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nobody will use this, but just for like... future reference

Johnny Bones Jones, amirite folks!???!

lol luv this shit

That punch was crazy! it's kind of cool to live on the same world as fedor

Anyone know when Hazelett is up again? I love watching that dude pretzel motherfuckers up.

people should post sweet utube clips im sayin

No youtube, but here's Johnnie Bones laying a whipping on Bonnar.

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wait, that's not them! Still, good gif.

aw man that kick

guys who do crazy kicks are the best imo

Awesome throws are good too.

troo

Finally found the spinning elbow!

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Hit the back of the head but wasn't aimed there. Accidental illegal contact. Probably would've been a ko if Jones hadn't got cocky and thought he'd already won.

ooph face bouncing off mat

jus channel zapping right now and there is a diffusion of a mma program of the regional mma org . i love that the sponsor is "lifestyles". they have their logo permanently displayed at the bottom left of the tv screen down the countdown timer.

that duskamoor with the spinning elbow allegedly learned all his moves from youtube

I'm taking Johnson by KO in 1 (this guy is one of my faves), Neer by decision, Velasquez by KO, Stephens by submission.

Velaquez KO in second round, Stephens sub in second round, I should add.

What is it with Johnson and absorbing nasty illegal strikes?

There it is!

Haha, and he apologizes to the audience!

Neer with his hands above his head, Danzig with his below the waist. That's some quality shittalking!

Called the winner, at least.

Fat dude looking gassed at, what, about 90 seconds? I think I've called this one right, too.

lolbrucebuffer - Cain "Velas-kwezz"

75%

UFC 95 is Saturday.

Lightweight bout: Diego Sanchez vs. Joe Stevenson
Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs. Wilson Gouveia
Middleweight bout: Demian Maia vs. Chael Sonnen
Welterweight bout: Dan Hardy vs. Rory Markham
Welterweight bout: Josh Koscheck vs. Paulo Thiago

My calls:

Joe Stevenson by decision
Nate Marquardt by armbar
Demian Maia by choke (no idea who this Chael Sonnon dude is)
Uhhh...Dan Hardy by ko I guess. I don't know either of these guys.
Josh Koscheck by ko

I like that Fedor dude is goin' bald and just says "fuck it, who cares, i can kill you". Doesn't shave it all off like that pussy Agassi.

guys shaving their heads to avoid appearance of pattern baldness is one of my least fav fashion trend of the 00s def

haha dude where were you in the 90s

i feel like while the trend was around in the late 90s it really reached ubiquity in the 00s

its of course the worst when paired w/a goatee

pretty much every post-70s rock star does it: frank black, scott ian, kerry king, billy corgan

shit is lame.

Yeah, but I don't think they'd let you wear a wig during a match.

Nobody else wants to go on the record? It's not as if you're actually betting, you know.

Damn! Well, I fucked that one up.

That's two really short fights.

Holy shit, 6'11"!

Three really short fights/

guys shaving their heads to avoid appearance of pattern baldness is one of my least fav fashion trend of the 00s def

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:07 AM

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wites specifically - doesnt look as bad on black guys - something abt the gleaming white dome ringed by impossible to completely eradicate dark stubble is just so ugh - still pretty vain tho - like is there a law that every balding black man under the age of 50 has to shave his head - must be a total pain in the ass too

also, there's much to be said for a thinning pate + crazed wispy horns.

UFC 96 is tomorrow! Here's the main card

* Light Heavyweight bout: Quinton Jackson vs. Keith Jardine[2]
* Heavyweight bout: Shane Carwin vs. Gabriel Gonzaga[3]
* Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. Pete Sell[4]
* Light Heavyweight bout: Matt Hamill vs. Mark Munoz[5]
* Lightweight bout: Gray Maynard vs. Jim Miller[6]

Jackson looked AMAZING in his KO of Wanderlei Silva, but I kind of feel Wandy might be washed up. Jardine has an iron head, but I say Jackson KOs him in 2.

Carwin I haven't seen much of. No one has! His fights have all ended before the second half of the first round, and he's undefeated. Gonzaga's been a fave since his left roundhouse came out of nowhere to send Filipovich back to the minors. He's looked good recently. This is tough to call, but I'll say Gonzaga by sub.

