Sign Up / Log In

Section Eighty

Sign Up / Log In

Sign Up / Log InJoin

reply to thread

Boxing/MMA MMA Discussion Thread

Started by JXY, Nov 24, 2014, in Sports Add to Reading List

Posts: 14,879

Likes: 25,807

Joined: Nov 28, 2014

Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

Sep 9, 2015
I haven't watched TUF in years. Recent seasons any good?

#901

0 0

(This ad goes away when signing up)

May 3, 2025
Posts: 7,181

Likes: 5,295

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

Location: Boston, MA

redsoxx "What's my favorite ring? The next one."-TB12

Sep 9, 2015

Charlie Strangelove said

I haven't watched TUF in years. Recent seasons any good?
Click to expand...

Ehh not really, they've pulled great prospects out of them almost every season but it's been the same set up for like a decade.

Figured ppl would be interested because of McGregor though.

#902

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 3,605

Likes: 3,875

Joined: Dec 7, 2014

Clive Mind Over Matter And Soul Before Flesh

Sep 9, 2015
I hope Cruz destroys him. Though it'll be a tougher fight than that. Dillashaw's style really emulates Cruz's. The footwork is very well, I dislike Dillashaw but emulating Cruz's style was definitely smart.

Totally forgot about the season! Glad I set it up to PVR a few days ago lol.

#903

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 3,150

Likes: 3,062

Joined: Jul 23, 2011

Five Star

Sep 9, 2015
Cruz/Dillishaw on FS1? They can't get that fight on just regular FOX?

#904

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 7,181

Likes: 5,295

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

Location: Boston, MA

redsoxx "What's my favorite ring? The next one."-TB12

Sep 10, 2015

Five Star said

Cruz/Dillishaw on FS1? They can't get that fight on just regular FOX?
Click to expand...

Probably one of those things where FOX wanted it on there, to grow that network. In reality it's probably not on PPV or big FOX because of Cruz being so unreliable. They're talking about Pettis vs Alvarez, that's a main event on most fs1 shows and a pretty good back up plan.

#905

1
x326 likes this.
1

x326 likes this.

May 3, 2025
Posts: 2,665

Likes: 3,157

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

AvB

Sep 11, 2015
never seen someone with such bad luck with injury's than Cruz

hope he stays healthy, both mirror images of each other style wise cant wait for this one

on the ultimate fighter, there was a few great fights to get into the house
the american team looks a lot stronger

and I think conor/faber have a little secret bromance
the banter between the 2 should be funny this season

#906

1
redsoxx likes this.
1

redsoxx likes this.

May 3, 2025
Posts: 7,181

Likes: 5,295

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

Location: Boston, MA

redsoxx "What's my favorite ring? The next one."-TB12

Sep 11, 2015
Mirsad Bektic vs Tatsuya Kawajiri and Justin Scoggins vs Joby Sanchez added to TUF Finale. That card is looking pretty d--- good, with Edgar/Mendes, Khabib/Ferguson, Lauzon/Dunham and Laflare/Pierce.

Think Bektic steam rolls Kawajiri and then gets a top 10 fight next.

#907

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 7,181

Likes: 5,295

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

Location: Boston, MA

redsoxx "What's my favorite ring? The next one."-TB12

Sep 14, 2015
So it looks like Cyborg will take a fight at 140 on the next Invicta card in November. My guess is it will be against BW champ Tonya Evinger. Evinger just dominated in her last fight on Saturday.

Seems like everything is lining up for UFC 200. Although she's probably gonna have to take a fight at 135 before.

#908

0 0

(This ad goes away when signing up)

May 3, 2025
Posts: 2,665

Likes: 3,157

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

AvB

Sep 14, 2015
how the f--- she gonna make 135

#909

1
fed likes this.
1

fed likes this.

