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Fights this week.
Porier vs Islam Makhachev
Porier is an everyday man's fighter but sightly better. Better than average everywhere, really good in some places but elite in zero spots besides one, beating up pressuring brawlers.
Makhachev is an interesting fighter. Whilst Khabib was the physical freak, makhachev wwas always the technical guy. Khabib relied on chain wrestling whilst makhachev has a better shot, much better striking, lefty and also chain wrestling. Though Khabib had a much more damaging top game, Luke Rockhold esque. Islam wants to ground and pound you too but his grappling is more positional.
Unless Islam fucks up, he should win easy. Porier is the feel good story but life is cold and calculated. Michael Bispings a one and done thing. Fighting is brutal, your chin only gets worse with time, roids can't fix it, you get paid like shit.
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Simply brilliant, very relatable and great dialogue's. Must watch.
Proto Drive. Incredible. Must Watch, amazing soundtrack. Mann is incredible
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Boring, terrible. Don't watch, how can the same people make the big lebowski. It feels like they were mocking the Midwestern amerikaner with this one.
Meh
Nearly finished Gta Vice City. I can't enjoy video games anymore. I feel like I have to work lol. Have a fun week folks.
Like many of the Coen Brothers movies, Fargo gets better with additional viewings. Fargo isn’t so much about plot, as it is about characters, and the more familiar (the more times you’ve seen it) the characters, the more enjoyable the movie.
With that said, it’s not my favorite Coen Brothers movie. The Big Lebowski is better and No Country For Old Men is substantially better.
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All the sparring I did with Makachev's disciples has made me not want to do real MMA ever again. How do you even win fights when the other guy puts you in reverse lockdown and punches you. It's a suffocating style that removes all the fun BJj ground game stuff I'm used to. I have to play the "JUST STAND THE FUCK UP" game against them to even feel like I stand a chance >.>
You're super lucky to have such sparring partners. Their style of mma is highly effective.
I personally wish to learn that if I'm lucky someday with enough defensive wrestling and bjj to be able to defend myself. But yeah, being at the bottom agaisnt such people is a nightmare. Very suffocating!
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Honestly, that comparison is still flattering to Poirier. Rockhold had a deadly top game but he was never one to shoot much. He trained with DC and Khabib but he never really a wrestler of that sort. IIRC him bashing Weidman's face in happened after many striking exchanges and driving Weidman into a desperation move he took advantage of. In other cases, it's reversals and sprawling.
So Bisping's "puncher's chance" was much higher because it was at least going to be standup fight for a bit.
One of my favorite things about LW: it's so stacked that I don't really mind who wins. It will probably suck for Poirier but so be it.
EDIT: That went far longer and a better defensive performance from Poirier than I expected tbh.
I don't fully agree with you. Porier wins if he can keep it standing (likely losing tonight). He can't but if islam ends up panicking or picking a freak injury, he'll have a huge advantage in that domain, also makhachev got knocked out agaisnt a lefty despite himself being a lefty. Porier is another lefty who actually does very well in that match up. Plus rockhold was a stud athlete, bipsing isn't. Makhachev isn't Khabib, his level of athleticism isn't super high and Porier himself isn't as bad as bipsing.
Luke Rockhold was just better than bisping and would have won had he learnt how to defend left hooks. Michael had no paths to victory in that fight which is what explains the betting odds.
Spot on about rockhold. His entire game was built to demolish the orthodox wrestle boxer from a distance and make them pay with his anti wrestling. He will fight the hands if you grab him, scramble, look for submissions or get on top but in a very educated way. On top, he was as devastating as someone like Khabib or Fedor. Would have been a world class grappler had he gone the pure adcc route. Haven't seen what he did since from anyone good.
Even his stand up was southpaw, mostly jabs, body and head kicks, check right hook. Rockhold is a guy I really really liked, here's a great analysis of his fighting style, aptly titled Luke Rockhold - The ultimate power bottom
My favorite divisions to watch are 125-155. The drop in quality after that is staggering. 170 was far more stacked when gsp was around.
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That was the point.
How were they being mocked?
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I don't think it's supposed to be a mockery.
I feel like I have to watch it again.
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It sucked. Small towns are boring. I don't need to spend hours to know that
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