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    Dana White Picks Jon Jones Over Khabib Nurmagomedov as MMA GOAT

    GSP sits above the narcissistic cheater and the dominator of many mediocre opponents, but Dana is so salty about not having been able to manipulate and use George as he wished, that he refuses to acknowledge him and somehow always tries to “cancel” him. The recent statement Dana made about...
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    Media Diego Sanchez Finally Reveals Insane Story With Joshua Fabia

    Met plenty of “Fabia” types in 40 years of martial arts, at all kinds of conventions, events, festivals, etc. Usually they all claim to be ex special forces, or ex killers, or ex underground fighters, or ex secret service, or ex adoptees of asian masters with superpowers, or some unclear kind...
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    Media McGregor spasms during Sports Illustrated interview

    He has frequent involuntary head and shoulders movements, as well as an abnormal rate of blinking … clearly he’s either on something, or he’s trying to stop an addiction and consequently having withdrawal symptoms. Without speculating on drugs use, as there is no proof of it, the guy...
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    News UFC Anti-Trust Lawsuit Has Been Settled and Will NOT Go To Trial Paying Out $335 Million

    That’s a big UFC win. If they went to trial, the discovery phase would have likely been very revealing and damaging, the legal costs mounting exponentially, and a 50/50 chance of losing and facing a huge payout. With “just” 300m (far from a crippling sum by UFC standards) they avoid all those...
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    Media Francis Ngannou has made $30 million from two boxing matches. He only made $3.5 million from 14 UFC fights in 7 years!

    Indeed, 30m is absolutely ample money to live like a king. He could buy a 10m amazing home, 1m of cars and assorted toys, give away a few million to help family, village, african MMA academies, etc ... and still have 15m to invest: just putting them in generic stock funds yields on average (long...
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    It’s been 15 years since we lost Charles “Mask” Lewis; Founder of Tapout

    Indeed, up until around 2002-2003 (IIRC) almost everyone wearing Tapout had done at least some martial arts, it was almost a “membership” … then it went mainstream and basically became the symbol of the “I train UFC” crowd. There was a moment when - if they didn’t completely cheapen it and...
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    Media Francis Ngannou has made $30 million from two boxing matches. He only made $3.5 million from 14 UFC fights in 7 years!

    Francis made 3-4m in the UFC, plus a number of sponsors so let’s say 4-5m in 4-5 years … and by his own admission was broke at the end and had to ask Usman for a 200k loan! He has a hugely inspirational story, likely movie-worthy in the future, but clearly isn’t good with money (silly...
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    Antibiotics don’t lose fights “St Denis”

    Not a fan of excuses after losses, but antibiotics usually do make people feel unwell and deplete energies in a variety of ways as they affect numerous organs negatively, plus the body battling the underlying infection. Being infected and taking antibiotics as you are training hard and then...
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    *** Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou Aftermath Discussion MEGA THREAD ***

    Referee was reckless, fight should have been waved off after the second knockdown, Francis barely got up in 8 and was clearly out of it. He showed heart but was too compromised and the referee should have protected him, few seconds later he got flatlined by one of the biggest and cleanest right...
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    News Biggest event of the year has arrived: Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul - Cowboys Stadium and live on Netflix

    It’s garbage. BUT Wouldn’t it be glorious if Mike signed up for a money grab exhibition, then in the ring gets the “red mist” and sleeps Jake with one of his peekaboo combos… I’d pay to watch that! Obviously chances are small: Mike was world champion a decade before Jake was born… let that...
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    Having guts to throw in the towel.

    This. Was really unfortunate and undeserving of such a brutal end to his debut.
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    News Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's film about Mark Kerr is still getting made

    Rock has been dreaming to play a fighter in a movie for a long time, Kerr’s story can be sensationalized enough to make it full on hollywood, and he was a huge muscular guy so fits the Rock’s physique. I guess with a toupee, makeup, and some CGI, they’ll make him look the appropriate age…
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    Would Max overtake Volk legacy wise with a W over Justin?

    Regardless how close the decisions were, he lost 3of3 (!) attempts at Volk … so history will show Volk as being clearly superior and unbeatable for Max, regardless where Max career trajectory goes next.
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    Is Khabib one of the five richest MMA stars? How successful have his non-MMA businesses been?

    Khabib is amongst the absolute favorite sports stars of some of the richest and most “gifts-oriented” people in the world (sheikhs and oligarchs). Those are people who, just to ingratiate themselves, can easily gift properties or businesses worth tens of millions of dollars (which for them it’s...
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    Media Fight day weights for UFC 298

    As you said! I used to cut 5-6kg (weight 75, fighting in the <70) so around 12 pounds, and it was a very unpleasant and unhealthy process at 18-19 years old … cutting 30 pounds as an adult must be absolutely awful feeling, as well as awful for short and long term wellbeing. I know there are no...
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    Media Ilia makes an appearance with his belt in front of 85,000 people before Real Madrid plays

    I don't see the problem in double flags etc ... what's wrong with being proud of both your heritage and your adopted nation? I was actually born in one country and have proud roots there as well as my childhood memories, then during my teens I moved to another country due to my father's work...
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    Media Strickland doesn't think Navy Seals can last a week training with him; Navy Seal reacts

    I know he’s not a “normal” special operator as he also extensively trained/competed MMA, but IMO put Sean and Tim Kennedy in any “only one walks out alive” scenarios, with anything you like (bare hands, blades, guns, chairs, chainsaws, whatever) and it’s Tim that walks out 10/10 times.
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    At which point does Size triumph over Skill?

    Did plenty of sparring with people of all sizes when I transitioned from competing to teaching. Assuming no obese guys on the verge of a heart attack, but rather big strong men, then in my experience when someone is 30-40kg heavier than you it really starts to negate your skill advantage. As a...
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    Robert Whittaker, Scared to Death of...

    Lived in Australia 10 years, mostly inner city Melbourne and Sydney; dangerous spiders are very rare there, snakes non existent. Surfed a lot too (almost daily for several years) and never saw a shark of any kind, although you know they are there so avoid being alone, estuaries, etc. Now to the...
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    Media Does anybody really get crossover star vibes from O'Malley?

    It's simple: does anyone know him outside of UFC fans? No. Well there's your answer. Even my mum heard of Conor. Numerous non MMA people know GSP, Fedor, Khabib. Sean? Absolutely not. Of course a few more KOs and his profile will rise further, however to me he seems to lack natural charisma or...
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