You might get a decent submission or knockout from it, you might get a snoozer: that's the fight game, and especially the heavyweight fight game.
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With a family so dedicated to the fight game, Josh's childhood dreams have been nurtured and have allowed him to reach such a high level in the fight game.
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Unfortunately for Holloway, hypotheticals mean nothing in the fight game.
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"So fight game I'll see you when I see you."
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But the end in the fight game doesn't come suddenly.
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But then, in 2014, he returned to the fight game.
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But the fight game dishes out pain and absurdity without prejudice.
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Sunna 'Tsunami' Davíðsdóttir, 30, was a latecomer to the fight game.
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McGregor himself says he will return to the fight game in 2019.
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Shutting down the fight game in the Empire State was a big deal.
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Unfortunately for Holm, things tend to change pretty quickly in the fight game.
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Conor McGregor has finally realized the fight game has moved on without him
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Recent events have shown that the fight game has moved on without McGregor.
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Mayweather fight back in 2017 and sees major holes in Conor's fight game.
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BJ Penn, on the other hand, has already made his money in the fight game.
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Just as with theatre, the fight game used to be one of single night performances.
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Guts are guts, but at a certain point in the fight game, size is destiny.
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In the cage, ring or on the mats, the fight game is exacting, exhausting, leveling.
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It would put him over, and create a new PPV sensation in the fight game.
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After ten fights, and ten victories, Poot relocated to Bangkok and the big time fight game.
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Nick Diaz lost interest in the fight game altogether after failing numerous drug tests for marijuana.
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Please respect the insane amount of work outside the fight game that I have put in.
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However, it might the business behind the fight game that he knows best since his return.
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I've been harping on about shifts as underutilized since I began writing about the fight game.
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Doubts grew even louder when he announced, and later unannounced, his retirement from the fight game.
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But the price to his body for his stubborn persistence in the fight game was incalculably grave.
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It was one of those fights that pushed the whole fight game into a wild, anticipatory frenzy.
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"Put the fight game in the bag and step away from the vehicle," the photo caption reads.
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Nothing quite sums up chaos of the fight game as well as coach Firas Zahabi's experience that night.
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In another manner of speaking, the fight game hasn't undergone this much disruption since the previous turn of century.
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He entered the fight game because he enjoyed watching it, without any pedigree other than a brief amateur career.
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Now a bloke whom I knew from the pro-fight game in Bangkok has gone out much the same way.
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But, Barber says it's the fight game -- not the friend game -- and they need to settle things with their fists.
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Yes, in the promotional aspects of the fight game, Garbrandt repeatedly proves himself to be thicker than two short planks.
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Dubbed "the extendable arm fight game," Arms is being promoted as the newest addition to Nintendo's expanding roster of characters.
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Eventually moving in with the celebrated Irish coach, Gallagher's life has been completely immersed in the fight game ever since.
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In the fight game, there's a time to be abrasive and there's a time to go along and get along.
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He even went so far as announce what turned out to be a short-lived retirement from the fight game.
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Unable to leave the fight game well enough alone, BJ Penn returns this weekend for just one more, once more.
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There is plenty of room in the fight game for a good old fashioned veteran showdown, and in Saunders vs.
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But then it's the fight game, you can't actually make interesting fights just ones which might be interesting if you're lucky.
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If you're looking to get into the fight game, you've got to realise your career is going to be short-lived.
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Through all the machinations of the fight game and the long string of triumphs and defeats, Duva's love for boxing endured.
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Former middleweight champion Andre Ward discusses the difficulty boxers have transitioning from the fight game to the world of business and entertainment.
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The Bellator president considers taking the promotion to Israel to be one of his crowning achievements in his career in the fight game.
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When he finally took the microphone, he told the unsatisfied crowd that he had to take some time away from the fight game.
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In fact the non-fighting athlete trying his hand in the fight game is perhaps the best scenario in this type of promoting.
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But this is the fight game: a fighter can remain stagnant for two years and suddenly come out with a revolutionary new look.
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So ignoring all the politicking and dramatics that aid it along, let us appreciate the actual fighting of the fight game through 2017.
