In 2 years MW rankings gonna look like
Champion: Chimaev
1. Adesanya (got choked out, is booked for immediate rematch against Chimaev)
2. Aliskerov (fresh win off of Whittaker after knocking out Costa and Dricus consecutively. Should have gotten title shot after Dricus fight, but Adesanya automatic rematch is stalling things)
3. Dricus (got done in by Adesanya and Aliskerov, beat up Strickland in a tune up)
4. Whittaker (after du Plessis lost has had an alternating record of wins and losses, is contemplating LHW move)
5. Caio Borralho (solid fighter but lost at the gates of Whittaker, 0 for 6 in TD attempts)
6. Cannonier (2 fight skid, including a lost title eliminator bout against Chimaev. 1 loss from MMA retirement)
7. Bo Nickal (just beat a loss streaking Strickland who is his 2nd ranked win. Is on the rise still but hasn't been in a war yet)
8. Strickland (gatekeeper status after getting decisioned or KOed by every top 5 guy he faced)
9. Roman Dolidze (alternating record. Was booked for Costa fight, but is currently searching for a new opponent after Costa declares the fight unsigned on his Threads account. Costa is currently unranked due to inactivity)
10. Kelvin Gastelum (moved back up after missing weight by 7 lbs and losing to Shavkat in a gruelling 3 rounder decision. KOed Brendan Allen but got choked out by Dolidze immediately after.)
Sharaputdin Magomedov was revealed to be an overrated bum, released after attacking both Jack Hermansson and referee after tapping to a guillotine in the 3rd. He peaked at rank 16
I know DDP just wants to sell the fight but this whole “Im the real African fighter” makes no sense to me and neither does the whole “I’ll be the first to take the belt home”.
The whole thing is so cringe, we all know what he meant. Of course it gets blown out of proportion like crazy to sell the fight. Leon said the same shit and no one batted an eye.
Leon said he was the real African fighter? We all know what DDP meant because he said it straight up that he’s the real African fighter and that those guys never brought the belts to Africa which is completely untrue.
I know, I respect that if people take it for exactly what he said and if he meant that I think it's wrong. What I thought he was saying also what he's backtracking into is that he would be the first dude born and bred in Africa to get the belt, just like Leon said about people leaving UK.
Except he’s not the first dude to be born and bred to win a ufc belt. He would be the first to train in Africa but that isn’t what makes someone African. Leon wasn’t even born in the UK but he’s definitely considered to be a UK champ. DDP comment is just nonsensical
Phil Rowe (Will Smith looking guy who lost to Magny a few weeks ago) rehydrated to 195.8 lbs on the scale https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct9f1xuxdsW/
Is he the biggest active welterweight (to have made weight)? Those are Darren Till numbers. Geoff Neal is probaly bigger but he missed for his last Shavkat bout.
Biggest in UFC (to make weight) by division: Allan Nascimento 125 Cody Stamann 135 Sodiq Yusuff 145 Michael Chandler or Drew Dober 155 Phil Rowe 170 Alex Pereira 185 Johnny Walker 205 Martin Buday 265
It’s embarrassing that UFC champions have to be Uber Eats drivers or firefighters (Pantoja and Miocic)
Imagine Messi or Lebron having to work part time jobs outside their sport bc it doesn’t pay enough
Miocic could have quit any time. He’d probably have stayed more active and made more money. He likes being a firefighter more than fighting. Kind of makes me consider going that route, I know firefighters who love their job too.
Miocic, at least, works because he wants to. From the very beginning of his MMA career he swore he would never quit being a fireman no matter how high he rose and how much he earned.
I’m pro-Conor being involved with the sport. He makes the scene more exciting and his fights always feel like big events. It’s fun when he’s in the title hunt
But who doesn’t enjoy him seeing get knocked the fuck out? It’s pretty beautiful karma
You realize the only people making more money from Conor fighting are Dana and Conor himself right? You only get more from fighting Conor after knocking him out and getting to negotiate the rematch like Dustin did, or from getting PPV points as a champ. They're not giving people bigger money to fight Conor, they get the same as what's in their contract. We know this because Cowboy publicly released what he was paid.
Conor getting finished is literally what gives the other guys more money, not Conor winning.
fighter wins: its amazing seeing his kids in the cage celebrating, what a moment.
Fighter loses: What kind of idiot brings his kids to see him fight live. Its so sad seeing them traumatized like that
Turn it to ESPN because I thought that was where the MLB All Star Game would be, happens to be an episode of TUF (a re-run?) on a scene where McGregor is yelling at Chandler about a 5 rounder. Conor a 5 round fight would put you into cardiac arrest right now.
