MMA Thread

Goatface said:

Tony said was offered a fight, but didn't say who, and turned it down, #title or nothing
Dana said he has to be checked out more before they would offer him a fight

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So they are putting a mental health hold on Cucuy now

Might be ok if it was a Fight Night, but a main UFC PPV card? This is about as bad as it gets.

UFC 237

Women's Straw-weight Rose Namajunas (c) vs. Jéssica Andrade
Middleweight Jared Cannonier vs. Anderson Silva
Featherweight José Aldo vs. Alexander Volkanovski
Welterweight Thiago Alves vs. Laureano Staropoli
Lightweight Francisco Trinaldo vs. Carlos Diego Ferreira

few of the fights looks interesting, but i really don't care for Rose at all

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Fight said:

Might be ok if it was a Fight Night, but a main UFC PPV card? This is about as bad as it gets.

UFC 237

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just realized you left off what could be recording breaking match


Clay Guida (-650) v BJ Penn (+425)

Penn is 1-8-1 in last 10 fights
Penn’s six-fight UFC losing skid is tied with three other fighters for the longest in company history.
Penn’s seven-fight UFC winless skid is the longest in UFC history.

Clay is 5-5-0 in last 10 fights

i love the rose story, that prayer showdown with joanna was mint. she's like a murder pixie and this time she's fighting a midget, disney should make a movie out of this shit. also really looking forward to volkanovski, we're getting some really good attention for mma recently in australia.

as for bj and silva, i hope that fighters are getting paid properly now so we don't have to see 40+ year old veterans taking noticeable brain damage for much longer. maybe when the reebok deal dies things will be good, but considering what the UFC has been sold to, expect maximum jew. pareto principle reigns.

Trinaldo vs Ferreira off
Ferreira pulled for kidney stones
Bethe Correia vs Irene Aldana moved up to the main card

Correia weighed in at 141, 5 pounds over BW limit (fined 30 percent)

damn

Fucking nuts!

Today was pretty crazy. The Rose fight goes differently 9 of 10 times IMO, not a mistake you make twice. Andrade was getting picked apart just like Joanna.

I think Andrade might be on to something with that dump slam finish. I know it gets harder the higher up in weight you go, but Lawler almost slept Askren by slamming him on his head, and we saw Kevin Randleman basically power bomb a guy to death, and he was at least a LHW.

More grapplers and fighters in general should start just dropping their opponent on their fucking head. I know it's easier said than done, and if it was so easy everyone would be doing it, but you see HIGH level wrestlers and grapplers get a hold of guys and very easily break their balance and secure a takedown.

But for some reason, maybe just from years of training, I dont know, most fighters will just pick an opponent up off of their feet and plant them down in order to gain a dominant ground position.

Some of the best fighters, Kamaru Usman for example, has a high motor pressure style that continuously forces you to keep good posture and defend losing ground/getting taken down. His takedowns look so effortless, he dominated Woodley, if he would have focused on snatching him near the cage in a bent body position, he could of lifted him off his feet and generated enough torque to piledrive him.

Think about how awesome it would be if Khabib just said fuck the ground game bullshit, I'm gonna wrestlefuck this guy but instead of trying for a technically sound, high percentage td that leads to GnP or a sub attempt, im going to try and tombstone this fucker into oblivion instead.

Guys would have signature moves and shit. Like DC could have some sort of lift DDT, or maybe even pull a fucking WWF Raven era even flow DDT on a motherfucker and see where it goes.

If someone pulls it off again maybe we will see our first KO from a stone cold stunner or a rock bottom!



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