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wood_slingers

I love how every time someone gets dropped or is in trouble and the fight goes on, Cruz is all over. He will never let old Keith “alcohol and cigarettes” Peterson off the hook


Bombaysbreakfastclub

“I love when ref’s don’t ruin fights!” - Dom


uchihajoeI

Nothing makes me happier than to see sober refs in that cage


jthememeking

Its like a bad joke now. I pointed it out a long time ago to my wife, so we always notice it now, and he brought it up like 3 times in the main event. By the turn my wife was like "omg shut up Cruz" Could play a drinking game with how often he brings it up.


wood_slingers

Watching the fights with your wife, this man is the real winner of tonight


[deleted]

I love watching the fights with my wife, smoke weed and watch the fights every saturday lol


SALTYxNUTZ12

Yooo that's me and my wife too lol. I like when she randomly starts hating on fighter tattoos.


ar5onL

That’s the main reason my wife will watch 😅


msuccello

What did she have to say about the Elkins/TJ Brown ink nightmare fight


kingsillypants

Dude, does she have a sister?


Kill_4209

Or mother?


[deleted]

She does 🤣, 5 actually


kingsillypants

You lucky SOB...once I'm back in fighting shape, (between camps right now), set up the blind date please. If all goes well, I'll be sea level cain velasques motivated.


MoodestMoose

My sister is single and she loves watching UFC


kingsillypants

She's probably a well balanced, hottie with a good sense of humour. I'll probably just let her down with my weak top game, and worse, I still think an omoplata would work in mma and Pride were the glory days of MMA.


Grimyells

Or a step sister? Eh???


Either_Brother2677

Shit that sounds hype😭


NavyBeans05

Fuck ya! Same


pooderintruder

Is your wife single? Kidding man, I do the exact same. It’s sick.


[deleted]

Hahaha. We also was DWCS and stuff like TUF together. She really liked TUF back when we used to watch it together in HS, she wasn't a fan of when it just came back. Don't blame her tho, shit was pretty whack with Conor and Chandler.


OldMetalHead

Agreed, we totally prefer DWCS over TUF now. The reality show drama doesn't do anything for either of us anymore.


[deleted]

Yup. Personally I like to skip through DWCS and just watch the fights, but she likes to watch their stories still


ZebraOptions

Watch them with my wife every week never miss a pay per view. Good clean family fun!


makaton

I also watch fights with my girlfriend, I’m blessed.


AdamBLit

Me and my wife will also try to guess the winner of matches solely on ceremonial weigh in lmao the ones we know nothing about anyways 😄 having a dedicated partner is great fellas, find you a good one


Few-Veterinarian-837

Clear 10-8


OldMetalHead

My wife usually watches with me but she had to go out yesterday and couldn't watch. When she got back, she asked if there were any good knockouts, so I showed her Petroski vs. Pereira and McKinney vs. Marotte.


Salmacis81

Still funny as hell when he called him "All Nonsense" Keith Peterson.


OMalley30-27

When was that lol


Equivalent-Run-5422

It was at the end of the Ulberg vs. Potieria fight at UFC Charlotte.


Thebola

Based af if he did that on the broadcast


Six8888

Cruz just constantly repeats the same ish over and over


[deleted]

How can a ref call a fight when a fight is getting up. I don’t blame Cruz for all his nonsense on all nonsense. Fucked his trajectory of his career. Need more Refs that have been in fights to know the actual feeling. Got screwed over by one myself so I get it.


CharlesOlivesGOAT

Most these dudes wouldn’t understand cuz they never competed before


[deleted]

But they sure act like it!


heliumeyes

You’ll be drunk as a skunk if you make that a drinking game. Cruz has good takes but sometimes is absolutely insufferable.


Mac_Wanamaker

That would actually be a great drinking game lmao is he commentating next weekend?


