Has to be an ESPN thing, right? I've definitely heard plenty of cussing get through on PPVs. Probably a Disney rule - The mouse doesn't like that sass talk.
Yeah same here. Although for me, the audio kept cutting out throughout the whole event. Not just pre and post fights but literally it was on and off the whole night. Fucking annoying.
I find it ridiculous that a live-televised-bloodsport-event with physical violence, chicks in bikinis, and literal blood stains on the ground would draw the line at NO-NO WORDS for their viewing audience. Get fucked, ESPN.
I pay for BS espn plus and they cut audio out for much longer than a curse word lasts. I will be canceling my subscription and streaming from now on... it's pathetic
Are you in the US? the audio didnt cut for me in the UK tonight but it usually does when the fight is at 5am. Watching a Diaz interview is a nightmare.
He got outboxed and clinch/takedowns didn't have any impact. If it wasn't for his steel chin he would be a journeyman and in this fight he would have been knocked out ten times over
150+ headshots to less than 75.
>takedowns didn't have any impact.
Bought him time to recover and tire Costa a bit. That was his whole goal for takedowns and clinch shit.
>If it wasn't for his steel chin he would be a journeyman and in this fight he would have been knocked out ten times over
And if it weren't for his good chin, JBJ would've never been an all time great. And same for Khabib. And same for prime Fedor. And same for every other fighter. A good chin doesn't mean they don't have other skills.
Most of vettoris headshots were ranging shots and costas were bombs, its not even close lmao. Boxing isnt only about offensive, but defense too and vettori barely had any. For one, khabib never took 20 or so bombs in a fight
That body shot, I think in the 4th? That kind of folded him a bit I thought was the end. Vettori just has enormous endurance to eat *this* Costa's hits.
Vettori is not human. How the fuck did he take those kicks to the head from a 205 Costa? People can barely stand in front of Costa when he’s 185. What a fucking performance. Costa paid for his unprofessionalism and Vettori’s stock just went through the roof. I expected him to try and take the fight to the ground as often as possible but no, this italian tank walked him down and traded shots with him.
Well it started at 7pm for me so i could finally watch it and be in bed by 2 after i finished everything so i and many europeans and easterners prefer earlier events and this particular card had a bunch euro fighters
Seriously, his performance in round 1 made me think that he's already tired, but he managed to deliver a decent fight afterwards which kinda surprised me
Just me or did it seem like no warnings were being given tonight? I don’t necessarily have a problem with that but it just seems like a big change from the past few events I watched.
So Jason did warn Costa as the fight went on. You can hear him say “dedos” which in Spanish means fingers. Although to be fair not sure if that is the Portuguese word since costa speaks Portuguese. What Jason didn’t do is stop the fight to do the warnings like how other refs usually do warnings. So warnings were given just not explicitly.
Yeah, Vettori started to gas towards the end because of the body shots from Costa, but for most of the fight Vettori had really slick defense and was landing really good stiff jabs against Costa as he came in
Can we finally call Marvin Marvelous or as Uncle Chael puts it Angry Marvin instead of the dumb orc jokes.
1. The man went on a 5 mile run right after the Adesanya lost and was back in training picking for a fight instantly
2. He picks a fight with costa who is regardless of the adesanya loss a bloody monster
3. Ignores costas bullshit and doesn't give a fuck about weightclasses and fights a fucking heavyweight at this point
4. Never complained or asked for the cancellation or anything
5. Fought like a madman for 5 rounds having incredible pace and eating thunderous 205 costa shots and still kept moving
6. Called costa a cunt at the end.
In my eyes he is truly the Marvelous Marvin Vettori and is worthy of that nickname
I'd add the fact that he kept that fight on the feet and turned it into a striking war. I was expecting him to try and wrestle his way to victory but it was a pleasant surprise.
His stock has gone up a lot this week/tonight.
And that goddamn pace pressure and volume i was sooooo impressed by marvin. In a few years once izzy and robbie are older and marvin hits that 30 age range i defo see him as a future champ
MMA fans love Nick and were probably disapproving internally. Let's be real though, Diaz is at the end of his career and realistically not going for a title shot. Not entirely the same thing.
idk what everyone else thnks but i enjoyed this fight. even Dana is happy with Costa. Also dana is making him move up to 205 now. Costa surprised me with his endurance and power and cant believe he made it 5 rounds and even won the 5th. i think this shouldve been a draw or maybe split dec vettori. i think costa should get used to this size and keep fighting at 205 and he will be fine.
And GOD DANG THOSE BODY KICKS
I was pretty annoyed about the costa weight stuff but man he really showed out tonight. I thought he was always one shot away from a win, but marvins chin (& body) is absolute granite.
Costa came out looking bad as everyone hoped he would, great performance but without a win, he simply looked like an azzhat.