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Whatever happens—and knowing the fight game there are bound to be at least some surprises—get back here Monday for the breakdown.
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But the reality is that in the grand scheme of things, very few fighters are born directly into the fight game, so to speak.
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For the past few years, we have all been writing about Kid Yamamoto as an old man because in the fight game he was.
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He's 44-years-old ... but Tito Ortiz says his fight game is BETTER than ever -- and he wants to prove it against Jon Jones.
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But the fight game is one that will happily milk a fighter for everything he has if he can sell even a few tickets.
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The win punctuated Cowboy's longevity in the fight game as his 21 wins in the UFC meant he became the winningest fighter in the business.
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MMA legend Randy Couture is confident Nate Diaz is gonna beat up Conor McGregor this weekend ... because there's one massive hole in CM's fight game.
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You might have worked in the gym, but that's no going to give you experience to walk into any job outside of the fight game.
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He was the tall geek—the one who mugged the muscle bound egotists of the fight game blind in the clinch with devastating, ferocious knees.
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When Sherk had the title stripped for failing a drug test, it was definitely time to think up an exit strategy out the fight game.
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You see, unlike some brutes in the fight game, Cowboy tells TMZ Sports he doesn't hold grudges against the guys he goes to war with.
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Nonetheless, overt racism from promoters and the press in America seemed to slip out of the mainstream, at least when it came to the fight game.
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At all times Charles seemed like a man uncomfortable with celebrity and could never be mistaken for one who was in love with the fight game.
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The problem is politely suffering fools, the nods and winks to fight game salesmanship, the not hitting people outside of the context of a sanctioned fight.
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The fight game is littered with great athletes who take one fight too many as some boxers just don&apost know when to call it quits.
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Superlek and Panpayak are two of the top pound-for-pound fighters in Muay Thai boxing, but, like seismology, the fight game is an unpredictable pseudoscience.
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If the fight game is looking for a ray of hope that sponsorship dollars can start rolling in again, marijuana may have just lit one up.
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Pierce says he hasn't been back to Ireland for SPD in years -- but he still clearly bleeds GREEN when it comes to the fight game. Sláinte!!!!
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One way or another, Daniel Cormier's turbulent athletic career looks set to reach a happy conclusion, and those are just far too rare in the fight game.
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As the fight game progresses it gets harder and harder to believe that a smaller man will bring in something unknown, but they still surprise on occasion.
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The company profiled her as part of the Fight Game program, highlighting her traumatic past, having fought her way out of poverty and abuse during her childhood.
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Yes, the fight game is crawling with willing and available heavyweights, any number of which would have made better choices than an inconsistent light heavyweight like Maldonado.
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Iden, chairman of the Regulatory Reform Committee, would consider including integrity fees paid to sports leagues - a portion of sports betting revenue - to help them fight game fixing.
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It is said that a local policeman first steered the youngster towards the fight game, spotting the boy in a street brawl and recognising his latent pugilistic ability.
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It's taken a while, but between ACB, FNG, M-1 Global and its many, many other MMA promotions, Russia is becoming a recognized force in the fight game.
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Ghosairi has broken the Thai monopoly on the domestic Muay Thai fight game and emerged as one of the biggest promoters and managers in the professional sport today.
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But Diaz, like Nurmagomedov and Poirier, has moved the fight game on with recent successes — and McGregor has realized he is no longer the star he once was.
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The developer also launched a new "Food Fight" game mode that, again, centered on objective play instead of survival, featuring respawns and giant home bases for players to attack.
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"Best" often denotes technical pugilists—the ones who rely on the holy trinity of brains, skills and good defense to prolong their short shelf life in the fight game.
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It would be tempting to say that he failed to realize his potential, but Slice, who had spent his youth playing football, was a latecomer to the fight game.
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VanZant Scores Stunning Switch Kick KO Paige VanZant underlined her claims that she is dedicated to the fight game by recording a spectacular second round knockout over Bec Rawlings.
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Masvidal became the fight game&aposs BMF, an acronym which means "baddest mother f-----," after he beat Nate Diaz by doctor&aposs stoppage in New York, late last year.
