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Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.
lol i just remembered that fight pass was a loving crypto mining thing for loving ages and noone noticed

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Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
This post is a canyon-deep cut.

ilmucche posted:

imagine how good his shin kicking will be if he keeps the titanium bar
Duncan (RIP) went over this when Anderson had his leg rebuilt: metal bone implants apparently feel very lovely and do not help performance other than keeping the bone from healing crooked.

ilmucche posted:

Yeah that was definitely a joke.
Whoops, catching up on thread.

Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Apr 29, 2021

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib
https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/1387764664407371790?s=20
Endeavor is now public. Hope you all bought some UFC stock!

Trillhouse
Dec 31, 2000

Bluedeanie posted:

Thinking about how Chris Leben once earned an XBox 360 as a Knockout of the Night bonus, and how somehow that was less absurd and exploitative than the inevitable future where fighters will earn a proprietary currency that can only be used to buy grey-market pornography or the UFC Hot Dog Brander and a meaningless certificate alleging ownership of a gif of Rampage Jackson eviscerating a door in exhange for giving someone irrepairable brain damage

I'm laughing about Smiling Sam Alvey saying he was against a fighters' union because he was going to be the next McGregor, and then going 3-6-1 since then with some of the worst, most boring fights I've ever seen. 0-5-1 over his last six fights. He hasn't won since 2018 and I'm surprised he hasn't been cut already.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
I would laugh to the end of my days if Conor tried to pull an MJ and refused to join the union, but it might not even form during his career.

The Automator
Jan 16, 2009

Digital Jedi posted:

https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/1387764664407371790?s=20
Endeavor is now public. Hope you all bought some UFC stock!

Did he use some kind of filter to stretch his upper body because his arms are weirdo long

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Trillhouse posted:

I'm laughing about Smiling Sam Alvey saying he was against a fighters' union because he was going to be the next McGregor, and then going 3-6-1 since then with some of the worst, most boring fights I've ever seen. 0-5-1 over his last six fights. He hasn't won since 2018 and I'm surprised he hasn't been cut already.

He probably got as many chances in his losing streak because he keeps saying anti-union poo poo

Hollandia
Jul 27, 2007

rattus rattus


Grimey Drawer

Marching Powder posted:

lol i just remembered that fight pass was a loving crypto mining thing for loving ages and noone noticed
This was my first thought for the UFC crypto, but as a joke. It actually happened??

Trillhouse posted:

I'm laughing about Smiling Sam Alvey saying he was against a fighters' union
Scabbing Sam Alvey

The Automator
Jan 16, 2009

Hollandia posted:

This was my first thought for the UFC crypto, but as a joke. It actually happened??

Scabbing Sam Alvey

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/mixed-mining-arts-ufc-website-removes-coinhive-cryptocurrency-code%3Famp%3D1

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

Bluedeanie posted:

Yes Cartwheel

you did this bluedeanie. you did this

https://twitter.com/MMAjunkie/status/1387987256212815875?s=20

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad
What is a nightmare but a miserable pile of cartwheels?

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
it's time for the world's most complete human being to solve this crisis. i believe in you valentina

https://twitter.com/ConflictCollec1/status/1387974484565663745?s=20

chaleski
Apr 25, 2014


So they never specified why he was pulled from the Cowboy fight and now he's cut? Interesting

TheKingslayer
Sep 3, 2008

chaleski posted:

So they never specified why he was pulled from the Cowboy fight and now he's cut? Interesting

https://news.yahoo.com/ufc-releases-diego-sanchez-as-dana-white-blasts-his-bats-nuts-coach-joshua-fabia-054815907.html

Yahoo Sports posted:

The UFC has been concerned for some time about the behavior of Sanchez’s coach, Joshua Fabia. Sanchez’s release, however, was facilitated because even though Sanchez passed his medicals for a planned May 8 fight versus Donald Cerrone, neither Fabia nor attorney Charles N. Lakins would confirm to the UFC that Sanchez was not suffering from either short-term or long-term medical issues.

Fabia asked a UFC medical coordinator for all of Sanchez’s medical records going back to "The Ultimate Fighter" in 2004. Several UFC employees told Yahoo Sports that they’d seen Fabia berate employees and so they contacted Hunter Campbell, the UFC’s chief business officer.

Campbell called Fabia and Sanchez and in the conversation, Fabia talked about short-term and long-term medical issues Sanchez may have experienced.

That was a red flag for Campbell, who knew that Sanchez had passed a medical examination, which included a brain scan. Campbell then wrote to Sanchez, expressing concerns about Fabia’s comments and asking Sanchez to verify he was OK.

UFC president Dana White told Yahoo Sports that the UFC could not put a fighter into the cage in good conscience if the fighter wouldn’t say he or she was healthy and fit to fight.

When Lakins responded to Campbell’s request for clarification of Sanchez’s health, Lakins said Sanchez could not respond because he’s not a neurologist and hadn’t seen one. Upon receipt of that response, Sanchez was formally cut in an email sent on April 27.

Freudian slippers
Jun 23, 2009
US Goon shocked and appalled to find that world is a dirty, unjust place

I think his handler, the shaman, went off on UFC brass about not looking after Diego's health properly and they cut him instead: https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2021/4/30/22411247/diego-sanchez-released-from-ufc-roster-after-16-year-run-mma-news

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Lol at Dana implying he has a conscience

Brut
Aug 21, 2007

Josuke Higashikata posted:

Lol at Dana implying he has a conscience

They're called shareholders.

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.
Diego would have received a vicious beating by cerrone and I'm glad it's not happening and don't really care why. That dude does not need more concussions.

