[Centraal] MMA topic #282 Waar de TUP ten onder gaat

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Op zondag 16 november 2014 02:47 schreef Geo4kant het volgende:
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Wtf

Ik ben trouwens weer wat ingelopen op Geo

[ Bericht 9% gewijzigd door RipMcPants op 16-11-2014 13:23:18 ]

Gastelum vs Lombard next?

Zo.... dat zou nog eens een pot worden!

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Op zondag 16 november 2014 23:36 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
proficiat GEO met het winnen van de TUP!

Het zal geen geheim meer zijn, Geo pakt zijn derde titel en is daarmee voorlopig de laatste TUP-champ.

Proficiat, jongeman

Eindstand TUP 8:


Totaaloverzicht:


Legenda:

Hoe is het nu met haar oor?

Ah, fuck.Weer een event gemist...

Wanneer begint het nieuwe seizoen? Wil graag wat gaan verbeteren.

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Op dinsdag 28 oktober 2014 23:44 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
De aankondiging (press conference) voor 17 november get's me excited!!

Als ik het goed heb vanavond om 23:00 uur

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Op maandag 17 november 2014 21:20 schreef Geo4kant het volgende:

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merci merci!

3 time champ, feels good

Weet je ook eens hoe het is om ergens kampioen mee te worden.

Gefeli Geo!

Ennuh... Heeft iemand zich al opgeworpen om het stokje van Hooidraad over te nemen?

Man ik heb amper tijd om alle events te kijken dus ik kan het niet overnemen

http://www.reddit.com/r/M(...)erious_dirt_on_duke/

Eric Schafer: "Duke Roufus is a bully, a liar, and one of the worst people I have ever met.

I have never been in a more toxic environment than when I was the head grappling coach and fighter at the gym. I saw teammate after teammate getting treated like shit. Guys being told to beat up lower level guys that were just trying to help out, UFC fighters being told to beat up other UFC level fighters so they would not come back, verbal abuse, violence, guys getting lied to about fights, etc. I have messages and conversations with almost everyone of his fighters from my days there; from his UFC stars to his coaching staff about how much they were mistreated. I will not out them, but they know the truth. They can tell their tales if they want.

When I started there I was new to the UFC, and it was purely a kickboxing gym. I was looking to round out my game. I soon joined as the head grappling coach and we started the MMA team. You could say that I was 2nd in command at the time. I was there when Pettis walked in the door, and when Pat Barry moved to Milwaukee to switch to MMA. I have met some of my best friends there and the family was very strong, despite the captain of the ship being horrible. After seeing countless members of my "family" get screwed over, I finally called it quits after he finally betrayed me directly after being there for over 3 years. Sometimes I wish I had the strength to stand up to him at the time, but it almost feels like I was one of the kids in a family of abuse. I would rather run away than stand up to my violent dad.

I left without telling anyone my plans, but I started my own gym a few months later. I never recruited anyone to follow me, but I just wanted out of the negativity. Many of the guys followed me when they found out or left eventually to other places after they got screwed. I don't claim to be a great fighter or anything, and don't care if I ever am as famous as him or his guys... but I am much more happy. Maybe I am just a pussy or something, like I am sure he will claim anyone who says anything about him, but I could care less. I was never a world champion and had my weaknesses in the cage, but I dare you to ever say I quit in the gym no matter who I was sparring. It was not the "hard" training that was bad, it was something much worse. Not every fighter was treated horribly, but I am sure that every fighter and coach from 2007 to 2010 has been screwed over at least once, whether they will admit it or not.

I am happy with my young and happy gym. I have blocked him from my life. I was offered a fight on his card and told my manager that "I personally would not ever fight for him", so a when a few of my young fighters were scheduled to fight on his show (which I did not like, but he is the big local promoter), he decided to cancel their fights 2 weeks before the event. He wrote me a letter (which I kept) saying they were not welcome, because I did not respect him. I said that I actually understand that, but I wish he wouldn't have scheduled them in the first place and screwed them over. A year later the matchmaker came out and asked for forgiveness and said that we can at least have a business relationship. I said I didn't trust Duke, but the other coaches wanted our guys on the card, I reluctantly agreed. Once again, he cancelled our fights a few weeks before to spite me. Oh well... "

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http://www.reddit.com/r/M(...)dirt_on_duke/cm4sc6h

Story time if anyone's interested...I joined Duke's gym 9 years ago. I've been training on and off this whole time. Purely a recreational student, no interest in competing--just wanted to challenge myself.
A little background--I've been in martial arts since I was 8. Started out with TKD, then JKD, then BJJ. At the time I joined, Duke was still a pure kickboxing gym. He was just warming up to MMA.
Within my first month of training, I was paired with a guy (I find out later he's a pro fighter) who throws me a hard knee to the body. We're doing drills, not even sparring. So I go out for a month with bruised ribs. This was under the supervision of a coach...

We had certain coaches who allowed sparring sessions to escalate, where we would start throwing with bad intentions. I can only remember one instance of a coach (who's since left Duke's) intervene because he saw we stopped sparring and started scrapping.

Some classes were an amalgamation of brand new students, experienced students and pro or amateur fighters, all drilling together with no distinctions made b/t skill levels. So you partner up with a jacked 19 year old kid who wants to rip your head off, then next round you get a stay-at-home mom who just wants to get a good workout.

Things changed over the years and they implemented a sensible ranking system, but the culture stayed the same. Coaches turned the other cheek if two of us really started going at it in a sparring session. I broke my thumb on two different occasions doing this. Granted I was a guilty party, but a conscientious coach would know to let his guys test themselves but not get out of control.

Coach Cushman is very old school. He humiliates and berates his students. If he sees you doing something wrong, he stops class, has you repeat the bad technique on him, then counters the living shit out of your lazy jab, combo, kick, etc. I didn't mind this treatment not b/c I'm tough or anything, but I was accustomed to it from my TKD days. But others were visibly shaken and some would be on the verge of tears.

If anyone's still reading this wall of text, thanks.

http://www.reddit.com/r/M(...)dirt_on_duke/cm51gzh

constantly getting taking hard blows to the head is extremely bad for you in the long term. Even wearing protection, there's a lot of medical evidence that suggests this causes scarring and pre-mature aging of the brain that can result in thing like memory loss, lack of motor control, speech problems, loss of senses, emotional control issues, and early onset alzheimer's. A lot of this is coming out from professional football, but MMA fighters that go through this kind of training will probably suffer similar issues.

Hoorde ik dit nou goed? UFC naar Nederland?

Mogelijkerwijs

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Op maandag 17 november 2014 23:10 schreef Opperkwal het volgende:
Hoorde ik dit nou goed? UFC naar Nederland?

Nee naar Holland, als mogelijkheid niet als zekerheid. Weet niet eens of MMA hier verboden is zoals in Frankrijk.

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Gr gr THEFXR

[ Bericht 18% gewijzigd door Nober op 18-11-2014 00:30:07 ]

Wie is die Duke?

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Op dinsdag 18 november 2014 12:52 schreef superniger het volgende:
Wie is die Duke?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Roufus