MMA

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Man i miss PRIDE. I still have most of the old ones on DVD but im always watching clips and highlights on youtube. Here's a good one for. My all time favorite middleweights all come from PFC but at the top of that list will always be Shogun. Dude in his prime was an absolute warrior who had no brakes whatsoever....

his battle with Lil Nog(after Rampage) is still one of my favorite matches to watch and and him beating up on light heavyweights and heavyweights was always fun to watch too.

 

[CiG]

Shame how the Ciryl vs Tom fight ended, however...

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

https://ringmagazine.com/en/news/vanes-martirosyan-39-dies-after-two-year-battle-with-skin-cancer

Was an all around great dude, in and out if the ring. We went to school together and he was also trained out of my neighborhood gym before he went to the olympics. Extremely humble and respectful guy.

RIP Vanes

 

[no country for old wainds]

damn, i didn't know about that. he was around at the height of my boxing obsession, he was legit too, every loss on his record is against someone elite and aside from the slightly misguided comeback against ggg literally all of them were close/disputed decisions. pretty sure he deserved the win in the charlo fight and one of the lara fights. rip

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yeah he definitely beat charlo and lara in their first fight. And while he never gained the popularity he deserved, he was truly a nightmare for anyone that stepped in the ring with him. He was beating the crap out of seasoned veterans during his sparring sessions iut here... and he wasn't even 18 yet at the time. His picture is still up in that gym. Very gifted fighter. Last i saw him was about a year ago. He was with his beautiful little daughter. Just as soft spoken and respectful as always. I know i said this a few times but he was just an extremely humble and genuinely a very good dude and it always sucks when someone like dies young.

EDIT: i'd say he was probably the most talented Armenian boxer we've had. While others liike Vic Darchinyan and Arthur Abraham were more well know, none of them were an overall better boxer than he was... not even cloe to be honest.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Was cleaning out the garage and found these @no country for old wainds

 

[no country for old wainds]

my boy el terrible! still drinkable?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

What a sloppy low level fight. Yeah it was kind of fun to watch but man just goes to show how bad the current talent pool is when guys like paddy and gaethje are ranked top 5 and headlining. Dana has built a clownshow where his PR machine literally convinces people that some of these mid(at best) fighters are top level.

That being said im glad to see the hyped paddy train get derailed. Most undeserving person in the lightweight title scene.

 

[CiG]

Whole fucking event was anticlimactic. So many sus ref stops too.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Whole fucking event was anticlimactic. So many sus ref stops too.

Yeah man, early stoppages, weird scorecards(as usual) and im not sure if the mat wasn't properly cleaned throughout the night but I saw at least 4 guys slip. The only good thing to come out of the card is that were probably going to get to see Arman beat up Paddy. And i fucking hate seeing scrappy veterans lose and genuinely feel bad for whats going to happen to Gaethje. Topuria is a stylistic NIGHTMARE for him and if he applies the same strategy as he did yesterday(leading with his chin when punching, lunging while off balance like an amateur etc) he is going to get decapitated within the first minute, guaranteed.