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Dan Henderson 22017: Ryan Bader vs Anthony Johnson When you get to the highest levels of the fight game, decision making can be the difference between good and great.
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After a few months Sherk called up his agent at the time, Monte Cox, and asked if there might be a chance to get back into the fight game.
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If fighters don't care about commission-hopping to get a license, fair enough, but the biggest company in the fight game probably shouldn't be partaking in this small-time nonsense.
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Klitschko's TKO loss that night may well serve as a valuable precedent, given that he is now the grizzled veteran and his role in the fight game has been reversed.
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But the trash-talking, egocentric has been out of the fight game except for his boxing dalliance with Mayweather that made him wealthy enough to never have to fight again.
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At the end of the day, the fight game eats and chews you up if you're not strong enough and resilient enough to deal with everything goes along with it.
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For all his power to manipulate the fight game and opponents into playing his game, Floyd has to thank The Notorious one and a vocal MMA community for his next windfall.
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But Mr. Pek was a trainer, and a businessman, and, like all such combinations in the fight game, was only interested in folks who were game for a fight on a card.
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The VR Striking Vipers world is vivid and hot, full of eye-searing colors and familiar fight-game effects, obviously mirroring the way emotions there seem to be simpler and more intense.
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Dom admits a Conor win would be best for UFC superstars like himself ... but tells TMZ Sports we should expect a lot of crossover in the fight game no matter the outcome.
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Like the title character of that story, Mr. Lek was in the business of putting old fight heads on young shoulders and nurturing the crème de la crème of the fight game.
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Conor McGregor spoke with ESPN for his first interview in 10 months, published on Thursday, and the former UFC champion finally seems to realize the fight game has moved on without him.
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Then he said the Japanese had absorbed the American idea that middleweights are what boxers should look like, so Japan's best talent flowed to baseball and soccer and ignored the fight game.
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The researchers built three VR apps in testing the jacket, including a snowball fight game, a simulation of a snake crawling around, and a simulation of "growing muscles" — like turning into the Hulk.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Anthony Joshua described his stunning defeat to underdog Andy Ruiz Jr. as "a minor setback" but some in the fight game are wondering where Britain's damaged heavyweight hope goes from here.
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Of course, the 42-year-old boxing superstar announced he's returning to the fight game in 2020 ... and if his moves are as sharp as his throwing, his future opponents better watch out.
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And here he was, thanking the UFC, the fans, Cormier, Jon Jones and erstwhile champion Jon Jones, whom he never had the chance to face, and leaving the fight game for parts unknown.
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He also managed to convince a good portion of the fight game that despite his long absence from competition, and Ortiz's surprisingly strong run in the Bellator cage, he would win the fight.
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That certainly raises the question of why a simple VR head-to-head fight game doubles as a sex sim, which certainly would have been easy to address in a variety of telling ways.
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Scoring a knockout in the second round, this was another fantastic performance by the now two-weight champion, a young man who is changing the fight game as a business and in the cage.
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Guillard had been out of the professional fight game while his case played out in the court system ... but he made his return to MMA action last month in the Bare Knuckle Fight Championship.
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Bonnar's been out of the fight game for a few years ... but The American Psycho told TMZ Sports he and Phil Baroni (another MMA great) are about to lay the smackdown in the squared circle.
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This weekend might seem like one of the slower ones in the fight game, with no UFC event to talk about, but between Bellator and Glory it promises to be a decent few days of scraps.
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Look, it pains me a little to give credit to boxing, a sport that transforms brain damage into extra zeros in Don King's bank account, but this is one area the fight game gets exactly right.
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And after 13 months away from the fight game, Rousey's reliability and consistency—traits we took for granted—only look more impressive now that the kingdom she once ruled with an iron fist has descended into anarchy.
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A true artist knows his craft and Mr. Lek exited the Bangkok fight game with an encyclopedic knowledge of moves and counters, an archive of tricks and pyrotechnics to barter, trade, and pass on to chosen pupils.
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As impressive as it is that he has remained the top 135er in the world despite his absence, Cruz's awareness of how the fight game works is the most notable string he has added to his bow.
