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Work your Cardio at least to Superb or so at a minimum before you do anything else. After that, I would recommend developing your guy until you're confident he could win a majority of fights if he were to do a qfc, then do some. A 0-0 guy will always draw the smallest contract from an org, so a 2-0 guy with 2 qfc wins or even a 1-1 guy should give the org a bit more confidence in spending the money on your guy with a larger contract.

Ya, I wouldn't read too much into a flash KO like that. With 2 new fighters both in budget gyms, I think both of you were playing the guys as they were rolled. I think it just as easily could have been you taking him down and throwing on a flash submission. Tough luck for a first fight, but if it really bugs you then work on your Striking Defense a bit when you get into a coaching gym. Keep your spirits up, your chin down, and best of luck!

Hi! It is well known that buying new clothes and switching outfits every day or so is the best way to boost a fighter's morale (other than winning a fight), but does anyone know the exact time of day that the clothing-inspired morale boosts 'pop'? This question has been dogging me and I never seem to remember to watch my fighters' morale to try to pin down the exact time. Thanks!

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Also, I think most games make the default starter position at least remotely worthwhile, unlike Cozad which is worse quality and more expensive than the "Cozad alternative" fitness gyms found in every city. If a noob joins, jumps right into a QFC and then loses interest in the game after going 0-1, that would explain a lot of Cozad members waiting for their initial funds to run out. I focused on Cozad members when I opened my gym as well, and only had 1 guy flat out refuse and stay in Cozad. Sometimes people won't take your help, even if it's offered freely. Haha.

Mr Cee, who is that marvelous specimen in your avatar? I'm sure I saw her at a MENSA meeting...

Nobody has an answer for the Triple Decker Pecker Wrecker.

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Too bad he destroyed his porn career as thoroughly as he destroyed his fighting career. Whore Machine was selling his kidney, piece of liver, and sperm on eBay to earn money to get his girlfriend out of immigration detention too LOL

Keep in mind that the 2nd session takes more energy when you do 2 in a row. I usually only do 1 session per day when sparring, which still gets me 6 sessions per week with no energy penalty or diminishing returns. I try to keep my energy at least around 90, and it's a lot easier to do with sparring every AM then either rest or a Secondary in the PM. Especially if it's just general training and not grinding up a particular Primary for an upcoming fight, take a nice and measured approach to your training and you should get pops in your Primaries and Secondaries at a decent rate and without getting into energy management problems.

Wow, just a few days ago Toney was calling Dana names and saying he wouldn't fight for chump change. I guess they better get Houston Alexander out of whatever local circuit he's fighting in. Any real fighter is going to drop Toney on his head and finish him in the first. Bank it.

The one truth of Sherdog is that no matter what your opinion is, or which side you choose in a debate, and no matter the strength of your evidence, there will be an obese antisocial 14 year old willing to call you a douchebag and an idiot. I'm no idiot. *adjusts the sleeve of his Ed Hardy shirt so you can see my tribal armband tat*

The pm training happens at 9pm GMT and the gym fees are deducted at 10:55pm GMT on Thursdays. The best tactic is to wait until pm training is complete then quit your current gym. Any time after 10:55 you can join the gym of your choice.

I think that for me, Bisping does more damage to himself in his post-fights than in the pre-fight smack talk. Between losing to Hamill, losing to Henderson, and losing to Wandy, the guys who beat him are good fighters. If he'd just once say "I gave it my best shot but hey these guys are tough and I'm going to come back stonger next time" he'd be fine. It's like he either intentionally plays the heel, or he feels like he has to keep talking in the post-fight pressers and always puts his foot in his mouth. The latest being: “It was a close fight. Personally I think I won rounds one and two,” he told the media at the UFC 110 post-fight press conference. “The only things I felt I got hit with - I mean Wanderlei did a great job, full credit to him. Congratulations to him on winning the fight. Personally, apart from the guillotine and, you know, I got dropped in the third round, but apart from the guillotine in the second, I don’t think he had any offense come my way. I felt I won those two rounds." So other than being seconds away from getting choked in the 2nd, and seconds away from being Hendo'd in the 3rd, he had it in the bag. The 'fight for a decision' might work in Tycoon but isn't popular in real life. He'll be around for a while more, but I think he's going to start fading into the background as the more talented British fighters take the limelight. I never considered him a 'draw', like someone I'd be excited to watch on PPV, and certainly would never order a ppv solely because Bisping was on it. He's still skilled, but just won't reach the heights he imagines for himself. Bisping seems to be insecure and always ready to explain away a loss, Tito is just worthless as a fighter and as a human being and I'm sad he exists. I don't like Bisping but comparing him to Tito is harsh to me, but I have more hate for Tito than the average hater.

Just listened to the radio interview, "Michael" sure put a heck of a spin on the incident, almost as bogus as the chick videotaping did when she made her so-called apology video.

Good find. Straighforward no-nonsense entry too, I liked it.

Noob -- to Noob +

I think EBM showed a lot of restraint in stopping the beatdown and leaving the bus when he did. The punk got exactly what he deserved, and EBM could have done a WHOLE lot more to him if he'd wanted to. Extra lulz @ the punk after EBM left the bus getting up and threatening him while gushing blood from his jacked up face. I checked out encyclopedia dramatica and was glad to see the interwebs at work. I guess other people weren't too happy with Iyanna08's lying fat ass and her threadbare fake apology trying to distance herself from her own words caught on her own tape. Especially in regards to stealing EBM's bag and ID, then lying and saying she doesn't have it. She went from "kick his white ass" to "I lament the state of violence in the world today, can't we all get along?" haha I guess the internerds don't believe her either, and posted her home address and a photo of the front of her house taken from the street so you know you're at the right address. They encourage you to stop by her house and wish her a 'warm hello' and ask her to return EBM's bag and ID. LOL The episode has created a meme-fest, with the punk getting shooped into tons of FAIL pics, and even the girl with the headphones in the pink tights who ignored the whole fight has been dubbed Amber Lamps and has tribute songs to her. The epic bearded man has truly spawned something epic.

