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Lukker-

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

This is the Conor era where the rankings made by hand picked journalists at the behest of the UFC matter but are secondary to "what sells" in the mind of lots of fans. It's sad to see.

If happened before Conor too. How many fights did it take Lesnar to get a title shot?

They let Anderson Silva defend his title against many cans too.

Conor isn’t responsible for all the ills of the UFC

The Nal

ASOT wrote: »

Jesus lads who gives a **** about rankings, styles make fights and itll be a cracker.

Its a very solid card.

Agree was only taking the p1ss. Some good fights on there for a Fight Night.

xtal191

The Nal wrote: »

Ah come on. Tim Elliott vs Justin Scoggins. #10 ranked flyweight vs #34.

Epic!

Isn't that fight off the card anyway?

callaway92

callaway92 wrote: »

Seeing John Makdessi vs Abel Trujillo and Ricardo Lamas vs Josh fúcking Emmet highlighted did make me laugh though

The potential for some awesome violence in the main and co main event is reason enough to call this card epic.

callaway92

Deleted User wrote: »

The potential for some awesome violence in the main and co main event is reason enough to call this card epic.

Riiiight

CurryFlavoured

For a fight night, Dos Anjos Lawler is a pretty outstanding card.

ricero

By the sounds of it on the mma hour from rockhold i reckon it will be rockhold v whitaker at ufc 221 in Perth this February.

finglashoop

ricero wrote: »

By the sounds of it on the mma hour from rockhold i reckon it will be rockhold v whitaker at ufc 221 in Perth this February.

I hope whittaker absolutely annihilates him.

Gijoseph

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

This is the Conor era where the rankings made by hand picked journalists at the behest of the UFC matter but are secondary to "what sells" in the mind of lots of fans. It's sad to see.

Hates conor...

Keeps talking about conor....

Mellor

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Gijoseph

Mellor wrote: »

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Mellor

Gijoseph wrote: »

Mellor wrote: »

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Works for me

The Nal

Oh Jesus hes back

Autecher

Ah I say fair play to the guy. He looks very happy there, he is a millionaire, has a very attractive wife & he has many different business things going well for him the last few years. He has no need to sweat it out in a gym day in day out for years to improve himself but he does anyway. It's more than most of us here will ever do...

Whelo79

Mellor wrote: »

Works for me

Doesn't work for me either. I get a boards error page.

maximoose

Works fine for me, for those it doesnt:

Mellor

cliggg wrote: »

He has no need to sweat it out in a gym day in day out for years to improve himself but he does anyway. It's more than most of us here will ever do...

I think you are exaggerating the "day in day out" part. He is training 5 years. And it's been 3 years since he announced he signed to the UFC. Somebody training day in day out m, full time. Should be blue in under a year.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad he's still plugging away. But the fact he is only a blue belt now highlights how far removed he was (or is) from full time training. Talk of a second fight is laughable.

Mellor

Meh, I should probably also add (before somebody brings up Mighty Mouse/Jon Jones being white and blue belts).
There's a chance that Punk is only ranking now because he hasn't been in the gi in 3 years.

Subcomandante Marcos

Mellor wrote: »

I think you are exaggerating the "day in day out" part. He is training 5 years. And it's been 3 years since he announced he signed to the UFC. Somebody training day in day out m, full time. Should be blue in under a year.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad he's still plugging away. But the fact he is only a blue belt now highlights how far removed he was (or is) from full time training. Talk of a second fight is laughable.

Not really. A lot of ibjjf focused bjj schools don't promote if you don't train to n the gi, until recently enough he didn't train regularly in the gi, same as Jones and others, they did plenty of bjj in training but all no gi stuff. It's entirely possible to train for a decade and Never get a promotion because you're not training for go and your coach has that weird mentality that only gi classes for ibjjf rules count for promotions.

Autecher

Mellor wrote: »

I think you are exaggerating the "day in day out" part. He is training 5 years. And it's been 3 years since he announced he signed to the UFC. Somebody training day in day out m, full time. Should be blue in under a year.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad he's still plugging away. But the fact he is only a blue belt now highlights how far removed he was (or is) from full time training. Talk of a second fight is laughable.