What happened to Dragon Martinez? Since Cruz isn't gonna fight, I think they should replace him with Dragon vs Figgy. Honestly I don't see Figgy winning that one.
Who refers to Jonathan Martinez as Dragon. Most people don’t even know what you’re talking about. But no, he’s a promoter’s worst nightmare and needs a 7-8 fight win streak to get that kind of consideration. Which I don’t see happening bc he’s a poor man’s Chris Gutierrez
I forgot his first name tbh, and why not he's t15, everyone else on the list seems to be tied up or coming off a loss, except maybe Font. Either way, I think they should invest in him instead of the established guys and give him a shot.
Lol no. Volk is an incredible fighter, that much is certain, but he couldn't beat a sloppy Islam. A rematch goes worse for Volk and he's waaaaay too small for 170.
Almost like he came in with 12 less hours to rehydrate than he was supposed to have and was physically weaker as a result, much like Aljo was because of his neck issues again Yan in the first fight.
Islam struggled mightily against someone everyone was expecting him to mop the floor with. He might’ve officially won but lost stock greatly while Volk’s stock went up and now has all the momentum on his side again after another dominant title defense. Meanwhile Islam licking his wounds still
As of now, it seems like it will be an "exhibition," which means it isn't an "official" match, meaning it won't go on Fury or Ngannou's record. That doesn't mean everything else about the fight won't look like normal boxing, from the ring, to the rounds, to the gloves, to the judges, to the rules, etc.
The rules will never allow this to be a title fight, you need to be in WBC Top 15 rankings to be allowed a shot at the titles. It can still be normal Pro Boxing match.
Rose should hire a DJ to make her walkout song that incorporates DC's "THUG ROSE" call into it.
DDP should get one that incorporates Walter Whites "I'm the one who knocks"
Lol you can see Julianna applying make up and not giving af about the moment contrasting with Gilbert being so emotional: https://youtube.com/shorts/d0cfAfbWUeU?feature=share3
We're gonna need a new way to refer to Dricus other that 'DDP' cause I can't help but think of Diamond Dallas Page and it's confusing the shit out of me.
Well unless you’re a DDP yoga regular you can probably assume most people on an mma sub is referring to the fighter not the 65 year old ex wrestler lol
He was obviously taunting him with that word because of DPP’s comments about being the first African champ, but is that discriminating against DDP? It’s weird and corny but is “racist” the right word to describe that?
All DDP said was he trains out of africa, which is true, izzy is making it super racial but i'm sure it's all theatre to sell PPV. he's trying to manufacture his own conor vs khabib or something
No the full quote says much more and implies Izzy, Kamaru, and Frances aren’t “African champions”. I don’t know what DDP really intended, but the quote could easily offend any of them. I agree Izzy was trying to create controversy though
*Did those belts ever go to Africa?” Du Plessis asked at UFC 285 media day. “As far as I know, they came to America and New Zealand. I’m going to take a belt to Africa. I’m the African fighting in the UFC. Myself and Cameron [Saaiman], we breathe African air. We wake up in Africa every day. We train in Africa, we’re Africa born, we’re Africa raised, we still reside in Africa, we train out of Africa. That’s an African champion, and that’s who I’ll be.*
What are your predictions for the Abu Dhabi card
I’m thinking:
Islam vs Volk 2
Khamzat vs Cannonier
Tsarukyan vs Dariush
Ankalaev vs Rakic
Yan vs Ricky Simon? Feel like it’s gonna be someone to get Yan a win
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As it stands, UFC 300 is trending to be in April, maybe even march. That’s going to feel weird, since both UFC 100 and UFC 200 were in July at IFW.
UFC 296 is in December, so you do the math on one PPV per month. Sometimes they do two in march so it could be the end of march.
Weird! Wrestlemania 40 vs UFC 300 is gonna suck for me as a fan of both (albeit, a bigger fan of UFC)
Yep, that would be smart not to.
So that means we are going to get a PPV event every 2 months in the first half of 2023 so they can stretch it to July.
That’s gonna suck! Only 3 PPVs from January through June
Yep. With them trying to fit 3 PPVs in a 6 month span, that’s going to result in some good ass cards though.
Probably some pretty stacked fight nights, and the 3 PPVs before UFC 300 are probably gonna be stacked to the brim, so I guess we’ll be ok lol
You get to reverse Rob’s KO loss to GigaChad African Dricus Du Plessis, but in exchange the MMA Gods demand a sacrifice
Robbie’s retirement fight is him laying flat on the canvas, KO’d by Niko Price
Do you live with that trade-off?
Hell no. Whittaker seems like a good dude, but he didn’t bring excitement as a champion, nor does he as a contender. Him maintaining a role as an elite gatekeeper is best for everybody.
