Spyke

Let's do this every week! Super fun and a great atmosphere in here. I'm not going back to reddit. I was there 12 years, and saw it slip just like I saw digg slip before it. Let's keep this going while we wait for others to see the obvious - once the people who create the best content leave there's no reason to stay there.

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Hello, this is Marvin Vettori's brain. I'm not able to answer the phone right now, but please leave a message and I'll get back to you after round five.

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This is currently the most commented thread ever on kbin. It's a shame that it won't grow from here, with the return of the subreddit soon.

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I'd like to start a petition to replace Cruz with Laura Sanko. I think it'd be nice to get a former female fighter's opinion in there, and she's well spoke and deserves it.

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Also everyone, please upvote this thread itself so we can get other folks from the fediverse to come over to the thread as well. Thanks.

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Historically, no one has EVER beat an ass more than Cannonier at middleweight, and yet somehow Vettori is still here. That dude probably lost 2 or 3 years off his career tonight, though.

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lemmy.world

Cruz absolutely creaming himself over Keith Peterson making a mistake, lol.

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I really don't like him on commentary. I'd be pretty happy if it were always some combination of Sanko, DC and Felder along with Anik.

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bbqasaurusreply
kbin.social

I feel like Peterson fucked up once or twice recently, and Dom was on hand and commented on it then as well.

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Most exciting fight by either fighter. They both want to make a statement.

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I think it takes a metal noggin like Vetorri and a relentless ass beating machine like Cannonier to break that record. We might not see it again.

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TIFU guys, as an aside. Went fishing today, was wading in a stream I've never waded before. Took a step and in that exact spot the water was about 3 feet deeper than on either side. Went completely under, cut my legs up and lost my phone. Phone is....not water proof. $300 fishing trip feels bad man.

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Costa looked good. That shoutout to Grasso & Aldana was wholesome as fuck too

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I've heard that damage is a scoring criteria. 4-1 Jared. Marvin is not human.

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My favorite ref is the ref that gives a warning if it needs a warning and takes a point if it was serious. I think too many refs are hesitant to take a point on things like fence grabs that change the whole position of fight or eye pokes that compromise the fighter for the rest of the fight. I'd like to see more points taken until the behavior decreases across the whole industry

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ehh after a while it felt like Marvin had nothing for Jared, looked like he was too slow. Corner should've thrown in the towel, he wore the damage well but that could take some time to recover from

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ehh after a while it felt like Marvin had nothing for Jared, looked like he was too slow. Corner should've thrown in the towel, he wore the damage well but that could take some time to recover from

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Pretty sure their heads touched when dalby drove him into the fence right there. Should we stop the fight, guys?

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Tots are cold by the time they get from my oven to my couch. There's no way I'm ordering them from Dominos.

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Love how one ref ended the fight before anything happened, no tap or anything, and now one wanted to see 5 elbows to the head first.

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On the replay it kinda does look like he tries to tap but his arm is stuck so he can't, but then when Keith Peterson moves in and touches his hand it's clear that he could've tapped if that was his intention. Poor split-second decision by the ref there.

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The corpse of Harrison Ford and that lady from Fleabag. That's what people wanna see, right? Right guys?....

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Cannonier is legitimately kickboxing him up. 2-1 so far. And Jared definitely look to have the better stamina for 5.

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kbin.social

what is the point of TUF when so many of the losers still get contracts lol

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Marketing. The fighters get their names out to fight fans much more easily than those who go the "normal" route to a contract, the UFC gets a bunch of relatively cheap entertainment broadcasting to the world just how much of a meathead these guys can be.

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I love the "live odds" on screen because they exist to make the fight seem closer. The on-screen graphic was like +180 and -200 or some shit. Draftkings has it at -1300 to +750 lmao

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it's a rare fight where the winner is bleeding from the face and the loser doesn't appear to have a scratch on him

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The fact that this dude is the best translator in Portuguese AND Spanish is pretty amazing.

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Well, gotta assume between getting dropped in the first and controlled hard in the second, Salikhov needs a finish, right?

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Just saw the Keith Peterson thing, lmao having Dom in the booth was fucking chefs kiss for that. I will never stop enjoying his eternal pettiness.

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That was a great KO, but that could have gone either way. Dude won't survive the top guys until he learns to tuck his chin.

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What drugs and/or alcohol is making McGregor look like he's always doing a Robert DeNiro impression?