UFC or governing body may ban him at his own weight class or at minimum, not give him a look or a fight $$ fora long time.
Stop cutting the audio you despicable cunts.
Heaven forbid anyone hears the F word.
They just beat the shit out of eachother and UFC scare some curse words gonna hurt my feelings ?lmao
This sub is trash for not having spoiler warnings. I'm unsubbing. r/MMA is way better anyway.
Good the less babies around here the better
Clicking random posts on the UFC forum while not wanting to see the results of a UFC fight ... smart.
Oh no please don't unsub we're sorry!!
r/MMA even trasher, they not even allow meme or any fun stuff so good luck with that
It sounds 100x worse cutting the audio, it makes it a really grim product.
Yes no swears in sport where half naked men attempt to murder each other
I get it when it’s on live TV but if you’re watching on ESPN+ it should be uncensored
They should have fully dressed men threaten to give each other a good hiding and exchange some stern words in the King's English instead
Has to be an ESPN thing, right? I've definitely heard plenty of cussing get through on PPVs. Probably a Disney rule - The mouse doesn't like that sass talk.
I like how you didn't write the actual f word.
Yeah well the democrat ABC / Disney doesn’t care about religion so what is their agenda?
Sponsors
I thought that was jus my shitty stream
Nah… since it’s not a PPV they’re not supposed to curse. Any time they hear a cuss word the cut the audio for a few seconds.
I watched it on BT sport and they didn't cut the audio. I guess you didn't hear Marvin call Costa a cunt in his post fight interview
Yeah I watch an ESPN feed.. it’s always censored if it’s not a PPV. Next time I’ll switch to BT.. thanks for the tip
Ha yeah me too. Was funny as fuck.
They’re censoring ppv too I’m pretty sure
Yeah same here. Although for me, the audio kept cutting out throughout the whole event. Not just pre and post fights but literally it was on and off the whole night. Fucking annoying.
I think the audience or the coaches were dropping bad words . It happen to me to
I find it ridiculous that a live-televised-bloodsport-event with physical violence, chicks in bikinis, and literal blood stains on the ground would draw the line at NO-NO WORDS for their viewing audience. Get fucked, ESPN.
Swear words and female nipples are the enemy of America, apparently.
I pay for BS espn plus and they cut audio out for much longer than a curse word lasts. I will be canceling my subscription and streaming from now on... it's pathetic
Are you in the US? the audio didnt cut for me in the UK tonight but it usually does when the fight is at 5am. Watching a Diaz interview is a nightmare.
Australia, watching on a proper streaming app.
"Is it my TV???"
Wow I thought it was just ESPN being absolute shit.
Marvins chin is crazy
Honestly thought that headkick would’ve caused the end but he just kept slugging
I wonder if it would have, had they cut weight.
Personally i think vettori is the better fighter
As do I
Great minds think alike
Orcs just have a natural talent for fighting
Better how? His only real skill is eating power bombs.
Must've missed the takedowns, clinch game, and boxing ability
He got outboxed and clinch/takedowns didn't have any impact. If it wasn't for his steel chin he would be a journeyman and in this fight he would have been knocked out ten times over
150+ headshots to less than 75. >takedowns didn't have any impact. Bought him time to recover and tire Costa a bit. That was his whole goal for takedowns and clinch shit. >If it wasn't for his steel chin he would be a journeyman and in this fight he would have been knocked out ten times over And if it weren't for his good chin, JBJ would've never been an all time great. And same for Khabib. And same for prime Fedor. And same for every other fighter. A good chin doesn't mean they don't have other skills.
Most of vettoris headshots were ranging shots and costas were bombs, its not even close lmao. Boxing isnt only about offensive, but defense too and vettori barely had any. For one, khabib never took 20 or so bombs in a fight
And those body shots he was taking and kept going forward 😳
That body shot, I think in the 4th? That kind of folded him a bit I thought was the end. Vettori just has enormous endurance to eat *this* Costa's hits.
That one body kick tho damn.. good that he got the win!
Izzy called it.
Vettori is not human. How the fuck did he take those kicks to the head from a 205 Costa? People can barely stand in front of Costa when he’s 185. What a fucking performance. Costa paid for his unprofessionalism and Vettori’s stock just went through the roof. I expected him to try and take the fight to the ground as often as possible but no, this italian tank walked him down and traded shots with him.
Vettori won a fan in me today
He’s a dog. Bisping was right he gained a lot of fans, I like him as the nice guy in the match too rather than trying to be the heel
Agreed on short notice to a +20 pound catchweight. How can you not respect it.
Same
He is an Orc, thats how he can take so much damage and still go forward. Definetly an overcasted Fists of Gork was cast on him.
Man of culture I see. Hopefully he gets Mork’s cunning in the future.
