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Wow. Way, way closer than I would've guessed. Either Bellator fanbase is making huge strides, UFC fanbase is dwindling, the earlier time slot advantage was a bigger deal than it might have seemed or some combo of the three factors.

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http://www.mmamania....ht-night-50-mma Also: http://www.mmamania.com/2014/9/6/6115361/video-ben-askren-kicked-off-air-for-criticizing-ufc-kenny-rice-bas-rutten-inside-mma-axs-tv

I think UFC keeps Overeem in spite of his glass jaw. His days of getting big cash are over but he's still a draw, he's still athletically capable of beating the majority of the HWD yet there will always be that element of 'excitement' whenever he fights because of the jaw. Brendan Schaub with better name recognition.

How about Big Ben Rothwell, though. We witnessed the apex of a mans life, right there. Unfortunately it's all downhill from here.

3 FN's in September alone. This one (very good card), FN51 is rather weak outside the main event as is FN 52 (Hunt/Silva). I realize UFC is in a damned if you do (fans bitch about card dilution) damned if you don't (fans bitch about not enough free cards) situation but I'm losing interest in watching thin cards. I'd take 12 great FN's a year, one a month, stacked, with at least one a year stacked to the moon so it had an 'event' feel to it like the Superbowl. Repeat it at the same time every year.

Legit stoppage but that was a helluva fight.

... and I had had 1/2 my BR on Overeem. GG, 2014.

Ugh. FOTY candidate flushed because of a ****ing cut.

Iaquinta is breaking into my top 10 favorite fighters.

I'm pretty much the least desirable human on earth in every way imaginable yet have never understood how anyone not on the Autism spectrum could struggle with women. They're not a hard puzzle to solve. I guess its just Chicago where women tend to have different values than other places but seriously. If you can't walk into any random bar and go home with at least a 7 - at will- you're going about your life completely wrong.

Around these parts, all rulings come down in favor of Bailey Jay.

Have you gone for pizza yet?

This is the 9/11 of leaked celebrity noodz.

Didn't realize Chiesa/Lauzon was on FN50. Will absolutely be watching that card. Buying quite a bit of Derrick Lewis @ -140.

10 Year Old Chinese Boy, Annoyed That He Can't Hear Cartoons Because of Highrise Workers, Cuts Their Safety Rope. http://theweek.com/article/index/267342/speedreads-chinese-boy-cant-hear-his-cartoons-cuts-high-rise-workers-safety-rope

This was a shit card. Won decent very money with Hamilton and Brunson, only lost a bit with Jackson but I didn't even bother watching it. How was the last fight? I see it went to R5 before Dillishaw knocked him out? Was it competitive?

The abandonment of the HWD is the UFCs own damn fault. Their thinking is that the smaller guys are 'more exciting' since they're faster. No diss to the smaller guys but seriously, the big men sell cards. If that means a thinner (but higher quality) fly, feather and bantam to expand the HWD and LHW roster, then make it so. None of this 'one year between title defenses' bullshit, either. So now they think, what? Women are the saving grace? Dana White is and isn't many things. One thing he *is* is a man who knows how to pick a fighter people want to watch. There was no reason to sign

When my grandfather was in his 50s, he couldn't shoot deer anymore. He just had no further interest in doing it, having been the Deer Hitler for his entire life prior. Age does weird things to a man. People aren't interested in the same shit at 30 that they were at 20 but often times, they aren't interested in the same shit at 40 that they were at 30. I can totally, totally see someone losing interest in MMA has he gets out of his 'testosterone years' and into his years of wisdom. I'm stuck in the transitional phase between the two and even at the gym, I'm like an alien species among the

The best part about Enclosure by John Frusciante is that it doesn't take genius to cause butthurt in RHCP fans but he manages to do just that, in the context of total brilliance.

Hopefully, 'Operation We Don't Care' is completely underway.

100% of people giving Obama shit about the tan suit are mental retards. Summer suits are the best. Going out today, buying a tan suit, O' Captain, My Captain. I sure hope Mens Warehouse has 9XL.

Just cancel the whole card. It was pathetically thin to begin with. What a disaster these cards are. If Cerrone finishes Alvarez, I agree to go neutral on him.

Unnatural rot resistance, too. I'm *just* barely old enough to remember when a vegetable being 'in season' was a huge cost arbiter. These days, its pretty much irrelevant since so much of our food is imported. Also, you'd buy them and have to eat them in 2-3 days before they'd spoil. Now, they've already spent 2 weeks coming from Argentina before they even hit the shelf. You look back through history, there are just so many things that received the 'Official Seal Of Approval' that turned out to be wildly dangerous. My elementary school had a cafeteria ceiling sprayed with pillowy, white a

I think GMOs are a 'where's the line' issue. Some of it- the stuff that's just accelerating Darwin for the benefit of man- is probably OK but the bizarre and unnatural stuff, I can't help but wonder if we won't be regretting it years down the line. Read "The Black Swan" not because its related to GMOs but because it goes deep into unaccounted variables that can't be predicted when engineering complex systems. The fact I can't buy a tomato anymore that doesn't have the consistency of eating a tennis ball, there's something wrong. Also, if people are expected to live to 150, we'd better