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| Nick Diaz |
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1 | 3.57% |
| Chuck Liddell |
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5 | 17.86% |
| Matt Serra |
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0 | 0% |
| Matt Serra |
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2 | 7.14% |
| Matt Serra |
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0 | 0% |
| Oh no you said his name three times |
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8 | 28.57% |
| Run |
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1 | 3.57% |
| RUN |
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11 | 39.29% |
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CarlCX posted:It's a big day for insider info, because, in hilarious timing for our conversation about Chatri, Bloody Elbow (legally!) got their hands on the contract ONE signed with Adriano Moraes for his title fight with DJ in 2021 and it is, in what may shock and dismay you, probably the worst baseline for contracts in the entire sport. They scanned the entire thing and did a 40-minute podcast breaking it down that you can peruse if you want, but aside from all the normal lovely stuff the UFC and Bellator already do, your more egregious highlights include: This is staggering. If you showed this to an early Christian in Rome they'd probably take their chances with the lion on the coliseum undercard.
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Oct 3, 2023 23:52
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volk / islam 2 would be a fascinating fight. it would be a real insight into their ability to adapt after 25 minutes of data and i'd watch the gently caress out of it.
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Oct 11, 2023 03:16
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gotta think the shorter time frame would have to favour volk. i bet that fight has been on his mind this entire time.
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Oct 11, 2023 03:17
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I'm sure volk will have unlimited access to the heal you faster than humanly possible poo poo so if he's signing to fight I believe he's g2g.
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Oct 11, 2023 04:10
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i am usually the last one to blame people who work with the fighters who make the ufc what it is but sparring without headgear this close to a fight is negligence. why are you even sparring this close to a fight. what the gently caress.
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Oct 11, 2023 07:36
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USADA was just for legitimacy purposes in preparation to be accepted into the mainstream and bought by a huge conglomerate like the Reebok deal right? Now that that is all done the sport can return to the state of 'clean' we accept from the NBA, NFL, and pro wrestling.
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Oct 11, 2023 23:17
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leftist heap posted:Unironically fine by me. same, pretty much. i'm fine with ped usage in competitive fighting so long as people know that if they choose to neglect ped's for ideological / religious reasons, then they are choosing to fight against mutants. the ufc doing this with usada is pretty much that declaration so i'm cool with it.
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Oct 11, 2023 23:40
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kimbo305 posted:It’ll be like USADA, but on steroids. lol'ing
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Oct 13, 2023 03:41
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CarlCX posted:So this actually got funnier today. Previously, during the initial announcements, it turned out one of the former higher-ups at the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency was going to be in charge of the UFC's in-house drug assessments: i am so angry that the ufc is only going to get way sicker with ped's basically allowed because this is really funny
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Oct 16, 2023 08:42
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i seriously think if volk volunteered for this fight then he is healthy and fight fit and he absolutely has a plan to gently caress islam up. i refuse to believe he'd just volunteer to embarrass himself for absolutely no reason. if that's exactly what he did tho, because this is mma, lol.
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Oct 19, 2023 21:53
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Lid posted:Volk is coming off surgery and his turn around is not within the expected recovery time. Add to it the short as gently caress notice he probably hadn't been in camp until he got the call. I do not like his chances in this. this is all true. what do you think he's thinking? because there was loving no reason to volunteer for this lol
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Oct 20, 2023 04:47
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CommonShore posted:$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ i think he'd make more with a full promotional run up but gently caress i don't know maybe dana wanted it real bad
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Oct 20, 2023 05:53
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Marching Powder posted:i refuse to believe he'd just volunteer to embarrass himself for absolutely no reason. if that's exactly what he did tho, because this is mma, lol. mma rules
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Oct 21, 2023 21:53
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as far as excuses go i completely get this and he still accepts responsibility for it. he's a cool dude.
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Oct 21, 2023 22:11
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leftist heap posted:did anyone tell him it was a bad idea probably literally everyone. i still understand. especially at his age every second on the shelf would have been agony.
