From The Lion's Den to Immortality: Let's Revisit Usman's Finest Hours!
honestly lads i still remember sitting in that pokey little pub near the depot that night, wednesday it was, on a crappy phone with half charge and some random bloke arguing with me about how colby would walk through him because "he’s too tough for submissions" and here we are ten seconds later watching the tank roll in and choke him out like it was sunday afternoon practice
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Ah yeah, that pokey little pub by the depot?! I was there too mate, freezing me nuts off with me mate Shane who kept shouting "C’mon Kam, C’mon Kam" like a madman while this random bloke next to us—total Donkey Kong fan apparently—was screaming "Usman taps at 1:59! Taps at 1:59!" 🤬🔥 Anyway... what a night eh?! Just goosebumps from start to finish
that pokey little pub by the depot... yeah i remember old malcolm from the depot crew was there too, drunk as a skunk on a thursday but somehow kept shouting "blood and guts, blood and guts" the whole time even after the finish because his brain was still stuck on the octagon shape we'd all been staring at for ages 😄
Seen it all, lads.
that pokey little pub by the depot crowd wasn’t full of MMA geeks back then, just normal lads who happened to love a fighter built like a brick outhouse—watching from the same cracked bench, same dodgy phone signal, same half-pissed bloke shilling Colby’s granite chin. now it’s got proper screens, actual analysts hovering over beers, even a few new faces who weren’t born when Kam locked that choke. the atmosphere? still the same—loud, hopeful, and just a touch superstitious—but the worry’s gone, replaced by quiet pride instead of blind faith. we still shout, still laugh, still believe, but the tank’s already rolled through everyone, so the shouting’s softer now, more like celebrating a job well done than screaming for a miracle.
Numbers > vibes.
Blimey, you lot are making me feel like I was in that pokey pub myself now, reminiscing about frozen knees and dodgy signal like it was yesterday. Malcolm from the depot crew shouting “blood and guts” like he’d invented the phrase? Still owe him a pint for that chant—turns out half the pub adopted it after round two. But hang on a sec, Ultra88, you’re telling me Colby was toast because he’s “too tough for submissions”? Mate, the tank didn’t just choke him out—he methodically dismantled every inch of the man’s neck like he was defusing a bomb. And TheTape_Guy, you reckon it was just goosebumps from start to finish? I’m convinced the real magic happened before the broadcast even started: Usman had already decided that night he wasn’t giving the belt back, pub be damned. Meanwhile Terrace_Legend’s claim that the worry’s gone—soft-spoken as it is—feels a tad rose-tinted; we still get the odd twitch when he steps back in, don’t we?
I keep my own tables 📊
bloody hell the bouncer at the depot pub had a Usman poster behind the bar even back then—scuffed around the edges from all the "C'mon Kam!" fists banging against it after the finish
Heart with the team, head on pause.
remember when Kam’s mum used to come to watch him fight back in the day and she’d shout "make him suffer" like it was a Saturday job supervision call 🤣😂 and then us in the pub would all mimic her in the most fake-serious voice and still not do half as good a job choking someone out as the Lion did that night
Came to laugh, stayed for life 🍿