The MMA Thread of 2009-Forever

[Xno Kappa]

Yeah, glad Lytle got the sub to finish the fight decisively. Judges probably would've gave the split decision to Leonard Garcia had it gone the distance.

[Dimmauk]

Imagine a Bendo vs Guida wrestling hair fight.

They were just talking about this match LOL

It would be amazing to watch!

[nerdfromthehood]

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Will not cut @danhardymma I like guys that WAR!!!

Looks like Lytle passed the torch to Hardy for guys who will never get cut because they're always in a good fight. But... If he has a performance like the one against Johnson, I doubt they won't cut him. If he keeps losing, he better keep having fights like the one he had tonight.

[Rhyis.]

Hardy isn't always in a good fight though... Tonight was his first in quite some time. And I imagine that it had more to do with Lytle then it did Hardy.

[nerdfromthehood]

Hardy isn't always in a good fight though... Tonight was his first in quite some time. And I imagine that it had more to do with Lytle then it did Hardy.

100% agree. Lytle thought Hardy how to put on a show today. Hopefully Hardy puts what he learned today into practice in his next fight.

[Intrinsic]

Herman puts down another one, my boy is back!

Also, Bendo looked incredible, scary as fuck right now.

[AidenCarby]

Really trying to be a Hendo fan, but he's so goddamn annoying.

[Andalusian girls]

Miller needs to get his fucking head examined trying to win by hitting a sub on Bendo from off his back, and that jumping arm-triangle was ridiculous it's like he never saw the Cerrone fights
seeing him drop Bendo in the third round just increased the hurr-durr nature of the fightplan he probably could have sprawled and brawled his way to a win.

Good win for Lytle to go out on that guy has been crazy entertaining since the Serra loss and is a class act. Great win for Cerrone, love the body work we're starting to see more of in MMA these high-guards have been getting ridiculous.

And it was only on the facebook prelims but check out the Hettes-Caceres fight if you can that was a more scrambly affair than any I can remember in recent history.

[noblemountain]

Shawn Tompkins died last night for those who missed it. Autopsy results pending.

[Dimmauk]

Shawn Tompkins died last night for those who missed it. Autopsy results pending.

It always freaks me out when someone close to my age and in pretty good shape dies.

[Rhyis.]

Yeah pretty crazy news. Speaking as an Ontarian, gonna be a big hit to Canadian MMA.

Sounds like he died in my city too. Shitty.

[Baelorn]

Press conference for UFC on Fox just ended:

-First UFC event on Fox will be November 12th. No real details yet but they're working on it.
-UFC will still handle production of the main events while Fox Sports handles pre and post shows.
-Looking to broadcast four major fights per year on Fox.
-There will be plenty of cross-promotion between the UFC and existing Fox Sports.
-FX will have fight nights on Fridays. No idea how many per year.
-The Ultimate Fighter will now be "live" on FX. They'll show the prerecorded stuff(training, house, etc) while counting down to the live fight(s).
-TUF will have fan interaction. Fans will be able to vote on which fights they want to see. No idea how much influence that will have yet.
-Fuel will have a large percentage of UFC programming. No plans to rebrand Fuel.
-The gladiator opening is going the way of the dodo.

I think that was all the major points from the conference.

[archibaldcrane]

So is Spike done then?

[Xno Kappa]

I like the gladiator intro.

[Intrinsic]

Hope to god Bellator moves to Spike, watching MTV2 in standard is painful.

[quannum]

weren't they supposed to buy g4?

[Baelorn]

weren't they supposed to buy g4?

They talked about that a little bit. They said they thought about it and that it was, paraphrasing, unreasonable to try and start their own network at this stage.

[Delirium]

Would anyone want to watch the same UFC programming over and over anyway? Unleashed is already beyond repetitive.

[Xno Kappa]

Glad to hear UFC will still handle the main production on Fox. I mean, I doubt they would've accepted the deal otherwise anyways but still glad to see there won't be anymore Gus Johnsons spewing obvious bullshit of the sport.

[Rhyis.]

Would anyone want to watch the same UFC programming over and over anyway? Unleashed is already beyond repetitive.

They have a ridiculous video library but never use it. UFC, Pride, WEC, Strikeforce, IFL, and WFA... Play that shit 24/7!