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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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Jerusalem posted:I'm ashamed to admit I've missed all of Jon Jones' Heavyweight fights that earned him this title shot, which top ranked competitors did he beat? Actually I don't need you to be that specific, just what competitors at Heavyweight has he beaten? Actually scratch that, I'll make it easier, I just need to see one of his Heavyweight fights, which of the heavyweight fights that the fighter about to wrestle for the Heavyweight Title has fought should I watch? Far be it from me to defend Jones, but he does have two wins over former HW champ Daniel Cormier which is the same amount of wins over Daniel Cormier that the most successful UFC HW of all time has. You could argue DC's fights with Stipe were closer as well. It's the lay-off more than the lack of legitimate competition that makes Jones' shot harder to justify.
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Mar 2, 2023 07:41
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A Passing Feeling posted:insert eight million Jon Jones quotes about taking three years to do it "the right way" Thiago Santos drat near beat Jones with straight kickboxing and I don't see why Gane couldn't do the same. A range-y active striker is so far the type of fighter Jones has had the most difficulty with (Gus I, Santos, Reyes, OSP).
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Mar 2, 2023 19:47
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This is where the exclusivity deals with Reebok and Venum kind of show how shortsighted they are. If fighters could court their own deals with sponsors, UFC would merely need to stay the biggest MMA show in town and that exposure + star power would drive up sponsorship money for the fighters without costing UFC a thing. UFC would even benefit from this if you had somebody like Ngannou appearing in a Gatorade commercial or whatever it would work around to being a low-key UFC commercial that UFC got for free. Naturally the UFC should also be paying more.
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Mar 4, 2023 18:59
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Dana would absolutely give Buffer concessions to keep him going to a different organization. He would not do that for 99% of his fighters. Even though Buffer may not be overpaid, that he is probably seen as the harder thing to replace than the fighters is a bit tough to swallow. I like Buff fine, but I low-key prefer Joe Martinez and definitely prefer Lenne Hardt.
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Mar 10, 2023 19:52
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leftist heap posted:So how many people have won back their belts from the person who beat them? Taking a brief look it looks like Stipe, Couture, Figueiredo and Nunes? Adding GSP, Moreno, and Cain, that's actually quite a lot when you consider how few people are two time champs at all. Who would the others be? Esparza, Zhang, Namajunas, Aldo, Cruz, Hughes, Mir and Sylvia. So roughly half of the two time champions won it back from who took it off them.
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Mar 16, 2023 23:58
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Mekchu posted:Speaking of rankings. Myself, CommonShore and CarlCX all got together and aggregated our rankings for MMA and wrote an article for it, as well as other articles by us, LobsterMobster, and Boco_T. This is great and thank you. Small note though: Charles Oliveira is ranked twice in 155lbs. Which I'm all for.
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Mar 20, 2023 17:39
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Nierbo posted:The vibe on this forum when Robbie Lawler was ww champ was something else too. It was like everything came full circle. I was pretty ready for Charles Oliveira to be the next version of the journeyman-makes-good champion that everybody backs.
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Mar 22, 2023 16:30
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I think it is perfectly reasonable to be more scared of an angry Mark Hunt than an angry Francis. I feel like Mark Hunt is much less likely to be reasonable when angry.
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Mar 27, 2023 05:48
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Colby is also a smallish WW and Leon is a very big WW. I was amazed at how much bigger than Usman Leon seemed in their fight. That said the best case scenario is Colby/Leon is set up and then falls through and Colby has to fight a late replacement who is like iunno Vicente Luque and gets starched inside the first two rounds. Then we get Leon/Luque which would be a baller fight and Colby retires and becomes a realtor.
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Mar 28, 2023 07:48
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CarlCX posted:A bunch of really good fights got announced, like Ilia Topuria/Josh Emmett, Matt Schnell/David Dvorak and the return of Eryk Anders, but I don't want to talk about that, I want to talk about Joe Rogan being dumb as poo poo. I think if we want to make UFC fights less safe and more like real fights instead of legalizing blows to the back of the head (which is a boring idea and would only result in more fighters getting paralyzed and retiring in their prime or whatever) they should instead increase the realism by filling the octagon with furniture and dinnerware and a random assortment of strangers who can join the action or not as they see fit.
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