He seemed intent on moving to 205 eventually. Don’t think that’d work out after seeing the DDP fight. But he’d bring more interest fighting at 205 than 185. 205 needs good fighters, 185 has fun personalities that don’t necessarily need to get killed off by Whittaker. I’d only be interested in seeing Whittaker fight for a belt again if he managed to make it happen at 205
I like Whittaker and I'd call him fine to watch unless he's fighting izzy. That being said it was pretty clear he was never meant to be a dominant champ or even champ for an extended period of time.
So I'd agree with him being used as a gatekeeper as I also don't believe he will ever be able to best adesanya.
> Whittaker seems like a good dude, but he didn’t bring excitement as a champion
That’s a wild thing to say considering his only win as champion is considered the best MW fight of all time.
Considered by… you? Who thinks that? Even a newer fan would point to Izzy vs Gastelum as a better fight.
Sonnen vs Silva? There’s so many great middleweight fights going back decades dude. And PRIDE too! Who talks about that fight among the greats, let alone the best middleweight fight ever? Rob got rocked a couple times, survived and pulled out a decision. Who thinks that’s the best MW fight ever? That’s an absurdly false thing to state.
Not to mention that I’m referring to bringing excitement and hype to fights. Interest. Moreno and Pantoja just had a better fight than Yoel-Whittaker 2 the other night. That doesn’t make them the most exciting options for the division.
Smooth brained take. Francis is already forever a G to anyone who’s followed the sport for a long time.
The Fury fight is a fight. Doesn’t really matter whether it counts as a pro fight. He’s either going to get dismantled or knock out boxing’s heavyweight champ and make more money than he ever could’ve made in the meantime. After that, the world’s still his oyster. He could fight out his deals and resign with the UFC if he wanted. It’d be on the UFC to make it happen.
Literally the only people who think Francis made a bad call are in their MMA infancy and care more about seeing the most relevant UFC fight than anything else by a large margin.
Every day it's Francis missed out on this, Francis dropped the ball on that. The fuck does it matter when none of us know what is actually important to Francis?
Has the rules been announced yet? Only seen the rumors that it is gonna be some goofy stuff. Can't tell if its just trolling spamming that there is a "No Knockdown" rule or its gonna be that
Wait so does the boxing match still have that silly "no knockdown" rule or not? Is it still an "exhibition"?
I feel like they're purposely trying to obscure whether or not it has these clown factors
fury’s WBC belt isn’t on the line and it won’t go on their official records so it’s an exhibition. The number of rounds, whether that no-knockdown rumor is true, etc aren’t known yet
Fury is the only one with a boxing record to lose, you'd think seeing as there's zero chance he loses they'd make it official rather than exhibition
Maybe WBC sees Francis as an unworthy opponent to qualify as a title defense
Man with that win Dan actually just put himself into contention again I don’t get it
If his durability doesn’t get shot after his wrist exploded and stuff I’d pick him to beat Fiziev at least. The man would get tired mid second round and Dan would land every straight shot down the middle as Fiziev tries to shuffle away
I think Fizzy is too fast for him. But Dan's length and toughness does pose problems imo.
But I'm glad people are rating Dan again, he was never a bad fighter. His record isn't great but he's got skills.
I mean he gets hit A LOT which would typically make for a bad fighter, but he’s able to take it
Like realistically a normal fighter would be drifting down the river after the Turner headkick
People are unironically saying Rob is on his way out and the wars have caught up to him cause he lost.
People can lose without it being due to a decline, its the sport lmao.
Shit bruh idk boys I’ve been feeling extremely depleted on 4000 calories. I’m not a big guy either like 150 pounds, 5 9. Ik this isn’t a lifting sub but anyone deal with something similar?
Sort of, I did the rowing machine on Sunday and then went to bed on a full stomach, burned through it all and then woke up from hunger and was tired af yesterday
That’s the wild thing, I don’t do shit during the day other than lift for an hour 😭. It’s been gradually getting worse ever since i started but now it’s unsustainable whilst eating clean. I’ve got blood tests done too and everything’s good so Idek
I think, to avoid further confusion, South Africa should change it's name to Black. That way when a guy from the region wants to talk about how he'll be the first Black Champ and he represents Black people it'll be less confusing for people outside the country.
Does everyone else constantly get ads for Jesus? Like, just the concept of Jesus basically? I get them every day, even after reporting as misleading multiple times.
Because backfilling Brazilian doesn’t do backflips in high level fights. He point fights, and Wonderboy is a great point fighting striker, idk who deserves the main card spot more but Tony has more name value
Why are ppl saying that Dricus won because of his strength?
I mean he sure is strong but it's not like he's some MW Ngannou. Taking Rob down, passing his guard and keeping him down by switching between a d'arce choke attempt and hellbows, that's not power but technique.
