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Post by K1power on Jan 29, 2018 19:37:28 GMT 1
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Post by dvewlsh on Jan 30, 2018 1:21:13 GMT 1
They actually replied to me! Go figure. I've tried a bunch of times in the past, too.
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Post by themagi on Feb 7, 2018 14:39:27 GMT 1
Begins in twenty-ish minutes from the time of this post.
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Post by K1power on Feb 7, 2018 19:36:06 GMT 1
I'm watching it now and whoever decided it was a good idea to have a live English voiceover translation should be shot.
Just let everyone not speaking Dutch suck it up for a few minutes and post a subbed version afterward, jeez.
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Post by K1power on Feb 7, 2018 19:59:19 GMT 1
So I've just watched it and aside from being irritated by the live voiceover translation, I didn't hate it. It appears to me that Badr has a lot more respect for Hesdy than he does Rico.
Badr: "I bet Rico's watching. He's watching TV all the time, even when he isn't on it!"
LMAO! I really don't like Badr, but that's a good one.
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Post by Shadess on Feb 7, 2018 20:03:10 GMT 1
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Post by K1power on Feb 7, 2018 20:27:42 GMT 1
To be fair it got slightly less awful as it progressed and someone found the volume controls, but to be honest I rarely think it's a good idea to tackle it this way.
Especially early on it was a jumbled mess and very often you end up with shortcuts and mistranslations, because the interpreter is being rushed.
Also, I prefer to hear the actual voices of whoever is speaking, regardless of my ability to understand te language.
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Post by samurai1 on Feb 7, 2018 20:37:00 GMT 1
So I've just watched it and aside from being irritated by the live voiceover translation, I didn't hate it. It appears to me that Badr has a lot more respect for Hesdy than he does Rico. Badr: "I bet Rico's watching. He's watching TV all the time, even when he isn't on it!" LMAO! I really don't like Badr, but that's a good one. Rico talked a lot of shit about hari for more than a year before their first fight... I guess this is why badr doesn't like him. Also Hesdy appears to be less obnoxious than Rico. There aren't many fighters that like Rico. Tyrone Spong doesn't like him, Saki doesn't like him, Jamal doesn't like him, Daniel Ghita doesn't like him, Artem Vakhitov doesn't like him. Also Raul Catinas trained with him many years ago and said that Rico is arrogant. |
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Post by dvewlsh on Feb 8, 2018 0:52:13 GMT 1
Ugh, yeah, just do subtitles, c'mon.
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Post by themagi on Feb 8, 2018 12:25:33 GMT 1
I was amazed at how svelte Hari was. He weighed in at a shade over 265 for Verhoeven but if he was anything over 230 here I'll be surprised. He's certainly lost a lot of weight and with less than a month until fight time, I'm sure he'll "find" at least some of it again.
Is the De Telegraaf covering/sponsoring this show anything of note? Their UK counterpart, the cunningly titled Daily Telegraph, is the only newspaper within it's shores that has wrote the word "kickboxing" within it's pages and it being in a positive light.
Finally, if a Kodiak bear could talk it would most definitely have the voice of Hesdy Gerges.
