Even in his retirement fight Dustin Poirier still put on a spectacular display of MMA. I wrote about it.

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This is one way to beat Jose Aldo. However the only man in history who could do that was 22 at the time and in camp to fight Dennis Bermudez.

Two sequences here where Edgar is able to get Aldo on the fence through overcommittals from Aldo and a lot of jabbing. Aldo however is able to get off the fence usually through some combination of pivoting, jabbing, and framing.

Great range management from Aldo allows him to get out of the way of Edgar's kicks, stick and move with his jab, and also prevent Edgar's counter entries. In the last clip though you can see Frankie realize this and switch to a step up low kick since it's faster.

Great cagecraft in the 1st from Aldo. Pivoting, exiting on angles to minimize strikes, and fighting for the center to give himself space to back up.

Aldo doing great work on the counter in round 1

Frankie Edgar trying to work in on Jose Aldo early in the 1st

Great pivot and hook from Aldo he- HOLY SHIT HE GOT LEG KICKED SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE OH MY GOD HIS LEG FUCKING EXPLODED

fully convinced a thermobaric bomb is less devastating than an Aldo leg kick. This is like the 2nd leg kick he'd thrown not even like Edgar's leg had been chewed up.

Shavkat Rakhmanov vs Ian Garry pre-fight thoughts thread:

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Max came out in the 3rd looking to wrist trap and handfight Topuria's lead hand. The issue is that he can't keep his hand by his chin, it has to be in neutral space now. This makes it easier for Topuria to handtrap it. He drags it down and cracks Max with a 2, leading to the KO 15 seconds later.

Israel Adesanya's openside kicking against Alex Pereira in their first (MMA) fight

Probably gonna keep this as a purer MMA account for now. Ill still do the majority of my shitposting on the other one.

But anyways enjoy Leon Edwards kneeing the shit out of Donald Cerrone.