This just got me thinking that I should go back into fighting pro and you should corner me. You'd probably be awesome at that, haha.
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This just got me thinking that I should go back into fighting pro and you should corner me. You'd probably be awesome at that, haha.
I’d just get half cocked and quote Mickey lines from Rocky movies between rounds. I’d tell you to eat lightning and crap thunder.
Yeah one time this guy put nails in his boxing glove and punched my face full of holes.
We could probably create the ultimate documentary ever if we agreed to just get drunk and see how far we could get fighting if we just had a shitty sense of humor and you were like YOU LOST THE EYE OF THE TIGER KID and we just staggered around after a few shots where you trained me wearing a watch cap slapping me in the back of the head while I do push ups then fight someone. It could be the underdog story, haha.
By the way, my fight name is Monkey Legs. And the only song I ever walked out to is It's Raining Men because I thought it'd be funny as fuck and I knocked the guy out which is the most hilarious shit ever to me because he came out to gangster rap.
Yeah I don't think I ever mentioned that on here actually. That was my name. Mikey "Monkey Legs" Sweeney. I fought 125 so I'm pretty small, and I was so small I typically ended up on bottom in grappling matches. But I'm absurdly flexible and like you'd be on top of me trying to hit me but I'd have my legs over my face. There was one day (years ago) where one of my trainers were like DUDE YOU'RE LIKE A FUCKING MONKEY WITH YOUR LEGS because this dude Chuck was trying to hit me but he couldn't get past my legs. So I became Mikey "Monkey Legs' Sweeney.
I'm officially back in the fight game next week. I've still been banging around but I got convinced to give it a go competitively. I'm 30 so I still have a window of a few years I can compete again. It'll be a few months before I step into a ring, I need to put on some weight. I've been swimming competitively the last few years which is one of the higest caloric demands of any sport - especially since I distance swim. I did the Boston Light swim this past year which was eight miles in open water (it's from Hull, Massachusetts to South Boston, Massachusetts if you want to google map the route), so I'm in great shape I'm just absurdly lean.
I'm still not sure what I'm going to do weight class wise. Because of the swimming I'm walking around insanely light. I'm probably going to have to fight up, which I'm used to. I'll likely stick 125. I used to fight 135 but that was when I had years to establish a weight and maintain it. I'm not sure I can get that heavy again. I could definitely get to at least 130 and cut the five pounds. I've always been light in fights, most guys walk in much heavier than what they weighed in at. I usually only cut two or three pounds, if anything at all. The one huge advantage is I don't gas in fights from the weight cut, which is a massively underappreciated thing. Weight cutting kills you. Especially considering some dudes at 125 cut from as high as 140-45. So I might be lighter but I'm not totally junk in terms of energy.
We'll see how it goes. I could get hurt and this might not happen. My knees are absolute junk from all the fighting (I've already been told I'm inevitably going to need both knees replaced), and my feet are all fucked up too because I've broken every toe more times than I can count from kicking. So I'm going to feel it out and if it goes well and I can get back into shape I might be in a ring again before the end of the year.
I just fouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuught. And I wonnnnnnnnnnn. Beat up some Hawaiian dude. This is the twilight of my career so it's like a 1980s comeback story. My foot hurts.
Congrats. Tell us about it. What was it? Cage fight or kickboxing or what did you do?
Thank you. It was in a cage, out in western Mass. I've always fought walking weight because I'm so light, I basically can't cut weight because of how light I am. When I was at the apex of me fighting I was walking around at 135, but that's when I was like snorting protein powder and lifting every day. My natural weight is around 120ish. So I always come in lighter than the other dude, because you have to figure someone fighting flyweight (125) likely walks around at 140 or so. The one advantage to not cutting is you don't gas nearly as quick, which I learned pretty quick when I was younger; like I learned that it was a huge advantage to be able to outlast people who had cut, because you have to figure while they weighed in at 125, they're likely walking into the ring at their natural weight and have 10-15 pounds on me. I went in at 121 so I was definitely at a size disadvantage.
I learned to fight small at a really young age because I had a great instructor/friend who taught me I basically had to embrace the fact that I was not a big guy, and own it. I can go toe to toe with huge dudes who outweigh me by like a hundred pounds and beat the fuck out of them because I can fight small. So that's more or less how I handled this fight.
The dude was way bigger than me, it looked like he cut a lot. He definitely acknowledged how small I am and he came out trying to take my head off. I'm a fast little bastard and basically, I kept intentionally putting myself into positions where he thought he would be able to clean my clock, then I moved. By the end of the first round he was absolutely exhausted. My wind is probably my biggest advantage; I competitively distance swim, I do like ten mile open water swimming races, so I can just go and go.
He came out absolutely gassed, and I started harassing him with leg kicks - my right leg to his lead left leg. After about fifteen of them, his lead hand started dropping when he stepped, which I took note of. So I booted him in the thigh, his left hand dropped, and I stepped into the kick and hit him with a cross to the jaw. He stumbled back and I booted him as hard as I could in the stomach with my foot into the cage, then laid into him and he dropped.
