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General MMA Chat/News mk2

El Guapo! · 2016-01-13 21:20:20

The old thread was nearing 10,000 posts so it needed to be closed. So here's the shiny new thread. Try not to break it. :pac: Usual forum rules apply. Link to the old thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056059510

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#5252 26-11-2016 3:35pm
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https://twitter.com/JohnPhillipsmma/status/802498401011003393

Phillips making a big social media case to get signed by the UFC, dont see him better to go and make weight when he actually fights.

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#5253 26-11-2016 6:53pm
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Ariel saying there are talks of make Pettis Holloway for the interim 145 and looking to officially strip Conor, making Aldo champ. Interesting times.

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#5254 26-11-2016 7:28pm
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Gamebred wrote: »

https://twitter.com/JohnPhillipsmma/status/802498401011003393

Phillips making a big social media case to get signed by the UFC, dont see him better to go and make weight when he actually fights.

He has missed weight once in his career and that was due to a knee injury.

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#5255 26-11-2016 8:01pm
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Zero-Cool wrote: »

Ariel saying there are talks of make Pettis Holloway for the interim 145 and looking to officially strip Conor, making Aldo champ. Interesting times.

how interesting>? healthy champ who hasnt defended the belt and wont for a over a year if taking time off

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#5256 26-11-2016 8:10pm
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raze_them_all_ wrote: »

how interesting>? healthy champ who hasnt defended the belt and wont for a over a year if taking time off

A cracking fight between 2 excellent strikers now with gold on the line potentially and we might finally find out what's going on with Aldo. Sorry, thought that was a bit interesting myself.

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#5257 26-11-2016 8:52pm
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TimRiggins wrote: »

He has missed weight once in his career and that was due to a knee injury.

He had to fight at a catchweight last time 198lb's instead of middleweight, he missed 185 by 13lb the time before that and got stripped of his bamma belt, clearly has issues and the UFC wont take him with that stuff going on.

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#5258 26-11-2016 9:02pm
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Gamebred wrote: »

He had to fight at a catchweight last time 198lb's instead of middleweight, he missed 185 by 13lb the time before that and got stripped of his bamma belt, clearly has issues and the UFC wont take him with that stuff going on.

The time he missed in BAMMA he had the knee injury anyway. Offered to fight and give 100% of his purse to his opponent. Don't know what happened the last time but I doubt it's too much of an issue if he made it comfortably all throughout his career before that.

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#5259 26-11-2016 10:09pm
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This 206 card is looking desperate. Can see them sending out the bat signal to mighty mouse and defend his belt a week later on this. Which would draw an extra couple hundred PPV sales.

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#5260 26-11-2016 10:16pm
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Still enough time for them to get on bended knees to Conor and GSP and beg..
They could make a killing off that in pic buys
GSP is in the usada testing pool isn't he

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#5261 26-11-2016 10:19pm
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loudnoises89 wrote: »

This 206 card is looking desperate. Can see them sending out the bat signal to mighty mouse and defend his belt a week later on this. Which would draw an extra couple hundred PPV sales.

In fairness the fight i'm most looking forward to is the Holloway fight. Its lacking a main event atm but the card still has some great potential fights with cerrone v brown and the korean superboy (he is so exciting to watch) fighting cub swanson.

Really hope they can resolved their issues with GSP and get him in there

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#5262 26-11-2016 10:23pm
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brinty wrote: »

Still enough time for them to get on bended knees to Conor and GSP and beg..
They could make a killing off that in pic buys
GSP is in the usada testing pool isn't he

Had a look at the usada testing history and he hasnt been tested so I dont think he is yet. Id say after all the Belator pictures from last week its just a matter of time before its official that he signed.

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#5263 26-11-2016 10:23pm
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id say itll get downgraded to a fight night at this stage, too close to put together a ppv quality main event unless they do gegard-rumble or something, as the card stands it bombs on ppv

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#5264 26-11-2016 10:24pm
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They can't/won't put GSP or McGregor on this card. Tickets are already sold, they're not in the business of leaving millions of dollars on the table when it comes to the gate.

The PPV numbers are going to stink, they'll just have to take it on the chin. It's not like Cormier was going to bring in the numbers anyway. It's gone from a 300k PPV to probably 150-200k

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#5265 26-11-2016 10:30pm
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Fogarty and Hammond both lost their finals on the judges scorecards today. Unfortunate, but great showing from the Irish that went over.

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#5266 27-11-2016 1:09am
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Anyone know what's up with Makwan Amirkhani?

3 good wins in the UFC so far and he was training at SBG, but there hasn't been a peep out of him in months (which is strange considering you couldn't shut him up at the start of the year) and there doesn't seem to be a hint at all of a next fight despite there being 2 European events passed since he won in London in February.

Is he still at SBG and has anyone heard what's next for him?

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#5267 27-11-2016 1:23am
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Paully D wrote: »

Anyone know what's up with Makwan Amirkhani?

3 good wins in the UFC so far and he was training at SBG, but there hasn't been a peep out of him in months (which is strange considering you couldn't shut him up at the start of the year) and there doesn't seem to be a hint at all of a next fight despite there being 2 European events passed since he won in London in February.

Is he still at SBG and has anyone heard what's next for him?

Did he not fight Canelo recently??

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#5268 27-11-2016 1:38am
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Levi Huge Source wrote: »

Did he not fight Canelo recently??

God I really hope that post is not a joke. :pac::P

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#5269 27-11-2016 1:38am
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Anyone watching UFC Melbourne?

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#5270 27-11-2016 2:04am
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InstantMMA wrote: »

Anyone watching UFC Melbourne?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057675312

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#5271 28-11-2016 5:03pm
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Anyone watching the card Sat night/Sun morning (Fight pass portion) get the impression the UFC glossed over 206 instead favouring to push 207...maybe its due to lack of promotional material for 206 given recent change in circumstance or have they just decided to take the hit on 206 and move on.

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#5272 28-11-2016 10:17pm
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https://twitter.com/MMA_Voice/status/803344159071354881

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#5273 28-11-2016 10:25pm
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https://twitter.com/guicruzzz/status/803348725301182464

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#5274 28-11-2016 10:29pm
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Has to be a fighters union.

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#5275 28-11-2016 10:30pm
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Zero-Cool wrote: »

Has to be a fighters union.

Yeah mentions of Kennedy, Cain and TJ also.

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#5276 28-11-2016 11:20pm
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Mean Laqueefa wrote: »

Yeah mentions of Kennedy, Cain and TJ also.

Cerrone mentioned aswell and most consider him a company man.

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#5277 28-11-2016 11:22pm
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finglashoop wrote: »

Cerrone mentioned aswell and most consider him a company man.

One of Cowboys most recent interviews he was in favour of a union big time.

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#5278 28-11-2016 11:29pm
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Zero-Cool wrote: »

One of Cowboys most recent interviews he was in favour of a union big time.

They should all be really. Think it needs a mcgregor rousey type to really boost it.

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#5279 28-11-2016 11:40pm
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Bjorn Rebney is still alive?!

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#5280 29-11-2016 12:13am
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Zero-Cool wrote: »

One of Cowboys most recent interviews he was in favour of a union big time.

He went as far to say he would be open to being the head of the union

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#5281 29-11-2016 11:46am
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https://twitter.com/mma_gifs_/status/803027786034245632

This little ''beef'' is funny.

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