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What a weird strategy from Cody. I don’t understand what his goal was and it doesn’t look like he prepared for the guy he was fighting lol

 

Think the game plan was to not stand and bang and be smarter but he ended up just over correcting and being too cautious.

 

Honestly think the way the energy shifted after the takedowns early took the wind out of his sails. Rob lands a lot of jobs and straights, is super accurate and has a lot of volume. It was just keeping Cody at bay because his most powerful punches weren’t doing anything, and the takedowns started getting stuffed. At that point, Cody just wasn’t trying to take a 4th TKO loss.

 

What happened to the Cody that destroyed Cruz?

 

He also did have covid so maybe that’s a factor. I’d like to see him continue to have confidence in his chin. Get back to it and correct some stuff and come back.

This was not the Cody we know at all (I’m glad he didn’t get knocked the fuck out though)

 

I think we’re gonna see Sean/Cody sometime this year.

Cody is 1-4 in his last 5 now. Sean is very winnable for Cody. And Cody is a big name to add to Sean’s record if he can win.

 

Yeah the fact that Cody had a pretty terrible year for this past one, I don’t count him out yet at 29. Usually don’t get that lenient with guys who go 1-4, but he’s had layoffs in between and made the same mistake of getting baited into brawls. 2 of those losses come from a roided douchebag who I couldn’t care less about returning to the UFC. And Cody, if he had been smart, had the first fight in the bag early on and who knows where he’d be if it had gone that way.

 

Speaking of which, when is TJ fighting again?

 

July 24 vs Cory

 

Was supposed to be at the beginning of this month I think, or around then. But TJ pulled out from suffering a headbutt in training that split his brow wide open.

 

damn that’ll be a good one

 

Had the performance of his life and isn't coming back.

 

this poster is making me irrationally upset lol, like you have a fight of this magnitude and THIS is the best you come up with??

 

lol yeah

 

Fabia continuing to be a piece of garbage throwing Diego under the bus now that they've "separated" as professional partners.

This guy is so delusional it hurts. He honestly said that the UFC's grudge against him started before the Chiesa fight because Fabia secretly witnessed the NSAC telling Diego to "throw" the fight. When they asked him to clarify how the commission asked Diego to take a dive, he said they were telling him things like "You're a sportsman, right Diego? You aren't going to do anything malicious in there, right?" Fabia takes this to mean that the commission was asking him not to hurt Chiesa.... Hey dipshit, do you not remember telling the media in the lead up to this fight that you had recently taught Diego a "death choke" which could kill Chiesa if performed correctly? You don't think there's a chance that that's what the commission could have been referring to?

 

Hot tip for news outlets, stop interviewing Fabia.

 

Every Fabia interview turns into a disaster and he just ends up incriminating himself even further so I don't mind that part, but I don't like him airing all of Diego's personal information so it's probably best to stop letting him speak.

He was saying in that interview that Diego is an asshole celebrity, a bad father, special needs, an addict, a steroid user... Like, come on man. Just shut up already.

 

poor Yair

 

Damnnnnn

 

Wow!

So wtf is zabit doing now? I thought he was waiting on Yair? I forgot he was ranked so high to be honest. Weird to see him matched up with Max! I really hope to see another Blessed clinic!

 

There was a rumor that Zabit was out due to esophageal issues that he needed surgery for. I know his coach confirmed he was out for awhile.

 

Yikes. that match up is cursed.

 

I thought he “retired” because of that stuff? Maybe I’m out of the loop.

 

Love Yair but he is being fed to the dogs here. Dana wants to see him gone.

 

I thought you guys would appreciate this. I actually also "trained" with those same people in that same stupid barn out in the country. I think "hooligans" is putting it pretty lightly (pretty sure the other guy in the photo is in prison and has probably been there a while now).

Some of my friends always used to try grappling at parties and had no idea what they were doing so I would always tap them out. These crazy guys (referenced in that post) invited me and my friend to come train with them at their "home gym" because they actually competed in local amateur shows. Big mistake. It would be two hours of wrestling around on a bunch of pads laid over the top of gravel and then they would get pumped up and say "Let's go start some fights with someone at a bar" (I was 17)....

I noped out of there pretty quickly, but apparently right after I got out, they met Croom and roped him into training with them too. He ended up being pretty talented and fighting on a few amateur cards in town before the organization who held the events poached him and got him to come train at their gym (where they've produced a handful of very talented people). It's wild thinking about that time in my life since it's now 14 years later and Croom is still fighting and is in the damn UFC.