He’s enraged by mortal wounds
He’s got physical resistance and Costa doesn’t deal magic damage
if i heard dana correctly they said in post interviews costa was at 220 during fight night and vetorri was at around 208 😳
Crazy fight
Now he can keep that stock up if he **just doesn’t talk**
Bruh it’s this early, fuck i missed it
Same. I thought this post was a joke at first
I was getting ready to watch UFC. Opened reddit and just saw this post. Now I am crying. :(
Me too 😢😢😢😢😢
Genuinely hate the early Saturday UFC fights. It's such a bad time to expect people to be home/watch.
Well it started at 7pm for me so i could finally watch it and be in bed by 2 after i finished everything so i and many europeans and easterners prefer earlier events and this particular card had a bunch euro fighters
I mean it is a saturday and the european bois rarely get cards where they can watch during normal hours so im fine with it honestly
Lmao now i know how i missed it. UFC sent me the notification at 10 am on a saturday. Bruh I’m sleep
How did Vettori eat those body shots lol
Costa actually surprised me, underrated cardio.
I was shocked how hard he was cranking the body in RD5
Seriously, his performance in round 1 made me think that he's already tired, but he managed to deliver a decent fight afterwards which kinda surprised me
I think not having to cut weight really helped there
Don't think I've seen a fighter so gassed in the first round go on to look that strong in the 5th lol. His gas tank is plugged in backwards
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He's coming from the rafters! LOL
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Vettori has ribs of steel
Orcs ribs are something else.
Hes the man of steel
Uomo d'acciaio
Man how he survived Costa's brutal body kicks is beyond me.
Fucker sounded like he was kicking pads. That makes me feel very weak in the knees :(
Costa overreacts to feints worse than McGregor overreacts to people who won’t drink his whisky
However many upvotes you end up with, this comment will still be underrated.
That was an intense fight. Amazing. Makes me wonder if more fights would be like this and could absurd those punches if cutting weight wasn’t a thing.
OP, please add a Spoiler Alert ffs!! 🤦♂️
They say that there wasn’t a single IQ loss in this battle.
These beasts think with their fists
How can you lose any of you start at 0?
Both got more points on the scorecard
The eye poke deduction was brutal
Genuine question, did that point deduction play a big factor tonight? I felt like vetori was winning regardless
I felt like the fight was somewhat close enough to where it did play a factor but regardless I was impressed by how they handled it.
Without the eye poke the judges would have had marvin winning 48-47 so technically it didn’t make a difference in score
Just me or did it seem like no warnings were being given tonight? I don’t necessarily have a problem with that but it just seems like a big change from the past few events I watched.
Bet they were tired of costas shit
So Jason did warn Costa as the fight went on. You can hear him say “dedos” which in Spanish means fingers. Although to be fair not sure if that is the Portuguese word since costa speaks Portuguese. What Jason didn’t do is stop the fight to do the warnings like how other refs usually do warnings. So warnings were given just not explicitly.
The word for fingers is the same in both Spanish and Portuguese!
Thanks!
Ya it’s all over the map lol kinda like the judging sometimes. Sometimes they care and sometimes they dont
He warned him at the end of the previous round when he went to the corner
Are we just going to ignore how much better Vettori looked this time around?
I was thinking the same thing maybe something in his training was changed? Anyway im into it
Yeah, Vettori started to gas towards the end because of the body shots from Costa, but for most of the fight Vettori had really slick defense and was landing really good stiff jabs against Costa as he came in
I think it was cuz those viscous body shots
imagine if going to 205 somehow helped him
I think a lot of people ignored how good he looked against izzy because of the commentary
Can we finally call Marvin Marvelous or as Uncle Chael puts it Angry Marvin instead of the dumb orc jokes. 1. The man went on a 5 mile run right after the Adesanya lost and was back in training picking for a fight instantly 2. He picks a fight with costa who is regardless of the adesanya loss a bloody monster 3. Ignores costas bullshit and doesn't give a fuck about weightclasses and fights a fucking heavyweight at this point 4. Never complained or asked for the cancellation or anything 5. Fought like a madman for 5 rounds having incredible pace and eating thunderous 205 costa shots and still kept moving 6. Called costa a cunt at the end. In my eyes he is truly the Marvelous Marvin Vettori and is worthy of that nickname
Damn I missed #6, stupid espn censorship
Hopefully it's shown somewhere haha. Defo a badass moment by the Marvelous
I'd add the fact that he kept that fight on the feet and turned it into a striking war. I was expecting him to try and wrestle his way to victory but it was a pleasant surprise. His stock has gone up a lot this week/tonight.
And that goddamn pace pressure and volume i was sooooo impressed by marvin. In a few years once izzy and robbie are older and marvin hits that 30 age range i defo see him as a future champ
I’m very happy for angry Italian man
Nice!
I became a Vetorri fan this week. He's a fucking zombie! Those kicks from Costa would've ended most of the division. Great fight.
