parrotbeak
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MMA |OT2| - Thread of Athletes, Fighters, Personalities, and Sports Entertainment
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150/each. i was tempted to get the cage side seats for 250 but didn't want to spend the extra money. i want to save my cageside experience for a vegas card.
parrotbeak
Member
Wow, that's cheap. i think i would have gone with cage side for 250. Aren't Vegas cage sides closer to 1k?
live Q&A with Ebertroll
http://blog.chron.com/fighting/2011...-with-brian-ebersole-thursday-at-1030-a-m-ct/
http://blog.chron.com/fighting/2011...-with-brian-ebersole-thursday-at-1030-a-m-ct/
This will be so awesome, but what happens if Munoz wins? I mean yeah... IF... I mean I know he'll fight Silva, but it's like they've already conceded he's going to lose to Sonnen anyway.
Munoz hasn't done a very good job of adapting his wrestling to MMA.
he's improving with every fight and the way he wrestled and pounded on leben i think we can lay that myth to rest.
honestly, where did that come from? munoz's loss to hamill via head kick? from what i've seen, munoz can take anybody down, he just chooses to viciously ground and pound rather than smoother and lay and pray like most "mma wrestlers."
sazabirules
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Host Samurai
Member
If Sonnen looses to Munoz it will be sheer travesty. I would have zero desire to ever see Silva/Munoz. Its just as boring and pointless as Silva/Bisping. If Munoz wins than they should just give Vitor another shot.
TheKaeptain
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DKehoe
Member
1. Started watching at UFC 99.
2. Chael, Nick, Anderson, Sakuraba (what I've seen on him anyway, would love more recommendations of his best stuff to watch), Fedor
3 Brock, GSP, third one I'm less sure about but will go with Chael because it would be pretty funny.
4. To answer genuinely (otherwise Mark Hunt of course) I think the pace at which MMA has evolved means its unfair to compare guys who are of different eras. Things have changed too much.
Sien916 for poster of the year, sure. Heel916 has exposed us to too much bad mma to be considered.
last time i went to vegas for a ufc event it was Randy/Gonzaga with GSP/Kos 1 as the co-main. i think cage side tickets then were like 500, but i'm not sure what the going rate is 5 years later.
Maklershed
Member
For 129 Jones vs Shogun it was $650 or so. Glad I sat where I did though (near the bar in the first level of risers above the floor) because a ton of fighters were sitting in the same section.
Hahaha...I call it the NeoGAF slap. Remember guys, it's the post you don't throw that never lands.
parrotbeak
Member
Every question that isn't asked by Ariel and maybe Karyn Bryant.
Bah, you might as well include Showdown Joe, he's a cool guy.
parrotbeak
Member
I have a dumb question too. Why are the Nogs, what maybe 20-30 lbs different if they are identical? Their frames look different. Is it cuz one got fed more as a kid?
Fighter of the Year Korean Zombie
Fight of the Year Korean Zombie/Garcia 2
Knockout of the Year Hendo/Fedor
Submission of the Year Zombie/Garcia 2 Twister
Event (Card of the Year) of the Year When Machida beats Bones Jones this saturday
Promo of the Year Chael Sonnen all of them
MMA-GAF poster of the Year Ninja Scooter
Tomato-Can of the Year Fedor
BigJonsson
Member
They are wearing suits.........except Dana and Rogerio lol
I bought a Tapout hoodie on sale.......and at the cash they told me since it was clearance I could get something else on clearance for free
Yea yea
I bought a Tapout hoodie on sale.......and at the cash they told me since it was clearance I could get something else on clearance for free
Yea yea
parrotbeak
Member
I was going to include him in my list but man, his later fights are so ridiculous. I haven't bothered to watch any of the recent ones. He's on my list of most likely to die in ring some day.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
parrotbeak
Member
Only Rampage's Wand beatdowns were better. Also the Gracie fights were fun because you knew they wouldn't tap and someone would likely dislocate or break an arm.
Maybe if you had no context. Sakuraba destroying the Gracie aura was historic though.
sazabirules
Unconfirmed Member
Who is the old guy he shook hands with after Royce threw the towel? Hélio?
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
All it does is prove how pathetic MMA was back then. Like Basketball in the 1950's.
sazabirules
Unconfirmed Member
How was it pathetic? I can pick any number of main card fights from the UFC and call them pathetic. The HW fights from UFC 135 are a good example.
Yep. That vale tudo article will give you great context on that moment. It covers the history of the Gracie lineage.
