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| A time of festivities with family and friends that reminds you of life and love |
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5 | 13.89% |
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| A time of quiet, cloudy depression where you fold yourself in shows and video games until it's over |
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| A time to smoke just so much god damned weed |
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I still remember watching TUF 1 in my university dorm common room when he gutted out of Mike Swick’s guillotine, then the finale the following weekend at home. I was rooting for him the whole time. Please don’t let this be some Chris Benoit poo poo; I want to remember him as half the fight that made western MMA.
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Dec 25, 2022 08:30
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Died on loving Christmas Eve.  Man, thoughts out to his family.
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Dec 25, 2022 09:00
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Unperson_47 posted:Died on loving Christmas Eve.  quote:In September 2021, Bonnar caused a stir when he posted several videos to Instagram of a heated confrontation at hospital. He later explained to MMA Fighting he was seeking treatment for a severe injury he suffered while pro wrestling and claimed doctors denied him care due to his stance on COVID-19. In a subsequent interview, he said doctors at a different facility discovered a potentially life-threatening staph infection that required intravenous antibiotics and a lengthy recovery period.
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Dec 25, 2022 09:06
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Jesus that's some lovely news
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Dec 25, 2022 09:24
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Jesus loving christ can one legend not be insane and also fight for nothing in a sport that doesn't exist.
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Dec 25, 2022 10:55
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That's the one. Incredible stuff
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Dec 25, 2022 11:35
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Marching Powder posted:Jesus loving christ can one legend not be insane and also fight for nothing in a sport that doesn't exist. I've honestly had to unfollow most pro fighters, especially the ones that were big between 2004-2014 because they're all to a man insane MAGA antivaxxers.
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Dec 25, 2022 12:14
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 gently caress
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Dec 25, 2022 14:34
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In heaven, no one steals your promotional hat and everyone knows what asparagus is. Rest in peace big boy
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Dec 25, 2022 15:11
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Tape Delay Kickboxing Volume 5 Krush.144 - 2022-12-18 Korakuen Hall, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan  Krush is K-1’s regular show for lower-ranked fighters. They run monthly in Korakuen Hall to the point that the 12 shows for 2023 are already on K-1’s calendar. Krush has its own champions separate from “K-1 WGP Champions” and Krush shows are almost entirely Japanese talent. The main event for Krush.144 is the first title defense for the 10th Krush Super Featherweight Champion, “POWER OF DREAMS’s Karate Kid” Chihiro Nakajima (6-3, 4 KO). He became the champion when he won two tournament fights in one night in January 2022 to capture the title. At THE MATCH 2022, he lost a decision to the Shootboxing Super Featherweight champion, Yuki Kasahara, and in the process suffered a broken nose that took 6 months to heal up before he could return to Krush to defend his title. This included missing the K-1 World GP Super Featherweight tournament in September. Nakajima has a Kyokushin Karate background including Kyokushin World Cup titles in 2017 and 2018. Nakajima’s opponent is “KO Machine” Narufumi Nishimoto who brings a moderate 14-8-2 record in but has 12 KOs in those 14 wins. He also had a karate background as a youth, but switched to K-1 at a younger age. His last fight was a tournament reserve bout at the K-1 WGP in September, where he defeated Naoki Yamamoto by decision after knocking him down in round 3. That tournament was won by Leona Pettas, who became the top of the heap for Super Featherweights in K-1. Both men will be looking to challenge Pettas if they’re able to win here. K-1 Basics: Most fights are 3 3-minute rounds with a single 3-minute extra round if it’s a draw. 3 knockdowns in a round is a TKO, or 2 if it’s a tournament fight. Judges are fairly liberal with 10-10 round scoring, so you will often see fights scored 30-30 or 30-29. Official rules state that the judges must pick a winner at the end of the extra round, including looking back on the earlier rounds of the fight if necessary. Kickboxing rules: knees are legal, elbows are not. Clinch must be broken with an immediate strike or the ref will separate, and fighters are now allowed to pull the neck of the opponent down to deliver a strike. Fights highlighted in bold were ones that I found particularly entertaining. Preliminary Fights Kosuke (2-5-2, 2 KO) vs Riki Soda (1-0, 1 KO) (121) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvMGQJIrU4U Sota Amano (2-1, 1 KO) vs Raita Hashimoto (3-0, 1 KO) (127) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJRYh8QYa60 Main Card Daina (7-2, 4 KO) vs Keito Ishigo (2-1-2, 0 KO) (114) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMudQsiUmRc Shohei Nishibayashi (4-5, 0 KO) vs Toki Oshika (5-0, 0 KO) (114) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNuMGR1tm30 Yoshimi (11-25-3, 2 KO) vs Rikako Sakurai (2-5, 0 KO) (115) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IY4CIdPk1I Mahiro (8-6-2, 1 KO) vs Mao (5-1, 0 KO) (115) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ICTvGd42g Yuta Hayashi (6-8-1, 2 KO) vs Ginji (17-6-3, 8 KO) (127) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBBPX8dd6s Shoya Suzuki (29-19-1, 9 KO) vs Kento Ito (10-12-4, 3 KO) (138) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIKI8TvNuY Clair Real Estate Presents: Riku Morisaka (15-12-2, 3 KO) vs Rei Inagaki (6-1, 4 KO) (127) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlczlXX6Yqk Semi-Final: Naoki Yamamoto (13-11-1, 4 KO) vs Tetsuji Noda (10-4, 2 KO) (132) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJlNI5DC3-c Main Event - Krush Super Featherweight Title Match: (C) Chihiro Nakajima (6-3, 4 KO) vs Narufumi Nishimoto (14-8-2, 12 KO) (132 Title) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPeEepkWTA
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Dec 25, 2022 16:01
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https://twitter.com/NateRockQuarry/status/1606882358057390081
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Dec 25, 2022 19:51
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Been thinking about this ever since reading the news.quote:Stephan Bonnar: So Kyacey, after you got off the show you had a pretty interesting fight, and this one was not with humans but rather with a pack of pit bulls. What happened?