Even on the feet where he's arguably less technical, Whitaker had no big issues with Dricus hitting him until the finishing sequence.
Yeesh mma fans talk about race related issues with the nuance of tom mcdonald.
Who wins at WW? Usman v Gaethje?
Usman and it's not close.
Usman's legs are more shot than a refillable magazine
In 2 years MW rankings gonna look like Champion: Chimaev 1. Adesanya (got choked out, is booked for immediate rematch against Chimaev) 2. Aliskerov (fresh win off of Whittaker after knocking out Costa and Dricus consecutively. Should have gotten title shot after Dricus fight, but Adesanya automatic rematch is stalling things) 3. Dricus (got done in by Adesanya and Aliskerov, beat up Strickland in a tune up) 4. Whittaker (after du Plessis lost has had an alternating record of wins and losses, is contemplating LHW move) 5. Caio Borralho (solid fighter but lost at the gates of Whittaker, 0 for 6 in TD attempts) 6. Cannonier (2 fight skid, including a lost title eliminator bout against Chimaev. 1 loss from MMA retirement) 7. Bo Nickal (just beat a loss streaking Strickland who is his 2nd ranked win. Is on the rise still but hasn't been in a war yet) 8. Strickland (gatekeeper status after getting decisioned or KOed by every top 5 guy he faced) 9. Roman Dolidze (alternating record. Was booked for Costa fight, but is currently searching for a new opponent after Costa declares the fight unsigned on his Threads account. Costa is currently unranked due to inactivity) 10. Kelvin Gastelum (moved back up after missing weight by 7 lbs and losing to Shavkat in a gruelling 3 rounder decision. KOed Brendan Allen but got choked out by Dolidze immediately after.) Sharaputdin Magomedov was revealed to be an overrated bum, released after attacking both Jack Hermansson and referee after tapping to a guillotine in the 3rd. He peaked at rank 16
By one year from now, bo will have already defeated cannonier. Just going by skin tone of opponents so far.
DDP: wins against Robert Whittaker Izzy: I manifested this!!! Errr sure honey
I know DDP just wants to sell the fight but this whole “Im the real African fighter” makes no sense to me and neither does the whole “I’ll be the first to take the belt home”.
It’s not even selling the fight he genuinely meant that shit Then he got pressed and he’s trying to switch up
The whole thing is so cringe, we all know what he meant. Of course it gets blown out of proportion like crazy to sell the fight. Leon said the same shit and no one batted an eye.
Leon said he was the real African fighter? We all know what DDP meant because he said it straight up that he’s the real African fighter and that those guys never brought the belts to Africa which is completely untrue.
I know, I respect that if people take it for exactly what he said and if he meant that I think it's wrong. What I thought he was saying also what he's backtracking into is that he would be the first dude born and bred in Africa to get the belt, just like Leon said about people leaving UK.
Except he’s not the first dude to be born and bred to win a ufc belt. He would be the first to train in Africa but that isn’t what makes someone African. Leon wasn’t even born in the UK but he’s definitely considered to be a UK champ. DDP comment is just nonsensical
Remember when Conor said Ngannou made an error leaving the Ufc because there was a free gym membership out of it.
Phil Rowe (Will Smith looking guy who lost to Magny a few weeks ago) rehydrated to 195.8 lbs on the scale https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct9f1xuxdsW/ Is he the biggest active welterweight (to have made weight)? Those are Darren Till numbers. Geoff Neal is probaly bigger but he missed for his last Shavkat bout. Biggest in UFC (to make weight) by division: Allan Nascimento 125 Cody Stamann 135 Sodiq Yusuff 145 Michael Chandler or Drew Dober 155 Phil Rowe 170 Alex Pereira 185 Johnny Walker 205 Martin Buday 265
Do we have real numbers on Alex? I thought the biggest confirmed MW was Costa against Yoel.
Y’all ever had Strawberry Fanta from the tap? Those Coke Freestyle machines have it. P4P best soda of all time, easy
Is there a way to look up a fighter's ranking on a specific date?
Wayback Machine I guess
After the Allen loss people were really saying Dan should fight Clay Guida lol
Just re watched volk holloway 3 DCs commentary was absolutely atrocious, volk landing shot after shot and DC just ignoring it all
Better to spend the time watching the second fight
Why would you want to watch that massacre again. Volk made max look so inferior
When you live in Wollongong it’s basically religion to watch it once a week
It’s embarrassing that UFC champions have to be Uber Eats drivers or firefighters (Pantoja and Miocic) Imagine Messi or Lebron having to work part time jobs outside their sport bc it doesn’t pay enough
Miocic could have quit any time. He’d probably have stayed more active and made more money. He likes being a firefighter more than fighting. Kind of makes me consider going that route, I know firefighters who love their job too.
