I know RED's going to love this one. Share your thoughts.
thefranchise said:Yea, it was pretty good. Trigg vs Hughes was the best. Liddel needs to stop thumbing people in the eye. I dont think Silva has good thumb defense, so Lidel will probably beat him. BigJoe seems to know a good bit about MMA so he'll prob be pissed at me for that statement. The Pride GP saturday is gonna blow UFC52 away
REDZULU2003 said:I'll have to watch it again in a few weeks when its repeated here in the UK, the fights I missed etc.
This pride event, well sadly here in the UK we dont get it on TV so I might have to buy the [words=http://www.mattersofsize.com/mosdvd.htm]DVD[/words].
Seen some Pride at a freinds house, and its deffo on par with UFC.
Super Brawl should be having its main shows about now, the hawai event.
Did Lee Murray fight at UFC52?
dman81 said:I went to Vegas this past Saturday and boy although I had the cheapest seats on the house, these fights are amazing! What a shame Randy lost, I was rooting for him and within like 2 minutes and some was knocked out. I was like "WTF"?
I've been a huge fan of the UFC since the first one. I think i've seen just about all of them too.penguinsfan said:Whoa sikdogg! I alway knew you were cool and I'll buy you a beer if I ever make to to SoCal again, but I had no idea you were a MMA fan as well. I agree with most everything you said, but Randy still lost and has little to blame on anyone else. As I said, to beat Chuck at stand-up twice is a huge feat and no one made Randy stand. It just seems as if some of these guys have something to prove in this area. Randy wanted to prove he could beat Chuck at striking and it burned him this time.
In Tito's case, he just isn't as good as he thinks he is... he never was. Most of the guys he beat were has beens or guys that just weren't that strong. He got rocked a couple of times when he fought that old has been Ken Shamrock (who's a legend in his own mind) and was barely able to hold his own aginst Shamrock standing. What made him think he could stand against Liddel. I'm not a huge Liddel fan, but i gotta say that Liddel gets things done. I guy like Tito will never be able to take the title away from Liddel or Couture until he develops more depth in this fighting repertoire.Tito Ortiz may have made more of a fight with Chuck too, had he played his natural game instead of "proving" he could stand with Chuck. I don't understand the mentality. You and I can stand with Chuck, it's just a matter of for how long. Chuck would probably knock me out within 10 seconds. Tito managed a couple of minutes. So what? He still ended up with his ass kicked.
Yea that's true but you never know how it turns out in the end... i thought that Hughes was gonna be suBathmateitted by Trigg but was able to turn it around and suBathmateitted Trigg almost exactly like the first fight. I've been in the fight game for a long time and have gotten my eyes poked and gotten kicked in the nutsack more than once, and let me tell you getting kicked in the sack doesn't affect you nearly as bad as a poke in the eye. Getting a thumb in you eye is tough to overcome cuz your eye will water for at least the next 10 minutes and until it stops, you're not gonna be able to see much on that side.As for Randy and the eye, several seconds before Chuck nailed Randy with the knockout shot I noticed Randy looked disoriented and I knew he was in trouble. I really thought it looked more like he was stunned than he had vision problems. Either way, I knew he was getting knocked out.
sikdogg said:In Tito's case, he just isn't as good as he thinks he is... he never was. Most of the guys he beat were has beens or guys that just weren't that strong. He got rocked a couple of times when he fought that old has been Ken Shamrock (who's a legend in his own mind) and was barely able to hold his own aginst Shamrock standing. What made him think he could stand against Liddel. I'm not a huge Liddel fan, but i gotta say that Liddel gets things done. I guy like Tito will never be able to take the title away from Liddel or Couture until he develops more depth in this fighting repertoire.
Hmmm... i must be thinking of a different fight then. I could have sworn that Frank Stomped Tito. I'm gonna have to look for the old tapes now...bIgjOe said:I think you may be mixing up Frank Shamrock's fight with Tito with, well almost everyone else he fought in the UFC. Tito and Frank's fight was a war, and still one of the best to date. Not that i'm even a Tito fan, I was definitely rooting for Frank, but it bears correcting IMHO with all due respect.
Yea i did some part-time bouncing about 10 years ago. Mostly at a nasty rundown punk club. I hate those fuckers... they were always spitting and talking shit.Sikdogg, was it you who said before you were a bouncer? I can't quite remember but I thought so.
sikdogg said:Hmmm... i must be thinking of a different fight then. I could have sworn that Frank Stomped Tito. I'm gonna have to look for the old tapes now...
