UFC / MMA / Boxing Thread

The Eddie Hearn thing on Netflix is really good :slight_smile:

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Anyone see UFC fights this weekend?

Roundtree vs Jiri is one of the best fights I’ve seen in ages.

Poatan absolutely demolished Ankalaiev in 60 seconds to get his belt back.

If a Aspinal beats Cyril, next fight Tom vs Alex?!

I got sent a video of Potan doing a dance at the PI in the morning, then goes out looking like a double hard Michael Fabricant and decks dude like that.

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Jiri and Alex fights were wild, anything else from 320 worth watching? Had the nipper so can’t stay up till 6am.

Joe Pyfer fight was good

Merab vs Sandhagen was good too.

Jiri’s response to Alex winning, tears in his eyes and a mixture of pride and anticipation for their obviously upcoming fight. Man’s a brilliant but damaged individual haha

Just found out UFC Aspinal vs Gane on Saturday is PPV. ÂŁ20 on top of your TNT subscription. Fuming!

Should it not be free on ESPN now?

They started doing that with the McGregor cards and that last one Khabib did.

Stream East cough cough

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Is it just for certain popular fighters then? I watched 320 like normal through TNT with no additional PPV

yeah just ones they think the UK/EU market will be mostly watching at prime time on TNT. Was hoping everything would go through Netflix to save having 40 subscriptions and still having to juice blackouts.

RIP

That’s what they think! Il send you a link!

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Also please and thank you. Need it for UCL on Wednesday

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They need to change the gloves. That eye poke was grim. Knuckles deep

Are the gloves really the problem though? Eye pokes weren’t nearly the problem they are now when I started watching 15 or so years ago. And it’s nearly always the same people reoffending. You’re always going to get the odd accidental swipe because reflexes make people do weird things in stressful situations, but Pride or Rizin style gloves won’t fix people wanting to splay their fingers at their opponents’ eye-level. They’ll find a way, because there’s too much advantage not to. For me, the reffing needs to change. Currently you’ve got the best refs in the world saying “watch the fingers!” then doing nothing about it, then there’s a poke and they might step in or they might not, if they do, they’ll just “issue a warning” by saying “watch the fingers” in a sterner voice. Only after they’ve done this twice will they dock a point. For me, first is a point, second is a DQ. No exceptions. Bet it soon stops then.

Next thing people need to do, and I have seen this done a couple of times and it’s worked every time, is punch the outstretched fingers. Ever had a basketball bounce on your fingertip whilst trying to catch it? It’s fucking awful. Replace a basketball with a jab and at worst you get a reaction and at best you get dislocated fingers. You shouldn’t go out to deliberately injure in that way but neither should the cheating fabricants going for the eyes.

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Yeah the gloves issue is just Joe Rogan yapping. Only gloves you can’t eye poke with are boxing gloves.

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Well that was bullshit. UFC is dog shit now. Barely any good fights

NYC card coming up is banging. Looking like a Jan return if rebooked. No saves on any cards in Dec unless they make a late dec one up. First Paramount card in Jan is perfect for them. Unless dana holds off and books Jones V Aspinall for the weird White House card?

the UFC essentially being foremost a far-right political propaganda channel now doesn’t help

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