i agree. The Hunt one was a perfect example of how people's memories can be weird. I missed that fight, but all I remember people talking about, even here, was how Hunt looked terrible and the ref screwed up. The narrative was never "Miocic looked good" it was "Hunt looked terrible." The narrative of the JDS fight was "man, JDS sure has lost a step" not "man, Miocic made JDS look like he'd lost a step." We're discussing why he doesn't pop up in people's heads when they talk about the current crop of Heavyweights, not a breakdown of his skillset (which is formidable)
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Oct 8, 2015 01:42
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Mr. Nice! posted:We already got to see exactly what it would look like. Chael doubled him in the gym and had full control over him even if that dada gently caress was smacking him in the back of the head the whole time. I still can't work out what's more incredible: How much goodwill Wanderlei burned through or how fast he burned through it.
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Oct 8, 2015 03:28
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Just get Leslie Smith on a win streak, however brief. She's likable and durable.
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Oct 8, 2015 04:57
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1st AD posted:I don't think there's anything scummy about TJ leaving? He got a massive financial incentive to train with another team that happens to be close to his cosh and mentor. Maybe it will turn out poorly, maybe he'll do fine, only time will tell. Is Randa supposed to be Esparza in that analogy?
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Oct 9, 2015 03:36
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1st AD posted:Yes, but KK is not as good as Joanna and Randa is not as good as Esparza. So I think Randa will get takedowns and maintain top position for a bit, and I think Karolina will light her up a bunch and defend a few takedowns. I don't think either will finish the other, but I think Karolina wins it despite looking vulnerable in spots. I don't see the similarity. Esparza is a midget with a bad double and no plan B. Randa has a solid ground game and some weird submissions. She also seems to know what a punch is.
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Oct 9, 2015 03:54
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1st AD posted:Esparza has a better double than Randa. Carla's top game is about as good as Randa's from what I can, but they don't have a ton of common opponents for me to say for sure. I could be full of poo poo here. Honestly, they've got different enough games that I thought it was really strange to directly compare them. Carla's more like pre-knockout Chad Mendes without the athleticism or sultry sex appeal. She has a double and absolutely nothing else.
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Oct 9, 2015 04:31
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It's been a while since we had a reminder, but Robbie Lawler is the UFC Welterweight champion.
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Oct 9, 2015 05:58
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Take two steps away from Browne and he'll just backflip out the window into a wood chipper while trying to throw a jab.
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Oct 13, 2015 05:44
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Lid posted:This was my take away from it too. The guys who first trained Jon Jones can't take credit for making him whole, he just is. The same goes for Ronda and the evidence excluding Ronda is he sucks. Because if there's one thing we need to see, it's a more dominant Ronda. But yeah, it's like how everyone at Roufousports who isn't Anthony Pettis is a walking concussion.
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Oct 14, 2015 06:34
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Marching Powder posted:I know of a kid from roufussport who'd love to be a walking concussion Now you've made me sad. Lid posted:Rufus has some talent shown, even though he's 1-3 in his last 4 Erik Koch has shown he is a consistent top ten+ for example. Also he has Funky. Koch is okay, but Pettis gives a wildly disproportionate idea of how good the camp is.
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Oct 14, 2015 07:20
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Aurain posted:how do you feel about matt serra + pizza? I'm for it.
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Oct 14, 2015 09:16
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Brain Curry posted:UFC Orlando tix go on sale tomorrow. I'll be buying ours right away. Really psyched for that card. gently caress yes! Nate Marquardt is back, so I can experience the disappointment as people around me realise that Marquardt's excellent highlight reel does not correspond to his abilities as a fighter.
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Oct 15, 2015 00:25
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Tezcatlipoca posted:Jake Ellenberger and Travis Browne off the top of my head. I didn't think either of them looked any worse than usual though. What the gently caress happened to Ellenberger? I remember there seemed a time when him, McDonald and Condit were all really good Welterweight prospects. McDonald and Condit are still cool and handsome, but Ellenberger is just falling apart. Is it just him not developing as a fighter?