Freudian slippers
Jun 23, 2009
US Goon shocked and appalled to find that world is a dirty, unjust place

Josuke Higashikata posted:

Lol at Dana implying he has a conscience

"Thank you for giving us an excuse to fire Diego on the pretence that we actually care about his health." I bet Dana was ecstatic.

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Now they need to do the same for Cerrone

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


And there are reports that Zabit is retiring

https://twitter.com/aaronbronsteter/status/1388117376324050947

mewse
May 2, 2006


drat, headlining nov 2019 to retirement, that's sudden

Stealth Tiger
Nov 14, 2009

I'm hoping he's just bluffing as a bargaining move. If he quits the sport, it really is the UFC's loss.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


Another case of Covid kicking the poo poo out of him perhaps?

mewse
May 2, 2006

Stealth Tiger posted:

I'm hoping he's just bluffing as a bargaining move. If he quits the sport, it really is the UFC's loss.

The top lines from the russian article sound like retirement is far from a sure thing

quote:

Fighter Zabit Magomedsharipov may end his career
At the same time, representatives of Magomedsharipov noted that the fighter could get the next fight in the UFC next summer.

Oh but in the article it does say leaning towards retirement

quote:

"With a high degree of probability, Zabit will no longer fight," the source said.

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

HAHA! WOOOOOOO WOOO!
Fun Shoe

Eat This Glob posted:

i will own titodick.jpg and jardenesprawl.png as nfts. thanks, dana

lmao, this is making me reconsider NFTs because i would pay a lot of money to own frankmirheadphones.gif


also: the diego stuff is incredibly sad. the poo poo about his manager using the UFC PI to chase fighters around with a knife in the cage is mindboggling. sanchez-melendez is my all time favorite fight, so I hope he's not too hosed up. diego was never, uh, societally lucid to begin with. the instagram videos he posted are depressing:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/COQyWJjDo3u/?utm_source=ig_embed

Brut
Aug 21, 2007

Hi I'm looking at the Russian "article" and it makes no loving sense to me, it's like barely two paragraphs and as noted above seems to contradict itself, I suspect this is lost in translation somewhere.

This is also like the Russian equivalent of Reuters which I'd take their word more seriously for big world news but I wouldn't expect them to know anything about MMA or UFC.

edit: lmao, the tag on the article says "MMA" but if you click it the URL is still /tag/ufc, that's probably all you need to know.

Also from what I understand Zabit lives and trains in New Jersey on what I must assume is a work visa, and I have no idea how he'd stay in the country if he retired from MMA.

Brut fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Apr 30, 2021

LobsterMobster
Oct 29, 2009

"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."

"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"

Brut posted:

Hi I'm looking at the Russian "article" and it makes no loving sense to me, it's like barely two paragraphs and as noted above seems to contradict itself, I suspect this is lost in translation somewhere.

This is also like the Russian equivalent of Reuters which I'd take their word more seriously for big world news but I wouldn't expect them to know anything about MMA or UFC.

edit: lmao, the tag on the article says "MMA" but if you click it the URL is still /tag/ufc, that's probably all you need to know.

Also from what I understand Zabit lives and trains in New Jersey on what I must assume is a work visa, and I have no idea how he'd stay in the country if he retired from MMA.

He could teach small children the secrets of Dagestani Wushu

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad
Whoa, unexpected old haircut GSP cameo in Falcon and Winter Soldier.

E: yesssss he does the Sean Sherk "urghhhh" groan when escaping.

kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 04:24 on May 1, 2021

LobsterMobster
Oct 29, 2009

"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."

"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
Remember when Jeremy Stephens shoved Drakkar Klose at weigh-ins and Dana White blamed Sean Shelby for not intervening quickly enough in the presence of a known savage?

Known nincompoop, Ion Cutelaba, violently grabbed Dustin Jacoby at the weigh-ins and Dana White just kinda stood there and did nothing.

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

LobsterMobster posted:

Remember when Jeremy Stephens shoved Drakkar Klose at weigh-ins and Dana White blamed Sean Shelby for not intervening quickly enough in the presence of a known savage?

Known nincompoop, Ion Cutelaba, violently grabbed Dustin Jacoby at the weigh-ins and Dana White just kinda stood there and did nothing.

did worse than nothing. said he gave shelby poo poo backstage and then said he (dana) should have just stayed at the office. christ i need to stop following the ufc

https://twitter.com/MMAjunkie/status/1388201837975642115?s=20

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY

Eat This Glob posted:

did worse than nothing. said he gave shelby poo poo backstage and then said he (dana) should have just stayed at the office. christ i need to stop following the ufc

He seems embarrassed and a little self deprecating so this doesn’t really move the needle for me on the Dana being lovely front.

Cutelaba is a total nutcase and I love him, especially because he’s not even very good and there’s always a good chance he gets KO’d after he pulls this poo poo.

Aye Doc
Jul 19, 2007



https://twitter.com/BigMarcel24/status/1388530335248527364

crossing my fingies for Zabit

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY
Surgery for what?

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go?



To determine if he will continue his MMA career

Southpaugh
May 26, 2007

Smokey Bacon


blue footed boobie posted:

Surgery for what?

guessing its his butthole op

MotU
Mar 6, 2007

It was like she was evicting walking garbage.
Pillbug
Gotta fix his zabits

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

MotU posted:

Gotta fix his zabits

i like my zabitz with gabagool

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007

Gotta open 'em up and find out of he still has the heart of a fighter

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Brut
Aug 21, 2007

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3966621

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