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MMA |OT2| - Thread of Athletes, Fighters, Personalities, and Sports Entertainment
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TheNatural
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not only badly but boringly since he has such a good chin
wtf..where is everyone?
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and the official event thread is so bad because you have all these drive by posters who don't watch mma, so they don't know what they are talking about.
most posts basically boil down to why don't you like JBJ as much as i do
Our move to community was a blessing in disguise. Insular-GAF is where it's at.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Nelson's carving out a decent niche of jobbing for the stars.
The lol-factor of him defeating Cain would be incredible.
TheKaeptain
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Oh man someone in the Jones thread pulled the Technical card. Said only dudes with sharp eyes for MMA could see it...
AwesomeSauce
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LOL just read that post.
Anyway just caught up on the card and some of my thoughts for our insular community:
-Gravedigger
terrible way to showcase your lack of jits mang. DAT FLAILING. Still Uncle Dana or Tio Silva throw him some cans for interesting slobberknockers. I gots a soft spot for underdogs.-Wonderboy geeze. Talk about lack of TDD.
-Haha at the Hybrid. Dude's chin/temple is so suspect. Also at that invisible man grabbing HAHAHAHA. I had Rothwell on this one, and can't lie was kind of sweating when he ate that weird spinning back elbow, but DAT LEFT which didn't look like much came through. Keep Rothwell around weeding out chumps in the HW division IMO. Definition of gatekeeper.
-Poor Miguel AngHell Torres
I bet he heard McDonald talking smack about changing his style, so he came aggressive. All according to Keikaku. During the fight you can see McDonald studied aggressive Miguel Anghell Torres and kept trying to land that inside uppercut in the pocket. Well, it worked out. Sucks for Miguel Anghell Torres, but I'm still a fan of the guy. Just hope that when he watches the tape that he notices McDonald just focusing on catching him with that inside uppercut and to watch out for that from now on. I also believe he was screwed over on the Mighty Mouse fight. FYI active sub attempts from bottom >>>>>>>>>>>> Rubbing your head on chest from top-Everyone is hyping Rory to the high heavens, but I still believe he has more to prove IMO. Throw him against some top 10 Welterweights and if he is dominant than yeah the the crazy hype is more understandable. Or maybe he'll bust a George Sot aka one of the biggest hype train derails. I also don't think his demolition of Nate Diaz was anything special. Nate at 170 is like a baby Gap kid shopping at the regular Gap store. Basically undersized big time.
-I had Jones winning by TKO somewhere in the 1st 3 rounds, but was surprised with Evans surviving some of those hard rights and elbows especially with Evan's suspect chin. Got to give props to Evans for landing some of the hardest shots Jones has been hit with, but Jones made it look easy in there.
i rather have a semi nude female, but i got this avatar instead.
but if you really know, brock lesnar returned to sports entertainment, and alistair overeem has been outed as being a cheater. vindicated.
TheKaeptain
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That was a rumor but more than likely Chida's Dad and Him are both friends. They are both really respected in the Traditional martial arts.
Fuck Bones. Blah!
Other than that, fun card. Sad to see Hominick lose the decision after a hell of a brawl, but was glad to see other Canucks win, Bocek and Rory namely. Torres got absolutely rocked(something I wish I could say in the NHL thread.), Schaub is a glass.. well.. that's it I guess, he's glass, went down in a hurry. Prelims were decent as well, the Brown/Thompson fight was good, despite how unbelievably gassed they both were.
Other than that, fun card. Sad to see Hominick lose the decision after a hell of a brawl, but was glad to see other Canucks win, Bocek and Rory namely. Torres got absolutely rocked(something I wish I could say in the NHL thread.), Schaub is a glass.. well.. that's it I guess, he's glass, went down in a hurry. Prelims were decent as well, the Brown/Thompson fight was good, despite how unbelievably gassed they both were.
TheKaeptain
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You never been in a club/restaurant where they have a photographer going around taking pics? Usually those dudes take really good pictures. Only cheap places take those ones you see over exposed with a midshot of a group.
TheNatural
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We need to make a MMA drama chalkboard similar to "Sony exclusives" chalkboard that they had on the gaming side.
It's like it goes from one thing to another when an event ends. From Jones-Rashad to will Ubereem even have a license or job Tuesday and where the Silva-Sonnen fight will be.
It's like it goes from one thing to another when an event ends. From Jones-Rashad to will Ubereem even have a license or job Tuesday and where the Silva-Sonnen fight will be.
Well what really made the picture for me was Machida's father on the right.
TheKaeptain
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I really like it. Andy is talking to Ryoto and Fat ass is talking to chant over linkin park guy.
Ninja Scooter
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They're trying to explain to Lyoto what happened during the Bones fight since he probably blacked it out.
TheKaeptain
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Probably?
parrotbeak
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So classy in the wine glass.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
polyh3dron
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I cringe every time someone calls a boring fight a "technical" fight.
And is this ED thing with Overeem real?
Ninja Scooter
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TheNatural
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I didn't think it was a great fight, but damn. I think Heel's poisoned some of you with BadMMA every week that you can't get any fight other than a Leonard Garcia brawl or ending in a quick KO. Bones hit some good shots and Evans didn't get dropped really for him to capitalize. It's not like it was the worst fight in the world, it was just a standard 'safe' defense.
I bet the fights on FOX next week are worse than this card actually.
I bet the fights on FOX next week are worse than this card actually.
Ninja Scooter
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They need to start feeding BJ some cans so we can see him do his thing and let him ride out on a high note.
Haha well I think there are technical fights and there is such thing as good fights that go to a decision. This was not one of them.
Something like Shogun vs. Machida was way more technical.
TheNatural
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I agree. The undercard before Browne pretty much sucked, except for that second Facebook fight. And then the Bocek fight was horrible. But the rest was solid, not horribad. I think an event every week burns people out and makes them ADD for KO's and trading shots wars because it's on CONSTANTLY.
And plus, theres so many fighters and irrelevent fights that when someone wins you're just like 'wtf, ok what does this even mean?' Rothwell and Browne won, so what does that mean, they move up into the top 15 of HW's or something?
Dana should have created a 'middling heavyweight tourney' with all the guys stuck in the muck. Browne, Rothwell, Huntu, Nelson, Struve, etc. Have about 8 guys fight in a tourney to decide who gets a HW title shot at some point - but leave a couple of top contenders in the division open to fight for the title in the meanwhile.
It would at least give a little meaning to the division and actually give someone something to fight for.
parrotbeak
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Ya, or a fight like Diaz Conduit where there is clearly a struggle between styles, both guys are trying to execute a game plan and one guy is just doing it better. Idk what Shad and Bones were trying to do. Trying to not get hurt?
I enjoyed the Yagin Hominick fight.
TheNatural
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White declined to name Velasquez's new opponent but did confirm he'll remain on the card. And while he promised some shuffling of the evening's all-heavyweight main card, White said a Mark Hunt vs. Stefan Struve fight will remain intact.
TheKaeptain
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White just wants to see Struve dead.
parrotbeak
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RIP Struve
I think the issue is that we've seen in the past that Rashad's chin isn't the best. He got rocked badly in his fights with Thiago Silva and Rampage Jackson, and got stanky legged by Machida. JBJ has been a killer in all but one of his UFC fights, which was his debut. So yes the expectations are high. He fought a safe fight and kept the title, only time he really opened up was in the 2nd round when he had those nice elbows out of the patty cake offense.
No reason for everyone to make excuses for a tepid fight. We can call a spade a spade.
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