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Izzy came off as a poor choice of words in an effort to use a clever analogy and visual. He wasn’t trying to offend.

When guys like Conor or Colby say these types of things, they are trying to be hurtful, insulting, and personal. They are attacking whole groups of people. There’s malice and vitriol behind the words. It’s apples and oranges.

Have the show money be higher and instead of a win bonus, focus on giving bonuses for all finishes. Plenty of fighters play it safe to get the win bonus. If the only way to get a bonus is a finish (not counting FOTN bonuses), it’s more incentive there.

I used baffles as in a state of continuous bafflement as opposed to baffled in a past tense. But I’m American so I won’t pretend that we don’t butcher the English language from time to time.

That said, that was a lot of time spent on word policing when I’m sure you got the gist of what I was saying

Back when he was on LA radio, he had UFC fighters on all the time before big fights. Why EAPN sent Stephen A Smith to the UFC events and not Kellerman baffles me

He was getting thoroughly outworked. He just has that one punch power that can change everything. The thing is Fury is infinitely better than Wilders last opponent.

Fury didn’t look bad in his last fight, he just had a freak cut that happened. That made it look worse, but fury was always in control

He’s not American either so what offends you or has a emotional attachment, he doesn’t have.

I chalk it up to a bad joke, but I wasn’t offended at all

Because Diego has already been gifted decisions like the Martin Kampmann fight where apparently hitting the air a foot from Kampmanns face was enough to earn the nod

Diego has been the darling for too long. He’s become a punchline. Never evolved. Progressively getting worse. Hard to listen to him speak. The Gilbert fight wasn’t a fight of the year type. But for some reason, Diego gets treated as this super entertaining fighter that one punch after being dominated is enough to show "heart". His fights are always tough to watch now. This isn’t the guy with the mad grappling scrambles against Karo of Nick Diaz anymore and we shouldn’t praise him for being a shell of himself. We are just watching him get beat up I hate to think of the CTE he’s gonna experience

Shame on him for not paying attention to where the fighter was and this is where that reckless style gets him in trouble

That said, Diego quitting was weak and not very Diego-like. He got beat for every second of that fight. His only chance to win was taking the DQ. I’ve seen other fighters get called out for ending the fight on a more damaging shot than Diego took. Yes he was cut, he was also not stunned, speaking as coherently as Diego can, and appeared just fine engaging with herzog. Then all of a sudden he can’t see. Come on. He took the cheap way out

He should be forced to as well

A lot of that longevity is questionable. The fight with Gilbert was one of the most overrated ever. He was dominated the whole fight, but because he landed on shot it was "amazing". He beat Kampmann by punching the air and looking mean. Hell, I was at the Karo fight and thought he lost that (but think it would’ve been a riot at Red rocks if the judges gave it to Karo due to Diego’s supporters)

The thing is he’s one hell of a grappler. He has cardio for days, and I will never question his heart. But he never evolved. His striking has always been rather pedestrian. The worst thing that happened to him was beating Joe Riggs with strikes and thinking that meant he was a good striker. Then he has one moment landing a head kick on Guida and he felt like he could rely on it. Just like when Rousey beat Bethe and all of a sudden thought she could strike with the best and got away from her grappling.

If Diego had stayed the path of a grappler/wrestler with a solid BJJ game, amazing scrambling ability, and endless cardio that just used his strikes to get there, he could’ve been way more than he was.

Left the gym for the exact same reasons less than a year later?

Diego was never that good. He was a hard worker who’s skill limitations eventually caught up with him. And they caught up with him 13 years ago when Koscheck beat him. Granted, Jackson/wink obviously did. I thing to improve him and I’ve never seen a fighter make any real changes to improve after being there. He has only gotten progressively worse. I have zero desire to watch him fight.

my point was people who are arguing against reyes are using the overall fight and how he faded as their measure. Personally, i hate this idea of how you end is most important. If reyes took it to him for 3 of 5 rounds, he deserved to win. Doesnt matter which 3 rounds it was.

for all of the hate we are giving the judge scoring it 49-46 jones (deservingly), i havent seen anyone mentioned Danas statement that Joe Silva had it scored a draw. Given there are no 10-10 rounds, that would mean he wouldve had to give Jones a 10-8 one round, which is equally as preposterous.

That said, I don’t think he really did anything that had Jones in real danger. Jones had a full gas tank after 5 rd’s but you got the feeling Reyes was just surviving. In the 10pt system, I have Reyes winning. In old pride rules, I would had jones winning. It’s robbery based on round by round judging, but not the fight as a whole

But on Monday, Jon said that Israel not moving up to fight him right now instead of clearing his division shows he’s scared of Jon.

Meanwhile, Jon has been teasing heavyweight for years, has dominated LHW for the better part of a decade, yet claims he isn’t scared of those fights.

I’m not saying he’s scared, but based on what Jones is projecting on Izzy, him not moving up to heavy is the exact same thing…even worse considering his long term domination

His way of saying eye pokes are part of his game.

Izzy doesn’t want to move up yet as he wants to clear his division…he’s scared.

Jones has hinted move up to heavyweight for years. Yet he stays and defends against journeymen 185ers like Santos and Lionheart. But he’s not scared.

So which is it?

I think the better analogy would be a Fiat vs Ferrari

But since your statement is ridiculous, I’ll counter.

1. Losing only to Nunes by razor thin decisions…the same girl that blasted cyborg, holm, rousey, Tate, etc. Claiming she can’t hang with the elite? Please.

2. Who is she avoiding? She’s fought who was in front of her. She fought the former world champ at 115 and won easily. Weili has won 4 total UFC fights. Zero title defenses. Let her earn a chance. Even Shevchenko fought one fight at 125 before getting a title shot.

Maybe a more favorable skill set (or lack there of)

Andrade is a beast, but she’s limited in what she can do if she can’t purely overpower you.

I chalk it up to immaturity, especially when everyone around you is blowing smoke up your ass 24/7

When he’s basically attacking people at all times…especially in the current political climate in the US.

Sure, they are just words…but they are the words being rammed down everyone’s throats on a daily basis with a lot of malice and vitriol behind them.

It’s a shame because he’s a fantastic fighter. It’s one thing to be a fictitious heel like in pro wrestling where it’s all a caricature…but he’s using real life situations, terminology, and hateful attitude that’s permeating our society right now.

whats salty about saying a fighter who was getting picked apart got a fluke win with the one good thing she did in the entire fight?

Im high on weili and think she could beat rose…the point is Andrade was an easier out than Rose and the luck of the circumstances with Suarez injured, weili who I believe was the 4th or 5th ranked fighter got her title shot. Nothing wrong with her taking advantage of the opportunity. Just the right situation gave her the opportunity earlier than expected.

We do need to see more of her. The straight killer in that title fight wasnt who we saw in the first 3 fights. Two decisions and a sub win wasnt the beast of a striker we saw that night that everyone is hyped about.

We have never seen a doctor stop a fight to check on an injured knee before. A cut or eye poke is one thing…but never for a ligament or bone injury.

Didn’t change the outcome of the fight, but it’s a fair point while also being a bullshit excuse for losing a fight she was already losing.

colbys heel personality is a direct ripoff of the most vocal MAGA supporters. Like or hate the politics, but if you’re on the receiving end of Colby-like trolling for the last 3 years, it would turn even the sweetest treehugger insane. Lol