Joanna Dangerfield 🏳️‍⚧️

Hey how y'all doing

Poirier vs Holloway 3: Diamonds Are Forever Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway will define each others' careers for eternity.

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

Link below

25 Minutes To Make Life Fair: A Love Letter To Dustin Poirier Dustin Poirier is one of my favorite fighters of all time. He exemplifies everything I love about fighting. I'm going to miss him.

I wrote about Dustin, god I'm going to miss him.

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Max Holloway: Electricity Knockout of the year, up a weightclass, against a perennial elite, UFC 300, 24 minutes and 50 seconds of utter domination.

A look at the fighter Max Holloway has become in the later stages of his career, through the lens of his knockout of Justin Gaethje at UFC 300.

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that was fucking awesome

@lilturinabol.bsky.social WHERE YOU AT DANIEL

yes

elon is actively exploding you are missing a legendary day of posting. best TL since the billionaire submarine incident

Hell yeah

That's super cool! What'd you do?

The Four Horsemen of Lightweight: Part 0 At 155 pounds there exists a quartet of fighters who are not defined by their accomplishments and peaks, but instead by how they fought. I hope we remember them.

At 155 pounds there exists a quartet of fighters who are not defined by their accomplishments and peaks, but instead by how they fought. By the violence and entertainment they guaranteed when they stepped into the cage.

I hope we remember them.

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I hope so too

Healing from wisdom teeth removal, moving cross country in a week, stressed as fuck about the job market, normal stuff.

How you been Suzie?

thought this was about amy kaplan for a second and was disappointed in you for a bit

See you soon Suzie

fairs yeah

mosquito song always kinda hits for me dunno why. very erotic to me

yeah

im sure theres plenty of bunny costumes up rn

so there really wasnt time to be anxious. Tricking my brain to switch into a different mode kinda.

most of my anxiety probably came from a different source than yours but being a musician I found that a lot of my breathing exercises helped. So i ended up simplifying them even further to stuff like '5 counts in, 5 counts out' and I think that also kinda clicks in my head as 'performance time'

right before the co-main calling it

val what the fuck

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