Essential The Official MMA Thread

jackswstd

Retired
Supporter
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
72,976
Reputation
8,917
Daps
265,104
Reppin
Chicago
I think DJ beats TJ easily IMO. 207 looking like a great card if they can put all those fights together, Ronda reaping the rewards of Meisha & Holly crashing and burning. There's no one else for Nunes to fight.
 

Roman Brady

Nobody Lives Forever
Joined
May 9, 2012
Messages
16,749
Reputation
-1,050
Daps
14,884
So apparently Marc raimondi can't count for shyt as ufc 203 did between 425-475k buys, that would be the best event not headlined by cac 3 since 197. How he could elude it was possibly more successful than 182 is just :mindblown:
 

So UnThotful

Superstar
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
14,501
Reputation
5,389
Daps
31,737
Reppin
TSC/Icey/ByrdGang
Five weeks out from my fight, it was supposed to be Bobby Green, the UFC wanted to fly me out to a fighter summit in Las Vegas, which would have been a time difference for a week and it would have been five weeks out from a fight," Iaquinta explained. "I teach private lessons that's how I make a little bit of side money, I would have had to stop doing that. I would have had to go to Las Vegas, get mediocre training away from my team, away from my coaches and not get paid a thing.



"It would have been an expense for me to go out there and I was sick."



According to Iaquinta, the UFC allowed him to bow out of the fighter summit but then when he posted photos on a beach near his house a few days later, he received a call asking why he was playing in the sand when he was supposed to be too sick to attend the meeting in Las Vegas.



Skipping the fighter summit was the "third strike" according to Iaquinta, who had previously admitted to wrecking a hotel room after his fight with Joe Lauzon in 2014 as well as cursing on live television following a hard fought victory over Jorge Masvidal in 2015.



Iaquinta eventually got on a conference call with UFC officials to explain what had happened but the end result was still the same. He wasn't eligible for any post fight bonuses such as 'Performance of the Night' for his next three bouts in the UFC.



"They listened to every word that I said and when I was done they said 'well we're still going to stick with the same punishment, you're not going to be able to win a post fight bonus for three fights'," Iaquinta said. "It was their call. I think they had their mind up before I got on that call with them.




dude could have the GOAT ko and couldnt get a bonus for it
 

THEREALBRAND

Eterno Menino
Supporter
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
22,328
Reputation
5,210
Daps
80,492
Reppin
Eu Sou O Segundo
Cris Cyborg still needs to lose 24 pounds before Friday weigh-in

The last time Incivta featherweight champion Cris Cyborg had to make the cut to 140 pounds was a harrowing affair. Justino looked gaunt and frail on the scales the day before her swift UFC 198 victory over Leslie Smith.

This week doesn't look like it's going to be any better for the fighter many consider the best women's pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

"Cyborg" will meet the unheralded Lina Lansberg on Saturday in Brasilia, Brazil, once again meeting at a 140-pound catchweight. But Justino said on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour that as of Monday, she's still got an astonishing 24 pounds to cut before Friday's weigh-ins.

"I fly from America to Brazil [five days ago] 168 pounds," Justino said. "Today, I wake up 165."

Last time out, Justino had a 12-week camp and entered fight week at 153. This time around, though, she's had eight weeks to prepare, and there's been one big difference: According to "Cyborg," she's been on birth control, which has caused her to retain water weight.


"In this camp, my nutrition coach, he starts giving to me birth control, and I never take this in my life, and I take this three months, every day," Justino said. "My coach says it will be good for me, I believe in him, and, man I fly from America to Brazil 168 pounds. My body will hold more water than normal, and I don't think this will really help my body."


Justino said she's done everything by the book for this camp, but simply hasn't been able to drop the weight, never getting down to 150 at any point.

"This camp I don't touch 150," she said. "It's really scary, I look in the mirror, I trained double and I don't know why I don't touch '50. Just something different in this camp is I take birth control. Last fight, I make 140, it was successful."

Justino said that her doctor has advised against going this route again. While Justino, who has talked about getting down to 140 to do superfights with some of the top bantamweight names, won't rule out another drop to 140, she says things need to change before she attempts it again.

"I don't want to say I'll never fight 140 again, that's probably not true," Cyborg said. "But a lot of things have to change. If I make 140, I sacrifice a lot of things in my life, my diet, my training, my thyroid, its insane to make 140, I think a lot of things have to be put on the table before I make 140 again."

24 pounds in 4 days:huhldup:

She might as well just come in over weight. It could be fatal trying to make that cut.
 

Mr.Logic

Banned
Joined
Sep 22, 2015
Messages
877
Reputation
-965
Daps
1,720
I think DJ beats TJ easily IMO. 207 looking like a great card if they can put all those fights together, Ronda reaping the rewards of Meisha & Holly crashing and burning. There's no one else for Nunes to fight.
Ronda will beat Miesha almost all the time...She already beat Miesha TWICE...DECISIVELY...

Miesha is one the WEAKEST champs the UFC has ever had...

Nunes has (1) Penna and (2) Schevchenko...Cat Zingano beat Amanda Nunes...
 

Roman Brady

Nobody Lives Forever
Joined
May 9, 2012
Messages
16,749
Reputation
-1,050
Daps
14,884

Lol breaking news and jim miller don't really go hand in hand
24 pounds in 4 days:huhldup:

She might as well just come in over weight. It could be fatal trying to make that cut.
And this is suppose to be her profession? How does this happen?


Ps cyborg is actually a female Anthony Johnson @ ww. It's just no chick has put up enough of an offense to last long enough for her to gas.
 
Last edited:

The axe murderer

For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Joined
Aug 27, 2015
Messages
40,315
Reputation
6,138
Daps
137,984
Jesus Sage went Savage there :merchant:
Csvl7kZUIAAXPON.jpg

:troll:
 
Top