when will this faggot fight again? I like his style and he definitely beat Sean, but when is he gonna defend that title against the Bugman?
im 6'1 weight about 109 kilos and plan to start may Thai next month what do you bros think?
>>195798He’s fighting and beating Izzy in August at 305. Izzy doesn’t have that dawg in him anymore ever since he beat his final boss in Periera and got humiliated by Strickland. Gonna be in Australia too so I hope he gets booed again. Du Plessis is defending against Chimaev afterwards because Reddit Rob doesn’t stand a chance
>>195800have fun and buy a jump rope
izzy mad cus hes actually african
>>195894>305Is UFC finally bringing in the Titanweight Weightclass?
>>195798>>195894I hate Izzy and and think that he's overrated, I also love DDP, but he absolutely drops DDP because DDP is sloppy. Izzy is a master at counterstriking.
>>196025He was, but after getting KO'd he's gunshy now
>>196027No he really isn't, unless Dricus bombs him pretty fast, he's going to win and be champ again
>>196025>Izzy is a master at counterstriking.And got pieced up by a guy with a 1-2 and a teep.
He'll fight again soon and beat that stupid fucking monkey nigger Adesanya with a metal baseball bat
You guys turned your back on /heem/ for this? Shame
>>196271this guy is going to eat a bullet any day now
>>196271Why is he sad?
>>196280cluster b disorder +CTE
>>196283I hope they figure out how to treat CTE in the future, it's practically guaranteed that any fighter will get it so the sooner they figure it out the better
>>196284I'm not sure there's anything to figure out. Aside from scifi tier stem cell regeneration pods it's just the result of accumulated damagephysical trauma kind of just is what it is
>>196286If damage can occur then there must be a way to fix it. It will take a lot of money for research and time but some method must eventually surface to fix it.
>>196289Just look at the way your body heals from things though, if something gets injured it just throes inflammation at the problem to recruit as much material as it can to patch it up like an old tireIf you ever break a bone it will reconnect but the signs of the injury will always be thereAll the scars on your skin you get throughout your lifeAnd the brain is an even more complex organ than any of that
>>196280Thinken of knockouts...
>>196271I can see this guy banned by every major fighting organization but having a successful (yet obscure) podcast
>>196280He was talking about his childhoodGrew up dirt poor, with a shithead drunk father who beat him and his mother
>>196523The fact he's in his 30s and that makes him break down and ugly cry in public about it means he never dealt with itBut he's the same kind of fag that would call you a pussy bitch for seeking out help from a therapist to talk about itSo glad we know he fights because of his daddy issues and beats up and bullies weaker people to make himself feel strongHe became his father Congratulations, you played yourself
Lmfao cry baby Sean just pieced that nigger Adesanya and thought he was the main character. Can we all agree DDP won that fight against that bald faggot?
https://youtu.be/F3nnqcuMefQ?si=t4QSOFpITpbiF1xp
Anyone see 301? Best part of that whole card was Aldo turning back the clock and getting a win. Dude looked great. Also Michel Periera backflipping into guard and then guillotining the dude out cold standing was based
>>195798Had my first MMA class in a gorrillian todayI did a round or two of muay thai sparring then I did a round of rolling with a guy much better than meI totally gassed out after an hour and went home, but I feel goodMy question is, what's the best way to increase my gas tank?
>>196579Run
>>196579Hold your breath under water, the longer the better. Keep doing this and increase the time you can remain under water without surfacing. This basically tells the cells to hold more oxygen and energy so they hold onto more than you normally would. Allowing you to have more gas in the tank.
I fucking hate doing HIIT in this heat I want to DIE
>>196579best way to increase your gas tank is to go back to class and do it again. its a different kind of endurance. just keep showing to class and don't give up
>>195798You actually like his style?
>>197115Ya he just hulk smashes I hate technical fags like Sean desu I also really like Francis
>>195997Kek
>>197108Pretty nice breakdown, it might be worth posting this to /gtg/
Guys, I had some semi hard sparring the other day at the mma gym (I subscribed a few weeks ago after years without any practice of martial arts), and got some lasting headaches the following days.I looked it up online and read that:- some people have headaches from sheer stress- some people have thin craniums- some people have very tense shoulders and neck (my case) and that be a cause of such headachesAny insight and advice about that appreciated, I'd love to keep training and maybe compete
fights like a gorilla on roller skates
>>196271If he loses to Costa he's washed up with Yan
>>197181Stop running into punches and it happens >>197187It's entertaining AF>>197267I doubt Costa beats Sean. He has no redeeming fight qualities.
