Non-threadworthy MMA Rumors/Quotes/Tweets/Etc., Vol. 4

REDDzone · Post #21 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:09 am

GSP says he is thinking of coming back (or whatever wording he used). My gut was to say no GSP, stay gone. GOAT at the moment IMO.

On the flip side, with Rory beaten half to death in his last fight and Hendricks reeling with weight cut issues...I think that division is as weak at this second as it ever has been (still one of the best). Lawler is the baddest MFer ever but GSP matches up very well with him. GSP already dominated Condit and Woodley is great but let's be honest his win streak is a little inflated.

The more I like at this division the more I think Rogan is nuts when he was saying GSP got out at the right time. That division was much stronger when GSP was at the top imo.

REDDzone · Post #22 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:12 am

Ronda Rousey's mom (lol) going off on how Edmund is a bad coach and a bad person.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESbkF_0A0g[/youtube]

cowboyronnie · Post #23 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:44 am

REDDzone wrote:GSP says he is thinking of coming back (or whatever wording he used). My gut was to say no GSP, stay gone. GOAT at the moment IMO.

On the flip side, with Rory beaten half to death in his last fight and Hendricks reeling with weight cut issues...I think that division is as weak at this second as it ever has been (still one of the best). Lawler is the baddest MFer ever but GSP matches up very well with him. GSP already dominated Condit and Woodley is great but let's be honest his win streak is a little inflated.

The more I like at this division the more I think Rogan is nuts when he was saying GSP got out at the right time. That division was much stronger when GSP was at the top imo.

He got out at the right time, he'd be getting back in at the right time too. That interim period was nuts.

Lawler took enough out of everyone's nervous system, time to get back in there.

Post #24 » by **Shaazzam** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:10 am

REDDzone wrote:GSP says he is thinking of coming back (or whatever wording he used). My gut was to say no GSP, stay gone. GOAT at the moment IMO.

On the flip side, with Rory beaten half to death in his last fight and Hendricks reeling with weight cut issues...I think that division is as weak at this second as it ever has been (still one of the best). Lawler is the baddest MFer ever but GSP matches up very well with him. GSP already dominated Condit and Woodley is great but let's be honest his win streak is a little inflated.

The more I like at this division the more I think Rogan is nuts when he was saying GSP got out at the right time. That division was much stronger when GSP was at the top imo.

I think GSP got out at the right time because he was either cracking or had cracked from the pressure. Dude needed a break.

SDM · Post #25 » by **SDM** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:35 pm

Chael's opening monologue this week is absurd.

"Science is a bunch of crap"
"Philosophy trumps science every day of the week"
"They tell us dinosaurs were around billions of years ago... is it one billion, two billion, how do they measure?"
"No one knows anyone who collects a paycheck as a scientist" (I know two)
"Don't try to convince me with stats"

REDDzone · Post #26 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:42 pm

SDM wrote:Chael's opening monologue this week is absurd.

"Science is a bunch of crap"
"Philosophy trumps science every day of the week"
"They tell us dinosaurs were around billions of years ago... is it one billion, two billion, how do they measure?"
"No one knows anyone who collects a paycheck as a scientist" (I know two)
"Don't try to convince me with stats"

Chael Sonnen (R).

cowboyronnie · Post #27 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:22 pm

"No one knows anyone who collects a paycheck as a scientist"

lol

Nearly my entire family are research scientists in bio & whole circle of family friends, ex-gfs, friends who are research scientists. In labs every day doing genetics and math modelling of bio phenomena.

cowboyronnie · Post #28 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:36 pm

REDDzone wrote:100% Duane Bang is on some cult sh*t. Seems like every other "traditional martial arts" guy is tbh, its a fascinating epidemic. He said something to Ariel along the lines of "From day 1 when I started training him I told him that we (Duane and TJ) were meant to train together".

100% on the cult tip there. In 20 years when nobody remembers Duane, you will be able to look him up and he will be going by "Grandmaster Sensei Duane Ludwig" and his students will say his art is too deadly for the cage.

Not just TMA though. Yoga is culty as heck. Obviously dating back hundreds and thousands of years & again in the 60s & w guys like Bikram recently. But even locally, you see the impulse to sequester students and discount other forms and practices. And the totalizing belief you need nothing for wellbeing aside from yoga. Disease, youth, whatevee. My teacher hears you're doing pretty much anything for wellbeing aside, he will slide in assaults on it for weeks. Like, chiropracty, meditation, mindfulness, jogging, physio, weights...The most innocuous ****. ..it's all a threat to him. Unbelievable teacher, though.

And dogmatists to muay thai and boxing 'the right way'. You run into hilarious people on different tips who want to demand total devotion.