I don't give other fighter's names a second thought. I'm quite sure people don't give a rat's ass whether or not I or anyone else take them seriously or approve/disapprove of their name. I've seen some clever and funny joke names, and tons of stupid/derivative ones, but at the end of the day, the people naming their fighters with unusual names don't care what I think, and I don't care about their motivation for doing it. It works out really nicely for my stress level.

I don't believe it's a female, and don't believe it doesn't speak English. Like a couple posters above said, the 'broken' nature of the writing isn't like a foreign language speaker struggling with English, it's like an English speaker trying to sound like he doesn't speak English. It's like Russian+Asian with a bit of caveman mixed in. Also, since Mike stated the abuse has been downgraded from rape/family murder (which would be wrong, regardless of circumstances) to vague complaints about people "being mean" to AA for continuing to do what he has every opportunity to stop, then I say tough shit. If someone consistently uses an exploit that a majority of the community despises, it doesn't make the community a hostile mob. If you're f'ing new players by steamrolling them in fights they cannot win and don't have enough sense to reject, then you lose the right to cry 'victim' when the greater community calls you out on it. I couldn't care less about rankings or any of the rest, but I do care about assholes abusing new players and driving them out of the game, far more than I'd care if one exploiter got their feelings hurt and quit because they couldn't run their scam with total immunity from criticism anymore.

Lol this poor guy probably had no idea what he was starting when he posted this thread. "No, no! Turn it off! No feats of strength!"

Actually, that's the first thing I do when I roll up a new fighter. I'll grab a Stamina supplement and put them on Cardio training on a Part-Time intensity. For the first week or so, your Conditioning is going to be so poor that you'll need to rest 2 sessions for every 2 sessions of Cardio you do anyway. The extra pocket cash from Part-Time can set you up with some starter supplements, or at least pay for your first few weeks of training. Of course, that's only if you're trying to keep your Energy above 90ish. After the first week, you can take a look at how much Energy you're using per session. You can stay on Part Time for the cash and still make decent progress, or you might be able to go to a Full Time schedule with 2 Cardio sessions to 1 rest, or 5:2 whichever way you can make it work as far as your desire for maintaining energy levels and getting fast pops.

When a fighter reaches his "stick position" and is still quite aggressive, do all the attacks that would have gone toward advancing position then go toward attacks or are they lost? Example: I set a slider at 50 advance position and 50 strike/sub. My stick position is Mount. So when my guy advances to Mount, will he just be wailing away with GnP and subs, or will 50% still be strikes/subs and the 50% that would have been toward Advance Pos just vanish?

Obnoxious D-bag for sure. I didn't think Coleman should ever have come back but I didn't wish him ill in the UFC. For Tito to yell "Payback's a bitch" when he had nothing to do with issuing the payback was just retarded. For all this about being a master showman and putting butts in the seats, that ship may have sailed. That may have been true in the past, but a faded relic whose game hasn't evolved since 2005 who can't beat a contender not named Shamrock isn't going to draw my PPV dollar. For me, hearing a fighter talk smack is only entertaining when there's a small chance he can back it up. I'm not even sure how long I'll watch TUF next season since seeing Chuck KO Tito won't be worth a whole season of Tito's mouth. Tito's presence brings a desire NOT to watch, if anything. I don't even know what Dana was thinking setting Tito up for TUF. For all the good decisions Dana makes, sometimes it's like he's in a time-machine, or taking advice from some random people with a comically warped sense of what's relevant or popular (maybe from Tito himself). Bringing Tito to TUF is the relevancy equivalent to having Limp Bizkit play a show before a fight, or having a fugly Holly Madison be a guest ring-girl. Just bleh.

I had to vote Mirko as well. The level of disappointment is proportional to the amount that I liked a fighter. I never liked Rampage in Pride, and don't like him now. I don't think he's funny. After about the 300th time, the 'bad breff' jokes grow a little stale. Wanderlei is still an exciting fighter regardless of whether he gets a win or a loss. He may be past his prime but I still feel confident that as long as his heart's beating he'll go out and give a good performance with glimpses of the beast of the past. With Kimbo I had no expectation of great things so I couldn't be let down. The Houston/Slice fight was an embarrassment with them gassing, but in the absence of a highlight-reel KO between two brawlers I was disgusted more than disappointed. Mirko I liked from the Pride days. The highlight reel KOs and all the potential in the world. After the Gonzaga fight I felt like I was the one who had been kicked in the head, it was utter disbelief. The following fights were just varying levels of "WTF". Giving interviews talking about entering the cage and thinking about fishing in Croatia instead of decapitating his opponent made it worse. On one hand, it was cool that a fighter was candid and honest about what his mental state is, but on the other hand, I don't want to hear that. I want him in there punting people's craniums into the cheap seats. I really hope that CC gets his mind right and that this Amsterdam camp he put together does the trick. I'm reserving my hopes though. The A'dam camp sounds to me like Tito's "Big Bear", some mystical retreat that is supposed to magically turn a faded fighter into a contender. I believe CC when he says he's coming back more prepared than ever. But I believed it last time too. And the time before. I'm going to keep being a fan of the one dimensional K1 striker, even though that's becoming a dinosaur in modern MMA. At least Cheick Kongo has the common courtesy to get pounded out on the ground and not KTFO like Mirko.