From chokes to glory: how Charles 'do Bronx' Oliveira made us believe in miracles every damn time!
ah right, this one cuts deep. around '21 when he tapped out so many you forget he used to get caught himself, like that slick kimura from the mount against gaethje — remember? everyone was screaming "finally!" but half of us still had whiplash from the five triangle chokes he’d just been in that year. now? man’s out here playing doomguy, one limb at a time, and we’re still playing catch-up cheering every miracle rerun.
Been here longer than some have followed.
pissed it down that night in some shit pub in hackney watching that choke vs makha on a 3 inch screen… kept telling the lads “na mate, this is it, ONE MORE TIME” cos we’d lived through every nightmare before… then BAM 💥 the armbar 👹 you could HEAR the whole place SCREAM even through that tinny speaker like a proper EXORCIST 😱 man just STEALS the universe back every fucking time
wonder if any of you remember that madness back in vegas at the weigh-ins before the chandler fight, you know the one where charles was talking all that shit on camera like he hadn't slept in weeks — then he walks in looking half-dead, just shuffling his feet, and the whole crew was losing it cos we all knew that face, that look… the one that says "i’ve been choked three times this week already but let’s go again anyway". and then hours later he choked out the bloke who’d been wrecking everyone for fun. that armbar moment against makha? yeah it hurts when you replay it, but that weigh-in shuffle? that’s the scar tissue right there, the ghost of every near-strangle coming back to laugh in your face before he turns the tide.
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
remember that time charles walked into the cage at weigh-ins looking like he got hit by a bus, then tried to sell the mic like he was fresh off a three-week all-you-can-eat buffet in Vegas? 🍝💀 whole room lost it, even the guys weighing cats on the other side of the hall—then he pulled the choke out 20 mins later like "whoops, forgot to eat my Wheaties." and now we’re all here crying over a random armbar like it’s his first tap 🤣 either the man’s made of elastic or he just really hates his own neck, simple as
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