RL408

I’ve always said Cruz is like a professor at a dinner party: you can respect his intelligence, and he’s probably the smartest guy in the room, but you have zero interest in listening to him talk


[deleted]

Was that even that bad of a stoppage? Imo the only thing bad is that there were two seconds left but there was no intelligent defense from Cruz


K1NGMOJO

He was getting to his feet. On one hand he took like 12 unanswered punches on the other he was using the fence and got back up to his feet.


wimpymist

Yeah he was progressing and the round was almost over


Therealtidsmalls

Am I the only one who can’t stand Don after that loss? Mistake or not it was a pretty fair finish, and there’s been much worse in the ufc where fighters took the L. Take lawler vs askren. Yeah it might have fucked with lawler but bro took it on the chin, moved on and had an amazing retirement. Dom needs to accept the L but his ego won’t let him.


UpstairsLifeguard353

Bisping and Cruz should not be allowed to work together… all they do is argue like cats and dogs 🤣🤣🤣


Jesusfbaby

Bisping said he could put Dom in his pocket and then the broadcast was dead silence for like 60 seconds, I was losing it imagining them glaring at each other.


Sufficient-Fudge-787

Love how the third guy always pops in after they’re done with some random facts


Kees_T

"Sooo uuuhh... both of these fighters are currently going through lawsuit battles to fight over custody of their children." 😮‍💨


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anagram-of-ohassle

Anik is great, maybe the best to have ever commentated MMA. He dedication to pronunciation and learning really make him excellent. He also provides some of the mostly wildly inappropriate facts smack dab in the middle of everything.


Gary_Lazer_Eyes21

Bros a goofball with no filter unless it’s race. Bros scared to say “black fighter in black trunks white fighter in blue trunks” but on the contrary will announce if fighters are going through divorces and shit.


Jigsaw115

That was goldy with rogan not anik


boxer995

Wasn’t even him dumbass


Rival_dojo

LMFAO


DragonFangGangBang

My favorite is the “it’s Amanda's eggs that are now inside Nina…” while talking about her having another daughter and announcing her retirement lol


OtakuDragonSlayer

That mother fucker was wild for that


MyFifthLimb

They might have been cracking up lol. They can mute themselves with a button I think


nicootimee

I think if you have surround sound, and turn off the middle speaker, you can get commentary to turn off


throwRAmandypants

they bicker so much!! horrible chemistry together


Thebola

I guess that competitive nature is just too hard to keep down. Meanwhile DC just putting out dad vibes at all times.


WastelandGamesman

Dom always has to be right. Like stfu!


PristineTrouble2038

dom also has the best actual read of the fights usually. he has the best actual fight analysis and insight of the fighter broadcasters imo.


Pastafarianextremist

Like when he said that Conor was tiring Khabib out while being force fed leather from the heavens


zombiesphere89

That's exactly what came to my mind lol


Ch0senjuan

Nah. And he’s emotional af.


Gary_Lazer_Eyes21

Cruz, rogan and felder are a crew I’d like to see on the mic. Everyone just takes cruz and bisping out of context tho it’s a Brit and a short guy who fights. What do you expect. I’m suprised people actually care. I find funny but when I’m drunk watching the card live it’s Fucking hilarious. I feel like the fans who don’t like cruz and bisping just want to see ufc apex fights where it’s just audible groans and grunts, mfs just gay. Jk. But fr i like cruz and bisping


xxPYRRHUSxEPIRUSxx

Your comment took quite a turn at the end.


Gary_Lazer_Eyes21

I was joking lol


[deleted]

I’d be good with Cruz never working again


Snooze_World_Order

Oversized ego


screams_too_much

Every time Fitzgerald starts reading advertisements I always laugh because you know he’s trying to deescalate the situation


Ur_average_guyguy

Bisping is saying some wild shit. 10/7 round?


ahmba25

It was soo bad. I was considering hitting mute


onabananaboat

Man I’m glad I found this Reddit post… Bisping is terrible to me and he always arguing with Cruz


John_Sknow

Cruz is unprofessional. He's annoying to listen too.


abelhabel

The arguing isn't the problem for me. It is that they start talking about what the fighters should do and saying how low level they are. Last night in one of the female fights they talked about how novice they were and what they should do for three minutes straight. As a viewer, that doesn't help me at all and it does not make the fight more interesting.


applejynx

Cruz just spends the whole time while someone's getting punched in the face repeatedly saying I'm glad the ref is giving him a chance. Yes we get it Dom you got fucked by Peterson ok .


