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  1. 15 hours ago, The Natural said:

    Strickland vs. DDP at UFC 297, Volkanovski vs Topuria at UFC 298 and O'Malley vs. Chito at UFC 299.

    I was like "Wait, Dallas Page vs Swerve Strickland? That's random, even for Coach Tony!".. then I realized we're in the Boxing/MMA folder.

     

    Speaking of UFC, ESPN.com has a front page article about one of the fighters from UFC 1, Art Jimmerson, for years mocked because he thought that he could fight Royce Gracie with one boxing glove (protect his jabbing hand to keep the fight at a distance, and then throw the ungloved hand for the knockout blow when set up). He was  apparently a top 10 boxer at the time, and was inline for some bigger money fights, but his boxing career was basically glass ceilinged by his UFC 1 loss (he admits in the interview he had no idea of what he was getting into, so much so that Big John McCarthy, who was travelling with the Gracie camp, actually showed him how outclassed he was backstage in a sparring session, taking him down. But I don't think anyone could really blame him, as at the time no one understood that UFC 1 was basically the Gracie's showing the world that no one who hadn't specifically trained to defeat Brazilian jiu-jitsu could compete with it in the UFC ruleset (such as it was at the time). Good to see he's had a good life and has no bitterness about what happened in UFC 1.

    edit: Link to article: https://www.espn.com/mma/ufc/story/_/id/38827608/art-jimmerson-one-glove-ufc-1

    Oh, and speaking of early UFC's and people outclassed, myself and a few friends actually ordered the UFC 2 pay per view, and one of my friends (eric), who is a ninja-fanatic, had his eyes light up when he heard that Scott Norris's style of fighting was listed as "American Ninjitsu". He confidently turned to us and said "This guy knows ninjitsu. He'll beat this kickboxer (Pat Smith) easily!".

    Note: He did not win easily.He did not win. Instead, he got the ever loving CRAP knocked out of him, including quite possibly the most vicious elbow strike to a downed opponent I've ever seen (one of those where you hit the guy so hard that his head bounced off the mat back up into the elbow). I actually rewatched that fight just now and yeah, it's... eek.

    Needless to say, we teased Eric for YEARS after that

     

     

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  2. Hoooooboy Australia are in deep stinky doo doo against Afghanistan, who will move into the knockout places with a win...

     

    edit: also, Shakib's World Cup is over, as he fractured a finger while batting.

  3. Saw this from ESPN's Kevin Seifert:

    "Josh Dobbs didn't take a single rep with the offense in practice. No snaps from the center. Had never thrown passes to anyone and didn't know most of their full names. "That's for next week", he said."

    Apparently familiarity with a team is overrated.

  4. I think it was one of those "We don't want the fans to come in, knowing who's going to win the big matches, because, why would they come?" Kinda like what WWE did one time, when they had basically telegraphed Shawn Michaels winning the Royal Rumble to get the Undertaker, only to pull a swerve and get there through another method.

  5. Ok, that was a bizarre sequence. 4th and half a yard, the Colts try to draw them off side and take a delay of game penalty for a slightly longer FG, the Saints commit a penalty on the FG attempt, and the Colts then go for it on 4th and inches again and score a TD.

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  6. but it's going to give MMA fighters at the higher levels a thought that the UFC isn't the end all and be all. Why would I sign with UFC for a relative pittance when I can go other places that will give me the ability to maximize my earnings in boxing or whatever?

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