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  1. Here's your One Championship card reminder for tomorrow. This entire card has changed since it was first announced aside from maybe Sage Northcutt's sister's fight? Northcutt and Bigdash both out due to Covid. De Ridder, the middleweight champion who beat Aung for the MW title last time, steps in on very short notice to get a chance at Aung's light heavyweight title. Honestly did not realise it was for the LHW title until I started typing this. Alvarez/Yoon with quick turnarounds. Guessing they threw some good money at both to keep them in Singapore due to the way Eddie's last fight ended and knowing how hard it is to bring people in and out of the country.
  2. It will be interesting to see what they do tomorrow and if that affects how they run shows going forward. A couple changes to next week's card. Eddie Alvarez will be fighting the winner of Gafurov/Ok Rae Yoon, basically confirming that the first three cards were all taped at roughly the same time. Reug Reug, who also fought on week 1 of the TNT shows, will also be on the 4th card. Here's tomorrow's line up : Looking forward to the main. Can't believe that John Wayne Parr is still going, though I don't like his chances in the Holzken fight.
  3. Tomorrow's One Championship card. Spoilered for size. It hurt losing the Martin Nguyen fight. Sage Northcutt has also dropped out of his fight against Shinya Aoki two weeks from now due to lingering covid symptoms.
  4. I have got some serious dislike for the CCP due to some of their activities in my region and specifically involving the country I live. However, I'm not stupid enough to project that on to the Chinese people themselves. It really sucks that this is the second fight in a row that Weili is being subjected to racism in the lead up and I agree with elsalv that it needs to be called out for what it is.
  5. That was a mauling. Wish Jung had finished but once he hit that second takedown you knew it was over so why bother risking an exchange. Impa looked good at 170. Glad to see he got a bounce back win coming off that hl reel loss.
  6. Really? I posted the lineup earlier in this thread where it showed a three fight card and which three fights would be on TNT. It was announced by One weeks ago. Not sure if that was just through their social media accounts and they never communicated with TNT? Weird. Next week's card is a two fight TNT card and I exoect it to get some pretty dire ratings ( the Christian Lee fight and a women's muay thai fight ).
  7. They had 1.5 hours for three fights - I don't think it was a swing bout. I strongly suspect that it was recorded the afternoon/evening before in Singapore and then after what went down in the Alvarez fight they shuffled the lineup in order to try and keep fans watching. It's One though, they lend themselves to all sorts of these types of theories because you never really know with them...
  8. Wasn't it three fights? I watched the youtube stream which was six fights long.
  9. His opponent put up way more of a fight than I figured he would. I thought that was going to be a total mismatch but it was surprisingly competitive. The Alvarez fight was unfortunate. Not much else to say than that. DJ getting blasted by the knee wasn't illegal at all. Those have been allowed under One rules the entire time, for better or worse. I'm in favour of them but I can also see opposing view. Overall, an okay show. For once I am not watching live because of the airtime and am catching the youtube streams later at night which dampens the experience a bit. Next week, Christian Lee is defending the LW title. I am going on the record saying that he is the most promising fighter coming out of SEA. Granted, that's not a huge accolade, and I've got to be in the running for people who have watched the most mma and somehow still have the least knowledgeable viewpoints on the sport.
