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insanojackson said:
tim2100 said:
insanojackson said:
mma = gay!!!
for brain dead meat heads!
for brain dead meat heads!
insanojackson profile said:
MGTF owner,
Glass houses........Shouldn't you be in the Porsche forum?
Gypsum Fantastic said:
Awesome performance by Silva. Made Forrest look like an amateur.
It was pretty amateurish walking straight towards Silva and opening up like that, but Silva having his hands at his sides must have been too tempting. It's like the Matrix watching Silva's head movement.Talk about dropping someone.
Right my view on Anderson has completly changed after that fight. I knew he was one of the best.
I actually saw him reacting to the crowd and looked suprised to get boo'd.
IF machida loses belt (can't see that happening soon) I think he is going to be at the top of the tree for the 205 belt.
Simply awesome and made Forrest look foolish.
I actually saw him reacting to the crowd and looked suprised to get boo'd.
IF machida loses belt (can't see that happening soon) I think he is going to be at the top of the tree for the 205 belt.
Simply awesome and made Forrest look foolish.
Meatball said:
XitUp said:
MoesTavern said:
MMA is still nothing like an actual fight though is it? It's a controlled environment just the same as boxing is.
How many takedowns do you see in a 'real' fight?
Well I've done it before.How many takedowns do you see in a 'real' fight?
Edited by MoesTavern on Thursday 6th August 17:37
insanojackson said:
mma = gay!!!
for brain dead meat heads!
Thanks for that well thought out input.for brain dead meat heads!
I was happy to see two of my faves put on very impressive performances in the headline fights. Silva is just scary, dropping someone with a jab while moving backwards is amazing. Florian's game plan seemed to be to tire Penn out, shame his conditioning has improved tons since GSP. Setting up the RNC with those heel kicks to the liver was fab.
Amir Sodalla's fight was stopped way too soon.
the WEC puzzles me, why not just lump it in with the UFC? The WEC fighters all get crappy pay because of the lack of PPV and the UFC sometimes struggles to get title defences on its PPV's as theres so few titles. So why not put the bigger WEC fights on the UFC cards. Faber vs Brown 1 and 2 would easily have drawn a decent viewership as would torres, even with last nights fight.
Very true. But that could be more down to the relative lack of interesting stuff going on in the heavier weights.
In recent years 205 has been very exciting in American MMA.
Perhaps in the future more focus will be put on the smaller guys. I hope so any way, even though I have no chance of ever getting that light I love watching fw and bw fights.
In recent years 205 has been very exciting in American MMA.
Perhaps in the future more focus will be put on the smaller guys. I hope so any way, even though I have no chance of ever getting that light I love watching fw and bw fights.
I think thats probably true for boxing, the heavier weight classes are awful and have been for a while now. Im not sure mma is hampered in the same way though, the very fact LHW has always been the premier weight class instead of Heavyweight kind of shows that mma fans will follow the divisions with the best fights. Plus the UFC essentailly have a monopoly, that gives them the ability to build and hype up anyone they want, to hook in the casual fans along with the proper fans who know all about the smaller guys skills.
LHW or MW as 205 was in Pride has always been the most popular division, HW has always been a bit spread out over the orgs, apart from in the Pride days when it was clearly the best group of heavyweights in one org. even at that time though LHW in the UFC was bigger and MW in Pride had Wandy, Dan, Rampage, Shogun, Sakuraba and was more popular.
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