Started with 4 finishes and now potentially 4 decisions. Dan Miragliotta having a mare though, twice now he's mistaken the clapper for the bell and stepped in early.
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Started with 4 finishes and now potentially 4 decisions. Dan Miragliotta having a mare though, twice now he's mistaken the clapper for the bell and stepped in early.
That fight was one of the ultimate guilty pleasures for me. Enjoyed the feck out of it.
Pereira looks awful here. So sluggish.
Good victory for Ian Garry.
Outclassed Prates for 3 rounds before getting tired and almost getting finished himself in the 5th round. Exciting ending.
Outclassed Prates for 3 rounds before getting tired and almost getting finished himself in the 5th round. Exciting ending.
Randomly saw Eddie Hall on a climbing YouTuber’s channel who I follow. I was amazed to see he has great cardio. Can swim all day. Still looks weird seeing him fight though. Presume there’s much more money in this than all the strong man stuff?
To be fair to him, he's fighting a fecking freak. Hall is an absolute beast of a man, and not only is he big, powerful and very aggressive, he's also pretty nimble and agile for a man of his size and build.
He reminds me of a bigger, angrier Brock Lesnar.
Sounding like the big Islam v Topuria fight is happening in late June
It's been years since I properly followed strongman but yeah, the actual prize money in strongman was pretty dismal, and I think it's only been improving slowly. Good interview with Laurence Shahlaei, a world-level competitor. Time-stamped the relevant part but the whole video is surprisingly interesting. I'm sure Eddie would be one of the very few making a good living from social media and sponsorship as he'd became so well-known, but this is bound to have been a great earner for him coming from such a poorly-paid sport.
The Pereira comment was about another fight on the UFC card later mate, not the Eddie Hall fight. Poor Pudzianowski is pushing 50 years old and carved out a decent career in MMA, given that he started so late and was apparently injury-ravaged by the time he quit strongman. Nothing but love for Mariusz here
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He's having an awful time of it outside the ring. I hope this wasn't a case of reckless endangerment.
They're waiting on the result of Belal-JDM. It's either Ilia v Islam or Ilia v someone for the vacant belt, most likely Oliveira probably.
It’s fecking scary seeing Eddie fight, because he legitimately breaks a lot of those traditional rules about fighting with his insane strength.
Arm bar? He could probably just bicep curl out of it.
Choke hold? Just tear your arm away
All the shit that isn’t possible with actual humans I reckon goes out the window against him
I see the Lil' Heathen is back in the UFC.
De Ridder Vs Bo Nickal up next
RDR beat the crap out of Nickal. Finished him with a knee to the body.
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Absolutely love it. Being Dutch I'd been watching a lot of interviews with RDR leading up to this fight.
Was never more convinced about who was going to win. Reinier is a very intelligent dude and a down to earth guy, who up until recently worked as a physiotherapist in the Netherlands and ran a gym here as well.
Chose One over UFC a couple of years back because One was financially more attractive for him. Became a double champ there, only lost both his belts to a roided up Russian HW that weighs around 115 kg and has excellent striking.
Originally he came from Judo, black belt in his teens.Then got into BJJ. Obviously it's not hard to learn kickboxing over here.
He's a massive guy as well, walks around at 96 KG and >190 cm (so more built like a natural light heavyweight) Studies his opponents religiously, holds a bachelor degree in physical therapy like I said. Very high finish rate in his career. Trained a lot with both Dricus and Khamzat back in time when we has at One.
He explained in interviews this was the match that would decide whether he can live in the USA with his wife and kids and train in Henri Hooft's gym in Florida full time, or go back home.
He also very seriously laid out why there was almost 0% chance that Bo Nickal would beat him. And how he was genuinely surprised the UFC matched them.
Said his boxing was better, better kicking, he had more experience, was bigger, much better grappling - and even said he had better wrestling. Then specified the wrestling part, said being explosive and being great at American style double and single legs doesn't do much for you in a cage.
Became so convinced he would beat Bo that I made my biggest MMA bet ever (not a betting man anymore) and I'm going to collect >€300 this afternoon!
Was never more convinced about who was going to win. Reinier is a very intelligent dude and a down to earth guy, who up until recently worked as a physiotherapist in the Netherlands and ran a gym here as well.
Chose One over UFC a couple of years back because One was financially more attractive for him. Became a double champ there, only lost both his belts to a roided up Russian HW that weighs around 115 kg and has excellent striking.
Originally he came from Judo, black belt in his teens.Then got into BJJ. Obviously it's not hard to learn kickboxing over here.
He's a massive guy as well, walks around at 96 KG and >190 cm (so more built like a natural light heavyweight) Studies his opponents religiously, holds a bachelor degree in physical therapy like I said. Very high finish rate in his career. Trained a lot with both Dricus and Khamzat back in time when we has at One.
He explained in interviews this was the match that would decide whether he can live in the USA with his wife and kids and train in Henri Hooft's gym in Florida full time, or go back home.
He also very seriously laid out why there was almost 0% chance that Bo Nickal would beat him. And how he was genuinely surprised the UFC matched them.
Said his boxing was better, better kicking, he had more experience, was bigger, much better grappling - and even said he had better wrestling. Then specified the wrestling part, said being explosive and being great at American style double and single legs doesn't do much for you in a cage.
Became so convinced he would beat Bo that I made my biggest MMA bet ever (not a betting man anymore) and I'm going to collect >€300 this afternoon!
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Seems a very popular win and happy days for you.
Another great white American hope bites the dust
Nice work - congrats on your win!
I like RDR, seems like a good guy - you're right he looks absolutely huge at the weight.
Oddly he reminds me a bit of Paddy in a way in terms of strengths / weaknesses - he's big at the weight and with that obviously physically strong, that combined with a Judo background means I think he can get people to the canvas in clinch situations and then he has the ground game to submit anybody all of which is very much like Pimblett as well.
But also like Paddy his stand-up is very basic and quite flawed particularly defensively - I would say even more so than Pimblett's although he's improved quite quickly in that regard and fighting smart so maybe RDR can do the same, but in general he lacks a bit speed of hand and foot which impacts not just his striking IMO but also his grappling game somewhat in terms of a pure wrestling ability, as he's too slow making entries to be about to really get hold of a single or double and get anybody on the mat that way.
But tough dude, if he can fight in a way where he uses his physical size and toughness to be able to pressure guys, close the distance and get them in a clinch he can do some damage on the inside with knees etc as we saw and like I said, you're gonna have to have good takedown defence in those situations because his BJJ is elite.