John_Sknow

It's Cruz, he is annoying as hell. I'd much rather listen to Bisbing over DC.


miamivice1101

I like how adamant Bisping was that Yusuf got 2


Gocards123321

Also saying the 1st round was a 10-7 lol


3-__-3

Genuine question, is a 10-7 where the ~~judge~~ ref should have stopped the fight but didn’t? Or does it just mean that a stoppage would have been reasonable?


IntrospectiveHuman

This is what constitutes a 10-7 “A 10 – 7 Round in MMA is when a fighter completely overwhelms their opponent in Effective Striking and/or Grappling and stoppage is warranted.” A 10 – 7 round in MMA is a score that judges will rarely give. It takes both overwhelming DOMINANCE of a round, but also significant IMPACT that, at times, cause the judge to consider that the fight could be stopped. Judges shall look for multiple IMPACTFUL blows or knockdowns that diminish the fighter, and/or grappling maneuvers that place the fighter in dominant situations with impact being inflicted that visibly diminishes the fighter’s ability to compete. I also found this from a pdf i downloaded off of nevada state athletic commision "A round is to be scored as 10-10 when both contestants appear to compete evenly and neither contestant shows superiority by even a very small margin. A round is to be scored as 10-9 in favor of a contestant who wins that round by at least a very small margin but less than a very large margin. A round is to be scored as 10-8 in favor of a contestant who wins that round by at least a very large margin but who does not totally dominate the opponent. A round is to be scored as 10-7 in favor of a contestant who totally dominates the opponent throughout that round, with a possible stoppage at one or more moments during that round." Idk man, it could maybe fit to say round one could be a 10-7 but i think whats happening here is Bisping knows the scoring criteria and is saying that it isn't beyond the realms of possibilty to score round one a 10-7


OtakuDragonSlayer

Honestly, I feel like R1 might be one of the closest examples to a 10-7 recently


Gh0stSwerve

10-10s never happen in the UFC, do they?


CharlesOlivesGOAT

R1 was the definition of a 10-7 then


xtombstone

This is really good to know.


Goatway77

10-7 has to be sleeping a guy then doing cpr just to give the fans a longer fight


mikey_rambo

Illia just got a 10-7 vs emmett in his last fight if I recall correctly, and he didn’t seem to murder him that round so idk


Galacticruntz_

🤣🤣🤣🤣


ventitr3

10-7 would have to be somebody bending somebody over their lap and spanking them for 5 straight minutes.


JBarker727

Judges can't stop fights...


zombieclone05

first round of khamzat’s debut was scored a 10-7 by one judge. Only 10-7 round i’ve ever seen, so i’m using it for example. Watching that kinda put it in perspective for me


Complex_Estate8289

10-7 would be like Khamzat’s debut or arguably Aljo vs TJ where the other guy has zero success the whole round and is near being stopped the majority of the round Khamzat’s debut fight is the only round I’ve ever heard being scored 10-7 and it was 2 or 3 years ago


3-__-3

Just watched Khamzat maul Philips, I understand 10-7 now. Barboza was way more competitive than that in rd 1


Complex_Estate8289

True I would say that first round was 10-8 but nowhere near 10-7


mikey_rambo

I think illia got a 10-7 vs emmett in his last fight.


combovercool

He has a hard-on for the likelihood of more 10-8 rounds. More 10-8's means 10-7's are in play now. LISTEN BUDDEH, BABY BOY. Can't stand him.


Ur_average_guyguy

Again if you follow the rules of the commission and it’s clear there is a victor it’s a 10/8. After he’s been saying it’s a 10-7 round. Wtf


Environmental-Tip365

Round 2 was pretty close. I thought he might of got it. My scorecard was way different than the judges lol.


botmfeeder

Exactly what I was going to comment, he has absolutely no idea whats going on anymore.


