JOSHUA v USYK

MMA is proper fighting. I was obsessed with boxing for years and as I've said on here before have been at more live events than I can remember. But I've also followed ufc since it started because of my love of martial arts.
The difference in the two is that there is no dodging fighters in the ufc, but boxing is full of bullshit like that. Plus in boxing there seems to be an eternity between big fights. The ufc has fights almost every week.
Also if you put a ufc fighter in a ring with a boxer with no rules, the ufc fighter will slaughter him. It's real fighting.
Never bought into it myself deadner, still remain unconvinced no matter how hard the ufc fans try to claim its a far better sport?
 
Classius Clay making a comeback then 🤔😂
One of the few good reasons I could think of for going to Perth is to give that tit a skelp! 😹

It's not a big town but the whole place is a one way system and a no parking zone and their parking nazis are like wee ninjas, last time I was there stopped for 6 minutes to look at a job, came back van had a ticket on it and the wee ninja nazi was nowhere to be seen, im sure the wee bastards are like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and live in the sewers, they pop up, slap a ticket on you then scurry back down the sewers again. Bastards!
 
Never bought into it myself deadner, still remain unconvinced no matter how hard the ufc fans try to claim its a far better sport?
I would never try to convince ye John. Each to their own. I was always into martial arts. My young lad is going for his black belt in november at 12. He loves it. I've always been fascinated with the art of fighting. As Dana white (ufc president)
said one time you could be watching the most exciting game of basketball and a fight breaks out in a corner of the stadium, everyone turns to watch the fight.
 
i hope its done before 11pm since my last bus home is 10 past 11 lmao

saturday night in glasgow and you cant get home after 11 pm unless you can afford a taxi

Great to see you back again and hope all is well with yourself.
Got no idea what time the fight is due to start but usually close enough to 11pm Mark at a guess
 
I would never try to convince ye John. Each to their own. I was always into martial arts. My young lad is going for his black belt in november at 12. He loves it. I've always been fascinated with the art of fighting. As Dana white (ufc president)
said one time you could be watching the most exciting game of basketball and a fight breaks out in a corner of the stadium, everyone turns to watch the fight.
Are they really technically that good in a chosen discipline deadner or more a mixture of many disciplines but masters of none? Genuine question as always thought they were masters of none imo.
 
Yeah I prefer when they stay on their feet. Not much into wrestling but bjj is very technical when you know what they're at.
it's the one thing that turns me off, there are guys that are so good at the grappling, the fight gets ruined. but i appreciate thats where their talent is and where they'll win.
Just don't like to watch it

i hope its done before 11pm since my last bus home is 10 past 11 lmao

saturday night in glasgow and you cant get home after 11 pm unless you can afford a taxi

it'll be over by 10.30, either AJ knocks him out in first 6 or tanks thereafter.
We've seen he can last 12 rounds, but his only chance is to take USYK out
 
Are they really technically that good in a chosen discipline deadner or more a mixture of many disciplines but masters of none? Genuine question as always thought they were masters of none imo.
MMA is supposedly and obviously a mixture of many different disciplines. But most fighters have started with one martial art form and then when they go to mma they train in several. Usually taekwondo, karate, bjj, muay Thai, wrestling, sambo, boxing.
Usually lads with a wrestling base are poor at striking so as they say in mma they like to lay and pray. In other words smother their opponent. Which is shit to look at.
Taekwondo and karate based fighters usually have a wider stance and are crisp strikers. Like McGregor.
Bjj fighters are very technical grapplers. Chokes and submissions.
The top fighters would be experienced in some form of striking with a bit of wrestling and a lot of bjj.
 
it's the one thing that turns me off, there are guys that are so good at the grappling, the fight gets ruined. but i appreciate thats where their talent is and where they'll win.
Just don't like to watch it
Theres a big difference in wrestling grappling and bjj grappling. Wrestling is shite to look at, but very effective. Bjj is very technical and probably the best martial art in a street fight situation.
 
I would never try to convince ye John. Each to their own. I was always into martial arts. My young lad is going for his black belt in november at 12. He loves it. I've always been fascinated with the art of fighting. As Dana white (ufc president)
said one time you could be watching the most exciting game of basketball and a fight breaks out in a corner of the stadium, everyone turns to watch the fight.
At 12, thats some going, you'll be a proud man moreso at his dedication.
Its always handy to be handy too in the world we live in

I can guarantee that to be that advanced, hes been in it for years and as a result the sport has turned him into a very capable but very respectful lad.

My pal went away years ago, lived in Asia for 20 years with the sole purpose of learning the various forms of Martial Arts, even stayed with the Monks for years. He's got more Dans than the phonebook in many different disciplines.

He's the nicest guy you'll ever meet, really is, but fuck me i wouldn't want to cross him.
On a recent holiday, he went to the gym every day, in 41 degree heat jogged there and back, training for 2 hours.
My other pal who just really met him says, 'for a guy that lives in the gym, your not very big'
reply...... 'i've never lifted a weight in my life, i just punch and kick fuck out of a bag every day m8'

He was working for £50 a day in films in Asia and about 5 years ago i sat with him and re-wrote his CV and suggested he put his CV forward to UK film companies and tried to get into the stunt/fight choreography side if things

He got a break, last 3 films he's had were training big names
 
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MMA is supposedly and obviously a mixture of many different disciplines. But most fighters have started with one martial art form and then when they go to mma they train in several. Usually taekwondo, karate, bjj, muay Thai, wrestling, sambo, boxing.
Usually lads with a wrestling base are poor at striking so as they say in mma they like to lay and pray. In other words smother their opponent. Which is shit to look at.
Taekwondo and karate based fighters usually have a wider stance and are crisp strikers. Like McGregor.
Bjj fighters are very technical grapplers. Chokes and submissions.
The top fighters would be experienced in some form of striking with a bit of wrestling and a lot of bjj.
See i would have thought that the boxer with the speed of the punch would split the ufc fighter to fuck with the difference in gloves deadner imo
 
At 12, thats some going, you'll be a proud man moreso at his dedication.
Its always handy to be handy too in the world we live in

I can guarantee that to be that advanced, hes been in it for years and as a result the sport has turned him into a very capable but very respectful lad.

My pal went away years ago, lived in Asia for 20 years with the sole purpose of learning the various forms of Martial Arts, even stayed with the Monks for years. He's got more Dans than the phonebook in many different disciplines.

He's the nicest guy you'll ever meet, really is, but fuck me i wouldn't want to cross him.
On a recent holiday, he went to the gym every day, in 41 degree heat jogged there and back, training for 2 hours.
My other pal who just really met him says, 'for a guy that lives in the gym, your not very big'
reply...... 'i've never lifted a weight in my life, i just punch and kick fuck out of a bag every day m8'

He was working for £50 a day in films in Asia and about 5 years ago i sat with him and re-wrote his CV and suggested he put his CV forward to UK film companies and tried to get into the stunt/fight choreography side if things

He got a break, last 3 films he's had were training everyday and co-ordinating Tom Hardy for 6 months, then with Kevin Hart over in Belfast just recently. His next film is with the guy that slapped Chris Rock and the guy Jamie Foxx.
That's brilliant. I love hearing stories like that.
My young lad is the quietest lad you'd ever meet. He's won Ulster Leinster all Ireland and European medals. He's never been in a fight outside of martial arts. He eats healthy and is super fit. He's studying hard for his black belt exam which is done in Korean so he needs to know Korean to a certain extent. And what a lot of people don't know, when you get a black belt in any martial art here, you have an automatic grade c GCSE pass in PE. Which is an extra incentive for him as he's obsessed with sport.
 

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