Essential The Official MMA Thread

[So UnThotful]

WHY?! Kevin Lee got a BS sub victory against Chiesa, which is also his best win. Gaethje has been better than that guy. Justin needs to fight Barboza or Ferguson (who ironically have both lost to Johnson)

Let's not undermine lee's win, chiesa was out classed. The early stoppage did more to take away from Lee getting a legit finish than robbing Cheisa

If there is a fighter that has had his stock skyrocket in the past few months, its Lee. Gaethje coming to the ufc with the hype then winning over the weekend did alot for him as well. Dude was getting mad love when he appeared on screen at 213

So thats how it kinda make sense to match them up. As much as I like Barbosa, the ufc brass would rather try to sell a Lee/Gaethje because both are red hot

 

[King & Duck]

Lmao Lee destroyed Chiesa everywhere..

Yamasaki robbed Lee by not allowing him to put chiesa to sleep.. Fact!

 

[trick]

If this is true...Dana, WHAT ARE YOU DOING

 

[puppetmaster]

If this is true...Dana, WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Mousasi finally started showing some personality, has a fan friendly fighting style and now that The Chris/Jacare/Yoel are outta the picture temporarily at least somebody has to fight Bisping v Whittaker winner.


Weird.

 

[storyteller]

UFC is messing around and dropping all my championship dark horses. I had Horiguchi as the biggest threat to MM and I think Gegard is the best style match-up to beat Whitaker.

 

[storyteller]

Just got a call from a buddy with an extra ticket to the Conor/Mayweather press conference at the Barclays Thursday......prolly gon' be better than the fight

 

[LinusCaldwell]

Does anyone use twitter on here? Add me if so www.twitter.com/kosherfteswl
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[aceboon]

Bellator's MW division is ass, only really appealing matchup for him there is if Rory fights him at MW if he gets the WW belt. UFC better have some young MW talent coming down the pipe because if not the division is gonna be looking pretty bad in a couple of years.

 

[LinusCaldwell]

Just got a call from a buddy with an extra ticket to the Conor/Mayweather press conference at the Barclays Thursday......prolly gon' be better than the fight

Def drop a piece on the experience of that breh

 

[storyteller]

Def drop a piece on the experience of that breh

Will do, I'm embracing the spectacle full hearted. If I can luck into some decent clips, I'll hit your inbox with the swiftness.

 

[Big Boss]

If this is true...Dana, WHAT ARE YOU DOING

 

[So UnThotful]

Moose jumping ship to bellator is shocking

 

[storyteller]

Bellator's MW division is ass, only really appealing matchup for him there is if Rory fights him at MW if he gets the WW belt. UFC better have some young MW talent coming down the pipe because if not the division is gonna be looking pretty bad in a couple of years.

Between MW and LHW, he'll have interesting match-ups while they build up some names I hope. Bader, Davis and rematch with Mo; Rory at middleweight, add Carvalho...that's enough to buy time and develop some more people.

 

[trick]

6 fight deal too.

Between MW and LHW, he'll have interesting match-ups while they build up some names I hope. Bader, Davis and rematch with Mo; Rory at middleweight, add Carvalho...that's enough to buy time and develop some more people.

Those are some interesting fights - not sure I'd want to see him vs. Phil Davis or Bader though, Bader might be too big for him and just wrestle him down for 25 mins, Phil's just going to do the same

 

[curz]

Mousasi finally started showing some personality, has a fan friendly fighting style and now that The Chris/Jacare/Yoel are outta the picture temporarily at least somebody has to fight Bisping v Whittaker winner.


Weird.

Dunno if I would call his style "fan friendly" he's not a boring wrestler but he isnt a fast paced knockout artist or anything either. He's a slow paced counter fighter.

UFC is pretty stupid for prioritizing a deal with Jacare before Moose but I dont think non diehard fans will notice