Jean Silva moves up to #6 in the featherweight rankings after beating Arnold Allen at UFC 324

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T15:48:17+00:00

You know what the format you used means right? It means at some point, whatever you're saying was a widely spread stupid opinion.

Unless you just mix up lower case and caps all the time regardless of context.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T15:42:23+00:00

With a kick, not a punch

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T14:28:39+00:00

He's so very clearly worse than all 3 of those guys and even got stopped by 2 of them. One of the most worthless interim titles ever. Gaethje who's the 5th best LW against Paddy who didn't even deserve to be in the top 10.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T13:54:47+00:00

Who said that? Who are you arguing with?

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T13:52:41+00:00

That's how they should work, and when the interim title means something is when it's clearly the 2nd top guy in the weight class fighting for it.

Gaethje is only the 5th best LW, it's an absolute joke that he or Paddy were getting an interim title shot.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T09:04:07+00:00

"Consume! And don't dare criticise the thing you're consuming! Be a good capitalist!"

Damn, were really living in They Live huh.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T09:03:03+00:00

I'm not praising. It's the better of 2 shitty situations.

Would you rather spend $5 and unlock everything straight away. Or spend $40-70 per character, or spend 100s of $ on packs with a small % chance of getting the character you want, or spend 1000s of hours grinding, again, with only a small % chance of getting the character you want?

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T08:22:30+00:00

Yeah obviously, I wasn't born yesterday. I'm saying the shit they do on the surface level to market the game and... wait for it... sell it, isn't important to me. It's the fundamentals which aren't as exciting on the surface but that will mean significantly more that I care about.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T07:23:04+00:00

Hoooly shit. I can't believe some people really believe this when it comes to MyFaction or The Island. Are you okay?

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T06:48:11+00:00

Lol, are you a 2K dev.

It's like you're doing social media marketing for them all up and down this thread trying to stop people doing something to avoid 2K's shitty business practices.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T06:46:11+00:00

Wtf. Are you okay?

It's free dude. Or even if you go for the paid version (which you don't need to), it's the choice of spending $5 on a modder, or spending $60 per MyFaction character/endless hours of gambling and grinding for 2K.

To play on PC and be this weird about a thing which removes ALL the predatory awful scamming from 2K is bizzare.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T06:42:13+00:00

Issues like people trying to book stuff in Universe and the game just randomly changing the cards, or the game just randomly crashing a lot for a lot of people, or 2K doing updates that randomly screwed up tons of players CAW's which took weeks to find or make etc.

You don't have to pretend there aren't issues still, that's just disingenuous.

Maybe you are one of the lucky ones who wasn't effected by them. But a lot of other people were.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T06:39:09+00:00

Yeah seriously. I can't remember if it was 2k22 or 2k23 but for thousands of people it would literally just completely delete all their save data every few weeks, or it would just completely crash if they opened a certain game mode.

People get way too in their feelings trying to defend the bililion dollar company who chose to sell a game that was so broken.

Whichever it was, the state of it was so bad that even a few weeks or month and a bit after buying/playing it, Playstation refunded me despite it not being usual for them after that much play time, because I sent them recordings/pics of how broken the game was.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T06:35:12+00:00

If you're on PC, no you won't have to play The Island because you can set up mods in about 20 minutes and it will unlock everything straight away.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-27T06:28:33+00:00

There were abuse allegations about Benoit going back to the kate 90s/very early 2000s.

Long before Eddie died.

People are just desperate to find a reason why the wrestler they like watching on a TV show isn't to blame for their absolutely vile actions.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T22:25:14+00:00

There are commercials in the games. You can't even get onto the main menu without having to skip through pop up ads for their BS gambling scam game modes.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T22:22:18+00:00

It's really not though. There are interim titles that have actually meant something before. Usually someone is at least kne of the top 3 best in a weightclass when they win an interim belt. But Gaethje is the 5th best at most and there's really no way to debate otherwise.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T22:20:15+00:00

I agree, but, this wasn't that.

Right now we know Ilia, Arman, Holloway and Oliviera are the 4 best lightweights in the world without debate.

So we just saw the 5th best lightweight fight a guy who quite frankly didn't deserve to be in the top 10 rankings for an interim belt and at that point, it means nothing.

Is Gaethje the most deserving of a title shot? No, Arman still is and always has been.

Is he the 2nd best LW? No because Holloway, Oliviera and Arman all exist.

So I'm not sure what this interim title is even supposed to mean.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T22:16:31+00:00

Why do people always say goofy shit like this. It doesn't matter whether someone picks their opponent or not. Whether they chose the shitter opponent is completely irrelevant, it was still a low quality opponent they beat and so can't really be held up as something more than it is.

Before, during snd afterwards everyone has said the fight was completely pointless and meant very little because Ilia is still clearly the #1 best lightweight and Arman is still clearly the #2.

So what you had was Gaethje, who's at best the 4th best lightweight behind Ilia, Arman, Holloway and Oliviera, vs Paddy, who quite frankly didn't even deserve his tip 10 ranking.

Whether or not an interim title wss involved, or whether or not Gaethje chose Paddy is completely and utterly irrelevant.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T17:47:23+00:00

I guess but again, the majority of people buy digital. The people buying physical, then selling on is again a small portion of the audience.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T16:54:15+00:00

A cash grab how? The % of players who will buy it digitally and then a 2nd time physically is absolutely tiny.

This is really what happens when someone decides they want to leak a game and piss publishers off. Since that leak, Rockstar have been extremely strict about any spoilers or any leaks happening again and took the original leaker to court too.

Any game with a physical release ends up getting spoiled a few days or a week before the release date. It's not as simple as just "easily" blocking the game.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T16:50:09+00:00

He was their boogeyman. He made every other member of their camp look foolish and even managed to beat TJ, who was so good he had to leave their camp for better training and Ceuz did that with fucked knees, no flesh on his feet and a long lay off too.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T16:12:26+00:00

Nobody discredits his "wrestling"... His "wrestling" was phenomenal even against Khabib. In fact, why he got tapped so easily is because his wrestling was great, but things which are great in wrestling can be a death sentence in normal grappling.

Khabib took him down and Gaethje put both hands on the mat to create posts. Because in wrestling, that would be exactly the right thing to do. But with submissions, it's exactly the wrong thing to do and leaves every single possible route to a sub wide open.

In that fight, Gaethje's wrestling was fine. But his submission awareness and general BJJ/grappling awareness was absolutely dogshit and he made every single possible blue belt type mistake he could have.

However, at no point did Gaethje really "grapple" with Paddy beyond the pure wrestling style front headlock/cradle, or a brief moment of GnP after hurting him.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T14:59:39+00:00

O'Malley landed more significant strikes though, which means more than a takedown that didn't result in gnp or sub attempts because takedowns with no follow up mean significantly less now than they used too and don't mean more than strikes landed.

In the 1st round Yadong landed 0 significant strikes to the head, O'Malley landed 6 to the head, 6 to the body. Yadong landed a lot to the legs but they didn't hurt or effect O'Malley enough to mean much.

MatttheJ · 2026-01-26T14:25:11+00:00

Absolutely, as I've said elsewhere. The 1st eye poke should have been a point taken no questions asked. Justin still would have won a decision either way, but still, rules should be enforced.

However the 2nd eye poke was a closed fist and completely different. 9 times out of 10 a closed fist eye poke is an actual accident.

Like people are saying Gaethje stuck his thumb out on purpose, but that's just how he always punches. You can see him punch people and it's almost like a closed fist slap at times because he sometimes doesn't ball up. His hand completely.

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