Sakuraba in that video would be a Top 3 WW/MW in the UFC.
Truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efvqNzBROLo
sazabirules
Unconfirmed Member
I really like the article so far. I'm about a third of the way through.
Maklershed
Member
A lot of gentlemanly bounce passing and lay ups?
I read the entirety of that article and it wasn't disappointing. I was especially in the dark about anything the Gracies did pre-UFC. A good read.
TheNatural
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My MMA of year award ballot for 2011 (officially sponsored by Ninja Scooter):
Lost in the past award
Your nominees are:
A) Sakuraba
B) Shamrock (brother wombo combo)
C) People who talk about a fighter who hasn't had a good win in 7 years
Butthurt of the year award
A) "Can't wait until Shogun shows that snitch Jones what PRIDE is all about!"
B) "Can't wait until Rampage puts Jones in the hospital!"
C) "Jones is going lose so hard to Machida!"
D) "That's it, fuck you Jones, at least your special night got ruined again."
Fighting age question of the year
In Russian can years, how much older is is a 34 year old Russian over a 40 year old American?
A) 7 dog years to 1 human years, so 238-40 = 198 years older
B) 2 career quality wins times age = 68-40= 28 years older
C) LOL question is irrelevant, everyone knows fighters prime age is 23, afterwards downhill
Fighter of the year award
A) Fabricio Werdum
B) "El Gigante" Big Foot silva
C) Dan Henderson
Wild Card) Top 10 Heavyweight Mark Hunt
Lost in the past award
Your nominees are:
A) Sakuraba
B) Shamrock (brother wombo combo)
C) People who talk about a fighter who hasn't had a good win in 7 years
Butthurt of the year award
A) "Can't wait until Shogun shows that snitch Jones what PRIDE is all about!"
B) "Can't wait until Rampage puts Jones in the hospital!"
C) "Jones is going lose so hard to Machida!"
D) "That's it, fuck you Jones, at least your special night got ruined again."
Fighting age question of the year
In Russian can years, how much older is is a 34 year old Russian over a 40 year old American?
A) 7 dog years to 1 human years, so 238-40 = 198 years older
B) 2 career quality wins times age = 68-40= 28 years older
C) LOL question is irrelevant, everyone knows fighters prime age is 23, afterwards downhill
Fighter of the year award
A) Fabricio Werdum
B) "El Gigante" Big Foot silva
C) Dan Henderson
Wild Card) Top 10 Heavyweight Mark Hunt
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
YES!!
NO means YES!, he loves us.
parrotbeak
Member
The way he answered implies that he was aware of the nickname. Great success.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Him or his brother.
Ninja Scooter has transcended trolling. It's more like a well-executed comedy routine at this point.
Maklershed
Member
Gilbert Melendez - exposed (a la Miller) when he arrives in the UFC or holds his own?
parrotbeak
Member
That's a good question. I think he is given too much cred for his current resume, but I like watching him fight and look forward to seeing him in UFC. I think he should probably be given a title shot coming in.
1. I was actually introduced through UFC 2009 Undisputed. I love fighitng games in all shapes and sizes so I tried the demo with Chuck Liddell and Shogun Rua. Liked the game, decided to check this MMA business out. I believe the demo was released in the week leading up to the UFC 97 card headlined by Liddell and Rua (pretty great marketing strategy imo) so I watched that. Seeing a fellow Dutchman (even though he lost) was interesting, and seeing Krysztof Soszynski's kimura sealed the deal: this was the sport I was going to follow.
2. Rampage Jackson, Anderson Silva, Krysztof Soszynski, GSP, Fedor, Overeem. I like a lot of fighters, don't really dislike any of them in fact. There's always something interesting about anyone who steps into a cage with the sole intention of victory through combat.
3. -Overeem. I think his stand-up will win him this one. If he doesn't gas if the fight goes into deeper waters that is.
-GSP vs. Diaz, that's a tough one. Diaz might have what it takes to really pressure Georges, but I think GSP will prevail in the end.
-Silva. He will be extremely motivated for a rematch and is going to destroy Sonnen. I hope.
4. Not sure if serious
Don't think you can compare their legacies. To do what Fedor did is something that will probably never happen again. Even if it was during a time when the sport wasn't on the level that it is now, Fedor's run is far more impressive than going 9-0 and having a faulty gameplan (kick the injured knee) resulting in a getting KO'd. That being said, Cain is really talented, and I'm very interested how he pans out as a fighter.Similar threads
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