UFC March-ing into Mediocraty

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Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Tezcatlipoca posted:

Whittaker is good and if he can stay upright he'll probably knock Jacare out. If

Standing with Jacare is difficult because assuming he doesn't kill you on the ground he hits like a truck. I like Whittaker too, but Jacare is almost uncrowned champion level of talent like Machida during Rashad's reign.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 06:13

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Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

david carmichael posted:

He just lost to yoel like two fights ago, and since then he's beaten vitor

Eh, it was a close fight and I scored it for Jacare, and Yoel is a piece of poo poo

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 07:30

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

henkman posted:

Robbie lost to Woodley

and Woodley lost to Jake Shields

and Nate Marquardt

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 07:55

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

We went from Robbie Lawler winning fight of the year three years in a row in UFC welterweight title fights

To that

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 08:32

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

DoombatINC posted:

Tyron Woodley is the human equivalent of a wedge type Battlebot

Robbie Lawler is Razer.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 08:42

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Marching Powder posted:

who da fook said that? overeem's knees are some of the hardest strikes thrown in human history and that is pretty much consensus fact

I did based on hes been knocked out in 3 of his last six fights, and said it was shot by Hunt standards. He can still take shots but they can put him down and have been with more regularity. Hes not Chuck or Pitbull shot, but he cant take it on the chin like he used to and that is very bad for his style.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 08:47

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

chaleski posted:

I now dislike the GSP-Bisping fight even more, seeing how GSP could come back and likely take the belt from Woodley's cowardly rear end

They need Conor to win it to set up GSP v Conor for a belt.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 09:38

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

after that fight i think mickey gall could too

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 09:42

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Lone Goat posted:

Wedges move forward though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEvV-BpXmQ

Woodley v Maia

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 11:13

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Josuke Higashikata posted:

Which fighter is that cheating bastard Tornado who installed a big metal rig around his robot because he was so scared of Razer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEIGIiBb5LA

Hector Lombard

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 12:07

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Dan Didio posted:

Nick Diaz was approached for comment but the Nevada desert is just too vast.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 04:32

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Triticum Guzzler posted:

https://www.facebook.com/RothwellFighter/posts/1237081773008125

weird that all these steroid users have legitimate medical issues that they forget to tell anybody about until test positive

literally no one in the history of history has ever knowingly committed a crime

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 12:18

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

jay z's sedan posted:

Confucius Say : NO! NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOO!! NOOO!! NOOO!! NO! NO!!

... thats a bad stoppage ...

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 06:17

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Snowman_McK posted:

Counterpoint: Sean Sherk has no arms and was lightweight champion.

Countercounterpoint: Sean Sherk was so spundly beaten at range kickboxing by the smallest lightweight of all time Frankie Edgar he ran from a piss test while screaming and shirtless.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 07:49

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Snowman_McK posted:

He's lost to two pretty good fighters in a row. It's a losing streak, but kind of a qualified one. I still feel super dumb for thinking he was likely to retire undefeated.

Replace Weidman with Machida and this has all happened before.

Of course because God is Dead the only top tier fighter who will retire without a real loss will be Jon Jones

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 12:29

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...n-conor-mcregor

Mixed martial arts is the fastest-growing sport on Earth. Beloved by Vladimir Putin and its so-called ‘godfather’, Donald Trump, what does this bloody spectacle say about the world we live in? We took a seat cage-side…

Trump not only embraced the sport, he explored the possibility of himself developing a rival to the UFC called Affliction. He signed up a famous Russian fighter, Fedor Emelianenko, close friend of Vladimir Putin, to star in his events. The experiment ended after a couple of promotions but for all his efforts, Trump was inducted as a “visionary” into the New Jersey State Martial Arts Hall of Fame (Trump is known to have “fought” just once in public himself: at WrestleMania XXIII in 2007, he body-slammed the wrestling promoter Vince McMahon outside the ring before, bizarrely, shaving his hair (an encounter preserved for historians on YouTube).

In the opening skirmishes of his political war on nuance, Trump seems to have identified the UFC, or at least fans of it, as likely fellow travellers. “It’s sort of like – somebody dies!” he said, when asked about the sport’s appeal. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it … It’s not like, ‘Oh, how are the judges voting?’ It’s like, you know, somebody just succumbs.”

That particularly adolescent – now presidential – fantasy is never quite as simple in reality. Watching the UFC up close, without the edits and the highlights, you have a strong sense of the vulnerability of the fighters as well as their prowess. They look as likely to have been bullied as to be bullies. The strangest moment in a long evening at the O2 comes with the farewell fight of 38-year-old Brad Pickett, a native East Ender, who has been a stalwart of the UFC for nearly a decade, and who has earned the nickname “One Punch”.

In case you were in any doubt of his cockney connections, Pickett enters the arena to Chas and Dave’s song Wallop, wearing a string vest, braces, his customary trilby, and reading a paper (I’m guessing not the Observer). He is, given the valedictory nature of his performance, also in tears. He is fighting a lithe Ecuadorean kickboxer, Marlon Vera, who is at least a foot taller than him and just over half his age. For a couple of rounds the farewell fight seems to be going to plan; in the third, however, as Pickett tries to land a trademark punch, Vera knocks him out with a vicious kick to the jaw. Pickett tries to get up and fight on, but is stopped by the referee. In tears again, he leaves his trilby in the centre of the Octagon. Later in his press conference, he is still bemoaning the way that the fight ended. He doesn’t believe he had lost consciousness. He’d told the referee: “If you are going to stop it make sure I’m stiff”, but he hadn’t listened. Still choked, he speaks a little about his long history with the sport, how at his first MMA fights on Portsmouth pier he didn’t even get paid: “Just a free seat for my mum and dad. It wasn’t even a sport really, at all then,” he says, “but look at it now, all around the world.”

Lid fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Mar 27, 2017

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Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Memento posted:

Need some April thread titles, I'm not doing the one about "the negro" from up the thread.

UFC April: I'm Agent Johnson, this is Special Agent Johnson. No relation.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2017 04:04

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