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LobsterMobster posted:When I wrote for Uproxx, I had written up the announcement of Dada's Barge Fights, and then one of the sports editors asked me if I wanted to go to Miami (where I knew no one) and then get on a barge that was going to international waters to cover the bouts live   forever at tank
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I love Huggy Bear but he isn't an Abbott because he's actually good.
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Big Country beat Frank Mir in a grappling competition before he was on TUF. Then he fell in love with his big right hand. I think he is the truer Abbott in this case.
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I should have posted this yesterday, but if you haven't seen how good of a grappler Roy Nelson actually was, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dj5xMeXybs
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Mark Hunt did this at age 48: https://twitter.com/MMAPropagande/status/1588864640465133569
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His KO of LeBanner was loving amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LooUfKqUhgM
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ChrisBTY posted:The way you make Mark Hunt sound the only reason this isn't the Mark Hunt tournament is because Tank came first. If you don’t know Mark Hunt, my friend, you need to get introduced to Mark Hunt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgHVAH_NIjA He’s got a cinderblock for a head and would just sit there and trade with anyone early in his career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvrf0yLsHA This also led to some downswings, such as getting flattened by Melvin Manhoef. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZBlDGASuk The UFC let brock lesnar juice like a madman prior to his fight with Hunt and Mark sued them after Brock sat on him for fifteen minutes and then popped positive for peds post fight. Mark Hunt is just a dude who is tougher than poo poo after growing up in a household where his father beat the gently caress out of him and his siblings basically daily. He has won millions in fight purses and pissed it away on video poker rooms and meth. He’s generally a decent dude after escaping some of the trappings of his upbringing. His autobiography is great. His KO of Roy Nelson was the first time ever Roy had been knocked out. He’s also extremely gently spoken. Real quiet dude.
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mariooncrack posted:Honest question, was Butterbean a good boxer? I'm looking over his record but it looks like a bunch of nobodies. Definitely top tier for guys >300lbs. There aren’t a lot of people in that weight class that are worth a drat, though. Butterbean beating the snot out of Bart Gunn since Gunn pissed off Vince is still funny to me.
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ilmucche posted:Just Stand Up is an absurdly funny article to have exist It really is absurd. He'll have one of the best grapplers in the world holding on to him on the ground and he'll just decide "ok we're standing up" and stand up. It's absolutely absurd how he does it to anyone who has the temerity to take him down.
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Video of lewis deciding the floor is lava also featuring one of our abbotts Big Country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ZW4389EeM
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It is impossible to argue with the results, though.
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Eat This Glob posted:iirc butterbean was willing to do a "worked" fight and either the gunn guy or the wwf said "no, do it for real" and that was the result. what a terrible idea executed terribly Vince was the one that told him not to put Gunn over because he was pissed at Gunn for beating Bradshaw. Vince was trying to promote Bradshaw, and he was his desired champion. Gunn’s reward for winning the non-rigged tourney was to fight Butterbean.
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:Close, he beat Dr. Death and pissed off the brass. Russo booked the tournament partially to see Bradshaw get his rear end kicked Thank you for the correction.
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Beautiful.
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syzpid posted:It is the most Tank thing to come up just short I think so.
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Bigg Rigg is probably the closest to welterweight Tank.
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The Tank that once was is not the Tank of today. The Tank of today just stands up.
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Fulton beats up on jobbers. He isn't one.
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