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Oct 22, 2023 01:09
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Lid posted:Somehow I still overestimated. my avatar is like the dude caesar hired to whisper in his ear 'you are but a dumb, stupid, really moronic man'
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Oct 22, 2023 01:11
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:lol not sure if this has been posted but after Dana's whole "flags are back, people are too soft nowadays", they apparently didn't allow Khamzat and possibly Islam to walk to the ring with a Palestine flag? lol at the concept of this, will lol again if it's confirmed.
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Oct 24, 2023 06:54
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lol. also, gently caress yeah islam makachev. you may have cost me 100 dollars by embarrassing my main man volk, but you still rule.
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Oct 24, 2023 07:20
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Scapegoat posted:but it's not like they JDS / Cain days when there were no options for title fights. my dude they just made an interim heavyweight title fight, i read it in a tweet about 2 minutes ago as i type this, and i can't name either of the people fighting for it and i'm a mostly detached ex fan. imagine a casual viewer
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Oct 26, 2023 06:57
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CarlCX posted:One judging point away from beating Tyson Fury. God drat, man. by my card, the decision was correct by the rules of boxing. but i can say without hesitation that tyson loving fury just lost a boxing fight to francis ngannou fury looked like absolute poo poo the entire night and if he rocks up like that to usyk he will be embarrassed. again. ngannou's boxing was so far above what I was expecting that with fury looking like poo poo at the same time i spent the first couple of rounds wondering what the gently caress i was seeing. oh lord the knockdown. honestly tho, even with fury looking like poo poo, ngannou boxed so well i would pay to see him fight any boxer in the top 10 and i will be getting a real loving fight. after floyd's sparring session with conor, that's wild. and exciting. i hope francis kept the contract of the ufc's final offer and frames it.
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Oct 29, 2023 04:35
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rare Magic card l00k posted:Francis pulled off the actual Rocky I fight, right down to it not mattering that technically Fury won. holy poo poo lol
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Oct 29, 2023 07:02
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Boxing is more prone to calling things a slip when ambiguity is involved, rightly and wrongly at times, because the impact of scoring a knockdown in boxing is much higher than MMA. i think it's prescient to air on the side of not a knockdown, because if it was a legit knockdown, he doesn't get 10 seconds of space to get his legs to respond, and so returns to danger almost immediately.
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Oct 29, 2023 16:26
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Super Deuce posted:In all of the boxing vs MMA bullshit we've had to endure over the years, it's really strange to me that people still think MMA guys can't box at all. i seriously used to think like you. i'd think to when i was training and like, yeah we work on our boxing regularly. watching askren and woodley box was shocking to me. i did not think it was possible to become nearly the best mixed martial arts in the world and look like that in a fight. i was embarrassed for the concept of mma. conor's effort was way, way less pathetic, but floyd absolutely tooled him. what i missed was that i already had a boxing background. i knew a lot of technical aspects of boxing that was never, ever even touched on in an mma gym during boxing time. i still can't explain francis looking that good in such a high pomp debut against that calibre of opponent. Actually, now that I think on it, his punches are so ridiculous it's actually a handicap in his favour to say that's all your allowed to do.
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Oct 29, 2023 16:39
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Lid posted:There is literally no way anyone involved in that is getting paid. until the full total was sitting in an escrow service i wouldn't even board the plane lol
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Oct 30, 2023 08:37
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delightful posted:Nate Diaz is shot but also is not an "expert level striker" lol. He and Nick spend more time slapping than throwing closed fist punches. I love the Diaz brothers but they are 2/3rds personality and 1/3rd talent. nate diaz was the first one to beat conor, and he beat the loving poo poo out of him. either you mean that as a huge, huge compliment to their personality, or he is a pretty loving good striker.
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Oct 31, 2023 05:10
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delightful posted:That's more an indictment of Conor. Got choked out by one half of the patty cake brothers. Was always bad is classic.
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Nov 1, 2023 00:56
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