The Miscellaneous Thread

This Thread Is a Thread where you can post what ever you want from  **** posting to crazy stuff . Any topic MMA related to what ever you want to talk. Try and not be toxic arsehole. And one rule No Politic allowed because that what made people ****s

Let me Start, I find it insane it like 4 days to Chrismas , Im suprise it so close to the end of the Year,  Fells like Junes.Anyone have anything cool plan for Chrissy, I’m probley just gonna mess around at the gym 

* Edited at 12.21.2020, 8:52 PM ET *

Driscus du Plessis has a weird fighting style, but I can't help rooting for him (and too often, betting on him).  He's just a weirdo in the way he looks and moves, but he's fun to watch.  I heart the homunculi.

I used to be excited about Gregor Gillespie, but I think he just fishes all the time now.

* Edited at 03.04.2023, 9:13 AM ET *

Damn, that cigarette burns out a lot.

https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2023/03/mma-news-christopher-daniel-son-death-drowning-mental-health-paddy-pimblett

I have no idea anything you just said 

I honestly liked the way Gane reacted after this loss at the press conference. Showing yourself upset or angry after a low moment does not nullify at all the fact that you have a cheerful, nice and humble attitude (as Ciryl has shown on multiple occasions). 
I think it was an eye opener for Gane: he lost his second title shot, he's being in his best years and the prime of his career he can't keep wasting time with someone who can't keep up with him in a pad work. Imavov and Gane must move to a Gym in the USA (ATT, AKA, whatever). Both demonstrated their shortcomings in a very clear and terrible way in their last fights: Strickland, who came from fighting super safe, but against Imavov, Sean put him in backwards all the time and Imavov had no answers. Ciryl is coming off two title fights where he was drowned on the ground and against Jones he was easily submitted. From my point of view, both Imavov and Ciryl have not yet reached their ceiling (especially Gane, who can still evolve further). But with Lopez they are not going to grow anymore, in addition to the fact that Lopez is the kind of people from whom it is better to distance yourself quickly to avoid dramas like the one he did with Ngannou or with Slim Trabesli.

 Amettxpc Lopez is also a busy man growing the sport of MMA in France with Ares FC shouldn't be head coaching top tier athletes while doing other ventures.

Saw Sabbath's rant on the recent decline of UFC cards, I've been rageposting on almost every card that I stay up to watch because every time I'm disappointed. Nowadays I just rather sleep well and train myself and watch the fights later for some inspiration on new things that I might try in sparring. Hopefully my fat ass can compete in some local ADCC tournament or Amateur MMA in 2024 would be a flex to have a record in Tapology lmao.

Lopez seems like a great coach for raising a novice fighter’s level very quickly, but his fighters always seem to stagnate when they get to the upper level. Lopez is 0-3 in title fights now. I’m not really an analytical type of MMA fan; I’m just pointing out a pattern, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. 

My dream match is Dricus vs Costa just because of meme value

@flyingfrontkick, same here brother, Past few week with all this ****** apex show had ruin my love of MMA a bit, Usually i'm slightly hype to watch any MMA or boxing, But I haven't care as much about the fight anymore unless it a big one

* Edited at 03.05.2023, 6:05 PM ET *

I am not going to take credit away from Lopez: The passing of the era of 100% Fight and partially unsanctioned MMA to ARES FC as a platform for the area, legalization of MMA in France and UFC Paris are great contributions from Lopez as a pioneer in French MMA. He has a good business network since he is the head coach of MMA Factory, he is the promoter of ARES FC and also within his management he has the figures of both his Gym and his promotion as well as other prospects in the area. But it seems to me that Lopez himself doesn't know much about friendships being friendships and business being business. During his Drama with Ngannou I was on his side seeing that he only charged him a percentage for training in his Gym (the same thing that any trainer of any discipline anywhere in the world does through annual or monthly payments). He was vocal, while Francis always avoided talking about it and also that situation at UFC 268 where Francis dodged his coach and former teammates seemed to agree with Lopez in what fame had gone to Francis's head: You can dodge the former trainer who talks about you in every interview, but Imavov and Ciryl just wanted to say hello to their ex-partner with him assuming everything was fine. 

