UFC / MMA
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For me this was all about GSP. Just seeing him come to the ring was surreal. He was awesome. Bisping is a division gate keeper that somehow ended up champion. So theres got to be something said about that... I hope GSP sticks around. I think if he stays at middleweight Whittaker will ruin him. You could see Whittaker licking his lips after the fight. So would be happy to see him go back to Welterweight. But Woodley is a hell of a speed bump. It's not an easy road either way he goes.
Rose Namajunas was the obvious surprise of the night. Scary to think she is only 25. I have been a fan for a while. She started out as a bit of a gimmick. Another pretty girl, Paige Vanzant type. But she went away from being a poster girl, shaved her head, ditched the bikinis at weigh ins and became a fucken weapon. Huge, huge fan of Thug.
No Love really started to get it going but lost composure. Dillashaw is a hard puzzle to solve but I think he was more lucky than anything there has to be a rematch. I know the money is for a Cruz fight next up but I'd rather see these 2 go at it again.
Time for Hendricks to give it away.
@raznomore said in UFC:
For me this was all about GSP. Just seeing him come to the ring was surreal. He was awesome. Bisping is a division gate keeper that somehow ended up champion. So theres got to be something said about that... I hope GSP sticks around. I think if he stays at middleweight Whittaker will ruin him. You could see Whittaker licking his lips after the fight. So would be happy to see him go back to Welterweight. But Woodley is a hell of a speed bump. It's not an easy road either way he goes.
Rose Namajunas was the obvious surprise of the night. Scary to think she is only 25. I have been a fan for a while. She started out as a bit of a gimmick. Another pretty girl, Paige Vanzant type. But she went away from being a poster girl, shaved her head, ditched the bikinis at weigh ins and became a fucken weapon. Huge, huge fan of Thug.
No Love really started to get it going but lost composure. Dillashaw is a hard puzzle to solve but I think he was more lucky than anything there has to be a rematch. I know the money is for a Cruz fight next up but I'd rather see these 2 go at it again.
Time for Hendricks to give it away.
GSP V CMG @MSG
TJ wants Mighty Mouse
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UFC Fight Night 120
CLAY GUIDA V JOE LAUZON
Guida's never looked better
Sharp, dynamic and accurate
Great TKO finish in the 1st RoundRAPHAEL ASSUNCAO V MATTHEW LOPEZ
Game effort from Lopez but Assuncao' experience shone through
Awesome finish in the 3rd Round and great pull out with Lopez buckled and out cold
Great refereeing tooNATE MARQUARDT V CEZAR FERREIRA
Thought Marquardt had done enoughJUNIOR ALBINI V ANDREI ARLOVSKI
Some heavy hitting from both fighters in the 1st
Much the same in the 2nd. A bit of a stand-up wrestling match then trading punches. Hell of a chin on Albini and Arlovski crisper to the punch
Great round for Arlovski. Best he's been for ages. Huge variety in his arsenal
Albini was a perfect opponent. Slow
Deserved unanimous decision for ArlovskiBROWN V SANCHEZ
Did not disappoint
Brown took a liver shot early then elbowed Sanchez out as he was holding Sanchez's leg
Classic BrownDUSTIN POIRIER V ANTHONY PETTIS
Awesome 1st Round. Wrestling, kicking, banging. Pettis did well to see the bell.
Wrestling reversals, brutal ground and pound, blood pissing from Pettis. A war
Poirier's wrestling too strong and Pettis taps with what looked like a popped ribGreat card
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UFC Fight Night 121
HAMILTON V WIECZOREK
Average bout. Not a lot happened.
Wieczorek with the surprise decision.LAUSA V SHELTON
Shelton too strong and quick.
Unanimous decision.CHAMBERS V KASSEM
Kassem patient and waited for Chambers to burn herself out to get the unanimouse decisionNot a great Early Prelim Card
BROWN V CAMACHO
Battle Royale
Toe to toe and rock 'em, sock 'em
Could have gone either way but Camacho gets the decisionCOULTER V TUIVASA
Bam Bam
Crushing leg kick floored Coulter and then he followed up with a flying knee to spark out CoulterLENTZ V BROOKS
Brooks sharper and quicker to the punch for 1 1/2 rounds then Lentz ties Brooks up an gets the tap from a guillotineBENOIT V MOKHTARIAN
A dance and Benoit with the better movesThat's more like it
VOLKANOVSKI V YOUNG
Volkanovski too strong for unanimous decisionTHEODOROU V KELLY
Another crap decision. Should have been split at least.
