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| The fall of Valentina Shevchenko |
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3 | 7.14% |
| Tom Aspinall's comeback |
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| Francis Ngannou floors Tyson Fury |
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34 | 80.95% |
| actually boy that one was really great |
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1 | 2.38% |
| honestly you should probably vote for that one |
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1 | 2.38% |
| why are you still reading this |
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2 | 4.76% |
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I'm calling it now, only 1 of those 7 announced fights will actually happen. e. lovely snipe
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Dec 22, 2023 05:35
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Kragger99 posted:I'm calling it now, only 1 of those 7 announced fights will actually happen. which one?
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Dec 22, 2023 05:47
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I'm mostly being facetious, but the number of fights that fell through last year/this year seemed quite high. The number of NHL and NFL players that have already been hurt this season is staggering too. Almost feels like bodies just aren't lasting like they used to.
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Dec 22, 2023 06:12
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Two big fights for the SoCal card. They haven't moved many tickets, although that's only partially because 298 looked bad. Tickets are also LITERALLY 10X more expensive then they were when I went to all-time classic UFC 199. The cheap seats are $350. You can get three people into Disneyland for that kind of scratch
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Dec 22, 2023 06:22
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now that i know this guy exists i can just read this thread and watch this at the end of the year and it will have covered everything i care about regarding this sport. a straight right thrown at the body turning into a dick punch because the opponent simultaneously threw a flying knee is the hardest i''ve laughed in a long while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Z4QRNCGZQ
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Dec 22, 2023 07:01
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Sterling at 145 means merab might finally be getting his shot after o’malley gets his vanity defense over chito
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Dec 22, 2023 11:41
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Last Friday Morning Fights of the year! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3sty4qyv0c
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Dec 22, 2023 14:04
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Foul Fowl posted:Sterling at 145 means merab might finally be getting his shot after o’malley gets his vanity defense over chito I'm convinced the UFC is going to make Merab go through Sandhagen first in the hopes he won't make it.
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Dec 22, 2023 14:04
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Merab and Cejudo are already booked for 298 in Feb
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Dec 22, 2023 14:08
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Kragger99 posted:I'm mostly being facetious, but the number of fights that fell through last year/this year seemed quite high. The number of NHL and NFL players that have already been hurt this season is staggering too. Almost feels like bodies just aren't lasting like they used to. The first thing that popped out to me that is that Geoff Neal missed weight by like 4 lbs last fight so suddenly moving his next fight a month earlier might not end well
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Dec 22, 2023 14:35
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Digital Jedi posted:Merab and Cejudo are already booked for 298 in Feb tremendous fight but why is merab fighting everyone before he becomes champ. my prediction is a repeat of the sterling/yan dynamic, ie that merab crushes the guy who sterling barely beat
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Dec 22, 2023 14:46
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oh yeah morning fights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3sty4qyv0c
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Dec 22, 2023 14:49
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Geoff Neal is one of my all time most disappointing fighters. He could be so good, but insists on headhunting the entire time every fight to the point where he's costing himself major matches. I knew he would lose to Magny despite being an overall better fighter at that point.
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Dec 22, 2023 14:56
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Man these fights have been great. And now it's time for Nabil Anane the 6'2" 135lber
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Dec 22, 2023 15:10
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Foul Fowl posted:tremendous fight but why is merab fighting everyone before he becomes champ. my prediction is a repeat of the sterling/yan dynamic, ie that merab crushes the guy who sterling barely beat Dana is mad he and Sterling wouldn't fight. He also knows Merab would turn O'Malley into a fine paste in the cage so they're gonna stave that off as long as possible.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:18
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yeah i agree though i don’t think dana has as much power as he seems to. he’s just there to take the the heat while endeavour grind the fighters to dust for pennies. i also think he’s there as a lightning rod when some kind of horrible scandal inevitably engulfs the ufc and they can say, look we fired this giant rear end hole. it’s all good.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:20
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If slapping your wife multiple times on video won't do it I'm not sure what will then.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:34
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Nabil is unreal with his height
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Dec 22, 2023 15:47
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TheKingslayer posted:If slapping your wife multiple times on video won't do it I'm not sure what will then. Yeah, this. It's almost been a year now, and he's had no punishment other than maybe a slightly scathing TMZ story. As long as the UFC makes it's investors rich at the cost of fighters health, everything is fine from their perspective. That last sentence applies to just about every "business" right now. As long as *insert org/company here* makes it's investors rich at the cost of *employees/workers* health, everything is fine from their perspective. It's probably always been this way, but for me covid ripped off the blindfold of how you don't matter unless you're making rich people richer. Back to MMA, I was wondering why Lenne Hardt wasn't doing the fighter intros today - I guess she's getting a polyp on her vocal cords removed. Hopefully she can fully recover as she's a loving icon now. https://twitter.com/lennehardt/status/1600808897542967296/photo/1
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Dec 22, 2023 15:55
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Foul Fowl posted:tremendous fight but why is merab fighting everyone before he becomes champ. my prediction is a repeat of the sterling/yan dynamic, ie that merab crushes the guy who sterling barely beat Simple reason, Dana doesn't like that he said he wouldn't fight his friend and teammate Aljo for the belt
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Dec 22, 2023 16:38
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Kragger99 posted:Back to MMA, I was wondering why Lenne Hardt wasn't doing the fighter intros today - I guess she's getting a polyp on her vocal cords removed. Hopefully she can fully recover as she's a loving icon now. Bummer over the holidays. Lenne > Bruce, and I will not be taking questions.
