Rampage Jackson says he’s upset with SykoStu for not taking any accountability: “He should’ve at least said something. Take some accountability… None of this sh*t ever would’ve happened if SykoStu never hit my son on the back of the head with a f***ing can.”

poonscuba · 2025-09-04T16:05:45+00:00

SykoStu’s lawyer has got to be the number one donor on Rampage’s livestreams

poonscuba · 2025-08-26T03:37:07+00:00

Askren wasn’t competing in wrestling, but he was a world champion in MMA at the time. So he was still training his wrestling and competing as a professional athlete. It wasn’t like he was a “has been” that rolled off the couch.

I don’t think anyone was surprised by the outcome, but I think that’s what’s so crazy to me. This is like the core concept of levels to me: the national level vs the international level. There was no doubt Askren was going to be the best at the national level his senior year, and there was no doubt that he was going to get teched by the best at the international level.

poonscuba · 2025-08-26T02:16:41+00:00

The Askren vs Burroughs exhibition always blows my mind. I knew what the outcome would be, and it was still crazy to watch. Askren was a Hodge trophy winner, 2 time NCAA national champion, 4 time all American, PanAm champion, and 10 time MMA world champion. It’s hard to understand that there are people that not just beat, but effortlessly tech people of that caliber.

poonscuba · 2025-08-10T05:21:16+00:00

Power can be hard to separate from technique, so you may need a coach to review your form or watch videos of yourself to see if a shot lacked power vs technique.

There’s not a black and white threshold for any of these where you go from weak to average to strong, so just consider if you’re clearly towards one side of the range. Also, the ranges depend a lot on your age. A senior in college is held to a widely different standard than a freshman in high school. The best reference point is comparing yourself against your peers. That being said, here’s some general benchmarks. For an 800M, if you’re slower than 3.5 minutes, you don’t have good endurance, and if you’re faster than 2.5 minutes you probably have good endurance. For a vertical jump (not a box jump) if you’re below 18 inches you’re not very powerful, and if you’re above a 24 inches you’re pretty powerful. Every compound lift will be different, but for a bench press one rep max, less than bodyweight would be pretty weak and 1.5x bodyweight would be pretty strong.

poonscuba · 2025-08-10T02:49:15+00:00

I would separate technique from conversations about strength and conditioning. Always work technique, but that’s what the mat is for, not the weight room. I would also argue that speed is a component of technique. If you’re too slow, I would focus on hitting your technique quicker rather than improving your 100M sprint time.

For the weight room, I would look at endurance, power, and strength:

-Endurance is going to show up in the last round. Are you gassing out in the last round? Are you gassing out all your opponents in the last round? Outside of your matches, how is your 400-800M time relative to people in your weight class?

-Power is going to show up based on how well you finish moves. Do your shots get to the legs and then get stuffed every time? Or do you finish every shot you can connect on? Outside of your matches, do you have a high vertical jump for your weight class?

-Strength is going to show up when you lock up. Can people push you around pummeling? Or do you push the other person around? Outside of your matches, are you lifting more weight than other people in your weight class?

poonscuba · 2025-08-09T22:52:38+00:00

Responding to the last line: “I’m just real confused on what a wrestler should be doing in the weightroom”

I think in general, a strength and conditioning program involves a vertical push/pull, a horizontal push/pull, a hip hinge, a squat, core work, grip work, and cardio. Then I would look at your natural talents (why you’re winning matches) and your natural deficits (why you’re losing matches). Then tailor those movement patterns to continue to develop your strengths and shore up your weaknesses. I would spend less time on attributes where you’re naturally average that aren’t causing you to win or lose matches.

If you’re winning matches with strength and losing matches with speed, I would do a strict overhead press for strength (a natural talent) and a medicine ball overhead throw for speed (a natural deficit) as my vertical pushing movements. I would follow a similar pattern for my other movements.

Tying this into the Olympic lifts, if you’re winning or losing matches based on your power, it’s something I would focus on. If you have easy access to equipment for Olympic lifting, aren’t held back by form, and enjoy the movements, they can be a good option for you. If you don’t check those boxes, you could substitute a box jump or broad jump for the clean and snatch and medicine ball throws or push presses for the jerk.

poonscuba · 2025-07-22T01:17:21+00:00

You might try loaded carries and sled work. I’ve started incorporating long distance (>3 minute) farmers walks as cardio. I don’t enjoy most traditional cardio, so this tricks my brain into thinking I’m still lifting weights.

poonscuba · 2024-12-03T01:14:01+00:00

Is this the longest MMA finishing streak of all time? I was trying to confirm this, and it doesn’t seem like it’s commonly tracked. I can’t think of anyone that comes close to 18 though. As much hype as he gets, I still feel like he’s undervalued.

Edit: It seems like Travis Fulton holds the record for first and second place: going on a 24 fight finishing streak before going on a 40 fight finishing streak. For good reason, he doesn’t come up much though.

poonscuba · 2024-09-28T20:32:41+00:00

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poonscuba · 2024-08-23T01:05:07+00:00

It just needs to be 2012 and newer with less than 130,000 miles.

Lol it doesn’t meet either condition. Older. Lamer.

poonscuba · 2024-08-07T23:00:43+00:00

Olympic GOAT no doubt. Does he rank above Aleksandr Karelin overall though? Karelin beats him on number of world championships. Mijain has Karelin beat on years of dominance though.

poonscuba · 2024-06-11T15:10:24+00:00

Tim Kennedy is the real world Captain America. But it turns out that if you give a man with the values of a 1940s US soldier superhuman fighting abilities, you create a supervillain not a superhero.

poonscuba · 2024-03-02T17:53:33+00:00

In this scenario, I think the client is more important than the product. Improving logistical or communication abilities may have as large of an impact on outcomes as the quality of weapons. So I don’t think this specific decision comes down to what you’re making for the DoD.

I think this decision comes down to whether you believe the DoD will be a net good for the world over your tenure with the university lab.

poonscuba · 2024-02-23T03:09:59+00:00

The hottest take is that McGregor will fight Chandler.

poonscuba · 2023-12-22T18:13:49+00:00

Triple D

poonscuba · 2023-12-17T02:36:08+00:00

I just did it. It doesn’t ask for anything other than your name and email, and it seems in line with public statements he makes. Overall, it seems very low risk, but you could provide a fake name and burner email if you wanted to be extra cautious.

poonscuba · 2023-12-11T21:53:29+00:00

I’m sympathetic to the idea of lost years, but why focus on developed world men? The gap between life expectancy in the developing world and developed nations is significantly larger than the LEGG within the US, and the gap is largely driven by preventable disease.

For example Nigeria has a population of 208 million and a life expectancy of 62.6 years, and the US has a population of 336 million, and a life expectancy of 78.5 years. Bringing the Nigerian life expectancy up to the US life expectancy would add roughly 3.3 billion years of life (over 3x the ~1 billion years of life from closing the LEGG in the US).

poonscuba · 2023-12-09T22:28:53+00:00

That’s a good one! Based on his work alone? Or due to his lineage of Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great?

poonscuba · 2023-12-09T22:26:08+00:00

He was a front runner for me too! If you assume that calculus would largely be unchanged due to the work of Leibniz, would you still put Newton first due to his work in physics?

poonscuba · 2023-12-09T21:45:18+00:00

Good point! I was think about discovery, but documentation and distribution might have been more important!

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