Big Fat Guy

What I hate about last night is that Garry gets to pretend that everything was great, that he had control the whole time and that he was never badly hurt.

When actually he nearly got knocked out and looked as bad as it's possible to look without losing the fight. For all of Garry's technical proficiency and fight IQ, Prates had him crawling to the fence for safety at the end, grabbing for legs in desperation. This fight was probably a bit premature for Prates and he still nearly won it. And Garry will whitewash it all away with his bragging.

Apparently he was talking like he had actually gotten the win over Shavkat in the lead up to this fight. Shavkat was fighting injured when he beat Garry.

Someone in the comments for that Buckley video was saying that Garry shadowbans anyone who uses the word 'cuck' on his social media. Fighters included. And that he might not fight guys who use that word or who do that kind of trash talk.

I don't know. His whole story with the wife is weird. I don't think he's genuine, he talks a big game but someone is going to come along and beat him in a way that he won't be able to spin without sounding delusional.

Wanting Prates to kneel down and bow to each other after the fight. Arm around Prates after the fight telling him you're going to be great someday, kid. Prates nearly knocked you out, man. Anyway.

Ian in the preview--he's going to wrap him up like he's never been wrapped up in his life.

Wrestling / clinch / grappling heavy incoming from Ian?

Hope they duke it out.

Prates vs. Ian is interesting. I hope Ian is not just going to try and wrestle him and submit him to show off all the grappling / wrestling stuff he's been working on. Or if he is, I hope he's good enough at it that it's suspenseful to watch, not just where you can see what he's trying to do but he's not good enough to pull it off.

Fluffy Hernandez might have broken him. Unless he's just waiting for Magomedov to gas himself out.

Peyton Talbott handled Cameron Saaiman pretty easily, bullied him.

If Cameron loses bad here, he might want to go down to flyweight. Although I can't even imagine him trying to fight Pantoja.

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Was just typing the above when the KO happened.

Cameron has a ceiling unfortunately.

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The BMF isn’t always on the line for every fight.

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PeteRose is right, the BMF belt makes no sense and is an obvious gimmick.

If they are basing it on what Nate said in the link, that it's about fighting for who's the baddest MF'er in the game--well if in his next fight the BMF belt holder gets beat by another guy, he's not really the baddest in the game, is he? Or if the title had been on the line, he would have lost it in that fight.

Very underwhelmed by Max vs. Poirier for his retirement fight. Yeah, Nate would have been great, they were scheduled to fight in 2018 but Poirier got injured. Poirier really wanted that one back vs. Gaethje, that would have been good too, close out the trilogy.

ETA: Great minds :cheers:

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Rumors that Islam may vacate & move to welterweight.

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It would be interesting if Islam made that move before the result of Belal-JDM. Would that signal that he's open to fighting Belal? Would be kind of awkward to move up and then not fight / wait for someone else to beat Belal.

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This isn’t true. He said he may retire at 32 or 34 on Rogan just last week

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Oh ok, I stand corrected. I only watched a little bit of it. In the past he's said 30.

People want Topuria to go back to featherweight and beat Volk again, then take on Diego, Evloev, maybe Yair and Jean Silva and whoever else. All that would take until he's at least 30 by the earliest.

At which point Islam would be 35 and I'd be surprised if he hasn't already retired by then. Khabib recently made fun of Dustin and Justin and others for still fighting at their age, he said they're old school.

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I don’t think the ufc liked him moving to 155.

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Then they shouldn't have promised him the title shot.

Topuria hates the weight cut for featherweight. What else does he have to do at featherweight anyway? Diego just lost to Volk, and Topuria KO'd Volk. Evloev? Yair? Ortega? Jean Silva?

Some of the UFC's best / most popular fighters became double champs. They are historic moments. Topuria-Islam is one of the biggest fights they could possibly make right now.

What do they have against Topuria? His cockiness? That he's short? Volk is an inch shorter. Max is one inch taller than Islam. Do they not like Islam moving to 170? Will they force Islam to relinquish his belt to move up? And take a contender fight before he gets a shot at the welterweight belt?