MMA Off Topic Thread

Swashbuckler

dashoonage wrote: »

Ah lads....

so how about that Cricket?????

wonderfullife

Swashbuckler wrote: »

so how about that Cricket?????

How about Attenborough? Planet Earth 2 began last night. Episode 1 had me in tears but (again) that's a regular thing lol.

Anybody even remotely interested should watch this immediately, it's the best trailer for a nature program ever. Beautiful footage with a Hans Zimmer original score for music. Breathtaking. Was so excited for the first episode and it was truly mind-blowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aFcHFu8QM

Tinie

wonderfullife wrote: »

How about Attenborough? Planet Earth 2 began last night. Episode 1 had me in tears but (again) that's a regular thing lol.

Anybody even remotely interested should watch this immediately, it's the best trailer for a nature program ever. Beautiful footage with a Hans Zimmer original score for music. Breathtaking. Was so excited for the first episode and it was truly mind-blowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aFcHFu8QM

I need to download this in 4k. Nothing else will suffice.

Swashbuckler

I was under the impression when ASOT set this thread up that it was for MMA related news/articles/blogs etc that weren't necessarily related to the other threads we have in here. I didn't think it was going to turn into a thread for all things wonderful with the world like Cricket and Nature Programs?

Depp

Swashbuckler wrote: »

I was under the impression when ASOT set this thread up that it was for MMA related news/articles/blogs etc that weren't necessarily related to the other threads we have in here. I didn't think it was going to turn into a thread for all things wonderful with the world like Cricket and Nature Programs?

think the general idea was to have a thread where all the off topic stuff could go hence the name!

Swashbuckler

Depp wrote: »

think the general idea was to have a thread where all the off topic stuff could go hence the name!

Yeah but I thought it was MMA off topic....as opposed to just off topic....

Edit: Ignore me. Seems like it's common across Boards.

martyos121

I like the mix of topics to be honest. It's a nice thread to have so that the regulars here can have the craic about random stuff but not have to go into the specific forum for it. As long as there's a bit of random MMA stuff, it's all good IMO.

Anyone know any decent MMA movies? Seen Warrior (outstanding) and Never Surrender (awful is putting it nicely) already, any more worth a look?

callaway92

martyos121 wrote: »

I like the mix of topics to be honest. It's a nice thread to have so that the regulars here can have the craic about random stuff but not have to go into the specific forum for it. As long as there's a bit of random MMA stuff, it's all good IMO.

Anyone know any decent MMA movies? Seen Warrior (outstanding) and Never Surrender (awful is putting it nicely) already, any more worth a look?

No such thing

Swashbuckler

Here comes the Boom is definitely worth a watch.

martyos121

callaway92 wrote: »

No such thing

Ah Warrior is actually very good to be fair, not just for an MMA movie either. Was hoping to find a few more good ones but that seems to be the only one that isn't terrible.

I'll give that one you mentioned a look though Swashbuckler, looks like the type of thing I'd enjoy, comedy and MMA together.

Swashbuckler

martyos121 wrote: »

Ah Warrior is actually very good to be fair, not just for an MMA movie either. Was hoping to find a few more good ones but that seems to be the only one that isn't terrible.

I'll give that one you mentioned a look though Swashbuckler, looks like the type of thing I'd enjoy, comedy and MMA together.

Yeah some nice cameos in it too - Krystov Sozynski, Bruce Buffer, Stitch, Mayhem, Herb etc. Good light hearted MMA fun!

Head Wreck

martyos121 wrote:

Anyone know any decent MMA movies? Seen Warrior (outstanding) and Never Surrender (awful is putting it nicely) already, any more worth a look?

Dogfight. More bareknuckle brawling than anything but 3 of the guys went on to become professional fighters. About DaDa and Kimbo. A good watch and on Netflix.

newbbieb

Never surrender 2009 movie,you got some quality acting in it from Bj and Rampage,Gsp is in it too,one of the all time great movies.Worth a look.

wonderfullife

Have never seen Eddie Bravo as nervous as he was for the Ferguson fight. They hardly drug test the cornermen he should have got stoned as usual and relaxed. He looked fit to puke.

John_D80

Swashbuckler wrote: »

I was under the impression when ASOT set this thread up that it was for MMA related news/articles/blogs etc that weren't necessarily related to the other threads we have in here. I didn't think it was going to turn into a thread for all things wonderful with the world like Cricket and Nature Programs?

