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OT: WWE/MMA/Boxing Thread

Riddled in a maze of sports filled with unfairness, combat sports are the closest thing to fairness you will get.

You get two combatants that weight approximately the same and the they have to figure out a way to beat their opponent with their natural talents, their body types and their hard work.

Knowing all of this, knowing that 155lbs is the best & deepest division in the sport and still seeing Khabib do what he's done to everybody? To the point that it almost looks unfair?

What an amazing, amazing fighter.

He might not be the most entertaining fighter ever, but seeing how he made some world-class fighters in their prime like CM, DP and JG look like they didn't belong against him... Unbelievable.

Appreciate the Khabibs, the Jon Jones, the GSPs of this world. They are so incredible.
 
Khabib reportedly had a broken foot 3 weeks ago and two broken toes.

Built different. Could use a guy like him on the Leafs. :cool:
 
Coming this week...

Boxing: Leo Santa Cruz - Gervonta Davis on October 31st

For MMA: The UFC has a free card on Saturday night with a sneaky good main card. It's Anderson Silva's swan song against Uriah Hall.
Bellator 250 on Thursday October 29th. Gegard Moussasi - Douglas Lima are the main event, hell of a fight.
 
Gegard Moussasi - Douglas Lima tonight.

If you want probably the first or second best possible fight any promoter can make outside of the UFC, this is it.
 
UFC's card on Saturday is another pretty decent one, for a free card on TV.

Glover Texeira - Thiago Santos would have been a #1 contender fight before the Jan Błachowicz - Israel Adesanya fight was announced, now I'm not sure where the winner will do.

Tanner Boeser - Andrei Arlovski well... it's either going to be a boring stalemate or Arlovski's going to get KO'ed again.

Heinisch - Allen is a Middleweight prospect fight, worth keeping an eye on.

Xionan - Gadelha should catapult the winner as being one win away from being the #1 contender in the Strawweight division.
 
MindzEye said:
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Ah, was gonna say it seems like it’s starting. Two 21 year old girls had a match on the main card - both very well rounded for their age. The American said she gave up a potential Harvard scholarship to play softball after seeing ronda fight when she was like 10 and only wanted to be a fighter
 
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The Khaos Williams KO was fucking nasty.

Rest of the main card was alright. Dos Anjos - Felder was pretty much what I expected it to be for a last minute replacement.
 
Not sure why rushing Perez for this shot, thinking Dana and the gang out the wrong flyweight in the main event. Hope not, cause like Perez - don’t think he’s ready tho and gonna suffer a bad knockout for no good reason.
 
As I expected, so far this is a pretty shit main card. Prelims would be more competitive for the most part. Hope one of these last theee fights are worth the watch
 
If you have absolutely, positively nothing else to do tonight, there's a probably the UFC's worst card of the year tonight.

Curtis Blaydes and Derick Lewis were supposed to fight, but the fight fell through after Blaydes tested positive for Covid. That fight was either going to be Blaydes grappling Lewis until a TKO/Decision (95% sure that's what was going to happen) or Lewis catches him on the feet. It wasn't the most interesting fight in the world to begin with.

But the current main event would be, at best, the first fight on a regular PPV card.

Spike Carlysle's a fun fighter, but there's nothing else of note.
 
soco22 said:
Not sure why rushing Perez for this shot, thinking Dana and the gang out the wrong flyweight in the main event. Hope not, cause like Perez - don’t think he’s ready tho and gonna suffer a bad knockout for no good reason.
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at least this has been fixed in a few weeks
 
GGpX said:
Fair enough. I might put it on the background while working, but who knows...
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I'm having a hard time giving much of a fuck about anything but top tier UFC cards/fights right now. Part of it was Dana stumping for Trump, part of it is watching Mike Perry's descent into rock bottom in real time on social media while knowing that he's just a piece of meat to the organization which is forcing me to realize how much more replaceable and commodified the athletes are than in any other sport that I watch and part of it is the atmosphere of a fight just not being the same without a crowd. I actually didn't mind hockey or basketball without crowds much at all. Prefer a crowd, but it was fine. I'm finding the atmosphere of fights without a crowd to be just hollow though.
 
I mean, there are so many openly pro-Trump fighters and fans of the sport, not to mention a lot of fighters (including current & former UFC champions) who have been associated with Ramzan Kadyrov, it means almost nothing to me. And it's not even the Mike Perrys of this world either, Kamaru Usman took pictures with Kadyrov's people a week or so ago. Chris Weidman, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Fabricio Werdum, I think Frankie Edgar went there too. These are all pretty honorable people. I don't watch sports in hopes that the athletes' political and/or societal views align with mine, because even when some do, you find out they align only because of money, see the NBA & their deafening silence with China.

The lack of any crowd sucks, but I've been to a few shows without many people there and it's something I've gotten used to.

I still watch most cards, although maybe not from top to bottom.
 
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