rolling mma thread

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Q: When can fans get Fedor's Tapout shirt:

A: I'm afraid to disappoint the fans, but it seems like, never. Literally today they called me from the TAPOUT firm and told me that they were contacted by the representatives of the UFC, and that under the threat of tearing up all the contracts with their organization demanded that TAPOUT categorically stop producing all the shirts from the line of Fedor Emelianenko.

This is how Dana White feels about Fedor. So tell me, what can we think about such person after this, that even in things that have nothing to do with UFC, he still tries to mess it up for us. So it seems that the shirts will just stay a rarity that fans will see in pictures. Say thanks to UFC and their politics of monopoly.

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Seems like a happy dude.

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was at a wedding so I missed it live, but... holy shit!

so bizarre that fedor was so willing to play around in werdum's guard. really lame finish. even worse, overeem is going to brutalize werdum and then what? just a waste.

at least cung was classic, describing his wife's c-section and all.

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That cut under Brock's eye was brutal.

Still not a fan, but he's shown a lot of class before and after his last two fights.

Brock is a freak of nature but a terrible fighter. Glad to see Cain get the win that Shane really should've had. Turtling up is a shameful defense and anyone stanning for Brock is nuts.

The boy's a decent wrestler but yeh, he needs to work on his defense from his back, he's been undone the last 2 fights from that. And I guess he could work on his striking. Just being a freaky guy by itself doesn't guarantee success (remember Bob Sapp?) and he's definitely got skills, but he's got a lot of work to do. Does he get a rematch or is it straight to Cain vc Dos Santos?

Glad to see Diago Sanchez back in form, he's an exciting fighter when he's on.

It should be Cain / JDS, Lesnar / Mir and Carwin / Nelson. Other than that, I would like to see Schaub / Barry and Big Nog / Cro Cop.

This says it all:

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Just watched the fight again for the third and fourth times and it really is a thing of beauty. Cain completely dismantled Brock and exposed him. I've been a pretty vocal critic of Brock but I must say that even I gave him more credit than he deserved. Kudos to Dana for the hype. I really wonder if Carwin would be the champ now if Herb had called the July fight.

Also, can I just:

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Sorry to go over old ground, but the idea that Brock got lucky in the Carwin fight doesn't seem right to me. Carwin had no cardio and didn't pick his shots, and he got exposed in the 2nd. Cain didn't make the same mistakes, didn't have a cardio problem, and gave lesnar one hell of a beating, showing up his inexperience.

If memory serves, the 2nd Mir fight wasn't the dude getting lucky either - he dominated that fight, and you don't get results or performances like that one by being a complete chump.

Carwin had no cardio because he was hammering Brock's face for three plus minutes straight. Yeah, he's guilty of not picking his shots, but you can't blame him for overexerting himself when he saw Brock's turtled up.

Not really worth defending Mir cause he shows up for some fights and not others. That bike crash really did a number on him.

Kinda just wanted to post this:

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henderson / pettis is my match of the year. just wow.

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I'm still pretty blown away by GSP knocking all kinds of crap out of Koschek. I thought he'd beat him, but I didn't expect it to be that easy. Dude's incredible.

clay guida seems like a total bro

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I guess Maynard has to think he was robbed, but I thought giving all four of the last rounds to Edgar would have been acceptable, even if you made the first 10-8.

10-point must needs to go away for a sport where fights are 3-5 rounds.

that's why anyone calling for a 10-7 is a maniac.

i think the only way Edgar gets the 3rd and 5th rounds is with some serious champ bias which he definitely didn't earn after that 10-8 1st round and apparently didn't really earn in the media after controlling BJ twice. should be a good rematch. feel bad for Edgar and Pettis though.

did you guys hear about saku's ear

wish he'd just retire

yeah that was pretty brutal

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lol!

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if this is what mma will be in the future, sign me up

dude is unstoppable imo

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Yeh, looking forward to his title fight.

I didn't expect Belfort to go down so easy, I thought he'd have a bit more fight in him.

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so i learned just recently that jon jones is like the best guy at this or something, and he's from my (pretty small) hometown. i've played bsaketball with his brother

Jones is a beast. It's a legit argument between Silva, Jones and GSP at this point for best P4P guy in the UFC. Silva probably gets it, but Jones has absurd reach, it's like watching a praying mantis fight.

lol sonnen wwe clowness

silvas a cheating punk

idk shit about this shit but idly looked for youtubes of garrett dillahunt and found this:

http://youtu.be/AIVZX9ZkQ5o

chatting with former mtv personality karyn bryant.

fun fact i learned: ed o'neill has a black belt!

john milius got ed o'neill into bjj as i understand, and ed o'neill in turn got david mamet into it. david mamet is a bjj purple belt last i heard. i would pay good money to roll w/ mamet.

Ed O'Neill seems like a dude

Maynard James Keenan and James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) also famous (semi-famous?) BJJ dudes

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Jones's toe injury this weekend was shudder-inducing

the ufc hegemony has made mma kinda boring but i gotta say this season of the ultimate fighter has been super fucking entertaining. though nothing as endlessly rewatchable as that uriah hall gif.

yeah i havent really been into mma in a minute. i've "tapped out" if you will

Too many slug-fest "wars" for me lately, too many fighters whose skillset is now gunning for the one-punch KO. I like well-rounded fights - the drama that comes from the possibility of the fight going to the ground at any time, etc., fighters working for chokes and submissions when they are on the ground.

A lot of the best fights are lower on the card or in prelims so I just wait to hear about them and then download it.

every time the crowd boos while two dudes are grappling their hearts out i mourn PRIDE that much more.

pride never die

silva's leg break arrrgh not what i was expecting to see when looking for hungover viewing

i dont ever watch this but i guess im watching these girls fight rn

beating up a girl from cleveland on primetime network tv

That was oddly gratifying

https://the-cauldron.com/the-end-of-an-error-cbac04dc4a98

been waiting for a piece like this. the whole world seemed to be experts in women's fighting overnight, then couldn't comprehend it when its supposed GOAT lost