>>197130Hahaha fair point actually
>>197267>yan>washed Retards like you are the reason this sport's discourse has gone to shit. Also costa is an interesting match up for sean. Costa's bodywork will be an issue for sean defensively and he won't be deterred by sean's jabs. A loss to a someone who just went to war with whittaker isn't an indictment on sean.
>>197679>>197682Love the old ruleset and feel. Wish they did this again with more English dub
>>197679Wow, they let the hammerfists go for a while
>>198204>robbedHe lost the 3 last rounds, got desperate and swung wildly instead of his jab merchant style
>>198204He shits on gays but still fantasies about raping Adesanya
>>196579take EPO
>>198204>says based thingssuch as?
>>199278Jesus. That twitching on the ground, I don't think I've seen that before
>done stuff like kickboxing/muay thai and boxing in the past>loved all that shit>loved that most things aren't that complicated and you can spend a lot of time mastering fundamental skills>love that everything is taught to you in the context of someone else trying to hurt you>loved that while they don't force you to spar, if you've trained for a little bit, show you're not a maniac and you just ask them, they'll usually let you start sparring fairly early on>great for practicing how to actually deal with a person trying to hurt you>have seen a hell of a lot of hate for karate over the years>rather than just taking people's word on it, i decide to go to see and experience for myself>find a local dojo that teaches a fairly strict, traditional, non-tournament form of karate>love that there's a myriad of techniques and tactics to use to defend yourself>a lot of techniques and strategies also seem needlessly complex, too>too reliant on, "you do this, then this, then this," without really acknowledging that the person you'd actually be doing this stuff to would be struggling against you in some way and would probably stop it, or at least make it much more difficult to do to them>they do spar, but only among more senior students who've been doing it for quite a while>all this while telling you it's supposed to teach you to defend yourselfI thought comparing combat sports and traditional martial arts would help me out. In some ways it has, but in others it's kind of muddied the waters for me more, as well. I don't know which way to go on this. Can both sides be reconciled? Can I do both and learn a way that I can make one compliment the other? Or am I crazy for even thinking that?I don't care how ignorant or abusive your answers are, just give them to me. I'm trying to get input from all kinds of people on this. So I've already made the same post in Karate General.Include all your relevant training and experience. Right down to how you've used it, please.
>>195894While I agree with most of your points, I will say that I'm still very interested in the fight since it's a power striker (DDP) versus the counter striker Izzy and stylistically that favors Izzy. I think Izzy has been facing so much scrutiny and hate online that he may have that dog forced back into him and knows this is likely his last chance for a title shot.So he might plan on retiring if he loses. That puts a lot on the line for the fight, a lot of reason to try and find that eye of the tiger again
>>201254>reconciledTo reconcile something they need to be at war or conflicting first
>>201918Point taken. But there's certainly something there. Mention to a combat athlete that you do traditional karate and they look at you like you're retarded or something. Tell tma guys you want to do MMA and they think you're wasting your time. It shits me how a lot of people on both sides seem to view it like this.
>>201917>Izzy (...) may have that dog forced back into himI think you got the positions backwards
>>201254what are you trying to get out of karate that you couldnt just get out of kickboxing or muay thai?imo no hard sparring means you arent really going to get anywhere in terms of "self defense". some karate schools dont even spar and if they do its bullshit like no head strikes. this is worse than being untrained
>>202246>>what are you trying to get out of karate that you couldnt just get out of kickboxing or muay thai?Henry Cejudo is an Olympic wrestling gold medalist. He started out as your standard wrestle-kickboxer early in his MMA career and plateaued. He started cross-training in karate and ended up having more success.Karate can be useful as a supplement even if it's not something ideal to do as your primary art.
Strickland is still ducking goggins, it's been a few days now and no response from that crybully bitch
>>204177Sean made an apology video somewhat like that. Kinda weird how he calls people out like he’s actually pissed.
>>204042>WKF karate strikes againkek
>>204298What a loser, backs right down when someone presses him to step into a different arena
>>204320Yeah it sucks that’s he’s annoying now. When he talked shit to Izzy at the press conference when he was fighting poatan was so funny. Then he actually fought Izzy and destroyed him. It was such a great time because Izzy was no more and some random loud mouth asshole was the one to do it. Then he started talking about his childhood and threatening to kill people over it and it was so lame and corny. I honestly like Dricus more than Sean now.
what would you say the average person is like in the standard mma gym, and would you say there is enough discussion and camaraderie in the gym to make potential friends there, or is it more just like an individualistic competitive environment and you dont end up getting to know the others very well. im talking completely average entry level place you would expect in any city
guys that train together rarely fight on a card.