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Dec 22, 2023 16:56
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the actual youtube streams is just an ad for the ppv site right?
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Dec 22, 2023 17:00
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yea, the free show was just 6 fights. Now it's been on their PPV, unless you just happen to "live" in Thailand
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Dec 22, 2023 17:06
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loving great fights all around
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Dec 22, 2023 17:48
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Yea that was another great card from ONE
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Dec 22, 2023 17:56
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TheKingslayer posted:If slapping your wife multiple times on video won't do it I'm not sure what will then. i mean some kind of major organisational scandal linked to deaths or drugs or something, idk. the slapping thing was obviously awful though in america people don’t seem to really care if you beat up women. most of the ufc fanbase definitely didn’t.
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Dec 22, 2023 21:38
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Merry Christmas to all and to all a big right.
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Dec 24, 2023 01:47
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Free A1 Combat stream starting now, semi-decent promotion that's usually on Fight Pass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EBdJtyNLeQ
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Dec 24, 2023 02:30
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How are they booking Garry to fight 2 months after being hospitalised for pneumonia? I remember it taking my mom like 6 months to recover enough to go on a brisk walk never mind hand to hand combat.
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Dec 25, 2023 17:23
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That’s wild. Which org did your mom fight in?
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Dec 25, 2023 19:25
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kimbo305 posted:That’s wild. Which org did your mom fight in? lol
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Dec 25, 2023 20:25
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kimbo305 posted:That’s wild. Which org did your mom fight in? Lmao
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Dec 25, 2023 21:23
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lol
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Dec 26, 2023 10:59
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Dec 26, 2023 23:25
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homeboy you should start by learning to defend A Punch first
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Dec 26, 2023 23:29
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Bryce Mitchell and his fellow #ally s
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Dec 26, 2023 23:50
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his wife should have gotten him the Bosch GSB 18V-150 C Professional, which google tells me is the world's most powerful cordless drill
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Dec 27, 2023 00:05
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 We made it through another year, and that means it's time for another year's community feedback and reflection thread. If you stuck with all of the writeups/monthlies/etc. this year you read 300,000+ words, and for that, a) thank you, and b) I am sorry I took away the time you could have spent reading an actual book. LobsterMobster's writing an actual recap for 2023 and I don't wanna step on toes, but I did want to highlight that I believe we all just lived through what was, statistically, the wildest year in the history of UFC title belts. If you map out champions at the start of 2023 vs the end, it's kind of nuts:
Alexander Volkanovski was, in fact, your most active champion of the year, who thanks to his last-minute fill-in against Islam averaged a championship fight every 83.6 days which was, in retrospect, a pretty bad idea. Your most active champion of the year fighting in exclusively planned fights was Aljamain Sterling, who between his October fight against Henry Cejudo and his August loss to Sean O'Malley managed a title fight every 100.3 days, which, unfortunately, was also a pretty lousy idea. You also lived through the life, death, and zombie-like rebirth of Power Slap, so congratulations on walking this sin-cursed Earth with us. As for the forum itself, if there were a few favorite moments of mine we had this year, they were LobsterMobster's Eulogy for Bellator, which was the exact kind of reverent and irreverent Bellator as an organization deserved in a way I deeply appreciate, my silly Tank Abbott tournament, which I drastically underestimated the workload for but which was ultimately a lot of fun to do, and the moment we all found out Jase1 faked his death, which is still the funniest, dumbest thing that's happened here in awhile. And, as with every year, I am mostly here for annual community feedback. It's no secret that we've got more folks than ever disenchanted with the current product, so I wanted to see if there was any interest in 2024 participation in any of these:
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Dec 27, 2023 01:28
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^^^^^holy gently caress, good poo poo as always, Carl  Just cracked up because I first read one of the sentences as "patriots, fitin this tyranny. the system is rigged. im mentally and physically ill."
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Eat This Glob posted:his wife should have gotten him the Bosch GSB 18V-150 C Professional, which google tells me is the world's most powerful cordless drill
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