Fight week is now underway as UFC Fight Night 84 is slated for this upcoming Saturday (February 27, 2016) from the O2 Arena in London, England presented live on UFC Fight Pass. Although the event isn’t a pay-per-view (PPV), the UFC has once again brought to us its revered Embedded series leading up to the
Fight week is now underway as UFC Fight Night 84 is slated for this upcoming Saturday (February 27, 2016) from the O2 Arena in London, England presented live on UFC Fight Pass.
Although the event isn’t a pay-per-view (PPV), the UFC has once again brought to us its revered Embedded series leading up to the card with episode one being released earlier today (February 22, 2016).
Headliner Michael “The Count” Bisping can be seen spending time with his family and finishing up some light training before heading to his homeland ahead of his main event bout with former long-time middleweight champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva.
Fellow middleweight contenders Gegard “The Dreamcatcher” Mousasi and Thales Leites also finish up last minute preparations leading up to their pivotal co-main event clash.
But where’s “The Spider”?
Check out the full episode below courtesy of the UFC:
But before they do, how about one last video to send your anticipation levels through the damn roof?
If you haven’t seen it already, the UFC’s latest Embedded episode on McGregor vs. Aldo is a must-see ahead of this weekend’s UFC 194 main event. Chronicling both fighters rise from rags to riches, the UFC 189 media tour (and Aldo’s subsequent withdrawal), and their incredible training regimens, UFC 194 Embedded is arguably the crowning achievement of the series. A credit is due to the UFC for really stepping it up in regards to the production value and somehow getting us more excited for this fight than we previously thought possible. Bravo, ladies and gents.
A mere…four months out from their featherweight title tilt at UFC 189, Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor are already being given the insult-laden media tour treatment. They’ve already received their own Embedded series, lobbed steroid accusations at each other in various interviews, and most recently, engaged in a bilingual bro-down on Fox Sports Live. It’s kind of unprecedented, really.
You can check out the entire cringeworthy interview above, which features such highlights as McGregor claiming to be aroused by the “beautiful aroma” of fear that Aldo is secreting (gross), or Aldo comparing Mcgregor to Scooby Doo (lol!). Honestly, it’s pretty difficult to watch two guys throw shade at one another when a translator is involved, but McGregor is the kind of cat who could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves, ya dig?
Meanwhile…Demetrious Johnson sits at home playing Xbox and wondering when the damn camera crews are going to arrive already. 🙁
After the jump: The first three (or as McGregor would say, “tree”) episodes of the aforementioned Embedded series.
A mere…four months out from their featherweight title tilt at UFC 189, Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor are already being given the insult-laden media tour treatment. They’ve already received their own Embedded series, lobbed steroid accusations at each other in various interviews, and most recently, engaged in a bilingual bro-down on Fox Sports Live. The treatment their fight is receiving is kind of unprecedented, really, especially this far out from the actual fight.
You can check out the entire cringeworthy interview above, which features such highlights as McGregor claiming to be aroused by the “beautiful aroma” of fear that Aldo is secreting (gross), or Aldo comparing Mcgregor to Scooby Doo (lol!). Honestly, it’s pretty difficult to watch two guys throw shade at one another when a translator is involved, but McGregor is the kind of cat who could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves, ya dig?
Meanwhile…Demetrious Johnson sits at home playing Xbox and wondering when the damn camera crews are going to arrive already.
After the jump: The first three (or as McGregor would say, “tree”) episodes of the aforementioned Embedded series.
(Looks like Andy Serkis just found himself out of a job for the Lord of the Rings reboot. Props: r/MMA)
If you’ve been watching the excellent UFC 184 Embedded series thus far, chances are that you’ve been thoroughly entertained by the-GOOD GOD WHAT IS THAT THING BEFORE ME.
Captured by r/MMA user lrkr486, the Gollum-esque looking creature pictured above is apparently Expendables star Mickey Rourke, who we can assure you definitely isn’t, as one commenter suggested, “on the heels of a three week crack binge.” It’s more like an eight to ten week binge for sure.
Rourke told the cameras in episode 2 of Embedded that he met Ellenberger while training for a fight in Russia (which, LOL) around the same time Jake was training for a fight of his own, and the two have become buddies in the time since. That being the case, perhaps now’s the time for Ellenberger to gather Rourke’s other closest friends around and hold an intervention for whatever the Hell is happening to
After the Jump: The first 3 episodes of UFC Embedded, via the UFC’s Youtube channel.
(Looks like Andy Serkis just found himself out of a job for the Lord of the Rings reboot. Props: r/MMA)
If you’ve been watching the excellent UFC 184 Embedded series thus far, chances are that you’ve been thoroughly entertained by the-GOOD GOD WHAT IS THAT THING BEFORE ME.
Captured by r/MMA user lrkr486, the Gollum-esque looking creature pictured above is apparently Expendables star Mickey Rourke, who we can assure you definitely isn’t, as one commenter suggested, “on the heels of a three week crack binge.” It’s more like an eight to ten week binge for sure.
Rourke told the cameras in episode 2 of Embedded that he met Ellenberger while training for a fight in Russia (which, LOL) around the same time Jake was training for a fight of his own, and the two have become buddies in the time since. That being the case, perhaps now’s the time for Ellenberger to gather Rourke’s other closest friends around and hold an intervention for whatever the Hell is happening to
After the Jump: The first 3 episodes of UFC Embedded, via the UFC’s Youtube channel.
My God, there aren’t enough Cat Zingano stretching videos in the world to erase the image of Rourke that has been permanently seared into of my brain. I know Rourke had to drop a bit of weight for his aforementioned boxing match, but he looks like Christian Bale in The Machinist right now. There can only be three possible explanations:
1) Rourke is preparing for a career-defining role in a Holocaust movie.
2) The aforementioned crack binge
3)
The redditor who posted this subscribes to a different theory — that Rourke is slowly turning into our aunt — but even that seems like a stretch to me. My aunt is in *much* better shape than Rourke, and she spends the majority of her days swatting punk ass middle schoolers over her shoulder while driving a school bus.