Kelly was gameMATTHEWS V VELICKOVIC
Matthews by split decision. Decent fightMEANS V MUHAMMAD
Muhammad with the decision. AverageRAWLINGS V CLARK
Clark with the decision over Sideshow BobWERDUM V TYBRA
A gulf in class with Werdum with the deserved unanimous decision
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UFC 218
WILLIS V CROWDER
No frills from Willis but man can he bang
Great chin from Crowder but Willis was too strong and KOd CrowderKIMBALL V REYES
Kimball was game but Reyes too skillful
Rear naked choke for the finish at the end of the 1stHOMASI V ALHASSAN
Both fighters going toe to toe
Alhassan drops Homasi and Herb Dean stops the fight
Controversial stoppage and a mistake from DeanCOOPER V MAGANA
Magana brave and durable but Cooper too strong and gets the result after 7 minutes of ground controlHERRIG V CASEY
Chess match that went the distance with Herrig getting the slpit decisionTEYMUR V KLOSE
Unanimous decision for Teymur despite being warned for dancing away from the action
Stood on the outside and countered superblyOLIVEIRA V MEDEIROS
Oliveira knocked down early and then it was 'rock 'em, sock 'em' for the whole of the round
Round 2 slower pace but still full on
Round 3 back and forth on the floor, then when it got back to the feet Medeiros piled on the pressure and finished Oliveira
Awesome fightOLIVEIRA V FELDER
Back and forth wrestling and jujitsu match before Felder finished it with heavy elbows
SolidTORRES V WATERSON
Evenly matched fight with Torres getting the unanimous decisionALVAREZ V GAETHJE
Fast and furious and lived up to the hype
Non stop trading, Alvarez targeting the body, Gaethje targeting Alvarez's lead leg
Cracking second round, too close to call
Gaethje raw, Alvarez accurate
Holy Shit
You won't see much better than that
Gaethje pressing in the third round and then Alvarez pulls out a knee that buckled Gaethje
Two tough bastardsCEJUDO V PETTIS
Cejudo too strong for Pettis and gets the decisionOVEREEM V NGANNOU
WOAH. Lights out ladies and gentlemen
Ngannou absolutely flattens Overeem with a left hook
Snapped his neck back like a Christmas turkeyHOLLOWAY V ALDO
Aldo showed plenty of mettle and durability but Holloway too strong and too accurate
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UFC 218
WILLIS V CROWDER
No frills from Willis but man can he bang
Great chin from Crowder but Willis was too strong and KOd CrowderKIMBALL V REYES
Kimball was game but Reyes too skillful
Rear naked choke for the finish at the end of the 1stHOMASI V ALHASSAN
Both fighters going toe to toe
Alhassan drops Homasi and Herb Dean stops the fight
Controversial stoppage and a mistake from DeanCOOPER V MAGANA
Magana brave and durable but Cooper too strong and gets the result after 7 minutes of ground controlHERRIG V CASEY
Chess match that went the distance with Herrig getting the slpit decisionTEYMUR V KLOSE
Unanimous decision for Teymur despite being warned for dancing away from the action
Stood on the outside and countered superblyOLIVEIRA V MEDEIROS
Oliveira knocked down early and then it was 'rock 'em, sock 'em' for the whole of the round
Round 2 slower pace but still full on
Round 3 back and forth on the floor, then when it got back to the feet Medeiros piled on the pressure and finished Oliveira
Awesome fightOLIVEIRA V FELDER
Back and forth wrestling and jujitsu match before Felder finished it with heavy elbows
SolidTORRES V WATERSON
Evenly matched fight with Torres getting the unanimous decisionALVAREZ V GAETHJE
Fast and furious and lived up to the hype
Non stop trading, Alvarez targeting the body, Gaethje targeting Alvarez's lead leg
Cracking second round, too close to call
Gaethje raw, Alvarez accurate
Holy Shit
You won't see much better than that
Gaethje pressing in the third round and then Alvarez pulls out a knee that buckled Gaethje
Two tough bastardsCEJUDO V PETTIS
Cejudo too strong for Pettis and gets the decisionOVEREEM V NGANNOU
WOAH. Lights out ladies and gentlemen
Ngannou absolutely flattens Overeem with a left hook
Snapped his neck back like a Christmas turkeyHOLLOWAY V ALDO
Aldo showed plenty of mettle and durability but Holloway too strong and too accurate
Aldo battered by the end@mikethesnow it was a great card and hugely enjoyed seeing Overeem get monstered. I was once a fan but since he got off the roids he's just a smug cnut that and his best clearly came out of a syringe or a bottle.
Holloway should be chasing McGregor. I think he'd win.
