About 4 hours until Lawler commits a war crime. I'd watch a Lawler PPV even if every other scheduled fight was garbage. Fortunately, this one has at least a couple other interesting matchups.

Bar room brawl in this second fight.

Here we go, last 3 should be good. Even if the next two somehow disappoint, Lawler always fights like a demon. He is terribly underappreciated, and not getting any push from the UFC.

I could hear Bas Rutten shouting "Liver Kick!" from here.

Very close round. Rose 10-9, I think?

Both of these chicks would get ****ing destroyed by Joanna.

That round was super close. 19-19, I think? I dunno.

29-28 for the Polish girl. If she gets fed to Joanna, it'll be ugly.

Oh my goodness, they announced the title fight. All-Poland title fight between Joanna and KK. Not sure when.

nm

OK, this fight should be fun. Anything that includes Lawler is just madness.

MIZ

UFC Title History updated for the end of July 2016

This is a bit of a sad day. With Lawler we had something going on but now he's out and Woodley.... meh, whatever. He's nothing special.

Nick Diaz's suspension is over today.

The Association of Boxing Commissioners has approved the proposed changes to scoring and rules for the unified rules of MMA. Vote was 44-1 with 1 abstention. NJ voted no, TN passed on voting. (4 states are not in the ABC) Changes will be effective 1/1/17.

We already know about the scoring changes. There are 4 major changes in the rules.

1) Changes to the uniform rules for women, not sure what it exactly is and don't care, but apparently Reebok's current uniform top is going to be illegal.

2) Heel kicks to the kidney are no longer illegal. Medical experts said that technique is not dangerous and most people (except NJ) believe that rule was silly.

3) Fighters will no longer be able to play the "grounded opponent" game where they put one hand down to stop knees and kicks. Two feet and one hand will not be grounded. Both hands would be grounded, as would a knee and a hand, etc. NJ strongly objected to this change.

4) Having your fingers pointed at the opponent and moving forward will be a foul. You either need to close your fist or point your fingers up. Currently, referees could warn fighters to close their hands but they couldn't take a point away unless there was an actual eye poke so fighters often ignored the ref. After this rule is in effect, the ref won't have to wait for an eye poke, they can take a point if you are not heeding their warning.

New Jersey has said that they will not implement 2 of those changes to the uniform rules of MMA so for the first time in a long time we'll have a situation where the rules are different in one state vs another.

Cyborg will fight some chick I have literally never heard of at a UFC Fight Night on 9/24. 140 pound catchweight

Zero ****s given, they need to put her in at 135 and let her smash or just call it over

Its in Brazil. There is no point to the fight other than selling tickets.

A fighter's union might actually happen. Today, a high-powered baseball agent (Jeff Boris) and a team of labor lawyers (including Nick Diaz's lawyer) who have a lot of experience working with player and referee associations formed The Professional Fighters Association.

The player's unions of all four major sports (plus MLS, lol) released statements supporting the Fighters union. They now need to try to get the fighters to vote to certify the union.

http://profighters.org/wp-content/up...PFA_new-03.png

Conor McGregor said he spent about $300,000 on his camp to prepare for Nate Diaz.

High-level champions who get paid a lot will often spend $25,000. I assume he's flying in elite 170 boxers and jiu-jitsu black belts and coaches to help his cardio, but I still don't know how he is spending that much money, especially since he doesn't need help to cut weight.

Conor McGregor seems like a dude that is constantly full of shit and will say anything to anyone to get attention.

Yep. He's full of shit.

Just gonna make him look even sillier if he loses though.

Edit: I don't guess silly is the right word. Nothing silly about losing to Nate. It's just gonna make a bigger statement if you say you spent $300,000 for training and still lose than it would have if you hadn't said anything at all.

OK, who knows whats going on, but Jon Jones was all over instagram today, happy and optimistic, saying he's got good news about his issue with USADA, and that he'll be back in the octagon "soon".

If you are cynical, maybe his team found a supplement on the market that was tainted with what he tested positive for, and he was able to claim thats what happened, and he'll take a short ban.

Does anyone take/took Judo? It seems like a fun sport to learn and would be useful for self-defense.

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He's counting the high dollar rental cars for his whole crew and the mansion he has rented for all of them too, at least that's what I've heard.

Shortly after finishing his ban for weed, Nick Diaz almost got in trouble with USADA today. He partied all night last night and this morning was about to go to sleep when someone showed up for a random drug test. Rather than comply, Nick Diaz got into a heated argument with him, saying he's got to come back in 5 or 6 hours because he just wants to sleep, and the USADA rep was saying that if he refuses to take the test, he'll eat a 2 year ban. Its unclear what happened after that, but eventually he gave them the sample.

Nobody wants to eat that.

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So when do we know the test results on this one?

roughly 3 weeks or so? They don't announce passed tests, so if we hear nothing, he passed.

Marijuana is legal out of competition btw (you just can't be high the night of your fight), and there's no reason to think he ever took anything else, so I'm not going to be circling it on my calendar.

Ok thanks for the info!

Link

OK, I don't know what this cartoon series is, and I don't really get it, this is just beyond the line of "too weird" for me.

edit: had to replace it with a link, the autoplay was driving me nuts

crap, looks like that video was autoplay for some stupid reason.

