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Spurslove

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What a cock. Khabib has already pussied him out and he's winding him up again. He may sell loads of tickets but he's an embarrassment to himself. If he'd taken just three of the shots Gaethje stuck on Ferguson last night, he'd still be in hospital now.

You know when you get attacked by a little yapping dog and you kick it 10 feet in the air and it keeps coming back at you...?

He makes it soooo easy to seriously dislike him. Notorious my arse.

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ajspurs

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Apparently Anthony Smith's corner and the referee were poor in letting the fight go on as it did, I haven't seen it myself. Did see a clip of Teixeira apologising to Smith whilst having his back. I did read that they're both good friends and two of the nicest people in the UFC.

Does anyone follow Ariel Helwani on Instagram? Some of the exchanges he has with DC are hilarious.
 

Thewobbler

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Apparently Anthony Smith's corner and the referee were poor in letting the fight go on as it did, I haven't seen it myself. Did see a clip of Teixeira apologising to Smith whilst having his back. I did read that they're both good friends and two of the nicest people in the UFC.

Does anyone follow Ariel Helwani on Instagram? Some of the exchanges he has with DC are hilarious.

No fighter is going to look "weak" and give up so you would hope the corner has a fighters best interest and pull him which they should have done at the start of round 5. He was getting beaten up. The problem is when half their salary is based on them winning its very hard to pull a fighter who could get some well timed punch or submission out of nowhere to snatch victory and gain all their money and maybe a bonus
 

Spurslove

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Best of luck to Walt Harris tonight in hiis fight with Alistair Overeem. How he has managed to get his head straight for a UFC fight after what happened recently, I have no idea. No parent should ever be made to go through shit like that. I watched him being interviewed about his step-daughter's death and he went to pieces. Come on Walt. This one's for Aniah...

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Spurslove

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Totally agree. Absolutely appalling judging. Barboza, Hill, Elkins and Vera were all robbed by the judges, Dana White needs to sort this out, and quick, because it is ruining the sport.


I fully agree, it was a disgrace.

I also have to say how gutted I was for Walt Harris to get beat. If anyone in the entire UFC rosta deserved to win last night, it was him.

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mil1lion

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Jones is giving up his LHW belt apparently
He wants more money, probably to help pay his fines
 

ajspurs

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Jones is giving up his LHW belt apparently
He wants more money, probably to help pay his fines

Can't say I care a great deal about Jones to be honest. His last few fights haven't been the greatest, he looks like he's going out there to just do what is enough as opposed to going to kill which is fine as who am I to judge when they're out there risking their health but yeah, it means I don't massively mind not seeing him fight. There are quite a few potential fights that I would like to see more than Jones vs anyone, especially in the welterweight division. Miocic and DC I'd like to see again as well actually.
 

Spurslove

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Like him or not, JBJ is the GOAT, probably at any weight. Obviously, he's fallen out with Dana and has been pretty clear about why. I've read JBJ's texts to Dana and basically, he's calling him a damned liar with everything he's saying about him wanting an outrageous sum of money to fight Francis Ngannou. He has vacated his belt and has suggested Reyes fight Blachowitz for the vacant title.

Under any normal circumstances, I would be taking Dana's stance on the issue but there's just something at the back of my mind, remembering a YouTube video a while back featuring Mark Hunt (who no longer fights for the UFC I assume...) and he described Dana as 'a fucking lying scumbag' or something very similar meaning the same thing..

So I don't know who's side to take. All I know is that the UFC will be poorer for losing JBJ. He's been an incredible, undefeated champion.

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mil1lion

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Can't say I care a great deal about Jones to be honest. His last few fights haven't been the greatest, he looks like he's going out there to just do what is enough as opposed to going to kill which is fine as who am I to judge when they're out there risking their health but yeah, it means I don't massively mind not seeing him fight. There are quite a few potential fights that I would like to see more than Jones vs anyone, especially in the welterweight division. Miocic and DC I'd like to see again as well actually.
I agree, there are much more exciting fighters out there than Jones. His record is incredible but so is Khabibs. I still prefer watching the likes of Conor, Diaz and Mazvidal fight. The main concern is having another title vacated though. It's all a bit of a mess at the moment in regards to titles.
 

ajspurs

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I agree, there are much more exciting fighters out there than Jones. His record is incredible but so is Khabibs. I still prefer watching the likes of Conor, Diaz and Mazvidal fight. The main concern is having another title vacated though. It's all a bit of a mess at the moment in regards to titles.

Absolutely, so do I. You then also chuck Usman, Burns and Covington in there too and at lightweight Khabib, Ferguson, Gaethje, Conor again and Poirier, there are so many potential mouth-watering fights there. That's true though and the light heavyweight division isn't exactly brimming with exciting fights but then again Jones wanted to move up to heavyweight anyway so maybe that doesn't make much difference.

Imagine the build up between Covington and Conor :ROFLMAO:
 

yankspurs

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Spencer is tough as nails. Incredible chin. Incredible heart. Hanging in there for the distance is impressive. She should be very proud even though the fight probably should have been stopped multiple times. But that was a systematic domination by Nunes. She is the GOAT women's fighter.
 

yankspurs

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Really gotta hand it to Dana. Refused to be down for long. Put on some great PPV’s throughtout all this giving us a bit of an escape. And it sounds like Fight Island in Abu Dhabi is next for a month or 2 worth of fights. Looking forward to the next Fight Night/PPV.
 

yankspurs

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Conors apparently drunk on twitter again and this time he is “retiring”....again. See him in a few months vs Masivdal/Usman/Diaz/Gaethje/Khabib.
 
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