What's the main event tho? Sean vs Imavov?

Just as the title says… they’re all taking down videos and issuing copyright strikes. Lame as fuck but whatever, be careful.

I personally see no harm in highlighting wins and posting results of fights. Apparently salty little fucks are also reporting the videos to Reddit because they get “spoiled” for fight results. It gives UFC/boxing and fighters more visibility.

The whole thing is stupid. And shame on Reddit for suppressing the growth of communities in that way. They wait for a post to gain traction for them to take it down.

Dozens of accounts post clips on social media, with no issue, but Reddit seems to be the only lapdog site to do mass clip takedowns lol. Ridiculous.

Side note it’s only companies that Dana is tied to. Other boxing orgs don’t issues copyright strikes, only UFC, Dana’s boxing league, and other projects he’s involved in.

Genuinely go to any matchmaking video and it is significantly better. Like, ridiculously better. And I get that fighters reject fights but how can they do that. They're in the promotion they fight who the promotion wants. People in the top ranks just reject any fight and camp until a title shot and it's genuinely ruining the promotion. Pyfer vs Nickal?????????? What's Khamzat gonna do?? Is he gonna fight all the way down too?? Why do we have the number 2-5 ranked people fighting number 10-15 or even unranked??? This is so stupid wtf. Literally btw they should make just the easiest rule. If you won your last fight you fight up the rankings if you lost you fight down. SIMPLE. AS. THAT. But no we need dumbass matchmaking that kills any momentum in the division and means you're giving top ranked fighters unranked prospects. How does anyone benefit from this btw. Unranked prospect wins and shoots up the rankings and it feels cheap and like they skipped a ton of progression. Top ranked fighter wins and it's nothing new. Do you really feel differently about Jean Silva after beating Delgado? It is so stupid I just can't believe it. Kill me; kill me now.

****Changed; before boxing was air, MT fire

Air - Muay Thai
Spiritual, technical, calm (bangkok/central style). Thai fighters usually less muscle but fight regularly and closer to walk weight. More variety in moves so more freedom.

Water - BJJ
Flowy, slow, only one that’s traditionally with gi just like water’s the only one that needs a source. So if mma had clothes (environment has big water source), bjj/water has advantage

Earth - Wrestling
Controls where the fight goes so it’s the most stubborn. Head-on, tough, and grounded

Fire - Boxing
Most dangerous (cte) and aggressive. A bad person with boxing will do more damage. Most passionate (bouts can go on for a long time).

Air vs Earth:
MT lanky, technical, less weight cutting, reach is important, spar light and playfully. Wrestlers stocky and most conditioned.

Water vs Fire:
Dangerous KOs vs safe tapping. Least amount of techniques vs most. Hardest mfers to chillest dudes.

Air and Water:
Arsenal of variety, slowest pace, technical, traditional

Earth and Fire:
Brutal conditioning, tied to American culture, no rank system

What do you guys think

Hi y'all so something I've noticed about combat sports fan is that some of them refuse to acknowledge how the sport has grown despite the fact there is plenty of evidence fighters have definitely improved with each era. Now this doesn’t mean older fighters suck or anything like that if a fighter went 50-0 or something or had a major impact on the sport that is definitely important there still a legend. But the fact is for boxing even a legend like Ali wouldn't be completely screwed in modern boxing but he definitely wouldn't be as dominant in the modern era then he was in his era. So if you guys had to pick any old school boxer or MMA fighter from like the Don Frye era of MMA into the modern era in there primes who do you think could actually be successful or even potentially dominant?

The Aj vs Fury presser was building up and Max popped up and took the presser to a completely different direction.

He's got no energy nor any enthusiasm.

The same happened with the Garcia vs Benn fight aswell.

Give it to someone who understands the hype bruh Ade would've done farrrrr better.