Off topic threads, IMO, are for anything at all. Me personally I prefer to interact with people I am used to on the forums i frequent instead of with ''strangers''. Rugby, Cricket, Nature shows, basket weaving, crossdressing are all fair game IMO. :-)

It also can be really interesting finding out what weird and unusual (interesting) **** people are into.

John_D80

Depp wrote: »

think the general idea was to have a thread where all the off topic stuff could go hence the name!

Yup, AFAIR the main catalyst that resulted in the birth of this thread was a discussion in one of the threads about Trump vs Clinton election.

Head Wreck

What is all of yer second favourite sport, or you're second most watched sport after MMA?

Swashbuckler

John_D80 wrote:

It also can be really interesting finding out what weird and unusual (interesting) **** people are into.

Yeah I corrected myself in a later post. Ignore my ramblings!

riffmongous

John_D80 wrote: »

Wow, he was at full stretch there for sure! The last 3 seconds of that vid was awesome!

I'm just a recent convert to the game so I'm seeing things like this for the first time.

It's great to be new to something cause you get to watch all the cool stuff for the first time!

See if you can find any of the games Ireland won at the world cups, usually they are epics

callaway92

Head Wreck wrote: »

What is all of yer second favourite sport, or you're second most watched sport after MMA?

Toss up for all sports between Football/Golf/Tennis/GAA/MMA/Boxing

Probably watch football the most because it's on the most.

TimRiggins

I'd watch Football the most then MMA and Baseball has become my third sport since I moved to Toronto!

Mellor

Head Wreck wrote: »

What is all of yer second favourite sport, or you're second most watched sport after MMA?

Honestly, I'd say it's Jiu Jitsu

Paully D

Head Wreck wrote: »

What is all of yer second favourite sport, or you're second most watched sport after MMA?

Football (soccer), followed by American football. NBA basketball would probably be third, and I'd dabble in snooker, golf, boxing, and a few others.

If I get lucky with having nothing on at the weekend (getting rarer by the week), a typical weekend can go like the below for me:

Saturday: 12:30pm kick off in the football, 3pm kickoff in the football, 5:30pm kickoff in the football. If there's a UFC event then it's college American football until that begins and if not it's usually 2 college games until I pass out in the early hours.

Sunday: The 2 'Super Sunday' football games from 1:30pm-6pm. Then from 6pm until bed it's NFL American football.

I watch far too much sport to be quite honest. :pac:

Blackthorn Fight School

Probably for me it goes MMA, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, BJJ then the odd time rugby Between those it tends to fill up most of my free viewing time or not watching instructional tapes etc.

dashoonage

MMA, anything with an engine in it bar F1 and some BJJ. I used to be a massive fan of boxing but not in recent times.

DrPhilG

wonderfullife wrote: »

the old school Chaos FC events in Derry, says a lot about what your motivations were.

I was sitting just behind Andrew at Chaos 15 last time around.

PS for anyone not making it to New York this weekend, Chaos 16 is going down in Derry on Saturday night, nice warmup for UFC 205 overnight.

First one I'll miss since about Chaos 5 but the Big Apple trumps Muckerville this time!

@SDTimeout and @wonderfullife any thoughts on the main event up there? Had high hopes that Gavin Kelly might get a crack at the Bamma/Bellator event or even the UFC Belfast but no joy.

EDIT, this is MMA talk so maybe doesn't belong in the Off Topic section, lol.

Head Wreck

Any interesting MMA guys on snapchat, please share usernames

Gamebred

Cant wait for the boiled piss when Trump wins this election, the world will go into complete seethe mode, Remember the Brexit stay experts ''its wrapped up im off to bed'' only to wake up to them leaving europe.

wonderfullife

Gamebred wrote: »

Cant wait for the boiled piss when Trump wins this election, the world will go into complete seethe mode, Remember the Brexit stay experts ''its wrapped up im off to bed'' only to wake up to them leaving europe.

Wish i could be so relaxed about it. I genuinely feel he's a bigger danger to the world than Putin, Kim Jong Un, Netanyahu and Assad combined.

Purely for the reason they'll run rings around him.