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Dec 25, 2022 21:21
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I remember when that happened lol
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Dec 26, 2022 01:29
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I follow this whale watching tour guide/videographer and
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Dec 26, 2022 03:11
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https://youtu.be/RhgOtbbU1UM rip to my boy. he gave us one of the all-time best calls. he was a really good color guy. it’s a shame he couldn’t do that for a full post-fighting career. him and Frank Mir were two of the better fighters to get in the booth imo.
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Dec 26, 2022 06:21
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Jesus that loving sucks. I'll always remember his two bonkers, bloody but also weirdly good natured fights with Krystof Soszynski. But yeah, he was an unintentional gatekeeper. Like someone above said, he fought and lost to fully four people who would go on to hold the belt (Evans, Griffin, Machida and Jones) and three who had held it (Ortiz, Coleman and Silva). Not a single one of those was a main event or anywhere near the peak of those guys careers, aside from Silva, who crushed him effortlessly. There's a Tom Waits song esque quality to his career. He wasn't even the bridesmaid, he was a stand in at a wedding rehearsal. Yet the sport is absolutely built on him in a very specific way and guys like him in a more general way and I wish he'd gotten a little more recognition. Hope he finds the peace that he didn't find here.
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Dec 26, 2022 08:26
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Jeff Molina is out of his fight with Jimmy Flick and has been suspended by Nevada athletic commission for possible involvement with the "The" James Krause gambling situation https://www.mmamania.com/2022/12/25/23526031/james-krause-student-jeff-molina-suspended-by-nevada-state-athletic-commission
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Dec 26, 2022 14:55
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LobsterMobster posted:Jeff Molina is out of his fight with Jimmy Flick and has been suspended by Nevada athletic commission for possible involvement with the "The" James Krause gambling situation What if it turns out like that episode of Growing Pains but instead of staying up all night writing the answers on the soles of his sneakers James Krause spent all of the time studying fighters and fighting to be able to scam the gambling system effectively and that just made him a better coach
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Dec 26, 2022 15:26
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Snowman_McK posted:Jesus that loving sucks. I'll always remember his two bonkers, bloody but also weirdly good natured fights with Krystof Soszynski. Yup. But for his fight with Forrest, the UFC and MMA doesn't really exist in the same way it does today. 
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Dec 26, 2022 17:22
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RIP Bonnar Totally unsurprised about the news that the UFC totally hosed him over and wouldn't help when he was at his lowest, near the end. Dana wouldn't have a loving penny if he'd not gone out and put on the fight of the century with Forrest. As for the Covid stance and whatnot, these things happen when you get your head punched for money.
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Dec 26, 2022 18:12
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:https://youtu.be/RhgOtbbU1UM This scared me I thought Pettis died Bonnar was a pretty cool fighter, Rip to a real one
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Dec 26, 2022 18:58
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What were his recent issues? Alcoholism? Other than the issue with the hospital over Covid/staph infection.
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Dec 26, 2022 19:24
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Pocket Billiards posted:What were his recent issues? Alcoholism? He's been addicted to opiates for years (decades?)
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Dec 26, 2022 19:50
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His house burnt down in April '22 and he lost everything in it, apparently. So the addictions flaring up not especially hard to parse
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Dec 26, 2022 21:38
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Josuke Higashikata posted:His house burnt down in April '22 and he lost everything in it, apparently. gently caress man, dude should have been living like a king after. The world ain't fair.
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Dec 26, 2022 22:18
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Such a tragedy even if he went off the rails towards the end. Shame he couldn't find peace in life.
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Dec 26, 2022 23:50
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Josuke Higashikata posted:His house burnt down in April '22 and he lost everything in it, apparently. God drat :/
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Dec 27, 2022 04:52
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Inoki Genome Federation and Ganryu-Jima are doing a co-promotion thing tonight for Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2022 The prelims are on Youtube, and are starting up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UfFvQBY6MA The rest of the card is on various Japanese streaming platforms that seem impossible to navigate, but here's a link if anyone wants to give it a whack https://linktr.ee/ganryujima
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Dec 28, 2022 05:37
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Dude went night night, the first victim to be fed to the moat monsters
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Dec 28, 2022 06:10
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Inoki Genome Federation. Isn't that the company Paul Reiser character worked for in Aliens?
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Dec 28, 2022 07:12
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Ryusei bonked the body and Bang Bang Gym is dying from ruptured tummyguts
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Dec 28, 2022 07:41
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Mr X, aka Jimmy Ambriz. Should have fought with the mask on
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Dec 28, 2022 07:51
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Can't figure out how to watch the rest of Ganryu Jima, and I am furious I'm missing this poo poo https://twitter.com/_MarkPickering/status/1607996674949120000 aaaaaaahhhh https://twitter.com/marcraimondi/status/1607997659826225153
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Dec 28, 2022 08:15
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Dec 28, 2022 08:26
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*record scratch* yep, that's me you're probably wondering how i got here well, it's a funny story! https://twitter.com/Grabaka_Hitman/status/1608011906245181440
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Dec 28, 2022 09:10
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Jeeesus Christ
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Dec 28, 2022 09:19
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I swear I heard the arm break.
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Dec 28, 2022 10:14
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did they forget to fill the moat with water?
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Dec 28, 2022 13:19
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Cool ring set up, hope Ebata is ok though that was brutal.
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RING OUT
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