rolling mma thread

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

so this is the top competition dana white wants fedor to face

one of the worst ufcs ive seen in who knows how long - that last ufc with the nonames was 100x better than this

It's officially Evans vs. Machida. This is going to be really interesting!

I'm going to say Evans, even though I fucking LOVE Machida. I don't think Machida has had to deal with a wrestler of Evans' strength and skill, and although their ability to land counterpunches is about equal, Evans has more power. If Machida wins it'll probably be surprising Evans with a submission from his back.

Found Alan C's posts at http://www.total-mma.com

Man gives great youtube! Burmese (Myamarian?) kingboxing!

you guys this is something else...the snorting noises are sickening.

Jesus, get a TRAINED REFEREE. That was terrible.

Nice to see Junie get strangled.

Ow, that leglock! That woulda been sub of the night for sure if he'd finished.

That was one of the best comebacks I've ever seen.

30-27 is bullshit, though, that first round shoulda gone to the Brazilian.

Holy shit, that's like two 10-8 rounds in a row.

Holy cats

http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/news/story?id=4284796

holy cats

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/josh_gross/07/22/barnett/index.html?eref=T1\

Whelp, so much for learning who the real heavyweight champ is. Barnett, you dumbass.

Ahh that's too bad. I would like to see that fight. In the meantime, some lols from Sylvia:

http://affliction-mma.com/?p=803#more-803

The main event at MMA’s Adrenaline III ‘Bragging Rights’ last Saturday night (June 13) wasn’t without drama. Tim Sylvia was matched up against former WBO World heavyweight boxing champion, and Olympic Gold Medalist, Ray Mercer.

The bout was originally meant to be a boxing match, however the athletic commission changed it’s mind at the last minute and declared the fight illegal. The fight still went ahead as Mercer agreed to fight Sylvia under MMA Rules with a verbal agreement between the two to stand and ‘box’.

Sylvia was quick to break their agreement coming out throwing a leg kick, they measured each other up then Mercer threw with a big right that made Sylvia stop dead for a split second, then fall like a tree! The fight was over in 9 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUx9OE7DZAo&feature=player_embedded

affliction rip

We'll still have the shitty t-shirts.

Jesus Hussein Christ, I'll never bitch about it when people say Anderson Silva is the pound for pound best in the world again!

yeah that was a pretty great fight. after those first two fights, i thought the night was doomed.

Carano v. Cyborg tonight

Do Cankles animated gifs fuck up Safari for anyone else?

http://www.mmarocks.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ufc102poster2.jpg

Sweet retro look!

carano vs. cyborg ended up being so lame. fight just beforehand was pretty good, tho, if my drunken mind is remembering correctly.

the mousasi/sobral one.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/josh_gross/08/20/anderson.silva.heavyweight/index.html?eref=T1

Silva bored with Light Heavyweights - now he wants heavyweights.

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rip vera.

dude got taken apart. so stoked for carwin v b
rock down the line. anyone know how brock's looking in training? nearly dying is bound to mess up your prep somewhat.

dana's face was priceless after carwin dropped mir, the look of 400,000 buys evaporating.

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.

https://streamable.com/vqdb3
https://streamable.com/52wvw

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

.@Trailblaze2top has harsh words for the UFC "posers" who just want to look good at family BBQs and not really fight. 🗣️#UFC256 | Full interview: https://t.co/T4jrSTycph pic.twitter.com/1LxIBOytjG

— MMA Junkie (@MMAjunkie) December 10, 2020