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He has, after all, spent his entire UFC career taking on hot prospects and showing them how much more there is to the fight game than having some nice techniques and the athleticism to go with it.
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Now, readers with their finger on the pulse of the fight game may want to interject here, and remind that Silva also expressed some interest in top middleweight contender Yoel Romero at yesterday's UFC 212 press conference.
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The California native used to be able to wax lyrical about anything to do with the fight game, but during the press conference for Bellator 170, he didn't even offer a good insult in the direction of Sonnen.
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Andrade, 31, has largely operated under-the-radar when it comes to mainstream sporting attention, but, with a slick American boxing style and as a champion of two weight classes, his pedigree in the fight game is strong.
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Potential is a big deal in the fight game, and we as fans are pretty good at giving a fighter's career prospects a stay of execution in our head based on the hints of excellence in his winning performances.
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There is another dangerous truth about the fight game at play here with Mayorga: What's better for business is almost never what's best for the fighter, and what's best for the fighter is often not what's best for business.
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Just don't expect The Kumite and a night full of spectacular knockouts, because takedowns and wrestling still rule the fight game even if the fighters are wearing gis and made to stand up after the fight hits the mat.
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Of course a good low kicker is going to fade back and try to time your leg coming down and try to work around it in other ways—strategies and counter-strategies as with everything in the fight game.
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Even if she herself became harder to support as fame exposed the cracks in her public persona as surely as Holly Holm's hands and shins exposed the holes in her fight game, the very existence of her remained remarkably compelling.
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Floyd Mayweather has always promised blood and sweat before he competes in the ring, but if he ever does return to the fight game for one final cash-grab, it could end in tears — and the tears would be his.
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That alone is a reason enough to hope the company makes it to the higher echelons of the fight game, but like the fighters competing in their fights, it also feels as though for SCL, that is a secondary objective.
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It started out all fun and games, but after twelve months of "super fight" and "money fight" and "the next Conor McGregor" talk, most fans of the fight game are desperately hoping for something of a return to normality in 19933.
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From Jason Knight and Artem Lobov's violent brawl in 2019, to the surprise signing of the former world boxing champion Paulie Malignaggi for a rivalry-ending fight with Lobov later in the year, BKFC has captivated the attention of the fight game.
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But from what I see, the trash talking in one-on-one sports is really personal...In the fight game, basically, you're trying to not only offend the other guy, but also get in his head—that's the purpose of trash talking anyway.
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Yet with the advent of high speed internet access and the explosion of YouTube, a fight fan might allow himself to catch up on the latest goings on in the fight game on the other side of the globe at any time.
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Of course, everyone in the fight game now knows that Nate Diaz will always be ultra-susceptible to low kicks because of his stance: they often knock his lead leg straight across him and force him to reset or even knock him off his feet.
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As the tallies came in and Golovkin was declared the winner, there were the usual cries of "robbery"—a term used about ten times as often as it should be in the fight game—while others insisted that Golovkin had easily deserved the decision.
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Born and raised in Nakorn Si Thammarat, South Thailand, Nokweed started boxing at the age of 7 and battled his way to the top of the fight game in the 1980s and 1990s to become one of the biggest draws in the professional sport.
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And of course if you could hope to be good at just one thing in the fight game, distancing might be top of the list because if the other guy doesn't come in with a plan to undo that, nothing he attempts will work.
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That means that, whether it's Robbie Lawler, Matt Brown, or a far-fetched rematch with Diaz or GSP, he's still got plenty of exciting choices at his fingertips, and no matter which option he might choose, the collective gaze of the fight game will follow.
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A devout Buddhist, who once booked into a monastery to become a monk ("it is a very beautiful experience in a man's life," he once said), the little diesel loves the simple life and doesn't miss the argy-bargy of the fight game one itty-bitty bit.
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Rather than waiting for their winning momentum to be tainted to pursue other options and take a break, a victorious McGregor would leave New York with more fanfare than ever before, which could lead to an amazing amount of offers from various avenues outside of the fight game.
