Midnight Mania! Porn Site Hosted MMA Event, Yes It Was Wild

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MMA and porn have always had at least a thin layer of separation. No more. Camsoda, a porn streaming site, hosted an MMA event featur…

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MMA and porn have always had at least a thin layer of separation. No more. Camsoda, a porn streaming site, hosted an MMA event featuring two former UFC fighters, former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez and former UFC middleweight Alex Nicholson. Charles Bennett, formerly known as “Krazy Horse” was also on the card, and current UFC welterweight A-hole Colby Covington was in attendance. It was a peak cultural moment for the sport of mixed martial arts, which has been building to this moment for over twenty years now.

The fighters weren’t all that bothered by this- they were just happy to be fighting somewhere where the checks would probably clear. Rodriguez and Bennett, who have about 150 MMA fights between them, explained their viewpoint via MMAJunkie.com:

“I get a lot of strange requests, so I’m just trying to make sure the checks clear,” Rodriguez said. “I have over 80 fights, and a lot of times I’ve had checks not clear. I figured this one, the check would clear because porn has money. Plus, it’ll probably look good, because if you’re paying a young lady to do something inappropriate on the internet, chances are it’s gonna be in (high definition).”

“How do I feel about it?” Bennett said. “Fighters are getting paid. And I’m trying to get into porn, so I like it. I want to do (expletive) porn when this is over. I would love to be on webcam so they can hit that button and throw a few dollars every time I hit that (expletive) in his head. I want to take this (expletive) down and try to end this fight by slapping him multiple times. Tell the people they can pay me to do that.”

The tipping rules were suitably bizarre

Alex Nicholson beat Ricco Rodriguez via tapout to… something.

Charles Bennett lost to Bruce Lutchmedial, who proceeded to flip him off.

This occurred.

They announced the tips out loud after the fight.

Nothing but civility and politeness from this interviewer.

Charles Bennett threw this abortive punch at Colby Covington, because of course.

Western Civilization can only go downhill from this seminal moment.

Insomnia

Ray Borg’s baby has to go back into brain surgery- send him your thoughts and prayers.

Joe Rogan is a simple archer who likes the leafy green and a tight group of arrows.

This is extremely well done

James Toney was pretty dang good at boxing. His ability to turn it up even while extremely tired in the 12th round of this title bout is remarkable.

Stipe Miocic and his wife seem pretty happy about their incoming baby.

?? Third tri in 6 days!

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John Danaher explains the concept of wedges in leg lock application.

Open wedges/closed wedges: an important principle of my leg lock system is the closed wedge principle. Ashi garami is essentially a set of wedges around your opponent’s leg and hips. Like most examples of wedging in jiu jitsu, it is designed to INHIBIT MOVEMENT so that you can more easily break your opponent. As a general rule I have a preference for CLOSED wedges over open wedges when it is time to break someone. In practical terms, this means that ONE OF MY LIMBS MUST REINFORCE THE POSITION OF THE OTHER, LOCKING IT IN PLACE SO THAT AN OPPONENT CANNOT EASILY SEPARATE THE WEDGES AND ESCAPE. There are a vast number of ashi garami variations out there, but if you observe my students in operation you will see immediately that whenever they are in a tough match with a skilled opponent, they will go back to the strength and security of closed wedge variations of ashi garami where their legs lock around their opponent with crossed feet or triangled legs. This adds greatly to the tightness of the control. Our two favorite and strongest finishing positions at the top of the breaking hierarchy both feature closed/reinforced wedges – in the case of straight ashi garami variations we favor outside ashi garami. In the case of cross ashi garami variations we favor versions of inside sankaku. Both lock the attacker very securely to the opponent and thus can generate truly intimidating power. Are closed wedges always necessary? No – you can get a lot of success without them up to a certain level. If your opponent is perhaps inexperienced in avoiding heel hooks, then open versions of ashi garami can work just fine- but when you are in a serious struggle against a skilled opponent – work with the security, safety, strength and power of closed wedges when possible.

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TJ Dillashaw is seeking out the best to help with his boxing with Vasyl Lomachenko.

This meme has been going around lately

Never seen this guard before

toilet guard

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Conor McGregor grappling with Dillon Danis

Cyborg spars with male athletes. Yeah, she would probably beat you up too.

Karate Combat, baby

This was the other combat sports going on this evening. Limos were part of the walkout

This is the kind of stuff happening.

Long pants action

Spyridon is a pretty amazing name.

Like a video game

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