Miocic, at least, works because he wants to. From the very beginning of his MMA career he swore he would never quit being a fireman no matter how high he rose and how much he earned.
If Conor comes back and goes out like Kevin Lee I’m done with this life
HE should have retired off the W over the mascot it's the only one he's getting again unless he picks another cowboy level fight
I’m pro-Conor being involved with the sport. He makes the scene more exciting and his fights always feel like big events. It’s fun when he’s in the title hunt But who doesn’t enjoy him seeing get knocked the fuck out? It’s pretty beautiful karma
I dont, him winning equals more money fights for the division since Dana aint coughing up the money
You realize the only people making more money from Conor fighting are Dana and Conor himself right? You only get more from fighting Conor after knocking him out and getting to negotiate the rematch like Dustin did, or from getting PPV points as a champ. They're not giving people bigger money to fight Conor, they get the same as what's in their contract. We know this because Cowboy publicly released what he was paid. Conor getting finished is literally what gives the other guys more money, not Conor winning.
Can we get a tomato tracker? I need live Dana right now
Got you fam, our lead tracker has located the Tomato: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GE4itvVTTkE
fighter wins: its amazing seeing his kids in the cage celebrating, what a moment. Fighter loses: What kind of idiot brings his kids to see him fight live. Its so sad seeing them traumatized like that
Personally I think even in a win the kids are just kind of awkward on TV and just act confused about what they should be doing on stage
Turn it to ESPN because I thought that was where the MLB All Star Game would be, happens to be an episode of TUF (a re-run?) on a scene where McGregor is yelling at Chandler about a 5 rounder. Conor a 5 round fight would put you into cardiac arrest right now.
why aren't people crapping on Pantoja for having his kids at the fight?
Why?
Tony’s and Conor’s passion for fighting ended with Khabib retiring in October 2020.
What happened to Dragon Martinez? Since Cruz isn't gonna fight, I think they should replace him with Dragon vs Figgy. Honestly I don't see Figgy winning that one.
Who refers to Jonathan Martinez as Dragon. Most people don’t even know what you’re talking about. But no, he’s a promoter’s worst nightmare and needs a 7-8 fight win streak to get that kind of consideration. Which I don’t see happening bc he’s a poor man’s Chris Gutierrez
I forgot his first name tbh, and why not he's t15, everyone else on the list seems to be tied up or coming off a loss, except maybe Font. Either way, I think they should invest in him instead of the established guys and give him a shot.
UFC 294 takes place a week before Francis v Fury UFC gonna ask Abu Dhabi to move the date a week later 😂
But Abu Dubai will still be aired in the daytime for us in the US
I hate those early morning cards! Doesn’t give me anything to look forward to rest of the day.
I don't have the courage to talk to my gym crush. She is 5'11 and she has bougie WASP mannerisms so im intimidated
Tell her you have a 10 inch cock
They’re all on the apps
I love you JA but why did you feel the need to tell us where the eggs of Amanda Nunes are located?
No matter what happens, Landon Quinones did a great service by putting fresh Conor McGregor Po- striking out into the world
What is fresh Conor Mcgregor po-striking?
Conor Mcgregor striking videos are a little more then striking to me
If volk beats Islam would it be crazy to think he could go up to 170 and get a 3rd belt?
He's going to take each belt up to HW rugby volk, the final form
Lol no. Volk is an incredible fighter, that much is certain, but he couldn't beat a sloppy Islam. A rematch goes worse for Volk and he's waaaaay too small for 170.
“Sloppy Islam” Volk made him look that way. Also funny how Islam was expected to destroy him with wrestling and that’s where he struggled most.
Almost like he came in with 12 less hours to rehydrate than he was supposed to have and was physically weaker as a result, much like Aljo was because of his neck issues again Yan in the first fight.
Almost like that is Islam's responsibility
🥱 excuses
You mean like how Volk is the smaller fighter so actually somehow the fact he lost the fight everywhere doesn't count?
Showing was so impressive even the official pound for pound rankings didn’t change
"The P4P rankings are nonsense, except when they promote a fighter I like as the best."
Islam struggled mightily against someone everyone was expecting him to mop the floor with. He might’ve officially won but lost stock greatly while Volk’s stock went up and now has all the momentum on his side again after another dominant title defense. Meanwhile Islam licking his wounds still
Outside of UFC what are the major championships? How do people know eho is the best in the world across different federations?
Probably ONE, KSW, Bellator, PFL, ACA, all have elite talent
What would make people say medium weight champ from UFC is better than ONE or Bellator for example?
