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    I agree with the decision. Teymur was just sharper in every round and his chin stood up to all of Lando's offense. He also did a good job of changing levels and getting takedowns late, even if it wasn't on the mat long.
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    Phenomenal technique from Cynthia Calvillo. Cooper was no match for her on the ground.
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    I dunno how Hunt wasn't immediately out after the first knee. He ate all of that.
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    Man, quality prospects making awful decisions led to two proven veterans winning two of the craziest comebacks in MMA you will ever see.
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    Maybe the only silver lining for Luke Sanders after losing a fight where he was on the verge of 10-8'ing Iuri Marajo two consecutive rounds (minus the point deduction) is he's dating Becky Lynch. That's all I got. Tough loss.
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    Tyson Pedro wins the battle of 205 prospects, and he won in a fairly crafty way.
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    I thought it was a good, drama filled fight all things considered. Bellew's future at heavyweight though...I dunno. Winning that way might be the worst thing for him because he can have fun fights at cruiserweight and win impressively. Here, he punched himself out in half a round against a guy laying against the ropes after an Achilles injury and needed 3 rounds to recover from trying to get Haye out of there. He can get money fights now at HW, but unless it's against an older David Haye who gets hurt in camp again and aggravates said injury, I don't see him winning hardly any of them.
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    This is literally every training camp/team besides camps where there is like 2 or 3 notable fighters. They don't control what dudes do in their spare time especially when guys bring in S&Cs and nutritionists outside the camp. So if you got any beef, it's with Khabib, his dad, Ali Abdelaziz, Khabib's nutritionist, and whatever combo therein. I mean they can provide advice, but the fighter has to follow said advice.
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    Hungover Bisping is the best Bisping.
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    Ferguson turned down MJ so it's looking like he might not be fighting.
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    This is more or less on his weight cut management. He was hospitalized Thursday evening (I'm guessing just hours after the media scrums), discharged, and then went back in the morning. Karim Zidan says he cuts AT LEAST 35 pounds to make LW. That's on Khabib, not AKA. TBH, he looked kinda tired the whole week especially from his mitt work with Javy. Granted it's fight week, but he had very little snap on his punches. His energy was very low from the Embeddeds. Ferguson, in comparison during his open workouts, looked like he was on fucking energy pills. Basically, on par with how he fights. He seemed nervous, but that's kinda expected given the implications of the fight.
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    From watching the media scrums, I will say this: the UFC should want Paul Craig to do good this weekend because he has tons of charisma even if he is kinda unintelligible (at least to us Americans). Tyson Pedro winning wouldn't be all that bad, but Craig could be a potential UK event headliner.
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    It would ultimately fall on GSP and how that fight went. I think GSP vs. Romero/Jacare would do good on PPV if he doesn't have to rematch Bisping. However, either fight wouldn't do the business of fighting Anderson Silva after years of it not happening or some weird catchweight fight with McGregor. At 35, every fight is going to be extremely risky but winning provides high rewards. I would think they would want to make Romero or Jacare the immediate next person to challenge for MW title, but if a door opens wide, they're going to walk through it. That's something that should be pretty obvious by now.
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    At this point, it's one of those fights I'm not exactly mad with someone using the "Yeah, I'm kinda hurt" line for.
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    Also, Renato Moicano is fighting Jeremy Stephens on the KC card.
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    I'm just at the opposite end of the spectrum on that because Jacare's grappling IMO is the only known quantity. GSP was a great striker, but we don't know how good that's going to be 4 years older. Moreover, with his grappling, that's an unknown because part of what made it great was he was bigger and stronger than everyone else when he went to train with Jonathan Chaimberg. Part of what makes Chaimberg good at his job is what made him problematic w/ almost everyone else: he runs people ragged with killer workouts. I think that Ann Wolfe type approach might have done more damage to GSP long term that I dunno if a long layoff could help him recover from a decade of wear and tear. So against guys who are comparable in size, I would feel more confident Georges would do well. Maybe not pristine, prime GSP, but well enough to win fights. To do it against Jacare, Romero, Weidman, Mousasi, Rockhold, and even Bisping is a whole different task altogether. He isn't fighting wrestlers who are showing up around or below his own weight. He's fighting guys who are also well rounded who are much bigger than him. In terms of legacy and legitimacy, I like the fight because Bisping is the champ and I always wanted to see what GSP could do at 185. I wouldn't go as far as say Mike is another Serra because Rockhold was losing that second fight PRIOR to getting knocked smooth out. Bisping has always been a legitimate middleweight. He was no worse than a top 15 fighter for most of his career, but getting with Parillo, he transformed into a legitimate top 10 or even a top 5 middleweight. He was more confident and showed more ability than he did when he was at Wolfslair and not listening to his trainers. I think Serra was a decent to good fighter, but the guy was an alright lightweight fighting at welterweight. Serra managed to win a reality show and basically catch GSP slipping when MMA was still transitioning as a sport and GSP hadn't even really became GSP. I would compare it to Lennox Lewis pre McCall I and post McCall I when he got with Emanuel Steward. Serra fought GSP pre Jackson/Danaher/Nurse/etc. Michael Bisping beat Luke Rockhold in Rockhold's physical prime and was winning the fight prior to KO'ing Rockhold. GSP/Serra I, in hindsight, proved that GSP wasn't all there yet. Rockhold/Bisping II proved that this ain't Silva's MW division from 06-10. You can't take any nights off and just do stuff against top fighters. You will lose.
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    Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree with that. Jacare is insanely strong, and more importantly, has diverse ways to get a fight down to the ground. The guy is a converted judoka who became a world class, elite BJJ player. Moreover, coming in as the bigger man, he has fought and taken down fighters much bigger than GSP. If you have no trouble running through fighters who show up between 210-220 lbs on fight night and stand between 6'0" to 6'3", why would you have trouble doing that against someone 5'9" or 5'10" and 190-195 pounds? He's going to get him down eventually, and if GSP doesn't get up immediately, he is fucked. Since he begam working with Rogerio Camoes, Jacare's functional strength has stellar.
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    Personally, I think Jacare houses GSP. With Romero, you can't count on how active he will be. I think it's a bad matchup for Georges, but he can steal rounds possibly based on inactivity. Against Jacare, I don't think Georges would survive 3 minutes on the ground.
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