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Are the fights on facebook the same thing as the featured fights on fightpass or are they separate fights?

About to watch this UFC Bad Blood episode on Nate and Conor....should be good...
The UFC 202 Countdown show premiers tonight...and that follows a half-hour special entitled "The Evolution of CM Punk".

They out here promoting Phil before UFC 202 even takes place but they ain't promoting Rumble-Glover at all :francis: .....sometimes I feel like UFC wants to fail.
It's because either scenario is a dud, the division is dead without Jones. No excuse tho
Hashad going to MW




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Will believe it when I see it, If true what a head scratcher. That's a helluva cut to be making at damn near 40 and if age + injuries weren't already impeding his explosion this will
 
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Alan Jouban is actually a legit model :krs:
yeah if you sub to mma heat you would have heard it, told karyn and even Ariel about it long ago. It's funny looking at that pic he doesn't look as natural as I thought he would maybe it's his height or hulking neck but he looks stiff as fuk
 

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Rashad v Kennedy ain't the fight I was hoping for in NYC. One guy hasn't looked great since getting back from injury and is making a late drop in weight class while the other dude feels to me like the heir apparent to the Jon Fitch, hold 'em down and win the round strategy. I was hype to see Romero knock dude out, extra between round break or not.

Penn vs Lamas...man...I'm a big fan of Penn, I don't wanna see this happen to him. There's that fleeting hope that he shocks everyone and looks great because of my bias but the reality check was two fights with Franky ago.

As a side note, I'm still really frustrated that they did an unnecessary Werdum v Browne rematch over letting one of the up and comers get that shot.
 

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Watching some random pros pick video on YouTube, lol @ the reasons people are picking McGregor again

He was winning the first round so he just gotta pace and duplicate similar output of round 1.

Lol these fukks giving full camp Diaz no respect at all. Gee I wonder why McGregor was able to get off as much as he did? Oh yeah because Nate had barely any sparring and was not in tip top shape going in to that fight.

McGregor formula vs Diaz should be use punches early on but then use them to set up leg kicks. I'd legit be shocked if McGregor camp didn't train and use leg kicks this time.

Don't just bust up Nate, you gotta hobble dude. Diaz with better movement is a wrap for McGregor.
 
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The key thing is Performance Enhancing

the posted the pics of Jon with muscle on, not even realizing those pics are before he fought OSP, and he didn't come in that big against him, also he was suppose to fight DC and OSP was last minute, and he didn't test positive then.

When Anderson Silva fought Nick Diaz you could look at his arms and see the difference, he didnt even look like that at 205

it's obvious who's on roids you can tell by their performances.

Hendrick all of a sudden is a completely different fighter, not even remotely close to the physique he had against GSP
something obviously is different, he stopped using.

Rory Mcdonald, lack of aggression, lack of explosion in his movements, completely different fighter, all of a sudden. Obviously stopped using.

Jon Jones physically looked the same he always has against OSP, fought exactly the same. same power, same speed, same everything.

the last person he finished was chael sonnen, so him not finishing OSP is due to his approach to the fight.

If Jon Jones was on steroids, who would be devastating these dudes, break orbital bones, knocking people out, he already his more athletic than his competition so he would seriously hurting people.

Now if Jon Jones was knocking people out, and then all of sudden looked like he did against OSP, you would see a difference in his performance maybe he stopped using because of USADA.

or if knocked OSP in a devastating fashion with a single blow, that would be a departure from what we've seen of his capabilities, and there would be evidence he has enchanced his performance. Or he could've just improved his punching technique, you would still need proof like a positive test to make the connection.
 
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