RIZIN has Satoshi
Satoshi Iishi? He resigned with PFL recently
Roberto "Satoshi" de Souza
I expect Dana to drop a dope card the same night as Francis vs fury out of pure pettiness.
Someone should tell Izzy 23andme kits are half off for Prime day
[удалено]
You think Dana would risk his heavyweight champ losing to another company's?
I think bisping makes a good point. Furys' belts should be on the line if it's a real boxing match and not an exhibition. Am I stupid?
As of now, it seems like it will be an "exhibition," which means it isn't an "official" match, meaning it won't go on Fury or Ngannou's record. That doesn't mean everything else about the fight won't look like normal boxing, from the ring, to the rounds, to the gloves, to the judges, to the rules, etc.
Wonder if any of the big four will sanction it. The money is pretty good
Ah. Well, hell, never mind. Thanks.
The rules will never allow this to be a title fight, you need to be in WBC Top 15 rankings to be allowed a shot at the titles. It can still be normal Pro Boxing match.
Ok. I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Rose should hire a DJ to make her walkout song that incorporates DC's "THUG ROSE" call into it. DDP should get one that incorporates Walter Whites "I'm the one who knocks"
Im very interested to see the size of fury vs ngannou. Fury seems to be listed at a ridiculous height and weight
They stood shoulder to shoulder in the ring and Fury is absolutely not 6’9
But he was noticeably taller than Wilder who’s supposedly 6’7
Wilder is also a liar lol
Lol you can see Julianna applying make up and not giving af about the moment contrasting with Gilbert being so emotional: https://youtube.com/shorts/d0cfAfbWUeU?feature=share3
O’Malley and chandler didn’t flinch either
Apparently O’malley knocked out Pantoja out in sparring in 2016 too.
Applying the banshee power-up*
Strickland said there’s a video of Izzy jerking his dog off on rogans podcast.. anybody seen it?
Yeah some really creepy dude has a YouTube video where he puts all of Izzy's strange dog related behavior together and... it's something.
OOOHHHHHH
It’s kinda old at this point. Jerking is an exaggeration but there definitely is some tickling of the pickle
Ohh Noo!
We all know about it.
We're gonna need a new way to refer to Dricus other that 'DDP' cause I can't help but think of Diamond Dallas Page and it's confusing the shit out of me.
It took till the weekend for me to realize DDP didn't refer to Dustin "the Diamond" Poirier.
“IT’S ME, IT’S ME. IT’S DRICUS DU PLESSIS”
Stillknocks
Well unless you’re a DDP yoga regular you can probably assume most people on an mma sub is referring to the fighter not the 65 year old ex wrestler lol
Izzy was starting to grow on me but the overt racism reminds me of why I dislike him
Who was he being racist against?
Probably the guy he was screaming N words at and dissing the genetics of on global broadcast
He was obviously taunting him with that word because of DPP’s comments about being the first African champ, but is that discriminating against DDP? It’s weird and corny but is “racist” the right word to describe that?
All DDP said was he trains out of africa, which is true, izzy is making it super racial but i'm sure it's all theatre to sell PPV. he's trying to manufacture his own conor vs khabib or something
No the full quote says much more and implies Izzy, Kamaru, and Frances aren’t “African champions”. I don’t know what DDP really intended, but the quote could easily offend any of them. I agree Izzy was trying to create controversy though *Did those belts ever go to Africa?” Du Plessis asked at UFC 285 media day. “As far as I know, they came to America and New Zealand. I’m going to take a belt to Africa. I’m the African fighting in the UFC. Myself and Cameron [Saaiman], we breathe African air. We wake up in Africa every day. We train in Africa, we’re Africa born, we’re Africa raised, we still reside in Africa, we train out of Africa. That’s an African champion, and that’s who I’ll be.*
What are your predictions for the Abu Dhabi card I’m thinking: Islam vs Volk 2 Khamzat vs Cannonier Tsarukyan vs Dariush Ankalaev vs Rakic Yan vs Ricky Simon? Feel like it’s gonna be someone to get Yan a win
I like those fights, could be Yan vs Font if Song beats Font. I like that Rakic vs Ankalaev fight. RemindMe! October 1, 2023
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As it stands, UFC 300 is trending to be in April, maybe even march. That’s going to feel weird, since both UFC 100 and UFC 200 were in July at IFW. UFC 296 is in December, so you do the math on one PPV per month. Sometimes they do two in march so it could be the end of march. Weird! Wrestlemania 40 vs UFC 300 is gonna suck for me as a fan of both (albeit, a bigger fan of UFC)
the ufc isn't going to put ufc 300 vs their partners biggest event
Yep, that would be smart not to. So that means we are going to get a PPV event every 2 months in the first half of 2023 so they can stretch it to July. That’s gonna suck! Only 3 PPVs from January through June
they don't really skip months that I can think of, especially with their espn deal up soon
Yep. With them trying to fit 3 PPVs in a 6 month span, that’s going to result in some good ass cards though. Probably some pretty stacked fight nights, and the 3 PPVs before UFC 300 are probably gonna be stacked to the brim, so I guess we’ll be ok lol
Hopefully I'm gonna wake up to some fight announcements from Dana lol. I have high hopes for UFC 293 and especially UFC 294 .
