The MMA Thread of 2009-Forever

[Epical]

Ouch, I never realized Leites got prelim'd... lol.

[tyven]

yea that has to be such a blow. although fitch got prelim'd as well after the GSP fight and i think most people thought better of him after he survived five rounds

[Day]

I want to see the fight that gif is from now, one of you experts let me know what that's from?

[Dimmauk]

I want to see the fight that gif is from now, one of you experts let me know what that's from?

UFC 83: Nate Quarry vs Kalib Starnes. Quarry is the guy running funny.

[Day]

TY sir, I shall check it out, looks hilarious.

[tyven]

Incoming Strikeforce bankrupt within 3 shows.

faster

The War Has JustEscalated... - Bloody Elbow

Luke Thomas is the editor and chief so if you read his comments you can make a little more sense out of the article.

[Dimmauk]

faster

The War Has JustEscalated... - Bloody Elbow

Luke Thomas is the editor and chief so if you read his comments you can make a little more sense out of the article.

I hope UFC starts a Women's division. Or maybe Strikeforce will be for women only, oh wait! It already is.

This is better drama than WWE fake drama, AMIRITE?

[Dimmauk]

According to Wiki:

Notable Strikeforce fighters

Men

* Fedor Emelianenko
* Cung Le
* Brett Rogers
* Kazuo Misaki
* Alistair Overeem
* Nick Diaz
* Robbie Lawler
* Jake Shields
* Josh Thompson
* Gilbert Melendez
* Mitsuhiro Ishida
* Frank Shamrock
* Roger Gracie

Women

* Gina Carano
* Cris Cyborg


I actually agree, those are some good fighters,(I dont know about that Nick Diaz guy though), some old ass fighters that might be past their prime, and one hot ass Girl fighter.

I'm also a fan of Cung Le

[tyven]

eh, they have some decent youth and a handful of great tier 2 guys (shields, diaz, lawler, overeem, etc.) but strikeforce is great for what it is which is free MMA

[Dimmauk]

eh, they have some decent youth and a handful of great tier 2 guys (shields, diaz, lawler, overeem, etc.) but strikeforce is great for what it is which is free MMA

You get free Showtime?

I miss Showtime, I switched to HBO.

[tyven]

get it all son

[Dimmauk]

get it all son

Hook a Wigga up! Or what is the Latino version of Wigger?

[Blarg]

At least fedor signed with an established promotion and not with an upstart fedor-centric new group. I can see 3 fights that would be interesting but maybe aside from Overeem both rogers and werdum would be lower quality than what UFC would give. Not sure who else could fight fedor unless they try to sign arlovski or sylvia for a rematch. Maybe roger gracie if he gets 2-3 impressive wins.

[FNH]

Main Card Bouts:
-B.J. Penn (13-5-1; #3 Lightweight)* vs. Kenny Florian (12-3; #6 Lightweight)*
-Anderson Silva (24-4; #1 Middleweight)*vs. Forrest Griffin (18-5; #3 Light Heavyweight)*
-Amir Sadollah (5-0) vs. Johny Hendricks (5-0)
-Ricardo Almeida (10-3) vs. Kendall Grove (12-5)
-Kurt Pellegrino (13-4) vs. Josh Neer (25-7-1)

Preliminary Bouts:
-Aaron Riley (27-11-1) vs. Shane Nelson (12-3)
-Tamdan McCrory (11-2) vs. John Howard (11-4)
-Alessio Sakara (13-7) vs. Thales Leites (14-2)
-Matt Riddle (3-1) vs. Dan Cramer (3-1)
-George Sotiropoulos (11-3) vs. Rob Emerson (8-7)
-Jesse Lennox (10-1) vs. Danillo Villefort (9-2)

[Chips]

Should start a thread for UFC 101.

[noblemountain]

Main Card Bouts:
-B.J. Penn (13-5-1; #3 Lightweight)* vs. Kenny Florian (12-3; #6 Lightweight)*
-Anderson Silva (24-4; #1 Middleweight)*vs. Forrest Griffin (18-5; #3 Light Heavyweight)*
-Amir Sadollah (5-0) vs. Johny Hendricks (5-0)
-Ricardo Almeida (10-3) vs. Kendall Grove (12-5)
-Kurt Pellegrino (13-4) vs. Josh Neer (25-7-1)

Preliminary Bouts:
-Aaron Riley (27-11-1) vs. Shane Nelson (12-3)
-Tamdan McCrory (11-2) vs. John Howard (11-4)
-Alessio Sakara (13-7) vs. Thales Leites (14-2)
-Matt Riddle (3-1) vs. Dan Cramer (3-1)
-George Sotiropoulos (11-3) vs. Rob Emerson (8-7)
-Jesse Lennox (10-1) vs. Danillo Villefort (9-2)

I agree with every pick you made. I can't wait to see the look on my buddies face when Silva loses. He is probably the most obnoxious Silva fan on the planet outside of Silva's camp.

[Blarg]

I have never been able to separate neer and pellegrino from each other in my mind, probably because they both fought diaz.

If Silva loses it will be because forrest went for a slow gnp game. As much as this fight was put together to give silva an exciting fight I think the smartest fight for forrrest is to make it boring.

[tyven]

the difference between pellegrino and neer is that pellegrino doesnt have to go to jail after the fight. also i dont really like forrest's chances at all, silva's striking is absolutely insane

[Pabst]

doesn't Neer have the tramp stamp?

And god damn Blarg your sigcat looks like my cat.

[Blarg]

doesn't Neer have the tramp stamp?

And god damn Blarg your sigcat looks like my cat.

Is your cat a pro boxer?