General UFC Chit Chat/News

In a similar vein to Neer, anybody seen the video of Diego having the craic at the Carnival?

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

themandan6611 wrote: »

shame he wasn't as fired up when he meet Conor

He was very fired up when he faced Conor!

themandan6611 wrote: »

he was in his hole, sure he was bowing down beforehand

What? Dana White said afterwards it was the most fired up he's even seen him, and he what has him bowing to do with anything? Its a mark of respect.

TimRiggins wrote: »

What? Dana White said afterwards it was the most fired up he's even seen him, and he what has him bowing to do with anything? Its a mark of respect.

Yeah Dana would never lie

TimRiggins wrote: »

There wouldn't be much point lying about that, anyone who seen the fight could see Brandao was fired up before hand.

The 54 burpees before Conor walked in suggest he was fired up....and ****ed by the time the fight started.

Also because it's a sh*t card!

Paully D wrote: »

Despite a lot skepticism about what would happen, it appears Cyborg passed her out-of-competition random test. Will a win this weekend see her next fight be in the UFC and what are your thoughts on her?

Passing a random test that she knew was coming means nothing really. (it was a condition for getting licensed). Apparently, the results are still out on one test (was random tested twice).

"Next fight in the UFC", I wouldn't be too confident of that tbh. She has never made the weight limit. If she wants to fight in the UFC, she should be fighting for the vacant 135lb belt.

That_Guy wrote: »

She's probably the most serious threat to Rousey's belt but it's hard to know if they'd make the title fight right off the bat. I don't see why not.

Making the immediate shot would be really stupid decision. Mainly due to;

• She's never made 135lbs.
• She has missed weight at FW, was 152lbs.
• Past steroid use.

Either she is still on the juice and can't make 135 right now, or she doesn't want to drop down.

Kimbo v Shamrock just announced by Bellator; June 20th!

MartyMcFly84 wrote: »

What about Vitor Belfort? i think if you are banning contenders from title shots due to past failures you would quickly run down the list. She is the best female fighter not in the UFC. The UFC have often given people title shots coming from different organisations.

Dan Henderson , Jake Shields etc.

Sorry I think you misunderstood. I wasn't suggesting that she be blacklisted due to previous indiscretions. I'm happy to that stay in the past.

My point was that she's never made 135lbs. She has missed 145, and was apparently using stanezol to help with cutting to 145. She was booked at 135 last year, but pulled out with an "injury" after returning from thailand. Her fight this this weekend is back at 145.

I have my doubts as to whether she can make 135lbs tbh, not right now anyway. Past PED use might have simply removed that option for her.
However, If she can walk into the UFC offices at 150lbs, then by all means book it. But I wouldn't be booking the current 160lbs Cyborg for the BW title, and thats current fight condition. Out of camp weight is +5/10lbs more.

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

The problem is testosterone usage is permanent - the extra nuclei on your muscle never go away. Therefore people who use steroids probably should be banned for life.

I'm not anti-steroid at all (I'm sure I'll be on TRT in a few years) but we need to be real about test use - it isn't temporary.

It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say the effects of testosterone are permanent. Extra nuclei might remain, but strength/size falls off post-PEDs.
The same can be said for any strength training though, it creates extra nuclei that remain, but strength levels drop after a training peak/break.
However it’s much easier to regain that strength next strength phase due to muscle memory.

I wouldn't be surprised if steroids laid those kinds of muscle memory “foundations”, so in that case there's a benefit. But I don’t think there would be any long term strength increase, compared to say somebody who worked on strength the whole time naturally.

Mellor wrote: »

It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say the effects of testosterone are permanent. Extra nuclei might remain, but strength/size falls off post-PEDs.
The same can be said for any strength training though, it creates extra nuclei that remain, but strength levels drop after a training peak/break.
However it’s much easier to regain that strength next strength phase due to muscle memory.

I wouldn't be surprised if steroids laid those kinds of muscle memory “foundations”, so in that case there's a benefit. But I don’t think there would be any long term strength increase, compared to say somebody who worked on strength the whole time naturally.

Not all of the effects are permanent, but a number of studies have shown that steroid use can effect permanent changes on the way the body responds to muscle stimuli. This one uses mice as an example, where the mice are administered steroids for 3 weeks, then taken off them for 3 weeks. This is a significant length of time taking into account the lifespan of a mouse. After 3 weeks of no roids, the mice underwent physical stress and it was found that they responded much better than mice who hadn't been given steroids.

Steroid use physically alters the physiology of how our body responds to certain hormones, I don't find it all difficult to imagine those effects lasting long after periods of steroid use.

I would make the very rough analogy to being vaccinated; a foreign species is introduced to the body, your body says wtf is this and responds to it. Forever after, physical remnants of the time your body came across this thing will be present in your system, causing you to react differently than you would had no vaccination been administered. ...Now that I've written that, it's a forced analogy, but I'm mainly trying to get across the point that the human body has an amazing capacity to adapt, and when it does, those changes don't just disappear.

UFC after doing a Welcome to the Show presser on youtube, Its on at the minute nearly finished I think, I'd recommend watching it back great press conference some hilarious bits.