Anything MMA, except thumb wrestling

[Dr. Do Itch Big]

Overeem injured, fight with JDS is off. Good news for Overeem.

[artmonkforHOF]

Overeem injured, fight with JDS is off. Good news for Overeem.

No kidding, I was expecting The Reem to get beaten so badly the UFC would consider cutting him, or at least not offer a new deal.

It's a shame he ballooned up the way he did- legit or not, most likely not- I would have liked to see him at 205 in the UFC, kickboxing the crap out of people.

[d0ublestr0ker0ll]

When Reem can cover that face up with boxing gloves, he can protect his chin. He just loses the ability to fight when he's popped. The only time I've seen him wobbled and not lose his **** in the process was against Spong, and he was just slightly rung. The guy is a great kickboxer, but he cares a lot about getting hit in the face.

I think if he stayed at LHW, he was bound to catch a punch from Machida, Shogun, any of those cats. At least at HW, with all the juice in his system, he could just hammer people in to the ground. At LHW, he had to dissect people with an array of techniques. No way he'd get away with that without having to deal with adversity.

On a completely different note:

[#98QBKiller]

Mark Hunt is saying he's up to fight JDS in place of Overeem. I kind of hope they throw him in there.

---------- Post added March-7th-2013 at 10:45 AM ----------

Also, not sure if you guys have seen this but there's some betting going on between Alan Belcher, Michael Bisping and some Bengals backup DE named Wallace Gilberry, where Gilberry is putting a car on the line if Bisping can KO Belcher. Bisping and his (douchey) friend put out a response video too lol:

[styx491]

UFC 158 Georges St. Pierre vs. Nick Diaz: The Achilles Heel of Stockton's Pride

I would hope that it is pretty much common knowledge by now that if a fighter chooses to brawl with Nick or Nate Diaz, he is going to have an awful time from bell to bell or until he drops from the combined effects of exhaustion and 300 punches over every inch of his upper body. Yet time after time, we see fighters fall into the same traps—doing well in a punching match early and then simply be ground down by the volume punching and durability of the Diaz brothers.

The Diaz siblings get hit a lot and they get dropped or stunned with strikes in the early goings of a great many of their fights. Someone will eventually knock one of them out if they stick around long enough, but being the first to do so is not a suitable strategy for a fighter to hang his hat on.

I am hard pressed to think of fighters whose weaknesses and strengths are so clear to anyone who has studied their bouts and yet continue to dominate world class opposition. In case you haven't followed their careers throughout I shall briefly explain, calling on previous analyses I have written including one from before Nick fought Carlos Condit, the great strengths and flaws in the striking game of the Diaz brothers.

The topics which we shall cover today are the Diaz brother's (and more specifically Nick's):

Volume punching strategy
Head placement, parrying and hand control
Stance and it's importance to reach
Mediocre footwork and ringcraft

Very interesting Jack Slack article.

---------- Post added March-7th-2013 at 05:58 PM ----------



GSP and Diaz GO AT IT in the conference call. Very very worth listening to haha. The main **** starts after 25 min or so. Actually it's more just Nick going off and GSP responding too but it's entertaining as hell.

[NoCalMike]

The thing about the Diaz bros, Nick especially is often times he is his own weakness. His BJJ game is very solid and he could probably could have won more fights and quicker if he was more dedicated to it during his actual fights, however he seems determined to make every fight a boxing match as long as possible in order to entertain the fans, even willing to risk his own chance at winning.

When he fought someone like Cyborg, there was no reason to risk taking a lucky haymaker and lose to an inferior opponent, but he did anyway and kept the fight on his feet for the majority of time. Then when the fight went to the ground, Diaz basically rolled him over and submitted him with what seemed like barely an effort.

[artmonkforHOF]

UFC 158 Georges St. Pierre vs. Nick Diaz: The Achilles Heel of Stockton's Pride



Very interesting Jack Slack article.[COLOR="Gold"]
l.

I like Jack Slack, hate that he is on BleacherReport now. I feel dirty giving that site traffic. His articles really don't belong on a site filled with inane lists and horribly written articles filled with uneducated or biased opininons from community college journalism students trying to earn a course credit. It seems like they let any idiot post their musing on that site, especially for list type articles, it's almost like the editors don't read the things, and decide what to post based on the number of points (and in turn page hit) the "article" has.

Even though I'm not on twitter, I check Jack Slack's to see when he posts a new article and pray he also posts it in his blog just so I don't have to go to BR anymore than I truly have to.

[Dr. Do Itch Big]

That conference call is hilarious. I plan on going to UFC 162 as well, Vegas is not far and I don't have many chances left to see the GOAT fight live. I already missed out on Fedor. I don't wanna miss out on Silva.

[Dr. Do Itch Big]

Has anyone read about the Lloyd Irving scandal. It just keeps getting worse and worse. Dude sounds like a pos. http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/3/5/...chasers-exodus

[#98QBKiller]

These have been floating around online re: the Lloyd Irvin scandal(s):

[#98QBKiller]

Nick Diaz working the speed bag:

[Destino]

[/COLOR]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=PuAFgpkzvvU

GSP and Diaz GO AT IT in the conference call. Very very worth listening to haha. The main **** starts after 25 min or so. Actually it's more just Nick going off and GSP responding too but it's entertaining as hell.

Nick Diaz is either stupid or an awesome troll.

[#98QBKiller]

It's title fight week

[d0ublestr0ker0ll]

[lovetoaster]

I am always worried when a press conference does not start on time, especially when it involves Nick Diaz. Luckily, he showed up. I was getting a little concerned, especially since he no showed the open workouts.