May 3, 2025
Posts: 2,665

Likes: 3,157

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

AvB

Sep 14, 2015
UFC 194 Trailer

#910

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 2,665

Likes: 3,157

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

AvB

Sep 14, 2015
Diaz suspended for 5 years for marijuana

Absolute madness

#911

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 3,150

Likes: 3,062

Joined: Jul 23, 2011

Five Star

Sep 14, 2015

Iceman said

Diaz suspended for 5 years for marijuana

Absolute madness
Click to expand...

He's gonna appeal. Bouta be like how Tom Brady did with his suspension.

#FreeNickDiaz

#912

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 607

Likes: 202

Joined: Nov 29, 2014

fed

Sep 14, 2015
Nick's lawyers
http://mmajunkie.com/2015/09/nick-d...-legal-action-after-kangaroo-court-suspension

Nick ranting
http://mmajunkie.com/2015/09/nick-d...-suspension-nsac-was-way-the-f-ck-out-of-line

Siva gets popped for steroids get 1 year... Nick gets 5 for pot... #ThatMakesSense #NSACLogic
#FreeNickDiaz

#913

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 6,037

Likes: 6,529

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

tomroe93

Sep 14, 2015

Moments after the Nevada Athletic Commission handed Nick Diaz a controversial five-year suspension, the popular fighter opened up to MMAFighting.com, perhaps like never before.

Here's what Diaz had to say:

"I'm the only one who's invested in a fight life. That's why none of these other guys can ever say s---. They're too worried about what their families and their wives and the people around them will think, so they're too scared to speak up. That's why I invested everything in my fight life. That's why I come off the way I do and always have.

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job. I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs. I was moved from school to school, put on drugs and made fun of by classmates because after being disruptive in class the teachers would always tell the other kids I was on meds and sometimes don't take them.

That's f----- up. You don't know what that does to someone. I wanted to beat up everyone in class, even the girls who would say some thing like, 'What's wrong? You didn't take your medication?'

I had to get inter-district agreements to stay in the same school because my mom would lose her house and I'd have to move in with my grandparents in Lodi.

You know what it's like move into a preppy Lodi school after being in a ghetto Stockton school with black and Asian kids?

They would try to get me kicked out and put me on drugs. My sixth grade class was the first school responsible for imposing all of the mandatory outfits for kids. There was no one like me there when I got in the high school. I would get in fights with kids from that same school and get kicked out of high school.

I had a really hot girlfriend and was very self-conscious about what I was wearing and couldn't afford nice things and got in fights because her ex-boyfriend was a year older and the mascot on the football team, so the coaches would tell the football players that I was bad news and they would start s---. A lot of them were on steroids, a lot of them were Mexican gangbangers people who were on m--- and getting stabbed.

Before anybody in my class made it out of high school, I was in a continuation, which I also got kicked out of because my friend Bart was also in the class and got into a big fight, which the teacher had to break up and did not want either of us in the school anymore, so I tried homeschool but that was never going to work. I was so far behind, it was never going to happen and by then I was training to be a pro fighter. My girlfriend knew it but had started dating Bart to make me jealous. He had a gun and neither of us wanted to piss him off because he would walk around with it.

Before I ever had my first pro fight, July 5, 2000, Bart had a party at his house. The night before, Stephanie had told me she loved me. After the party, I was gonna go back to her house with her brother -- he was my best friend -- but some friends weren't doing well and headed to my house. So I had to go.

An hour later I got a call from her mom saying, 'Are you with Stephanie?' She came straight to my house to get me, took me up and down the Frontage Road on Highway 99 by my Grandma's house next to their trailer park.

There was a wreck on the freeway. I jumped the fence and saw only one car and ambulances.

She had walked and killed herself on the freeway. The girl I loved more than anything had tried to k--- herself for the third time and succeeded.

She was gonna go to college. She was an avid student and and was doing everything I couldn't while living in a trailer park where everyone was doing dope. Meanwhile, I focused my whole high school years worried about what her and her friends would think if I lost a fight to her ex-boyfriend and football friends. I could never make attendance, hung out with the wrong people to hold my ground as a fighter and someone who would fight for was important to me.

