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It's easy to forget that Ryan Jimmo had been in a lot of extremely boring decisions. He did seem like a nice guy though. I was totally on the Zaromskis train when he was having his run. I always have conflicted feelings about when he kicked Sakuraba's ear off because that was super loving cool but Saku  I'll post if I end up remembering a guy. The caffeine hasn't hit my blood yet.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I loving love Saku, I wish he'd succeeded more in the US so more folks knew about him. I don't like Dana White at all but I'm glad UFC inducted Saku and acknowledged his contribution to the sport. Do you think we should remember Saku? Like, I don't think he was ever forgotten.
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May 28, 2021 14:15
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LobsterMobster posted:IGOR "ICE COLD" VOVCHANCHYN The Dan Bobish clips are the best part of that video. Remember Dan Bobish? He's a guy who makes me wish that there was no cap on heavyweight.  Apparently he works as a hearing aid specialist now. https://www.hollyshearing.com/about-us/our-professionals/hearing-instrument-specialists/dan-bobish?m=1 
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Remember Jorge Santiago? 25-10 Career, but 24-4 without his UFC fights? Repeatedly ranked as a top-worldwide middlweight, with a couple FOTY nominations, but a wet fart in his 3 UFC runs?
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LobsterMobster posted:Santiago vs Misaki 4lyfe Agreed. I'm due to rewatch them soon. I might spend some time in August rewatching old fights. If I do, maybe I'll use this thread to post about it.
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Jul 23, 2021 22:00
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Remember Cezar "Mewtanch" Ferreira? Came in off of TUF: Brazil and was The Next Big Deal and beat some Brazilians and then got KOed by C.B. Dolloway. And then Sam Alvey. Then Jorge Masvidal in an illl-advised drop to welterweight. He lost to Chris Camozzi this year, which I think actually invalidates his Brazilian citizenship.
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Jul 28, 2021 02:47
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shadow puppet of a posted:Remember KJ Noons and that infuriating fight in Elite XC, itself an already infuriating promotion, when before every feint he'd first touch his bangs on his awful curtians proto-hockey haircut and it led to a spectacularly horrible fight against a countering figher in nate diaz? How do you counter a guy touching his bangs? Noons was weird and like anyone who Elite XC promoted heavily annoyed me at the time (Mauro's hyperbole can instantly sour me on a fighter) but in hindsight he was actually pretty good, at least when he was on. Just super accurate hands and a nice consistent work rate. If we could make some kind of quantitative index of "fighters who are forgotten" compared to "how bad their records look" compared to "how good was fighter actually" he'd score very highly. He faced some extremely good opposition and made them earn their wins, and even beat a few of them. But like he also managed to lose to Ryan Couture 
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CarlCX posted:You're thinking of Lugz model No. 2, Houston Alexander. Holy poo poo this video. They do the science board. There's the extremely scientific test where they expose him to 0.7 mg* of rudeness to get him clinically mad, and then the "cautious" doctor is like "gently caress it lets inject him with some poo poo and then do it again because why not." There's the blurred out pubes. There's the Requiem for a Dream eye closeup that doesn't actually seem to show anything. The ominous reverb on basic observations. Every minute has new treats. *mean girls
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Don't forget that Schoonover deliberately gained like 40 lbs for the chance to go on TUF, which is why he was so doughy. I think he was an undefeated I think middleweight prospect before that, and after TUF he lost 5 straight. It's actually unclear what weight class he was in before TUF. His opponents who have records are listed everywhere from Featherweight to Super Heavyweight. Oh, and he went 8-0 in 2008. Never change, "Texas Regional."
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LobsterMobster posted:I thought he was a 205er who bulked up, not unlike Chris Weidman's friend, Gian Villante Oh quite likely. Jake Collier belongs on that list too. He's a chungus hero.
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beggar posted:Do you recognize This Guy? Remember when he narrowly avoided assault charges after beating up that football guy in a street brawl?
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Lid posted:Who was the TUF guy who ended up with the entire city if Bali trying to arrest him after he glassed a mobster? Wasn't that Faber?
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When Bendo wrestled Thatch the general reaction was "woah welterweight Bendo is gonna be sick" when in reality it turned out that welterweight Bendo was extremely sad and Thatch was even sadder.
