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Foul Fowl posted:i became a fan when machida seemed 100% invincible and i'm so glad he never lost once in his career and retired undefeated I still remember when he fought Weidman and his Machida style wasn't working for the first few rounds so he went gently caress it and went for it. Got smashed still but some casuals I bought to the pub thought it was amazing.
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Sep 26, 2023 07:45
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individual865 posted:It was Machida for me, my first favorite fighter.  Scapegoat posted:I still remember when he fought Weidman and his Machida style wasn't working for the first few rounds so he went gently caress it and went for it. Got smashed still but some casuals I bought to the pub thought it was amazing. machida fans had it good. the weidman fight, the first shogun fight (not the second obviously), the way he crushed thiago silva, couture, mark munoz, c.b. dolloway, mousasi . . .
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I was using Kazaa to find whatever mma/nhb clips I could back in school, around 2003. Igor Vovchanchyn popped up a lot. Really smooth, balanced, super heavy Russian hooks. It was a cut above a lot of people’s technique. It was so gritty to see people fight on a giant loose vinyl mat with waves and edges everywhere. Foul Fowl posted:machida fans had it good. the weidman fight, the first shogun fight (not the second obviously), the way he crushed thiago silva, couture, mark munoz, c.b. dolloway, mousasi . . . The slow mo of him pulling down Sam Hoger’s punch and countering over it really made me appreciate how mma gloves did open back up some technique that’s been lost with gloved combat sports.  Same with Ryan Bader just running into him. He had a lot of tricks to finish once he popped into range, including a traditional karate/kung fu sweep:  
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Sep 26, 2023 10:15
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It was a combination of K1 and PRIDE FC. I used to watch them super late at night on an early version of cable ( Im from the Czech republic ) on a channel that I dont think exists anymore. I remember being utterly shocked by the violence of ground and pound and soccer kicks and knees to a grounded opponent, I was in my early to mid teens and it felt like I was watching something forbbiden, it had almost a snuff video quality for me. And sometimes the guy on the bottom would end up turning it around. It was wild. And K1, the days of Ray Sefo, Remy Bonjasky, Jerome Le Banner, Peter Aerts, Semmy Schilt... I did not know what I was watching, I had no way of looking up the fighters or even following the sport other than hoping that I will randomly catch an event from time to time and it felt really special when I did manage to catch it. Also, I think I remember the czech commentary being pretty atrocious, going on about how this guy or that guy was a real gentleman ( about white guys ) and this guy or that guy was not ( not white guys, unless they were Japanese in which case they had samurai spirit ). No surprises there I guess.
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Sep 26, 2023 11:17
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Kragger99 posted:Question for the thread: Who was the MMA fighter that got you into watching/following MMA? I guess it was watching aleks emelianenko beat the poo poo out of James Thompson in videos posted here on the forums.
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Sep 26, 2023 13:59
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CarlCX posted:The shoddy video streaming reminds me, I had at least three friends who didn't give a single gently caress about the sport ask me how to watch Bob Sapp fights because of this video. the clip from 1:14 on loop as a gif with the caption "where's your jiu jitsu now, playboy?"
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Sep 26, 2023 14:07
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For me, I watched MMA fights here and there for a long time as a kid, but I got into it and was most invested probably in 2007 posting in our old IRC.
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Sep 26, 2023 17:46
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i remember seeing those old cagefighting vhs tapes for rent at my corner store and that sort of got me into it but i really didn't get into watching until my friends and i started watching k1 and pride in the early 00s
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Sep 26, 2023 18:12
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Digital Jedi posted:And Saturday morning there is a PFL Europe card headline by Cédric Doumbé Yea so about that PFL card https://twitter.com/johnmorgan_mma/status/1706719773747560475
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Sep 26, 2023 18:52
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As long as we're doing bad industry news, the house wins and Mark Hunt's gonna be broke again. https://twitter.com/Jason_Morrin/status/1706752553499734173
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Sep 26, 2023 21:22
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Digital Jedi posted:Yea so about that PFL card lol, lmao.
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Sep 26, 2023 22:04
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that's a good hill to die on, hunto, but at the end of the day you're still dead . hope he's not too too hosed by it
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Ringo Roadagain posted:i got into mma way later than most people in this thread but for me it was mark hunt who got me into it. specifically his fight with struve. I had been watching for around a year and a half because my friends would buy the shows, but hadnt really gotten behind a fighter till hunt. Yeah I would never have gotten so into MMA if it wasn't for Hunto / this forum.
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Sep 27, 2023 02:31
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My first UFC was 100 to see how Brock would fare, though I ended up enjoying watching GSP breakdance all over Alves and seeing Hendo uncork an all time KO on Bisping. I didn't really start following it though until later. I was housesitting and through boredom and curiosity started watching some old UFC cards that had been on Netflix back in the day. I remember being specifically impressed by Jon Jones. I started following it pretty religiously after that and only recently have I started to just skip cards altogether.
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what even am i doing with this stuff  B-League Round-Up ONE Fight Night 14 - Friday 8PM, Amazon Prime Singapore Indoor Stadium is once against hosting the world famous ONE Circle with ten action packed bouts. Five MMA contests, three Muay Thai bouts, a grappling match, and the always intriguing CUSTOM RULES affair. We’ve got Asa Ten Pow in action, we’ve got JOHN FUCKIN LINEKER, we’ve got the Women’s Flyweight juggernaut, Jingnan Xiong taking on Wondergirl in a strange striking contest that isn’t technically kickboxing or Muay Thai. Child phenom Smilla Sundell is defending her Muay Thai title against Allycia Hellen Rodrigues, and in the main event, the evil demon lord Chatri Sityodtong is trying to personally destroy me as he pits Stamp Fairtex against “Hamderlei Silva” Seo Hee Ham for the interim Strawweight title. Stamp and Ham shouldn’t have to fight each other, they should team up to fight injustice throughout the world in a charming Saturday morning cartoon. PFL Europe - Saturday, 11AM, DAZN (allegedly) Oh honk off. I’m not covering PFL Europe. Fine, here’s a thing to watch: Cedric Doumbe. He’s gonna be there and hopefully kick a dude in the brain real hard. You’ll probably see a GIF on Twitter about five minutes after it happens. But have some self-respect and don’t watch PFL Europe. Oh and its not even available for DAZN in the US. So truly, madly, deeply, honk off.
