PBP UFC 296 Edwards vs. Covington: Preliminary Card PBP Discussion - Sat. 12/16 at 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

[Luthien]

Shades of Islam / Volk

 

[Substance Abuse]

Durden way to comfortable going into clinch.

He's walking himself into takedowns as he's the smaller guy, but it's hard not to as he's at a reach disadvantage.

 

[Sixstring]

You're not trying if you're not cheating or something?

 

[don't ask]

Wow thats amazing, I didn't even know that. Yeah totally agree.. he was a great wrestler and had the gas tank, the match I watched was at a good pace, not much stops in it and he was fine after 23 minutes. He is clearly very talented and underrated.

The world has changed so much sadly, you won't ever see wrestlers like Earthquake anymore, they'll all look like movie stars or music artists these days and about 160 Ibs and doing all these aerobics and gymnastic moves. Its a shame , its not wrestling, it all looks like cirque de solie now.. all in sequence, aerobics.

You're absolutely right. Awhile ago I started watching OSW Reviews on youtube (I highly recommend it) and kind of relived all the events I watched as a kid. With adult eyes, it's so much different -- all the wrestlers I hated as a kid, I suddenly appreciated, and all the wrestlers I loved as a kid, I suddenly hated. I went down a bit of an Earthquake rabbit hole because I was amazed at the way he was moving. The dude was an incredible athlete.

 

[Zankou]

Durden’s grappling is so one dimensional

 

[Jackonfire]

The cage is there to be used

 

[MMA4Life]

99 Submission defense

 

[KOPPE]

I miss Laura Sanko

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Good round!!

 

[Substance Abuse]

Durden is ridiculously tough. Ulanbekov is cheating with the toes. Tognoni won't do shit about it but tell him to stop. Terrible ref.

 

[aerius]

This ref is fucking useless.

 

[IneedSometop]

It would be pretty ballsy for the ref to take away the position but it's getting pretty close to being warranted

 

[LoneLynx]

10-8 round?

No way

 

[Spounman]

Chris Togoni is obsessed with Tagir's toes

 

[Gilday]

Take a fucking point holy shit. That's 4 verbal warnings and 2 literal foot slaps

 

[swizztony]

Ulanbekov somehow trains with the best fighter in the world but looks worse and worse every new fight

 

[Your Salad]

Sooo the ref just gets to tell him to stop cheating while he sinks in a choke?

 

[BroRogan]

Why yell if he keeps doing it and there’s no repercussions?

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

ref needs to start punching toes, ripping to the body

 

[FightFan87]

So calm while being choked impressive