It’s always projection with these mags chuds. He’s the one that was calling people whiners and snowflakes, and he’s the one that twice tried to fake that he was poked in the eye when he clearly wasn’t.

He was right that the nut shot was a bad call though, looked on the belt.

Toes flicked the cup.

I think he was kidding but Conor also would only have a very minuscule chance of KO'ing either and doesn't have a gas tank that can handle the pressure those two apply.

Who wins though, Usman or Khabib?

Usman wins because there are weight classes for a reason. It's especially important when it comes to wrestling. If they were the same size it would be competitive and Khabib would likely be able to implement his gameplan vs Usman despite Usman being a strong wrestler. However, they aren't the same size. Usman is bigger, stronger, longer, and taller. Khabib would put forth a good effort but it would not be that competitive, IMO.

If Usman was a lesser champion I might have a different opinion but he's not. He's really really really good.

Unless Khabib gets some next level russian steroids, Usman and Colby beats him. The main difference is that they actually can strike, while Khabib is very much a wrestler who hits decently hard. Not much technique.

Colby's tweet was rude but there is some truth to it. If he's willing to fight with a broken jaw for over 10 minutes don't stop the fight with 1 minute left. That was a bad early stoppage.

Agreed, MG should've let him continued to take shots to the head until he ended up a Bernie supporter.

That's a solid point actually, only someone with severe brain damage would support socialism. 40000 quality posts, keep em coming RT.

I actually want to see more stoppages like that, not fewer. There were zero paths for Colby to win the fight in the last 30 seconds, so why continue and let him take unnecessary damage.

no one gets extra ppv points for losing a decision vs getting tkod

Not true. At worst, he could have won a decision. The ref doesn't actively track judges' scorecards.

at worst? and at best he would have sprung to his feet from turtle up position and ko usman?

let's not waste time with worthless academic exercises, the fact of the matter is he would have lost anyway and ref saved him from some extra brain damage

If the ref really wanted to save him extra brain damage perhaps he would have stopped the illegals blows that were hitting him in the back of the head.

Regardless, the rules don't need to be pussified any more than they already have been post-regulatory reform. These fighters know they have signed up to put their bodies and brains at severe risk. I hope the UFC never goes the route of the NFL making their fighters where tutus.

I'm reminded of UFC 9 where Shamrock and Severn were forbidden from using close fists to the head. So they ended up just circling one another for the majority of the fight. If you want to waste 30 minutes of your life I highly recommend checking it out.

The referee's job is to administer the rules and protect the fighters and their health. MG did a fine job of the former, at worst making a borderline call on a low blow. Regarding the latter he saw a fighter get dropped twice as a result of head shots and then take repeated blows to the head while failing to improve his position. He made the same call that every ref not named Yamasaki would've made there and it's 100% standard.

LOL @ listening to or allowing Colby's whining to control the narrative here. It's just a part of his character. Even he knows he got beat.

Who knows, remember Pat Berry vs Cheick Kongo?

These HATERS are trying to invalidate Colby's win by CHEATING. SHADY KAMARU doesn't deserve to win. SAD!

I hated his shtick as it was so obviously fake and kind of annoying but calling the eye poke fake when the footage everyone saw showed it clear as day is very trumpian and a nice touch if the whole act is satirical. Though further normalising the denial of reality for trumpkins is always a little worrying.

As RT pointed out the stoppage was fine as Colby was barely protecting himself and wasn't doing anything to get out of his position. Don't think you can say he was wrestling as someone upthread claimed.

The colby personality thing is kinda weird. Hes obviously playing it up if not totally faking it but it seems like most fighters at him gym hate him, even Jon Jones had a go at him at his recent press conference so maybe he just is an *******. We have seen recently more people coming out and saying stuff like "He would hate me for saying this but its all an act to make money and hes really a nice guy" which makes me think hes not enjoying being hated as much as he claims to.

The stoppage was obviously fine. People like Chael Sonnen are saying stuff like they have never seen a fight stopped in that position and he was wrestling when it was clear he was just covering up. Chael himself lost a fight against I think Fedor recently where he got knocked down and just covered up and then acted shocked the ref could stop the fight when he was defending himself.

What do you mean "even Jon Jones" ? Jones is one of the most terrible people in all of MMA. After the word "even" I'd expect a name like Daniel Cormier or GSP. You might as well have said "even Aleksander Emelianenko" or "even Mayhem Miller" or hell "even Joe Son."

edit: you must be referring to the fact that they were on the same juco wrestling team eons ago.

Colby's character is just a really, really exaggerated version of his real personality.

Wasn't Masvidal and Colby BFFs?

Masvidal is a face and Colby is a heel so they had to part ways. Otherwise they would just detract from one another's persona. It also sets up on obvious bad blood match in the future where they can hug it out afterwards.

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At the press conference on friday Jones was asked about Colby and went in on him. When I said "even" i meant it in that even Jon Jones who is a bad person knows the guy and thinks hes an *******.

Oh gotcha. Those two have a little history. Covington has made comments like he used to ragdoll Jones in practice and Jones didn't take kindly to that.

I think Colby is mostly a good guy but he's definitely sold his soul to the devil..although I'm very thankful for that. Kamaru just seems like a real good guy. At the end of the day whether they are good guys or bad guys I just want to see them put on great fights and wow those two really delivered huge on Saturday, especially when you consider they normally aren't big crowd pleasers.