Essential The Official MMA Thread

[thernbroom]

That guy loves the sound of his own voice and it drones on and on I ain't watching all that, what part is if particular importance?

Damn nikkaz really hate luke , last part

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Jimmie Rivera suffered a severe eye injury in his bantamweight clash with Urijah Faber at UFC 203, and he’s not sure the eye poke was unintentional.

Rivera scored the biggest win of his MMA career Saturday night in Cleveland, improving to 4-0 under the UFC banner and 20-1 in his MMA career with a decision victory, but an eye poke early in the third round almost ruined his night.


"It was black," Rivera told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour of his reaction after getting poked in the eye. "Once you get poked, until after I got out and was speaking to (Joe) Rogan, I started getting a little vision back. Half of it. Half down I could see, very, very blurry, and half was black."

Rivera knew he was ahead in the scorecards, but was worried that telling the referee he wouldn’t be able to continue in the fight would force a no contest.

"I knew I was up ahead in the cards and I kept asking the ref how much time was left," he said. "I’m trying to go decisions in my head, like if I say no, like I don’t wanna compete, it’s going to be a no-contest. I actually spoke to the doctor that was ringside afterwards in the back, ‘was I close on the numbers? Was I right in the numbers?’ She was like ‘you were pretty close.’ She would put up the fingers and I guessed three, but then she put two (fingers) up and I said one. I was just guessing.

"I was just like, ‘you know what, I’m close, this is a lifetime opportunity. I’m gonna go there and I’m gonna finish this fight. I’m not gonna give up. I’m gonna keep it going. It’s something I gotta do.’"

Rivera wouldn’t call Faber a dirty fighter for hitting him in the eye, but thinks the foul was "a little bit" intentional.


"I don’t know. I think it was a little bit (intentional). I feel like… He hit me in the nuts, and he didn’t really say sorry afterwards," Rivera said. "If you hit someone in the balls or poke in the eye you say I’m sorry, my bad, so I don’t know if it was or if it wasn’t (intentional). I don’t really care at this point. I got the W, I got the win over someone that I grew up watching. I grew up watching him as a teenager, as a kid, and it’s unbelievable fighting him.

"I’m surprised that (the referee) didn’t see because the way (Faber) was throwing that left hand, his fingers were open," he added. "It was like a slap. It wasn’t a punch, when you usually have your hands closed. It was a slap. He did it once or twice in the previous rounds."


Rivera will get his eye checked by a specialist on Monday. Right after the bout, doctors said he suffered a "really bad crack behind the retina" and "there’s a scratch that could use stitches on the white part of my eye." Rivera later admitted Monday he'll just need drops and rest for the eye to heal and avoided surgery.


"I didn’t know my eye was open," Rivera recalls. "I was with the eye doctor and she said ‘no, your eye is open.’ And I’m like ‘is it open right now?’ Because I couldn’t see, I thought it was closed shut."

Faber watching old Ric Flair tapes in his film sessions

 

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[The Infamous]

 

[puppetmaster]

I felt bad for Forrest from the opening sequence of strikes


Anderson styled on him so brutally that night yet kinda went easy on him at the same time. No knees or brutal stuff.

Just demoralizing "you should be hittable but I can't" movement

 

[The Infamous]

Ariel for Punk. Rogan wasn't even disrespectful, get outta here with that Rogan was spitting the truth. I'm a fan of Ariel but this shyt was

 

[LinusCaldwell]

Ariel for Punk. Rogan wasn't even disrespectful, get outta here with that Rogan was spitting the truth. I'm a fan of Ariel but this shyt was

I get what Ariel is saying but Rogan called it just like everyone else who watches MMA it was a joke

 

[The Infamous]

 

[The Infamous]

I get what Ariel is saying but Rogan called it just like everyone else who watches MMA it was a joke

He just comes off as a Punk nuthugger.
He wants honesty from the UFC and it's employees, but is against Rogan being brutally honest about CM Punk?

 

[The Infamous]

Dan Hardy is planning a comeback. Wants to move down to 155, believes that will be a better weight class for him.

 

[Roman Brady]

Dan Hardy is planning a comeback. Wants to move down to 155, believes that will be a better weight class for him.

He and GSP seem to be competing for who can stage the longest most drawn out comeback ever in all of sports

 

[Roman Brady]

big boss man was so underrated, they don't make rasslers like that any more RIP ray Washington traylor jr

 

[jackswstd]

Is Stipe injured? What is it with some of these dudes, soon as they win the belt they suddenly want time off. Bones goal after he won was cleaning out the division, Stipe wants time off, Conor just wants to wear his as an accessory.

 

[morris]

Is Stipe injured? What is it with some of these dudes, soon as they win the belt they suddenly want time off. Bones goal after he won was cleaning out the division, Stipe wants time off, Conor just wants to wear his as an accessory.

I say Dos Santos ko's him

 

[Roman Brady]

Is Stipe injured? What is it with some of these dudes, soon as they win the belt they suddenly want time off. Bones goal after he won was cleaning out the division, Stipe wants time off, Conor just wants to wear his as an accessory.

This, it's like they stop being hungry or something maybe he's feeling gassed as he did a back to back camp (if I'm not mistaken) but if cats aren't getting injured they are requesting time off what ever happened to all day every day. You only pull this sort of shyt if you are too full from eating good

I say Dos Santos ko's him

no