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Captain Suave said:
It's a dumb idea and is going to substantially diminish the quality of jiu jitsu in his tournament. None of the best competitors are going to sign up to get hit in the head.

There's already a sport where striking and grappling are combined. If you want to run an MMA tournament, just do that. I don't think this middle ground is interesting or entertaining.
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I think I agree with you, reason being once you add strikes, to train for the competition you have to train them on the mats to some degree, which stops being pure grappling. All of the sudden you have hybrid MMA that you train for, which means you set aside time for ground and pound work, by sparring or bags. There goes the appeal of sports jiu-jitsu where you can roll with significantly less fear of causing or enduring certain types of bodily harm. At which point why bother at all with open palm strikes, why not go all in with MMA? I think the slipperly slope holds here.
 
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Cormier vs. Rumble announced for UFC 206. Hope Rumble crushes his head, but I have doubts he is able to pull it off.
 
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Bisping would have to go in ridiculously unprepared to lose to this version of Dan Henderson. Hendo is essentially the same fighter he has been for the past 15 years, except much slower and with a far weaker chin.

Bisping should walk away with this one fairly easily, but it would be amazing to see Hendo go out on top with the belt and a final KO.
 
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UFC 204, worst UFC since...?

I'm finding it hard to get excited for this. I like Gaygard and hope Perry swears at people but aside from that i'm kind of meh.
 
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Yeah I mean, I am going to watch it, but there isn't a whole lot of excitement for the card as a whole. My only hope is for Hendo to put Bisping to sleep and ride off into the sunset. Not a high likelihood of that happening though.
 
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grumblethorn said:
eh the fight night last week sucked pretty hard.
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Portland sucked but is wasn't a PPV

I can't remember a more boring PPV card.

It could turn out to be great but it's hard to get excited for OSP, No trt Belfort and Russell Doane and his 4 fight skid.
 
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Mousasi looked fantastic out there. Always love watching Vitor get crushed
 
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I like Mousasi calling out Spider, that is actually a really good fight for him. Also one he is completely capable of losing with one of his mental flubs. Fun fight though.

Edit: Oh jesus lollllllllll
 
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God damn! I thought for sure Hendo had that all wrapped up in Round 1 AND 2, but he couldn't quite finish him off. Probably a good decision, but I don't agree with the 49-46 because I think the knockdown was enough to take round 2. Either way, it was a great fight.
 
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Yeah, Hendo still has absurdly good timing, even at his age. Made for a very exciting fight, and Michael came out looking destroyed despite winning. That said, any of the real Top 4 contenders is going to bury him.
 
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Yeah 2 judges that had it 48-47 definitely had it right, don't know what fight the judge who had 49-46 was watching
 
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