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Oct 15, 2015 01:20
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david carmichael posted:that bad article about the bad judge who talks about jeso a lot made me think: remember when nate quarry couldn't cut off the cage against a broken footed kalib starnes who had completely quit, and he landed like 0 strikes and no takedowns in the third and he got like a 10-6 round or whatever Kalib Starnes is a weird one. He had that rad brawl with Chris Leben, which won fight of the night, then two fights later he's responsible for one of the most infamous non-fights in the sport's history. And yes, Nate Quarry's utter lack of footwork was a factor.
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Oct 15, 2015 02:24
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I cannot wait to find out what really dorky hobby Joanna Champion has. I hope she's a keen Warhammer player or something.
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Oct 16, 2015 11:29
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LobsterMobster posted:That and the gay marriage stuff is cool, and Conor does seem like an actual decent person It's his fans. The hardcore, idiot ones. It's BJ Penn/Fedor/Shogun/Gegard Mousassi all over again. A cool fighter and seemingly a pretty cool dude, but with a fanbase primarily composed of loud cunts. henkman posted:My friend Lord Waffle Beard is right Oh, and Kennedy cheating immediately before that. Oh, and a massive 75 seconds passing between the end of one round and the beginning of the next. Oh, and gently caress Tim Kennedy forever. canoshiz posted:Apparently the UFC is in the middle of cutting a shitload of fighters. Current victims include Marcus Brimage and Eddie Gordon. Eddie Gordon's a cheap piece of poo poo with a semi-random hitbox, so I won't be sad to see him go. Marching Powder posted:i just rewatched condit / hendricks and absolutely everyone should because it's a sick oval office fight of the highest caliber but also because i remembered hendricks clearly taking the first two rounds and condit getting the third. on rewatch i saw 3 razor thin rounds. hendricks took condit down about 14 times and i'm not kidding you he kept him there in any sort of 'dominant' position on about 4 of those occasions and on 2 of those 4 occasions condit was such a loving menace from the bottom johny just straight up stood up out of full guard. insanely good fighting. Snowman_McK fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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Oct 17, 2015 09:14
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Skip My Posts posted:dang when Romero loses badly he's gonna come in here and own everyone. Everyone here is really invested in Yoel Romero's success Yoel Romero is hella cool, made Tim Kennedy cry and gives the best victory speeches in the sport.
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Oct 18, 2015 01:32
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Whenever I see Sage Northcutt, I imagine his mum standing beside me going "Isn't he handsome?" When I don't answer, she becomes more insistent "Isn't he HANDSOME?" When I still don't answer, she grabs my face, screaming "ISN'T HE HANDSOME?". Sage just stands there, being handsome in exactly the way mums describe their sons as being handsome before they go to prom. His mum retains hold of my face.
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Oct 19, 2015 01:03
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Le Saboteur posted:And then you realize his mother is actually GSP EEEESUNT 'EE 'ANSUUM! It is no longer a question. It is all there is, now.
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Oct 19, 2015 02:09
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fatherdog posted:He's not "late career resurgent", he's a guy who's gotten steadily better over the course of his career and is only 30. It is really cool to watch his fights in order and see a massive improvement over the years. It's spaced out, but from looking nervous and terrified to engage against Tyson Griffin, to slamming that left straight into Anthony Pettis' smug face, it's pretty loving dramatic. mewse posted:Shogun Shogun didn't just have knee injuries, though. He almost completely fell apart before he turned 30. It's weird to watch Shogun/Henderson 1 and realise only one of those men is actually old.
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Oct 19, 2015 22:52
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I do not get this.
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Oct 20, 2015 05:26
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He seemed like a cool guy. Sorry to see him go.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:20
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Except his ability to cut weight. It produced that great interview where his trainer got asked how he did it. The trainer just shrugged
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Oct 25, 2015 11:33
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