And THIS is why context matters. It’s not an intense rivalry, there’s no hard feelings, it’s just hype. As you admit, you aren’t a part of the FGC as a whole, and aren’t a part of this sub-community at all. Why comment on it at all if you don’t know,

People are hugely overreacting to the results of a single outcome, which is essentially par for the course for fight sports.

Bayo is just another gatekeeper character. This happens in a lot of normal fighting games. Tekken 4 Jin, MvC2 Cable, Super Turbo Claw, Third Strike Chun-Li, Alpha 2 Ken, KoF98 Goro, MK9 Cyrax, on and on.

Serious answer that sounds like a joke answer, his undetectable steroids possibly had trace amounts of detectable steroids in them. One of the things Victor Conte pointed out is how labs producing the steroids don’t clean the glass properly between batches.

This will go the same way that Brady’s case went. Brady even had science on his side showing that what he was accused of doing likely never even happened.

The UFC was finished when the first wave of the TUF era all seemed to get old at the exact same time, with Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture, Rich Franklin and Matt Hughes all having their stars dim right at the same time. Then Brock Lesnar getting sick and GSP leaving and Anderson Silva becoming mortal was the end. There…

It’s not even the worst decision against Manny Pacquiao. You can sorta kinda make an argument for the 115-113 if you vastly overrate Horn’s aggression.

There is no defense for the Bradley decision against Pacquiao other than the judges were pissed off at Manny for making them wait 90 minutes so he could finish watching…

They’re losing the 2018 pick. They might not be any good but they won’t be tanking as there’s no incentive to lose on purpose.

These replies are why “call Kotaku” was a meme in the FGC for awhile.

Both are ranked in the top 10 which just shows you that HW is (and always has been) the weakest weight class in MMA and it’s not even remotely close.

Strongly agree with this. If I hear any more Rubio takes about how he’s just like Jason Kidd, I’m going to riot.

Of the guys you mention only Tito really is a parallel where he ducked Chuck Liddell and tried to use his celebrity to set up easier fights. Tank/Ken are from an era largely before rankings and #1 contenders.

The Liddell/Couture era—basically the beginning of the TUF era—the UFC was run like WWE in its prime, where you still had big stars, but the midcard acts were compelling. WWE is always at its best when you’re really interested in the tag titles and the midcard feuds and the early TUF era of UFC was like that. Almost…

Luke Walton is trying to turn Randle into the new Draymond Green, both in skillset and in attitude. It seems to be working, he’s got an edge on him in a good way.

They only had the space to pay 1 of Turiaf or Vujacic. And that season Vujacic was probably their 5th or 6th most important player and looked like he was on an upward career trajectory. They figured they had a floor stretching sharpshooter and they could pick up another hustle/energy big guy off the scrap heap, but…

Luke was on an upward trajectory until he hurt his ankle in 2006 and was really never the same since then. This was not a unique occurrence for the team.

These guys are way down the ladder in pro boxing, basically everyone at this level works a real job and boxing is either barely covering their expenses or sometimes even coming up behind as they try to chase their dream.

Gawker lost the Hogan case to the tune of 9 figures because they violated a court order to take the tape down. For reference the exact headline:

In the fighting game community this is not uncommon at all. When I was active in fighting games I played Street Fighter 4 for a period of close to 3 years very seriously. I traveled to IRL events, using my summer vacation on going to Vegas every year to compete. It took me until early 2012 before I woke up and…

Not a Pats fan but I definitely get where he’s coming from. LeBron’s high school games were on ESPN and we had sports anchors talking about how he’s already better than (insert star player here) at 16. There was pushback on that guy before he was even shaving.