[Centraal] MMA topic #261 Machidousasi

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 00:41 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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ik wil haar te vriend houden, omdat ik haar vriendin zo lekker vind.

Wie, Marina Shafir?

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 01:03 schreef Hooidraad het volgende:

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Wie, Marina Shafir?

jep

Ze zijn iig niet zo lelijk als Tate

Melendez overigens naar Bellator

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 01:18 schreef LitmanenAFCA het volgende:
Melendez overigens naar Bellator

Wow, dat is snel gegaan.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 01:20 schreef Hooidraad het volgende:

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Wow, dat is snel gegaan.

Yup, als de UFC het bod evenaart wat hij heeft gehad van Bellator dan blijft hij bij de UFC

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 01:20 schreef Hooidraad het volgende:

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Wow, dat is snel gegaan.

The UFC currently holds matching rights on Melendez.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 01:20 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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The UFC currently holds matching rights on Melendez.

Te langzaam

Gr Gr

wordt dit een tweede eddie alverez?

@CesarGracieBJJ: @GilbertMelendez won't be punked by @danawhite if not careful our other guys will be leaving @ufc for @BellatorMMA

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 02:10 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
@CesarGracieBJJ: @GilbertMelendez won't be punked by @danawhite if not careful our other guys will be leaving @ufc for @BellatorMMA

Wie zitten daar nog meer bij dan? Nate en Shields iig

Denk dat ze het niet erg zouden vinden als ze van Shields af zijn.

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“I can live with Dana not liking me but what I can’t live with is Dana using me to hurt someone else. I’ve taken abuse and maybe I deserved some of it but Cris is a beautiful person and great athlete and doesn’t deserve to be insulted like this.

I don’t understand how Dana lets his hatred towards me hurt the UFC and the fans by not making this fight.

He accuses her of still using banned substances and say that she isn’t worthy of fighting Ronda yet a year ago he personally called me to make the fight happen.

I never said she would die if she made 135- we just repeated what the Dr said that Cris shouldn’t make a career at 135- we offered a 3 fight deal they said no 7 fights or no deal.

Regardless – I won’t stand in the way from the fans getting a fight they want and I won’t hold Cris Back. So I’m stepping down as Cris’ manager

Now he can’t hold that against her-

I’m also tired of Dana accusing Cris of using banned substances. I challenge you to put up or shut up- Test her or stop lying about her- Cris is a beautiful woman inside and out- don’t insult her on her looks- she may be tough as nails but she still has feelings.

I know people are going to say there goes Tito making this about him again- but it’s not -it’s about Cris Cyborg- the baddest woman on the earth – soon to be multi-sport world champion.”

-Tito Ortiz

http://www.axs.tv/sports/(...)ris-cyborgs-manager/

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 09:13 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

Cormier and Cummins clash on FOX Sports Live - Uncut

Wat een slap acteerwerk van alledrie in die video

Verdacht veel mensen (UFC goons?) die hier Cummings aan het hypen zijn.
http://www.reddit.com/r/M(...)mmins_on_fox_sports/

Dit Cummins topic
http://forums.sherdog.com(...)s-war-wagon-2671621/

Interessant feitje uit de video: Cummins werkte hiervoor op een drivethru van een coffeeshop.



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JACK SLACK: THE SHAPE-SHIFTING GEGARD MOUSASI
http://fightland.vice.com(...)fting-gegard-mousasi

http://fightland.vice.com(...)lyoto-machida-riddle

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Cummins MMA Hour
http://www.mmafighting.co(...)omer-patrick-cummins

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Remember the name, “Patrick Cummins,” because he is likely to be a Top 10 UFC Light Heavyweight in the very near future. With only 4 career fights under his belt, Cummins is still a few wins away from a UFC contract, but there is little doubt that once he signs, he should start making waves in the division.

Cummins grew up in Pennsylvania, playing a variety of sports alongside his two brothers. All 3 siblings eventually attended Penn State University where Cummins made the wrestling team as a walk-on. He quickly worked his way up from the bottom, achieving All-American status as a heavyweight twice in his career. In 2003, he finished top 4 in the nation and just one year later earned runner-up honors After college, Cummins attempted to make the Olympic wrestling team, but ultimately fell short of that dream. During his Olympic bid, he roomed alongside Muhammed Lawal, who eventually planted the seed for Cummins’ transition to mixed martial arts.