Depp

pp giving 5/6 for trump and evens for hrc....really starting to look like the writings on the wall! will be a relief if he does pull it off dont fancy another cold war

Gamebred

wonderfullife wrote: »

Wish i could be so relaxed about it. I genuinely feel he's a bigger danger to the world than Putin, Kim Jong Un, Netanyahu and Assad combined.

Purely for the reason they'll run rings around him.

He is a header but the world wont end or anything,he will make some reform to the establishment hopefully and any damage done will be short term unlike the Clintons getting the reigns again,

If Trump hadnt ****ed up with some of his controversy (most was good for his publicity tbf) I really think he would've walked this.

wonderfullife

Gamebred wrote: »

He is a header but the world wont end or anything,he will make some reform to the establishment hopefully and any damage done will be short term unlike the Clintons getting the reigns again,

If Trump hadnt ****ed up with some of his controversy (most was good for his publicity tbf) I really think he would've walked this.

Bill Clinton oversaw a term without any major global wars etc.

Meh, i think Trump is an absolute spoofer and hasn't a notion.

Gamebred

wonderfullife wrote: »

Bill Clinton oversaw a term without any major global wars etc.

Meh, i think Trump is an absolute spoofer and hasn't a notion.

True I dont think he has any policies bar ''ban muslims and build a wall on the border'' :pac:


says a lot about Hilary's if hes winning.

Depp

https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/796245414576013312

Depp

Gamebred wrote: »

He is a header but the world wont end or anything,he will make some reform to the establishment hopefully and any damage done will be short term unlike the Clintons getting the reigns again,

If Trump hadnt ****ed up with some of his controversy (most was good for his publicity tbf) I really think he would've walked this.

ended up walking it even with the controversy! says a lot about clintons popularity doesnt it?

wonder will we see him cageside saturday now?

dashoonage

Depp wrote: »

ended up walking it even with the controversy! says a lot about clintons popularity doesnt it?

wonder will we see him cageside saturday now?

I reckon they could have ran a homeless dog against trump and the dog would have won....but clinton was never gonna beat him.

Depp

dashoonage wrote: »

I reckon they could have ran a homeless dog against trump and the dog would have won....but clinton was never gonna beat him.

agree...the dems effed up majorly by taking clinton over bernie...bernie v trump wouldve been a completely different story

Gamebred

Will be interesting to see if he follows through on the crazy plans like building walls and banning Muslims.

dashoonage

Gamebred wrote: »

Will be interesting to see if he follows through on the crazy plans like building walls and banning Muslims.

Muslim block layers are ****ting it.

Gamebred

Some scenes now when Trump indites Hilary and puts her in prison.

Head Wreck

IMMAF World Amateur MMA Championship is on BT sport 2 this evening at 23:00

wonderfullife

As an enthusiastic writer and reader, The Mac Life website drives me bananas. Then again so do most MMA websites.

The standard of English and Grammar is atrocious, borderline shameful and these are supposed to be decent writers (John Balfe and Oscar Willis).

Latest Article:

1. "Having covered the sport for over a decade, when the reporter shares his opinion, it tends to hold some weight."

Starting a sentence with the word "Having" is criminally lazy.

A general rule of thumb in using commas is that the sentence should still make sense if the interjection contained within the commas is removed.

Remove it here and you're left with: "Having covered the sport for over a decade it tends to hold some weight"

Which is a nonsense.

How hard would it be to restructure that sentence positively?

"Ariel Helwani is a stalwart of MMA Journalism, having covered the sport for almost a decade, and his opinions are greatly respected."

It's a simple, structurally correct sentence and it reads easier.

2. "As a New York local (albeit Canadian export), Helwani would be able to analyse better than most the feeling UFC 205 is bringing to the Big Apple, and what the energy around the biggest event in MMA history is like."

That sentence is a train-wreck.

Again, he begins lazily with "As a".

He proceeds to add incorrect/unnecessary brackets.

He uses "would" as a conditional verb completely incorrectly.

He omits 100% necessary conjunctions, uses incorrect tenses.

If Hitler was around a writer would be shot on the spot for that sentence.

Easily reworked to:

"Helwani left his native Toronto to pursue a career and is extremely well equipped to judge the energy in the city during fight week; having covered mega UFC-cards and making New York his home, he has a unique perspective on the synergy UFC 205 brings to the Big Apple."


