MMA Thread

Attog said:

Because both he and Gaethje lost to the guy who vacated the belt, and both he and Gaethje lost to Poirier, and because it would be awesome to see Gaethje stomp a mudhole in his ass. Plus Gaethje just seems like a great guy and by giving him this fight you are giving him 1) a nice payout and 2) the chance to really put on a show.

Gavinmad this is a win/win/win.

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Well yeah framing it from that perspective makes it sound very different.

more on bj

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lol, most interesting part is that ben is still under ufc contract

That's ambitious. Askren had his hip resurfaced in September, and as of November he could barely ride a stationary bike. You're not supposed to do high impact activity for a year afterwards. Boxing in April seems pointlessly rushed. The money must be amazing.

Yeah that shit just seems crazy.

i love to see Oliveria/Dustin, but think almost zero chance of it not being Dustin/Conor

people already claiming Dustin and Conor have a verbal agreement, but no reports other than rumors.

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didn't see this

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AI going to use shitlord comments to help fighters. lolz

lot of sketchy stuff about them in the story

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found on reddit, 7 mins in Justin talks about why he didn't fight chandler

Everyone wants to fight Conor, its a cash cow.

I know a lot of people dont like Conor but I hope he doesnt turn into the next BJ Penn. Just going out there getting your ass beat to put new fighters over.

To be fair to Conor, outside of Cerrone, he has fought tough fights. Obviously a L to Khabib isnt a huge deal, being 1-1 with Porier and 1-1 with Diaz is pretty good.

its insane that he has taken part in 6 of the last 7 highest PPV buy fights in the UFC.

edit: lol Geathje is great. Said he could out smoke Nate Diaz, and that Tony Furgeson's face just makes you want to fight him, lmao.

Lanx said:

conor was looking pretty good but was fading REAL QUICK by the second cuz of diamond whacking that leg

1st round conor landed well

2nd round diamond was able to slip many strikes cuz conor had no more footwork

conor is actually really light on his feet, give him credit and his striking is great, but we all know, no footwork = shit striking.

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He checked 0 of those calf kicks and thus lost his mobility and started to eat Poirier's strikes.

I think every fighter who faces Conor should just do the same thing. I understand not everyone has the skill Porier has, but Im sure a high level UFC lightweight (Gaethje, Oliviera etc) can blast calf kicks with the best of them. So unless Mcgregor can start to effectively counter or check those kicks, guys might be able to just fuck him up like Dustin did.

To Conors credit he did try checking the last 6 or 7 kicks Dustin threw. He grabbed his foot on 2 occasions and pushed him back against the cage. But the damage was already done at that point. Porier landed 18! significant leg strikes in that fight.

edit: I remember the Gaethje vs Porier fight. They were both trying to destroy eachothers legs with calf kicks. Justin was getting the better of him with them for a while there, and Dustin was visibly favoring his leg. But Porier is a beast and just kept chopping away himself and gaethje started to slow down and eventually was stopped. Porier is truly a great fighter.

Miguel Baeza is a monster with the calf kicks himself, he stopped a dude with them, literally scored a KO from leg kick lol.

Jozu said:

To be fair to Conor, outside of Cerrone, he has fought tough fights. Obviously a L to Khabib isnt a huge deal, being 1-1 with Porier and 1-1 with Diaz is pretty good.

its insane that he has taken part in 6 of the last 7 highest PPV buy fights in the UFC.

edit: lol Geathje is great. Said he could out smoke Nate Diaz, and that Tony Furgeson's face just makes you want to fight him, lmao.

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Except Diaz whooped that ass twice.