The MMA Thread of 2009-Forever

[Gryffes]

Bring back 10 minute first round and pride judges.

[Xno Kappa]

Bring back 10 minute first round and pride judges.

No thanks. I like my MMA fights Yakuza-free.

[Blarg]

Bring back 10 minute first round and pride judges.

The judges we currently have would screw up any system. The current system with more liberal use of 10-10, 10-8, or even 10-7, rounds would be a huge benefit if the judges knew what they were doing.

[Gryffes]

No thanks. I like my MMA fights Yakuza-free.

It was the fighters and the refs who got bribed, not the judges

[Blarg]

Preliminary Card
Demetrious Johnson vs. Nick Pace
Antonio Banuelos vs. Chad George
Tyler Toner vs. Diego Nunes
Chris Horodecki vs. Ed Ratcliff
Mike Brown vs. Cole Province
Zhang Tie Quan vs. Pablo Garza

Main card
Leonard Garcia vs. Mark Hominick
Chan Sung Jung vs. George Roop
Miguel Torres vs. Charlie Valencia
Jamie Varner vs. Donald Cerrone
Jose Aldo vs. Manvel Gamburyan

I hope my man crush cerrone can beat varner but with only a 3 round fight varner should be able to wrestle at least 2 of those rounds.
Hopefully garcia can stop winning decisions that he doesn't deserve.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...AldoBrown6.gif
http://i44.tinypic.com/rh7lhl.jpg
and the most impressive aldo gif of all
http://cdn1.sbnation.com/fan_shot_im...649/9azkie.gif

[Rhyis.]

Come ooooooooooooooon Cerrone.

Mike Brown on the undercard is just insane lol.

[Xno Kappa]

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/2646/aldostare.gif

[Blarg]

I loved that, didn't stick his fist up or anything.

[Rhyis.]

It really amazes me that more people aren't into this card... This is card of the friggin' century. Even the prelim is awesome.

[Gryffes]

Problem is the UFC has fans, MMA doesn't.
Ignorant dumb fuckistan tapout wearing fucknuts.

WAR ZOMBIE.

[Krandor]

It really amazes me that more people aren't into this card... This is card of the friggin' century. Even the prelim is awesome.

This is the life story of pretty much every WEC card. If they just put a Aldo highlight reel stuffed into every UFC card, WEC would have infinitely more fans, but for some reason they seem content to leave it as the little brother.

[quannum]

why didn't they just merge the rosters and have all their fighters be ufc fighters. they don't share weight divisions right?

[Thuronn]

why didn't they just merge the rosters and have all their fighters be ufc fighters. they don't share weight divisions right?

Hey! Stop being logical here. I'm sure it has something to do with Dana wanting to bring up the WEC up to UFC level, doubt possible, so they can bring in more PPV$.

edit: lol was staring at the Aldo gifs. The one where he's essentially dancing the dudes leg going up and down made me laugh way to hard. lol

[dudeguy]

Keep the market saturated with products you own = less competitors to worry about

[Krandor]

For the fans, combining brands would be absolutely awesome. As great as WEC is, PPVs can drag a little bit since alot of fights are relatively similar given that people of that size not named Aldo don't have crushing KO power, Gamburyan wrecking Brown aside. By the same token, UFC can fucking dull sometimes too (look at you last Saturday). If the brands were merged and each PPV was split half WEC/half UFC, it would be awesome, and we could very likely be seeing a PPV from Zuffa every other week with the brands combined like that given how much depth the combined roster would have

[Xno Kappa]

When does the main card start? In about an hour I'm assuming? Breaking night here in Germany to watch it.

[Blarg]

The UFC absorbing all those other fighters would need to put on a) more ppvs b) more free shows. When you have 250~ fighters on your roster (after a merge) you need an awful lot of fight cards. The ufc is rather near the point of too many ppv shows already so they would have to add more free shows. The problem with that is in their spike contract where they (UFC) are only allowed a limited number of free cards that aren't on spike, and those spots are already being used by the UFC Live cards (the ones jon jones seems to be the face of) on Versus. Spike TV would have to pick up that extra slack and that requires Spike tv to commit to spending a lot of extra money which they may not be able to commit to long term. Since the WEC is separate from the UFC they can commit to those extra shows on other networks which wouldn't be possible if it were called the UFC and had to navigate legalities with the spike and versus contracts.

If the UFC was positive that the merge would make them money that was worth the problems it would have already happened. Personally I would like to see the UFC just take a money hit, since they can afford it, and pay the WEC fighters more than they can actually bring in and take it as an investment into the sport for the time that they do merge, since it will happen, and they can make their money back with those future cards.

[Blarg]

WEC starts now I think

[Xno Kappa]

Anyone got a stream? AFN is being gay and not showing it.

[Blarg]

Football just ended a few mins late so I'm assuming this will be it.

http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4c73062d6ca70