What do you guys think about this fag? I think hes probably one of the more tougher BW's, hes as slow as a heavyweight though. Still wanna see him win...Our guy or just zoomer aura
>>204417The places I've been remind me of any dojo, pretty friendly, in a jocular way. There's a bit of edge of course since you're all punching hobbyists and particularly among MMA guys since they're the most combat-effective, least-frills version of unarmed martial arts (compared to for example Aikido dojos I've been in which were noticeably less intense). But mostly if you're respectful they will be too, and if you're eager to learn they'll like you a lot.Most people are hobbyists and not even amateur competitors, much less professional, so if you're worried about competitiveness don't be, for the most part people are just there to learn and never intend to fight. I certainly don't, I don't want CTE, plenty of guys like me.Depends on who specifically shows up to your gym of course, but it's a good place to make friends.
In my experience>KarateHas some good striking application but otherwise waste of time unless you're doing kyokushin with headshot spars>TaekwondoBest kicks in combat sports overall due to precision and speed if applied properly with other martial arts, good for your back.Otherwise its horrible on its own because anyone that can get through your leg strikes is gonna kick your ass.>BoxingBest striking sport overall due to its skill ceiling while also making you precise with your hands.Only weakness is your legs being very open to kicks and grappling if you aren't a 200kg fast twitch ball of muscle like mike tyson.>KickboxingKyokushin on steroids, boxing and karate in one, high volume and fast kicks, teaches you to account someone legs in a fight as well as conditioning your legs, solid choice.>Muay thaiExcellent toolset, great striking and conditioning but its overrated, peasant sport that doesn't value its practitioners long term health, just adapt its conditioning and striking to kickboxing.>WrestlingExcellent grappling with brute force mentality as well as hard conditioning, animal kingdom equivalent is a crocodile death roll>Note for all grappling, outside of 1v1 situations in street fights you're gonna get kicked on the ground by his friends.>Brazillian jiu jitsuVery useful toolset but gay as hell, you're better off going with the other grappling choices if you want to not get your ass kicked irl (or implement mma)>Judo(My favorite)Combination of BJJ and Wrestling, got gayer as Olympic rules took over pussyfying the whole thing, the pins and throws are what you want in a self defense scenario >Wallmart combat sports shitlist:>Krav maga>Aikido>Anything sharing philosophy with the two aboveIf you can only do one and want ease of access you do boxingIf you want to be well rounded do kickbox or muay thaiBJJ is adaptable to anything but anything that relies on you getting on your back is dumbJudo and wrestling are what you want
>Be Justin Gaethje>be a former college all American wrestler >Never uses wrestling skill and gets pwned in the end >why?
>>206479There seems to be a disease amongst all grappling base fighters that randomly convinces a select subset that they can just bang, bro. Demian Maia came down with a severe case of it at the end of his career after years of using his jiu jitsu to much greater effect. Ronda Rousey is another famous case to even worse results.For whatever reason, there doesn't seem to be much of the reverse with striking base fighters.
>>204599why do you think anyone wanted to hear your opinion? are you a successful mma coach? are you a storied competitior? you are none of these. so be quiet and stay in your lane nigger
Khamzat Strickland fight please give it to me I need it please please
>>204550talmbout walked through bums pretty easily, i mean saiman isn't a bum but at best a top 15 Bantaweight. really need to see him fight a ranked opponent but he does have the "IT' factor
AND.....STILL!Dricus subbed Izzy. Fuckin awesome
we the real africans now
>>206479he usually wins. has only really lost against championship level fighters. Khabib, Eddie, Charles and Max have all been champs. Dustin was an interim champ.and he said it before, he thinks a primarily wrestling style is dull and he likes to entertain and make $$
I can't breathe
>>208464Damn, fuckin street fighter kicks. Great ko
>>196025Anon, I….
Remember this idea of "proper technique" is a myth and the only treason you say a fighter is sloppy or has ugly technique or bad form is you've been conditioned to think it's supposed to /look/ a certain wayBut martial arts is always function over form, if the technique is doing what you need it to do when you need it to do it then its good technique You look at someone grit their teeth close their eyes drop their head forward and do a big looping overhead punch And if it connects and knocks out his opponent it doesn't matter how it looked, In that moment it was the perfect technique A mediocre fighter is someone that tries to follow a flow chart, a great fighter is one that just flows
>>208878Is he kneeing him in the sternum repeatedly?
>>209043>Just see red broIs actually the pinnacle of martial arts. If you can't tap into your inner rage and primitive violence you will never make it
>>209105It's the end realization. Almost everyone has to put it to the side for long periods, but the final hurdle is not to toss it completely. It's there for a reason, but even a true natural has to learn to direct those urges.
