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Material? All I know is truth.
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Never been a huge MMA fan but I started watching around Ortiz-Shamrock 2 in 2006. I think a lot of other people picked it up around that time or maybe it was just me noticing all the fans of it. Even for the casual fan it seemed like there was at minimum a main event you wanted to watch every PPV with names like Ortiz, Liddell, BJ Penn, Matt Hughes, Rampage, GSP, Evans, etc...then everyone kind of got old at once except Anderson Silva who beat father time for a few years. Now Jones and Rousey are really the only ones I'll go out of my way to watch. Honestly I get more enjoyment out of watching an over the hill Tito fight on Bellator than new UFC guys.
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I started watching back in the no holds barred era of it. Crazy shit back then but it has evolved as have the quality of its fighters. Nowhere near as easy to dominate now as it was back then. People want to see the dominant guys, but the talent level all around is much higher now than it was in the beginning. I don't think Liddell just got old all of a sudden as much as I think the guys he fought were getting much better. Guys like Ortiz and Penn, quite honestly, were very overrated. Evans a quality fighter but never a big draw so why mention him.
A lot more fight cards for UFC to put on now with the FOX deal and fighters get injured all the time, even in victory, and are forced to stay out a certain amount of time depending on their injury so they don't fight as often as they did back in the day when these automatic suspensions weren't given to injured fighters. More greats will come along just like Jones did and guys like Silva and Cain will return from injury and both are big draws.
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If you are a boxing fan... such a dumb argument.... both are enjoyable sports.... but boxing fans need to make it seem like their sport isn't half way to the grave.
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I wish Rousey would get her ass kicked but it's not going to happen anytime soon.
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Lidell was never that good of a fighter and neither was Ortiz. All these guys that were popular all of them were strikers outside of GSP who has dominated precisely because he can fight.
The sport rose in popularity because of the strikers, it's dropping in popularity because most of the fighters now are smart and don't want to stand toe to toe so they grapple and take it to the ground. Once on the ground their lack of real skills is highly magnified and evident. The fights become boring because it takes someone to do something stupid for something interesting to happen.
Rousey dominates because she's a true martial artist, GSP same thing the other guys out there try to avoid running into a punch.
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Not at all accurate really. While some of the old-timers I already mentioned were overrated, others simply ruled when the overall level of competition was much lower. Rousey rules cause females are lagging in this sport. She's simply way ahead of the pack.
Still plenty of toe to toe standup, but you have a heavy schedule in a sport that sees many injuries. A PPV every month plus free fight cards on FS1. Hard to get your top names on all these cards when 3-6 month suspensions for injuries are handed out routinely.
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lol Biff, you should really try to avoid topics of which you are obviously, completely, ignorant. Your "true martial artist" comments are all that are needed to glean this fact. A sport filled with Olympic boxers, wrestlers, and Judo practitioners; all-time great collegiate wrestlers; a huge stable of Jiu Jitsu world champions; some of the very best Sambo practitioners in the world; and so on, only have a small handful of people that are attempting to do anything other than "...avoid running into a punch?" We all know you're a sycophantic dipshit, but this is pretty pathetic even for you.
You obviously don't actually watch MMA very much if you think "...most of the fighters now are smart and don't want to stand toe to toe so they grapple and take it to the ground." There have always been fighters that preferred the ground game because that was their specialty and their striking had not yet caught up. And if you think the ground game is boring then you clearly don't understand what's going on -- some of the best fights I've ever seen involved insanely technical BJJ for long stretches (that ignoramuses such as yourself can't discern from simply waiting for "...someone to do something stupid...").
You obviously don't actually watch MMA very much if you think "...most of the fighters now are smart and don't want to stand toe to toe so they grapple and take it to the ground." There have always been fighters that preferred the ground game because that was their specialty and their striking had not yet caught up. And if you think the ground game is boring then you clearly don't understand what's going on -- some of the best fights I've ever seen involved insanely technical BJJ for long stretches (that ignoramuses such as yourself can't discern from simply waiting for "...someone to do something stupid...").
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gif of the entire Ronda Rousey vs Cat Zingano fight
no need for a new thread with Ronda lol
no need for a new thread with Ronda lol
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no need for a new thread with Ronda lol
I pity da man thats fucking that.
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My fucking stream lagged. And I missed the fight..... Haha
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I'd like to meet her in logan square if you know what i'm sayin.
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Surprised that arm didn't snap in half.
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Was watching it, that shit was ridiculous. First fight of hers I actually got to watch live. Fucking awesome.
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Why? She's kinda hot and probably works out dem kegel muscles a lot...if ya know what I'm sayin.
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The UFC is boring with not many challengers to the reigning champs. Rousey is by far the best one with no one even close to a challenge. I only watched this to see if the impossible would happen and Zingano fluked into a win, but knew that it wouldn't happen. The speed in which it was over was somewhat of a surprise. I felt bad for Cat, must be awful to have it be over so quickly. Don't mind Rousey dominating, seems far more sympathetic than that awful fake person but super talented Jon Jones. I can't wait for his pompous ass get stomped, but it ain't happening.
The MMA scene has changed since the age of Liddel's, Ortiz's and Coutoure's. It was a mishmash of different styles, but now the field is full of people who have trained for specifically what is needed to be successful in MMA and all the different skillsets it requires. Mainly good grappling and wrestling.
The MMA scene has changed since the age of Liddel's, Ortiz's and Coutoure's. It was a mishmash of different styles, but now the field is full of people who have trained for specifically what is needed to be successful in MMA and all the different skillsets it requires. Mainly good grappling and wrestling.
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Why do you hate Jones? He's great.
He and Rumble Johnson trolled Dana yesterday afternoon.
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He just seems like fake person. It probably has to do with his coach Greg Jackson telling him after some fight he just won to go check on his opponent to "get some fans". And Bones Jesus love, just smells bad. He is a great fighter, just his personality rubs me the wrong way.
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