There was a golfer and a boxer among the nominees though.
I voted for Nicola Adams.
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Luke_X wrote:Got a ruler out and I measure it about 11 inches. Which pretty good value in my mind.
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Gandalf the Red wrote:I think I'll beg to differ. To me it's just Friday night drunks in the carpark fighting over a kebab.
For some of the heavyweights like Mark Hunt and Roy Nelson, maybe. For 95% of top fighters though it's all about technique.
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That just makes me go dizzy. I mean what's with all the writhing around on the floor?
Whatever floats your boat, but it's not something I would have any interest in.
We had moved on to the Irish version.
Whatever floats your boat, but it's not something I would have any interest in.
Fjar wrote:There was a golfer and a boxer among the nominees though.
I voted for Nicola Adams.
We had moved on to the Irish version.
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Gandalf the Red wrote:That just makes me go dizzy. I mean what's with all the writhing around on the floor?
Whatever floats your boat, but it's not something I would have any interest in.
I have no interest in either but I see more parallels between boxing and MMA than MMA and 2 drunks going at it.
edit: scratch that, the only interest I had was when one of my friends hyped up the fact that two wrestlers went into MMA and I wondered how they would do, seemingly not great from what I can find
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Gandalf the Red wrote:That just makes me go dizzy. I mean what's with all the writhing around on the floor?
It's called jiu-jitsu
houston4044 wrote:edit: scratch that, the only interest I had was when one of my friends hyped up the fact that two wrestlers went into MMA and I wondered how they would do, seemingly not great from what I can find
CM Punk probably? Yeah his UFC debut was a disaster. Most pro wrestlers who went into MMA are considered pioneers or have very impressive fight records though. Minoru Suzuki, Masakatsu Funaki, Kazushi Sakuraba, Nobuhiko Takada, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuo Takahashi, Ken Shamrock, Naoyo Ogawa, Dan Severn, Brock Lesnar, Bobby Lashley...
The only other exceptions I can think of are Akebono and Yoshihiro Takayama who both ended up 0-4 in professional fights, but Akebono was a sumo which is a notoriously poor style to use in MMA, and Takayama still managed to have one of the most legendary and brutal fights ever with Don Frye.
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Matty_the_Emo_Slayer wrote:houston4044 wrote:edit: scratch that, the only interest I had was when one of my friends hyped up the fact that two wrestlers went into MMA and I wondered how they would do, seemingly not great from what I can find
CM Punk probably? Yeah his UFC debut was a disaster. Most pro wrestlers who went into MMA are considered pioneers or have very impressive fight records though. Minoru Suzuki, Masakatsu Funaki, Kazushi Sakuraba, Nobuhiko Takada, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuo Takahashi, Ken Shamrock, Naoyo Ogawa, Dan Severn, Brock Lesnar, Bobby Lashley...
The only other exceptions I can think of are Akebono and Yoshihiro Takayama who both ended up 0-4 in professional fights, but Akebono was a sumo which is a notoriously poor style to use in MMA, and Takayama still managed to have one of the most legendary and brutal fights ever with Don Frye.
That's it. I have absolutely no idea who the other people you have named are though. I can see your a bit of a wrestling/MMA fan though if you actually remembered all those names and didn't google it
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0 planned gigs for 2017.
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Selling my Sodom ticket, not going for one band.
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Turbo wrote:0 planned gigs for 2017.
Selling my Sodom ticket, not going for one band.
Unless it's really expensive or you are in need of some money I would try and go. I like going to gigs semi-reguarly
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So I resorted to buying 5-HTP for the first time in ages yesterday, which since I last used them went from pill to capsule form. Had just one last night before bed and today I've just felt worse. Abdomen ain't too happy and feeling even grimmer and more lethargic.
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houston4044 wrote:Turbo wrote:0 planned gigs for 2017.
Selling my Sodom ticket, not going for one band.
Unless it's really expensive or you are in need of some money I would try and go. I like going to gigs semi-reguarly
£30 for a band I have seen 5 times is a bit pricey yeah. I am not really feeling any gigs this year. Want to make another Seven Sisters gig because I loved it and that Helloween tour whenever/wherever it is, otherwise I can see me sitting out of alot in 2017.
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Turbo wrote:houston4044 wrote:Turbo wrote:0 planned gigs for 2017.
Selling my Sodom ticket, not going for one band.
Unless it's really expensive or you are in need of some money I would try and go. I like going to gigs semi-reguarly
£30 for a band I have seen 5 times is a bit pricey yeah. I am not really feeling any gigs this year. Want to make another Seven Sisters gig because I loved it and that Helloween tour whenever/wherever it is, otherwise I can see me sitting out of alot in 2017.
From the rumors I've seen fly about I suppose you would need as much cash as possible to afford a ticket to that
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Yeah if its completely unreasonable and obviously living in the Birmingham area will be on top of travel, hotel costs fuck that as well. Doubt that tour will come to within 80 miles of here.
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It's that time where we get to involve ourselves in the usual pissing contest - Who got the most presents and who got the best?
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Loads of George Michael jokes already.
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Quieter here than I thought! Seems most of you have the right idea. I had a very generous one, only a coupla prezzies (incl. booze) but a bit of moolah from my grandmother which is nice of her. Mum's dinner was on point.