Not very familiar with either Sell or Brown. Two TUF also-rans according to wikipedia (I don't follow TUF, reality shows annoy me.) Let's say Brown by decision.

Hamill's tough but kind of one-dimensional. Munoz seems to be a meat and taters wrestler, too, from his wiki article. I'll say Hamill by GandP.

Don't really know much about Maynard or Miller, either. Miller seems to be the jiujitsu guy, so maybe he'll get a choke or something.

Does Alan C ever post anymore?

Evans is still undefeated. His next title defense will be against whoever's the top contender after tomorrow's Jardine/Jackson match. If I'm right and Jackson wins, I'll have to wait to see him against the guy who I think would give the best challenge, Lyoto Machida.

Lidell's next match will be against Rua, who couldn't even finish off Mark Coleman, who is 100 years old.

oops, Rua did finish Coleman. My bad. The both looked like they were going to fall over without getting hit for about 3/4 of the match, though.

alan c doesn't post but i did stumble onto his MMA BLOG a while back - lolz

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
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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

That's a grappler's analysis, and it sure wasn't a grappler's fight -- I did find it interesting, but incomplete (then again, I used to box).

well, that was embarrassing

want to have it on record: osp beats jones.

McGregor quits?!

dunno if he's trolling or if this has something to do with the mma fighter who died in ireland recently

i don't know what to make of that. dispute over money/promotion schedule would be my guess.

beat takeshi interviewing sakuraba: http://www.global-training-report.com/sak55.htm

rip Kimbo Slice, age 42

his recent fight with dada5000 in bellator was the worst bullshit ever--kinda fucked up that dada and kimbo were both medically cleared and dada ended up nearly dead in the ring (and then was medically DEAD in the hospital that night) and kimbo died three months later. by all accounts he was a chill guy and put his health and his life on the line paying his bills in a tough tough way.

reading about this on the train today, i wondered if anyone in my car, on the whole train cared about kimbo.

as stunning as the backyard fights were, he ended up a joke, whose professional career exposed his lack of skill. the majority of kimbo’s professional fights were like... he lost or it was fixed.

his boxing career was cans and no-names, fighting a guy who was 39 and had a 0-1 record and the fight was in a casino in miami, oklahoma.

in mma, even in the debut against against bo cantrell, there were suggestions it was fixed-- doubt it: cantrell was in on short notice, looked soft, and maybe bas rutten shouting at kimbo for a few hours helped him put a few things together. the elbow he rocked him with looked deadly. but tank abbott, dude was never more than a particularly scary nightclub bouncer who was already deeeep in the twilight of whatever he had made out of his career, fighting kimbo on the tail end of a 1-8 slide, made it 1-9. it eventually came out that abbott took that fight and a big payday with the promise to keep it standing, not clinch, not take it to the ground. once he made the ufc, houston alexander took him the distance in a boring as hell fight. and then mitrione FUCKED HIM UP at ufc 113. kimbo actually took him down a few times, got side control, but didn't go for anything dangerous on the ground and was nearly submitted before being saved by bell at the end of the first. kimbo muscled out of dangerous situations on the ground but gassed badly and could not answer back with anything. mitrione eventually got tired of punching and the fight ended with mitrione riding kimbo, curled in the fetal position.

the fight with shamrock was either fixed or another example of a marginal mma promotion tossing its elder statesmen into the furnace. the final fight with dada 5000 was a disgrace. don't even bother watching highlights, if you've never seen it. dada ended up flatlining that night in the hospital. kimbo dead a few months later.

it's fucked up, the bullshit fights and going out like this. because he was like a folk hero or something some limewire urban legend. i'm sure i heard about him knocking out big d's eye before i ever saw them square off in a shitty backyard in south florida, clinch up against a satellite dish. and he never even knocked out big d's eye, man. just cut him up a bit. but that's what i mean. i bet i heard about as many kimbo slice fights as i ever saw. i bet i was related the details of kimbo slice fights that never actually happened. he wasn't fighting real challengers but he looked dangerous and slick.

slick and tonsured, a cipher, never heard him say shit except "you done?" when reaching down to help up his downed opponent. when you finally heard him talk, on the ultimate fighter, he was surprisingly thoughtful and reflective. "will i ever lay kimbo slice to rest?" he seemed humble, aware that he was going into the deep end, begging to be taught the secrets of brazilian jiu jitsu and how not to get taken down and fucked up by more well rounded fighters.