There was no way I was gonna go to school. I had no money, no car. I would have driven there and stopped her. After that, I was grown up. It was all over. I wasn't a kid anymore. I won my first fight in the first round with a choke and all I could think about was her, just like when I was in school.

I would run seven miles and back to her grave just to promise her I would make it as a fighter like she knew and had told me she knew and was proud of me.

So this sport and this commission have done everything to stop me from being in the position that I belong. That's the only reason why I haven't stayed in that position and come off as the fighter and person that I know I am and can be.

They suspended me for a third time. For five f---ing years for something that makes the whole world a better place.

I've been investing in that understanding from the beginning. And I'm not going to start being someone that I'm not.

Honestly, I wanted to get up and walk out on the third question, but I didn't do that. Now I have to deal with that. These guys advised me not to do that.

I wanted to get up and tell them what I think about them to their face. I didn't do that. And now I have to live with that.

I'm the original Conor McGregor. I'm the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for me. Nothing against him. I'm the original real deal. I never did steroids in my entire life. I had to learn how to fight the real way and the right way. That's way I'm the best fighter in the entire world.

Guys like Conor, who are gonna make more money than me can see how to do it, as well as negotiate what they want in their contract using a team and agency and lawyers instead of their crooked jiu-jitsu trainer and coach, who was my manager for the majority of my career except for my last fight when I found the right agency on my own and signed with them, and I didn't even graduate the motherfucking eighth grade.

But in the end, I'm just upset I can't be there for my brother right now since he's gonna be fighting soon. It's my bad he even got into this sport and he gets his face kicked in and they don't even pay him.

I got us in this, and if I don't make any money, I don't have any way to get us out."
Click to expand...

http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/9/14/9327767/nick-diaz-opens-old-wounds-on-a-dark-day-in-his-career

#914

2
redsoxx and Sahara like this.
2

redsoxx and Sahara like this.

May 3, 2025
Posts: 607

Likes: 202

Joined: Nov 29, 2014

fed

Sep 14, 2015

hyped as f---

#915

3
x326, redsoxx and AvB like this.
3

x326, redsoxx and AvB like this.

(This ad goes away when signing up)

May 3, 2025
Posts: 7,181

Likes: 5,295

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

Location: Boston, MA

redsoxx "What's my favorite ring? The next one."-TB12

Sep 15, 2015
There's no way that 5 year ban holds up. But yea that was a sad read. Always figured there was something like that in his past.

#916

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 607

Likes: 202

Joined: Nov 29, 2014

fed

Sep 15, 2015
Ok so Nevada banned Nick, typically other commissions honor the NSAC rulings... is there a chance California or New Jersey say f--- it thats a bs ban and license Nick Diaz???

Here is a a break down and lessons learned by Luke Thomas
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/9/1...ada-athletic-commission-three-lessons-learned

#917

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 3,150

Likes: 3,062

Joined: Jul 23, 2011

Five Star

Sep 17, 2015
Henry Cejudo and Aljamain Sterling are refusing to fight in Nevada in response to the NSAC ruling.

#918

2
x326 and tomroe93 like this.
2

x326 and tomroe93 like this.

May 3, 2025
Posts: 7,181

Likes: 5,295

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

Location: Boston, MA

redsoxx "What's my favorite ring? The next one."-TB12

Sep 17, 2015
Paige VanZant vs Joanne Calderwood will headline the December 10th Fight Pass event.

#919

0 0

May 3, 2025
Posts: 2,665

Likes: 3,157

Joined: Feb 15, 2011

AvB

Sep 18, 2015
seem to be pushing Paige a bit more now

If she wins I hope she doesn't get Joanna yet, let her have a few more fights

#920

0 0

May 3, 2025

(Sign Up or Log In to reply here)

Live Thread

Search