The MMA Thread of 2009-Forever

[archibaldcrane]

Man, the UFC ...this...jesus christ. C'mon.

Not spoiling, but you'll all be singing this tune tonight.

[dudeguy]

Man, the UFC ...this...jesus christ. C'mon.

Not spoiling, but you'll all be singing this tune tonight.

neither deserved to win that one

[archibaldcrane]

I hate the cage. Yeah yeah it's really cool because now it's "cagefighting" hur hur

Cage ruins MMA.

[Chips]

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No, Brandon Vera won that fight. Horseshit, now we're going to have to deal with a Couture title shot which he DOES NOT DESERVE.

[dudeguy]

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No, Brandon Vera won that fight. Horseshit, now we're going to have to deal with a Couture title shot which he DOES NOT DESERVE.

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part of the scoring is octagon control unfortunately and Randy def. had that one his side. Either Vera's corner is the most horrible corner ever (other than having Coleman in your corner), or Vera does not listen to them. I was shouting at the tv for Vera to break from the clinch and circle away but he just let himself get pushed into the cage. It's his own fault he lost, terrible gameplan letting Randy dictate where the fight went.

[Chips]

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And I no longer know what to think of Denis Kang. He used to be a stud, now he's losing to the like of Michael Bisping... I mean, come on.

[FNH]

at least it wasn't for the title

[archibaldcrane]

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Bisping looked fantastic at 185 (compared to how he looks at 205) though. That was the best main-card fight and biggest surprise...well...other than the shitty shitty fucking horrible terrible no good very bad judging in the Couture sham fight...of the night.

[Chips]

at least it wasn't for the title

But, it will inevitably lead to one...

[FNH]

But, it will inevitably lead to one...

I'm ok with that. Hopefully by that time Rua will have won the rematch and then it will be a spectacular event. I wouldn't know who to root for.

[dudeguy]

this will not decide a title fight

trust me.

[Kyo]

Lord that body kick pearson just landed was loud.

[Kyo]

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Ross Pearson looked fantastic and dominated Riley

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Holy shit Andre Winner is fast, thats the first fight Ive seen him in and I was very impressed, that 4 inch reach wasnt shit

[Kaelas]

Lesnar out indefinitely:

White said Lesnar collapsed while spending time on a retreat in Canada and was checked into a hospital.

"[Lesnar] is in bad shape, and the reality is they don't really know all that's wrong with him," White said. "He owns a bunch of property in Canada. He went up to Canada just to get away from his house, to go up there and just kind of chill out up there.

"He [expletive] dropped. He went down, and he had to go to the hospital. They ran every test on the planet on him, and they ended up finding out something else was wrong with him."

Big Nog out of 108:

"[Nogueira] got staph infection, bad, to the point now it's in his bloodstream, and he's probably going to have to be hospitalized and intravenously given the antibiotics," White said.

UFC 108, previously titled "Nogueira vs. Velasquez," is scheduled for Jan. 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

White said the recent string of bad luck for the company, which has included injuries to several of the UFC's most prominent fighters, is the worst he's seen in his time at the helm of the promotion.

"It's crazy," White said. "In nine years of being in this business, we haven't had this many injuries in one (full) year."

[Xno Kappa]

It's going to be sad seeing GSP destroy Hardy.

[Kyo]

It's going to be sad seeing GSP destroy Hardy.

I was thinking the same thing.

[FNH]

Lesnar can't beat swine flu?

[Rhyis.]

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That fight was the epitome of why I have always hated Couture.

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I never thought in a million years Kang could lose to Bisping. If I was a betting man, I would've lost a ton of money.

Nog out of 108 makes me want to cry.

[Blarg]

The nog cain fight was one I was most looking forward to. So many good fights are no longer happening due to injuries that the new years and superbowl cards are going to really suffer moreso than the other cards.

[archibaldcrane]

Strikeforce needs to fill the void. Fedor fights every two weeks regardless of injury from here on out, like an elongated kumite. He can only fight each fighter once, and if he makes it until July of 2010, Brock Lesnar and Dana White have to tag-team fellate him until he smiles.

Good luck boys.