The MMA thread

[Aphex]

There are plenty of streams available if you have a look around, unfortunately the MMAStreams/MMAStreamz communities on reddit were removed

[GregK2]

£20 to watch a main event likely after 5am let's see how that goes.

[Don1]

The comments on the IG adverts are funny. I have tweeted BT Sport and a few journalists asking about the buy rate vs cancelled accounts.

My 2p? Gouging bd mother fkers, on a great card as well. s.

[Ruskie]

They can fk off. I pay £70 a month for my BT TV package and broadband. Predominately that’s for BT sport for UFC and football and they have the temerity to charge £20 for this. Not a chance.

[Munka01]

I don't understand why anyone would pay when 3 secs of searching on twitter finds you a HD stream with no buffering issues.

Edited by Munka01 on Sunday 7th July 10:55

[Don1]

Point of order - please don't put spoilers up. Or put them up using the spoiler function so it's not ruined for some. Cheers!

[Aphex]

What is a spoiler if its already been aired live? I didn't stick around for the nunes or jones fight

[Zarco]

Aphex said:

What is a spoiler if its already been aired live? I didn't stick around for the nunes or jones fight

I'd like to see a spoiler before it was aired live.

[DocJock]

Sure, I'd rather not pay extra to BT, but t
he card was far better value than the last few boxing ppvs.

[DocJock]

Don1 said:

Point of order - please don't put spoilers up. Or put them up using the spoiler function so it's not ruined for some. Cheers!

So, just how long is acceptable before we can discuss it openly in your opinion?

The other side of the argument, of course, is stay out of the thread until you've watched it.

[AJB88]

DocJock said:

The other side of the argument, of course, is stay out of the thread until you've watched it.

Exactly...

[DocJock]

The convention across PH is that once it's been aired in the UK, it's fair game...

[VEA]

So, good card, good results all round I think.

[Mojooo]

I am not an expert in MMA/UFC by any means but on balance I don't think it would have been too harsh to give the Jon Jones fight as a draw. Absolutley crazy for Thiago to carry on with that knee

[DocJock]

I agree, but MMA judges don't seem to like scoring rounds even, so with an odd number of rounds, you tend to get a result.

[biggbn]

biggbn said:

I kinda fancy holy holm for an upset tonight, anyone else give her a chance? I think she has the cardio and skillet to stop nunes from settling in, negate her powerful, but wild, striking, and burst her up from range. I may be wrong but I suspect the cyborg fight paint nunes, who is excellent, in a very artificial light. It was a bombs away slugfest, holm way to cute to get caught up in that.

So, tenner accumulator on holm and Santos to return 180 quid. Not a hope in hell but they should be good fights.

What do I know? Rhetorical question...

[DocJock]

To be fair, I'd have expected a kick like that to come from Holm, not Nunes.

[Zarco]

Love Masvidal. True veteran. Shut up Askren in the best way possible.

[DocJock]

He certainly did! Askren has been prepared to take a knee to get the takedown before, but that knee was pretty much perfect.

Luke Rockhold suffered a fractured mandible in that beating.

[biggbn]

I really dislike how UFC franchise has a habit of throwing out the 'greatest ever' , or 'all time great' etc monikers at the drop of an elbow....but...nunes? Gotta be best female MMA fighter...ever? She had beaten everyone who matters. Rousey beat everyone, holm beat rousey, Tate beat holm, cyborg beat holm, rose beat the Russian boogeywoman, nunes has done them all. With style. Brad Pickett said on talk sport he had seen her stopping guys in sparring, a monster at the weights she fights at...what next?

I'd love to see a rose rematch is that was somewhat of a freak ending to a competitive fight, but after that am struggling? Cyborg rematch?