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The United States is a Religious Freedom-focused country. Some choose to exercise that via christianity. But let’s not conflate a collection of individual choices with the structural intent of the country. I heard a story about this guy, he walked into a bagel shop, ordered an onion bagel with extra strawberry cream cheese. He sits down and starts yelling at all the customers who come in “This is an Onion Bagel and Strawberry Cream Cheese Shop!” while sitting in front of 30 racks of different bagels and 20 flavors of cream cheese. Some people really want to make it their business what sorts of bagels other people eat. But it never will be. Just let people eat their bagels in peace. Everyone is staring down a long work day and a crappy commute, the bagel just helps make it a bit better.

Our boy Mo(hammad) also has some pretty good international market coverage.

DMX did it first

Too busy being overwhelmed by the tidal waves of success that HWC had at trials this weekend. How can you have success if you don’t even enter people?

Because the freestyle ruleset is intentionally created to give maximum interpretive power to the officials, which equals open doors for financially incentivized shenanigans. Half of the referees would have scored it the other way. This is where the freestyle ruleset blows, it’s thoroughly subjective.

Unrelated to anything in this thread, every time I have read this thread title my brain has said "Nothing you idiots Uncle Chael's dead he's locked in my basement". I feel like Uncle Chael would enjoy some Eminem.

And dang, watching that video really makes me miss the Rob Kohl Cornell days. Another example of I wish I appreciated it more while it was happening.

I always have to catch myself on Flo. They are annoying with content control, but my god they are AMAZING artists when it comes to telling athletes' stories. The best part is how they get people comfortable enough with opening up about their realest, deepest realities.

To be clear, I was talking about the prevalence of unwelcome sexual advances, not sexual orientation. Consenting adults should be allowed to be gay for jesus.

I’m really enjoying all the people here pretending that christianity has a positive squeaky clean history forgetting that bible thumpers having skeletons in their closet is the norm rather than the exception. If any individual needs so much jesus in their life that it’s coming out of your eyeballs, historical and institutional trends ***coughcatholicpriestscough*** show that that individuals closet is full to the brim with skeletons, some of which are still very much alive and kicking. But, that…is the actual point of religion, redemption of the imperfect and compassion instead of judgement, embracing the possibility of the future instead of holding onto anger and contempt for mistakes of the past.

I don’t want to appreciate this, but I do

The only reason we’re hearing about this is that somebody neglected to show up with a greenback handshake. OR…this was the longest of long cons from the buckeyes.

Great question, no idea, did it? I was (potentially incorrectly) under the assumption that sweeping that under the rug was what killed ASU funding by driving away their biggest donor. Those in the know, if I am spouting horsesh*t, please correct me.

I really gotta call shenanigans, snyder gets flagged but nothing happened against Park Merry(intentional misspelling), wtf… First, how does this in anyway relate to his competing as an athlete? He wasn’t paying another athlete… Do athletes get immediately flagged when they break other laws? No, that doesn’t happen… Either this is a much bigger can of worms here, or I am left to call capricious shenanigans on safesport.

Random moral grandstanding, and obvious implications of the evil of human trafficking aside, it’s really not our place to impeach a man for something that is as common as the day is long. We don’t know what sort of understandings they do or don’t have in their relationship, that’s up to them. Happy relationships come in all shapes and sizes. Could it potentially be very sh1tty? Yes. In ten years time could we also be look back and say that this was as dumb as the way weed used to be prosecuted the same as heroin? Also possible. You each have your own opinions, but great athletes tend to be rather selfish. This falls in line perfectly with that. He is a jordan kobe woods level athlete, I expect equal levels of borderline sociopathy live in his brain somewhere too.

I have no dog in this discussion, but we have to address variables where they exist. Cops are, as we have seen all too often, oftentimes beholden to a locally dictated agenda set by institutional and leadership/management goals. Each institution of local law enforcement is beholden to the whims of the local decision makers. There are good ones, greedy ones, lazy ones, amazing ones, and corrupt ones, but we have no idea what local politics are regarding policing or this particular “sting”. Unless anybody can get the police chief on the horn. If he’s hiding on this board that would be tremendous.

I have never seen a better description of this board anywhere ever.

Short of mind reading jedi powers, how can you make an assertion like that?

Phrasing...

Create a burner account and let the people know what you heard

Bruce Baumgartner never gets taken seriously in the GOAT conversation, I think he wins this hands down.

There’s an MMA forum for all these questions.

What I learned in this thread, not all wrestling fans know things about mma.

You believe this to be true... More like NAIA

I was using a bit of hyperbole to reference the unique type of skill that wrestling gives to athletes. Since the cormier henderson reference went over your head, I’d recommend watching mma archives a little more extensively. The impact of wrestling is immediately obvious in fighters that choose to use it, and it’s not because of shape alone. The assertion that they “just get in good shape” is massively reductionist, and looking at the current lineup of champions, we can also say is simply inaccurate. Wrestling-based styles are as dominant now as they were in the early 2000’s. Sure wrestlers know how to work hard, but they also know how to control and dictate pace in a way that other technique sets cannot accomplish.