I cant take you serious when you open up with that sentence. I'm a joke - not on your best day , u bag of dicks. When I say Salter might be a tough challenge - just showing some respect to a guy who's finished I dont know how many in a row.
Obviously, if mousasi loses as a 4-1 favorite ( a real loss) - I dont have much legs to stand on. Your so dumb that you csnt recognize what this guy has done for the better part of 2 decades as a clean fighter over every top promotion. You probably idolize a guy like Mamed who didn't have the balls to test himself .
I'm glad you brought up 2016 - 2017... you're another mma sheep thsts needs to be educated on the state of sport. Lol, you're probably some wide eyed pussy who gets impressed with anyone on any given night. Since 18' or 17' , MMA is on the down ( talent wise /depth- u wouldn't know about that ) from then from 170 & up .
Lol, Jorge Masvidal fought for the title....twice . Punch drunk Glover is the, lol, #1 contender due to the state of the division
Dereck Brunson is a win away from a title shot .OMG.
Kevin Gastelum is still considered a top 185er.
Get a grip , you fucking clown .
Heres a fact - Gegard Mousasi would be favored over any UFC middleweight not named Adesanya.....maybe Whitaker- maybe.
I wasnt going to waste my time and I'm not a " last word " type of follower that sherdog reeks of ( thatd be u).
You're not a last word guy? Heh that's funny, considering that you have over 25,000 comments on this site. Not a last word guy. And you have a 10:1 like to comment ratio, which means you're writing long posts that people aren't reading in the midst of arguments that have nothing to do with them. Not a last word guy, hilarious. You wrote that post and then 3 more rage posts addressed to me because you're "not a last word guy."
You are a joke because you took a guy who said "Salter by peruvian necktie" seriously when you admitted yourself that you knew the innuendo. You're a joke because that was the only guy who said anything like that and you described it as "the first few pages are...salter by sub
filled". Filled? One guy making an innuendo is filled? That's the joke. You're self serious and your characterizations are dishonest.
Did he fight against any of those guys that you mentioned? No. Your argument strategy, the "cluster of random gripes" strategy isn't actually logic, it's just an old head talking about how times were always better in the past. To be fair I also posted a post a few days about how some past era of UFC was better, but you don't reminisce once or twice you live in the past. All of the people that Gegard beat in his "magical" run where he beat "All" 7 of 8 fighters are either retired or gatekeepers now, who have picked up many losses since to new talent that the UFC now push. And what you're going to say, on queue, is that they're older now. It's not as impressive when they won against the same competition. Well Gegard is also older now. And he is not immune to biology, unlike what you want to believe.
And it's hilarious to me that, because you're not a Bellator fan. You're actually really cut up inside about the fact that he's in Bellator. Because all of these thousands, and I mean thousands, of arguments that you've had with people, we'll just never know. Because he's not in the promotion. And that eats at you. Because if only he were there to prove he was so great...but he can't. And he's not. He's in bellator. And he'll face another person you probably think inside is a bellabum but you have to hype up anyways because if you don't then arguing with other UFC fans about his legacy would be that much harder.
Yeah ... he wouldnt last long .I'd jab his nose once and as he goes to catch the crimson dripping , I'd osoto gari him through the pavement. I'd then feel bad and try to comfort the d- bag ( plus I'd worry about jail , my wife and me 2 little bits).
Wow that was very vivid haha. Honored to make a Franklin U fantasy. I just realized, you must be that guy that Gegard said sent him the butt selfie when Brendan Schaub made the statement about Gegard's junk size on the radio haha.
Yeah- they groomed Van Steenis to become the next big European
Yeah - they groomed van steenis to become the next big European champ but Salter pulled the massive upset.
Do you know how mma challenged you sound ? And you're on the worldwide site you dumb prick.
As long as you're going over my posts to claim I'm making protection posts for Gegard - my main concern ( which I posted ) was the van steenis fight where Mousasi is levels above v steenis and was worried he wasnt taking fight seriously because of that fight.
Was Steenis even favored to beat Salter ?
Know your role , son.
They were grooming Van Steenis. They still are. There's a reason he accepted a fight with Salter and by now hasn't fought in a year while Tokov, Vanderford, and Eblen couldn't get any top 5 fights.
Now to address the legitimate concern that Salter was a betting favorite, of course he was. It's a classic striker vs. wrestler match, smart people with money on the line go with the wrestler. But their intention was not and their intention still is not to give Van Steenis challenging competition. Because if he can't beat the least he certainly can't beat the best.
I see your join date.
It all makes sense now.
This isnt Polaris, you mo mo. This is fucking mma. You dont hold people down to win a major mma world title . You can " effectively grapple "( which is acceptable)or you can grapple from a point of defense ( Lovato jr demonstrated this in his " fight " with Gegard).
The UFC will survive because of ESPN, hopefully have enough top talent to spread and sit down on their bread & butter ppvs and new fans like you who dont know any better.
I see your join date too, I'm very impressed that you've been posting bad takes for a long time. /s
The UFC is not dying. It is not remotely struggling. No matter what fantasies you may have. The year to year profits are increasing steadily and no gripes from yourself or any others will change that. And you know the funniest thing? I don't even dislike Gegard. Before obnoxious people like yourself came along I had no gripes about him. I had and have still no problem recognizing his historical value in the sport.
But some day he will retire. And even newer people than me will have never seen him fight. And all the fighters that he fought will have retired. And no one will ever care about who he was or what he did. And you're going to troll these boards once every so often to say "remember that Gegard guy? The one who was really good long ago and is now retired? He was really something." And people will go on with their day and not mind you. And you'll say "MMA is so much worse now, sans Gegard." And people still will not care, some won't even know who you're talking about. And you'll have to live with that. You'll have to live with the fact that our sport is growing, the fastest growing spectator sport in the world. And that people are entering the sport who will have no reverence for the history of the sport and will not care who Gegard was. And soon if it's not already the case, most people who watch the UFC will have never seen Gegard fight. You'll have to live in a world where Gegard is irrelevant.
And I don't think Gegard minds that. Gegard himself has made enough money, with investments and savings, to live comfortably and happily for the rest of his life. But it's going to eat at you, until maybe some day it's just not worth it and you'll walk away from the sport. Because these young new names will never be good enough for you. They'll never be the same. You had one night in shining armor, and he will be gone. Perhaps without ever having returned to the UFC to prove that you were right in all those meaningless Sherdog arguments.
