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Who should get the next welterweight title shot? This poll is closed. |
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| Colby Covington |
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2 | 3.51% |
| Belal Muhammad |
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17 | 29.82% |
| Shavkat Rakhmonov |
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3 | 5.26% |
| Matt Serra |
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26 | 45.61% |
| Marius Zaromskis |
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4 | 7.02% |
| Ben Quadrinaros |
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5 | 8.77% |
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CarlCX posted:What comes next, however, is tricky. Carla was blown out, so a rematch is out of the question. Rose Namajunas, the only person in the UFC to beat Weili, is a likely candidate--but after her disastrous performance against Carla, it remains to be seen how much faith the UFC has in her. Jéssica Andrade has a claim, but she's splitting time between 115 and 125, and probably needs to pick a weight class if she wants a shot. Amanda Lemos is on deck, but she could really use a marquee win first. The UFC is spoiled for almost-but-not-quite contenders: They just need to crown someone.
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Apr 2, 2023 05:33
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KungFu Grip posted:the funniest outcome to this is vince mcmahon getting a say in how ufc operates Have he and Dana ever had any known beef?
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Apr 3, 2023 01:48
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Noice https://twitter.com/muhammadmokaev/status/1642950271142600718
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Apr 4, 2023 08:23
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Great flying knee, but the ref gave Bigdeli (which afaict is just a normal Iranian name and not a Thai gym sponsor) way too much rope on the 10-count. Was way too out of it to be sent back in.
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Apr 8, 2023 04:17
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Apr 10, 2023 06:42
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What percentage of Izzy's training camp was devoted to miming pulling the bow off his shoulder and drawing arrows out of a quiver? Easily 5% imo.
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Apr 10, 2023 09:31
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Nice narration through Izzy’s finish: https://youtu.be/UbY_zjiJ4R8 I’d missed that Izzy’s eyes are tracking where Pereira’s head is even as he gets partly caught by the left hook. Truly a game of millimeters.
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Apr 14, 2023 11:02
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This is a goof, but some guy played the UFC game and kept playing Figuereido against Ngannou until he KOed Ngannou. Supercut of all the times he got slept and then finally getting it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CncroduBNae/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Apr 15, 2023 04:06
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CarlCX posted:Bellator is even worse than it was when you left What’s impressive is that it’s been hanging in there this whole time, staying afloat off of truly B-league talent. CarlCX posted:Also on the topic of this week's card being a little meh, we can now downgrade it from "meh" to "dire" because it just lost its co-main event: I want someone to plot frequency of injury in scheduled fights, as well as proximity to fight date. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Apr 18, 2023 15:03
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Fozzy The Bear posted:Unrelentingly Powerful Leglock Redact Oh is that what r-word stood for?
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Apr 20, 2023 23:13
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CommonShore posted:Looks to me like the guys head is above Nate's shoulder not under his arm If you scrub right after Nate throws the knee, you can see daylight between his shoulder and the guy’s neck.
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Apr 22, 2023 14:20
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CarlCX posted:Some part of this is also the context of the illegal blow Yeah, imo, when you come in behind your straight punch / elbow with a lowered head, you're at the very least being ok with head contact, and at the most hunting for a piece of that action. I never regarded myself as a dirty fighter, but the one lapse would be when I was dead in the water in later rounds in sparring, I would sometimes resort to throwing a poorly targeted and not too tight straight punch with the head right behind it. Even if it doesn't land, the head filling up the opponent's vision is a significant distraction to their overall defense. The way Green maximized the reach of his dome behind that forearm is exactly how I would set it up so it would be there for a 2nd shot. The 1st shot is all the pretext and cover you need to defend the 2nd.
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Apr 24, 2023 03:25
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I think power slap feeds into pervasive toxic masculinity, in that it very visibly is something any schmoe can have success with. Unlike mma where you can always get finished in your first z league fight.
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Apr 24, 2023 12:40
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It always cool to kick villains while they're down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUx9OE7DZAo&t=10s
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Apr 24, 2023 15:16
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They’re not even in the Dana white affiliated league where they could at least get handed a bigger check to go home.
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Apr 25, 2023 10:57
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Apparently it's at 175? Big cut for Rockhold.
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Apr 25, 2023 16:18
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cagliostr0 posted:We just had a watch session in the thread for an uncontracted fighter choking a guy out and dropping him on a kerb without a great rending of garments. Just people agreeing it was stupid thuggery and moving on. quote:If that's ok then I can't see why an actual organised and promoted event is off the table Because something organized warrants passing a higher moral bar than a one-sided street fight. Ostensibly when the stakes are clearly, unavoidably higher.
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Apr 26, 2023 13:09
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Skulker posted:one of the rules was no closed-fist hitting. To the head. You could closed fist punch to the body and boy did Bas ever.
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Apr 26, 2023 19:33
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BlindSite posted:I always found Cung Le fun AF to watch. I also never would have guessed his last fight was 9 loving years ago. JFC how old am I? I’m more surprised he fought as recently as 9y ago. Man, if he’d beaten Wanderlei…
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Apr 27, 2023 23:11
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Shumagorath posted:As shot as Wandy was by that point from being denied his dump trucks of speed and steroids, there’s no way in hell. His chin was the most vulnerable thing in that fight, and Cung definitely tested it midway in the first. But he pissed away the striking advantage putting way too much effort into those spin kicks even as Wanderlei winged horribly off-aim hooks. Hollandia posted:Didn't Cung Le narrowly dodge being booted from the UFC for roids? I feel like there was an accusation, a procedural issue in providing evidence, and he went 'I'm exonerated and also for unrelated reasons I'm now retiring'. He got busted positively per the UFC's then-homegrown drug testing procedure. https://www.mmafighting.com/2015/2/7/7936195/cung-le-admits-it-wasnt-the-kind-of-ending-he-wanted It reads like a both sides are wrong situation. Cung was probably on HGH despite the testing issues. The UFC didn't have a great protocol before or after the positive result, and they didn't release Cung from the contract when he asked. So he had to decide between retiring and sitting a year, fighting in the UFC again where he didn't want to be, and then trying to switch orgs.
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