3. "It’s that activity, Helwani says, that makes him unsure as to why people seem eager to strip McGregor of a belt before he’s even raised a second above his head."

That sentence is a joke.

For a start there's zero need for "as to" and it's grammatically incorrect. Most grammar experts believe "as to" should be used sparingly and, usually, relating to "why". E.g. "There is some debate as to why Conor McGregor wore a Coogi sweater".

"before he's even raised a second above his head"


When you're talking about verbs of possession (such as holding a title) you simply CAN'T contract the words "he has" into "he's".

It's flat-out wrong. Now, if the sentence has an auxiliary verb it's allowable but frowned upon.


Man, this article is a 296 word "piece" to link to a video. It's not Shakespeare. I get that.

I just despair at the standard of writing masquerading as "journalism" and, believe it or not, people are put off by receiving constant headaches reading this tripe.

/end rant.

TL;DR : Conor - hire me i'll sort that sh1t out for you for free from my bedroom.

wonderfullife

Before anyone bulk quotes my Boards posts to illustrate grammatical laziness - I post on Boards/Twitter for fun and I post fast and often. I'm lazy myself in the usage of verbs and conjunctions. For irony, i started my rant with "As a....". I just can't fathom how anybody being paid to write can be let away with such criminal laziness and incompetence. I'm also genuinely worried we're allowing our usage of language to go to the dogs.

People may have noticed i'm a huge McGregor and SBG fan. I just hate to see such sloppy work. Conor wouldn't tolerate throwing a lazy rear-hand uppercut or stand for throwing a sloppy teep - so why tolerate it from people he's employing.

I'd sack the both of them or make them write a 10,000 word, grammatically correct, essay to prove they can actually write.

John_D80

Cant relate to what you are saying at all.

Its not prose or fancy schmancy literature they are writing. It is MMA/Sports journalisim. For their audience, it is perfectly intersting and entertaining as it is. Its not like its hard to understand. Because its far from it. For the majority of people, the writing on the Mac-Life stuff is just fine.

The articles are aimed at sports fans, not other journo's or creative writing critics in fairness.

wonderfullife

John_D80 wrote: »

Cant relate to what you are saying at all.

Its not prose or fancy schmancy literature they are writing. It is MMA/Sports journalisim. For their audience, it is perfectly intersting and entertaining as it is. Its not like its hard to understand. Because its far from it. For the majority of people, the writing on the Mac-Life stuff is just fine.

The articles are aimed at sports fans, not other journo's or creative writing critics in fairness.

It doesn't need to be prose. It just needs to be correct.

Just because you understand something doesn't mean it's correct.

"Lyke, my freind told me i shud go to the sinema."

You understand that. We all do. It's still wrong.

Meh, i despair at our society sometimes. Nobody gives a monkeys anymore about writing properly.

John_D80

wonderfullife wrote: »

It doesn't need to be prose. It just needs to be correct.

Just because you understand something doesn't mean it's correct.

"Lyke, my freind told me i shud go to the sinema."

You understand that. We all do. It's still wrong.

Meh, i despair at our society sometimes. Nobody gives a monkeys anymore about writing properly.

Everything thats going on in this world and its poor grammar that causes you to despair at society.

Fkin Hell.

wonderfullife

John_D80 wrote: »

Everything thats going on in this world and its poor grammar that causes you to despair at society.

Fkin Hell.

I know. I'm completely uncaring about the situations in Syria, America and the Middle East. I just despair at grammar.....

Oh wait....

Just move on. You disagree and you're part of the reason why the English language is going to pieces - people just accepting it being butchered on the basis "they understand it".

califano

wondefullife i'm just wondering why you're posting on the mma forum for only 4 months and at a feverish pace when you have an account here since 2011?. Serious question don't take offense:)

CatFromHue

Well to be honest I'm not sure anyone really knows what the hell is going on in Syria and why da fuk most of the militia's are fight so poor grammar could actually be in the mix somewhere. It wouldn't surprise me with the amount of head the balls over there.

dashoonage

CatFromHue wrote: »

Well to be honest I'm not sure anyone really knows what the hell is going on in Syria and why da fuk most of the militia's are fight so poor grammar could actually be in the mix somewhere. It wouldn't surprise me with the amount of head the balls over there.

Somebody slept somebody's god's name wrong.