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| Jon Jones goes on a pre-fight bender in Vegas |
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3 | 8.11% |
| Jon Jones goes on a post-fight bender in Vegas |
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1 | 2.70% |
| Jon Jones goes on a mid-fight bender in Vegas |
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4 | 10.81% |
| Jon Jones tests positive for supercocaine, which USADA spends the next three months pretending is normal |
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18 | 48.65% |
| A well-fought majority draw |
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1 | 2.70% |
| No Contest on account of simultaneous dick kicks |
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10 | 27.03% |
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Chad Mendes looking rough. That nose.
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Mar 1, 2023 20:33
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Benson Cunningham posted:I assume that's the result of the DWCS funnel, where the UFC likely has a lot more control over incoming talent, in shaping what they see as normal, and in being able to standardize a process that makes sure new talent is paid a pittance. I don't actually know anything, that's just my guess. that's a reasonable assertion to base on the available, observable evidence.
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Mar 2, 2023 17:26
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that was an unbelievably good card
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Mar 3, 2023 17:38
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Alaois posted:Went to bed before the main, read back through the gdt when i woke up, genuinely shocked at how many people here expected Ciryl loving Gane to pose any kind of challenge to Jon Jones So with your perfect capacity for prognostication supported by facts and logic you clearly are now independently wealthy having remortgaged your house to bet all available wealth on JJ
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Mar 5, 2023 15:02
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Gane should have stuck with his initial strategy
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Mar 5, 2023 22:06
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FishBowlRobot posted:Dana: Jake Gyllenhaal will never fight in the UFC again. This kid crossed one of those lines you just don’t cross. That's probably the plot
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Mar 6, 2023 14:55
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I'm pretty sure that Michael Buffer gets paid tens of thousands of dollars per fight, but Bruce likely has a different deal. I was at one event where they had a local person do every fight and then Michael announced the main event only.
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Mar 10, 2023 00:35
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I can think of 3 instances where a world title/#1 in the world spot was directly decided on a champ's failed spinning attack, and a 4th where the champ got countered on bad spinning attacks many times en route to a finish. Can anyone think of a time where a world title/#1 spot was won or defended by a successful spinning attack?
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Mar 10, 2023 05:24
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Boco_T posted:Googling for "spinning poo poo" tells me Renan Barao defended the interim bantam title with a spinning back kick. Didn't really see any title-level results for other promotions. oh right he chinned Wineland with the same kick that TJ repeatedly punished him for
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Mar 10, 2023 05:32
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COPE 27 posted:Weili - Jędrzejczyk was for the #1 spot wasn't it? I guess so!
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Mar 10, 2023 05:46
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BlindSite posted:Every time belal is mentioned I just want to say "who?" Because of his nickname. Belal Wozzname
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Mar 18, 2023 14:33
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Leon Edwards has an all-time-great "caught red handed but refuses to admit wrongdoing staring right in the face of the authority figure unfinchingly maintaining innocence" face. p4p all time better than anyone. He looked as surprised as anyone else when the replay of him grabbing the fence came up.
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Mar 19, 2023 16:22
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"Seriously ref I didn't grab the fence it just kinda bowed in like that idk maybe colby pushed on it that was just my great wrestling."
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Mar 19, 2023 16:23
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parthenocarpy posted:Is there a reason Gaethje was such a betting underdog going into the Fiziev fight? Going into that fight Gaethje didn't have any wins over currently ranked competition other than Chandler, who lots of people don't rate highly, and Oliveira and Chandler had both chinned him, and Fiziev is a better striker than any of them. If you agree with lots of commentators that Tony had slowed down in his 2-3 fights before the Gaethje fight, there's a case to make that Fiziev is actually Gaethje's best win ever. It's definitely the second-longest UFC winning streak that Gaethje has ever broken.
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Mar 19, 2023 21:56
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Booking because "someone is a draw" is part of Dana's anti-labour exploitative approach to managing the UFC. There's no metric out there available for what constitutes "a draw," other than "Dana White personally likes this fighter," and it's not like boxing where the fighters are the ones who benefit the most financially from the big matchups to balance it out.
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Mar 20, 2023 14:48
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But where we are "a draw" is a 1:1 synonym with "Dana likes them" and it has no other meaning. He said Nate Diaz and Francis Ngannou weren't draws. It's just his excuse to make fighters he dislikes, usually non-white non-american non-anglo non-fascist fighters, in the women's divisions who aren't conventionally attractive, and who speak out for labour rights take a longer, harder path to the title, and to consolodate his power in his cult of personality. Don't accept his logic.
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Mar 20, 2023 15:04
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mariooncrack posted:https://www.mmafighting.com/2023/3/17/23645027/missed-fists-rampage-jackson-and-bob-sapp-train-for-siamese-twin-fight-at-fight-circus-6 But which everyone needs
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Mar 20, 2023 17:16
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Lucasar posted:This is great and thank you. Thanks that's a spreadsheet error which I will fix now.
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Mar 20, 2023 17:55
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It's really funny that he blew up his own knee to prove he's the best on the show that announced Anderson Silva's UFC HOF induction, a man who was famous for losing by submission to an upset leg lock before he went on his career-defining run.
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Mar 20, 2023 22:33
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Even though many of Anderson's title challengers could challenge Pereira, I'm pretty sure that Pereira would beat the best Anderson Silva who ever stepped into the cage even if only from a styles-make-fights standpoint.
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Mar 22, 2023 14:35
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kimbo305 posted:Anderson's wrestling defense was always his biggest weakness, so yeah, even mediocre strikers who could come in multiple times around and get hands on Anderson would score well. My stance on Anderson-Pereira is mostly based on my belief that Anderson's striking style was optimized for eating up people who don't know how to strike very well and/or for opponents who engage cautiously. Pereira is neither of those things.
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Mar 22, 2023 21:32
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Mr. Nice! posted:Hell most of the posts on this page have been amazing, too. Not mine 
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Mar 23, 2023 16:18
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I've gone from holding out hope that the UFC will start doing things right to hoping that they keep making all of the worst loving decisions and that they gently caress up their business.
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Mar 27, 2023 03:17
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Tweak posted:maybe jake paul will save us gently caress you I'd rather drown
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Mar 27, 2023 04:51
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Colby is 35 btw. He's barely younger than Usman. Fighters 35 and up have like a 10% win rate in title fights at 170 and lighter
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Mar 28, 2023 00:15
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Brut posted:While obviously intentional strikes to the back of the head/brainstem should remain illegal, do you think when a fighter is deliberately pointing the back of their head at their opponent who is fully controlling them as a form of defense, that should be considered a TKO? Like if the only thing you can do about your opponent's strikes is to point the illegal zone at the strikes, you've lost, no? I actually believe something along these lines, though we've argued about it in this thread before: specifically, that if a fighter is choosing to remain in a submissive/defensive position in which only the rules and their opponent's discretion are protecting them from grevious bodily harm, that it should be a TKO under the basic concept of "intelligent defense." Eddie Alvarez's DQ loss in ONE is the platonic ideal of this kind of position. But if the TKO were available in that spot on that criteria, the attacking fighter would be further incentivized to avoid throwing the DQ-worthy blow. The problem is that I've come to believe that the refs are too stupid even to follow the potato rules that they have let alone make this kind of judgment call.
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Mar 31, 2023 23:16
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