Cummins began training and shed nearly 50 pounds to get down to Light Heavyweight. In 2010, Cummins participated on the EA Sports MMA Fighter Exchange, which paired an aspiring MMA prospect with a Strikeforce top contender. Cummins landed the always entertaining Jason “Mayhem” Miller. Alongside Miller and his manager Ryan Parsons, the trio ventured down to Brazil where they trained at the famed Nova Uniao complex. Cummins reaped the benefits as a few months later he submitted his way to a 1st round victory. With his successful MMA debut behind him, Cummins looked destined for the fast track to success, but unfortunately some troubles from his college days came back to haunt him.

Cummins and fellow prospect Eric Bradley were sentenced to jail time due to stealing items from fraternity houses. After 8 months, Cummins was released, and returned back to California where he began training at Reign MMA. Cummins returned to the cage at Pro Elite 3, winning once again via 1st round finish, but Pro Elite soon went under and Cummins was left scrambling for potential opponents. He sat out for over a year before finally returning in 2013 to pick up consecutive wins over journeyman opponents. Unfortunately, Cummins has continued to find it difficult to find fights as over 40 opponents have turned down fights with him.

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Cummins trains at Reign MMA, which is one of the top camps in the world right now. He trains daily with the likes of Mark Munoz, Jake Ellenberger, and their newest addition Chael Sonnen. One would think that Cummins would have the UFC connections due to his camp affiliation, but it just happened yet, though not for a lack of trying. The UFC brass know very well who Cummins is and they have advised him to pick up a few fights before potentially bringing him in.

Cummins’ manager, Ryan Parsons, has done a commendable job getting his name out there. He recently appeared on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Hour, which can be seen here. Cummins has also been featured by most of the big MMA websites in some recent articles. Dennis Bermudez is the only client of Parsons’ currently on the UFC roster, but with promising prospects Satoshi Ishii and Gregor Gillespie, it would be no surprise to see all 4 of these fighters competing in the UFC in the next few year

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 09:13 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

Cormier and Cummins clash on FOX Sports Live - Uncut

Mwah, slecht acteerwerk.. I dunno.

Cormier gaat hem in ieder geval de vernieling in helpen

Lyoto Machida vs. Gegard Mousasi
Francis Carmont vs. Ronaldo Souza
Takenori Sato vs. Erick Silva
Viscardi Andrade vs. Nico Musoke
Andy Ogle vs. Charles Oliveira

Paar Cummins feitjes:

• Convicted felon - veroordeeld voor diefstal in studentenhuizen, zit nu op een 5 jaar probation. Verklaart ook waarom hij niets anders kon krijgen dan drive tru coffeeshop medewerker.
• hij heeft z'n baan bij de coffeeshop inmiddels opgezegd, waarschijnlijk heeft hij net zoals Anthony Perosh (die Crocop's partij in Australie redde) ook een guaranteed multi fight deal gekregen.
• 40 mensen hebben een partij tegen hem geweigerd, ze proberen het nu zo te draaien dat die allemaal bang voor hem waren
• 2 officiele partijen waarbij de 1e tegenstander een 0-3 record had en de 2e 5-15
• Hij traint bij Mark Munoz en Chael Sonnen en King Mo (dikke matties met DC) heeft hem de MMA wereld in geholpen (net zoals destijds Johnny Hendriks).

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Lyoto Machida vs. Gegard Mousasi
Prachtig main event, waar ik al een heel poos naar uitkijk! Zal een close fight worden maar
Machida heeft veel meer tools om deze pot winnend af te sluiten. Sorry Gegard, deze komt echt te vroeg in je UFC carrière.

Jacare Souza vs. Francis Carmont
Enige fight waar ik licht twijfel over de outcome. Souza zou Carmont echt wel pakken met zijn zieke BJJ skills maar ik vraag me af of hij Carmont naar de grond kan krijgen...

Erick Silva vs. Takenori Sato
Erick Silva by (T)KO. Sato "Welterweight King of Pancrase".. wat stelt Pancrase tegenwoordig nog voor?

Viscardi Andrade vs. Nico Musoke
Musoke is bad ass!! En Andrade is dan wel 12-1 in zijn laatste 13, maar of dat nou de tegenstand is die je klaarstoomt voor het echte werk?

Charles Oliveira vs. Andy Ogle
Oliveira 3.0!!

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 13:10 schreef Geo4kant het volgende:
Ben wel benieuwd naar de waarheid achter dat Melendez verhaal, het lijkt me sowieso wel een beetje een arrogant mannetje.. sowieso heel die 209 bub met Cesar als manager

Misschien is hij nog butthurt omdat hij vind dat hij won van Bendo

Overstappen naar Bellator is career suicide, de UFC brass zal er echt niet wakker van liggen.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 13:10 schreef Geo4kant het volgende:
Ben wel benieuwd naar de waarheid achter dat Melendez verhaal, het lijkt me sowieso wel een beetje een arrogant mannetje..

