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Lmao nobody knows who the fuck Cedric is"What French MMA is all about"
Media Cédric Doumbé calls out Sean Strickland
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No worries man.
Yeah I think if the French commission does this, they should also take experience in other combat sports into account. By doing that you can prevent that some legit 0-0 dude takes on a 0-0 dude with a ton of fighting experience in some other combat sport
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Doumbé posted a tweet in French very recently, it said this (Google-translate):
“The UFC is good but in real life, Bellator offers me a sick sum. The UFC is more media but we take risks for our health… It's not the UFC that fills the fridge "
Not too long after the tweet got taken down.
@spinup , did you hear anything about this, or what it should mean?
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For what it's worth, UFC have just added his profile to their website 3 days ago.
I think he's UFC bound.
https://www.ufc.com/athlete/cedric-doumbe
Yeah, he backtracked that a bit in a more recent interview.
In that one, he said that IF the bellator offered him a much bigger pay, he would hesitate. And that and wants to make a sort of vote to let the fans decide where he goes next.
I think he realized he said too much, it could cause him problems if he already signed with the UFC.
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He looked good. I like how he tried to use offensive wrestling. Means he’s really working everything
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If I'm not mistaken, Doumbé stated in a video that he required to make his ufc debut in France.
And to have his UFC fight sanctionned under the french commission rules, he needs to add more fights to his resume, hence why he's fighting outside the UFC while still being under contract.
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WHO THE FOOK IS THAT GUY
Something with the search engine on the UFC website, "doumbe" was not finding it, but "cedric" was.
I posted a link to his UFC profile on January 17th, and in August last year as well.
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...t-from-the-ufc….4258713/page-5#post-170190159
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...rn-to-promotion.4251634/page-5#post-168998626
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There was no grappling involved in that fight
Brad was fighting at WW in MMA when he fought Doumbé in kickboxing; he only dropped to LW later.... "Doomced" was emaciated for this fight too, that was before Fernand Lopez introduced him to his nutritionist wife, and what happened happened... and Doumbé learned to cut weight properly.
"Quake" was a very very good kickboxer too, with wins and several very close fights against elite competition, like when he took current ONE LW kickboxing/Muay Thai champ Regian Eersel to a close decision in a sweet fight, or when he beat the likes of John Wayne Parr, Rungrawee Sitsongpeenong, Frank Giorgi, etcc
Not sure why it was a split decision, since while it was a really good fight, Cédric pretty clearly took the win.
Cédric "Le Meilleur" Doumbé is the first UFC newcomer in a long long time that made me jump on his bandwagon, I've been a fan of his while he was the kickboxing P4P great for years, and I believe he has what it takes to make it to the top.
Well, it's not like he had a choice.Doumbe's opponents have a combined record of 7-5.
The whole reason he can't fight in the UFC was because his opponents had too many fights.
Plus; Doomced's MMA opponents didn't have a lot of MMA bouts, but they all had extensive kickboxing, muay thai or boxing records. They weren't bums picked out from the audience...
But yeah, they weren't exactly grappling legends either, just fellow strikers.
Pawel Klimas looks like he could be the first grappling-oriented guy to face Doumbé
I'm just speculating from his team, the "Grappler Ełk / Dragon's Den Fight Club Team" since the 2 main coaches are grapplers
Marek Bujlo is a BJJ guy who competed in ADCC
Kamil Birgiel is a Judo guy, but I can't find much about him in English
Guess we'll see?
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You need to reread what I said...There was no grappling involved in that fight
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My thoughts exactly, I can’t think of a less intimidating country, 99% of their athletes are imports from other parts of the world."What French MMA is all about"
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I didn’t know that Doumbé fought out of Mejiro Gym Amsterdam under the great André Mannaart at the time he was fighting Brad Riddell. Interesting! Doumbé was known to not have a headcoach or just one gym where he trains at. During his kickboxing haydays he hopped from one gym to another when preparing for fights, ala El Cucuy
Yeah I’m also looking forward to that one! I’m hearing that the UFC will return to Paris in September, so after this one maybe another fight and then there’s his UFC debut I guess
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I didn’t know that Doumbé fought out of Mejiro Gym Amsterdam under the great André Mannaart at the time he was fighting Brad Riddell. Interesting! Doumbé was known to not have a headcoach or just one gym where he trains at. During his kickboxing haydays he hopped from one gym to another when preparing for fights, ala El Cucuy
Yeah I’m also looking forward to that one! I’m hearing that the UFC will return to Paris in September, so after this one maybe another fight and then there’s his UFC debut I guess
Will have to try to remember to catch this one. Excited to see how Doumbe does against a halfway decent grappler. Don't really know anything about Klimas but he looks like a solid sized WW at least.
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Fearless prediction: Doumbe will never fight in the UFC and he is not currently signed there.
The UFC is only interested in one kind of fighter these days: contender-series chuds who are indistinguishable from the bums on powerslap. Doumbe is a terrific fighter so he doesn't meet the cut.
It is my feeling that the UFC are moving away from promoting their talent and are deliberately decreasing the quality of content.
But you just took the time to post about him, right?
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