Alvarez is a warrior and I was happy to see him come out on top of an absolute war.
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@mikethesnow it was a great card and hugely enjoyed seeing Overeem get monstered. I was once a fan but since he got off the roids he's just a smug cnut that and his best clearly came out of a syringe or a bottle.
Holloway should be chasing McGregor. I think he'd win.
Alvarez is a warrior and I was happy to see him come out on top of an absolute war.
@raznomore said in UFC:
@mikethesnow it was a great card and hugely enjoyed seeing Overeem get monstered. I was once a fan but since he got off the roids he's just a smug cnut that and his best clearly came out of a syringe or a bottle.
Holloway should be chasing McGregor. I think he'd win.
Alvarez is a warrior and I was happy to see him come out on top of an absolute war.
Agreed.
Gaethje will be back. Better for this loss.
Holloway v McGregor could be an all-time classic.
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"[Dana] White knew then that GSP was ready to bounce back to welterweight, and a week after airing his druthers at the media gathering it’s all but official. The UFC is now flirting with the idea of having Luke Rockhold challenge Whittaker at UFC 221 in Perth, Australia, come February, in all likelihood for the undisputed (vacated) middleweight belt. GSP made the idea come off as a wise move by announcing that he was battling ulcerative colitis, an inflammation of the digestive tract that was complicated—he said during an interview with Canadian SportsCentre—by unnaturally gorging himself to make the higher weight. What kind of boss would willingly turn his best pound-for-pound fighter into a glutton?"
https://www.theringer.com/2017/12/7/16747576/georges-st-pierre-conor-mcgregor-dana-white-ufc
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Main event changed at the start of the week. Now three fights cut because of Conor
As for what’s left of the card.. Khabib should maul Holloway. I’ll be cheering for Holloway though. Who knows, maybe he can stay on his feet long enough and make Khabib burn energy on takedown attempts.
I’m picking Joanna to avenge her loss
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This feels like a massive publicity stunt to me.
REgardless, will be interesting to see how it plays out. Tough decision for White ... kick out the UFCs biggest (and by a country mile) superstar, or try and make peace with a guy whose clearly out of control.
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This feels like a massive publicity stunt to me.
REgardless, will be interesting to see how it plays out. Tough decision for White ... kick out the UFCs biggest (and by a country mile) superstar, or try and make peace with a guy whose clearly out of control.
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@majorrage said in UFC:
This feels like a massive publicity stunt to me.
Do you think the UFC deliberately injured fighters, or do you think everyone the bus was in on it?
Seems more likely Conor had too much coke
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@duluth I think that Conor showing up was a publicity stunt. Just escalated more than expected.
Yeah, that’s possible.
Thats very different to the post I was responding to though. I don’t think it’s a massive publicity stunt because three fights dropping off an already weakened card is a disaster.
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You can take the Tinker out of Ireland...
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@duluth I think that Conor showing up was a publicity stunt. Just escalated more than expected.
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It keeps getting worse
Khabib was originally meant to fight Ferguson. He injured himself tripping over at the start or the week. Then comes Holloway who pulled out today because the NY commission wasn’t happy with his weight cut. Then they went to Pettis who was left without an opponent because of Conor... he couldn’t make weight. Then they tried Felder, the commission blocked that on lack of a ranking.
Now the opponent is Al Iaquinta. He also didn’t make weight so it’s at a catch weight. Khabib will destroy him. He was meant to be fighting Felder, so now Felder has no opponent.
It was 13 fights now it’s 9.
The should move the women’s fight up to be the main event
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Despite all the changes that was still an enjoyable card.
Iaquinta would have won a lot of fans, but that was a stupid fight from Khabib. Arrogance? Got macho about trading punches? His corner was begging him to take it down to the ground again.
Ferguson or even Holloway may have beaten him it he fought that style against themRose has improved. Again. That 5th round was surprising. I thought Joanna thad aken control midway through, a bit like her fight with Gadelha. But Rose is a level above everyone else at the moment.
Magomedsharipov vs Boshniak. Freakish talent against a fearless guy with a great chin. Easily the fight of the night. The most entertaining fight since Gaethje/Alvarez last year
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Not a bad card on regular sky tomorrow.
Gaethje v Poirier should be entertaining. Gaethje fights are always high paced, full of great striking and lack subtlety. It should just be a brawl until someone drops.
A couple fo fights before the is Nigerian/Kiwi Israel Adesanya. Maybe over-hyped? Jon Jones like in his striking.. but how does he go on the ground.. or when things don't go his way? I doubt we'll find out against Vettori
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Really enjoyed this card.
Good fights top to bottom