Yea i did some part-time bouncing about 10 years ago. Mostly at a nasty rundown punk club. I hate those fuckers... they were always spitting and talking shit.
Yea Silva has definitely been dominating in Pride. I hope the UFC and Pride come to terms with a unification fight.
sikdogg said:If Silva and Couture ever fight, i would sell my mom to be there in person.
sikdogg said:I have alot of respect for Royce and how he changed the way people fight in the UFC. I trained with on of his students and know how technical he is but the fact is he's lost his last few matches. The worst part is that the guys he lost to weren't considered cream of the crop and that he fought them under BJJ style rules. The pure BJJ fighter just isn't competitive these days against the Matt Hughes, Couture's, and Silva's of the world. He just doesn't have the striking skills necessary to be competitive agains a good ground and pound fighter.
Yea but after the Sakuraba fight he got choked out by a BJJ fighter in a BJJ match. It wasn't even an MMA fight I don't remember his name right now but i'll look it up.chainandballer said:i didn't see him lose, i mean tapout
i saw refs prematurely step in, like the Sakuraba fight...
sikdogg said:Yea Wallid was the one i was talking about...
Roy jones got beat by a younger and better fighter, Wallid was never that great and still isn't... he simply beat royce at his own game and choked him out.
That all said, i'm not trying to take away anything from Royce. He has certainly changed the way people fight and brought BJJ to the public. I was just saying that the edge he once had against his opponents is long gone. Most good fighters today are well versed in groundfighting and it is 10 times as hard for a pure BJJ fighter to win the UFC and other MMA contests.
REDZULU2003 said:Rant number 2 lol
Fights to see[wish list]: Would love to see Rizzo VS Trillagman for the 3rd time...end it ONCE and FOR ALL.
Rizzo VS Arlovski, now Arlovksi is another of my fav fighters and I seen him fight back in his Russian days from old footage and he has improved alot.
Now I reckon he would beat Rizzo and what a match it would be.
Josh Barnett [SO UNDERATED its unreal] first UFC fighter to beat Couture and he did it with fashion, the guy fought one hell of a fight with Rizzo and he got KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT, wow what a KO.
Anyway, me love to see him fight Couture again.
Mercado for Brazil Vale Tudo fight Robbie Lawler so he could kill the mouthy twat lol
I saw a fight with Mercado in, and he smashed the guy that hard, the teeth..well some teeth came out and blood went everywhere.
Over in Brazil they are alittle slow in getting them off KO oponents so he had some extras...I might have spealt his name wrong, but hes a BRILLIANT fighter and I reckon he would make superb action in the UFC if he went that direction.
Jose 'pele' Landi VS Jorge Patino rematch...fuckin hell they HATE eachother and make good fights.
Hey I have a larger list lol but these are the ones I would love to see now.
Also Hermes Franca rematch with Yves Edwards....Franca will win.
REDZULU2003 said:Rant number 2 lol
Fights to see[wish list]: Would love to see Rizzo VS Trillagman for the 3rd time...end it ONCE and FOR ALL.
Rizzo VS Arlovski, now Arlovksi is another of my fav fighters and I seen him fight back in his Russian days from old footage and he has improved alot.
Now I reckon he would beat Rizzo and what a match it would be.
Josh Barnett [SO UNDERATED its unreal] first UFC fighter to beat Couture and he did it with fashion, the guy fought one hell of a fight with Rizzo and he got KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT, wow what a KO.
Anyway, me love to see him fight Couture again.
Mercado for Brazil Vale Tudo fight Robbie Lawler so he could kill the mouthy twat lol
I saw a fight with Mercado in, and he smashed the guy that hard, the teeth..well some teeth came out and blood went everywhere.
Over in Brazil they are alittle slow in getting them off KO oponents so he had some extras...I might have spealt his name wrong, but hes a BRILLIANT fighter and I reckon he would make superb action in the UFC if he went that direction.
Jose 'pele' Landi VS Jorge Patino rematch...fuckin hell they HATE eachother and make good fights.
Hey I have a larger list lol but these are the ones I would love to see now.
Also Hermes Franca rematch with Yves Edwards....Franca will win.
chainandballer said:I would love to see Chainandballer vs. Ancientchina in a MMA, Mattersofsize Main Event
I would love to crush that little Biatch
We got any promoters or event organizers here ?
penguinsfan said:Yves is a little badass. Can knee like a motherfucker.