Paid Members Egg Shen Posted October 15, 2022 Author Paid Members Posted October 15, 2022 John Hathaway fights in Oktagon today in Germany. The fight is a part of the prelims and is free on youtube, here's the link: I believe Hathaway is the last fight of the prelims so he'll be towards the end of the stream when it happens. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted October 19, 2022 Author Paid Members Posted October 19, 2022 well turns out, Hathaway wasn't a part of the stream but he got the win in dominant fashion. Wonder if the UFC take a punt on him when the UFC comes over next? Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted December 16, 2022 Author Paid Members Posted December 16, 2022 big ol' fight in KSW tomorrow... if i wasn't working i'd have tuned in for that live, hopefully i find a copy Sunday morning. Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted December 16, 2022 Paid Members Posted December 16, 2022 What the fuck? That one completely passed me by, had no idea it was even happening. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 24, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted February 24, 2023 Phil DeFries/Todd Duffee is locked in for tomorrow in KSW... Its live over here on Viaplay. I was going to watch Bellator live but I think im swaying with watching KSW seeings as I have access to the channel. You never know what your gonna get Todd Duffee, but he's always been must-see TV win or lose. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 26, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted February 26, 2023 Well, Phil DeFries beat the piss out of Todd Duffee. Duffee got taken down early and it was an ass whooping from there. Would love to see DeFries get another crack at the UFC to see just how good he is, but the man is probably happy making a fair chunk of change and having his own way in KSW. DeFries called out Overeem after the fight, and KSW are doing a Stadium show in June I guess they'll aim that for. Quote
Dai Posted March 17, 2023 Posted March 17, 2023 Did anyone catch the Power Slap show in the end? Was unsurprisingly a shit fest. I think every 'championship' fight ended with the first round of slaps. in a two hour show, you were left with about 5 minutes of action. Regardless of what you think about it general, I think this shows why it cant be done as a live event. Just way too much filler. Some of the rules just dont make much sense either. When a guy was floored by an illegal slap, he got up and carried on the match, despite the fact that if he just stayed down he would have won the fight. Very counter productive. I doubt we will see this sort of show again from the UFC. Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 17, 2023 Paid Members Posted March 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Dai said: I doubt we will see this sort of show again from the UFC. I think they’ll persist with it for a bit yet. If for no other reason than Dana’s ego thinking he can force us to like any old shite he serves up. He’s got well arsey lately about people taking the piss out of this nonsense and pointing out that it’s shit and doing shit. He went pretty hard defending it and somehow making himself a victim - ‘people are only shitting on Power Slap because I’m involved’ - pulling out now will be like admitting everyone else was right and you know he’s not having that. The whole thing is embarrassing. I don’t have a clue what anyone would enjoy about it. You’ve seen one ‘match’ and you’ve seen literally all there is to offer. Quote
Dai Posted March 17, 2023 Posted March 17, 2023 Ill be honest, there was a great grudge match in one of the latter episodes. One of the contestants was always drunk in the house, and acting like an arsehole. He nearly got into a fight many times with the same guy. Then they had a match together, which was really good TV. They were talking shit to each other between slaps, trying to psyche each other out. Then the arsehole won, and taunted the other guy when he was laying on the floor, not even knowing what planet he was on. It was edge of your seat stuff, and each slap was proper tense beforehand. This is, of course, the rare exception, but if you can somehow channel this sort of story/villan/rivalry, then it would have some legs as a pre produced TV event. Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 17, 2023 Paid Members Posted March 17, 2023 That’s the thing though, there’s not enough of a payoff for me to give a bollocks. All that shit talk and build up falls flat when I know they’re only gonna end up slapping each other. I’ve been conditioned since I was 7 years old when I got into pro wrestling that that kind of buildup would eventually lead to a big ‘fight’, then later with Boxing and MMA it would be an actual battle of skills or maybe just a full on barmy grudge match brawl. Slapping faces isn’t enough for me, although we know now why Dana loves that shit. Quote
Dai Posted March 17, 2023 Posted March 17, 2023 I sort of agree, but with the slaps theres a very high probability of someone getting sparked cold, which adds quite a decent level of suspense and payoff for any such grudge matches. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted March 25, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted March 25, 2023 this happened at Fury FC last night, just when you thought you'd seen it all in MMA... Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted May 27, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted May 27, 2023 Alexey Oleynik got slept this evening over in Russia in his first post-UFC fight... Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted May 28, 2023 Paid Members Posted May 28, 2023 I don’t watch that Road To UFC thing. Might have to start because Jesus Christ… And… This stuff got hardly any promotion to the point I didn’t even know it was happening until the fights were already underway and I started seeing this stuff on the timeline. Yet Dana won’t shut up about that Power Slap wank. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted May 28, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted May 28, 2023 back in the win column!! Quote
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