rolling mma thread

Three really short fights/

guys shaving their heads to avoid appearance of pattern baldness is one of my least fav fashion trend of the 00s def

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:07 AM

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wites specifically - doesnt look as bad on black guys - something abt the gleaming white dome ringed by impossible to completely eradicate dark stubble is just so ugh - still pretty vain tho - like is there a law that every balding black man under the age of 50 has to shave his head - must be a total pain in the ass too

also, there's much to be said for a thinning pate + crazed wispy horns.

UFC 96 is tomorrow! Here's the main card

* Light Heavyweight bout: Quinton Jackson vs. Keith Jardine[2]
* Heavyweight bout: Shane Carwin vs. Gabriel Gonzaga[3]
* Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. Pete Sell[4]
* Light Heavyweight bout: Matt Hamill vs. Mark Munoz[5]
* Lightweight bout: Gray Maynard vs. Jim Miller[6]

Jackson looked AMAZING in his KO of Wanderlei Silva, but I kind of feel Wandy might be washed up. Jardine has an iron head, but I say Jackson KOs him in 2.

Carwin I haven't seen much of. No one has! His fights have all ended before the second half of the first round, and he's undefeated. Gonzaga's been a fave since his left roundhouse came out of nowhere to send Filipovich back to the minors. He's looked good recently. This is tough to call, but I'll say Gonzaga by sub.

Not very familiar with either Sell or Brown. Two TUF also-rans according to wikipedia (I don't follow TUF, reality shows annoy me.) Let's say Brown by decision.

Hamill's tough but kind of one-dimensional. Munoz seems to be a meat and taters wrestler, too, from his wiki article. I'll say Hamill by GandP.

Don't really know much about Maynard or Miller, either. Miller seems to be the jiujitsu guy, so maybe he'll get a choke or something.

Does Alan C ever post anymore?

Evans is still undefeated. His next title defense will be against whoever's the top contender after tomorrow's Jardine/Jackson match. If I'm right and Jackson wins, I'll have to wait to see him against the guy who I think would give the best challenge, Lyoto Machida.

Lidell's next match will be against Rua, who couldn't even finish off Mark Coleman, who is 100 years old.

oops, Rua did finish Coleman. My bad. The both looked like they were going to fall over without getting hit for about 3/4 of the match, though.

alan c doesn't post but i did stumble onto his MMA BLOG a while back - lolz

so this is the top competition dana white wants fedor to face

one of the worst ufcs ive seen in who knows how long - that last ufc with the nonames was 100x better than this

It's officially Evans vs. Machida. This is going to be really interesting!

I'm going to say Evans, even though I fucking LOVE Machida. I don't think Machida has had to deal with a wrestler of Evans' strength and skill, and although their ability to land counterpunches is about equal, Evans has more power. If Machida wins it'll probably be surprising Evans with a submission from his back.

Found Alan C's posts at http://www.total-mma.com

Man gives great youtube! Burmese (Myamarian?) kingboxing!

you guys this is something else...the snorting noises are sickening.

Jesus, get a TRAINED REFEREE. That was terrible.

Nice to see Junie get strangled.

Ow, that leglock! That woulda been sub of the night for sure if he'd finished.

That was one of the best comebacks I've ever seen.

30-27 is bullshit, though, that first round shoulda gone to the Brazilian.

Holy shit, that's like two 10-8 rounds in a row.

Holy cats

http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/news/story?id=4284796

holy cats

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/josh_gross/07/22/barnett/index.html?eref=T1\

Whelp, so much for learning who the real heavyweight champ is. Barnett, you dumbass.

Ahh that's too bad. I would like to see that fight. In the meantime, some lols from Sylvia:

http://affliction-mma.com/?p=803#more-803

The main event at MMA’s Adrenaline III ‘Bragging Rights’ last Saturday night (June 13) wasn’t without drama. Tim Sylvia was matched up against former WBO World heavyweight boxing champion, and Olympic Gold Medalist, Ray Mercer.

The bout was originally meant to be a boxing match, however the athletic commission changed it’s mind at the last minute and declared the fight illegal. The fight still went ahead as Mercer agreed to fight Sylvia under MMA Rules with a verbal agreement between the two to stand and ‘box’.