  10. Thought I would give a quick update. The hammer's certainly dropped, and been dropping for sometime now. Pretty much right after my last post, they started to break up the protestors with flashbang grenades and teargas. My area, and specifically right outside of my apartment, had large groups so it was a pretty constant stream of explosions from 9 am until about 1 pm or 2 pm for two weeks. My apartment basically got tear-gassed one day when a canister landed on the roof of the building next door and the wind blew the smoke directly into our place. Also, I teach second grade during those hours through Zoom so had to do my best to be composed and still run structured lessons against that backdrop, meanwhile I'm just doing my best to not crumble. It has become much worse since then. The real crackdown began and confirmed deaths are in the high 500s but people assume it is much higher. No one close to me has been directly affected yet, though a couple acquaintances have been arrested and in prison for the past month or so. I can't imagine how their friends and families feel. Social media is the only way to get updated information on hat's happening, but every time you open it you also know that you are going to see a lot of dead bodies... I'd bounce out of here and go hang out in Thailand for 9 months under their new tourist visa, but that would mean leaving my wife without knowing when I would ever be able to get back. I can't ask her to leave her mom and sister, who don't have passports at the moment, and all government offices are closed here because workers are all on strike so no chance of bringing them along. So just kind of in limbo. I can count on one hand the number of times I've stepped outside in the past six weeks. The really (and terribly ) selfish part of me wants the people to give up. The UN and ASEAN cannot/won't do anything, and an unarmed population against a well-stocked army don't have a lot of hope in a direct confrontation. But of course I completely understand how people feel and the reason that they see this as a now or never moment as far as the direction of the country. Going to play it by ear for the next while. If I feel really unsafe, I'll try and get out. Sucks, because I love this country and have spent nearly half of my life here by this point.
  11. Just doing my duty as the resident One Championship shill. The lineup for the April 7th card on TNT.
  12. Holy crap, that was a brutal finish. Patient Francis is somehow scarier than super-aggressive Francis.
  13. That was pretty much going to be my response to Mythic Quest as well. Give it another episode or two and if you're still not enjoying then drop it. I'm only on episode 7, but there wasn't a noticeable moment or episode where things clicked for me. It might just not be for you.
  14. I really enjoyed Ted Lasso fwiw, but man, Mythic Quest is also great. I've been in a real funk the past couple months due to situations beyond my control and have had a really hard time watching any sort of comedy or action because I'm just not in the right headspace for it. Still, decided to take a chance on Mythic Quest based on your rec here and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Finished episode 5 last night, and while eps 1-4 were all really good, that standalone was fantastic. Cheers for the recommendation and I'll second it for anyone else who has not given it a chance.
  15. Wouldn't he be fighting at whatever his contract is at? I just assumed that's how it always worked unless they re-negotiate ahead of the fight. I think a lot of it will come down to the ppv points though. I'm guessing that even a 2021 fight McGregor will out-do a Poirier-Chandler or Poirier-Oliveira fight.
  16. This fight has not been great to watch. I don't know what I expected but I guess I should not be surprised. Anyway, Happy Birthday @The Natural! Hope you can get some sleep in after this.
  17. I think I lost track of what we were discussing. I thought it was 'retire as champion'. Doesn't matter because I'm hyped for this next one.
  18. There's no way you can blame him for not continuing. Zero. Even if he had wanted to, the ref's should have stepped in at that point. I'm with Jaedmc - the real loser here is Sandhagen. Sterling will probably be out 6 months then they will run the fight again.
  19. From the moment that knee landed you knew what the end result was gonna be. Sucks, but what are you gonna do? They'll run it back as soon as they can. Edit : But those refs sure acted like idiots with their whisper talk and drawing things out.
  20. 8bitdo is amazing. I grabbed the USB to connect my ps4 controllers to the Switch when I first picked it up and have literally never played a Switch game without it. I can't even imagine trying to play using the joycons in the plastic holder that the system came with.
  21. @John from Cincinnati nailed it. I'm trying to be a bit vague because I know web use is being monitored. The worst part is knowing that the hammer is going to drop one of these days but you just never know when. Too many young people are going to die or be sentenced to long prison sentences for nothing more than wanting a better future. While I am not personally involved in any of what's going on, I know a lot of people who are and I worry about them everyday. Edit : And three hours later shooting in another city. No idea the current death toll but videos are not looking good.
  22. Tanks in the streets, 23,000 released prisoners( some being intentionally released to cause chaos Gotham-style), young students being beaten, arrested and killed for protesting peacefully....it's been a long two weeks with no real end in sight. Not even comfortable writing this but I figure it's safer than venting anywhere else. I'm so tired. Vast majority of people are amazing. Some....aren't. Oh yeah, is Covid still a thing too?
  23. Aung La Nsang receiving huge backlash over a recent Facebook posted that amount to 'good luck guys!' over the situation in Myanmar. Fucking tool and immensely tone deaf considering how he earned his relative fame.
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