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what I always remember about him is that he was to Cody McKenzie what Keith Jardine was to Rashad Evans - McKenzie used to talk about how Beerbohm was the total loving warrior in the gym and how Beerbohm was gonna beat everyone up in the UFC when he made it there.
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chaleski posted:Rampage was visibly confused and shaking his head at himself winning the decision and tried to give Ninja the trophy, that and Lauzon edging out Marcine Held are the only times I can think of where a winning fighter immediately went "nah I didn't win that" Rampage also did that after his fight with Machida. He opened the post fight like "I don't know why I'm talking to you all right now he whooped my rear end."
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shadow puppet of a posted:I'm saddened to report to the Remembering Guys thread that my look into the current whereabouts of Andre Roberts have him no showing a cush guest of honor spot at Warrior Games 7 I've heard a very-well-sourced rumour that he is writing a memoir. I'll go as far as to say that I'm 100% sure that he is working on it, but who knows if it ever will come out. That said, I will 100% buy it if it does, because a Monte Cox memoir will be basically the best primary source about that era of MMA.
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Remember when Josh Koscheck thought it was the funniest thing that a guy was a nurse and wouldn't let it drop? And weirdly it was a top-5 funny moment that season, but in a sad way, and at Koscheck's expense.
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mister posted:Was that also the guy who went on to lose to Cody McKenzie by diving neck first into a guillotine after his coaches spent the whole episode saying "just stay away from the guillotine. That's all he has so just keep it standing and you'll win." Or were those two separate guys that I am getting mixed together? it's both in a way. Cody did that to Stephens (Kos's guy) and then in the next round they brought Stephens back as an injury replacement or wild card spot or something and he got guillotined in that fight too after having learned the lesson once already vs Cody.
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The first time I saw him Mauro was hyping the poo poo out of him as if I should already know who he was and then he had a sloppy fight with Mike whitehead
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The IFL h appened at a time that I was watching less MMA so that's the first time I've seen that particular video. holy poo poo hah
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SalTheBard posted:Wagner Prado will forever and always be "my Guy". He was 8-0 in Brazil and took a short notice fight against Phil Davis. Davis poked Prado in the eye with 90 seconds left in the first round. It was called a no contest. Two months later he got his rematch against Phil Davis and lost in the 2nd round via submission with like 30 seconds left in the round. Per Wikipedia he had one more fight in the UFC Ildemar Alcântara and lost by kneebar in the 2nd round. So after starting 8-0 he went 0-2-1. He never fought in the UFC but has managed to go a very respectable 8-5-1 He actually looked good in that first Davis fight up til the poke as I recall. He was probably fighting the best fight of his whole career up to that foul.
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Snowman_McK posted:Anyone remember Luiz Cane? Pretty respectable early run in the UFC: two wins by knockout, a decision win over Steve Cantwell (who deserves his own post, but not for being good) and only a DQ loss. Then he ran into Little Nog, who knocked him out in two minutes and broke something in Cane's brain. He developed a Brock esque aversion to being hit. It climaxed at UFC 134. This was the first Brazil card in a couple of decades and whoo boy did they make sure Brazilians had plenty to cheer. Except Cane hosed that up. He was booked to fight Stanislav Nedkov, who may or may not have moonlighted as an enforcer for the Bulgarian mafia. Cane came out and looked okay to start with before Nedkov found his chin and Cane's brain broke again. He tried to run away, briefly running up the fence like an Anthony Pettis hell bent on escape as Nedkov pursued him and finished him off. It was the only fight of the night without a Brazilian winner and allowed us to discover the Brazilian silence. When a Brazilian loses to a non-Brazilian in Brazil, the crowd tends not to boo. They fall silent. Completely silent. They won't boo, that would be rude, but they're sure as poo poo not applauding, and so we were introduced to the sound of 14,000 people abruptly falling silent and folding their arms in a dissatisfied way. I was convinced that he could actually be good until Li'l Nog smashed him. He was a serious front runner glass cannon fighter and he gained a lot of shine from being in 205 during 205's golden age.
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LobsterMobster posted:of all the bald white guys, he certainly was one of them Yeah he was super forgettable aside from putting together what was maybe the longest winning streak in the division at the time, and then he stopped winning and started losing and disappeared.
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