ACA signings thread

Feniamin said:
I think he was pretty sure that he is fighting at MW. I've seen one journalist thought that he might be preparing for USADA and his coach Magomedaliev said something like Shara has no chance at MW without PED. It sounded like Shara was on PED before.
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A lot of Russian and foreign fighters competing in Russia are obviously on them. I believe it was in an interview with Kamil Gadzhiev where he mentioned they knew their fighters were on on them and it not bothering them as they knew why they were using them.
 


8-4 Russian light heavyweight Stepan Gorshechnikov.
 
TorontoTO said:
ACA is really signing anyone with a pulse at LHW in Russia. This guy got submitted by Viktor Nemkov in the first round in December and looked awful
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Actually any weight class over the MW is so sucks so everyone just desperately grasp the talent as much as they can get
 
DUNKS said:


Former WSOF and PFL featherweight champion Lance Palmer.
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ACA is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a picogram

Wonder if Palmer's dad will make an apperence
 


8-2 Gimbatov who's fought on ACA Young Eagles cards.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
That's an interesting one. First major US signing for them since probably Honeycutt.
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Lance is 1-3 in his last 4 and 36 years old, these kinds of signings feel a little pathetic to me, I always imagine they sign a guy like this to prop them up against a "top american" even though Lance never really developed into a complete fighter, is past his prime and has lost a bunch recently. I forgot all about Honeycutt, I think Logan Storley, Honeycutt and there was another guy in Bellator...literally thought they were the same person.
 
HuskySamoan said:
Lance is 1-3 in his last 4 and 36 years old, these kinds of signings feel a little pathetic to me, I always imagine they sign a guy like this to prop them up against a "top american" even though Lance never really developed into a complete fighter, is past his prime and has lost a bunch recently. I forgot all about Honeycutt, I think Logan Storley, Honeycutt and there was another guy in Bellator...literally thought they were the same person.
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Kyle Crutchmer
 
HuskySamoan said:
Lance is 1-3 in his last 4 and 36 years old, these kinds of signings feel a little pathetic to me, I always imagine they sign a guy like this to prop them up against a "top american" even though Lance never really developed into a complete fighter, is past his prime and has lost a bunch recently. I forgot all about Honeycutt, I think Logan Storley, Honeycutt and there was another guy in Bellator...literally thought they were the same person.
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He's still pretty solid though, beat Sheymon comfortably enough. Past prime sure but likely still top 100.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
He's still pretty solid though, beat Sheymon comfortably enough. Past prime sure but likely still top 100.
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Lol yeah sure, I'll give him a top 100 rank. His fight with Khaybulaev was competitive-ish, he's just such a one trick pony. His grappling isn't particularly great besides takedowns, never really added much to it or made it potent. His striking is real bad, no speed, no power and cardio wise he isn't the greatest either. He is that wrestler who I look at after 30 pro fights and 12 years in, damn...developing fighting skills must be really hard for most guys.
 
HuskySamoan said:
Lol yeah sure, I'll give him a top 100 rank. His fight with Khaybulaev was competitive-ish, he's just such a one trick pony. His grappling isn't particularly great besides takedowns, never really added much to it or made it potent. His striking is real bad, no speed, no power and cardio wise he isn't the greatest either. He is that wrestler who I look at after 30 pro fights and 12 years in, damn...developing fighting skills must be really hard for most guys.
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I suppose it's a trade off if you're not a guy who just naturally picks things up easily. Do you sacrifice keeping your strength sharp to develop your weaknesses. From Lance's point of view doing things the way he did it won him two million dollar tournaments.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
I suppose it's a trade off if you're not a guy who just naturally picks things up easily. Do you sacrifice keeping your strength sharp to develop your weaknesses. From Lance's point of view doing things the way he did it won him two million dollar tournaments.
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Definitely, I say it a lot but progression, improvement, evolution it comes out of necessity, Palmer definitely found his niche or level and stuck with it, in part because the UFC had no interest in his boring style. He was successful but it always seemed clear to me what he did and didn't have an aptitude for and I always felt like he would have hit a wall in Bellator or the UFCs 145lb division in the top 10. The question of branching out your skills or building around your strength is interesting but even just establishing a strong passing game and good front chokes or really strong gnp would have done a lot for him. It's a fine signing but it's 4-5 years too late eh.
 
HuskySamoan said:
Definitely, I say it a lot but progression, improvement, evolution it comes out of necessity, Palmer definitely found his niche or level and stuck with it, in part because the UFC had no interest in his boring style. He was successful but it always seemed clear to me what he did and didn't have an aptitude for and I always felt like he would have hit a wall in Bellator or the UFCs 145lb division in the top 10. The question of branching out your skills or building around your strength is interesting but even just establishing a strong passing game and good front chokes or really strong gnp would have done a lot for him. It's a fine signing but it's 4-5 years too late eh.
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I just think in general it's a difficult sell for Americans with other opportunities. They have to travel miles for it and there's just no easy fights. You're kind of giving up your chance of signing for a major North American promotion again. I think Lance signed because he finally accepted the UFC aren't interested, PFL had let hin go and surprisingly Bellator didn't go for him (he'd have been such a Bellator signing) so this is really the only decent paying option.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
I suppose it's a trade off if you're not a guy who just naturally picks things up easily. Do you sacrifice keeping your strength sharp to develop your weaknesses. From Lance's point of view doing things the way he did it won him two million dollar tournaments.
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To be fair, defeating the same guy three times in a year to win a million is hilarious
 
TorontoTO said:
To be fair, defeating the same guy three times in a year to win a million is hilarious
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Gilpin was pretty decent too, sad he hasn't been heard from since failing to figure out the Palmer puzzle.
 
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