#notallUFCmouthbreathers...

I’m an MMA fan first, and—I admit this with not an ounce of pride and in fact with a fair amount of shame— have some street fighting experience in my youth, I have to tell you that a trained boxer is always a dangerous thing, because fights always start standing and all it takes in one punch.

Certainly. Boxing is one element of MMA. Grappling and kicking are not aspects of Boxing. And MMA fights start standing.

When did I say steroids don’t affect performance? My point was they were all likely doping and Jones still beat them.

Eh, the golden era for the Nugs was when the refs basically handed the Western Conference finals to the Lakers when Chauncey was there and knew how to get Carmelo to be something resembling a team player.

Machida had a nice run at MW after the Jones loss, so he was far from done, and he was the first person to submit Machida. Belfort was still on TRT when he fought Jones. Rampage, sure. Shogun was champ when they fought, downside or not. Can’t hold it against Jones for beating the champ. DC still hasn’t lost since he…

1. What the fuck does steroids have to do with anything. If you think none of the fighters at 155 aren’t on steroids, you’re insane. If you think USADA prevents most of these guys from taking PEDs, you’re insane. Trust me, Jones beat all of those guys while they were still on roids, which only makes it more…

Dude holds wins over Shogun, Rashad, Rampage, Machida, Gus, DC, Sonnen, Belfort, Texeira, OSP, Vera, Bader, Matyushenko, and most of them very one-sided wins. Nobody else currently fighting has anywhere near that kind of resume.

Agreed. Primal primate tribalism has overtaken the National Ethos. Even if you appeal to self-interest and prove that by supporting unions, people are making things easier and better on themselves, they still won’t go for it, because the only thing Americans care about anymore is winning. They don’t even care what…

Yeah, but not everybody wants to get into a STEM field. Hell, even if I wanted to, I didn’t have the acumen in those fields to have the work be enjoyable.

Whoa, when did I ever say I identify myself or my children as “Indians.” The first paragraph of the original post was mostly true. The joke was the second paragraph wherein I don’t have to worry about explaining the racist logo because I wouldn’t ever take them to a ballgame. But it’s still a racist logo and I never…

Yes. He’s the only professional athlete to ever adhere to such a rigid and esoteric dietary regimen....

You can’t go by how people look. Gilbert Melendez got busted for PEDs in MMA a couple of years back and he looked like this:

Right. As a Chicano, I can see a situation in which a team called the “Chicanos” is done respectfully and in good taste and in a way that totally honors the legacy of a specific group of people.

That’s interesting, because when the Indians come to town, I wonder why my kids (who are of American Indian ancestry) have to be subjected to a team wearing racist caricature on their hats all game.

All the conspiracy theories floating about and people ignore the most obvious one: the fitness industry. Never has such a large group of people colluded on forcing false truths down the throats of the populace just to make some money. Everything from the clothes to the equipment to the workouts themselves are out and…

Nah. The issue is a systemic one, not a personal one. Some other idiot shill would’ve just done the same thing.

Not enough sentence fragments.

Sounds like, you know, David Foster Wallace, Hunter S. Thompson, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut and just about any other major writer of the past 100 years.

They also lost to Donald Trump in the most recent election.