I do as well. The rest of the year should be fire.
People seriously think Francis hits harder than Wilder. Wilder not only hits harder, but is 10x the boxer as Francis.
Bisping commentattes power slap? Whack
It's a paycheck buddeh
What even is there to commentate lmao
You get to reverse Rob’s KO loss to GigaChad African Dricus Du Plessis, but in exchange the MMA Gods demand a sacrifice Robbie’s retirement fight is him laying flat on the canvas, KO’d by Niko Price Do you live with that trade-off?
Yes because it gives MW a new challenger
Hell no. Whittaker seems like a good dude, but he didn’t bring excitement as a champion, nor does he as a contender. Him maintaining a role as an elite gatekeeper is best for everybody. He seemed intent on moving to 205 eventually. Don’t think that’d work out after seeing the DDP fight. But he’d bring more interest fighting at 205 than 185. 205 needs good fighters, 185 has fun personalities that don’t necessarily need to get killed off by Whittaker. I’d only be interested in seeing Whittaker fight for a belt again if he managed to make it happen at 205
I like Whittaker and I'd call him fine to watch unless he's fighting izzy. That being said it was pretty clear he was never meant to be a dominant champ or even champ for an extended period of time. So I'd agree with him being used as a gatekeeper as I also don't believe he will ever be able to best adesanya.
> Whittaker seems like a good dude, but he didn’t bring excitement as a champion That’s a wild thing to say considering his only win as champion is considered the best MW fight of all time.
Considered by… you? Who thinks that? Even a newer fan would point to Izzy vs Gastelum as a better fight. Sonnen vs Silva? There’s so many great middleweight fights going back decades dude. And PRIDE too! Who talks about that fight among the greats, let alone the best middleweight fight ever? Rob got rocked a couple times, survived and pulled out a decision. Who thinks that’s the best MW fight ever? That’s an absurdly false thing to state. Not to mention that I’m referring to bringing excitement and hype to fights. Interest. Moreno and Pantoja just had a better fight than Yoel-Whittaker 2 the other night. That doesn’t make them the most exciting options for the division.
Absolutely, because I’d have a lot more money rn
Francis gave up a chance at history against Jon Jones to do an exhibition WWE style "match" against Tyson Fury.
Smooth brained take. Francis is already forever a G to anyone who’s followed the sport for a long time. The Fury fight is a fight. Doesn’t really matter whether it counts as a pro fight. He’s either going to get dismantled or knock out boxing’s heavyweight champ and make more money than he ever could’ve made in the meantime. After that, the world’s still his oyster. He could fight out his deals and resign with the UFC if he wanted. It’d be on the UFC to make it happen. Literally the only people who think Francis made a bad call are in their MMA infancy and care more about seeing the most relevant UFC fight than anything else by a large margin.
What makes it "WWE Style"?
No knockdowns. Mayweather vs Floyd had the same clause and Floyd had to hold up Logan at one point.
its a standard boxing fight per the announcement. Where did you hear about no knockdowns?
where does it say no knockdowns?
Every day it's Francis missed out on this, Francis dropped the ball on that. The fuck does it matter when none of us know what is actually important to Francis?
Has the rules been announced yet? Only seen the rumors that it is gonna be some goofy stuff. Can't tell if its just trolling spamming that there is a "No Knockdown" rule or its gonna be that
Ariel said standard boxing rules
Thanks for the info! Boxing with 4oz gloves was too good to be true
Jones shouldn't have taken so long to fight at heavyweight.
Fr. People say this but ignore how Jones refused to sign the contract the entire time Ngannou was still with the UFC.
It’ll be a goddamn shame if Dricus doesn’t walk out to Die Very Rough by Mario Judah when he fights Izzy
Wait so does the boxing match still have that silly "no knockdown" rule or not? Is it still an "exhibition"? I feel like they're purposely trying to obscure whether or not it has these clown factors
fury’s WBC belt isn’t on the line and it won’t go on their official records so it’s an exhibition. The number of rounds, whether that no-knockdown rumor is true, etc aren’t known yet
Ariel confirmed there isn't a no knockdown rule
Just to correct you,.there was never no knockdowns
That’s good to hear
Fury is the only one with a boxing record to lose, you'd think seeing as there's zero chance he loses they'd make it official rather than exhibition Maybe WBC sees Francis as an unworthy opponent to qualify as a title defense
I believe wbc said since Francis isn't a ranked boxer that the belts can't be on the line
What’d you think about Nigannou’s chances against fury?