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Post by samurai1 on Feb 8, 2018 14:18:08 GMT 1
I was amazed at how svelte Hari was. He weighed in at a shade over 265 for Verhoeven but if he was anything over 230 here I'll be surprised. He's certainly lost a lot of weight and with less than a month until fight time, I'm sure he'll "find" at least some of it again. Is the De Telegraaf covering/sponsoring this show anything of note? Their UK counterpart, the cunningly titled Daily Telegraph, is the only newspaper within it's shores that has wrote the word "kickboxing" within it's pages and it being in a positive light. Finally, if a Kodiak bear could talk it would most definitely have the voice of Hesdy Gerges. he said at the press that he lost weight because he wants to fight again explosive like he did in k-1. |
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Post by themagi on Feb 9, 2018 12:34:44 GMT 1
I was amazed at how svelte Hari was. He weighed in at a shade over 265 for Verhoeven but if he was anything over 230 here I'll be surprised. He's certainly lost a lot of weight and with less than a month until fight time, I'm sure he'll "find" at least some of it again. Is the De Telegraaf covering/sponsoring this show anything of note? Their UK counterpart, the cunningly titled Daily Telegraph, is the only newspaper within it's shores that has wrote the word "kickboxing" within it's pages and it being in a positive light. Finally, if a Kodiak bear could talk it would most definitely have the voice of Hesdy Gerges. he said at the press that he lost weight because he wants to fight again explosive like he did in k-1. I heard him mention that and that he also apparently has a new team with the exception of Mike Passenier. But without the added extra mass and the fact that he isn't 22 anymore he turns in performances akin to Samedov III when he's less inflated. |
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Post by fartsmeller on Feb 9, 2018 12:39:43 GMT 1
Probably hard to pay for the top shelf stuff and the extra 90000 calories a day it requires without a win bonus too
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Post by samurai1 on Feb 9, 2018 15:57:22 GMT 1
he said at the press that he lost weight because he wants to fight again explosive like he did in k-1. I heard him mention that and that he also apparently has a new team with the exception of Mike Passenier. But without the added extra mass and the fact that he isn't 22 anymore he turns in performances akin to Samedov III when he's less inflated. well when he fought samedov in his third fight he only trained for two weeks due to an injury at his leg that he sustained in the k-1 tournament. 5 weeks before his third fight with samedov he was still walking in a crutch. Couple that with having only 4 months since he was released from prison and also him being off the juice as his body looked horrbile, it is no surprised he didn't do well against samedov. For comparison, he only had 3 weeks of training for londt and was only 1 month removed from ramadan, pretty much everyone thought he will get destroyed under those circumstances, yet other than two moments in the second round, he totally outclassed londt for 95% of the fight and also dropped him 4 times. Now that he doesn't come out of ramadan and has a 2 month training champ, I'm confident that he should do well against gerges, who also is no easy task as some people believe. Gerges is a hard fight for everyone. I personally think it will end in a decision, with badr staying on the outside using jabs and straight body punches and footwork. Gerges will come forward. |
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Post by themagi on Feb 10, 2018 3:13:08 GMT 1
I heard him mention that and that he also apparently has a new team with the exception of Mike Passenier. But without the added extra mass and the fact that he isn't 22 anymore he turns in performances akin to Samedov III when he's less inflated. well when he fought samedov in his third fight he only trained for two weeks due to an injury at his leg that he sustained in the k-1 tournament. 5 weeks before his third fight with samedov he was still walking in a crutch. Couple that with having only 4 months since he was released from prison and also him being off the juice as his body looked horrbile, it is no surprised he didn't do well against samedov. For comparison, he only had 3 weeks of training for londt and was only 1 month removed from ramadan, pretty much everyone thought he will get destroyed under those circumstances, yet other than two moments in the second round, he totally outclassed londt for 95% of the fight and also dropped him 4 times. Now that he doesn't come out of ramadan and has a 2 month training champ, I'm confident that he should do well against gerges, who also is no easy task as some people believe. Gerges is a hard fight for everyone. I personally think it will end in a decision, with badr staying on the outside using jabs and straight body punches and footwork. Gerges will come forward. I certainly would have called it a surprise that he lost to Samedov third time out. Check out the mass of humanity that leapt into the ring after the fight to celebrate with Zabit. They were almost delirious. I recall there were mitigating circumstances on the night of their second match, at the now infamous 2013 K-1 WGP Final in Zagreb. Photographs were circulated of an injury and word of Hari pulling out after his quarter final regardless were rampant even before the first bell rang for said rematch. I don't recall noticing that Hari was favouring his foot in the third bout, not that it's indication at all that he was or wasn't competing injured and even if he was then it was his decision to take a bout with an opponent a handful of weeks after beating him previously, and for a second time to boot. Samedov took it to him and Badr couldn't handle it and didn't want any more was my assessment of their contest at LEGEND. Four months is more than ample time for a pro fighter to get into some kind of shape, if they have any designs on continuing their career at some point in the near future, IMHO, if their application is diligent, dedicated and honest. Those are three key words in the Hari conversation. If Hari choses to compete during or just after Ramadan, that is his decision and I chose to respect that, just as I would if he decided not to compete, in that I don't think it should be used as a reason for a loss or poor performance. Was Londt the favourite going into the Hari fight? I can't recall that for the life of me and nor do I remember Hari's observing of Ramadan coming up in the run-up to the fight. |
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