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As Lopez is beginning to find out, though, there are some things in the fight game that are never as easy as they seem — and venues bidding for rights and delays to fight dates mean the richest bouts can prove a frustrating part of the business to be in.
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A friendly extrovert, at odds with his steely demeanour, I had a two-hour catch up with Dan to talk life, his accomplishments, the changing attitudes of each generation, the fight game, how professional wrestling has changed since his NWA/WWE heyday and more—the following are some of his musings.
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Certainly one of the writer's most treasured memories in the fight game is the unforgettable moment when the forty-five year old George Foreman defied the usual fate of the ageing fighter and reclaimed the heavyweight boxing title he had lost a decade before, late in a fight that he was losing.
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Certainly Meryl Streep was punching down on mixed martial arts and the stigma it still carries, but anyone who has watched their share of fights knows that there is an honesty, a cruelty, and an ecstasy to the fight game which all too often just cannot be replicated on the silver screen.
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And while it's cool to have a bout-for-the-belt-at-Barclay's in the borough that brought the fight game Floyd Patterson and Mike Tyson, there is no way the match between undefeated WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and Polish challenger Artur Szpilka will live up to its 116-year-old predecessor.
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It's a point that has been restated a thousand times at least, but the fight game on these shores has declined substantially since the golden era of the nineties, and the national boxing establishment is desperate to lay claim to a talent who can haul them back to prominence on the world stage.
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As one of the biggest stars and most dominant champions the organization has ever seen, a two-fight slide would affect her brand, and with countless offers coming to the former champion from outside of the fight game, a loss could see her focus more on others options from Hollywood or elsewhere.
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Read more: Conor McGregor has finally realized the fight game has moved on without himHe even gave a long list of opponents he would be willing to fight, indicating he knows he has to climb his way back up the rankings rather than head straight into a fight with a big-name opponent.
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Most of the best offensive finishers in the history of the fight game have recognized the value of body work and whether it is in close with his hands and knees or out at range with his kicks, there isn't a moment of the fight where Takeru isn't trying to touch his opponent's midriff.
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The nature of the fight game is that the narrative changes to suit the moment, so Weidman's run through Anderson Silva (twice), Lyoto Machida (looking the best he had in years), and Vitor became Weidman beating up old men but another commonly suggested reason for Weidman's drop off is the coming of the USADA tested era.
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Read more: Floyd Mayweather's fight against Tenshin Nasukawa was 'fake,' according to a former UFC heavyweightMayweather can make easier money elsewhere, and if he returns for another pro fight, his ability to enter the Hall — where he would join the greats of the fight game like Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Willie Pep — gets reset to five years from his next retirement.
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Everything at the top level of the fight game has always been about deception, if a fighter comes out at the elite level of the business in a fight where most assume he will be looking for the takedown, and then shoots straight off the bat, he is giving the opponent circumstances more perfect than they even allowed themselves to train for.
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Positioning is everything in the fight game, and in a multiple attackers scenario there are only two variations you need to know: Real people will not attack you single file, but getting to a position where they are pursuing rather than encircling makes it possible to see all of them, and those at the back will struggle to attack until they have stepped around their companions.
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" As Cruz sees it, there are two prime examples of how you can rise to glory in the fight game: "You've got the Demetrious Johnson approach, which is I'm going to fight and I'm going to school anyone you put in front of me, I'm going to beat them and I'm going to school them so you can't deny me the fame that I deserve.
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Read more:Conor McGregor has finally realized the fight game has moved on without himFormer champ GGG would rather talk about Elon Musk and space than Canelo Alvarez15-year-old tennis star Coco Gauff said her family had to go to the police after somebody followed their carBaker Mayfield says he reached out to Daniel Jones to 'clear the air' because he felt his comments about the Giants rookie quarterback were misconstrued
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Responding to fan criticism on Twitter Monday, for example, McGregor transmutated, as if by alchemy, his second-round rear-naked choke submission into a declaration of his own grappling eminence: Then, 30 minutes later, came an outburst that defied the universally accepted and rather reasonable fight-game adage that it doesn't really matter how thoroughly one fighter dominates another if at the end of the match the second fighter causes the first fighter to give up.
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