It was fun as hell. I still always fight but it's been a solid five years since I've fought competitively. I had a blast. I got to come out to music too and I came out to It's Raining Men because I wanted to beat someone up after coming out to the gayest song possible, haha.
Nice work. Is the one and done or are you planning to keep fighting for a while?
Also, did you happen to see Alistair Overeem’s face explode when he fought Rozenstruik last week? I’m on my phone or I’d post a picture. You have to see it if you haven’t. He got hit and the entire left side of his mouth blew up like there was a firecracker under his lip. It’s horrific.
Ach we need to roll some time when you're on the east coast
congrats
Do you still do that stuff, Butch? I was doing BJJ for a little while with my brother back when it started getting really popular, but I didn’t stick with it. I like it but I just got too busy. That was probably 12 years ago or more. Holy shit I’m old.
Not in a while but I would love to
I'm always on the East Coast. I live in Boston, haha.
I have a place to roll. I've been teaching and training at the same school for like 25 years. If you ever come out here you can crash with me and I can take you to come bang around with a really good group of dudes. There's also an awesome place we could go after, it's a gaming bar where you pay at the door and it's just a bunch of old school arcade games and you just drink and game all night.
closer to DE then I guess, i won't be in MA any time soon
I love barcades. There’s a really cool one close to me and if I was still single I’d probably live there...which would not increase my chances of ever becoming not single I’m certain.Quote:
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They have one of my favorite old school arcade games at the one in Boston. The old Simpsons arcade game. It's impossibly hard but so much fun.
Conor McGregor just fucked up Cowboy Ceronne in 40 seconds. I know Cowboy is a little past it but he’s still a tough fight for most everyone. Conor fucking destroyed him. He’s back.
I banged around with Joe Lauzon tonight. It was fun. I've known him and Danny for a long time. He's easy to grapple because you can just grab his big stupid ears.
Been watching UFC since it started. Literally got the first PPV. I’ve seen every single one, live or later.
Zhang Weili vs Joanna Jedrzejczyk tonight was the best UFC fight I’ve ever seen. I’m posting from my phone but if you want to Google Joanna’s face right now you’ll understand.
Watching UFC fight night and there aren’t any fans. It’s so weird. They’re just fighting with the lights off in an empty facility. Lol. Which doesn’t matter at all watching it on tv or probably even to most fighters, but it’s weird to see.
They should just roll with it and hold fights in abandoned warehouses and fish docks so we can finally live Street Fighter.
So a couple of weeks ago Jon Jones got arrested for driving drunk...AGAIN. He also had an unregistered gun in the car.
So I was listening to Chael Sonnen talk about motivation in sports. He said for himself personally he stopped being a motivated athlete at about 28, but continued to be a competitive athlete until he was 42. He still had the urge to compete, but he wasn’t motivated. At least not like when he was young.
I started thinking about the list of UFC champs who were dominant but quickly lost their edge. Cain Velasquez comes to mind. BJ Penn, Johnny Hendricks, Andrei Arlofski, Junior Desanto, Rhonda Rousey. Lots of experts say it’s a question of motivation when it happens. Once they reach the top they just don’t have the same motivation. The Rocky III story basically. Not everyone is Tom Brady ( psycho).
Maybe Jon Jones gets in trouble to create adversity. Maybe, whether consciously or not, he keeps crossing the line to create haters and doubters and something to overcome? I mean all things considered, he still has never really been beaten, and these days he’s always in a hard fight where he needs to dig deep to win, and he always does. There’s literally no quit in him.
Interesting to me.
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Posted again because Fight Club.
GSP is arguably the best all around fighter in MMA history, while Khabib has the most dominant ground game in MMA history. I think it would be more of GSP trying to keep it in stand up and maybe going to the ground if he could get Khabib on his back. Khabib would obviously be working to get GSP on the ground and do his thing. Khabib’s stand up game is underrated though... Would be a great fight.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3AO9gU9DSRI
I was watching some random MMA matches the other day and came across this one. Possibly the greatest comeback I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t seen it you gotta watch it.
If the fight was anywhere else it would have been stopped lol
Ref: if he dies... he dies. /shrug
Bet on UFC on draftkings just because I miss sports, and I have literal 0 knowledge of UFC. The only two I know are George St. Pierre and Rhonda Roussey. Anyways I made my lineup and 4 of the first 5 of my fights win. Was in good position to make probably $50 to $70 off a $25 buy in. Then Nunes v. Spencer happened. I picked Spencer and its currently 120 significant strikes and 6 takedowns to 36 significant strikes and 0 take downs.
I might not money now, because apparently Nunes is a superstar and like 40% rostered lol. I ----think--- I should be good to go @$40 so $15 made, but I was doing pretty hot before this fight lol.
edit: Nunes is 59% owned, I might get fucked
edit2: woo it's over I won $40 (minus the $25 buy in)
Well you won money so nice work. If you ever want any advice on a match or card I’ll try to help. I’m not an expert but I’m a big fan and I follow it close.
And yeah, Amanda Nunes is the greatest female fighter in MMA history. Don’t bet on her to lose for a long time.:)
I’m shocked Spencer went the distance. I wouldn’t have even bet on that.