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one of the most fucking horrible stoppages ive ever fucking seen

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Dom the GOAT at never letting anything go

‘good ref job’

he’s so mad he can’t even talk straight

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Salikhov starts losing the second he gives up the middle of the octagon. I think that's bad ring craft.

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Flick literally looks like the meth dealer you'd see at the mall. He sells heroin too but hates that shit, only keeps it around to keep his meth business afloat (gets high on his own supply too much)

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ref after the 199th punch to the face: let's see where he's going with this
ref after the 200th punch to the face: ah shit i guess he got him, okay

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got drunk last night and accidentally bet $10 on Jiminy Cricket here getting a first round win by KO/TKO/DQ. I'll get $290 if he does but uhhhhhh I've already kissed that money goodbye

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I'll say it again, if Vetorri does that blast double from across the octagon, you can count on Cannonier landing a knee or uppercut. Gonna get interesting.

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mad respect to Vettori for surviving until the decision but he had very little for Cannonier. holy shit

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Bondar should be a little more focused on winning the round and a little less on showing off. I know you wanna make a name for yourself as someone other than the guy that had the freak injury, but let's start by winning a fight, maybe?

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Unless I'm mistaken, McGregor has now passed the deadline where he needed to test in order to fight this year, right? Or was there news of him entering the pool that I missed?

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In slo-mo, for just a moment, I think you can see Tsarukyan's eyes looking in different directions after that shot.

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bleda: "i'm going to pin you against the cage/climb on top of you and do absolutely nothing"
fernandes: "yeah sounds good, I'll let you do that and also not do anything, either"

do either of these broads want to win the fight???

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Herb Dean is the review official, so obviously no points taken. Lmfao. Of course.

Dude is legitimately terrible.

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Rushes in and gets caught, then just opens his neck up for the taking. Bad 30 seconds, that! :')

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can't be doing that bro, next time just kick him in the nuts since you get multiple warnings for those

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that guy was out after the throw. that wasn't a head clash. and those elbows didn't need to happen. holy shit.

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dude i have tried and i hate this website. get the reddit-stream guy to come fix it. 😭

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There are levels to this, folks. I thought Sabatini might get caught on an obvious entry, but instead he just absolutely embarrassed this guy. Good for him.

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damn I fell asleep and missed the main event

being an old-timer east coaster sucks with these 10pm cards

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the only good thing about this duluth trading company loch ness monster ad is that it's not their standard "HEY THIS SHIT FEELS SO GOOD ON YOUR BALLS AND ASS, BROTHER" shtick

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Honestly, Jackson must actually be pretty good, since he beat Sabatini and I think he only has losses to Topuria and Dan Ige in the UFC

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Let's go guys! Thanks for setting this up (obligatory fuck reddit)

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two guys standing a just inside typical kicking distance....someone's taking a shot to the nuts, folks.

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That was nothing? His head was a ping pong ball between that elbow and the canvas for 10 shots at least.

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kbin.social

He waited a surprisingly long amount of time before mounting the high horse. Longer than usual. Patient Dom.

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kbin.social

Why is Peterson so eager to stop the fight RIGHT as there's a tap? I mean he doesn't hesitate to let fighters receive follow up shots until they nearly die, but God forbid someone gets choked two seconds extra? Super bad

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Brusparrowreply
kbin.social

I think he did the right thing. Getting punched once or twice more isn't the same as the brain being denied oxygen for a few more seconds.

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PartyHatreply
kbin.social

Getting punched in the head after being rocked/concussed is super bad, that's pure brain damage right there. Being choked a few seconds extra I've never came across as causing brain damage, it's now way near the minutes needed for that

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Brusparrowreply
kbin.social

"During a strangulation assault, the pressure applied to the neck impedes oxygen transport by preventing blood flow to and from the brain. The trachea can also be restricted, making breathing difficult or impossible. The combination can quickly cause asphyxia and unconsciousness, which can lead to brain injury even without loss of consciousness or those lasting mere seconds. " Hirsch Handmaker, MD
https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/health/how-strangulation-affects-the-brain

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Charli Arnault looks like she's spent five minutes wrestling with candy wrapper curtains.

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these mango cherry popsicles are low key amazing. Sorry my children, dad's got a taste for your frozen treats now.

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Looking forward to these Fediverse fight threads each week now! Fun in here with you nice folks.

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The ref should pay them himself out of his own pocket. Wasted time and lost money. Awful from the ref.

