Monday Mailbag: Roadhouse’s Conor McGregor and the MMA fighter-turned-actor’s Mount Rushmore – MMA Fighting

Last weekend was an off week for major MMA, so there weren’t many pressing issues to discuss. With that in mind, this week’s questions cover a wide range of topics, including looming fear. UFC 300. Let’s talk about Roadhouse and ONE Championship’s latest debacle.

ONE Championship Snafu

In case you missed it, ONE Championship held ONE 165 in Tokyo on Saturday night, with a 170-pound matchup scheduled between Shinya Aoki and Sage Northcutt. However, just hours before the fight, Northcutt withdrew after his cornermen were denied visas to Japan, choosing not to fight without visas. Career flyweight/bantamweight John Lineker replaced him in the openweight bout, and Aoki effortlessly finished him off. The whole thing was absurd, but what’s worse is that ONE CEO Chatri Sityottong said: I decided to shoot in a country called Japan.. This is a thoroughly unserious martial arts promotion.

The Lineker vs. Aoki situation is ridiculous, not because they fought, but because it was necessary. I have no interest in an openweight match as a last resort, because that’s cool. But can’t we recognize this as a problem in advance and mitigate it? That’s newbie stuff. Do you think fighters are just going to compete without a coach? Have you ever talked to any professional fighters? Damn, have you ever met Sage Northcutt? Does he think he’s out in the crowd trying to cowboy while three guys give him instructions? This is a vintage Pride-era reservation here, and it doesn’t even matter. Aoki-san is 40 years old! what are we doing here?

John Lineker has the rules to accept that fight anyway, and it would be much more fun to have more openweight bouts, only with fighters who are ready and preferably not that good. Are you saying you won’t watch Chris Barnett vs. Paul Craig? Liars.

UFC 300 and the Methulin Star System

For those who don’t know, the Methulin Star System is a patented method for grading fight cards that some have called “a revelation of incisive commentary and brilliant simplicity.” . (That was me, that’s what I called it.)

The premise is simple and based on the Michelin Guide, the world’s most respected gourmet guide. The Michelin Guide awards one star to restaurants that are “very good,” two stars to restaurants that are “excellent and worth a detour,” and two stars to restaurants that are “exceptional and worth a special trip.” Give 3 stars. I use this to rate match cards: 1 star for worth attending if you live in the city where it’s being held, 2 stars for worth a quick road trip, and 2 stars for worth a special trip. I am giving it 3 stars because of this. attend. look? Simple.

That aside, despite not having a main event yet, UFC 300 is the most three-star Methulin card I’ve ever seen. On paper, this has a pretty strong case for being the best card the UFC has ever put together. 1 title fight, BMF match that is the favorite to win the match of the year, Charles Oliveira vs. Armand Tsarukyan who is currently 3rd in the match of the year voting (Dustin Poirier vs. Benoît Saint-Denis is 2nd); This is a great fight that could easily be the co-main event of a pay-per-view event with 8 other matches. This card is so great that it makes you want to break the rules and add his fourth star.

There aren’t many other 3 star cards. In fact, I didn’t do the Mechulin Star System until recently, so UFC 300 will be my first. But if you go back into the archives and apply the scale backwards, UFC 285 is definitely a two-star event that could have cleared the three-star standard, but even if it didn’t, UFC 281 was definitely cleared. Honestly, that feels about right. 3-star events happen about once a year.

UFC 300 ideas

I don’t think the UFC should make the 300 a two-night event. He has two reasons. First of all, it’s just a large amount. UFC 300 is already made up of an incredible amount of events, and if UFC 300 were to become a two-night event, one of two outcomes would happen. Either he watered down 300 and split up a great match, or he just had one card up front that was clearly inferior. Neither choice is that great. As long as you push yourself up to 300, you’ll be fine.

Secondly, actually I do I think this is something we should do every year to coincide with International Fight Week. The UFC has done exactly this before. In 2018 they ultimate fighter However, in recent years, they have put less emphasis on making IFW a big event. Sure, this is a big PPV every year, but it doesn’t come close to WrestleMania levels of hype. I want the UFC to go back to that kind of structure. That’s great, and he thinks having a two-night event would be more effective as a yearly plan.