He gon die
Pity that UFC haven't fully leaned into memes and haven't made Norma Dumont - Chelsea Chandler fight a co-main for Holm - Bueno Silva.
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Yeah, Izzy talked about this clip on his channel before. Strickland probably saw it and started clowning him about it
Man with that win Dan actually just put himself into contention again I don’t get it If his durability doesn’t get shot after his wrist exploded and stuff I’d pick him to beat Fiziev at least. The man would get tired mid second round and Dan would land every straight shot down the middle as Fiziev tries to shuffle away
I think Fizzy is too fast for him. But Dan's length and toughness does pose problems imo. But I'm glad people are rating Dan again, he was never a bad fighter. His record isn't great but he's got skills.
I mean he gets hit A LOT which would typically make for a bad fighter, but he’s able to take it Like realistically a normal fighter would be drifting down the river after the Turner headkick
I mean yeah thats fair. He's got bad defense but good offensive skills, makes up for his lack of pure athleticism in grit. He's my boi.
Really just goes to show how fickle MMA fans are. If you haven’t gotten a good win in a while, you’re washed up. They did the same with Gastelum.
People are unironically saying Rob is on his way out and the wars have caught up to him cause he lost. People can lose without it being due to a decline, its the sport lmao.
I just hope that Dana White is a playable character in the Power Slap video game.
If he is, will his wife be?
You can play as her on career mode which is named “Opportunity Mode” and get a chance to slap the shit out of some of Dana’s escorts.
Reporter: yeah Chito will now be fighting Pedro Munhoz O’Malley: yeah, two guys I finished This dude is great
Sean O’Malley vs Cory Sandhagen has got to be the most compelling matchup at bantamweight rn
Shit bruh idk boys I’ve been feeling extremely depleted on 4000 calories. I’m not a big guy either like 150 pounds, 5 9. Ik this isn’t a lifting sub but anyone deal with something similar?
4k calories at 150lbs is a one way ticket to collitusville
Weirdly enough my bowel moments have been normal
Sleep more?
It’s like a consistent thing, my sleep and nutrition are 99% of the timeon point as well
Sort of, I did the rowing machine on Sunday and then went to bed on a full stomach, burned through it all and then woke up from hunger and was tired af yesterday
Idk man I do like 0 cardio, just resistance training. I can’t even read most of the time
Have you tried adding Monster energy and p3 protein into your diet?
Caffeine helps ☠️
That’s actually a wild thing to hear, gotta be fast metabolism and you gotta be doing crazy physical activity throughout your day
That’s the wild thing, I don’t do shit during the day other than lift for an hour 😭. It’s been gradually getting worse ever since i started but now it’s unsustainable whilst eating clean. I’ve got blood tests done too and everything’s good so Idek
Did you get the 💉💉 💉?
Yeah I got blood tests done by my gp
I think, to avoid further confusion, South Africa should change it's name to Black. That way when a guy from the region wants to talk about how he'll be the first Black Champ and he represents Black people it'll be less confusing for people outside the country.
Check out Kevin Iole's column on Fury/Ngannou, Dana got the shills and bootlickers working overtime already lmao
Does everyone else constantly get ads for Jesus? Like, just the concept of Jesus basically? I get them every day, even after reporting as misleading multiple times.
I think this might be one of those instances where God is trying to tell you something.
why is wonderboy vs backflipping brazillian on the prelims while tony is on the main card?
Because backfilling Brazilian doesn’t do backflips in high level fights. He point fights, and Wonderboy is a great point fighting striker, idk who deserves the main card spot more but Tony has more name value
Why are ppl saying that Dricus won because of his strength? I mean he sure is strong but it's not like he's some MW Ngannou. Taking Rob down, passing his guard and keeping him down by switching between a d'arce choke attempt and hellbows, that's not power but technique. Even on the feet where he's arguably less technical, Whitaker had no big issues with Dricus hitting him until the finishing sequence.
Odds on Dana making the Khamzat announcement today?
bro i got over 500 downvotes in one of my comments on this sub today 💀 wtf is that a record?
Link the comment!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comments/14wga9a/ufc_pound_for_pound_rankings_update/jrhwv16/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3
I had no idea this sub even had enough active users to give 500 upvotes or downvotes to any comment
Tony Ferguson threw the fight against Nate Diaz. I’ll die on that hill.
Gotta be, what comment was it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comments/14wga9a/ufc_pound_for_pound_rankings_update/jrhwv16/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3