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***OFFICIAL*** UFC 159 Prelims Thread

9K views 228 replies 38 participants last post by  TanyaJade 
#1 ·


Preliminary card - FX (Facebook for international viewers)
Johnny Bedford vs. Bryan Caraway
Ovince St. Preux vs. Gian Villante
Sheila Gaff vs. Sara McMann
Rustam Khabilov vs. Yancy Medeiros

Preliminary card - Facebook, Youtube: Link or UFC.tv
Leonard Garcia vs. Cody McKenzie
Nick Catone vs. James Head
Kurt Holobaugh vs. Steven Siler
 
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#91 ·
LOL. Okay... you're right. It's cool that Caraway threatened to break her arm and made all sorts of idiotic remarks about female athletes because Rousey said something first. All that pride over being able to beat up on female fighters is perfectly acceptable, because Rousey said something first! I really do wonder about some of you. God help your future wives.


'I know I hit her, officer, but she said I wasn't a real man! So it's okay!'
 
#94 ·
Classic hater bait. Rousey runs her mouth how she is gonna beat a male MMA fighter. If MMA fighter says what would really happen he is women beating asshole, if doesn't he is just a wuss and would get beat up by a girl. Okay.....
 
#96 ·
Classic hater bait. Rousey runs her mouth how she is gonna beat a male MMA fighter. If MMA fighter says what would really happen he is women beating asshole, if doesn't he is just a wuss and would get beat up. Okay.....
Whatever. You're right, I'm a hater. There's nothing wrong with Caraway telling a woman he'd break her teeth. Yep, it's all hate on my end :laugh:
 
#118 ·
See while usually I would be infuriated by men threatening women in this case it doesn't bother me. A) Rhonda talked first and B) she is perfectly capable of defending herself if anything actually happened. If Caraway was a big WW or Rhonda was an olympic figure skater it would be different but they are about the same size and frankly I think Rhonda is vastly more skilled and think she would break his arm. He is talking about a fight with another fighter, I don't see it the same way as a street fight.
 
#102 ·
I missed the first few seconds of Mcmann vs. Gaff. Did Gaff just charge forward and Mcmann capitalized by taking her down easily? That's what it sounds like. Bad idea by Gaff.
 
#121 ·
It actually didn't play out to bad, I thought we were gonna be playing the I can't stop a TD so I will just hold on for dear life game all night. A lot of lay and pray is simply cause the person on bottom is just clinging praying for a stand up.
 
#113 ·
Nice crucifix. Gaff could do nothing but take punches and elbows.

Gaff didn't fight too intelligently. Running at a wrestler and staying offensive in the clinch instead of trying to create space to escape are bad ideas. Must have thought her "tank ways" could out power wrestling technique.
 
#115 ·
I'm not trying to hate on the ladies. I liked Tate/Zing and Liz/Ronda.

But that was terrible. There is seriously 3 or 4 capable women. The rest suck.

Nothing McMann did said she can beat Rousey. She took down a can that ran right at her.

UFC stats are so F'd too. After McMann got the easy TD right off the bat...as they stood up the punch count was 31-5 McMann. What 5 strikes did the other girl land at that time????? She was on bottom holding on....but she landed 5 strikes? UFC lies to you about the strikes.
 
#116 ·
I don't think it's a questionable stoppage at all. She'd eat another 60 seconds of those shots uncontested. Even if they aren't super powerful, the ref simply will not allow you to take 100 jabs to the face without any way to protect yourself.

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#120 ·
It was not a questionable stoppage. Gaff was eating punches and elbows and couldn't get out of the position despite her efforts. She would have eaten them the entire round.

It wasn't a bad fight.
 
#125 ·
People that said it was a bad stoppage are the same that though Tate's messed up self was going for a real TD when they stopped that one. At some point you have to call it, these girls don't deliver KO power.

I mean it wasn't a bad fight because there was a finish. But truth is even top 10 ladies are usually very one-dimensional.
 
#128 ·
1 minute of pillow punches wouldn't have hurt her that bad... If there had been some force I would be all for the stoppage the strikes just seemed to be a little weak to warrant a stoppage even if Gaff was unable to defend them.

To me that is no different then stopping a fight when a fighter is in guard holding the other fighter down and landing strikes. The other person can't stand back up and can only make limited actions to defend themselves but unless they are being hammered on I don't believe the fight should be ended just because they don't have the strength to throw their opponent off of them.
 
#171 ·
Imo she was intelligently defending herself by hiding her head so McMann couldn't land cleanly with force. To me it looked like Gaff could have easily survived a minute of that ground and pound, that is why I think it should have been left to continue as she did have some success just prior to being taken down again.

The crucifix is a dangerous position that is very difficult to get out. If the top fighter isn't putting the bottom fighter in severe harm there is no reason to stop the fight imo.
No. but okay.
 
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