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Which main event fighter are you most looking forward to seeing in July? This poll is closed. |
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2 | 6.67% | |
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Sean Brady pulled out with an injury, JDM is looking for a replacement for 290 but will probably be pushed given the level of notice. https://bloodyelbow.com/2023/07/01/ufc-290-loses-absolute-banger/
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beep by grandpa posted:I love carl and am a dirty little slut for his writeups I've been drifting away from the sport given all the bullshit and poo poo, Carl's breakdowns are one of my main tethers left.
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Jul 1, 2023 22:20
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Yair has made himself terrifying on the feet, but we'll have to see if he can stay there. Volk is a much bigger wrestling threat than Holloway who was able to hold him down.quote:UPDATE: Jack Della Maddalena will remain on the UFC 290 fight card. He is now slated to face Josiah Harrell. Harrell has a 7-0 record. His most recent fight was in LFA. Prior to that he had one fight in the CFFC promotion. All his prior fights were in Ohio Combat League. UFC really leaning into this public execution thing. Tom Clancy is Dead fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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Jul 3, 2023 16:48
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Even with the last minutes substitutions this card is fire.
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Jul 5, 2023 22:43
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It has to be Barao. He won the belt and defended it three times before losing to TJ twice. Five fights (1-4) later, he was losing to Andre Ewell while missing weight. At least Chris lost to respectable names and neither he nor Hendricks had an 0-5 streak.
Tom Clancy is Dead fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jul 11, 2023 20:29
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JDM trying to defend takedowns with guillotines repeatedly in 2023 has me off the hype train, that can't be blamed on short notice when he was training for Sean Brady. I find it unlikely that JDM would've ever gotten back to his feet against Sean Brady. He caught a lucky break when that fight was canceled. He had some scares vs. Emeev in the grappling, too. His wrestling and grappling issues are fixable, but I'm going to need to see some progress on doing so before I start liking his chances against any top wrestler. I did think it was quite clear he won the 2nd round and the fight, though.
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Jul 16, 2023 17:30
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What's the status on Jiri? Is he still out with the injury? LHW is such a mess.
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Jul 16, 2023 22:19
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The executive behind UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaejthe strikes again!
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Jul 16, 2023 22:53
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Strickland is getting this fight because he dominated an unranked fighter. More and more the UFC stops being about the best fighting the best and every fighter should be trying to crush cans to get hype rather than work their way up the rankings.
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Jul 20, 2023 19:07
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BlindSite posted:Strickland is going to call adesenya gay and throw a Chinese flag at him and you're all going to freak out that dumb man did dumb thing trying to be funny. That's not a thing he can do, though.
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Jul 21, 2023 02:58
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Mr. Nice! posted:It was his job, though. I'm also sure he didn't see himself as necessarily loving people on money, as he was just telling them what they were worth based upon his observation of their skills.The reality is that he definitely did a lot to keep fighter pay where his bosses wanted it to be, but I don't see it as malicious. It's just that if you were a fighter and had to go talk to Joe, you were going to hear the unvarnished truth and see your faults laid before you. He would also explain their strengths and argue why they could win the fight he planned for them. He got poo poo done and the UFC was really loving exciting for quite a while. What is this revisionist nonsense. He was a good matchmaker, but he also used a bunch of nasty and underhanded tactics to strongarm labor to squeeze more value out of them for his billionaire bosses. I doubt he saw himself as the bad guy, because people rarely do, but we can look at him for what he was. It wasn't just the blunt truth, it was also manipulative bullshit where he would tell people that if they insisted on a new contract he would cut them on any loss even after a win streak, he would tell fighters to put on a show instead of fight to win and then gently caress them when they lost in a fantastic war, and he would punish people with his matchmaking if they spoke out against the UFC in any way. He would make people take short notice fights, fight injured, or sign the offer he wanted or he would make them sit on ice for the max amount of time allowed in the contract before offering them a fight they didn't want and didn't make sense buried on the prelims. He would intentionally match fighters at the end of their contracts in bad matchups to take the shine off. The nasty comments he made to fighters could be interpreted as sage bluntness if you are very charitably inclined, but he developed a lot of the nasty tactics and there's no way to whitewash that.
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I'm glad the fanbase has come around on Bobby Green's fighting style. I remember people loving hating his jawing while being defensive around the time of the Thompson fight.
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Jul 27, 2023 19:30
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