Vind je? In de docu 'Mexican fighter' kreeg ik echt een heel ander beeld van 'm.

Was al voorbij gekomen dat Hans Stringer bij de UFC zit? Benieuwd of hij wat potten kan breken daar in tegenstelling tot Michael Kuiper.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 15:23 schreef Fyodor het volgende:
Hans Stringer

Machida
Jacare
Silva
Musoke
Oliveira

Ik hoop van harte Mousasi, maar denk dat Machida wint.
In principe heeft Gegard de tools om te winnen, maar de kwaliteit van zij tegenstanders is een tijd lang niet zo hoog geweest als die van Machida. Tel daar het thuisvoordeel van Machida bij op en dat dit voor het eerst sinds lange tijd weer op 185 is voor Gegard...

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Cage Warriors Fighting Championship returns this Saturday, February 15, with the opening event of the promotion’s 2014 schedule.

CWFC 64, which will be headlined by a highly-anticipated bout between bantamweight contenders James Pennington and Cory Tait, takes place at The Forum in Kentish Town, London, England.

As always, the event will be broadcast live to every corner of the world, while tickets are available to purchase HERE. Doors open at 5.45pm, with the first of 11 professional bouts scheduled to begin at 6.30pm local time.

The six-bout main card kicks off at 9pm GMT (4pm ET/1pm PT), following three Facebook prelims, which stream live and free of charge to the entire world from 7.45pm GMT (2.45pm ET/11.45am PT). Find broadcast details for your region below.

- Watch the Facebook prelims live HERE. https://www.facebook.com/(...)=app_113165568775888
- Watch the main card live via:

LIVE STREAMING

MMAjunkie.com | USA and Canada only
www.IrishMMA.tv | Ireland only
CageWarriors.tv | Rest of the world (excluding the UK)

http://www.cagewarriors.tv/

LIVE TV

Premier Sports | United Kingdom
Setanta Sports 1 | Ireland
Fight Now TV | USA
The Fight Network | Canada, Belgium, Portugal, Turkey, Middle East
Fight Klub | Poland
TV3 Sport | Denmark
Setanta Action | Africa
ESPN | Oceania, Caribbean

MAIN CARD | 9pm GMT (4pm ET/1pm PT)

James Pennington vs. Cory Tait
Boubacar Balde vs. Jake Bostwick
Danny Roberts vs. Juan Manuel Suarez
Benjamin Brander vs. Nad Narimani
Laura Howarth vs. Amanda Kelly
Matt Inman vs. Gregor Weibel

FACEBOOK PRELIMS | 7.45pm GMT (2.45pm ET/11.45am PT)

David Howell vs. Brad Wheeler
Cameron Else vs. Spencer Hewitt
Andy Kerr vs. Charlie Watts

http://www.bloodyelbow.co(...)g-college-penn-state

Pat Cummins, an undefeated and relatively unknown light heavyweight, will face Daniel Cormier in the co-main event of UFC 170. Bloody Elbow's Mike Riordan takes a critical eye to his past fights and decorated career as a wrestler.

On the eighth day of February, 2007, Daniel Cormier had a hell of a day on the wrestling mats. The 2004 Olympian competed in America's premier international wrestling tournament, the Dave Schultz Memorial, opting to enter the 120 kg weight class, up from his normal weight of 96 kg. The extra mass did not affect him at all, as he mowed down one elite American heavyweight after another. In the semifinals, Cormier beat Tommy Rowlands, a top five finisher in the World Championships, and in the finals, Cormier edged out 2008 Olympian Steve Mocco.

Both Rowlands and Mocco were impressive wins, but Cormier's most resounding performance of the day may have come in the quarterfinals. There he defeated a very good heavyweight named Pat Cummins by a lopsided margin, scoring seven points in the four minute match, while yielding none.

Moving up in weight, and soundly defeating a wrestler like Cummins says amazing things of Cormier's skills. For, as you will see, Cummins was awfully darned good.

