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Easy to get complacent with staph after you've had it a gang of times, especially if you've never had it bad. Scary stuff.

Always been a big fan of Ben so dudes got my prayers
Been on the mat for… 12+ years, never caught a case. Use to train 6 days a week, now I teach / train anywhere from 3-6 times a week, I always shower when I get home within the first 20 minutes, almost always, if not in the first 20, at least within the first hour, avoid touching anyone / food prep, until I’m fully clean
 
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Been on the mat for… 12+ years, never caught a case. Use to train 6 days a week, now I teach / train anywhere from 3-6 times a week, I always shower when I get home within the first 20 minutes, almost always, if not in the first 20, at least within the first hour, avoid touching anyone / food prep, until I’m fully clean
Pretty sure when I've gotten cases (very mild) in the past it was usually from competitions and having to drive home, some of those trips were pretty long
 
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Pretty sure when I've gotten cases (very mild) in the past it was usually from competitions and having to drive home, some of those trips were pretty long
3 hour one-way drive to the city, with fucked up brakes, or getting stuck and having to overnight because of a snowstorm , to compete for some cheap zinc metal alloy
 
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3 hour one-way drive to the city, with fucked up brakes, or getting stuck and having to overnight because of a snowstorm , to compete for some cheap zinc metal alloy
Sounds like you too are a Northeast grappler sir. I don't live there anymore, and don't train either, but did all my training up in Central NY and was all over the place competing at the time.
 
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wnba has more fighting than wmma

pulling out a jon jones is hardcore


I actually saw an article about that a little bit ago. The refs stood around in a huddle for at least 5 minutes and then zero ejections.

I couldn't imagine being a WNBA fan even if the officiating was perfect at all times, but shitty players with shitty officiating? Yikes.
 

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Sounds like you too are a Northeast grappler sir. I don't live there anymore, and don't train either, but did all my training up in Central NY and was all over the place competing at the time.
Yeah, thereabout

Still teach/train, haven’t competed in years
 
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Been on the mat for… 12+ years, never caught a case. Use to train 6 days a week, now I teach / train anywhere from 3-6 times a week, I always shower when I get home within the first 20 minutes, almost always, if not in the first 20, at least within the first hour, avoid touching anyone / food prep, until I’m fully clean

I don't train at gyms without on-site showers. I had skin issues for years while I waited until I got home home, even though it was a short drive. They immediately vanished when I started showering right after class.

Combat sports in general are fucking gross. We had to toss a guy out of the gym because he refused to believe it wasn't cool to train in the morning, hang his gi on his car for a couple hours, then wear it again to train in afternoon (while not showering himself). And never mind the standard, "I have ringworm but it's all good because I covered it in tape" dude. Competition is even worse, with 25% of people showing to the tournament sick from over-training, tracking literal shit from the bathrooms to the mats, etc.
 
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I don't train at gyms without on-site showers. I had skin issues for years while I waited until I got home home, even though it was a short drive. They immediately vanished when I started showering right after class.

Combat sports in general are fucking gross. We had to toss a guy out of the gym because he refused to believe it wasn't cool to train in the morning, hang his gi on his car for a couple hours, then wear it again to train in afternoon (while not showering himself). And never mind the standard, "I have ringworm but it's all good because I covered it in tape" dude. Competition is even worse, with 25% of people showing to the tournament sick from over-training, tracking literal shit from the bathrooms to the mats, etc.
For sure, I’ve been teaching at two places recently, one is fully equipped and massive, the other that’s much closer to me, is basically a hole in the wall, but there’s talk of a shower being made. My oldest gym, which I left a little while back, which had a huge membership and is very well established, still didn’t/doesn’t have a shower, and its ridiculous—I can only cop it to that… Brazilian attitude to somethings….
 
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tom's last fight was just under 11 months ago, he just needs to say fuck it and fight gane.


Problem is doesn't make sense money-wise to strip Jones, so the Gane fight only happens Tom agrees to not fight for a belt.

Stripping Jones would need to be done for moral reasons-- and UFC doesn't have a good track record there.
 

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mid-day event

UFC Baku
main card will air live on ABC and ESPN+ starting at 3 p.m. ET/noon PT.
prelims begin at noon ET/9 a.m. PT on ESPN+ and ESPN2.

Jamahal Hill (206) vs. Khalil Rountree (206)
Ignacio Bahamondes (155.5) vs. Rafael Fiziev (155.5)
Curtis Blaydes (256) vs. Rizvan Kuniev (264.5)
Tofiq Musayev (163) vs. Myktybek Orolbai (165)*
Nikolas Motta (155.5) vs. Nazim Sadykhov (155)
Oban Elliott (170.5) vs. Seok Hyeon Ko (169.5)
Ismail Naurdiev (186) vs. Jun Yong Park (186)
Melissa Mullins (136) vs. Darya Zheleznyakova (136)
Irina Alekseeva (135.5) vs. Klaudia Sygula (135.5)
Azat Maksum (126) vs. Tagir Ulanbekov (126)
Hamdy Abdelwahab (264.5) vs. Mohammed Usman (244.5)

*moved to 165 catchweight before weigh-ins
 

Gavinmad

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mid-tier WNBA players who are making like 40k a year
Laugh Lol GIF
 

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wnba league min base was $66k. the broadcast rights were $60m per year, but disney, amazon and nbc just signed up to pay a total of $200m per year for next decade. even if they triple base pay, still be a far cry from nba's $1.2m min. which they want.
 

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Caitlyn Clark should be getting $25m a year and the rest of them should be making their state minimum wage.

Which thread is this again?
 
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==
on the wnba derail,
"nba's $1.2m min. which they want."
i stated that wrong, currently in wnba min base $66k and max base is something like $250k, they want the max base to be $1.2m, don't know how much they want the min to be.
 
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