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MMA |OT3| When you lose you're a can, when you win you're unstoppable.

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Heel

Member
Gr1mLock said:
How do you know I wasn't referencing Cheesy's exquisite taste in classic literature?
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Maklershed

Member
coldvein said:
i don't follow MMA at all but the amount of joe rogan experience podcast that i listen to makes me want to give it a shot. whens the next big deal shit i should watch, and how and where do i do it?
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You picked a great time to start. The event on Saturday is gonna be one of the biggest UFC PPVs of all time.
 
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Maklershed

Member
Toying with the idea of going to another UFC this summer. I'm thinking maybe the Colorado one (UFC 150 Henderson vs Edgar) or possibly the LA one (UFC on Fox 4). I'm kinda leaning towards the Colorado show though.
 
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Gr1mLock

Passing metallic gas
So whats happening on saturday. I know the nerdchat will be happening. Are we mingling with the unwashed masses or are we goin insular?
 
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yacobod

Banned
Gr1mLock said:
So whats happening on saturday. I know the nerdchat will be happening. Are we mingling with the unwashed masses or are we goin insular?
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bring in the unwashed masses. it will be more fun to troll all the rubes about the myth of spider balboa, mickey soares, and co.
 
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yacobod

Banned
On July 7th said:
I got some satisfaction that the real Anderson, the real scumbag, showed up because I've been saying all that fake bowing and [humility] is a façade for years. Now he's shown up and I've been proven right. So I got some amount of satisfaction from that and, on the other hand, I've got an ego and I want to show to do well, because that's my name on the poster and I want the event to be big. So I was happy he started throwing threats around on the call, even though his threats made no sense.

He's in a fist fight in a steel cage. He should want to break my teeth. He should want to break my face and jaw. It is a fight, dummy. If he's not trying to do those things, how is it a fight? But this is real serious to me. I'd take broken teeth, a jaw that needs to be re-set and getting carried out on a stretcher if I get that belt. … He said he will break my jaw, break my arms, break my legs, but one thing he didn't say [is that] he'd break is my will. And he won't break my will. I want this more than he does.
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and bonus content, our good friend dream sent me a private message containing his eulogy to MMA Legend and Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz.

ENJOY

Tito Ortiz is not the best fighter in UFC history. He's far from it, actually. He's won only one fight in the last five-plus years. But when the UFC finishes its 20th full year of existence in November, Ortiz won't be far from the top of the list of its most significant figures. Ortiz will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame on Saturday, a few hours before he walks to the cage at the MGM Grand Garden to meet Forrest Griffin in the co-main event of UFC 148. The bout will mark the finale of his illustrious career. The UFC, and the sport of mixed martial arts, will be much lesser without him a part of it. It's clearly a marketing gimmick that the UFC chose Saturday to induct Ortiz, but what really matters is that he's in and getting the recognition he's deserved for relentlessly pushing mixed martial arts toward mainstream acceptance. He debuted at UFC 13 in 1997, when MMA was banned from cable television and fighting a perception that it was a lawless rogue sport. Ortiz was charismatic, colorful and frequently outrageous, but he tirelessly pushed the fact that the fighters were world-class athletes and that MMA deserved to be taken seriously as a sport. He answered thousands of questions from reporters who had never seen an MMA fight before speaking to him. His patience was legendary and, eventually, his message resonated. By the middle of the last decade, the rest of the world began to catch on to what Ortiz had long been preaching: The fighters were world-class athletes who were, for the most part, in great condition, and the sport was every bit as legitimate as football, baseball, basketball and hockey. The sport might not have survived the human cock fighting era had casino moguls Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta not come along and poured millions of dollars into building the UFC into a burgeoning sports empire, but money alone wasn't going to save the sport. It needed athletes the public could count on to spread the word. Ortiz literally criss-crossed the country in those early years, talking to anyone who would listen. All the while, he was one of its elite competitors. His five successful light heavyweight title defenses and six consecutive title fight wins remains a divisional record. He's no longer near the fighter he once was, but even as he comes to the finish line, he's good enough to compete against the best. There are some light heavyweights in the UFC who simply aren't good enough to ever be put into the cage with a Rashad Evans, an Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, or a Griffin. Ortiz, though, is still largely competitive despite going just 1-6-1 in his last eight outings. "Tito is part of the fabric of our sport and of the history of our company," UFC chairman Lorenzo Fertitta said. "He's given his life to mixed martial arts and gave all of us some hugely memorable moments as both a fighter and a personality outside the Octagon. He was a lock to go into the UFC Hall of Fame at some point, and I'm happy we could make this happen now so he gets to enter the Octagon for the final time as a reigning Hall of Famer. I think this will be an emotional goodbye for Tito and one final special moment for his fans." Ortiz helped save the UFC at a time when the Fertittas were reconsidering their investment. His two fights with arch rival Chuck Liddell, at UFC 47 and at UFC 66, were major events that did serious pay-per-view sales and were the first tangible signs that Zuffa's business plan was taking root. Ortiz took on all comers – he fought seven men who at one point held the light heavyweight belt in the UFC and another who had it in PRIDE – and he fought when he was badly injured. He was emotional when he learned he was going into the Hall of Fame and have no doubt that he'll be emotional late Saturday when he's introduced as a Hall of Famer. "To be inducted into the Hall of Fame is final proof that all the hard work and dedication, all the pain and sacrifices, were all worth it," Ortiz said. "To be able to walk to the Octagon one last time as an official UFC Hall of Fame level fighter is going to be humbling and awesome. I'm very grateful to have this opportunity to end my career on such a high like this." Ortiz helped usher the UFC into the modern era. The young fighters, who make large salaries and earn lucrative endorsements, have Ortiz to thank. Those who fight on Saturday would be wise to acknowledge his impact upon their careers publicly. He battled his way to significance, inside the cage and out. He did it with class, he did it with flair and, as Frank Sinatra sang in his marquee song, Ortiz did it his way. The final three sentences of that song seem as if they were written specifically for Ortiz.
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H

