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ironbeard wrote: ↑08 Sep 2019, 10:29

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑08 Sep 2019, 10:05 I don't mind his style and I turned back to college football before his speech. Perhaps he is genuine, I don't like the whole deeply religious, humble family man + arrogant violent street gangster combo. I'm not buying it. I don't think he's currently the best in his division much less the goat. Let's see him beat scarface and we can start talking about that. Definitely among a handful of the most dominant ever, he's just now starting to stack big names as far as historical ranking is concerned.

I will be rooting for Ferguson.

He is not the GOAT UFC / MMA fighter, nor the GOAT wrestler. He is the GOAT at taking people down, totally controlling them, and wearing them out. He is the GOAT at what he does, imo.

That said, Poirier absolutely rocked him early round 2, and if the American would have had any strength left, he would have choked him out in rd 3.

I think that Ferguson can get the job done.

Blodhemn wrote: ↑08 Sep 2019, 22:15

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑08 Sep 2019, 09:03
The thing that annoyed me about broner is that he can't fight and people thought he could. Khabib definitely doesn't have that problem. He's a bad ass, just fake as fuxk.

Dunno. Consider someone like Bones Jones as being the epitome of fake. Khabib is more in the realm of uneducated ruffian, or at least to my very limited exposure.

Blodhemn wrote: ↑08 Sep 2019, 22:34

ironbeard wrote: ↑08 Sep 2019, 10:29
I will be rooting for Ferguson.

He is not the GOAT UFC / MMA fighter, nor the GOAT wrestler. He is the GOAT at taking people down, totally controlling them, and wearing them out. He is the GOAT at what he does, imo.

That said, Poirier absolutely rocked him early round 2, and if the American would have had any strength left, he would have choked him out in rd 3.

I think that Ferguson can get the job done.

Exaggerations meet assumptions. Poirer was dominated. Khabib was never in trouble. That guillotine wasnt even tight.

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑09 Sep 2019, 08:59 fornicate that, conor needs to be fighting gaithjie. Winner gets Montana.

Impractical Poster wrote: ↑09 Sep 2019, 10:33

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑09 Sep 2019, 08:59 fornicate that, conor needs to be fighting gaithjie. Winner gets Montana.

I agree. Though I think Conor would stop Justin. Scarface would drown Conor.

Ricky wrote: ↑14 Sep 2019, 22:50 Great stuff by Gaethje - winning money on this guy. Nice to see an MMA fighter with proper punching form.

jujigatame wrote: ↑16 Sep 2019, 11:02 It's a sick joke if McGregor gets a rematch with Khabib. McGregor should just go away. The sport doesn't need his drama if he's gonna fight once every other year and screw up a whole division's matchmaking.

Khabib vs. Ferguson and Poirer vs. Gaethje II are the LW fights I'm dying to see now.

Nondescript wrote: ↑16 Sep 2019, 11:21 Gaejhe-McGregor would be an interesting fight.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑16 Sep 2019, 11:20

jujigatame wrote: ↑16 Sep 2019, 11:02 It's a sick joke if McGregor gets a rematch with Khabib. McGregor should just go away. The sport doesn't need his drama if he's gonna fight once every other year and screw up a whole division's matchmaking.

Khabib vs. Ferguson and Poirer vs. Gaethje II are the LW fights I'm dying to see now.

The bulk of McGregor's career so far has been the story of a guy inexplicably getting far more than he deserves. He's a white guy that talks sh*t so I guess he makes other white guy wannabe tough guys feel like he's one of them?

His superstardom doesn't really make sense to me. Especially after losing to Nate Diaz.

Losing to Nate in MMA is the equivalent of losing to say Josesito Lopez in a Welterweight Boxing match.

Maybe Nate's not THAT far down the line, but he is not, nor has he ever been one of the top guys in his weight class.

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑16 Sep 2019, 11:57 Diaz is a bad motherfucker. Miles and miles above josesito. Ridiculous analogy. Conor has one of the greatest resumes ever. Gil couldn't be much further off if he tried.

Nondescript wrote: ↑16 Sep 2019, 12:23

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑16 Sep 2019, 11:57 Diaz is a bad motherfucker. Miles and miles above josesito. Ridiculous analogy. Conor has one of the greatest resumes ever. Gil couldn't be much further off if he tried.

I dunno if he follows the sport that closely. He's also said in the past that he doesn't really like MMA.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑16 Sep 2019, 12:39 I certainly wouldn't say I know nothing about it, but admittedly I'm not up to speed on the current scene in MMA all that well, by which I mean...most MMA happenings post 2007

I've actually written up a pretty extensive history of a lot of the early Pride Events though. I have a close to encyclopedic knowledge of the formative MMA years, but my interest waned a lot after Pride went away.

I do still get intrigued by some fighters here and there though. Gaethje is damn sure always fun.

Point taken though. I'll refrain from career comparisons between modern MMA guys and Boxing contenders/fringe contenders because admittedly I don't really know who's who in MMA anymore save for the biggest names there are.