He got his white belt in January 2016 so accounting for his herniated disc, training for his fight, competing in reality TV shows and writing comic books i'd say he must be at it as much as possible anyway. He's obviously dedicated to it. I do believe he will have another UFC fight considering how much money he made them in his first fight, the next one will make them less than that but still more than most other ppv's they do these days.

cletus

cliggg wrote: »

He got his white belt in January 2016 so accounting for his herniated disc, training for his fight, competing in reality TV shows and writing comic books i'd say he must be at it as much as possible anyway. He's obviously dedicated to it. I do believe he will have another UFC fight considering how much money he made them in his first fight, the next one will make them less than that but still more than most other ppv's they do these days.

What do you mean he got his white belt

dashoonage

https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/938456878954303489

I'm also calling it now Tony will have to defend the interim against the khabib/fergson winner before mcnugget fights again.

Autecher

cletus wrote: »

What do you mean he got his white belt

Sorry I meant he went from no Gi to Gi in January 2016 (as far as I know anyway). I don't know why I phrased it that way?! Too busy in work at the time maybe..

The Nal

dashoonage wrote: »

https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/938456878954303489

I'm also calling it now Tony will have to defend the interim against the khabib/fergson winner before mcnugget fights again.

Which would be utterly ridiculous. The #1 contender having to defend his #1 contender spot before he gets a shot at the title. After 10 wins in a row. :rolleyes:

MartyMcFly84

I think you are exaggerating the "day in day out" part. He is training 5 years. And it's been 3 years since he announced he signed to the UFC. Somebody training day in day out m, full time. Should be blue in under a year.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad he's still plugging away. But the fact he is only a blue belt now highlights how far removed he was (or is) from full time training. Talk of a second fight is laughable.

Jon Jones in is a blue belt. This he was only promoted before his last fight in the UFC

Porthallian

The Nal wrote: »

Which would be utterly ridiculous. The #1 contender having to defend his #1 contender spot before he gets a shot at the title. After 10 wins in a row. :rolleyes:

Welcome to the McGregor era

Lukker-

dashoonage wrote: »

https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/938456878954303489

I'm also calling it now Tony will have to defend the interim against the khabib/fergson winner before mcnugget fights again.

All roads lead to Conor for ya?

It’s more likely GSP wants no part of MW anymore and will go back down to WW/ just take money fights.

The only reason he took Bisping was because it was the easiest fight available

ricero

Stipe v ngannou in the final stages of being confirmed for ufc 220 in boston this coming january

Mellor

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Not really. A lot of ibjjf focused bjj schools don't promote if you don't train to n the gi, until recently enough he didn't train regularly in the gi, same as Jones and others, they did plenty of bjj in training but all no gi stuff. It's entirely possible to train for a decade and Never get a promotion because you're not training for go and your coach has that weird mentality that only gi classes for ibjjf rules count for promotions.

Well, I did follow up with "There's a chance that Punk is only ranking now because he hasn't been in the gi in 3 years". I figure you were already replying when I posted it.

But that said, I'm pretty sure that BJJ at RoufusSports is done in the gi so doesn't apply. His coach mentioned in interviews, that Punk was training in the gi for his fight with mickey gall. He said he was training 3 times a week - assume that was BJJ only.

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cliggg wrote: »

Sorry I meant he went from no Gi to Gi in January 2016 (as far as I know anyway). I don't know why I phrased it that way?! Too busy in work at the time maybe..

As far as I know he started in the gi, not the other way around.
Here he is with Rener in 2012. Obviously he is a novice, but it isn't his first day either. There were other appearances before he announced he had signed with the UFC.

I understand he was still in the WWE at that stage. I'm just pointing out even allowing for injuries/surgeries, it's a long time to get to blue when training as much as he should have been. There's no shame in that, he's nearly 40 afterall - but he needs to resign himself to the fact he's a 40 year old hobbiest.

Mellor

MartyMcFly84 wrote: »

Jon Jones in is a blue belt. This he was only promoted before his last fight in the UFC

:rolleyes:

Mellor wrote: »

Meh, I should probably also add (before somebody brings up Mighty Mouse/Jon Jones being white and blue belts).

Jones has an extensive wrestling background. Who won national state and national championships. Training pro level MMA for a decade. With virtually no time in the gi.

CM Punk's only relevant martial arts background is BJJ. His pro MMA training included training in the gi.


There's a huge difference there. As Im sure you are aware.
By the same logic, Khabib and Mighty Mouse are BJJ white belts. And Tony is unranked in the gi...All technically true, but completely ridiculous.