Heel

Member
Watching Silver-GAF have a 25 minute meltdown in nerd chat would be a pretty interesting case study. We'll have to make an observation room.
 
Y

yacobod

Banned
Gr1mLock said:
And the roman crowds weep in great sorrow. You sir have declared yourself on the side of sport. Heel get this man his complementary signed Gregory Jackson headshot.
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I disagree respected friend. Supporting chael is supporting sports entertainment with the bonus of tarnishing a hollow legacy.
 
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Bossun

Member
yacobod said:
I disagree respected friend. Supporting chael is supporting sports entertainment with the bonus of tarnishing a hollow legacy.
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It's also supporting drug use to a certain point! But it's true that he is the best entertainment in the sport. I can't hate him.
 
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Heel

Member
Yaco understands that as true fans of the sport, we must prioritize. We must not continue on a path of lies, where the fallacy of "there are no easy fights in the UFC" has allowed the often boring Anderson Silva to surpass The Great Fedor in legacy.

A man must be laid on for 25 full minutes. A truth must be exposed. Only then can the healing begin.
 
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Gr1mLock

Passing metallic gas
Heel said:
Yaco understands that as true fans of the sport, we must prioritize. We must not continue on a path of lies, where the fallacy of "there are no easy fights in the UFC" has allowed the often boring Anderson Silva to surpass The Great Fedor in legacy.

A man must be laid on for 25 full minutes. A truth must be exposed. Only then can the healing begin.
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I fear your short sightedness is making you gentlemen fail to consider the implications of what will follow, if your desired outcome comes to pass. The prospect of rematches and continued dull bouts of wrestle intercourse are all but set in stone. You shall both rue the day you spoke ill of lord spider.
 
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yacobod

Banned
Gr1mLock said:
I fear your short sightedness is making you gentlemen fail to consider the implications of what will follow, if your desired outcome comes to pass. The prospect of rematches and continued dull bouts of wrestle intercourse are all but set in stone. You shall both rue the day you spoke ill of lord spider.
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friend i have consider all the possibilities and a chael sonnen victory brings us one step closer to the inevitable michael bisping title reign :)
 
C

Chamber

love on your sleeve
Imagine the looks on the collective faces of Silver-GAF when they realize Bisping is a tougher match-up for Chael than Anderson.
 
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