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I went Spencer, Garbrant, O'Malley, Pitolo, Menifield, Burns.
If I had benched Menifield for a cheaper option I probably could have upgraded Spencer to Nunes, but I dunno who that would have been cost wise. If I remember right Menifield was pretty expensive like the $9000 range, and then he lost. I think Spencer was like 6800 - 7200 and Nunes was like mid9000 range maybe?
I doubt I'll bet it frequently, it's probably like Golf and the NBA for me where I'll be bored and miss sports and place a rando bet with essentially 0 knowledge.
Oh I've obviously heard of Connor McGregor too and whoever Chandler Jones' brother is, but I kinda assume the guys I've heard of are basically the LeBrons of UFC and are mostly irrelevant to a draftkings lineup because they'd be widely owned and dictate the entire budget of your lineup.
Money and fame are a hell of a drug
Did you watch it, Wizzy?
I think Masvidal can take Usman if they fight again. He had zero time to prepare and Usman is a machine. Still he can’t stand with Masvidal for 5 rounds and if Jorge has a full camp training how to keep Usman at distance and off the ground I think he can knock him out.
Loved seeing Rose win again. UFC needs a Rose comeback.
Aldo fought better than I thought but the game has moved past him. It’s so weird that Aldo was only 28 and was on an 18-0 10 year undefeated streak when he fought Conor. He was in his prime and considered the pound-for-puns best cage fighter in the world. Conor knocked him out in 10 seconds...
And Aldo has lost 5 times since. He’s still tough but NOTHING like he was before Conor. That fight changed everything.
Yeah I felt the same way. It was an epic card on paper, which it why it sold 1.3 million PPVs. A huge number for the UFC, but it didn’t really live up to the hype. The rematch with Max and Volk was exactly like the first one with the exact result. The main event was exciting but Masvidal just didn’t have enough time to prep. I was glad Rose won her rematch with Andrade but I’m not sure I agree with the decision.
Be honest.
Who here is going to watch Mike Tyson fight Roy Jones Jr? I will, though I’m a tiny bit ashamed of how excited I am to see Tyson again.
I agree. I don’t see how RJJ can stay away from Tyson at 51. No way he has the quickness to stick and move like that anymore. Tyson looks like he can still do that same bob/weave/slip shit and throw bombs like he always did, at least for a couple of rounds.
I don’t see RJJ surviving 2 rounds with Tyson.
Khabib retired in the ring today after easily finishing Justin Gaethje. Hardly broke a sweat.
He always said he wanted to get to 30-0 then hang it up, but he called it quits at 29-0. Anyone else I would say he’ll come back for a superfight but Khabib doesn’t play games. His dad died, who had always been his trainer, and he said he seriously considered quitting then but decided to give Justin his chance. It wasn’t close.
Khabib is the greatest MMA fighter of all time. Most dominant champion and cage fighter to ever do it.
Khabib = GOAT
100%
I would like to respectfully disagree.
Khabib never lost, that's true, but 10-15 of his wins are total bums. He beat a lot of huge names in the division but he didn't beat them all (Ferguson for example). He ducked Tony several times, and I'm not sure why, as much as I love Tony I don't think he could have handled Khabib anyway.
He has 4 title defenses, total, ever. Jones has 15. FIF.TEEN.
he MIGHT be the best Lightweight of all time.. and he did earn my respect with this last fight for the first time. I am not knocking him down, please don't think that (because last year I was knocking him down, i hated the guy) but the MMA goat? I strongly disagree with this. I mean, McGregor had multiple titles at once at lightweight. (but I understand most of McGregors success is just him being a polarizing figure, i don't believe he had more than 1 title defense.)
I also don't agree with them moving him up to #1 PfP. I suppose, with all the controversy with Jones that it is appropriate at the moment.. but if JJ does fight at heavy weight and wins that belt, forget about it. He's already probably the greatest of all time, the only reason it's even a debate is because he's a fucking idiot who can't keep himself out of trouble.
his wrestling, grappling and conditioning are top tier, and his drive and heart. But when someone says "GOAT", i think a lot of things have to be considered and one of the most crucial things is title defenses. I mean, Matt Sera was a champion... Bisping was a champion.. you wouldn't even consider them when talking about being the greatest of all time.
I'd have to really think if I could even call him the greatest lightweight of all time.. he may have the best record but I'd have to do some research.
Right now I have Jon Jones, Anderson Silva and Royce Gracie well above Khabib for the "GOAT" title. A case for GSP could easily be made also, but I'm not a huge fan of his.
talking with a co worker about this exact thing just a few minutes ago - he made a good point i felt i should share
despite Khabib's opponents in his first 20 or so fights being pretty much no-names, he has never even been CLOSE to losing a fight. he may have lost 2 rounds in his career - 1 of them being round 1 vs McGregor. i remember seeing that round and thinking there was no way mcgregor was going to lose that fight, his takendown defense was incredible.
so - that is a great point to make in Khabib's favor.. but we both agreed he's no GOAT
so i see UFC officially moved Khabib into the #1 PfP spot
Looking at the lineup, i do agree it's fair right now. Jones hasn't fought and in my opinion he needs to earn that title back. Khabib earned it.