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[4THAWN]

Meh, main event was gonna be boring anyway.

Algeo v Carlyle and Baeza v Sato are the two most interesting fights on the card.

Mudaerji also a half interesting chinese prospect and Kamaka is a pretty decent up and coming FW.

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

 

[NonPhixion]

Mudaerji looks leeegit

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

Mudaerji looks leeegit

Has height and reach, and throws clean, stiff punches. Defo one to keep an eye on.

 

[norway blue]

Slog of a fight with the heavyweights. But a beauty


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[DazalenkoUBewty]

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

 

[JG22]

Disappointing these two cards in a row with main event pullouts making them pretty poor

looking forward to 256

 

[mouncey2franklin]

Just watched the latest event.

Good to see Smith back in the winners column. Ate a heavy shot early and then just dominated it on the ground.

The heavyweights were the fight of the night for mine. Parker Porter is a new fan favourite. Or he should be anyway.

I just don't get why these guys don't / can't lose another 20 lb of fat and put it on their legs and upper body in muscle.

Seriously, those of you who know more about this sport than I do, what am I missing here?

 

[burge13]

Just watched the latest event.

Good to see Smith back in the winners column. Ate a heavy shot early and then just dominated it on the ground.

The heavyweights were the fight of the night for mine. Parker Porter is a new fan favourite. Or he should be anyway.

I just don't get why these guys don't / can't lose another 20 lb of fat and put it on their legs and upper body in muscle.

Seriously, those of you who know more about this sport than I do, what am I missing here?

Lazy, nothing more. These aren't the best athletes at heavyweight. The best athletes that size are in the NFL, NBA, or even box. MMA is left with leftovers which is often fat blokes. Given the minuscule money on offer in MMA they're probably working FT so training and dieting required to do as you suggest is difficult and they just get by on what they have.

That said, there's still heavyweight boxers. I'm often perplexed as to how you can train every day and be drastically overweight

 

[burge13]

Chimaev has covid. That fight better go ahead!

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

Leon has covid. It's off.

 

[burge13]

Absolutely spewing about that. Had a big bet on Leon...

Also, he does himself no favours at all. Unless it's affected his VISA, or he is actually sick and can't train, it's weak. Keep training and take another test in a few days. It'll likely come back negative

Everyone else was ready all year, not Leon. He sat at home whinging

 

[keyboard_warrior]

Absolutely spewing about that. Had a big bet on Leon...

Also, he does himself no favours at all. Unless it's affected his VISA, or he is actually sick and can't train, it's weak. Keep training and take another test in a few days. It'll likely come back negative

Everyone else was ready all year, not Leon. He sat at home whinging

Edwards' case was severe. He hasn't been able to train at all and lost 12 pounds in four days, sources told ESPN's Brett Okamoto. He's currently in the process of recovering at home.

that is a quote from here:

Sources: Edwards-Chimaev off after positive test

Leon Edwards tested positive for COVID-19, leading to the cancellation of his Dec. 19 bout against Khamzat Chimaev, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

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Edwards' case was severe. He hasn't been able to train at all and lost 12 pounds in four days, sources told ESPN's Brett Okamoto. He's currently in the process of recovering at home.

that is a quote from here:

Sources: Edwards-Chimaev off after positive test

Leon Edwards tested positive for COVID-19, leading to the cancellation of his Dec. 19 bout against Khamzat Chimaev, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

My mistake, I hadn't seen an article but only a tweet regarding it

2-3 days ago he said the fight was on (when it was rumoured Chimaev had it) so it's weird to lose so much weight in that time.

 

[ThaMuffinMan]

Yoel Romero has been released by the UFC with 3 fights left on his contract, sounds like he asked for it

maybe he realized it was unlikely he'd get another title shot after his numerous chances and whatever the hell his tactics were in the last one against Izzy

 

[Adzam]

Sad to see Romeo go. Absolute freak of nature. Those two fights with Whittaker were insane. I know he is old but does anyone reckon we see him in Bellator?

 

[ThaMuffinMan]

woulda liked to see him at light heavyweight so he wasn't always killing himself with the weight cut.
If he goes to Bellator you'd imagine it'd be a straight title shot against Mousasi other than going up in weight there and fighting Nemkov or Bader there isn't a whole lot of interesting matchups

 

[burge13]

Romero v Mousasi no brainer imo but going to KSW v Khalidov would also make him decent money.

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

The question for me is just...why? Still had 3 fights left on ufc contract.

Has he had that supplements-saga payout yet? That was said to have been around $25,000,000. Yes, shitloads.

 

[Topkent]

The question for me is just...why? Still had 3 fights left on ufc contract.

Has he had that supplements-saga payout yet? That was said to have been around $25,000,000. Yes, shitloads.

I've heard from a few different places he won't see a cent of that

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

I've heard from a few different places he won't see a cent of that

Ouch. Fancy getting told that you're in for a massive, life changing payout, only to never see a cent.

On another note, I just read this which I didn't know had happened.. "Romero, 43, won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney".

A long career and he still looks magnificent at 43.. Hopefully he makes some great coin at another promotion and hopefully he keeps his training on point.

 

[burge13]

3 canceled fights. Dana may as well book fight island from now until 2024

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

Now we're talking. Good pick-up.

 

[burge13]

Wonder why the UFC didn't opt to keep him. 205 is so bloody shallow...

Oh yeah, cutting decent fighters to bring in more DWTNCS scrubs and low level WMMA to afford the next round of dividend payments.

Nemkov, AJ, Corey, Bader is better than Jan, Glover, Santos, Reyes. Bellator catching up slowly overall