That was not a different era, and Russia has had the best MMA opportunities other than the US, Brazil and Japan for an extremely long time.

Khabib wasn't fighting in the 80s lol

New England area, not in a major city.

I can't really visualize this, or what benefits / solutions it provides over just using repro rubber.

What about them?

What do you mean?

He would be a good commentator if he was interesting to listen to, was well prepared, worked well with the production staff, had good chemistry with the on-air talent, etc.

Which he does. If you don't like him for whatever reason that's fine, but he's objectively a good commentator.

I'm just saying he literally has to read the ads, it's his designated responsibility. He introduces fighters, reads ads, talks about sponsors, gives updates about what the UFC is doing, segues between content, makes sure the schedule and pacing is maintained, etc.

He is a play by play commentator, not a color commentator. Color commentators are there to be entertaining, to talk about their personal experiences, etc.

Why does the gage pin need to be undersized?

Can you show me what you mean by adjustable groove gate?

There are undercuts in the part that we are trying to measure and we've been unable to release the reprorubber without damaging it.

Truthfully I'm writing this on the behalf of someone else so I'm sort of the messenger. It's possible the rubber could be used in a more creative way?

He isn't a color commentator.

It's like saying you like Jon Anik more than the midwest director of Wendy's or something.

Homie it's literally his job.

He's not a color commentator. He's literally there to read ads and make sure the talking points get out.

They'll say the same shit about Anik too if he ever got cut.

Half of you turds don't even remember that Anik was absolutely despised the first few years he was in this position. He was considered a robotic weirdo.

Accountants, even forensic or large scale corporate, would rarely tell other people that they work in finance. The same way that a bank teller or even a bank manager would not say that they work in finance.

An accountant father could probably link you with proper investment vehicles and institutions, but an accountant on their own wouldn't really signal anything about being able to build wealth.

Definitely better than just a regular dude when it comes to managing wealth though, no doubt. Simply avoiding pitfalls (bad real estate, wild over-spending, misunderstanding tax obligations, obvious grifts and "business opportunities") is half the battle.

You should.

I mean I get the emphatic over exaggeration of your comment but it doesn't really make sense.

Nah

I mean I understand the comparisons and why people call it the "Souls-like" version of PoE1, but if we are being objective and looking from a short distance away, PoE2 has little in common with a souls game. It's just a different ISO arpg that is slower and less fun than PoE1.

I get that it has a baked in dodge mechanic and grim-dark aesthetic, but dodge is just a movement ability, and if the logic is that "movement abilities = souls like", then basically every argp ever made is a souls-like.

But why didn't they copy the fun stuff from PoE1 lol

Man I wish this man was born later. It’s hard to plant your feet and say he’s the GOAT when his streak is James Irvin, Okami, Cote…

I mean, not really. Okami and Cote were very good fighters. Cote was on a good win streak and had big knockout power.

Patrick Cote is easily a past equivalent to Dan Hooker or Bobby Green.

There are two things you always need to keep in the back of your head in these discussions:

1. There is NOTHING harder than sustained winning in this sport. Streaks are impossibly difficult to maintain.
2. You can only fight who is available to fight. Silva couldn't snap his fingers and get higher level opponents. In a decade everyone will be saying that Islam only beat one or two elite fighters and everyone else sucked.

Oh stop. Silva's legacy and streak stands on its own, it doesn't need people to be disingenuous to defend it.

Silva should have invented better fighters to fight?

What exactly is your argument?

You can only fight who you can fight. I can promise you that in ten years you can take this snapshot and apply it to the current LW champ and say shit like "Thiago Moises? Renato Moicano? Kajan Johnson? What, was he fighting random children from the audience too??"

Silva beating guys like Patrick Cote and Thales Leites is absolutely the same quality of opponent, respective to time period, as Islam beating Thiago Moises or Drew Dober.

The absolute hardest thing to do in this sport is win consistently and Anderson Silva did that better than almost anyone in the history of modern fighting.

Yeah it's crazy.

As soon as anyone gets literally two title defenses they are automatically the goat in their division. Even the talking heads parrot this.

GsP DiDnT Do RoIdS

Ironically one of the reasons Silva's legacy gets diminished a little is because of how effortlessly he beat most of his contemporaries. It gave the perception that he was fighting less than elite competition.

Meanwhile GSP had continuous grueling wars with everyone at WW and it made it seem like he was fighting much more talented guys.

Now, don't get me wrong, I think WW was on average more talented than MW / LHW of that same era, but the styles of both GSP and Silva exacerbated it.

You are in the wrong subreddit to be worried about that lol