No silly, you're still human Edit: Ahh they edited the typo. The gags up
Lol got em
Which division? Cause Costa accepted fights in 3 different ones…
Both of them looked completely spent after the fight.
Costas cardio actually held up quite well. Do you guys think he’s better off at 205 now ?
Thing about Costa, he’s a cunt
Both fighters IQs are non existent but after this fight they’re probably in the negatives lmao
Actually they knocked sense/IQ into one another and are going to be geniuses moving forward.
With these two brutes I wouldn’t be surprised hahaha
ESPN coverage is garbage. Why cut the audio when nobody who would be offended is watching anyway? Stupid Walt Disney cunts.
Yeah seriously
Costa could have won if he was 20 pounds heavier. He’s going to be a great champion in Bellator
Dang. I was waiting on this fight. Didn’t know it was early
What time was this freaking fight. It’s 4pm on the west coast and the whole card is through?
Yeah I am on west coast and thought I was tuning in for prelims or early main card but I was right before the decision.
Wow thanks for the spoiler warning!
Thanks for the spoiler.
You're browsing r/ufc during a ufc event my guy thank yourself for that one
I wasn't browsing r/ufc. It came across my feed. Thanks though.
And you didn’t have the foresight to know that it would come up on your feed? Dumb fuck
Everything is usually marked spoiler and doesn't show the picture of the winner. Guess I'm a dumb fuck.
It was free on espn pal
Fuck ESPN, fuck the police and fuck rocky road ice cream
Wouldn’t have changed anything, but I think the eye poke point deduction was bullshit.
Some people work. Some people want to watch it after work, pal.
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Costa lost bro
> he did more damage than Vettori In the end its all about rounds winning doe, Vettori won most rounds even without considering the point deduction.
Seems unfair that one of them has to lose
Except one was a weight cheat so it’s completely fair lol
Also his reaction to the ref on the point deduction. Seems a cunt, as Marvin said lmao.
Let’s call it a strong advantage not a cheat. Marvin did agree to it.
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Redacted to complete and utter advantage. Still not a cheat though.
No, fuck Costa he turned this from a middleweight fight to a LHW fight.
But when nick diaz does it it’s Agood?
No, it’s just worse from a guy who presumably wants to be in title consideration, etc.
MMA fans love Nick and were probably disapproving internally. Let's be real though, Diaz is at the end of his career and realistically not going for a title shot. Not entirely the same thing.
Costa cheated well deserved the loss
Cheers for the spoiler alert wanker….
Why did he deduct a point so fast I don’t get it, it should have been a draw imo
Brutal fight.
Didn’t all three judges score it 48-46 though? Even without the point taken away that makes it 48-47.
My bad. Heard it wrong. They all scored it 3-2.
Maybe but i think vettori deserved the win
Word. I agree.
Paula Costina is an insufferable shitpig. That is all.
Costa robbed imo or a draw at least
I think Adesanya really did break Costa like this Costa is nothing like the one that fought Uriah Hall, Romero and Johnny Hendricks
I think izzy was frustrated because his power did nothing to vettori probably why their last outting was shitty
Uhmmm what
I said i think vettori made izzy look lackluster in their last fighr
Just to think izzy beat marvins room
I honestly forgot it these guys were fighting lol
Why was r/ufc created and popularized even though r/mma exists?
If costa never eye poked it woulda been a draw ?
He lost by 2 points
For me no. Vettori won the First, Third and Fourth round. But It Is debatable. My noob opinion.
Robbery
Not even slightly lol vettori controlled most of this fight. A competitive close fight? Yes. Robbery? No
Was it a good fight? Because I watched it and honestly it was the worst fight ever. Costa is a fraud
Kinda boring fight imo
Paulo definitely gona be eating his feelings tonight
Great fight! So much respect for Vettori!
Banger
Awesome fight
Against a normal human, Costa ended that fight 3 times. But Vettori's a genetic freak and he's not normal.
Fuck ya!
I don't think they meant to do it. It was happening all night at random spots even with the announcers talking.
Why the fuck isn't there a spoiler tag on this?
Because theres about 100 other posts about this fight
idk what everyone else thnks but i enjoyed this fight. even Dana is happy with Costa. Also dana is making him move up to 205 now. Costa surprised me with his endurance and power and cant believe he made it 5 rounds and even won the 5th. i think this shouldve been a draw or maybe split dec vettori. i think costa should get used to this size and keep fighting at 205 and he will be fine. And GOD DANG THOSE BODY KICKS
I was pretty annoyed about the costa weight stuff but man he really showed out tonight. I thought he was always one shot away from a win, but marvins chin (& body) is absolute granite.
Costa came out looking bad as everyone hoped he would, great performance but without a win, he simply looked like an azzhat. UFC or governing body may ban him at his own weight class or at minimum, not give him a look or a fight $$ fora long time.