Bible_Belt
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Who do you like?
I think it will be a great fight.
I think it will be a great fight.
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
GSP v BJ Penn, UFC 94
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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
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The entire card looks very good. A lot of great match ups.
GSP via RNC 2nd round
GSP via RNC 2nd round
Ken785
Master Don Juan
GSP via brutal GnP.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
so much for 'the prodigy.'
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Ken785
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...told you so.Ken785 said:
funny how in the pre fight shows penn was calling GSP a "b!tch" and a quitter and said that he'll "fight till the death"...
Looks like the rich spoiled Hawaiian's mouth wrote a check his as$ couldn't cash because he got smashed for 4 rounds and QUIT.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
BJ's bjj coach is my instructor's instructor, he may have been one of the ones who threw in the towel tonight. I will ask him next weekend when he is at my own first mma fight.
GSP v Anderson Silva is the next big matchup I want to see. Right now it is between them and Fedor for best pound-for pound fighter in the world.
GSP v Anderson Silva is the next big matchup I want to see. Right now it is between them and Fedor for best pound-for pound fighter in the world.
I never liked Penn, he seems to think he's a lot better than he really is. GSP is a beast though, i want to see him fight Silva.
Watch out for Jon Jones in the future, that kid is only 21 and i think will be holding the belt one day.
Watch out for Jon Jones in the future, that kid is only 21 and i think will be holding the belt one day.
The match was really good I thought and even though I was going for GSP because Penn was talking mad sh1t you gotta give him props he still has a belt so he' still a good fighter.
I thought his brother threw the towel, I think penn wanted to keep going but his brother ended it because he wasnt doing anything.
Jon Jones ..I dont know it shows that he is still a new guy in the sport since he was out of gas at the end of the 2nd and all of the 3rd round, he did have some nice moves(the back elbow) but he has to get more conditioned before he can go after anyone plus the fact that he had a massive reach on the other guy.
Clay always fun to watch...lots of holding though kinda boring.
The good one to watch was ....the fight before gsp's forgot the name of the winner, he was pretty good 14-0.
I thought his brother threw the towel, I think penn wanted to keep going but his brother ended it because he wasnt doing anything.
Jon Jones ..I dont know it shows that he is still a new guy in the sport since he was out of gas at the end of the 2nd and all of the 3rd round, he did have some nice moves(the back elbow) but he has to get more conditioned before he can go after anyone plus the fact that he had a massive reach on the other guy.
Clay always fun to watch...lots of holding though kinda boring.
The good one to watch was ....the fight before gsp's forgot the name of the winner, he was pretty good 14-0.
Ken785
Master Don Juan
Jon Jones has some crazy suplexes but he lacks any type of submission skills. He needs to work on that..then he'll be a good fighter.
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Just starting to get into this myself, but IMO, Penn needs to lose about 5-10 lbs of fat and replace it with muscle. you can be a good fighter but pound for pound muscle is going to help you a lot more than fat will.
Oh yea, and that Jon Jones is a bad ass sum*****. That spinning elbow was AWESOME. He just made the mistake of thinking it was a KO and he lost his window to finish it off right there
Oh yea, and that Jon Jones is a bad ass sum*****. That spinning elbow was AWESOME. He just made the mistake of thinking it was a KO and he lost his window to finish it off right there
Penn was a lightweight champion to begin with who thought he can dominate the best of the welterweight (GSP) by adding 15 lbs to his frame.STR8UP said:
Penn should stick to the lightweight division because adding all that extra weight seriously eroded his skills.
I don't know, Fedor looks pretty chunky at times yet he is pound for pound the best fighter in the world.STR8UP said:
As for other matches in UFC 94, Machida really impressed me, very smart fighter.
speed dawg
Master Don Juan
That guy is going to seriously make some noise. I don't want to go too far out there on a limb, but if I was anybody at the top level of UFC, Machida is not a guy I want to get talked into fighting. He's good. Scratch that, he will be great.DJDamage said:
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
I agree. I think Machida deserves a mention in the nominees for best pound-for-pound mma fighter in the world. Right now that list reads: Fedor, Anderson Silva, GSP and I'd say Machda as well. Despite this beatdown, BJ Penn is still dominant in the lightweight division.
edit: Rashad Evans deserves a mention as well.
edit: Rashad Evans deserves a mention as well.
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
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BJ wanted the 5th round. His corner cut it off. You can see one of his coaches call the doc over and make a throat-slashing motion, after which the doc and the ref call the fight.Ken785 said:
GSP is probably my new favorite fighter. Since his loss to Matt Hughes, it is amazing how much GSP has evolved.
I don't know about Machida being best #4# quite yet. I haven't seen enough of him.
Ken785
Master Don Juan
Well...whoever called it, he surely wasn't quick to protest it...so it is what it is.squirrels said:
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Here is the list of UFC fighters. You could look and see.
http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=fighter.allfighters
From what I am hearing, BJ is about to retire in the next 12-18 months.
http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=fighter.allfighters
From what I am hearing, BJ is about to retire in the next 12-18 months.
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I disagree on Rashad and Machida. They've not gone through and shown the dominance that Fedor, GSP, A. Silva, and Penn have in their respective weight divisions. The latter have effectively cleaned out their divisions.Bible_Belt said:
Rashad would have to beat a couple more fighters while Machida would have to beat several more.
Not to say they couldn't be, just that they've not had the run the others have had.
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.