MMA Thread

Gavinrad_sl said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again, they need some kind of way to penalize people for pre-fight injuries.

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What are you going to do, prevent them from training? MMA is dangerous, even to practice.

Captain Suave_sl said:

What are you going to do, prevent them from training? MMA is dangerous, even to practice.

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While there are risks, I wouldn't call training dangerous unless you, your sparring partner, or your gym in general is stupid.

That's unrealistic. People who train combat sports are constantly injured in one way or another. I doubt you could find a single fighter who didn't have something hurt at any given point in time. Add to that a huge financial incentive to train harder than the other guy, and you have accumulations or accidents that cancel fights. I'd rather have no fight than a lopsided one due to injury.

Tuco_sl said:

I'd post a list of injuries sustained by high profile fighters during training and ask you if you think they are all stupid but instead I'll just tell you to go train instead.

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My professional record is 7-2. I've had a couple minor injuries in training, but never before a fight.

Gavinrad_sl said:

My professional record is 7-2.

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[Citation needed]

Captain Suave_sl said:

[Citation needed]

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Gavinrad wanted to keep this quiet so that people wouldn't hound him on here, but it looks like the cat is out of the bag.Here he is.He only counts his UFC record, since everything before then was just amateur hour as far as he's concerned.

Adam12_sl said:

Gavinrad wanted to keep this quiet so that people wouldn't hound him on here, but it looks like the cat is out of the bag.Here he is.He only counts his UFC record, since everything before then was just amateur hour as far as he's concerned.

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I told you that in confidence. I'm not getting you tickets to any more of my fights.

Cormier has a fight and back on the card against Patrick Cummins. I guess they used to train together and Patrick claims he used to beat him in sparing. Seems legit? Meh

Still wouldnt fork out anything for that card. And on the topic of training, if you dont understand how they are always getting injured you dont train or are doing it wrong.

Jack Slack: Can Gegard Mousasi Solve the Lyoto Machida Riddle? | FIGHTLAND

edit: UFC announced they are getting rid of the KOTN and SOTN bonuses starting this week. They'll be replaced with 2 "Performance" of the Night bonuses. Basically they're just giving themselves leeway so they're not stuck awarding a mediocre finish if it's the only one of the type. So instead they'll just give the same bonuses to the 2 best fighters of the night regardless of finish.

Is that guy retarded that wrote the article. Gegard has been beating great fighters left and right since 2008.... The last 4 years hes fought lawal( lost) jake obrien, mizuno? Kieth jardine(draw) izumi?, st Preux, mike kyle, and latifi?

Cant wait for tomorrow

I just can't trust Mousasi. Also, I think Lyoto see's the obvious, where Belfort doesn't get to fight Weidman in May, and he get's to step in to the title shot to take his place.