UFC / MMA
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Just keeps getting better
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de Ridder is done
Scraped by Bobby Knuckles, barely / unfairly
Put out to pasture this weekend
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de Ridder is done
Scraped by Bobby Knuckles, barely / unfairly
Put out to pasture this weekend
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@MiketheSnow Maybe just too many fights in a short period? 5 fights in 12 months has got to take it out of you. Definitely didnt look himself. Kinda like Pereira vs Ank #1.
@Rembrandt said in UFC / MMA:
@MiketheSnow Maybe just too many fights in a short period? 5 fights in 12 months has got to take it out of you. Definitely didnt look himself. Kinda like Pereira vs Ank #1.
True
But I think they've worked him out too
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Who have we got this weekend?
Mine of the fights I'm interested in
Walker
Salkilld
Murzakanov
Almeida
Bautista
Jandiroba
AspinallBasically the same, I’m picking Dern though
Also interested in Wood/Delgado. Picking Delgado but cheering for Wood
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Wood
Sutherland
Klein
Aliskerov
Haqparsat
Murzakanov
Volkov
Nurmagomedov
Dern
Aspinall -
Not a bad night of predictions : 7-2-1
Wood and Volkov fights could easily have gone the other way
Klein is nails
Some great finishes
Anticlimactic ending
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3-3-1...
Disappointing taste at the end but some awesome fights.
Walkers' 4 heel-hooks in a row? How on earth is that possible? Definitely keeping an eye on him
Glad of Volkov's win even though it didn't look like he won. Big guys just lean on an opponent for 15 mins and expect to win only harm the sport overall so great to see that scoring emphasis change.Some great decisive officiating in regards to fouls completely different from the last couple of events. Glad to see this improving.
This one actually had me feeling a little ill at the sound. Commentators got pretty quiet there too. Amazing that folk get up from this.
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Tom still can't see out of one eye and the other is about 50% visibility as per latest update from his Dad.
Pretty scary, a lot of talk about whether anything can and will change. Looks like Cyril had 4 almost contacts with Tom's eye before the final poke along with one warning from the ref before the final double poke.
Surely there has to be some sort of change here. Zero downside for raking fighters eyes up till now.
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Can’t believe how much shit is being flung at Aspinall
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Can’t believe how much shit is being flung at Aspinall
@MiketheSnow Is it real though? Posters on social media are incentivised to make retarded 'hot takes' and that appears more prevalent. Decent folk seem to be in agreement that Tom did the right thing. A bit of disagreement on what to do about this in the future though. Hope they do act on it, first main event canned because of an eye poke?
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Chael and Anthony Smith have been flinging
Gane himself too, unbelievably
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I haven't watched the Chael/Smith footage in context but have listened to Chael on both Good guy/Bad guy and Ariel's show and he was fully defending Aspinall claiming the context of the earlier comments were in regards to how part of their training was to fight with one eye to try and replicate this potential situation. Could be just back tracking now due to the reaction of course, immediately I thought we was just doing his 'I'm the badguy' routine. Haven't heard anything from Gane but that would be a shocker, it is interesting that there really isn't a downside to rake guys eyes in the ring. You might (but likely won't) get a point taken off and your opponent is more often than not to severely injured to have a chance at beating you and in most situations will resume fighting for ego or whatever. I do think immediate point loss for eye pokes is the way to do this, maybe 2 and its a forfeit, something like that.
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Huuuuge card this weekend!
Naturally the Mrs has organised some meetup with her family to coincide with the maincard..quietly cheering on my daughters developing cough which might see me babysitting at home - fingers crossed.
My picks:
Wellmaker
Blanchfield
Kopylov
Nickal
Saint Denis
Prates
Brady
Weili
JDM(A few coinflips there and maybe some bias for the main-event)
Cannot wait, hoping like hell I can watch it live.
