MMA Thread

[clovett]

hey rob...getting off topic for a min but have you spoke to frank lately? any idea of who he wants to fight next?

[Liquidrob]

hey rob...getting off topic for a min but have you spoke to frank lately? any idea of who he wants to fight next?

yeah, talked to him last week, we didnt get into much fight talk, mostly about kid problems, lol

he is doing the June 6th commentary for Strikeforce, thats about all the fight talk we had

[clovett]

machida/rua is rumored for ufc 104

[RosettaStoned]

Shogun is going to get wrecked. Too soon for a title shot for him IMO. He's just getting back to form.

[Kuzzy Powers]

Agreed... just a fight ago we're talking about if Shogun is washed up and if he can even finish a fight without passing out to exhaustion, now he deserves a title shot? For what? KOing Chuck? Chuck look disastrous in that fight. This is an example of Dana catering to TUF and what works for him, not who deserves the next shot. He obviously wants Shad and Rampage as coaches for TUF since Machida declined. So he throws Shogun into the next title fight cause its convenient.

[CrimsonGhost56]

^ all very true but who else deserves a shot? rashad and rampage are on TUF, forrest is fighting silva, jardine and thiago silva are fighting each other soon and that pretty much leaves nobody outside of luis cane and shogun that could make sense. after his thrashing of liddell shogun seems to be the best choice. hope the shogun of old shows up

[Liquidrob]

I never said Shogun was washed up, he was coming off an injury and long lay offs, he has 3 fights since his injury, you clowns thought he was finished

lol @ you UFC fan boys saying he doesnt deserve it, like I said, the UFC gives so many undeserving guys a shot and Shogun isnt 1 of them, the dude was probably 1 of the top 3 fighters just 3 fights ago

He is also a better match up for machida than almost any UFC LHW, Shogun has all the tools and actually isnt afraid to take people down and go for subs, he isnt in the 'stand and bang' club but can do that also, he actually was going for a leg lock against chuck, who else even tries that at LHW in the UFC?

I got Shogun

[clovett]

i heard the ufc resigned frank trigg...any truth to this?

[Kuzzy Powers]

I never said Shogun was washed up, he was coming off an injury and long lay offs, he has 3 fights since his injury, you clowns thought he was finished

lol @ you UFC fan boys saying he doesnt deserve it, like I said, the UFC gives so many undeserving guys a shot and Shogun isnt 1 of them, the dude was probably 1 of the top 3 fighters just 3 fights ago

He is also a better match up for machida than almost any UFC LHW, Shogun has all the tools and actually isnt afraid to take people down and go for subs, he isnt in the 'stand and bang' club but can do that also, he actually was going for a leg lock against chuck, who else even tries that at LHW in the UFC?

I got Shogun

Lol @ leader of the anti-UFC commission believing that Shogun deserves a shot based on what we've seen from him in his UFC fights. He got it by process of elimination. Shogun was a great fighter in Japan, he was taking the LHW division by storm.. but I still dont believe in his work ethic. If he can beat Machida, all doubts are erased. And he has the skill set to do it, but not if hes coming with the kind of work ethic he did against Mark Coleman and Forrest Griffin. Shogun has all the talent in the world, but it doesnt mean shit if you gas yourself out in the fight. Im actually looking forward to the fight, but Shogun still got it by process of elimination.

[CrimsonGhost56]

i heard the ufc resigned frank trigg...any truth to this?

yep. trigg is back

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=20060

Two-time welterweight title challenger Frank Trigg is returning to the UFC after more than three years away and he has his sights set on another run at the 170-pound title.

One of the fight game’s most charismatic figures, the 37-year old Trigg wrestled for the University of Oklahoma and competed in the 2000 Olympic trials, but it has been in mixed martial arts where he has truly made his mark. A pro since 1997, Trigg (19-6) made appearances in PRIDE, Shooto, and the WFA before debuting in the UFC in 2003 against welterweight champion Matt Hughes. Trigg fell short in that bout, but after wins over Dennis Hallman and Renato Verissimo, he engaged in a rematch with Hughes at UFC 52 in 2005 that is considered one of the greatest bouts in UFC history, despite his submission defeat to the future Hall of Famer.