Sylvia was quick to break their agreement coming out throwing a leg kick, they measured each other up then Mercer threw with a big right that made Sylvia stop dead for a split second, then fall like a tree! The fight was over in 9 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUx9OE7DZAo&feature=player_embedded

affliction rip

We'll still have the shitty t-shirts.

Jesus Hussein Christ, I'll never bitch about it when people say Anderson Silva is the pound for pound best in the world again!

yeah that was a pretty great fight. after those first two fights, i thought the night was doomed.

Carano v. Cyborg tonight

Do Cankles animated gifs fuck up Safari for anyone else?

http://www.mmarocks.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ufc102poster2.jpg

Sweet retro look!

carano vs. cyborg ended up being so lame. fight just beforehand was pretty good, tho, if my drunken mind is remembering correctly.

the mousasi/sobral one.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/josh_gross/08/20/anderson.silva.heavyweight/index.html?eref=T1

Silva bored with Light Heavyweights - now he wants heavyweights.

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rip vera.

dude got taken apart. so stoked for carwin v b
rock down the line. anyone know how brock's looking in training? nearly dying is bound to mess up your prep somewhat.

dana's face was priceless after carwin dropped mir, the look of 400,000 buys evaporating.

Can somebody explain to me what the deal is with the Silva/Maia fight? (I haven't seen the entire fight, so maybe it'd be obvious if I had)

I can't really figure out why everyone is so mad at Silva. As far as I can figure out, Silva was annoyed at the low quality of the fighter that they pitted him against, so instead of just Maia out in the first round, which he apparently could have easily done, he just kind of stood around doing nothing for five rounds. First, what does this prove? Why did he do it? Second, why is this considered some kind of horrible thing to have done? It makes for a boring fight, sure, but isn't it really the UFC's fault for not putting a good fighter up against Silva in the first place?

oops, should have said knocking Maia out in the first round...

lol silva. as much as i was not surprised by this fight, at least silva was more entertaining than with leites. perhaps that was just because maia tried harder but the fact of the matter is that maia wasn't a good enough challenger. i would rather see silva embarrass his opponents in this manner rather than just grinding it out on the mat. dana can bitch all he wants but a fitch-like grinding style is far more painful to watch. if dana were smart, he would play up silva as a heel and pit him against gsp, but i think dana is afraid that silva would defeat gsp too in this manner.

tonight was a bad night for bj penn, and a good night for the ufc and silva if they want to play up his heel status. if it's good enough for lesnar, why not do it with silva...

cro cop holy shit

Have changed my ways re: MMA lately, but it's retarded that I had to watch 115 on a wee Internet stream because PPV is $55 or $10+drinks at a bar. For no title fights.

Make a deal with HBO already, for fuck's sake.

Oh shit, KO with a broken arm.

Gotta say, I couldn't shell out for this (and probably wouldn't if I could), but almost every fight on this card was better than anything on the last boxing PPV I saw (Manny in Jerryworld).

I am so hyped for Brock vs Carwin.

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My irrational hatred of Liddell was well-served.

White said a non fighter regular UFC employee got a broken knuckle, can't even imagine how much they will sue for

Max Holloway declared unfit to fight Nurmagomedov.....

well that got out of hand

cmac got hosed. his stock got cut in half, at least, I can't imagine where he goes now except into the sunset

my way of looking at it is he lost a boring fight to an unlikeable opponent whose performance was booed throughout the early rounds, even less likeable following the events after the fight (could be tolerated by a brash american but looks goonish from dagestani thugs). would love to see the third fight with nate diaz now.

That fight wasn't boring at all - Khabib put in more work on the ground than GSP did in his last 15 fights. A clinic on sapping someone's will to live, so many shots of Conor looking confused and hopeless - I got one foot free OOPS no I didn't.

The brawl afterward was dumb but fuck it, the UFC has embraced its WWE-ness so much they could have dropped an extra cage over the top and no one would have batted an eye.

https://streamable.com/vqdb3
https://streamable.com/52wvw

lmfao

boring to fans that like cmac's style or came on board recently, for sure. i don't think casual fans are clamoring to see khabib fight again but what do i know. just think he's got a lot of money to make in the ufc before retirement.

Hype is well and truly over now. 2 years since a fight so he was never going to win last night. Its no wonder he isn't pressing charges over last night - https://www.balls.ie/mma/new-footage-emerges-shows-mcgregors-throwing-first-punch-398275

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