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Remember how last night, you invited your non-MMA fan friends over to introduce them to our sport? You spent the past week talking about how Chael Sonnen is one of the best trash talkers in professional sports, and how technical and talented these fighters were. You figured that after three fights that were guaranteed to be exceptional, your friends would be won over to MMA fandom. Then you’d continue to drink and be merry all night, and we’d all meet up here today for our traditional post-UFC event GIF party where we all high five over how awesome the fights were.
Well, it didn’t quite work out that way. Instead, you found yourself doing damage control as you watched three fights worth of sloppy brawling, wall and stall and Chael Sonnen’s blatant swaggerjacking of homage to “Superstar” Billy Graham. You tried to convince them that the fights are usually nothing like this, and that these fighters gassing out and the end of the first round are world class athletes. Eventually, one of your friends said “I bet Pacquiao would destroy ANY of these guys” as the rest of your friends grabbed their coats and promised they’d call you next time they wanted to watch the fights.
Okay, so last night sucked. But we’ve been planning this party all week, and we’ll be damned if we cancel it at this point. So grab an alcoholic beverage, put on your gaudiest Affliction shirt and join us for our traditional post-UFC event GIF Party.
As always, praise be to Zombie Prophet at IronForgesIron.com for the GIFS.
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commentsPlease tell me you didn't actually believe this statement.. please. This isn't the first article where you guys act like you are actually surprised that the fights sucked, and expected something other than what happened. This card had snoozer written all over it from the start.
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As the bigger names are reserved for keeping that PPV action alive, expect the FOX shows to be mediocre.
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FOX got ripped off, they didn't understand their $900 million dollar investment.
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Surely if there are clauses in the contract with Zuffa, that if viewers numbers drop off, or don't meet expected levels - the plug gets pulled.
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Personally, I will take a free fight any night. The next best is going to some random bar, drinking BIG WHISKEY, and then picking a fight with and beating the shit out of the wimpiest person I can find.
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Why the wimpiest, cause one day I just might find Drano!
@k-onda - I don't think you really gave your comment much thought. We all care about the casual fans. If enough casual fans cross over, we get more UFC for free. UNLESS you prefer paying $50 for EVERY UFC event, then you can continue with that garbage. I, personally, don't enjoy spending $50 on fights no matter how good they are and especially don't like spending $50 on cards that reflect last nights fights. Randy was about the most entertaining part of UFC on FOX 2 for me.
Sonnen and Bisping were fast to start but never really did anything. They both landed minimal shots and mainly hugged along the fence for half the fight. Sonnen had him in the third but again didn't inflict hardly any damage.
Rashad made Phil look like a noob, but was strictly waiting on Phil to make mistakes until later in the fight when it was clear that Phil didn't want any.
Looking at the under and main card; that calf slicer was gnarly, we got a couple of nice knockouts, two of the biggest heels in the sport fightin' to as close a hardfought decision you could possibly imagine, and two of the greatest wrestlers in the sport putting on an extremely technical display of their skillset. Yeah, there were some downers, the exhausted maia-weidman thing, alright. Who gives a shit if the casual fans get bored, they should educate themselves. I had some casual football fans trying to tell me the Ravens-Pats game was lame. The worst thing about idiots is they don't know when to shut up.
alright bud, i went to fightmetric. Scored it for Soenen. Round 1 and 3. Why do u have to invent stuff and lie just cause u love some british cock?
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Amazing how people see what they want - and believe what they want even when there are like, FACTS.
I found it quite worthy of headlining a card.
It said a lot about rashads wrestling and what he could do to Jon Jones.
Lol consistently shitty.. there's been one fucking card and a title fight. there was nothing shitty about JDS knocking Cain out either.
captcha- riddim, solo
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lotta fucking ink man...
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were talking retard in a pen factory type of ink right there.
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awesome fight though
I used to like Sonnen, now I find him annoying. Bisping won that fight.
I was actually impressed with Bispings ability to stay standing. Chael is the man at getting people down... and I think Bisping is a douche... but gotta give credit where it's due. Although still a clear Sonnen victory.
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