i don't know. it's not like his story is unique, lots of dudes with brawled up from streets/injured lost shot at pro football turned to fighting legends out there. he never retired and hawked a line of barbecue sauce lines and instagram product placement and never showed up on yo gotti mixtape skits or whatever, he kept trying to fight for a living, even when he was most safe or could at least transition out of the fight game, i hope. he was still shooting gear and trying to line up a fight with wanderlei silva. r.i.p. kimbo slice.

lmbooooooo

rip

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

― k3vin k., Monday, November 16, 2015 9:13 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess amanda nunez is the greatest fighter of all time now?

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the greatest LOL

poor lost soul. also, lol

i love daniel cormier he is my favorite fighter

so he got jobbed or what?

So Conor McGregor huh

Cocaine is a helluva drug

Just hours after Conor McGregor and his friends stormed a bus carrying Nurmagomedov and other fighters competing on Saturday’s UFC 223 card in the Barclays Center loading dock, Nurmagomedov said he wasn’t impressed by Team McGregor’s antics.

“I am laughing inside,” Nurmagomedov said. “You broke window? Why? Come inside. You know UFC don’t let you come inside. If you real gangster why don’t you come inside?

“This is big history gangster place. Brooklyn. You want to talk to me? Send me location. We have to talk? I am gonna come, no problem.

“I grew up like this. I don’t grow up throwing chairs at window. This is not my bus.”

I’m going to have to get back into watching ufc now

I have a feeling this is all a publicity stunt to set the scene for a fight with Nurmagomedov

Dana White looked/sounded legimately furious, plus two fighters not involved are injured and one had to be pulled from the upcoming fight

White mentioned multiple lawsuits and McGregor is being charged in NY, his plane is grounded

Maybe McGregor is such a dumb shithead in his mind it was a stunt, but the UFC I don't think was involved. Apparently McGregor has a website called Mac Life and some of his credentialed journalists opened the doors for his gang, such an insane story.

He's really such a stupid racist piece of shit I keep imagining if a black athlete did this Trump would have called in the national guard.

Biggest thing though is he's pretty fucked in the long term. At 29 he's just squandered years of his prime on not fighting then getting beat up by Floyd Mayweather. This will eat up at least a year, if he gets back in UFC. He'll be on the wrong side of 30 not having fought in like 4 years.

yeah this was definitely not a stunt. although the NYPD refuted Dana White's claim of a pending warrant (which mighta just been White bloviating out of anger)

This is current story from ESPN, though I guess I don't know if there's a distinction between being charged and a warrant?

New York police have charged UFC star Conor McGregor with three counts of misdemeanor assault and one count of felony criminal mischief after he turned himself in following an incident Thursday in Brooklyn, according to the New York City Police Department.

my guess is at the original time Dana claimed there was one, they hadn't gotten that far yet, but that White knew charges were likely coming.

figured he'd eventually get pulled in for that. no idea what he was thinking.

White said a non fighter regular UFC employee got a broken knuckle, can't even imagine how much they will sue for

Max Holloway declared unfit to fight Nurmagomedov.....

well that got out of hand

cmac got hosed. his stock got cut in half, at least, I can't imagine where he goes now except into the sunset

my way of looking at it is he lost a boring fight to an unlikeable opponent whose performance was booed throughout the early rounds, even less likeable following the events after the fight (could be tolerated by a brash american but looks goonish from dagestani thugs). would love to see the third fight with nate diaz now.

That fight wasn't boring at all - Khabib put in more work on the ground than GSP did in his last 15 fights. A clinic on sapping someone's will to live, so many shots of Conor looking confused and hopeless - I got one foot free OOPS no I didn't.

The brawl afterward was dumb but fuck it, the UFC has embraced its WWE-ness so much they could have dropped an extra cage over the top and no one would have batted an eye.

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lmfao

boring to fans that like cmac's style or came on board recently, for sure. i don't think casual fans are clamoring to see khabib fight again but what do i know. just think he's got a lot of money to make in the ufc before retirement.

Hype is well and truly over now. 2 years since a fight so he was never going to win last night. Its no wonder he isn't pressing charges over last night - https://www.balls.ie/mma/new-footage-emerges-shows-mcgregors-throwing-first-punch-398275

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