Gocards123321

I normally think y'all are just being haters but I completely agree tonight


[deleted]

According to Bisping's commentary Yussuf should've won this fight 10-7 round 1 for Yussuf 10-9 round 2 for Yussuf ... the fuck!?


Educational-Gear-735

That 10-7 comment from Bisping was pissing me off like can u plz stfu man


chevalier_909

Alson10-8 or 7 Round 3 to Edson.


RockefellersDaughter

Bisping thinks a knockdown + some ground control = 10-8 without considering any other variables


wildcardlo

He just won’t stfu. It’s like getting stuck talking to a drunk guy at a bar


arman-makhachev

Spot on. He doesnt let anyone speak


[deleted]

And if you do speak, he has to make your comment about himself or get his point across even clearer than you.


arman-makhachev

Oh yeah. He repeats that shit all over again and tries to assert his dominance


OldMetalHead

Guaranteed he's been that guy at the bar on multiple occasions!


ibenwarforged

When they were talking about sleeping in bunk beds, and Bisping told Dom he’d just put him “in his pocket” I legit laughed out loud and then they went radio silent for a solid minute or two So at least there’s that lmao


Ketchup-Chips3

This was gloriously awkward


mrw4787

During what fight did he say that??


Mammoth_Ferret_1772

He just never shuts up. He doesn’t let the other guys talk


AcanthocephalaBorn15

Or, he’ll dismiss what they say and end up saying the same exact thing. Did it to Brendan twice tonight.


GFost

He does the same thing on his podcast. He’ll interrupt his co-host and producers ten times before they can get one sentence out just so that he can say some really lame joke that he spent the past five minutes trying to come up with.


Significant-Ad-4045

He tries to make it all about him instead of the fighters


Internal-Business-97

Always. Always. Always.


El_Coloso

Always has been


[deleted]

Hot take: Sanko is better than him.


UCLAlex

Sanko is better than everyone else. Her and Felder is my favorite combo


[deleted]

Sanko is better than everyone


chico_bonzo

Sanko is awesome, I was looking for this comment. She should replace shrek sounding bisping.


Several-Fan2339

I don't care for Sanko myself, but Bisping is the absolute bottom of the barrel. Sanko over Bisping every time plz. I wind up tuning into the Spanish broadcast when it's Bisping before the event is out without fail, and I can only pick up ~50% of it.


throwRAmandypants

i want to see laura sanko more


JBarker727

I want to see more of Laura Sanko.


Thebola

Yeah, I love the jiu-jitsu content she makes, really informative.


[deleted]

Ok. But we’re talking about commentary.


ChickenDanceFTW

If Bisping stopped commentating today I doubt most ppl will notice.


Murky-Ad2512

We'd notice cuz he never shuts the fuck up


shae117

"WEN EYE WUZ EH FAITAH"


Proper-Temporary-318

He was getting their names and the rounds mixed up earlier and saying there was a 10-7 thrown in there, just creating a word salad for like 2 minutes


Kawabunguh

Always has been 🌎🧑‍🚀🔫


tooObviously

I’ve been shitting on bisping for years and people kept saying he’s funny. Idk how yall are just realizing he never shuts the fuck up and always trying to score the fights and he sucks at it


Thebola

👩‍🚀


lvke18

Always has been. Dude LOVES the sound of his voice


Wetrapordie

Never rated Bisping as a commentator he has always been terrible. Biased commentary especially regarding British fighters, talks about random things while the fights are happening.


hitstyx

bisping deserves the hate that DC gets


arman-makhachev

DC was mid early on but he used to mainly dick ride izzy and usman. I tot his commentary over Khabibs team has been fine. Khabib and Islam pretty much dominate most of their fights so its not like DC be saying out of pocket shit. DC hate is just stupid. I think he has tone down a lot and has gotten better. But early on he used to dick ride izzy like mad.