Pat Cummins's Wrestling Career

Before Cummins became the "Rocky" story of UFC 170, he did the same thing in NCAA wrestling. As a high schooler, Cummins never placed in the top eight of Pennsylvania State Championships, and he only joined the Penn State University wrestling team as a walk on. During his first three years at Penn State, Cummins yielded only mediocre results on the mats as he bulked up from his high school weight of 189 pounds to well over 200 pounds. As a sophomore, he secured the job as Penn State's starting heavyweight, then, as a junior, he suddenly went from a relative nobody to one of the very best heavyweights in the entire nation. In 2003, he completed his break-out season by placing fourth at the 2003 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

In developing from a wrestling also-ran to an All-American, Cummins had taken part in one of the sport's great Cinderella stories, and he was not yet finished. In his senior year, he would defeat NCAA champion Tommy Rowlands in an early season dual, and ascend to the number one ranking in the country. Cummins's spectacular final season culminated in a meeting with Rowlands in the NCAA finals. Though Cummins lost his final match, he ended his improbable run in college wrestling as the second best heavyweight in the country.

After college, Cummins continued his competitive career as a freestyle wrestler on the Senior level. For the first few years on the freestyle circuit, he wrestled at 120 kg and enjoyed decent success as one of the better heavyweights in the USA. Then, in 2009, he dropped weight classes from 120 kg to 96 kg, and his freestyle career really took off. A leaner, meaner Cummins achieved higher finishes at various events, and in 2010 he claimed his first international tournament championship, winning the gold medal at the Dave Schultz Memorial.

Later in 2010, Cummins showed truly world-class wrestling ability by making the finals of the World Team Trials challenge tournament. There, he dropped a fairly competitive match to 2012 Olympic gold medalist Jake Varner. With his performance at the trials, Cummins finished his wrestling career as the third ranked 96 kg freestyle wrestler in the United States, and had he not gone in a different direction, he would have had an outside shot at making the 2012 Olympic team.

The wrestling technique of Pat Cummins

Cummins was one of the most exciting and dynamic big men seen in college wrestling this century. Despite wrestling against giant men, he carried with him the versatile set of techniques normally seen in much smaller wrestlers.

Cummins had a fondness for shooting right handed high crotches. Above, you can see him take this shot against Michigan's All-American heavyweight Greg Wagner (who trounced Cain Velasquez in his final college match). Not only does Cummins have the mobility to penetrate on Wagner, but he also has the strength to lift the massive man completely off the mat.

In this sequence, Cummins shoots a head-inside single to Wagner's left leg, and finishes with a quick trip. You do not often see a heavyweight with the athleticism to take true shots to both sides and finish them with ease, particularly against an opponent as big and skilled as Wagner.

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In 2005, Cummins won the heavyweight championship in the first and only season of the ill-fated, and fairly wacky, Real Pro Wrestling. Though the show looked corny, it featured first-rate wrestling competition. In the two bits of footage above, Cummins demonstrates his competency in upper-body wrestling, as well as his immense power, launching Wes Hand in two high amplitude throws. Just for perspective, the 250 pound Hand is best known for coming within a whisker of defeating Brock Lesnar in the finals of the 2000 NCAA Wrestling championships.

[I'll add here that placing the RPW wrestling surface on a raised platform was a terrible idea, like, YAMMA pit terrible.]

The Fighting Style of Pat Cummins

Watching the entirety of Cummins fighting catalogue only takes about ten minutes. Throughout his short fights, he looks poised, polished and sharp, though, admittedly, his competition is abysmal. Cummins adopts a smart, unabashedly wrestling-centric approach. Striking only serves to set up shots, and he looks for the takedown as soon as possible. Once on the ground, he looks very comfortable in the grappling phase of the fight; he maintains good posture, generates impressive force on his grounded strikes and has even finished one of his fights with an arm triangle.

Overall, Cummins exudes confidence and skills which belie his lack of cage time, but, without question, he has never taken on a fighter in the same universe of ability as Daniel Cormier.

Final Analysis

In all honesty, Cormier represents a nightmare matchup for Cummins. Cormier has vastly more experience in actual fights, has faced infinitely superior opponents and possesses a vastly more sophisticated striking game. If he wants to win, Cummins absolutely needs to take the fight to the ground; unfortunately he faces a man who once held him scoreless in a real wrestling match, and who has never come close to yielding a take down in a fight.

Hopefully, as a reward for taking this fight, the UFC gives Cummins a couple more chances, because I believe he is a legitimately good fighter who can make a serious mark on the current landscape of the light heavyweight division. Against Cormier, however, he has about as much hope as boxing Homer Simpson facing Drederick Tatum after fighting nothing but hobos.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 15:23 schreef Fyodor het volgende:
Was al voorbij gekomen dat Hans Stringer bij de UFC zit? Benieuwd of hij wat potten kan breken daar in tegenstelling tot Michael Kuiper.

