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| Alex Pereira vs Tom Aspinall |
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2 | 5.88% |
| Georges St-Pierre vs Khabib Nurmagomedov |
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6 | 17.65% |
| Mark Hunt vs Dana White |
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19 | 55.88% |
| Mark Coleman vs A Fire |
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5 | 14.71% |
| Mark Twain vs The Tainted Legacy of Americana |
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2 | 5.88% |
| Total: | 34 votes | ||
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this thread, lol, or podcasts (jack slack, heavy hands, probably others). nate wilcox's newsletter is good (https://www.themmadraw.com/). twitter is also unfortunately good for tape studies - miguel class is good, https://twitter.com/9h6st21_mma is good (can never remember how to spell that - this person did scouting for weili zhang though, they're legit). karim zidan is the only mma writer who writes about politics that i trust. there's probably some others but it's hard to find because the modern UFC fandom is genuinely the worst in the world, and it's full of bad faith actors trying to farm engagement for their blue tick paychecks by calling GSP overrated or whatever. and the state of MMA journalism is somehow even worse. the pond is definitely shrinking.
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Apr 2, 2024 14:16
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yeah they were in her camp for the lemos fight
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Apr 2, 2024 14:38
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https://twitter.com/9h6st21_mma/status/1693146660631957725 you gotta click on it to view the whole thread. you may need a twitter account for this. i’m sorry.
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Apr 2, 2024 14:45
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kimbo305 posted:Au contraire mon frere oh amazing, i always use twitter on my phone and i forget the thread reader app is a thing. i'm not too familiar with the specifics of the situation - i think they were brought in as an outside scout, and i'm assuming the instagram account is theirs, but i thought it was a really interesting look at how fighters prepare for very specific things. given that she mashed up lemos it clearly worked.
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Apr 2, 2024 20:09
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Maigius posted:That's another title lineage ended by Jon Jones. At least this one had 0 prestige. isn’t francis still the lineal champ?
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Apr 6, 2024 08:53
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Maigius posted:Yes, but they started a new one after that, it's exactly as prestigious as the current interim title. oh sure. and i think the interim belt is more prestigious than jon's belt he got from taking gane to his first free trial grappling class. i think aspinall is pretty cool and jon is scared as hell of him.
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Apr 6, 2024 10:25
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I saw a poster with the actual fights listed on it instead of just 300. chucky vs. dickhead tsarukyan, holloway vs. gaethje and yussuf vs. lopes will all probably be fantastic fights, particularly the first one. the rest of the card looks pretty good. periera vs. hill is obviously a joke but it will probably be a good joke. weili gets to crush someone which is always fun, and who knows, weili started her transformation into a fun and good fighter by annihilating andrade, so xiaonan might be on that same track. then the rest of it looks like a late 00's era card, i.e. mostly fun or relevant or good fighters, which by today's standards is excellent.
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Apr 10, 2024 09:59
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max's performance was really crazy. i think i gave him more of a chance than most people did but i thought it was like a 50/50 if max didn't get knocked out. not that it was going to be a 4-1 decisive win (that ended dramatically) where max looked like he had no problem with gaethje's power, where he looked fast and sharp as hell, and where you can clearly see where all the energy he poured into beating volkanovski went. the back kick counter to gaethje's hunchback defense came out like a half dozen times and worked every time. the way he lulled gaethje into thinking they were back to having a fencing match before rocking him with a two punch combo, like four or five times in the fight. good stuff. i was upset that chucky lost. but the way he lost made me less upset, because i think the unfortunate reality is that unless tsarukyan has become a much superior grappler to islam (unlikely, given their last fight and how good islam is) then charles getting mount like a minute into the fight, only to lose top position and be slowly ground on with elbows for several minutes, was a very bad sign for the rematch.
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Apr 15, 2024 18:21
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kimbo305 posted:it was a great scout on JG's tendencies, and I'm surprised how readily he could be baited into ducking with no real feint before the spin. The last few times Max threw it were pretty ineffective but still enough to break JG's advance. yeah i need to rewatch it sober but i was really astonished by how good he looked. my mental state during the fight went from one of profound worry to amazement. Super Deuce posted:Those judges giving Justin that round are a joke. again i need to rewatch it sober but i thought gaethje won round 4 - he finally threw his jab and that was working well, he stumbled max with something, and max didn't get much offense on him (as far as i remember). CarlCX posted:Also, the UFC updated their rankings and it includes Max Holloway being officially ranked at Lightweight! what the gently caress
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Apr 16, 2024 17:49
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