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Couture probably has a brutal time recognizing in any capacity what the UFC's become. Hell, I imagine even watching the direction guys such as Tito Ortiz was taking the sport in was painful to watch, much less McGregor. The fact that it got McGregor more exposure, by far, outside of...

I suppose it really wasn't realistic to expect anyone to watch all of them, so i figured it was implied that if they could comment on even one of the four, as opposed to all of them, and see what they think about how the various players did.

It would have to be a fight McGregor can win. After the most recent mess of his last fight, another loss would severely cripple his marketability. I would say a Kevin Lee, someone he can put on a standup display and against and who doesn't pose an iota of the TD threat of Khabib, could work as...

First is Sam Seder vs Charlie Kirk: Given that, often due to his Twitter feed and TPUSA activism, Kirk often comes across as a degenerate MAGA Trumpist conservative who argues on talking points, I thought he managed to make the debate shockingly competitive. After this I don't see how one...

I'm not sure most fans are saying than. There is acknowledgement that Dagestan and neighboring states are producing particularly capable combatants in various sports and that it's showing in the UFC. The current crop may not be massive phenoms but it's highly impressive considering again, MMA...

I'd consider it a necessary evil. Some fighters are pressured to take it too far and trainers are obligated to make it as healthy as possible but at the end of the day it's always going to be a core part of the job description. Ideally, by the time you get to the UFC you should have a...

I suppose grappling is always gonna be a sore spot for these two. It's what led to Nick Diaz being grinded out by his most despised rival and why even the likes of Clay Guida were able to give Nate serious trouble throughout his fight tenure. Still like in some way how good they are at playing...

Some of them were ethnically Jewish, Lenin of course being half Jewish by birth, but they were hardly major fans of Jews who placed their Jewishness above commitment to the Soviet's ultranationalist goals. I'm certainly not aware of Stalin having the slightest affinity for Jews.

Some valid objections to the post fight conduct at UFC 229. But I'm not sure Liddell is the best guy out there to be making these objections. Ortiz was able to get rather solidly inside his head and he's nowhere near as effective a provocateur as McGregor's team is.

Thanks again. I guess that's different from what I've thought so nice to know about that. So basically, with Chechens they are more likely to have issues with Jewish people, to the extent they have them, due to mindsets and attitudes they adopted from Soviet Communists rather than because they...

Thanks for answering objectively. I think most of us wish Chechnya would advance more in terms of gays, lesbians and agnostics, but I would imagine it's a major uphill battle to get attitudes and mindsets to change. Do Chechens today feel the kind of dislike religious Arab Muslims feel twards...

I guess maybe your experience was unique, since for you it seems Dagestanis were most aggressive, Chechens were a mixed bag with some like the Dagestanis and others more like the Ossetians in terms of being civil and productive.

Fair enough, so basically, it's a more universal mindset of taking threatening words, especially against family members, as a gravely serious manner, in vast contrast to the West where they can be used in club music and no one notices. And that it extends way beyond Islamic cultures in the...

Well that's awfully surprising seeing as its Chechens who have far and away the worst reputation of any ethnic group in Russia. People think Chechens and they think an entire nation of Freddy Kruegers and Alien/Predator types. I mean, the most successful Chechen I know of if Buvaisar Saitiev...

So do you think there are Brazilian as well as Korean and other East Asian fighters who would have reacted the way Khabib did if they and.or their relatives were threatened the way Dillon and MCGregor's camp did?

Is it the same when it comes to Armenians, Ossetians (who can be Orthodox Christianor Muslim) Chechens and Ingush? Is it just part and parcel of being from that region of Russia and Asia Minor? Or are different factors at play?

It's possible he's simply learned more about exactly what happened. The vast majority of us were not able to look at the immediate chaos after the UFC finale and be level headed about it. Maybe there's more information about who started what and how far everyone took it. For example, it's...

McGregor remains far and away the most visible fighter ever in terms of exposure outside of MMA's core fan bases. The only fighter to become prominent enough to get a pro boxing fight with the hands down biggest star of the last 15 years. His two most notable highlight reel finishes are...

I think he's currently at least making an attempt to take a degree of accountability for what he did. Plus he wasn't wrong about how the UFC promoters and McGregor's clan had no issues with escalating tensions to a boiling point until everything exploded in their face. Though yes, it would...

I would imagine maybe the there is an age gap going up to ealry 40s and earlier, since that seems to be the upper end of the age range of most MMA fans, and the social and maybe political class they belong to. To my understanding, Ireland has a lot of Conservatives, including religious...