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Sep 27, 2023 03:14
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I didn't see it myself but it seems like tonight's contender series card ended up being really good (skip the heavyweight fight), anyone catch that?
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Sep 27, 2023 05:35
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CarlCX posted:As long as we're doing bad industry news, the house wins and Mark Hunt's gonna be broke again. Summary judgment occurs if Mark Hunt stopped showing up so...
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Sep 27, 2023 05:47
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Sep 27, 2023 07:27
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Firstly I caught a replay of WEC 48 on TV once. And I listened to a wrestling podcast that used to cover UFC events, and eventually I just started watching around UFC 134. I was really into Chael and would buy his PPVs, even thought I knew he'd lose. I remember being really into it for UFC 195 and that period where every welterweight title fight was an insane war with McDonald/Condit/Lawler/Woodley/Thompson
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Brut posted:I didn't see it myself but it seems like tonight's contender series card ended up being really good (skip the heavyweight fight), anyone catch that? Yeah I watched through, it was the best episode of the show I'd personally seen. The heavyweight fight was funny as hell considering it had the most lopsided odds on the card. The main event has a cool storyline to it sold completely by the two fighters.
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Sep 27, 2023 08:18
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Shale was the OG P4P #1 MMA grifter, the rest in the time since have dialed the rhetoric from racist to jesus loving christ so he looks pretty tame and harmless in comparison, even though his entire schtick was to make fun of impoverished black people.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Shale was the OG P4P #1 MMA grifter, the rest in the time since have dialed the rhetoric from racist to jesus loving christ so he looks pretty tame and harmless in comparison, even though his entire schtick was to make fun of impoverished black people. it was absolutely insane to me that i went back to a 'best of chael's stupid bullshit' video and what struck me was how comparatively harmless it seems in the present tense.
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Marching Powder posted:it was absolutely insane to me that i went back to a 'best of chael's stupid bullshit' video and what struck me was how comparatively harmless it seems in the present tense. While Chael still said some ignorant and racist poo poo, he at least had the air about him that he was kinda just taking the piss and trying to get a rise out of people. It has a different vibe from Colby Covington threatening to murder commentators and calling Kamaru Usman a terrorist with as much sincerity as he can manage.
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Sep 27, 2023 10:28
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Kragger99 posted:Question for the thread: Who was the MMA fighter that got you into watching/following MMA? Cro Cop for me too I used to watch Unleashed on Spike TV all the time. 100 was the first live show I caught (family paid for it/watched together because Brock)
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I found the UFC through randomly coming across UFC Unleashed right before UFC 100. I was in the middle of binging through the first few seasons and had no idea of the giant event so the first card I watched live was 101. Anderson Silva became my guy.
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Sep 27, 2023 15:22
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Was this Friday's Fight Circus date announced earlier? Because it seems to have come out of nowhere to me.
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Sep 27, 2023 20:16
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Never imagined Krazy Horse to be the 1 side of a 2-1 cage match.
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Sep 27, 2023 20:56
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Here's a nice MMA story to read for once https://www.mmamania.com/2023/9/27/23887527/stutter-king-ufc-heavyweight-curtis-blaydes-speech-impediment-interview-sao-paulo-ufc
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Sep 28, 2023 01:08
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That’s not real, right? His arm looks like a balloon.
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Sep 28, 2023 01:51
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Super Deuce posted:That’s not real, right? His arm looks like a balloon. https://twitter.com/CPX2982/status/1707106512332636537
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Apartment wrestling? Strictly the purview of the barely millionaires. Wrestling mat boat wars, now that's what centibillionaires do https://www.instagram.com/p/CwsgvUlLtEn/ (for those who can't click through, it's Zuck paying some name UFC fighters and grapplers to be his friends)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOdCnfDo1Mw why did ufc upload this i thought hey both retired nvm: I'm a fuckin dumbass didnt see "classic", but this isn't even an "on this day" that happened in April so 
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Urijah Faber was one of my first MMA loves. I read his book and it was actually amazingly honest and insightful, no sugar coating anything, talks about tax issues and flying guys in on his own dime. The sleeping on floors, the grind of the amateur scene etc all the way up to marquee performances in WEC and UFC. The agony of being wrecked by Aldo but wrestlefucking everyone else into the ground was an interesting storyline for a while too, seeing if he could level up to take on the greats. (He couldn't) TUF kept me interested for a while as well. There's some all time great MMA personality moments on TUF. The comeback season was amazing and Bispings rise on the season after that was the start of something big. Season 10 had Rashad and Rampage repeating "you feel froggy, jump" over and over again and it was amusing at the time. Rampage saying to Schoonover 'got milk bitch' was pretty great.
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Sep 28, 2023 06:57
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beep by grandpa posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOdCnfDo1Mw
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Sep 28, 2023 06:59
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I'm gonna say this is not MMA-Adjacent.
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Brut posted:I'm gonna say this is not MMA-Adjacent. https://twitter.com/chanjones55/status/1707396191368192007?s=20 there ya go, sorry
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