TheGreatMightyPoo
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Any sense or announcement of when Nick is fighting???
I heard this year after they overturned his dumb-as-fuck 5 year ban.
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Any sense or announcement of when Nick is fighting???
I heard this year after they overturned his dumb-as-fuck 5 year ban.
If Diaz is going to win it's not going to be with strikes. You can count on that.
His new suspension is up later this year, so I'd guess sometime in the fall he'd have a fight.
juliushandle
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Cool, McGregor can then fight Lawler at UFC 200 for the 170 strap.
Condit and Woodley can get their rematch with each other. Wonderboy can fight Rory.
Both Edgar and Dos Anjos can sit and wait.
Condit and Woodley can get their rematch with each other. Wonderboy can fight Rory.
Both Edgar and Dos Anjos can sit and wait.
Mister Wilhelm
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Conor fighting at 170 lbs when he's the champ at 145.
UFC out-freakshowing Bellator.
UFC out-freakshowing Bellator.
Honestly, it will be nice seeing McGregor fighting at around his walking weight, rather than looking like he's dying during fight week due to the cut.
I'm actually more excited to see this fight than the RDA match-up, partly for the trash talk that will happen for the next week.
parrotbeak
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No, but maybe the first since Timmay was hw champ.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Same. McGregor will style on Diaz and win by TKO or decision. But if McGregor gets goaded into standing and banging then Diaz may have a shot. Worst case scenario (lol): Diaz wins. Diaz gets title shot at 155. Diaz takes RDA seriously and wins the belt. Diaz vs. McGregor 2 booked for the end of the year.
Either way the trash talk and entertainment value of this fight just went through the roof.
BigJonsson
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If Conor loses at 170 will anyone really care?
-MD-
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Haunted
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Super bummed about Dos Anjos pulling out. This is no replacement fight, there are literally no stakes to this exhibition and we have no idea how McGregor performs at this weight.
MEH
/salty
MEH
/salty
Yeah, safe fight for McGregor (the excuses almost write themselves it things go wrong) and most likely a pretty great payday for Diaz.
RBelong2Us
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Yeah of course. His aura goes away. Losing to Nate Diaz?!
Yeah, it's high risk low reward
Yeah, it's high risk low reward
a fighter almost died this weekend from being tired and fat
Haunted
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Mister Wilhelm
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HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?
Conor's original opponent falls out of a highly, highly anticipated fight and he takes what would normally considered to be a huge risk and brings us something we never knew we actually wanted to see ever more in the process.
I just call it like I see it, homie.
When was the last time you saw a Brazilian champion that wasn't a born into poverty, talented yet still overconfident, megapatriot that moved to America the second they could, and devoutly religious guy that casually mentioned literally wanting to murder his opponent for saying anything remotely bad about him and even occasionally called them "faggot" in Brazilian interviews/youtube clips that everyone just kinda doesn't talk about?
Fuuuck, that's a nice edit, the Tupac live is a great touch.
Maklershed
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I can't wait to see what Connor chooses to set Nate off. He's like that guy on the one Seinfeld episode who can find everyone's insecurity and insult them over it. My guess is Connor goes after Nick. Or says that Nate isn't as good as Nick. Something like that.
You think Diaz is gonna try to take Conor down? I love Nate but he has zero gameplan / fight iq. He will without a doubt keep it on the feet. That being said I don't see how Connor wins this. Nate is too damn big and Connors strengths are Nates stengths.
Mister Wilhelm
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Can Crusher
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Love it. Let's get a fucking party going on.
Sato Koiji
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Connor dropped from -280 to -370 already.
Mister Wilhelm
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I can't believe I was out partying and missed on those starting odds.
I would've put a down payment on a house on the line for those numbers.
Haunted
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I mean, you're not wrong.
I don't even mind the zealous patriotism, that just comes with a lot of people in the sport (whether they're Brazilian, Irish or from the US), but it's tough to discern whether the blandness of answers and statements across many Brazilian fighters comes from the language barrier, translation problems, or whether they're just... bland guys.
Holly Holm asking to face Cyborg at a catchweight:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...roposed-catchweight-fight-with-cyborg-justino
RR, take notes. This is what a fighter looks like.
In fairness that was a clean RHK. There's no too many fighters that can take one of those.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...roposed-catchweight-fight-with-cyborg-justino
RR, take notes. This is what a fighter looks like.
Are you guys seriously forgetting how easy Josh made this look?
In fairness that was a clean RHK. There's no too many fighters that can take one of those.
This is going to be a great fight. It's a shame that Nate only got 10 days notice for this fight because a full camp and the shit talking lead in to this fight would have been fantastic. But then again, he would have never gotten title shot anytime soon so I'll take what I can get.
It's also pretty funny that Eddie Alvarez is the top 155er in the UFC right now. Not counting Khabib since he hasn't fought in years. UFC should try to bring in Chandler and Brooks when they get the chance.
It's also pretty funny that Eddie Alvarez is the top 155er in the UFC right now. Not counting Khabib since he hasn't fought in years. UFC should try to bring in Chandler and Brooks when they get the chance.
Maklershed
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"Six of Conor's last 12 opponents have pulled out. Even if a certain fighter is not announced as Conor's original opponent, every guy who's in some way in the mix to face him in the future should be staying prepared, because there's a 50-percent chance there'll be an opening."
"I did find it somewhat interesting, however, that Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar both turned it down. I seem to recall them insisting quite recently that they were willing to fight Conor 'any time and any place.' Obviously they forgot to mention that 5 March in Las Vegas was an exception."
- John Kavanagh
"I did find it somewhat interesting, however, that Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar both turned it down. I seem to recall them insisting quite recently that they were willing to fight Conor 'any time and any place.' Obviously they forgot to mention that 5 March in Las Vegas was an exception."
- John Kavanagh
dream
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No, I don't think Nate will try to take Conor down, but I can see Conor shooting once he realizes that he's getting outranged and falling right into an omoplata or something.
edit: also, throwing Frankie under the bus is bullshit. The guy is injured right now.
-MD-
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Kavanagh is a moron, he knows Frankie is injured and still spouts nonsense.
dream
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To be fair, Dana did the same fucking thing on ESPN. "Frankie turned down the fight." That's probably where Kavanagh is getting this from.
juliushandle
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Press conference starts now. Hope Nate slaps Conor in the face.
-MD-
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As long as he doesn't smoke the day of the fight he'll be good to go.
juliushandle
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Chad got $500k, any idea what Nate will be paid? This PPV has got to do better numbers as Conor's legend gets bigger and bigger with each fight.
-MD-
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Forgot who said it but I read he's making 500k/500k.
From the presser, it sounds like he got $1,000,000 minimum, since McGregor asked him how it feels to be a millionaire.
I was interested in Nate's accusations that Conor and his camp knew they would get Diaz long before RDA pulled out allowing Conor to train in full for an out of shape 10 day notice Diaz. That's quite an intricate fix.
That presser was just a verbal beatdown by Conor on Diaz. From training kids to the hilarious Melendez/Shields retort, it was relentless.
That presser was just a verbal beatdown by Conor on Diaz. From training kids to the hilarious Melendez/Shields retort, it was relentless.
juliushandle
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Wild? Nate is going to fold under all the media pressure before the fight even begins. He'll get KO'd in the 1st then he'll get popped for marijuana and smoke up his million dollars while suspended.
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