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Slimy Time said:
How can you be a 21 fight veteran and not know how to dig underhooks?
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By having approximately 19 of the fights be against cans and has beens who have never forced you to actually train anything other than your meme striking.

Slimy Time said:
Similarly for Storley, how do you just hold the guy down for most of the 25 mins and do no significant damage?
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Partly by being shit, partly by being so risk averse in your likely one big chance that you don't wanna blow it.

Blue Frog said:
Anytime MVP loses an angel gets its wings, I can't stand that guy. I was so happy when Lima cleaned his clock.
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I rarely rewatch fights more than once, if at all, but Lima vs MVP 1 is one of my few exceptions, along with Bisping vs Rockhold, Rousey vs Holm and Khabib vs McGregor. There's just something so damned satisfying by watching cocky assholes get smashed.
 
Most boring man in the light heavyweight division just had his knee implode. He's so boring that even God didn't want Rakic to win.

The UFC matched all the top young fighters with the old men of the division to clear them out, and 2/3 of them have looked very unimpressive doing it. Ankalaev got the job done, but managed to buy into a slightly faster paced, one note fight that Santos' has with everyone now, suddenly remembering that he's Dagestani in round 4 and just getting Santos down.

Rakic looks not great on the feet when he encounters someone who understands how to check kicks, and ended up having to hold Blachowicz down doing very little in round 2 to net it. Had his knee implode but didn't chad it out like Santos did against Jones, so he failed in his task of beating the old man. I have not seen a man with so many athletic gifts manage to be so boring on a consistent basis as Rakic.

Guess there is just Jiri left, who I really hope just puts Glover into a retirement home. If he does, put him against Jan, that will be fun.
 
Slimy Time said:
Most boring man in the light heavyweight division just had his knee implode. He's so boring that even God didn't want Rakic to win.

The UFC matched all the top young fighters with the old men of the division to clear them out, and 2/3 of them have looked very unimpressive doing it. Ankalaev got the job done, but managed to buy into a slightly faster paced, one note fight that Santos' has with everyone now, suddenly remembering that he's Dagestani in round 4 and just getting Santos down.

Rakic looks not great on the feet when he encounters someone who understands how to check kicks, and ended up having to hold Blachowicz down doing very little in round 2 to net it. Had his knee implode but didn't chad it out like Santos did against Jones, so he failed in his task of beating the old man. I have not seen a man with so many athletic gifts manage to be so boring on a consistent basis as Rakic.

Guess there is just Jiri left, who I really hope just puts Glover into a retirement home. If he does, put him against Jan, that will be fun.
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You think all the leg kick checks and Jan's own leg kicks may have caused his knee to go?
 
Blue Frog said:
You think all the leg kick checks and Jan's own leg kicks may have caused his knee to go?
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I think so. I rewatched the fight and skipped round 2 after the takedown. He ate a shit load of leg kicks and got his checked a lot. By the end of round 1 he's already switching stance, taking bad steps, slowing down and freaking out by pulling his foot way back to avoid low kicks. That lead leg was in a very bad spot.

What I did see in round 3 was he got his already shit left leg kicked twice, then Jan runs in with that body-overhand combo and Rakic bounces back out of range while trying to jab. Could very well have been he's putting more and more weight on his right leg to compensate for compromised lead leg, and this fast bounce back out of range with all that weight caused the knee to separate.

On rewatch it was amazing to see just how much Rakic's game fell to bits once he came across someone who could check calf kicks competently and consistently. He's a jab and a calf kick, done with a lot of explosiveness. Check the low kicks and take out his lead leg, and he slows down a lot. By the end of round 1 he was basically just a jab-overhand and little else.

Stat wise he got out struck 25-12 in round 1. 10 low kicks, 1 body punch, and 1 head punch (Jan moved his head out of the way of anything big), and most of those leg kicks were checked. It was basically that jab that cut Jan, one body strike at some point, and lots of checked low kicks. By the end of the round you could see how little he was putting on some of his low kicks. He did not like those kicks being checked at all. Meanwhile, Jan's own low kicks were never blocked. Got about 13 of them all in the same spot.
 
Sucks that Jan vs Rakic ended early, but calf kicks are no joke. If you can't trust your lead leg you're going to be putting a lot of weight on your back leg, he just stood back in a wide stance slightly going at a diagonal angle and that happened. Not exactly a freak accident but still quite unfortunate.
Also I'm not sure why people think Jiri is going to beat Glover other than "le 40yo man".
 
Well that main event was as shit as anyone with a brain knew it would be. You have Winkeljohn convinced Holm is up every round doing her gay clinch hugging with no damage, you have Pederneiras putting a 10-8 cornering performance and convinced she's down every round. You have people convinced this dogshit fight is a robbery because they think wall and stall > than running face first and getting your head snapped back. Personally I think we should give Viera a bonus for booting 40 year old Holm off the top ranking and hopefully ensuring she never gets a main event slot again, because she is a magnet for dogshit boring fights. Either running away doing counters that don't hurt or now wall and stalling.

Ponzi v Pereira was fun and sloppy, Chidi did my favourite elbow off the break and killed the dude. Was alright until that main event.
 
Water Helen Water said:
JDS will always be one of my favorites and I know he's ancient but damn... it's getting sad.
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What makes this even shittier is that I thought this was the best Cigano's looked in quite awhile.

In the latest Scott Coker is a bona-fide waterhead news, Romero/Manhoef was finally made official. An absolute waste of time for Romero in the twilight of his career since Manhoef has negative ground game. Could always catch him shooting in but I doubt Manhoef in 2022 has that in him.
 
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Was recently watching Tatsuro Taira's fight vs Candelario. Taira's striking is crisp, but he would benefit from staying in mid-range and throwing more than single shots or two punch combinations. Overall, he's a solid prospect. I'd say a matchup with him vs Alex Perez or Brandon Royval would be fun to watch.



 
People are already looking past O'Malley vs Munhoz and pretty much assuming O'Malley is going to walk through him like his previous opponents, I think people are going to be in for a wakeup call there. I would still favour Sean in that because of the reach advantage but Munhoz will definitely at least hurt him I'm sure, and there's still questions about Sean's fragility especially to leg kicks so it should be interesting. It annoys me that people don't seem to respect Munhoz but hopefully he pulls out a win there and gets what he's due.
 
naffatune said:
Was recently watching Tatsuro Taira's fight vs Candelario. Taira's striking is crisp, but he would benefit from staying in mid-range and throwing more than single shots or two punch combinations. Overall, he's a solid prospect. I'd say a matchup with him vs Alex Perez or Brandon Royval would be fun to watch.

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Taira's been hyped up in Japan the last two years as their top overall prospect. Most guys at least make a pit stop in RIZIN but Taira just said fuck that and wanted to prove himself immediately, so I'm really interested to see how he develops.
 
Slimy Time said:
There is one fight really worth watching, and it isn't the main event. Co-main, Dan Ige and Mosvar Evolev.

At least after the next PPV (which is also ass), we have two back to back good fight nights followed by the most stacked PPV.
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I agree, but didn't his record get revised?
 
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