MMA Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Gavinmad
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If I had to grab someone now and be sure the aliens wouldn't blow up the world after he failed yet another drug test, I'd absolutely take Nurmagomedov over Jones.
Although to ackchually things up a bit, if it's a 'deathmatch' I would rather have a trained soldier with kills under his belt rather than a prizefighter.
Although to ackchually things up a bit, if it's a 'deathmatch' I would rather have a trained soldier with kills under his belt rather than a prizefighter.
jayrebb
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I have judges that say otherwise
He won like Conor "beat" Nate Diaz in the rematch.
He won like GSP "beat" Johnny Hendricks.
Real dominant champs don't win on their back foot, or sprint across the octagon away from their opponent.
He won like Conor "beat" Nate Diaz in the rematch.
He won like GSP "beat" Johnny Hendricks.
Real dominant champs don't win on their back foot, or sprint across the octagon away from their opponent.
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Lanx
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jones poor performance vs thiago smith and reyes i blame on J/W, they obviously just wanted him to accrue w's and jon jones isn't interested in these mooks, and jon jones didn't care so he's on auto pilot and just following whatever they say.
however with motivated jon jones, you get gus 2 and dc 2, give him his "medicine" of hookers, blow and booze and he'll be a wonder to watch again.
Jozu
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Sounds like you have a bit of hate for JJ there jayrebb.
Yeah, he had a couple disappointing performances that should be criticized. But....lol the rest of his resume is pretty impressive, and he has done way more good than bad in the octagon. We should judge a fighter based on the entirety of his resume not highlight the two worse fights of his career.
And there is no dispute about the greatest MMA fighters right now. Khabib and Jones are the cream of the crop. All time though? If we are talking pure striking.... even though it was K-1, Andy Hug was a bad motherfucker.
Yeah, he had a couple disappointing performances that should be criticized. But....lol the rest of his resume is pretty impressive, and he has done way more good than bad in the octagon. We should judge a fighter based on the entirety of his resume not highlight the two worse fights of his career.
And there is no dispute about the greatest MMA fighters right now. Khabib and Jones are the cream of the crop. All time though? If we are talking pure striking.... even though it was K-1, Andy Hug was a bad motherfucker.
Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Why do I have to keep reposting this shit every time people start sucking Jones off?
Stripped of the title three times, career-long steroid abuser, druggie, multiple DWIs, assaulted a woman, etc etc etc.
Ameraves
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Lenas
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Same 1-2 over and over from the both of them. Ronda-esque in her delivery of those punches, Joe. She could be the next GOAT.
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Bandwagon
Kolohe
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Talked to the jiu jitsu instructor about getting my daughter (3yo) into jiu jitsu as early as possible. He said they have a class for 5-8 year olds and that the best thing to do is get her into a gymnastics/tumbling class in the mean time. I almost let out the gayest giggle when he said that because she's been in tumbling since last year and, ever since we got her a jungle gym, trampoline and monkey bars at home, she's been absolutely fucking crushing it in her tumbling class. Like....the week after we got that stuff she was running in circles around everyone else on their little obstacle course.
Really excited to get this girl into something like this.
Really excited to get this girl into something like this.
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I've done jiu jitsu for 10+ years, martial arts for 20, and taught more kids' classes than I care to remember. Don't rush pushing your kids to train. Honestly, it won't be until they're ~10 that they're going to get anything durably technical out of martial arts. Kids' bodies change a lot in the teen/pre-teen years and whatever they learn before that will have to be re-developed anyway. Especially in those early years it's just physical activity and focus/babysitting, which you can get just as well from soccer or whatever for a lot less money that jiu jitsu. (Obviously child phenoms exist, but they're rare. Having seen hundreds of kids train, most are just as goofy as they look.)
My wife and I are both BJJ brown belts and TMA black belts, and we won't push our kids to train until they get into junior high. At that point, yeah, I think everyone should have some basic competence and comfort with grappling for self defence.
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Kolohe
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More than anything we want to get her into physical activities and comfortable with that sort of thing (and "losing") at a young age.
(Edit: flying a drone and thought I was about to get in a dogfight with a hawk)
I think that having some discipline and competitive drive are really important to have at a young age, and combat sports are one of the only things I see for really young kids where (from what I've seen) they teach you how to lose the right way (vs other sports where "no one is a loser!"). I could ramble on for an hour about why my wife and I are more excited about jiu jitsu than anything else for her, but the fantasy of having a face-smashing terminator daughter is like 5% of it.