rolling mma thread

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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http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/MMA

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

The truth was we had no idea what we were watching, or how to evaluate it. But for many reasons — an eagerness to seem progressive, an addiction to vapid celebrity culture, the headlong rush to avoid being left out of a major story — everyone was afraid to admit that maybe, in Rousey’s case, there was nothing to be seen.

ESPN anointed Rousey “Fighter of the Year” and “Female Athlete of the Year” for a period in which she had spent a total of 30 seconds in the ring with two hopelessly under-qualified opponents in a sport that still significantly lacks history and development of its ranks. The idea of her being a better fighter than Floyd Mayweather, or a more exemplary female athlete than Serena Williams (who was in the midst of a 28–0 run and had won every major title in one of the most popular and competitive women’s sports in the world) was laughable, at best. But the manufacturers of celebrity and the branding agents weren’t about to let reality get in the way of their latest pet project, and the fans were more than happy to buy what was being sold.

man, this is a fucking fire piece

lol that's the same dude that wrote the fake Mo Williams thundercat article

Article kinda ignores the little detail that Holm fought brilliantly -- really, really brilliantly. Sort of the way that the sporting press kinda ignored that Buster Douglas beat Tyson with his relentless jab more than Tyson beat himself. Rousey had to get in close to have a chance to win, and Holm methodically and powerfully made sure she didn't go in without getting hurt or frustrated.

Article wasn't so much about the fight afaict

I found this, link hopping from the deadspin article and it is definitely something
https://streamable.com/gtdl

No, the article wasn't about the fight, but it did argue that the fight showed that there is nearly nothing behind the hype about Rousey. And I don't think the fight showed that. The "best there ever was and ever could be" narrative is almost always wrong, but Rousey is an excellent fighter. She get beat by a better one.

I'd have to say it did show it. The point was, we don't yet know what it means to be a great fighter in the context of women's UFC, yet we pretended we did. Her talent is undeniable but if we're unable or unwilling to even try and give it the scrutiny it deserves then the hype is disingenuous and empty.

I would argue that we did see great fighting -- from Holm. I do agree that there isn't a lot of clarity on what great fighting means in women's MMA and what is involved -- I read an article from an apparently respectable publication that wrote "Holm only has an inch more reach than Ronda!" as if an inch weren't a goddam mile when you are dealing with a skilled boxer -- but I think we saw the other night that the way to greatness has more to do with brains and fitness than pro-wrestling/Rocky IV-style fire and passion. Holm taking Ronda down and then letting her up again with the quickness was a brilliant move, and also demonstrates that Holm for one knew she was dealing with an awesome grappler.

Yeah Holm was phenomenal (most sites give her a 3 inch advantage at 69" vs 66") but even in that we were sold a lie and were too eager to buy it and then continued to buy it even after it was revealed to be false. The fight wasn't an upset as it's being characterised, firstly that implies an overturning of the odds within the fight itself which was anything but the case and also because outside of the hype, we had no idea how they would match up or how good Holm actually was and didn't respect either of them enough to actually interrogate that.

Firas Zahabi posted an amazing breakdown which was promptly taken down but rescued by reddit people https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comments/3t5fb2/video_firas_zahabis_fight_analysis_ronda_rousey/
Goes into detail about her posture, discipline and how she was able to avoid the clinch with apparent ease