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Which main event fighter are you most looking forward to seeing in July?
This poll is closed.
Sean StricHOLLY HOLM 1 3.33%
Alexander VolkanHOLLY HOLM 9 30.00%
Holly Holm 11 36.67%
A.J. McKHOLLY HOLM 0 0%
Roman KrykHOLLY HOLM 1 3.33%
Dustin PHOLLY HOLM 3 10.00%
Justin GaetHOLLY HOLM 3 10.00%
Tom AspHOLLY HOLM 2 6.67%
Total: 30 votes
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Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
lol

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Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

LobsterMobster posted:

So for split weight classes, both coaches have 4 fighters per division to match up in the first round

If all your guys lose, subsequent training sessions don't matter since they aren't fighting for the next round. Also, it makes things awkward for the team that sweeps, since now all the training partners know they have to fight each other.

Though I'm sure for Conor, getting swept just means he'll leave early and go back to his one true love: cocaine-fueled assaults

if someone gets injured there's an opportunity for a macgregor guy to pop in as a replacement

when teammates have had to fight in the past, they moved them to different training sessions/times so they're not training with each other but sometimes they don't do that but that's likely due to other scheduling with the other team.

probably what will happen is conor's guys will be able to continue to train but conor et al won't put in any effort, not like they have been though. maybe some of chandler's guys will move to the macgregor team for training time but it'd be a huge gently caress you to them by ufc to put them with such a lazy coach

Mekchu fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Jul 12, 2023

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Nierbo posted:

So what youre all saying is this whole season of TUF was a complete sham to get Conors name back into the mainstream?

who could have predicted that?!?

DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:

i like hearing about the shithead blue checks and the cultural commentary around MMA. it’s part of the phenomenon of watching it and following it. the main org in MMA is festering with right wing propaganda and loony QAnon poo poo. it is horrifying. sometimes it is also very funny. personally I’d rather take it all in. if seeing it all eventually leads me to watch it less, which it kinda partially has (moreso the endless grim Apex cards), then that’s kinda what should happen, naturally, IMO.

turning a blind eye to part of the thing or not discussing it in the normal course of stuff because you want to watch the other thing seems…I dunno. i’m not trying to criticize people who feel that way but, like, I love a Big Mac. but i don’t ever really eat them anymore because drat they source their meat very unethically. i think that’s kind of what’s supposed to happen.

if seeing Trump constantly or hearing Strickland be a massive “trolling” moron is bad, I would either call him a moron or stop watching it, but not talking about it on one of the few(only?) places online where most people will agree feels like having our brain damage and, uh, eating it, too?

i mean we do have a thread for the non-fighting discussion of mma social media dipshittery right here

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3948950

to laugh, jeer, and mock their stupid as gently caress takes

Mekchu fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Jul 12, 2023

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/hektic_one/status/1679470743157866496

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Hello.

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Tired of your posts constantly being called bad and awful?

Are your threads being trolled by your "enemies" (*wink wink*)?

Do you wish you could fight other posters from other subforums you just don't like?

Think there's no answer?

You're so stupid!

There is.

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Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
anytime i see jack della madallena's face i instantly think of 2005 video game stubb's the zombie

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
also i am 100% making a gnome monk called scott jorgensen in baldur's gate 3 in two weeks since they introduced customization sliders that do the same sort of pigment coloration stuff he and the one dude on teh fight card this weekend have

https://i.imgur.com/tUjhLnL.mp4

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
VACANT has been a blight on the UFC for far too long and I think it's time we talked about them: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4037048

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Lucasar posted:

I think when Jiri's condition is discussed it should be referred to as his injiri.

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
shogun has the benjamin button disease from having trained at chute boxe

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Bluedeanie posted:

... are you suggesting chute box has made him younger???

leaving chute boxe has

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
there's rumors going around dana was gonna go on some stream hosted by adin 'showing porn to my underage viewers while also professing porn is ruining your brain' ross' & andrew 'sex trafficking and rapist' tate stream.

of course the only place this stuff was posted was on twitter where their dipshit followers are the only ones talking about it and because the racist kid born with an emerald spoon in his mouth delegitimized the verified accounts system, it's all stupidly hard to verify

tldr: rumors were going around dana was gonna hang out with andrew tate & adin ross (the suck up who literally sniffed tate's chair after he got up from it) stream. but its hard to confirm since its all originating on twitter.

Mekchu fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Jul 18, 2023

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
my second part on the history of VACANT is available if you want to see how y7ou can get cte from just watching the sport

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4037048&pagenumber=1#post533328125

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Brut posted:

You can be mad at individual people for their specific behavior and the words they say, but please cut this poo poo out.

lmao, just lol @ this

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Trillhouse posted:


thought of this and laughed

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Pb and Jellyfish posted:

I don't want to just empty quote, but goddamn is this true

empty quoting isn't a crime

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

BlindSite posted:

When I was in Thailand they had kids as young as like 10 fighting on the undercard. Then teenagers and then actual adults. I think the main event was a french dude who got knocked dead by an Australian. It's like soccer or rugby over there and kids competing is as normal as any other sport.

there are, iirc, significantly different rules for the kids for obvious reasons

LobsterMobster posted:

Except a lot of those kids have to fight to make money for their families and research shows children Thai fighters have significantly lower cognitive function than Thai children who don't get punched in the head 3 times a week

part of that is also because those families come from significantly poorer/less well off conditions and so 'selling' (for lack of a better word) their kid to a gym for the hopes of making them into a big money muay thai fighter is all they have.

it's probably in some ways comparable to people in the usa from poor socioeconomic backgrounds dumping all their resources into getting their kid into football or baseball in the hopes it'll get them out of poverty. there's been tons of examples of NCAA football stars not having reading beyond a 3rd grade level for example.

its not a defense of the system, jfyi

Mekchu fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jul 22, 2023

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
nothing like the ufc president showing up to promote the qanon movie starring jim cavezel on cage warriors broadcasts on fight pass

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
wife: hey i know you're watching the fights but....

wife: :staredog:
me: ITS NOT WHAT YOU THINK I SWEAR

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Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CarlCX posted:

also it's the final 72 hours before the August thread, so if you've got title submissions now's the time

Hollandia posted:

Derrick Lewis trains in a garage?

this

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