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You guys remember when Heavy Cannonier carried that little bag around with him like he was keeping the souls of his KO'ed victims in there?

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I feel like the UFC is getting super watered down. Tons of no name fighters so they don't have to pay them much, and WAY too many people with 5-0 or 6-0 jumping in here. I remember when it used to be that if you saw a person at 5-0 in the octagon, you were like "Oh my God, they must be amazing."

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Late to the party, sounds like Vettori got worked the first two rounds?

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That HAS to be a point. I mean, he had time to pause and consider before he did the stupid thing, regardless of how hard it landed

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By Felder's logic, if someone stopped in front of you, looked at you and then purposely poked you in the eye you wouldn't take a point unless he did it hard?

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Hernandez is going to be PISSED about that point when the judges blow this and give it 2-1 to Bondar in a split.

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I swear I'd spend all my time learning to frame up, dig an underhook and turn my opponent if I had come into mma from a striking base. Become an expert in that? You're gonna go a long way.

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If I have to watch this light bondage t mobile commercial one more time....it might stir something in me

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The fact that they don't advertise them as going to fight tells you everything you need to know. McGregor doesn't want any part of that fight.

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haven't seen two guys fight like this since we were in high school and the winner got to kiss the girl

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me at the start of round 2: silva is fucked. he's never been more fucked than he is right now
me, during the last two minutes of the fight: oh shit is he actually doing something here?

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I think Cannonier might have blown his load. He threw a LOT of punches there. Vettori might win this fight just by being too damned durable.

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for some reason I still think Vettori has a chance at a knockout here. i'm the dumbest man alive so don't go by me but it only takes one punch

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Hey, eatmore, I see you mod TV suggestions mag. I created 'I hate my manager' mag, but I can't figure how to post in it? I can only seem to post to the microblog, and those come from my mag having tags to other fediverse mags.

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kbin.social

I'm in Aus. It's near 4pm in Vegas. What time does the prelims start?

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Sick this is great. Thanks for making a fight thread @sirvalkyerie can i give you a markdown table of the card to put in the thread description for reference?

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time for more meat to the grist mill. ufc is lacking in good free agent signing, but most do come in late year

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I'm not sure how much of that we will see going forward. I'm sure we'll see some but not as much as in the past. They make more money by signing mid level guys and just filling ESPN cards.

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He's trying to pull his head off . He did tap. Keith side angle seemed to show he did a tap.

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Damn Keith usually on it. That was bad. I wonder how tight that choke was.

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lemmy.world

I think the narrative that some refs are bad is just kinda based on whatever happened most recently. I remember when it was Big john is the best in the business and herb dean was a screw up depending on the day. Now it seems like Herb gets the prestige, though I don't think he's calling the fights any better than he ever did.

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darknessreply
kbin.social

That's just what the broadcast has said. Neither of those guys were ever the best, they were just the most iconic. I think Herzog is the best.

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there are only like a handful of rules you need to keep in mind here. not kneeing a guy on the ground in the fucking head seems like a rather obvious

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felder. they were necessary cause the ref didn't stop it. all on the ref. 😭

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Wow, that replay shows the ref looking on like he's trying to guess what Hernandez is making out of Bondar's face.

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I can't unsee Bleda's face.

If she did a face swap with Stefan Struve they'd look like the same person

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Gotta learn to defend takedowns against the cage. It's something you have to be able to do, plain and simple. Get in the gym, learn to dig underhooks and turn people and separate.

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wouldn't it be a No Contest if a foul led to the knockout? Why is it going to the judges, I remember bobby green's situation ended up being a NC

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Paul Felder, using six hundred words to ask a simple question. The translator's wife is screaming at the screen at home.

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See, I would call the fight there and then. Flick is only going get smashed from there.

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Chiesa keeps calling him Joe-wah-keen Silva, I have never in my life heard "Joaquim" pronounced that way.

Is that some kind of Brazillian/Portuguese pronounciation?

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Headed to the cupboard. Time to get out the tequila and do a shot every time Brendan Fitzgerald talks about someone having a dance partner. Glad I'm not working tomorrow

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Vetorri better not try a blast double from the other side of the octagon like he sometimes does. Cannonier will end that man's career with a knee or uppercut.

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Dalby looks a little overconfident. If he wades in there with his face out he's gonna get slept.

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that was like a right hook elbow, he put his entire weight into it. Brutal

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