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General MMA Chat/News mk3 - **No Spoilers Use Event Threads**

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    #5642
    tommyboy26
    Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    Yoel Romero won his court case against a supplement company for having tainted goods which lead to his 2015 6 month suspension. The company never responded to his claim or attended the court.

    Yoel was awarded $27.45 million but his manager reckons he will he will end up with around $5 million. Full story below.

    http://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/26841517/romero-wins-judgment-tainted-supplement-suit


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    #5643
    Axwell
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    Lads, I moved some posts from Off Topic to here regarding Yoel as there are two conversations on it going on - Off topic is for non-MMA related stuff so it's fine posting about Yoel here, its MMA news.


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    #5644
    tommyboy26
    Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    latifi out of co main event in stockholm


    https://twitter.com/MMAjunkie/status/1134205396640567305


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    #5645
    Whelo79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭Whelo79


    Really early card today for anyone who might have forgot. Prelims are half way done, main card starts at 6.


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    #5646
    themandan6611
    Registered Users Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭themandan6611


    Poor sleeping beauty will be sleeping till Monday


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    #5647
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    themandan6611 wrote: »
    Monday

    You'll need to spoiler that man or you'll get done!


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    #5648
    themandan6611
    Registered Users Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭themandan6611


    riffmongous wrote: »
    You'll need to spoiler that man or you'll get done!

    you need to spoil my spoiler


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    #5649
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    themandan6611 wrote: »
    you need to spoil my spoiler

    Whoops, forgot that


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    #5650
    tommyboy26
    Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    was it me or was the commentary not great at ufc sweden?


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    #5651
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,731 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    I cancelled my BT subscription around Xmas. At the time ufc was moving from BT. Have they moved yet, and if so, where to?


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    #5652
    ASOT
    Registered Users Posts: 7,733 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    I cancelled my BT subscription around Xmas. At the time ufc was moving from BT. Have they moved yet, and if so, where to?

    Still with BT mate.


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    #5653
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,731 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    ASOT wrote: »
    Still with BT mate.

    For how long? Was the contract renewed?


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    #5654
    ASOT
    Registered Users Posts: 7,733 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    For how long? Was the contract renewed?

    For the foreseeable future anyway. Eleven Sports lost the rights they originally won because they didn't organize a tv provider to show the channel so it went back to BT.


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    #5655
    The White Feather
    Registered Users Posts: 5,415 ✭✭✭The White Feather


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    For how long? Was the contract renewed?




    Yes it was renewed for 2019 "and beyond"

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/mma/7978729/ufc-remain-on-bt-sport-2019-and-beyond-eleven-sports-financial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1544813935


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    #5656
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,494 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Jimmy Manuwa retires. Right decision.


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    #5657
    ASOT
    Registered Users Posts: 7,733 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Khabib v DP official for Abu Dhabi.


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    #5658
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 29,490 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    ASOT wrote: »
    Khabib v DP official for Abu Dhabi.

    Bet the house on Dustin, calling it now lads. Not me personally as I'm not a gambling man :)


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    #5659
    mailburner
    Registered Users Posts: 23,830 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    Zero-Cool wrote: »
    Bet the house on Dustin, calling it now lads. Not me personally as I'm not a gambling man :)

    khabib now better than 4/11/ poirier 13/5

    why are you confident if you don't mind me asking?

    I want you to be right as dp wearing that belt would be one of
    the best moments in mma


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    #5660
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 29,490 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    mailburner wrote: »
    khabib now better than 4/11/ poirier 13/5

    why are you confident if you don't mind me asking?

    I want you to be right as dp wearing that belt would be one of
    the best moments in mma

    Gut feeling*

    Some big upsets in combat sports this year and I think this could be another one. I can see him weathering the storm a couple of early rounds and getting comfortable with the TDD to crack Khabib with some big shots. I would absolutely love to see Dustin wear that belt too.




    *My gut feeling is the reason I stopped betting :)


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    #5661
    mailburner
    Registered Users Posts: 23,830 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    Zero-Cool wrote: »
    Gut feeling*

    Some big upsets in combat sports this year and I think this could be another one. I can see him weathering the storm a couple of early rounds and getting comfortable with the TDD to crack Khabib with some big shots. I would absolutely love to see Dustin wear that belt too.




    *My gut feeling is the reason I stopped betting :)

    That's reason enough for me, gut tells me the odds are well wrong
    on this one also.
    Poiriers stand up is amongst the most improved in mma, khabib
    won't want too much of it imo.


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    #5662
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 29,490 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Plus he's such a hungry fighter and won't give up easy. I know odds are Khabib will smother him for 5 rounds and Dustin won't have the answer but people are writing him off way too easily.


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    #5663
    Fall_Guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Fall_Guy


    Zero-Cool wrote: »
    Plus he's such a hungry fighter and won't give up easy. I know odds are Khabib will smother him for 5 rounds and Dustin won't have the answer but people are writing him off way too easily.

    I feel the manner in which Khabib shut down Mcgregor is colouring peoples perceptions of this fight. Poirier is much more used to fighting through adversity and not having things all his own way in fights whereas Mcgregor, through no fault of his own, is more of a front runner. I feel that even if Khabib does ground him early and often, Poirier will still be there in the later rounds threatening, and his stand-up is more than good enough to cause Khabib problems if he is.


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    #5664
    xckjoo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    Nice one. Khabib is a machine at grappling so my money would always be on him but excited at the prospect of someone having an answer to him.


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    #5665
    Tazzimus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,935 ✭✭✭Tazzimus


    I hope Dustin can give him trouble, but I'm not sure he'll be able to.

    I only see Tony beating him reliably, he has the stamina to keep with him, great on the ground, off his back etc.
    Khabib has about 3 rounds of his pace in him, you see him slowing down after that. Tony will go full pelt for all 5 and still be fine.


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    #5666
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,046 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Tazzimus wrote: »
    I only see Tony beating him reliably, he has the stamina to keep with him, great on the ground, off his back etc.

    I see Khabib grappling style as being kryptonite for Tony's.
    I can't imagine Eddie Bravo shouting crackhead, chill dawg, dead orchard through the fence will help him either. But you never know


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    #5667
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,539 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Mellor wrote: »
    I see Khabib grappling style as being kryptonite for Tony's.
    I can't imagine Eddie Bravo shouting crackhead, chill dawg, dead orchard through the fence will help him either. But you never know

    I reckon Justin Gaethje is the one fighter who can upset Khabib,
    He is a division 1 all American and has a gas tank ,

    But they have the same manger so I reckon he will be kept away form him


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    #5668
    EagererBeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    I reckon Justin Gaethje is the one fighter who can upset Khabib,
    He is a division 1 all American and has a gas tank ,

    But they have the same manger so I reckon he will be kept away form him

    He was an all-American 10 years ago. How many times have you seen him wrestle since?


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    #5669
    ASOT
    Registered Users Posts: 7,733 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Sinead Kavanaghs fighting Leslie Smith in July at bellator, big step up for her


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    #5670
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,539 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    EagererBeaver wrote: »
    He was an all-American 10 years ago. How many times have you seen him wrestle since?

    None because of the way he fights,

    Who have you seen take him down when he hasn't been rocked ? ,


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    #5671
    EagererBeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    None because of the way he fights,

    Who have you seen take him down when he hasn't been rocked ? ,

    That's my point. The arguement "he might be able to hang with khabib's wrestling because he was a D1 all American" holds very little weight ten years down the road when he's never shown that level of grappling in a cage.


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