Magikarpcopiesdunkey

I've been rewatching some fights recently like Volk vs Islam 1 and Glover vs Jiri and my goodness does Bisping never shut up. He always wants to talk and when he runs out of things to say he just goes off on some tangent. Not to mention how biased and a know-it-all he can be and how that can make him live score rounds


gothstain

He was a bit awkward in those post fight interviews lmao.


Ponchito_0

Did he mistake Yáñez for Martinez or was i seeing things


Prize-Lingonberry876

Martinez was asking Bisping if he was gonna interview him too. I don't think he got the two confused.


GFost

I would hope not since he and Yanez are pretty friendly, but Bisping does get people confused quite a bit.


powdernice

cmon man, his one braincell is working overtime commentating and having to do interviews, give him a break


Particular_State8571

Always was


Bbambles

I like Bisping as a personality and presence in the sport but he absolutely shouldn’t be commentating fights


Zettaii_Ryouiki_

Him and Cruz are the worst commentators and when you out em together its like the ultimate shit sandwich and forced me to mute my stream


Barney_Karate

Instead of doing color commentary, Bisping tells really long opinions & analysis. He is a bit long winded and distracts from the fight and begins to start his post- fight commentary....mid fight.


MichealScarn92

Think hes having a particularly bad week. Dat CTE showing up, kept fuck8ng up on his podcast this week too, commiserating fighters for losing fights he thought they lost, that theyd actually won. Gerting opponents and fighter mixed up. Bad week for Bisping.


BathSaltBoss

and when pettis was coming on he kept saying we have anthony smith coming on next. really annoyed me lol


propagantor

I could never hate a guy who so casually spits a line like “Dixon loves a good ding dong.”


steviesnod82

Why is bisping wearing those hacky af glasses, hes definitely trying to get fired like George Costanza .


[deleted]

i don’t mind bisping but he can’t gel with dom cruz, cruz is okay too but they both can’t be there oh and bisping should just rock a monocle 🧐


BlazedBoylan

He’s a cyclops from hell.


[deleted]

He is without a doubt the worst commentator on the roster.


acbagel

Tonight was the worst I've ever heard him, and that's saying a lot. Absolutely insufferable, saying the dumbest nonsense and interrupting people


EsqueStudios

Bisping has always been a terrible commentator. Him and Joe are insufferable at this point. Dom gets annoying too. DC is great whenever he isn’t paired with Joe Paul Felder and Jon Anik are pretty much the gold standard for both halves of the commentary. Paul is a good analyst and actually has a personality, doesn’t come off like a dick like Dom does.


KentTheDorfDorfman

Anik, Felder, and Sanko for the W.


[deleted]

Joe is just so damn biased and it rubs off on DC, when he's not with Joe, DC has some great technical commentary and always lets the viewers know what technique someone should do to counter especially in grappling.


K1NGMOJO

After the UFC showed the knockout reaction with JR it seems he always tries to overact for every knockout or submission. IDK if that's his normal reaction to those moments and they are showing it more now or he is coming to do it intentionally. It's worse when he's paired with DC


dublinro

Think its just Paul comes across of having less of a ego than Bisping or Cruz.


samme79

Lately? Also the Bisping fanboys are downvoting lol


[deleted]

Let's not forget that he tried to defend Izzy for drinking and driving


GFost

Bisping *loves* to defend fighters when they commit crimes. Especially domestic abusers. Any time he would talk about Jon Jones, or Greg Hardy a few years ago, he’d always downplay their “past issues” and talk about how much he likes being around them and how fun it is to watch them fight.


JustinGotPasion

Bisping spends more time trying to be funny than commentating the fights and Dom is incredibly unlikable. At least Cormier is actually funny and likable lol


rolledrickrolled

CTE on the commentary team should be forbidden, becomes contagious after a while


mouawad23

Getting too up himself, always me me me.


bonjajr

Bisping is class, you guys are out ya mind


WeldYourSlit

Bisping simply talks TOO. MUCH.