Trigg’s first stint in the UFC ended later that year after a defeat to Georges St-Pierre, but the Rochester, New York native has since been on a tear, winning seven of nine bouts, including victories over Ronald Jhun, Mayhem Miller, Kazuo Misaki, Edwin Dewees, and Falaniko Vitale. Currently riding a four fight winning streak, Trigg is a welcome addition to an already stacked welterweight division.

A date and opponent for Trigg’s UFC return has not been determined.

[Steel Mamba]

Agreed... just a fight ago we're talking about if Shogun is washed up and if he can even finish a fight without passing out to exhaustion, now he deserves a title shot? For what? KOing Chuck? Chuck look disastrous in that fight. This is an example of Dana catering to TUF and what works for him, not who deserves the next shot. He obviously wants Shad and Rampage as coaches for TUF since Machida declined. So he throws Shogun into the next title fight cause its convenient.

That's not true, he wanted and offered Rampage the title shot, which he declined in order to fight Evans. So, with Rampage declining the fight with Machida the next guy in line at this point has to be Shogun. It'll be a good fight.

[Steel Mamba]

Lol @ leader of the anti-UFC commission believing that Shogun deserves a shot based on what we've seen from him in his UFC fights. He got it by process of elimination. Shogun was a great fighter in Japan, he was taking the LHW division by storm.. but I still dont believe in his work ethic. If he can beat Machida, all doubts are erased. And he has the skill set to do it, but not if hes coming with the kind of work ethic he did against Mark Coleman and Forrest Griffin. Shogun has all the talent in the world, but it doesnt mean shit if you gas yourself out in the fight. Im actually looking forward to the fight, but Shogun still got it by process of elimination.

lol, you act like 5 guys had to drop from the picture in order for Shogun to be selected. He was the #2 guy, there's nothing wrong with that at all.

[CrimsonGhost56]

Fedor-Barnett Official for Aug 1.

Fedor Emelianenko will lock horns with Josh Barnett in the featured bout at Affliction “Trilogy” on Aug. 1 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The promotion made the heavyweight matchup official on Friday.

Unbeaten in his last 27 fights, the incomparable Emelianenko (30-1, 1 NC) flattened former UFC champions Andrei Arlovski and Tim Sylvia in his most recent outings. The 32-year-old Russian knocked out Arlovski with one punch 3:14 into their match at Affliction “Day of Reckoning.” Hard to handle on his feet and on the ground, Emelianenko has finished his last five opponents inside one round and holds victories against Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, 2006 Pride Open Weight Grand Prix winner Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and former UFC heavyweight champions Mark Coleman and Kevin Randleman. He has delivered 23 of his 30 career wins by knockout, technical knockout or submission.

Barnett, a former UFC champion like Arlovski and Sylvia, will carry a four-fight winning streak into the bout. The 31-year-old last appeared in January, when he struck Gilbert Yvel into submission at Affliction “Day of Reckoning.” Barnett has won nine of his last 11 fights, including a victory against Emelianenko’s brother, Aleksander, at a Pride show in 2006. A 6-foot-3, 250-pound catch wrestler, he has secured 15 of his 24 career wins by submission.

Other bouts expected for Affliction “Trilogy” include a welterweight showdown pairing former International Fight League champion Jay Hieron with British striker Paul Daley and a lightweight tilt pitting Dan Lauzon against Chris Horodecki.

finally ....

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[EmpireWF]

Fights this year will be amazing....we will be seeing:

Brown vs. Faber 2 (next week)
Lawler vs. Shields (next week)
Griffin vs. Silva (August)
Couture vs. Big Nog (August)
Penn vs. Florian (August)
Fedor vs. Barnett (August)
Rampage vs. Evans (December)
Torres vs. Bowles
Brock vs. Mir 2
GSP vs. Alves
Henderson vs. Bisping
Guida vs. Sanchez
Silva vs. Franklin
Velasquez vs. Kongo
Aoki vs. Ribeiro
Machida vs. Shogun (October)
The DREAM Super Hulk Tourney conclusion

and much more

[Liquidrob]

lol @ kuzzy, the UFC does not have a credible or standardized title shot system, to say shogun didnt deserve it is just silly at this point