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one more year and i'll be able to drink legally
I was in high school when they raised the drinking age to 21. Fuck, the next year I shipped out for basic.
God damn kid.
one more year and i'll be able to drink legally
Manlets bother you? We have a lot of wmma around, bud. Get your complaints in order.These were the times where manlets weren't really in the UFC and/or didn't get any respect (rightfully) from Non-manlets
I admire that you're willing to go to bat over your opinions, it's just that they're usually wrong. As in this case, where I expected Chuck to go night night.
Wall of text from Bullitt, incoming. I, for one, believe you, though.
I thought “I’m 130 dollars richer” because I made a bet with 3 of my coworkers that Liddell would lose…
One of my favorite stories is from UFC 54. I was 15 at the time, but man, if I'd been playing Vegas, I would've cleaned up, because I was never wrong with fight predictions. Because of that, two of my jackass friends (and I call them jackasses with all the love in the world for both idiots ) who would watch the PPVs more to hang out with us than because they were hardcore fans would always ask me who I thought was going to win the next fight, and then when I'd tell them, they'd root so hard for the other guy and spend the fight talking ridiculous shit to me about how terrible my pick was. (They were trolls before trolling was a thing.) Well, at UFC 54, when I told them that Tim Sylvia was going to annihilate Tra Telligman, they picked Tra. I went so far as to guarantee that Tra wouldn't make it out of the first round. They proceeded to talk insane shit, and as the round wound down, they were mercilessly mocking my prediction skills. Then the 10-second clacker sounded to signal the approaching end of the round, at which point another friend said: "Wouldn't it be funny if he knocked him out with one second left?" And sure enough, Big Tim picked up his tree trunk lead leg and kicked Tra into outer space at 4:59 of the first round.
The only celebration bigger than Tim's in the cage that night was mine in that room as everyone lost their minds and I got to rub it in my friends' faces.
I watched Chuck destroy people for years but I knew Rampage had his number. Rampage’s boxing only got sharper and he also had an iron chin (Wand would have KO’d an elephant with those knees).
Better boxing, equal chin and already a finish over Chuck had me feeling pretty confident.
I still remember watching this one live on PPV over at my dad's house. We were all pretty excited, thinking the main event was going to be an absolute war... only for Chuck to come out and get put to sleep in no time flat. It was stunning, and strangely anticlimactic. I can remember us just sitting around the TV going "... that was IT!?" After that, Chuck's aura was pretty much gone IMO. I also remember being disappointed with how Rampage went from putting Chuck to sleep to losing his belt to Forrest fucking Griffin of all people just a couple fights later. For whatever reason, I thought for sure Rampage would go on to become a legendary champ in the division just like Chuck had been with numerous title defenses. But nope, couldn't have been more wrong!
Chuck/Rampage was UFC 71, Rashad/Bisping was UFC 78 and neither of them were in the title mix at that point. Shogun didn't come over until UFC 76 but he left PRIDE on a 4-fight win streak after the Coleman loss. Your timeline is all over the placeAt the time though a lot of popular feeling was Rampage was not the same after his loses to Wand and Shogun, he'd looked quite passive in the run after that with many feeling Lindland actually beat him.
I strongly guess Dana felt the same, he thought it was a chance to get Chuck his win back, indeed I think all Chucks loses in that run were in matches he was favourite in beforehand which I think Dana booked him to win, Rashad was on a rather unimpressive run almost losing to Bisping, Shogun looked less than great vs Coleman.
Rampage was in his prime. Chuck was 37 and visibly slowing down in his prior fight with Tito, though he still won. This was quite predictable, similar to Tony Ferguson vs. Gaethje. And of course Rampage had beaten him earlier, though not nearly as easily.