UFC / MMA

MajorRage

@raznomore Wow, you are right. Why on earth would a UFC fighter want them? Surely they are a hinderance in the ring.

Duluth

I see she got bolt-ons recently. Not sure why any girl fighter would want that while they are active.

Yeah it seems counter productive

Pure speculation, but I would assume it's related to her ex-fiance cheating on her (she claims that's why she lost her belt)
Other fighters calling her gollum probably didn't help

raznomore

@Duluth they call her Gollum?? That’s rough.

She has the best coloured eyes I’ve seen in a while but when you’re walking around with A Brent Tate chin I’d imagine self esteem may be an issue.

Duluth

@raznomore said in UFC:

@Duluth they call her Gollum?? That’s rough.

Here's Penne offering her a ring at a weigh in

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I think she claims it's about JJ's crouched weigh-in pose. But it was really bitchy and she wasn't the only female fighter calling her Gollum

jegga

Is he actually a JAFA? I thought he was from Wanganui

jegga

@Duluth said in UFC:

@raznomore said in UFC:

@Duluth they call her Gollum?? That’s rough.

Here's Penne offering her a ring at a weigh in

I think she claims it's about JJ's crouched weigh-in pose. But it was really bitchy and she wasn't the only female fighter calling her Gollum

That’s a bit shit and I usually love a good sledge

Duluth

@jegga said in UFC:

Is he actually a JAFA? I thought he was from Wanganui

He also went to school in Rotorua

I think he's lived in Auckland for most of the last decade

raznomore

Just saw Zhang open work out pad work. JJ is getting slept.

Duluth

@raznomore said in UFC:

Just saw Zhang open work out pad work. JJ is getting slept.

I hope you're wrong, but I think you're right

Zhang will be champ for a long time

raznomore

Zhang looked drained after the face off. I saw just now she's still cutting weight.

That's enough for me to put a sneaky $20 on JJ for KO/TKO or SUB

Duluth

@raznomore said in UFC:

Zhang looked drained after the face off. I saw just now she's still cutting weight.

That's enough for me to put a sneaky $20 on JJ for KO/TKO or SUB

I'm starting to lean this way too.. and JJ is looking the best she has for years

I was surprised at how big Adesanya looked next to Romero too

Duluth

Well that's easily the best womens MMA fight I've seen. Joanna is tough.. could anyone else take those punches??
Her face is a mess right now

She had plenty of success, a razor thin decision again

The finish of the Dariush fight was amazing too

Great card already. Now it's time for Izzy...

Duluth

..and the main event didn't deliver

The tone was set by Romero standing still for the first minute of the fight

Adesanya won relatively comfortably by just throwing a modest amount of volume from distance. Good legs kicks though.

Romero's 10 second bursts didn't achieve much

Adesanya is already unpopular in the US. This won't help

Rembrandt

@Duluth That's the first Izzy fight I've seen. Just from the highlights of his next opponent you'd think he'd be in trouble, that a fair assessment or can he do the work up close as well?

Duluth

@Rembrandt

Watch the the Adesanya v Gastelum or Whittaker. They are on youtube

Duluth

@Rembrandt

Some more context.. I expect the Costa fight to be more like the ones I mentioned. Costa will come forward and engage

mofitzy_

@Duluth
People expected fireworks and instead got a boring fight where neither fighter engaged much. Both fighters were looking for the counter and since neither fighter really engaged, it never got going. Typical flush the dunny performance, Izzy did what he felt he needed to do but he won't win any fans on that performance.

JK

Yeah very weird fight but you got the feeling it was gonna be after Romero took to a standing fetal position for the first minute or so. Izzy did what he had to do and nothing more.

Kind of reminded me of the blues win last night. Take the win and move on...

The women’s fight before it was amazing

raznomore

O’Malley looked great after a long lay off. He’s going to make a run at the title and it’s going to be fun.

Zhang and Joanna was a fight for the ages. Not just as a woman’s fight but for all mma fights. It was amazing. If Joanna had won no one, who understands and loves mma, would have been disappointed. But fuck me with the braids and that haematoma Joanna initially looked like a klingon and by the final round she looked like Grendal from the CGI Beowulf movie from a few years ago.

Izzy was smart and stayed out of the way. That’s not running. Especially when Romero has a leg that looked like tenderised steak. Yoel is a strange guy. World class wrestler that doesn’t wrestle. So when your other weapons are counter striking and that’s not working for you, you would expect him to attempt to wrestle. But aside from 1 ineffective take down and one stuffed take down Yoel fought like an idiot. I thought, at first, he’s very smart. Doing nothing but stand with his guard up for the first round. No energy exerted, now it’s a 4 round fight. But he did that for the whole fucking fight.

Then to bitch about it after the fact and lay the blame at Izzy?! He was beaten because he did fuck all. I can’t believe the shit I’ve read on Instagram. People saying he was robbed and he fought the perfect fight. Other saying this was the worst title fight ever. Silva vs Maia was the worst title fight I have seen but then the casuals complaining about this fight have no idea who Silva or Maia are.

The one take away I got was that Costa has been eating way too much coxhina. He looked fat and seemed to be wearing lippy.

MiketheSnow

Spot on

The Silver Fern

UFC / MMA