The MMA Thread of 2009-Forever

[Rhyis.]

I like Maia, but he needs another year before he's ready for the spider.

The weirdest part about this is, I thought I heard Wanderlei buried the hatchet with Anderson and are now going to be training together again... But isn't Maia part of the Wand gym?

[Blarg]

maia and wand do train, or did, together but that really doesn't exclude maia and anderson fighting each other

[Rhyis.]

No, but it's sort of a "who do I train with" sort of thing for Wand. Plus those brazilians got that whole super serious dojo pride thing going on.

[Blarg]

with what seems like half of the ufc being brazillian they better get over it

[Gryffes]

Not strictly MMA but MMA related and hilarious


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75BkaI4ZmRw

[Conformity]

just saw rampage in a commercial and it was awesome.


lack of realizm though. He got knocked down and you could see he was wearing a grill, totally against regulation. Also, he was knocked down by a white guy which is impossible cause white people cant knock down rampage. Finally, as he was knocked down the white guy stood there as rampage recovered and just stood there waiting to get ko'd

[dudeguy]

just saw rampage in a commercial and it was awesome.


lack of realizm though. He got knocked down and you could see he was wearing a grill, totally against regulation. Also, he was knocked down by a white guy which is impossible cause white people cant knock down rampage. Finally, as he was knocked down the white guy stood there as rampage recovered and just stood there waiting to get ko'd

It was his Throwdown mouthguard and looked like a slam rather than a knock down... which is even more unlikely that someone would do that to Rampage, so its definitely lacking the realism.

[Blarg]

even more unlikely is that rampage was fighting in a cage and not on movie sets since he is obviously an actor

[Blarg]

Last minute changes to the card. Rothwell is out of the fight due to sickness of some kind so cro cop is fighting someone new in a mostly lose lose fight for him. Another loss, well not really honestly, is the Elvis sinosic fight is pulled entirely with elvis getting an injury and no one caring enough to bother to find someone else.

Main Card
Heavyweight Bout: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Cain Velasquez
Middleweight Bout: Wanderlei Silva vs. Michael Bisping
Lightweight Bout: Joe Stevenson vs. George Sotiropoulos
Light Heavyweight Bout: Keith Jardine vs. Ryan Bader
Heavyweight Bout: Mirko Filipović vs. Anthony Perosh

Preliminary Card
Light Heavyweight Bout: Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
Welterweight Bout: Chris Lytle vs. Brian Foster
Middleweight Bout: C.B. Dollaway vs. Goran Reljic
Light Heavyweight Bout: James Te-Huna vs. Igor Pokrajac


Main event. 3 flip flops on this fight so far and right now I think Cain has made enough improvements to survive and beat on Nog for a decision. As far as me being a fan the best outcome I can see is the fight being quite close with both fighters looking good with cain getting the better of it but Nog pulling a miracle sub in the 3rd. I may re flip flop if nog looks really good at the weigh ins.

Wand fight. I think how wand takes the weight cut will be a big clue to see if Wand has what it takes to win the fight like how the hendo bisping fight went. Pretty close fight as bisping is a decent step down in recent competition though still dangerous but I'm going with recent history here.

I think 3 rounds is enough time for Bader to land a big hit or just wrestle 2 rounds for a decision.

Cro Cop ko in the first. He beat up al turk and can probably do the same here. Even with the win he gains very little in this fight which is a shame because the Rothwell fight was fairly good in that even though I would have bet against him it was a winnable fight for him if he showed up and rothwell is respectable enough for plenty of fans to think cro cop was 'back'.

[noblemountain]

Cro Cop got cut in pre-fight sparring. He had to get stitches above his eye, but will fight.

[Blarg]

Stick these people in bubbles

[tyven]

so torn on cain v big nog. pulling for nog though. hope wandy kills bisping and bader eats jardines heart. also pulling for sotiropolous big time, that guy is fun to watch

[Blarg]

Tko - Ate heart

[Xno Kappa]

Think I'm going to put my money on Cain, only because Big Nog seems ridiculously susceptible to anything staphylococcus.

[Rhyis.]

Main Card
Heavyweight Bout: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Cain Velasquez
Middleweight Bout: Wanderlei Silva vs. Michael Bisping
Lightweight Bout: Joe Stevenson vs. George Sotiropoulos
Light Heavyweight Bout: Keith Jardine vs. Ryan Bader
Heavyweight Bout: Mirko Filipović vs. Anthony Perosh

Preliminary Card
Light Heavyweight Bout: Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
Welterweight Bout: Chris Lytle vs. Brian Foster
Middleweight Bout: C.B. Dollaway vs. Goran Reljic
Light Heavyweight Bout: James Te-Huna vs. Igor Pokrajac


Nog with an armbar in the 2nd. Hoowah.

[Blarg]

Cro cop has fallen but I hope not so far that perosh beats him.

[Rhyis.]

I like Cro Cop, but he's always been susceptible to ground guys.

[Blarg]

His TD defense is usually pretty good so most of his losses are getting beat standing. Seeing as he has only been submitted once by Nog I wouldn't plan on it if the guy doesn't have good wrestling/judo which I don't think this guy does.

[baralai80]

Anybody got some tips on where a good live feed source might be? I usually download it the next morn but that Velazquez fight has my hyped

[archibaldcrane]

http://atdhe.net/

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