CrossFit and thousands of exercise gurus. Who is that loon who (literally) invented 'proper' breathing? And his own yoga. He does some Bjj. He had some childhood mobility issue...?

NZB2323 · Post #29 » by **NZB2323** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:59 pm

SDM wrote:Chael's opening monologue this week is absurd.

"Science is a bunch of crap"
"Philosophy trumps science every day of the week"
"They tell us dinosaurs were around billions of years ago... is it one billion, two billion, how do they measure?"
"No one knows anyone who collects a paycheck as a scientist" (I know two)
"Don't try to convince me with stats"

What's the context? What was he talking about?

cowboyronnie · Post #30 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:32 pm

NZB2323 wrote:
SDM wrote:Chael's opening monologue this week is absurd.

"Science is a bunch of crap"
"Philosophy trumps science every day of the week"
"They tell us dinosaurs were around billions of years ago... is it one billion, two billion, how do they measure?"
"No one knows anyone who collects a paycheck as a scientist" (I know two)
"Don't try to convince me with stats"

What's the context? What was he talking about?

Onnit

NZB2323 · Post #31 » by **NZB2323** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:49 pm

cowboyronnie wrote:
NZB2323 wrote:
SDM wrote:Chael's opening monologue this week is absurd.

"Science is a bunch of crap"
"Philosophy trumps science every day of the week"
"They tell us dinosaurs were around billions of years ago... is it one billion, two billion, how do they measure?"
"No one knows anyone who collects a paycheck as a scientist" (I know two)
"Don't try to convince me with stats"

What's the context? What was he talking about?

Onnit

And Sonnen is against Onnit because they use science? Or he's for Onnit because they use more than science?

REDDzone · Post #32 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:53 pm

I think he's pro Onnit because they use bro-science instead of just regular old science.

cowboyronnie · Post #33 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:37 pm

I was just joshing.

Onnit has a lot of sham-science bull**** (look into Shroomtech, for example).

cowboyronnie · Post #34 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:41 pm

REDDzone wrote:Ronda Rousey's mom (lol) going off on how Edmund is a bad coach and a bad person.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESbkF_0A0g[/youtube]

Amazing. Good for her, not avoiding the awkwardness of having to interact with him from here on.

And, I mean, yeah, he's got no one else.

And he treated Ronda like ****, they are both open about it (Rogan interview, for example).

REDDzone · Post #35 » by **REDDzone** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:19 am

cowboyronnie wrote:
REDDzone wrote:Ronda Rousey's mom (lol) going off on how Edmund is a bad coach and a bad person.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESbkF_0A0g[/youtube]

Amazing. Good for her, not avoiding the awkwardness of having to interact with him from here on.

And, I mean, yeah, he's got no one else.

And he treated Ronda like ****, they are both open about it (Rogan interview, for example).

But wait...there's more!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FefKn6M3t6E[/youtube]

Susan · Post #36 » by **Susan** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:53 am

Ronda's mom is to Edmund as Faber/TAM/TJ's wrestling coaches throughout his entire life are to Duane Bang Ludwig.

People who built up these elite fighters are bitter as hell to the people who are now taking the credit.

REDDzone · Post #37 » by **REDDzone** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:36 am

Ronda's mom seems bitter in general.

SDM · Post #38 » by **SDM** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:21 am

NZB2323 wrote:
SDM wrote:Chael's opening monologue this week is absurd.

"Science is a bunch of crap"
"Philosophy trumps science every day of the week"
"They tell us dinosaurs were around billions of years ago... is it one billion, two billion, how do they measure?"
"No one knows anyone who collects a paycheck as a scientist" (I know two)
"Don't try to convince me with stats"

What's the context? What was he talking about?

It was in response to something Bono said about climate change.

cowboyronnie · Post #39 » by **cowboyronnie** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:16 pm

REDDzone wrote:
cowboyronnie wrote:
REDDzone wrote:Ronda Rousey's mom (lol) going off on how Edmund is a bad coach and a bad person.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESbkF_0A0g[/youtube]

Amazing. Good for her, not avoiding the awkwardness of having to interact with him from here on.

And, I mean, yeah, he's got no one else.

And he treated Ronda like ****, they are both open about it (Rogan interview, for example).

But wait...there's more!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FefKn6M3t6E[/youtube]

Oh, OK. She's not courageous or principled, just insane.

NZB2323 · Post #40 » by **NZB2323** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:19 pm

REDDzone wrote:I think he's pro Onnit because they use bro-science instead of just regular old science.

Are there stats or studies that show Onnit is bad for people? I don't know that much about Onnit, but from my understanding it's a legit company whose products have passed clinical studies.

And Sonnen being pro Onnit while saying Science is crap and scientists don't collect a paycheck makes no sense because Onnit has scientists.