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Which PFL champion are you most looking forward to seeing this month?
This poll is closed.
Olivier Aubin-Mercier 1 3.85%
Larissa Pacheco 4 15.38%
Sadibou Sy 1 3.85%
Lance Palmer 0 0%
Nicco Montano 1 3.85%
Alexander Shlemenko 2 7.69%
Bobby Southworth 3 11.54%
Hardcore Holly 14 53.85%
Total: 26 votes
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Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


GTO posted:

Or you could move to Stockton / Pride rules where there is a heavy scoring bias in favour of 'trying to finish the fight'.

It would lead to more contentious decisions but also push fighters away from boring control game plans.

As long as the refs don't end up letting people take more punishment than necessary because of let em bang bro, (I know that wasn't really the case in Pride, but Pride isn't 2023 era combat sports) I wouldn't be against it at all.

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kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1013914

quote:

Mao, who founded Shanghai’s first women-only boxing gym after retiring from her professional boxing career in 2010, said that business has been so good that she recently opened a second location.

For many women, a big part of the attraction of combat sports is the chance to achieve a more muscular physique. Until recently, the dominant beauty trend in China prized women who were bai shou you, or “pale, slim, and youthful.” But that is now rapidly changing.

Mixed martial arts star Zhang Weili has played a big role in this. When she became China’s first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champion in 2019, Zhang’s powerful body became an object of fascination on Chinese social media. So did her fearless attitude, famously telling one interviewer: “I don’t think women should be defined in a certain way … She can be everything.”
perhaps something good can come of this sport.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Mao's last muscle mommy will make an interesting book in a few years when Xi decides to shut it down.

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib
ONE FC Friday fights already live and 2 fights in. Forgot about that daylight savings change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKUAVJamNU8

LobsterMobster
Oct 29, 2009

"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."

"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"

Digital Jedi posted:

ONE FC Friday fights already live and 2 fights in. Forgot about that daylight savings change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKUAVJamNU8

i am behind and playing catch up, but we had two fights in a row with a Royal and a Royle???

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


LobsterMobster posted:

i am behind and playing catch up, but we had two fights in a row with a Royal and a Royle???

Yep. Coopar Royal from Australia and Ben Royle from the UK https://www.onefc.com/events/one-friday-fights-40/

Fozzy The Bear
Dec 11, 1999

Nothing much, watching the game, drinking a bud

kimbo305 posted:

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1013914

perhaps something good can come of this sport.

I wonder if the PEDs Weili uses are easy to get in China

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Fozzy The Bear posted:

I wonder if ... PEDs ... easy to get in China
bruh

individual865
Mar 26, 2007

Life on the outside ain't what it used to be.
Roy Nelson and Alan Belcher are main eventing this bareknuckle MMA card that starts in about 10 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYxNfvf2Rmw

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
Does Belcher’s Elvis tattoo look like Roy yet?

ccubed
Jul 14, 2016

How's it hanging, brah?
2nd fight in the Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA has one of the saddest postfight interviews I've ever seen. Near breakdown crying begging to fight to provide for his family.

individual865
Mar 26, 2007

Life on the outside ain't what it used to be.
lol Chase Sherman is on this card.

coathat
May 21, 2007

the vanilla gorilla will be back in the ufc soon and then cut again in no time

Nierbo
Dec 5, 2010

sup brah?
Wow Trinaldo is doing bareknuckle mma right now.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

It's lowkey hilarious how much of a mutant Belcher is now with roids and other research chemicals and then he posts all day about how its just jesus and hard work.

Is it too terrible to joke that Jesus must be the pharmacist he buys his tren off in mexico?

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Trinaldo is 9000 years old at this point right? He's like the MMAthusela.

coathat
May 21, 2007

tko'd a guy just by normally grappling with him

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

coathat posted:

tko'd a guy just by normally grappling with him

Something about bare knuckle feels almost wrong to watch.

Nierbo
Dec 5, 2010

sup brah?
Not a single fight has gone to second round tonight.

ccubed
Jul 14, 2016

How's it hanging, brah?
5 fights. 4 people leave on a stretcher. No fight has gone to the 2nd round yet

Nierbo
Dec 5, 2010

sup brah?
The 'medical staff' seem a bit how ya goin

coathat
May 21, 2007

And now they've decided that actually Lombard won by tko.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Pardon my ignorance, but Is tearing your pec off a typical injury for a non enhanced athlete?

ccubed
Jul 14, 2016

How's it hanging, brah?
The Fight Circus commentary is light years better than Robin Black

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib
Get your picks in for UFC 295!

https://www.tapology.com/groups/998

Nierbo
Dec 5, 2010

sup brah?

COPE 27 posted:

Pardon my ignorance, but Is tearing your pec off a typical injury for a non enhanced athlete?

I wouldnt say its typical but it happens. Any muscle tear can happen at any time. Its usually not suspicious. JJ has no reason not to fight. This is only a bad thing for him

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

COPE 27 posted:

Pardon my ignorance, but Is tearing your pec off a typical injury for a non enhanced athlete?

I'm just a fuckin idiot who lifts every day and I tore mine doing flies with the little old lady weights to end a big chest day. When I spoke to the doctors after I got diagnosed they told me I'd probably done it earlier in the work out, or potentially a week before and it just let fly are the wrong time.

You can do it out of the blue.

Usually roid related injuries as I understand it, are the muscles required to lengthen and contract more than others, so poo poo like your quads and hamstrings when sprinting - why lots of times sprinters in the olympics look like they've been hit by a sniper coming out of the blocks, but my sports science knowledge is basically youtube stuff and whatever I get for free on pub med.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


COPE 27 posted:

Pardon my ignorance, but Is tearing your pec off a typical injury for a non enhanced athlete?

Sports in general, usually weightlifting, wrestling, football and gymnastics; roids help increase the risk of it in those, but it's not necessary/it can happen without it. Rare outside of sports https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/pectoralis-major-muscle-tear-overview

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Thanks

coathat
May 21, 2007

Chase Sherman is in the ring. The Vanilla Gorilla comeback is on.

coathat
May 21, 2007

He did it! The dream lives on.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

coathat posted:

He did it! The dream lives on.
the Gorilla Channel is real

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib
Knight's strat of using his face to block punches worked till it wasn't anymore

coathat
May 21, 2007

He got the poo poo beat out of him.

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib
Also,

https://x.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1723177247857602918?s=20

Dana can do the funniest thing, Lewis vs Conor

ccubed
Jul 14, 2016

How's it hanging, brah?
https://twitter.com/CSTodayNews/status/1723203325888286966

coathat
May 21, 2007

Conner would miss the heavyweight limit for that fight

Unperson_47
Oct 14, 2007



Fat man vs. jacked man - always bet on the fat man


edit: or not, what the gently caress

Unperson_47 fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Nov 11, 2023

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Jon Jones will fight before Connor

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BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Roy Nelson can still take a loving shot. Some of those overhands were insane.

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