I miss him. So many fun matchups to be had in the time he's been out
>>196854are you fucking retarded, which loid gave you this piece of information
holy shit I didn't realize we had this thread. is this the schizo free /heem/? I don't even care if it's slow
>>209313i think he's coming back this year or very early next year
>>212242>>212243>>212245>>212248>>212249>>212253>>212256>>212258how the hell does RIZIN even makes money? all their fights are livestreamed for free, you can even watch replays of their old fights for free.not complaining just curious
>>212260Men with business suits over their business suits take care of that.
>>212260Ticket sales. The Rizin card this past July had 48,000 people in the crowd. Only the top 3 highest UFC cards ever had a larger attendance. They also have sponsors and yakuza money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYG6s4xc8Kg
>>212260yakuza money, duh.
Yeah I'm a jacked Taiwanese boy whatup
>>195798I live in northern Virginia, anyone know where to train mma there? I used to train at FFA Miami, which was nice because you could go 24/7 to use an empty room for mat or bag work
anyone watching the Dana White Contender Series tn? they have good prospects on most cards
>>212410if theres a bjj class nearby then go for it, usually they'd train all the other mma essentials as well
Just started watching UFC with the big sphere one, are women's fights always boring filler on the card for no reason or was that an outlier?
>>21255290% of the wmma fights are for piss break. There are some that are pretty entertaining. On paper, the latest Grasso-Shevchenko should be a decent matchup due to their previous fights, but it ended up being a one-sided crotchsniffingfest.
>>212552No, every single fight is always the same and nothing different ever happens Fuckin idiot
>>212585hey man calm your tits, dude was just asking a question
>>212558If the women were naked the majority would watch the fights more. Also, imagine s-mounting the other woman.
>>212552Women just don't have the fast twitch muscle fibers to fight in an entertaining way. The way they strike is always like moving in slow motion even if they are skilled (which most of them also are not). Their grappling can be fine because it doesn't take the same level of explosivness but most casual fans do not enjoy that as much anyway.
unironically who can stop him?
>>212242Rizin 48 was such a fucking bangerCompare that to whatever the fuck UFC 307 was today
>>212260It's only free for foreign viewers, they're presumably trying to grow the foreign market. The PPV is usually like $20 so I reckon a lot of people just pay for that in Japan as it's cheap enough to be less hassle than pirated streamsWent to Rizin a while back and it's also packed out in the venue so I bet ticket sales are their major thing
>>212801Ankalaev maybe but Rountree came real close, too bad he gassed out early.
>>212747Dumb question gets a snarky response
>>212801
>>212810holy fuck, dude just ate that headkick like it was nothing.
>>212926Poatan shouldn't go to HW. It's best he stays where he is. Tom has unfinished business with either Jones (probably won't fight him) or Stipe (says he will fight him but who knows)Or he gets promoted to undisputed champ after Jones retires.
>>212266Holy fuck how do they pull such huge crowds? I had no idea MMA was this big in Japan
>>213041Asians in general seem to absolutely love local-ish promotions of any given fight sport in person, but give zero fucks about international events. I wanna say South Korea is the only real exception but that might be wrong.
>>213041Modern MMA originally came from Japan via Pancrase in the early 90s. MMA and kickboxing, through organizations like Pride and K1, were HUGELY popular in the late 90s/early 2000s. It cannot be understated how popular it was.54 MILLION people watched Akebono vs Bob Sapp on TV for K-1 PREMIUM 2003 Dynamite. 42% of the entire nation of Japan watched that fight. For comparison, the highest watched boxing PPV ever is Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao which drew 4.6 million PPV buys in 2015. The highest watched MMA PPV is Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor which had 2.4 million PPV buys in 2018. The record for highest ticket attendance is held by a mixed PRIDE / K-1 card from 20 years ago. Pride Shockwave in 2002 had 91,000 in the crowd (2nd and 3rd highest place are also held by Pride and K1 cards respectively). The biggest crowd for a UFC event was 57,000 (UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya 2019).Rizin is doing alright and K1 is still around, but they don't hold a candle to how big they were in their heyday.
