The MMA Thread: DON'T ASK 4 STREAMS & NO GIFS- Cannonier, Imavov, Reyes, Rosas on NOW

[Fong$tarr]

If you are Tavares, would attack the leg for the easy win or give the crowd the fight they want to see with a stand up and bang type of fight?

History always shows that fighters last fights never turn out how they want it to be. I imagine Tavares beating Weidman and him calling it quits.

 

[xbiker47]

I’d say 90% or more of these guys don’t know when to step away

Tony should of hung it up after that Charles fight

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Nobody cares about Weidman

All these dudes fighting when nobody cares about them and having no shot at anything is kinda sad. Their choice in what makes them happy though so it is what it is

 

[mr z]

Nobody cares about Weidman

All these dudes fighting when nobody cares about them and having no shot at anything is kinda sad. Their choice in what makes them happy though so it is what it is

Shiddd...i'll fight for 15 minutes for 100k too. If you can still earn good money...i aint mad at milkin it.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Shiddd...i'll fight for 15 minutes for 100k too. If you can still earn good money...i aint mad at milkin it.

I mean being a washed fighter about to turn 39 and putting yourself back into the cage for 100k, that’s kinda sad. I’m sure he’s making more but still

I actually hope he’s doing it more for the love of it and because it’s his passion rather than because he wants or needs more money. Cuz that’d be even sadder

 

[mr z]

I mean being a washed fighter about to turn 39 and putting yourself back into the cage for 100k, that’s kinda sad. I’m sure he’s making more but still

I actually hope he’s doing it more for the love of it and because it’s his passion rather than because he wants or needs more money. Cuz that’d be even sadder

I never said he needed the money...highly doubt that. Just saying....even if you had 1 mil in the bank, 100k for 15 minutes of fight when you been fighting all your life is easy money imo.

He's a prize fighter....I dont get wrapped up into these guys loving the game.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

I never said he needed the money...highly doubt that. Just saying....even if you had 1 mil in the bank, 100k for 15 minutes of fight when you been fighting all your life is easy money imo.

He's a prize fighter....I dont get wrapped up into these guys loving the game.

I didn’t say you said that lol

I was making the point on being old and washed, risking your health for money. That’s objectively sad

But like I said if that’s what makes him happy so be it

 

[jayt1202]

I don't think Weidman necessarily needs the money but a couple 100k or whatever he makes in his next fight doesn't hurt either.

Lot of these fighters also think about legacy and him ending on an injury would likely effect him mentally too.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Welp

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

100% hope he beats Charles and gets a chance at Islam. These other dudes have nothing for him

 

[spiderjericho]

I don't think Weidman necessarily needs the money but a couple 100k or whatever he makes in his next fight doesn't hurt either.

Lot of these fighters also think about legacy and him ending on an injury would likely effect him mentally too.

Not to resurrect the earlier back and forth. Some of these folks are literally in love with the game. Sometimes it has nothing to do with money. Kind of like how Evander Holyfield stepped in there with TRT Vitor in boxing. Man past 60 knowing damb well that’s not good for his physical health.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Weidman seems definitely more of the can’t get away from the game type. He does mma podcasts and is on the espn ufc broadcasts as an analyst

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

 

[xbiker47]

as long as khamzat remains undefeated, him facing Izzy is a massive fight.

 

[spiderjericho]

I think Khamzat could lose to Izzy.

CKB just went through the Islam camp. They definitely mitigated a lot of his wrestling techniques. Not 100% but enough to force Islam to rely on his standup…which they probably underestimated.

We haven’t seen him enough of Chimaev’s stand up to say it can hang with Izzy. Gilbert is solid. And Khamzat does have some power.

Dana should make that fight from an excitement and intrigue perspective. Just not excited for Whitaker/DuPleeissesis (sp).

 

[blackcease]

Volk is also a short, short limbed, super strong guy who was a 2 time national medalist in wrestling in Australia, about as opposite as it gets from Izzy's credentials.

Izzy vs Chimaev probably just comes down to who gets who first, but it'd be real interesting if Izzy could find a way to keep it standing, or at least really threaten with some subs or something to make it interesting.

 

[xbiker47]

Izzy vs Whittaker 3 or ddp doesn’t do a quarter of the ppv buys Izzy vs khamzat does

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Division is too crazy

 

[boxer15]

100% hope he beats Charles and gets a chance at Islam. These other dudes have nothing for him

Hope Beneil gets slept Saturday. Prefer my overly religious fighters speaking languages I can’t understand. Nothing worse than an English speaking die hard born again Christian. Don’t need that nonsense on a bigger platform.

 

[SORIANOTRON]

Division is too crazy

RIP rob font

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Hope Beneil gets slept Saturday. Prefer my overly religious fighters speaking languages I can’t understand. Nothing worse than an English speaking die hard born again Christian. Don’t need that nonsense on a bigger platform.

That man is nuts with that **** lol

 

[OTG]

7 straight stoppage losses... my god just go do something else man

 

[whtascene]

Hopefully he stays retired this time.

 

[xbiker47]

What sucks is wasn’t Marlon winning his pfl debut and just got clipped in the third round?

Granted Marlon should have never came out of retirement for pfl to begin with.

 

[jayt1202]

MMA is a cold game and for guys like Marlon who had good amounts of success it must be extremely hard to call it quits thinking you still have good fights left. I really thought he was going to beat Cejudo for the belt and he did look good early in that scrap. Since that loss he's never been the same though.