Phil Mackenzie

London, UK. Formerly Bloody Elbow, co-host of Heavy Hands

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

don't think he's wrong, but him and Gane are such comically different fighters that the advice is essentially pointless. it'd be like, idk, John Lineker telling Machida to pressure and beat his opponent up until he folds. Sure!

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

Artem Vakhitov, the last man to beat Alex Pereira in kickboxing, gave Ciryl Gane a breakdown on how to beat Poatan 👀

"Everyone's scared, you don't need to be scared... [Alex has] minimal technique, but very effective strikes. His weakness is his openness. He has very strong attack, but his defense suffers.

Many opponents lose mentally in the fight, because they enter already afraid of him. You need to go forward and be aggressive, then [Alex] starts to get lost.

The fight will end early. Ciryl will finish the job."

(via @ufc)

[Jack Slack @JackSlackMMA]

Everyone is scouting for massive guys and trying to teach them to fight. The secret is to find someone who can already fight, and has an eating disorder

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

We lost so many good men as a result of what were, in retrospect, preventable blunders in strategy and training

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

A thread of my favorite takes from the No Phones At Concerts discourse:

"Asking people not to be on phones is classist"

[caposa @Grabaka_Hitman]

John Lineker is the Liga Monstro Combate boxing champion of the world.

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

what a headscratcher of an event. belal spends the fight skirting the cage, mitchell wins off sweeps into empty top control, ziam gets outwrestled(??), allen decides to outkickbox shahbazyan etc etc

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

lmao

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

@AryaTayebi @PezzimanFGC I think it was banned to loop it full stop but people just did 3,1,1, 1212 for like 90%. I'm not quite sure the one in the vid is guaranteed tho? 311 isn't NC till ttt2 so you need a sweet spot (it knocks down if fully in the back, is blockable if you're not to the side enough)

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

@dmarty77 I mean it's still a combo heavy hack n slash action game with puzzles, just has an extremely thick layer of triple A "polish" on top of it.

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

haven't played a god of war since, like, the first one, but am trying to think of a long running franchise which has remained in broadly the same genre while also becoming this utterly unrecognizable in terms of iconography, design, tone etc

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

God of War Laufey is the next mainline chapter in Santa Monica Studio's series.

First gameplay and story details of the newly announced PS5 action adventure: https://t.co/VTg1O9UNYX

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

@wordup05 maybe the best possible answer lol

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

STOP saying “badger.” They’re called that cause they have little badges on their heads, and “badge” is from French. Their native English name would be “thax.”

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Amazing kicker in the NYT’s list of the 100 Best Restaurants in NYC @ligayamishan

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Six years ago today, the most important piece of pandemic-era journalism was published.

[Flora Williamson @Flo_williamson]

We’ve reached peak Guardian blog

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

@Tanthiram @RyanAWagMMA Maybe it puts everyone on the left by default?! One of the many modern conspiracies which radicalised sriram and turned him into Basically Hitler

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

Dang it I missed the juicy centrist bullseye. That sucks. Or maybe it doesn't. Maybe its good. Maybe there is no good and bad.

[caposa @Grabaka_Hitman]

There's something very unsettling about Wanderlei Silva with hair