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Miguel Torres lost a kickboxing fight because he get a Jones style kick to the knee and it blew out. Not pretty to watch. Torres was one of my favourite fighters back in the day, it sucks to see this happen to him and possibly end his fighting career that way.
saw that. Shocking viewing. I'm very surprised that move hasn't been outlawed in both kickboxing and mma. Every time jones does it i cringe at the thought of that happening. If they ban the downwards elbow they definitely should do that. That much pressure put on a joint...not good for anyone. Torres' fall from grace couldn't get any worse atm, feel for the guy.
 

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A slew of fights have been announced for UFC 186:

Dillashaw vs Barao II
MacDonald vs Lombard
Rampage vs Maldonado
Bisping vs Dollaway
Cote vs Riggs
Aubin-Mercier vs Michaud
Letourneau vs Rakoczy

Happy with the Rory vs Hector fight, but the rest are a a bit meh. Happy to see Rakoczy return though after her loss at the TUF finale though, hopefully she's worked more on her takedown defense and get ups as her boxing is beautiful to watch.
 
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I wasn't surprised about this fight at all to be honest. Fabio had called him out a little while ago and while it's a massive drop from the opponent we're used to seeing Rampage fight it should be a fun fight and one he can use to try and build himself back up in the 205 class.
 

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Interesting decision by the ref, probably would have called it myself. Thought it might have tapped once then passed out but hard to tell. Wouldn't have made a difference to the result though.
 

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don't get the pendred hype. I think he's slow, boring, poor cardio and very average.
Agreed but I had him winning, Rogan was nut hugging Spencer a fair bit but with the exception of the rights in the first round he barely connected. Pendred at least hit some takedowns, sub attempt, leg kicks. Pretty average under card.
 

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bullshit decision. Spencer should have won that one. Crowd wins that one. Robbery of the highest order. He fights like a big school bully. Tries to headlock you, lift your hand of the mat and knee you in the head. did it throughout the whole ultimate fighter.

30-27 ha
 
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"really like how benson is mixing it up"

"really like how benson is mixing it up"

"really like how benson is mixing it up"

"really like how benson is mixing it up"

...we get it joe rogan...you like it!
 
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