#sorrynotsorry

We're just 4 days away from McGregor Diaz 2, yall!

I'm stoked. I hope Nate just beasts him again. FWIW with the Jones thing, even if he had a supplement that was tainted, he still has to have a formal appeal. It's a bit early for him to say he'll be back soon

Apparently all hell broke loose at the end of the Diaz McGregor press conference today. Twitter lit up. Not sure what happened until I watch it, but fight is still on.

edit: McGregor was a half hour late. Shortly after he showed up Diaz decided he answered enough questions and started walking out with his team. McGregor was yelling shit at Nate as he walked out, Nate threw a water bottle at Conor, and then Conor and Nate's team started chucking stuff at each other while Dana was trying to get security to get everyone out.

lol, Conor on live TV is a bad idea

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Francisco Rivera failed a test, and is blaming tainted meat in Mexico.

Nick Diaz is still suspended and will not be allowed to corner his brother this weekend because he still has not paid off all of his $100,000 fine. He still owes NV $75k

I saw it earlier today. That shit is super embarrassing for the UFC. It's gonna help to sell a ton more pay-per-views, though.

Dana White said that the NSAC won't stop the fight, but when they meet in September the state is probably going to impose "massive" fines on both McGregor and Diaz, and they might suspend them and/or make them do community service. Its going to be a big mess and a headache for them after this weekend. There is also a lawsuit brewing from someone who got hit by a bottle.

edit: the UFC has banned the entourage for both Diaz and McGregor from attending UFC 202. The only people who can be with them are their licensed corners.

What is Jake Shields going to do now? Hanging on Diaz nuts was keeping him semi relevant

The guys who are trying to organize the Professional Fighters Association had a press conference today.

http://themmareport.com/2016/08/vide...ss-conference/

These guys are not playing around, they opened the press conference by taking a shot at Dana and the new owners for being unprofessional. Then they proceeded to give a very impressive explanation of their experience in sports labor unions and what they were going to do for the fighters.

They've gotten endorsements from every labor union in sports, this thing is going to happen. The question is how many big names are they going to get who already make a ton of cash.

I also like how they are handling the certification. Legally, they only need 30% for an election and 50% + 1 for a certification, but they said they want almost all of them. If there are 600 fighters under contract, they want over 500 before moving forward because if its a bare majority, then the UFC could attack the divisions to bring down the union. They wont even bother with certification unless its almost unanimous. and they seem confident that it will be.

They currently have a policy where they will allow fighters to anonymously support the union until they get almost all of them, and only then will they reveal the membership so no one gets singled out for sticking their neck out early. They have really thought this out and brought up 2014 federal court decisions that would make their organization easier so these guys are obviously serious and on point. I don't think literally every other major players union would be coming out to support them if they weren't serious, and they do look serious.

I'm not planning to put up a thread for the fights tonight because there is a Chiefs Game tonight, its just a month after UFC 200, and there are no title fights.

Still, it is a fantastic card, all 5 fights should be good.

My picks:

Diaz KO R3
Johnson, Cerrone, and Lim all KO R2
Means DEC

Holy Charlie horse

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I'll bet you're dead on with the Diaz in 3 prediction.
I hope it happens earlier...but I'll take 3...

I cannot WAIT to see that bitch go down again.

xmeforums.com (you have to register before time) is where it is at. $5 for a HD stream.

last time there was a huge fight like this it didn't work very well for me.
is it working goof for you tonight?

When does the good match start?

I am new to this.

Thanks.

McDouchers ass whooping will commence after the NEXT fight (Johnson Teixeira)...Cowboy and Story are currently fighting.....so....an hour? 45 minutes?

I would say like at least 9pm Pacific Time

Co Main event next Johnson vs Teixeira

Ok thanks.

I'll keep stream on as I watch Chiefs.

That combo by Cerrone was beautiful.

Wow, that's the best combo I've seen.

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Yeah. It's rare you see such perfection in the ring/octagon.

Usually main event starts around 12 am est.

I have never watched this shit.

They have to come out, strip down and get patted down before they can enter ring?!?!

Oh yeah...

Wrasslin with the ref, you know that guy was out lol

GATDAM!

Oh my.

Eat shit.

I think Rumble just killed Teixeira.

Flawless tonight

that was a Tyson-esque upper cut man!

I am on the wiz1 stream and it's been perfect so far.

Very impressed.

Yikes.

"Damn I can fight" ROFL

Lol at DC still getting booed over that lay and pray against Silva.

I seriously considered betting money on a sporting event for the first time in my life when I saw the odds for Diaz vs McGregor a couple of days ago. I am either going to feel extremely relieved tonight or be kicking myself for days. :D

what ARE the odds?
I'm sure McDouche is favored....which is STUPID!

I feel like at the time I looked, which I believe was Thursday, I stood to make $770 on a $1000 bet on Diaz. I could be off, I just remember thinking I should finally pull the trigger.

What's their head to head record?

wow...not bad!
you know...as long as you win. :)

it's gonna be 2-0 Diaz in about 2.5 rounds