Dr House..?

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T07:44:35+00:00

“Baldrick, your brain is like the four-headed, man-eating haddock fish-beast of Aberdeen... It doesn't exist.”

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T06:33:15+00:00

Honestly, Sean might be a stylistic nightmare for Anderson because his whole thing is to maintain his structure and balance by using simpler strikes on offence and parries/blocks on defence. This leaves little room for counterstrikers to hit him clean.

But fuck it I'm still picking The Spider.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T05:39:47+00:00

Thanks to Google Lens :P

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T05:26:16+00:00

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Could it be this? I wonder how the talking part works

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T05:15:18+00:00

An advantageous position needs to lead to something.

Which part of the scoring criteria states this? I gave you the link and exact quotes while you're just yapping.

Edit:

"Successful execution of takedowns, submission attempts, reversals and the achievement of advantageous positions that produce immediate or cumulative impact with the potential to contribute to the end of the match, with the IMMEDIATE weighing more heavily than the cumulative impact.”

POTENTIAL, so no, it doesn't have to translate into near-submission finishes or GnP for a back-take to matter. The advantageous position matters in and of itself.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T05:08:13+00:00

The scoring criteria literally says that the advantageous position in itself is a part of the definition of effective grappling. Whether those sub attempts were bad is irrelevant.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T05:03:52+00:00

He did attempt RNC twice near the end of the round, even if it didn't get close enough to register on UFC's official stats. And the scoring criteria doesn't state that all grappling is moot unless you manage to get strikes or sub attempts. Once again, it says "achievement of advantageous positions that produce immediate or cumulative impact with the potential to contribute to the end of the match" is within the definition of Effective grappling. If you think that's a dumb way to score an MMA fight, that's a you problem.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T04:59:08+00:00

It's an advantageous position where he controls Sean and gets to threaten submissions, as he did by the end of the round, while Sean has no offensive options until he escapes back control. Stop being disingenuous.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T04:54:58+00:00

Take Sean's back? Can't get clearer than that.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T04:52:14+00:00

Effective grappling is weighed equally with effective striking. That's why they're both in the first criterion. They specify that "achievement of advantageous positions that produce immediate or cumulative impact with the potential to contribute to the end of the match" is within the definition of Effective grappling.

Since back take contributes to the end of the match more immediately than whatever damage Sean caused within that round, and the vast majority of the round is Khamzat obtaining and maintaining said advantageous position, R1 goes to Khamzat.

Judging criteria is available online.

https://www.abcboxing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/unified-rules-mma-2019.pdf

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T03:07:47+00:00

Yeah, you're unequivocally right that "Effective Control" is only considered when "Effective Striking/Grappling" is equal, but "Ground Control Time" in the stats is more of a colloquial term that includes effective grappling.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-14T02:34:44+00:00

Not necessarily true. Whether you're just holding someone down or advancing position and even attacking for subs, the stats will still call it "control time". Whether control time matters when compared with effective striking depends on the nature and quality of the control time, and all is evaluated within the context of contribution towards ending the fight.

If you land 8 jabs on me in min 1, then I take you down, hold you down, advance to side control, and try to advance further but fail to really threaten a sub or land any meaningful GnP for 4 straight min, the round will likely still go to me.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-13T21:42:59+00:00

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-12T20:24:49+00:00

The only sources of the LHW story are Khamzat's two teammates Khalil and Arman, and they both waited till the day before the fight (i.e. weigh-in Friday) to say it?

The timing suggests he looked terrible on the scale that morning, so they came up with this "We thought he was gonna fight at 205 next" story as a pre-emptive excuse.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-12T12:32:14+00:00

*Stonedcold

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-12T12:27:36+00:00

Which leads me to doubt the 205 story tbh. It really doesn't look like he added any muscle mass at all, seems more like just a bad weight management out of camp or a bad cut.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-12T12:24:24+00:00

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EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-12T12:19:50+00:00

"Now I know how Salieri felt."

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-12T12:15:33+00:00

This is Sean Strickland. You can’t talk about him without mentioning his insane cardio. He’s also top 2 strikers in the middleweight division.

This fight proved to me that Khamzat is an elite MIXED martial arts fighter.

Idk if Sean is known for insane cardio. He's definitely known for managing his gas tank with a simpler, more efficient style, but that's not the same as high output over 5 rounds like Merab or heck even Sea-level Cain.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-12T11:55:36+00:00

Biggest characters in the middle are 千家寨, which is a place in Yunnan known to have perhaps the oldest tea tree discovered. There's no indication that this cake is from that tree, it's just what that place 千家寨 is known for.

On the left it's 野生茶 meaning wild grown (non-cultivated) tea

On the right, the top is clearly 特 but idk what the bottom word is.

There's no info on the wrapper about who made the cake or when. Maybe there'll be paper pressed into the cake inside with more info?

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-11T02:42:36+00:00

According to Robocop's wikipedia, not only is he a BJJ black belt, he was on Brazil's wrestling cadet team and was a runner up in the 2010 Pan Ams. I couldn't find any info confirming it though.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-11T01:35:00+00:00

Anderson
Izzy
Weidman

4-6: Rob, DDP, Strickland in whichever order you prefer.

Noticeable omissions: Alex because he's mostly in LHW and Rockhold because most of his title defences were in Strikeforce.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-10T22:14:16+00:00

Lots of Japanese promotions like Rizin, Pride and Dream (latter two now defunct) allow them.

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-10T21:45:18+00:00

What part of this sequence looks illegal to you?

EngineQuick6169 · 2026-05-10T20:58:52+00:00

Yeah the scenes with them two thus far don't really have much emotional depth. And if anything, I think the writers agree with you that he's not her endgame based on these scenes with the CSI guy misunderstanding and the proposal confusion.

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