rolling mma thread

the mousasi/sobral one.

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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.

Fedor tonight

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Q: When can fans get Fedor's Tapout shirt:

A: I'm afraid to disappoint the fans, but it seems like, never. Literally today they called me from the TAPOUT firm and told me that they were contacted by the representatives of the UFC, and that under the threat of tearing up all the contracts with their organization demanded that TAPOUT categorically stop producing all the shirts from the line of Fedor Emelianenko.

This is how Dana White feels about Fedor. So tell me, what can we think about such person after this, that even in things that have nothing to do with UFC, he still tries to mess it up for us. So it seems that the shirts will just stay a rarity that fans will see in pictures. Say thanks to UFC and their politics of monopoly.

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Seems like a happy dude.

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was at a wedding so I missed it live, but... holy shit!

so bizarre that fedor was so willing to play around in werdum's guard. really lame finish. even worse, overeem is going to brutalize werdum and then what? just a waste.

at least cung was classic, describing his wife's c-section and all.

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That cut under Brock's eye was brutal.

Still not a fan, but he's shown a lot of class before and after his last two fights.

Brock is a freak of nature but a terrible fighter. Glad to see Cain get the win that Shane really should've had. Turtling up is a shameful defense and anyone stanning for Brock is nuts.

The boy's a decent wrestler but yeh, he needs to work on his defense from his back, he's been undone the last 2 fights from that. And I guess he could work on his striking. Just being a freaky guy by itself doesn't guarantee success (remember Bob Sapp?) and he's definitely got skills, but he's got a lot of work to do. Does he get a rematch or is it straight to Cain vc Dos Santos?

Glad to see Diago Sanchez back in form, he's an exciting fighter when he's on.

It should be Cain / JDS, Lesnar / Mir and Carwin / Nelson. Other than that, I would like to see Schaub / Barry and Big Nog / Cro Cop.

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Just watched the fight again for the third and fourth times and it really is a thing of beauty. Cain completely dismantled Brock and exposed him. I've been a pretty vocal critic of Brock but I must say that even I gave him more credit than he deserved. Kudos to Dana for the hype. I really wonder if Carwin would be the champ now if Herb had called the July fight.

Also, can I just:

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Sorry to go over old ground, but the idea that Brock got lucky in the Carwin fight doesn't seem right to me. Carwin had no cardio and didn't pick his shots, and he got exposed in the 2nd. Cain didn't make the same mistakes, didn't have a cardio problem, and gave lesnar one hell of a beating, showing up his inexperience.

If memory serves, the 2nd Mir fight wasn't the dude getting lucky either - he dominated that fight, and you don't get results or performances like that one by being a complete chump.

Carwin had no cardio because he was hammering Brock's face for three plus minutes straight. Yeah, he's guilty of not picking his shots, but you can't blame him for overexerting himself when he saw Brock's turtled up.

Not really worth defending Mir cause he shows up for some fights and not others. That bike crash really did a number on him.

Kinda just wanted to post this:

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henderson / pettis is my match of the year. just wow.

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I'm still pretty blown away by GSP knocking all kinds of crap out of Koschek. I thought he'd beat him, but I didn't expect it to be that easy. Dude's incredible.

clay guida seems like a total bro

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I guess Maynard has to think he was robbed, but I thought giving all four of the last rounds to Edgar would have been acceptable, even if you made the first 10-8.

10-point must needs to go away for a sport where fights are 3-5 rounds.

that's why anyone calling for a 10-7 is a maniac.

i think the only way Edgar gets the 3rd and 5th rounds is with some serious champ bias which he definitely didn't earn after that 10-8 1st round and apparently didn't really earn in the media after controlling BJ twice. should be a good rematch. feel bad for Edgar and Pettis though.

did you guys hear about saku's ear

wish he'd just retire

yeah that was pretty brutal

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lol!

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if this is what mma will be in the future, sign me up

dude is unstoppable imo

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Yeh, looking forward to his title fight.

I didn't expect Belfort to go down so easy, I thought he'd have a bit more fight in him.

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so i learned just recently that jon jones is like the best guy at this or something, and he's from my (pretty small) hometown. i've played bsaketball with his brother