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It seems highly unlikely that any of the three fighters listed will be able to capture the title without one more win. For Amir Albazi and Manel Kape, I would actually bet zero percent to get them. Kape has exploded in weight, and Albaji doesn’t have the name or appeal to take on a title fight right away. He needed a big win and he can’t get it now.

Tatiana Suarez is a bit of a wild card. It would be a bit ridiculous for her to be the next to aim for the title, but she has a decent amount of popularity and even if Weili Zhang defeats Yang Xiaonan at UFC 300, she will be the next major contender for the title. There will be no candidates. Given that, there’s a chance the UFC just says no and puts her there, and to be honest, I hope they do.

Brian Ortega vs. Ilia Topuria

These two aren’t particularly close to a matchup right now, but I’m sure they will do so at some point in the future, and when that happens, I’ll feel exactly the same way I feel every time Brian Ortega fights. It will be. Very good and shouldn’t have won, but there he was born a son, and then — oh, out of nowhere he submitted, and Ortega won again.

Ortega is the Brock Purdy of mixed martial arts: he doesn’t make any sense. He loses almost every match he wins, but then he just…stops it. He doesn’t have a very solid defense, his attack is disjointed, and that doesn’t matter. It’s infuriating. After the Cub Swanson fight, I said Brian Ortega was going to win 20 in a row and set a record for featherweight title defenses, but all the while I was shaking my head and saying he was no good. I kept tweeting and I’m standing by it.

When he and Ilya Topria inevitably collide, I highly expect Topria to beat him around the cage for 12 minutes before falling into a guillotine and falling asleep.

conor mcgregor and road house

In case you missed it, check out the first trailer for the remake. road house Conor McGregor featured prominently in it, which dropped last week. That led me to the above tweet and posed the following question: What are the top 4 mixed martial artists as actor performances in movies?

Oddly enough, this is a topic I’m deeply interested in. I have made it my mission to see as many of these performances as possible. Because it’s so funny. So while I haven’t seen them all, I think I know enough to give you a pretty solid list. This is what Mount Rushmore looks like.

• gina carano in haywire: Carano wasn’t a good actress and got worse and worse the more she tried to act, but Steven Soderbergh is great and shows off some great action chops in this one.
• Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson team: This movie has rules and I was disappointed and a little shocked when somehow it didn’t start Mission Impossible-It’s like a movie. It may have been a few years too early for the peak of IP filmmaking, but it remains a cable classic, and Rampage also excels as Mr. T (aka BA Barakas). She’s not perfect, and like Carano, she struggles with her acting, but she’s great in the action scenes.
• Tate Fletcher plays various roles: Shout out to Tate Fletcher.This guy lost to flabby Josh Haynes. ultimate fighter And somehow I ended up becoming a henchman of the elite cinema. If you don’t know, Check out his IMDB. Half the fun action movies of the last decade or so have Fletcher filling five minutes of screen time at the mercy of the protagonist. How many people do you think were blown away by John Wick, Robert McCall?equalizer), Christian Wolff (accountant)? Legend.
• keith jardine in shot caller: Jardine is basically a Tait Fletcher redux. He was drawn to his looks and is now a regular in movies (he also made his directorial debut last year). Fletcher has the better portfolio, but Dean of Mean gives him a brief but solid performance as the Ripper. shot calleris a movie that should be loved by more people.

Of course, I couldn’t include Dave Bautista since he only has one MMA fight in his career, but if they add him, he’ll probably have Mount Rushmore all to himself. He’s a legitimately good character actor. Also, Kimbo Slice does a decent job as an executive in a bad action movie, but that’s not it. Overall I excluded him because he is an MMA fighter. Everyone else is terrible, but he’s also a lot of fun. So, as mentioned above, if Conor can make his own opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, he’ll be a top-level MMA fighter turned actor.

If you want to see the worst performance of all time, I’ll show you a little movie called. D-Day: Battle of Omaha Beach, starring Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, and Nicolas Cage’s son Weston Cage Coppola. It might be the worst thing you’ve ever seen, but you won’t be able to look away from it.

Thanks for reading, and thank you to everyone who sent in tweets (X?)! Do you have any burning questions about things at least somewhat related to martial arts? Send me your tweets I would appreciate it if you could. @JedKMeshew, answer what I like! It doesn’t matter if it’s topical or insane. It’s fine if it’s good. Thank you again. See you next week.