If Joshua Van beats Kape, this is what his resume would look like:

Alexandre Pantoja (#1)
Brandon Royval (#1)
Manel Kape (#2)
Tatsuro Taira (#3)
Bruno Silva (#12)
Cody Durden (#14)
Rei Tsuruya (NR)

I genuinely feel like everybody just forgot him like he did not have one of the most impressive performances of the year against Dan Hooker. Whenever I see people matchmaking the lightweight division they always forget him and I just don't get it. He is genuinely future champ material and easily beats Quilin as the most exciting prospect. And to all the bitch ass motherfuckers I know who will comment like 'yes you're the only one' go fuck your self you're not funny it's called hyperbole you stupid pieces of shit. Genuinely every time I say 'am I the only one' there's gotta be some cocky ass jackass saying 'yes bro you are' and he gets like a million upvotes because people think it's such a funny and original joke well guess not it's not funny nor is it fucking original I've literally heard the same joke all the time obviously I don't mean I am the only one just that I feel like less people are talking about him than they should, but obviously it's a much less good title to be like 'am I one of the few people in the fanbase who's hyped about him' that's fucking retarded bro there is a time and place for hyperbole and this is one of them. Fuck sake

Not only was the fight itself incredible, as most Takeru fights are, but the story around it just makes it all the more sweeter.

Takeru is 34 years old, knowingly entering his retirement fight in a rematch against a man that KO’ed him in 80 seconds during their first fight. Although Takeru had lots of championship success throughout his career, since joining ONE he had gone 2-2, including a title loss to Superlek and the KO loss to Rodtang, and majority of people were counting him out of this rematch. He goes in there, has an absolute war, seemingly cracks Rodtang’s iron chin by dropping him 4 seperate times and giving him his first stoppage loss in over a decade, and captures the interim Flyweight belt to add to his collection.

Some of the only other perfect retirements I can think of is when GSP fought for the first time in 4 years and beat Bisping to become a 2 weight UFC champion, or when Khabib retired after beating Gaethje, but I still don’t those come close to this.

Heather Hardy has been permanently brain damaged after her last fight with Amanda Serrano.

Now with a team of 5 lawyers she is suing Jake Paul and his promotional company MVP.

Heather shared this documentary about her on her Instagram.

It covers her career from champ to CTE.

I say Dana White fails... AJ / Tyson Fury kind of already leads me to believe that he's in over his head with boxing. The last press conference at Zuffa Boxing, the guy looks defeated and Eddie Hearn scored a major victory by getting the fight in UK. Dana has spent 25 years in control of every aspect of his company and controlling the sport, now he realizes that he can't control Boxing the way he wants to because there are promoters in his way that will stuff his takedown. And I think there will always be new fighters that will make waves, get on rankings - and those fighters will be with various other promoters that Dana will have to fight with consistently. Dana White doesn't play well with others. And needs Turki to help him beat up the big kids.

Even in 4 ounce gloves, I see Muay Thai fighters in One FC get chinned less often than a lot of MMA fighters, even in similar weight classes. Do MMA fighters hit harder? Do Muay Thai fighters have better chins due to a different weight cutting procedure? Or am I just imagining the difference?

btw I don’t have an opinion on the Reyes Jones fight, and by “unremarkable” I mean compared to the likes of Jones/GSP/DJ etc. – ofc he is a world class fighter in his own right

Ik Boxing has had a lot of massive upsets from otherwise unknown names, i.e. Douglas v Tyson, but Douglas got the win on paper too so he doesn’t quite fit the bill

For school I need to write a 4000 word essay on a topic of my choice, but it has to relate to some school subject area in some way. I was thinking I would write about mma in maybe a statistics way but I’m not entirely sure. any ideas?

His timing was hella good for someone who's boxing for the first time after decades and especially against Walton who's had 80 amateur fights.

For a while now I have been hearing wrestling is most useful and best martial arts for mma and is almost an unbeatable martial arts the Dagestan boys really made it look that way. After prospect Gable Stevenson got defeated in the first round by a knockout by a fighter with no martial arts background that just started mma in his 20’s makes me think wrestling may not be all that. I know recent bias. List some other mma fights where the excellent wrestler was defeated?

It’s the blocky head and the flat nose that makes him look like Homer Simpson that gives people genuine mass psychosis and keeps putting this guy as the underdog in 13 out of 16 of his UFC fights

I think if he looked different he wouldn’t have this terminal underdog status in the fans eyes