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EDF MMA Thread (for both handsome people and scrubs like Phresh) EDF MMA Thread (for both handsome people and scrubs like Phresh)

06-11-2014 , 08:49 PM
Yowza. Whatta week!!!
06-11-2014 , 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by DC11GTR
Yowza. Whatta week!!!
And the week is just half done.

Calling it now-Vitor's opponent for 175 is announced tomorrow as Anderson.
06-11-2014 , 11:10 PM
Vitor is off the card.
06-11-2014 , 11:13 PM
I wish I could see how red Dana's face is right now.
06-11-2014 , 11:43 PM
oh yeah i bet dana is real surprised these guys are on juice
06-12-2014 , 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by GTBMuckface
oh yeah i bet dana is real surprised these guys are on juice
i'm sure it's not a unique viewpoint but tim kennedy really foretold this a few weeks ago on the JRE.

if they continue random testing- you're going to have positive results wrecking cards the way injuries have over the last few years. drug use is quite prominent according to TK.
06-12-2014 , 12:57 PM
Is the NSAC doing the same random testing on boxers?
06-12-2014 , 01:35 PM
Probably just Dana being Dana, but he's said mma has more testing than any other sport, including boxing, the Olympics, etc...never attempted to confirm, so I'm not sure it's true.
06-12-2014 , 01:37 PM
Cycling has way way way more testing that MMA.
06-12-2014 , 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by PartyGirlUK
Cycling has way way way more testing that MMA.
And is still a full of dopers.


I just assume that everyone (or very nearly everyone) is using something of some sort. You can't train as much or as hard as they do and not.
06-12-2014 , 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by PartyGirlUK
Cycling has way way way more testing that MMA.
Pretty sure he mentioned cycling explicitly, so I'll assume like most things he was spouting garbage.
06-12-2014 , 05:57 PM
Going to a Joe Rogan show tonight, should be awesome!
06-12-2014 , 06:41 PM
Wanna kinda take a bit back what I said about Sonnen. In his retirement speech he blatant accepts responsibility for nto clearing things with the commission and how that is exactly what he should of done and that falls on him. I appreciate him saying that, and Im glad he was able to have a child after getting of TRT.
06-12-2014 , 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Used2Play
Yes. It's funny people keep saying "incompetent" judges. This is a heavily bet on sport (the lines are posted right at the start of each fight on the tv screen).

How much does a judge get paid?
How much is bet on these fights?

Easy to corrupt a judge (or a cop, or a bureaucrat) when you are offering them significantly more money than they can make honestly.

Plus would be very hard to prove, so not a lot of risk for the judges....
The betting market is a lot smaller than you might think, although is has grown a lot the last few years. Half a dozen years ago a typical max bet online would only be hundreds of dollars. Vegas books often times would only have lines for some of the fights and would max out at 500 to a few thousand.

I don't follow the betting like a used to since, as the limits started to increase the lines got a lot sharper but I'm pretty sure it would still be really hard to get serious money down on a fight. 10 years ago we had the same horrible judges doing the same crappy job and they certainly weren't getting paid off big money for their time.

I think the Occam's razor is right here. Many judges have very little knowledge of the sport and no accountability or incentive to not suck. So they take the easy path of being awful at their job and cruise along picking up those paychecks.
06-14-2014 , 07:55 PM
Is vitor still fighting?
06-14-2014 , 09:03 PM
Last I read they're pulling him from the card rather than trying to find another replacement opponent.
06-14-2014 , 09:43 PM
Japanese dude with such an ABC win

Clinch for a minute, takedown, minute later nails the rnc

I'm Canadian and want Woodley to smash Rory's face in
06-14-2014 , 09:59 PM
i just want good fights 8)
06-14-2014 , 10:33 PM
rooting hard for AA to KO schaub .
06-14-2014 , 10:44 PM
Rooting for the next fight to start
06-14-2014 , 10:44 PM
That was boring as crap
06-14-2014 , 10:50 PM
so this is what happens when two heavyweights know they have a glass jaw
06-14-2014 , 10:50 PM
Dana should tell them they are getting cut if they do another round of this.
06-14-2014 , 10:51 PM
A HW fight that goes the distance is rarely a fun fight to watch.
06-14-2014 , 10:51 PM
What an awful fight. Battle of the hesitant glass chins.

      
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