The weeks of the fight arrived and personally the sparring rumor where Gane knocked Francis down with the body knee seemed like a low act by Lopez, on the way to UFC 270 we practically saw a rivalry and trash-talking not between 2 fighters who were going for a championship, but the rivalry between a former head coach and a fighter, where the coach mainly dedicated himself to saying things implying that it was just a normal rivalry and at the same time making base comments like "Francis is the type of man I you could let him take care of your little daughter, but you should never leave him alone with your wife/girlfriend'' that means Francis is not an evil man, but don't trust his loyalty. 

I think the whole Slim contract blocking situation was worse: he took away a great opportunity from the man to fight in the UFC based on a debt (for management issues) that was even less than a potential win bonus Slim is a star of your promotion, train in your gym and against Porter had a Good matchup to debut in a good way and generate an impact (look what happened between Porter vs. Tafa). He cut off all possibilities to generate even more publicity, money and hype based on debt in a move that was not only shady but counterproductive to his business platform.

Lopez is really good at developing fighters it's only necessary see how Imavov started and where he is now (in the rankings). 
But honestly France can be a great place for prospects: France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali and the Congo Region are good at exporting athletes and even ARES FC could have fighters from the Netherlands regions as well. He can do a great business (taking into account that he is the manager of a large part of ARES FC's prospects). but he needs to get a better wrestling and grappling development team into his team or in case he does this common in Australia or the Pacific region (from training Striking in Tiger Muay Thai and doing wrestling/grappling in another gym) he has to learn to separate the mentality of coaching from that of management: He treated Ngannou as a traitor for leaving his gym and emigrating to the USA. Imavov and Gane (especially Gane) can reach greater heights in their fight game, but in my opinion they are stuck in the MMA Factory.
 Gane with his yesterday's statements surely knows it, but he does not want to distance himself or divide camps out of gratitude to Lopez, but also not to receive that label of traitor. In my opinion Imavov and Ciryl are in a position similar to the one Shahbazyan had with Tarverdyan where you don't want to leave a coach despite feeling stuck because this person usually uses those methods that if you leave your town or don't train with yours , you are turning your back on your nationality/culture or team. 

In his last fight, big changes were noticed in Edmen, he went from going out to kill in round 1 to being very intelligent in choosing his strikes and even never neglecting his footwork despite having Dalcha hurt in the second round before the stoppage win. It will be interesting to see him fight a grappling-based fighter like Anthony Hernandez in his next fight.

DDP vs. Costa would be a good matchup to watch and an opportunity for the UFC to try a Fight Night in Africa (in South Africa) and not launch without measuring consequences for PPV or Big Event in Africa taking into account that the fighters that could be the main event ( Adesanya or Usman) have had fights with great finishes, but also less entertaining fights. EFC is the main promotion with talent from South Africa and all of Sub-Saharan Africa, they should do something similar to what they did with the UFC Paris card. 

But I don't think Costa will accept the fight, he's just trying to make as much money out of the octagon using the closure that he still has a fight in the UFC (like in that Halloween special episode where Homer Simpson gets the devil's donut and he keeps a single piece to have the upper hand regarding the deal signed by his soul). Costa is creating all the noise possible without fighting with the secret juice, Chimaev Beef, Twitter content and in general anything that can create internet hype but without going up to the octagon or signing contracts. I honestly think that Costa maybe trying to land some big contract either as a celebrity boxer, PFL or maybe taking advantage of all the time that UFC matchmakers and executives give him before they really bother with him (look at the cases of when the UFC released Yair for not signing to fight Zabit, Diaz last fight saga, etc). 

Costa feels that he has the upper hand selling smoke and mirrors on social media, but as long as he is Dana White's employee it is very difficult to win-win deals unless you generate what you expect to see in your Checks. Against Adesanya (his poor performance , because the PPV did sell it well), Vettori and Rockhold: Paulo Costa hasn't generated the ''it'' to the fans or WME executives that will win him contracts of 350K or more for only just for showing up on fight night (350K payment win or loss).

Upvote for ****ting on Valentina, she my least favourite fighter in the UFC

So happy she got choke out 

Just wanted to let you guys know that these two finally got together