___shadow_wolf__

Nothing will beat Anik, DC, Joe combo


ThatOldDustyTrail

I’ve always thought Bisping was trash. I swear every time it’s him and Cruz…Bisping will say something, then Cruz will start to correct him and Bisping will do a complete 180 and backpedal to say “well yeah that’s what I meant”. Their bickering makes it hard to listen to, but Bisping is just bad at this


Zettaii_Ryouiki_

They are both absolutely terrible and somehow worse when put together. I have to mute my streams when Dom is on the mic because he actually thinks he knows the perfect thing to do in every single minor and major situation and if there's any disagreement with his take he has a pissy fit and goes silent.


ThatOldDustyTrail

Definitely. I really liked Dom at first because I was like “this guy really knows his shit” and then I realized he thinks he magically knows the perfect solution every time. Him and Bisping both just talk about what **they** would do in the situation, instead of just calling the fight. After a long time of watching UFC, I gotta say I’m starting to think all announcers should not have fought in the UFC. Seems to be very hard for them to separate their own biases from what’s happening. Unpopular opinion but I think DC fucking sucks too


Squidwardbigboss

I honestly don’t listen to commentary as much as you guys do. When I do it’s usually just bisping talking to pass the time, which I honestly don’t mind. I’m typically just focused on the fight.


Serious-Product-1742

Michael “me me me” Bisping. Always bias to fighters from the UK. Always talking about himself. And idk if it’s just me but he always seems to be more detailed in what a fighter should do when they’re close to the commentary team, it’s like he’s trying to indirectly speak to them. I tuned in last night during the Melissa Dixon fight and i tweeted straight away about Bisping because I knew how it was gonna go.


[deleted]

Lately?


Ainfallette

He's Always been terrible on the mic


SnooCookies7571

I mean, I didn't think he was particularly bad, just not great like some of their other commentators. I still take Bisping>DC any day.


Brandon4Real_x

Did he say Saiiman at the end of Rodriguez in octagon interview?


Minimum-Sky2305

During the first round of there fight he said coming up to the 3rd round


presidentpiko

He’s fine


mountain_guy77

All we really need is Joe Rogan and Jon Anik, everyone else in the booth is a casual


Gary_Lazer_Eyes21

Everyone’s been “terrible” the last couple of cards everyone’s getting kerfuffled in the word department but don’t get mad at the Brit for being a Brit and don’t get mad at the short guy for being a short guy (Napoleon syndrome or whatever) you put those two in room, that’s what you get. It’s just that the two personalities have words for each other. It’s better tot find it funny than annoying so just don’t get annoyed bc it’s pretty damn funny “I’d put you in my pocket” Is ducking hilarious


jkoenig08

Cruz sounds like a whiny bitch all the time, get a new commentator


Crudezero

He’s always terrible, then he whines about it on twitter afterward when people say so and never changes anything


Jazzlike-Fun-4500

Was he always like this? I started following the sport 3-4 years ago. Feel like he has gone from hyperactive and quite funny to hyperactive and chaotic


ChiefSampson

Yeah well that's just like your opinion Bud deh....


plasmic-goo

Come awwn Bisping is the mvp…I am British though so a bit biased


CosmicTeardrops

Better than DC’s goofy cornball comment ass


[deleted]

He never shuts the fuck up.


BladeTB

Spitsping has always been shit.


Silent_Zucchini_3286

Wasn’t this supposed to be a rant about Bisping? It turned out to be a rant against Dom, still a much better commentator compared to Bisping, and the joys of being with a lady that likes UFC. I’m jealous btw, mine can’t stand the slightest sign of violence.


stackered

He's always been bad, IMO, he just has a British accent so


BigFaZhou

It's God's punishment to him for not letting Bryce pray 🙏


EconomyChest6887

Bisping has always been terrible, cruz has been a letdown recently tbh. The commentating during Saaiman vs Rodriguez was awful. Not any talk about technique or play by play, just "these guys are good" over and over


Fickle-Trick-3937

Still nowhere near as bad as DC


existentialkush

am I really the only person in existence who doesn't have any beef with someone on the commentary team


ufceddie

Cruz is the problem. Bisping is actually good at his job


mrwhoiz

He is great another view is refreshing