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| The fall of Valentina Shevchenko |
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3 | 7.14% |
| Tom Aspinall's comeback |
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1 | 2.38% |
| 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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CarlCX posted:If Maddalena knocks out Burns they will 100% say "well, Belal and Shavkat both have such great claims to a title shot the only answer is for them to fight each other" while they run Edwards/JDM in the UK. Fortunately Burns is going to tie JDM into a nice little bow to put on the UFC’s plans before they get buried in the back yard.
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Dec 17, 2023 12:44
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BlindSite posted:I know the 2 African fighters living in America and the third living in NZ who held or were holding belts got angry with him when he said he wanted to be the first "true" African champion but has he actually said or done anything I missed that puts him up there with Strickland? No it’s pretty much just the Afrikaner guy repeatedly dismissing the African identity of black people born in Africa, though he eventually walked it back a little and said that’s not what he meant (it absolutely was). Strickland is definitely way worse, but DDP wielding his colonial privilege as a bludgeon is still bad.
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Dec 20, 2023 00:27
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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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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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My fighter of the year is Gaethje. He turned back a young lion in Fiziev with a gritty and eventually technical performance, and then showed that his evolution does work at the highest level when he crushed his longtime rival Poirer to avenge one of his most significant losses. That's as close as anyone has gotten to two outstanding wins without asterisks this year, and there's no one with three great wins. I feel like 2023 has had the least activity out of contenders in the years I've been watching. Then, in order: CarlCX posted:* Patchy Mix: Dude murdered Raufeon Stots and Sergio Pettis in a single calendar year, come the gently caress on Others for the honorable mentions off two good wins include Erin Blanchfield, Arman Tsarukyan, and Max Holloway. My dark horse is Brandon Moreno, who was in two of the best fights of the year despite losing his title by split decision. Strickland has to be mentioned, he has 3 wins and got the title in an upset, but two of those wins weren't great and the title felt like more a resolution on Adesanya than a heralding of the Strickland Era. Edwards would be in there if he put his foot on the gas more and broke Covington, but as funny as Covington losing in a poo poo fight was the fight was still poo poo. Pantoja vs. Royval was just a bit too sloppy between the gassing and the lack of TDD. CarlCX posted: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. Better than most books I read this year, and if you wrote a combo of predictions and results I'd buy the book form. quote:so I wanted to see if there was any interest in 2024 participation in any of these: I'd be interested in this, but with specific fights for technical analysis rather than event recaps/reviews.
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Dec 28, 2023 14:21
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I’m the two lightweights fighting at 185 because steroids are legal now
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Dec 31, 2023 19:23
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