MMA General Discussion 2020

[Youth N Asia]

Spoiler

Graphic. At your own risk.

 

[muzzington]

And he won!

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573280632356085762

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1575687763051294720

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1588666324909461505

 

[BruiserBrody]

Coming to Fox Sports Midwest at 2 pm on a random Saturday.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Well. At least Frankie has taken his last beating.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Carla is by far the worst two-time champion ever. Great work from Weili.

 

[Zetterberg is God]

Wow. It happened again.

 

[Gert]

Wow. It happened again.

No shit, 3 times in what 5 months!

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Five months?

 

[AA484]

Five months?

Glover and Jiri

 

[Youth N Asia]

Anthony “Rumble” Johnson passed away at 38.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Carla is by far the worst two-time champion ever. Great work from Weili.

I feel like that's harsh. But then I find myself asking, "Well, how many two-time champions with zero successful title defenses have there been?"

 

[Youth N Asia]

I feel like that's harsh. But then I find myself asking, "Well, how many two-time champions with zero successful title defenses have there been?"

Conor never defended, don’t think he ever intended to. Just allowed himself to be stripped so he could claim he never lost a title fight… also what he did in Cage Warriors.

Obviously he’s better at this than she is though.

 

[Gert]

Glover and Jiri

Yeah I meant the Glover/Jiri fight and Usman/Edwards where the guy losing on the scorecards got a finish in the 5th round.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Hardcore mma fans, how common is it for a fighter to be awarded fewer than 8 points in a round, without a penalty being involved? Has that even happened in the UFC?

Perhaps I should add for clarification, in a match that did not result in a stoppage?

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Forrest Petz vs Sam Morgan is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. There have definitely been rounds that should have been scored that way but weren’t because judges are too conservative. Case in point, one judge had the Morgan fight 30-23 while another had it 30-27. I don’t remember the number but there were a shifload of knockdowns in that one.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comments/jjsuds

I guess there were five knockdowns, watching this now I can’t believe this wasn’t stopped sooner. The Spike era was truly wild.

 

[Zetterberg is God]

Only other I can think of was Kalib Starnes-Nate Quarry where Starnes refused to engage and that was scored 30-24 on one card but 30-27 and 30-26 on the others.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

I don’t think he got seven points in any of those rounds though.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Presuming that, for whatever reason, a fighter refused to follow up on a knockdown, and the other fighter kept getting back up, how many times do you reckon a referee would allow a fighter to get knocked down in the modern UFC without stopping the fight?

 

[Mickey Massuco]

depends on how slow they were to get up, and how they looked once they did but three seems to be the magic number. Forrest/anderson comes to mind.

 

[BruiserBrody]

depends on if Herb Dean is ref

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Well, that was the opposite of the result I wanted, but it's probably the result that the PFL had to have. I don't know where they could have gone from their only draw beating her only competition for a third straight time.

Apropos of nothing, why does it suddenly seem like Twitter is full of people who've had Kayla Harrison hot takes sitting in Drafts for three years, just waiting to click on "Send"?

 

[Youth N Asia]

Ehh. It was obnoxious with her being sold as god’s gift to WMMA while just smashing nobodies.

No shame to her for staying with PFL, and getting their money. But I’m totally fine with this train going off the tracks.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Ehh. It was obnoxious with her being sold as god’s gift to WMMA while just smashing nobodies.

Is it her fault that no credible association, federation or league has a viable Lightweight division?

 

[Youth N Asia]

Is it her fault that no credible association, federation or league has a viable Lightweight division?

Not putting fault on her. Hate the way she’s been promoted. I get that you want to promote your fighter like they’re the best, but I just didn’t care for the way it was handled.

The UFC can’t even do a 145 division that makes any kind of sense. Kayla just seems to be on an island to herself here.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Not putting fault on her. Hate the way she’s been promoted. I get that you want to promote your fighter like they’re the best, but I just didn’t care for the way it was handled.

The UFC can’t even do a 145 division that makes any kind of sense. Kayla just seems to be on an island to herself here.

I mean, she competed in Judo at 78kg; she probably walks around at 180. I sure as hell wouldn't drop forty-five pounds, just to prove that I wasn't overrated. Shit, I wouldn't drop twenty-five pounds: I would have made them invent a Welterweight division for me to fight in.

 

[AA484]

Wow, the PFL Finals was a $50 PPV? Man, that buyrate is gonna be painful...