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Lineal Update #6: 6lineal 6furious
🕑 Added 2024-10-06 23:39:55 +0000 UTCGood evening!
I hope everyone is doing well, or as well as you can be for late on a Sunday night, right before the dread of the approaching Monday morning settles into the pit of your stomach. Fuck.
Anyway! Lineal shenanigans abound this week! I've made a whole heap of progress. Starting with some re-writes of the mid portion of the video. I realized that I had brought Fedor into the story around halfway through, but only given him an actual real, "Fedor Emelianenko was born in in Stary Oskol. and his hobbies were accordion playing and violence, etc etc" kind of proper introduction much later. When I sat back and watched the first hour of the video uninterrupted, it was kinda jarring. Like why are you introducing this dude we talked about 20 minutes ago now? So i basically re-wrote it to give him an intro a bit earlier on, which made discussion of him from there on out flow a lot better.
I also got the story a bit twisted, because Nog, Fedor and Cro cop were all vying for the Pride HW title, and I spent so long discussing the actual title it made the story lose sight of the lineal title, so that needed some re-writing too. But the whole thing flows a lot better now, and overall, I'm a lot happier with how its sounding now.
There's 1 hour 25 minutes of work done. Cro Cop's story is done, Noguiera's story is done, and Fedor has had his beginnings, and the capturing of the lineal title (and the unifying of the pride HW and interim titles). So a lot of ground covered this week!
One thing I'm a bit worried about is re-treading old ground. I already did a segment about Fedor in Pride Part 3, so It's hard to write about the same person, and the same situations twice, without feeling like you're ripping yourself off. Though I did throw in a few nods to the Pride videos, like i used the same music when talking about Fedor as I did in Pride 3, but that's less ripping myself off and just wanting to throw in an easter egg or two for people who've seen the Pride series. As Lineal 3 really and truly is like a Never Die spin off at this point.
I genuinely can't wait to get this one out the door now. The segments I've done for Noguiera v Sapp, Noguiera v Cro Cop, and Fedor v Noguiera are genuinely some of my favourite things I've done, ever. And again I have to give a shout out to LCQP for the music, as I basically text him this weekend like "yooo you know that piece you wrote thats like DUN DUN DUN, how about if it went DUN DUN BAM TISH" and he was like I got you fam even though its doubtful that he did get me as I wasn't making any sense and he still managed to make a piece of music that blew my god damn mind and fit the Fedor v Nog scene perfectly. Like I want to just upload that segment right now because I love it so much.
All this is to say, that I think this will be done and ready maybe next week. I may have to hold back some Fedor stuff for the inevitable part 4 at this point though, as there's just too much to his career to cram it all into the end of this video without it taking another 4 weeks. I really overspent the time budget on Cro Cop, but fuck it, it is what it is. Just means more to talk about in Part 4.
Anyway! Quick thoughts on UFC 307:
The UFC is using Periera like a fucking limit break. Whenever a card is in danger of being complete trash, they just activate Periera to save it. If he hadn't been in the main event i think 307 might actually have been the worst card of the year.
I've been a fan of Khalil since he was on TUF, so seeing him get a standing ovation for his performance, and seeing his stock go through the roof even after a loss was magic. Great performance from both he and Alex. But god damn I almost got sick in my mouth seeing that streak of blood booger come out of Khalil's nose in the post fight interview 🤢
Everything else on the card was, eh, not great. Harrison seemed to struggle a bit with Viera, that dude who beat Aldo should get cut for that performance, and I'm sorry, you all know I have no problem with watching women's MMA but god i just couldn't force myself to sit through another Raquel Pennington fight, so I skipped to the end of that. Maybe it was a barnburner, but I guess I'll just remain content to never know.
Okay that's it for now! Catch you next week for hopefully the final update before launch!
Comments
The Internet's #1 Herbert Hoover Stan
I don't think you should worry too much about repeating yourself. This is history, and a big part of studying history is returning to familiar events and seeing them recounted from a different angle. The people who are interested in history already know this is going in, and aren't bothered by it. Imagine a guy finishing a general history of WWII, and then he starts reading a biography of FDR. Then he gets to to 1941 and says "What!? World War II again!? Boring!"
Rykers Red Shirt
Didn't read this update because I knew you'd talk about 307 and I hadn't been able to watch yet 🫢 now I have and I can agree. Rowntree Jr had me in awe that he took so many powerful hits. His face was mush. But man does he have a lot of heart. To the video, I cannot wait. Looking forward to more Cro Cop, LCQP and some more classic classic quotable metaphors from you.
Napoleon
lol Pena vs Harrison should be fun
Napoleon
you mean.. DA CRAZY HAWAIIAN?!? Yeah hes good, but im more of a fan of dumpling, pudding, flimflam and the crazy world of Arthur Brown. All great slappers
Machine in the Monkey
Poatan seems to be the go too man at the moment, apart from that behemoth Hawaiian dude on the biggest sport in the observable universe…SLAPIDO 🤪. Look forward to your next post mate 🤙
GSPs Alien Abductor
The Peña vs Pennington fight was slightly better than I expected. Raquel should’ve won that fight imo. Peña calling out Amanda while they show Kayla in the back was hilarious. She tried tho 😂
Napoleon
Cheers dude!!
Napoleon
Poor Khalils face got it even worse than his liver in the end.. 😫
Napoleon
I know, right?? 😂😂
Chris Smith
Yeah ...that was a great fight from both opponents 👊👊👊 looking forward to your next video!
Frederick Doyon
Rip yourself up as much as you can endure lol. I relisten your video pretty often anyway. I knew Khalil's striking was elite but his heart?! Dude wouldn't go down until Alex made him remember that owning a liver kind of suck sometimes! Both are warriors and I'm happy for both of them. Can't wait to watch your next vid!
Brendan Ridley
You are going so fast. It felt like yesterday we had update #5! Godspeed, my son.
