[MMA] Centraal MMA topic #446

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Jiři Procházka put arms at his side and curled his lanky, 6-foot-4 frame into a bow. In front of him was a Shinto priest, wearing a white robe and traditional black cap, called a tate-eboshi.

It was October 2019, just days after Procházka had knocked out Fabio Maldonado on a Rizin Fighting Federation mixed martial arts card in Osaka, Japan. Following the fight, Procházka and his coaches took a train north to Kyoto to visit Sanjusangendo, the site of one of renowned Japanese swordsman and philosopher Miyamoto Musashi's most famous duels.

There, in front of a shrine, the Shinto priest offered Procházka, a follower of Musashi's principles, a blessing. He spoke only in Japanese. Procházka's coach, Jaroslav Hovezak, called the moving ceremony another landmark on Procházka's warrior path.

"It strengthened him on his way," Hovezak said. "It was a strong experience for our team."

Eight years ago, Hovezak gave Procházka a copy of Musashi's "The Book of the Five Rings," a text about martial arts and a guide for life. Since then, Procházka has followed Musashi's ideals almost religiously. His evolution has taken him from a self-professed "very wild guy" who engaged in over 100 street fights, was in a soccer hooligan club back home in the Czech Republic and once chugged vodka out of a motorcycle fuel line, to someone who patterns his life after Bushido, a Japanese moral code dating back to the samurais. And that discipline has led him to the cusp of UFC glory.

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Op vrijdag 10 juni 2022 15:29 schreef Nober het volgende:
Er is een ouderwetse weigh-in.

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UFC 275: Live Weigh-In Show

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Op vrijdag 10 juni 2022 22:30 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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UFC management heeft weer een grote party. telde maar liefst vijf ringgirls.

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Op zaterdag 11 juni 2022 15:43 schreef Nober het volgende:

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Dat ze nog niet gecancelt zijn is opvallender.

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Op zaterdag 11 juni 2022 16:09 schreef Nober het volgende:
2:00 Prelims
4:00 Pay-Per-View

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Op zaterdag 11 juni 2022 17:41 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:
Die Fialho deed het lekker, beloond met plekje op een PPV maincard.
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Komt door die twee WMMA partijen op de main.

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Op zaterdag 11 juni 2022 16:59 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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zijn gewoon standby hoeren

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Op dinsdag 14 juni 2022 15:22 schreef Nober het volgende:
Komen Bellator Main Events nu ook gratis op youtube?

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