Nice! Ik kwam z'n profile laatst ergens tegen en dacht dat het een mooie toevoeging zou zijn aan de LHW divisie.
En dezelfde maand nog zit ie in de UFC

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 15:43 schreef Fyodor het volgende:
Ik hoop van harte Mousasi, maar denk dat Machida wint.
In principe heeft Gegard de tools om te winnen, maar de kwaliteit van zij tegenstanders is een tijd lang niet zo hoog geweest als die van Machida. Tel daar het thuisvoordeel van Machida bij op en dat dit voor het eerst sinds lange tijd weer op 185 is voor Gegard...

Mja, aan de andere kant hoefde Gegard niet veel te cutten op 205. Ik gooi het er ook op dat Machida de laatste jaren op hoger niveau heeft gevochten en het thuisvoordeel heeft. Maar kansloos is Gegard zeker niet, Machida is wat wisselvallig, als hij geen opening vindt dan kan hij makkelijk verliezen op punten.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 15:43 schreef Fyodor het volgende:
Machida
Jacare
Silva
Musoke
Oliveira

Ik hoop van harte Mousasi, maar denk dat Machida wint.
In principe heeft Gegard de tools om te winnen, maar de kwaliteit van zij tegenstanders is een tijd lang niet zo hoog geweest als die van Machida. Tel daar het thuisvoordeel van Machida bij op en dat dit voor het eerst sinds lange tijd weer op 185 is voor Gegard...

Ik ga mee..

UFC is developing 'uniforms' for fighters

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Could there be a day where UFC fighters are wearing a standard uniform on the way to the octagon? According to Dana White that is the plan, though it's something they're still working on and nothing is finalized. Bleacher Report's Jeremy Botter discussed what those plans could entail:

"According to multiple sources, the deal is with a major apparel company. Our sources also said the uniform will be head to toe—including fight shorts, walkout shirt and hats—and every fighter in the UFC will wear it.

Bleacher Report's sources also noted that several spaces on the shorts and shirt will be reserved for fighters and managers to sell their own sponsorships. But outside of those spots, the uniforms will consist mostly of UFC-branded product and the brand of the apparel company."

Fighters have been complaining about a lack of sponsor money for a while now, and it is assumed that this is what White was talking about in December as a solution for those woes. It would definitely work as another advertising tool for the company as well, since their logo would be all over the gear.

Lyoto Machida vs. Gegard Mousasi
Francis Carmont vs. Ronaldo Souza
Takenori Sato vs. Erick Silva
Viscardi Andrade vs. Nico Musoke
Andy Ogle vs. Charles Oliveira

Al afgelopen??

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 17:35 schreef Nober het volgende:
Al afgelopen??

Ja, je picks tellen niet meer mee.

Goede picks trouwens, dat wel.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 17:40 schreef Hooidraad het volgende:

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Ja, je picks tellen niet meer mee.

Goede picks trouwens, dat wel.

Tis 15:37 in Jaragua do Sul, moet dus nog beginnen. Maar zag op tpb een ufc prelim download maar was nog van 166.

Iemand de tijden??

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 16:33 schreef Hooidraad het volgende:

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Mja, aan de andere kant hoefde Gegard niet veel te cutten op 205. Ik gooi het er ook op dat Machida de laatste jaren op hoger niveau heeft gevochten en het thuisvoordeel heeft. Maar kansloos is Gegard zeker niet, Machida is wat wisselvallig, als hij geen opening vindt dan kan hij makkelijk verliezen op punten.

Klopt, maar voordat hij in de ufc vocht gaf hij zelf aan dat het cutten naar 185 hem steeds zwaarder viel. Denk dat hij nu sowieso wat betere begeleiding heeft. Denk dat Machida er goed aan gedaan heeft om naar 185 te gaan. Als Rashad Evans slim is doet hij dat ook. Zie hem op 185 veel meer kans maken dan op 205.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 19:00 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Iemand de tijden??

Heeft FXR al ergens gepost.

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2014 19:13 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
Timtable
UFC Fight Night 36: Machida vs Mousasi

01.30 uur:fightpass
04.30 uur:main card

Ow... overheen gelezen!

01.30...

Veel te laat natuurlijk, alleen die main event of the evening wel effe terugkijken morgen.

Eerlijk gezegd zie ik Mousasi of Carmont wel voor een upset zorgen.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 19:59 schreef Geo4kant het volgende:

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Mousassi wel, Carmont niet.

Andersom

Is het nou al geweest of kan ik nog picks plaatsen