>>213110>via pancraseakshully through Shooto which preceded UFC
>>213041That's nothing, Pride used to fill out the Tokyo DomeAnd their cards were actually good, unlike the slop we saw in the Sphere
>>212967>Jones heems Stipe>Aspinall heems Bones >as punishment for heeming Bones, Dana makes him fight Poatan shortly after>Poatan heems Aspinall Unlikely but would be a good troll by Dana
>>204599Not all krotty is equale.g.>Kenshinkan >Full contact, head shots, bare knucklehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGMoAffscz4&list=PLhXbbq3ua1RzVGqj80XHGOlC_HAtnzblR>Shidokan>Format is: 1st round Kyokushin rules, 2nd round Muay Thai rules, 3rd round MMA ruleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVnEctIRXI>Kudo (formerly Daido-Juku Kakuto Karate)>Basically kyokushin + boxing + judo, allows headbutts, groin strikes. Probably the most violent karate out there (nominally doesn't consider itself karate anymore but w/e)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GcJzV6bXqE>Enshin karate>Kyokushin with throws, sometimes they train with gloves and do head punches I thinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Qi4KKxdbQKarate seems to always be useful at the fringes. The bulk of it is people doing styles that are now antiquated (shotokan etc) where they've devolved (and combat has evolved) enough to not be useful anymoreBut if you look to the bleeding edge you'll still find real violent styles, they're just like 1% of total karate practitioners
>>213750Actually now that I rewatch the first clip it's a shidokan guy against someone else but the ruleset is Kenshinkan (and they organised that event)
Who can stop them, realistically?
Why dont these lazy asses fight 90 times per year?
>>213750>The bulk of it is people doing styles that are now antiquated (shotokan etc) where they've devolved (and combat has evolved) enough to not be useful anymoreIronically it's guys from old points style karate styles that have had the most success in MMA.
>>214129This is the irony in it I think, even if they have to learn how to fight properly when going to mma, they seem to have some qualities the others lack. I don't know if only putting sparring and mitts training in karate would be enogh to make it functional though.
>>214129>Wonderboy, LyotoYes yes, well done Shotokan.HOWEVER
>>214081Honestly at this point it's up to eastern Eurasians, the Shavkat and Shaidulloev kind of guysEventually Western fighters will get their wrasslin up to eurasian standards and start heeming them in striking but that's some way off. McGregor getting mauled by Khabib set off a new era that has yet to play out fully
>>214081Are there more maps like this?
>>214081you forgot the versace model, dulatov or something, he's chechen>>214144>Honestly at this point it's up to eastern Eurasians, the Shavkat and Shaidulloev kind of guysagreed tho i doubt they wanna fight each other>>214145there arent any other region except maybe brazil that have fighters this dominant
>>214081The guy with the reddish beard from Kabardino-Balkaria is the most polarising man i've ever seen. He's a circassian muslim but migrated to Israel of all place. Like dude, pick a side or something.
At this point I feel like UFC has better stars but Rizin is putting on a more entertaining show/card overallLike 307 had the great Pereira fight but the rest was trash
>>214143GSP throughout his carrer was more of a wrestler than a striker
>>214211He had high-level grappling that was essential against people like Matt Hughes and Matt Serra (who he initially lost to, bear in mind)But GSP vs Koscheck 2 is a striking clinic, it was always GSP's main wheelhousehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcvwjElzyAgHe was a good enough striker to>drag a fight out for 5 rounds just to torture Koscheck>use 1 punch the entire bout>land it 55 times>break his orbital bone to the point that they can't put ice on it
>>214143GSP is the goat but he's the only full contact karate champ in mma vs>Lyoto MachidaShotokan>Rich FranklinOkinawan karate/kobodu>Robert WhittakerGoju ryu (inb4 goju ryu poster)>Kyoji HoriguchiShotokanIf you include TKD as a points-karate derivative, then it's stacked even more in their favor.
>>214250>GSP is the goat but he's the only full contact karate champ in mmaAhem
Why are there no MMA fighters with kudo as their base?
>>214293Bas is a TKD black belt on top of Kyokushin, so you could argue he's both.>>214295Kudo is a very small pond.
who would lose their first zero in ufc 308?
>>214299Honestly a TKD + KK base took him pretty far in terms of strikingHe trained the two worst styles for hands and ended up KOing people with palm strikes. Goatee-era Bas was a fuggin monsta
>>214305Nta. Bas is really under appreciated for his live read in ring, his tape study, and his memory of what guys like to use. He can still rattle off during interviews on what he was thinking during a bunch of fights, all the vhs instructional shit he used to watch, things he saw in different disciplines that he would try under broader rules. In retrospect it's no surprise his commentary is always great.
>>214313Rizin got Michael Schiavello (Good Night Irene guy from K-1) to do commentary. If they somehow also stole Bas from Karate Combat I think we would enter a new golden age of MMA
>>214303Def cerq or murhpy
>>204417people are pretty friendly at mma gyms. you could certainly make friends at one. people are nice even to unlikable negative freaks like me.
>>214474rip cerq
Ilia knocks out Islam.
>>214081funny how Chechens are the largest group but only have 1 successful fighter.
>>195798strickland beat him and hes gonna do it again and u r queer