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Machida has beaten Bonnar, Franklin, Vernon "Tiger" White, and Tito Ortiz, aswell as beating BJ Penn. So the resume is not AS glaring, but still solid. He is a very tactical fighter with amazing precision and a highly unorthodox stance. Machida is constantly throwing punches, just avoiding being hit at pretty much all costs.
Again, im not really discrediting Silva, I still think hes a top 3-5 fighter.. I just think Georges is better. Silva's performance against less than stellar fighters has been dissapointing. In Machida's defense, he had a very exciting finish of a really tough fighter in Thiago Silva at UFC 94. Im honestly on the fence as to which fighter I like better, Anderson or Lyoto.. but im leaning towards Lyoto. I didnt appreciate Anderson's dancing and shit this fight cause he wasnt pushing to finish IMO. All that extra shit is fun when it comes with a KO.Comment
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Just top prove how awesome my memory is
Judges Cecil Peoples and Jeff Mullen favored Bisping, 29-28, while British judge Chris Watts had Hamill, 30-27. I, too, scored it 30-27 for Hamill, though I can at least make a case for Bisping winning the second round.
The British judge had it right, while stupid fuck Cecil People's was one who went for BispingComment
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Ironic that it was the British judge that actually had Hammil winning.. 30-27 at that.Comment
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It depends, you can get an awesome show (UFC 91 or 92), a pretty good show (the latest Strikeforce show) or a shitty show. UFC 97 wasn't horrible but that main event was just plain bad. Don't know what's up with Silva as of late.Originally posted by heelswxman
Usually UFC PPVs are good (although there are some you can skip on PPV, such as UFC 93). They have some interesting/great match-ups coming up in the next few months...
UFC 98 in May is Evans/Machida (205 championship & both men are undefeated), Hughes/Serra (grudge fight), Okami vs. Dan Miller should be good, Sherk vs. Edgar could be good.
UFC 99 in June is Wanderlei Silva/Franklin, Velasquez vs. Herring (may be a boring fight since Herring is tough to finish), Swick vs. Ben Saunders, Marcus Davis vs. Dan Hardy and Spencer Fisher vs. Caol Uno should all be good.
The TUF Finale in June for Spike has two fights booked: Clay Guida vs. Diego Sanchez (fuck yeah!), and Nate Diaz vs. Joe Stevenson (Joe Daddy may be gone if he loses)
then those lead to 100 (must see show), 101 (Penn/Florian, Griffin/Thiago Silva) and 102 (Couture/Big Nog).
Strikeforce has a show on Showtime on June 6th with a main event of Robbie Lawler (awesome striker) vs. Jake Shields (awesome jiu-jitsu) which should be good.
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I realize that you can't extrapolate one moment in the fight over the entire 25 minutes. I was using that as example because its a visual example. The thing is that it wasn't the only insitence where Silva got Leites backup in a position where he could have aggressively pressed the action. He didn't. He kept him off-balance a lot with those side-kicks, but rarely seemed to use that as an oppportunity to close, or to counter with a high kick at some point.
The reason I think the gif is at least worth concidering is that the point of using something fancy like that in an actual fight should be to take your opponent by surprise and create an opening. Silva did create that opening. But you can tell my his body language after throwing the "kick" that he never intended to even try to follow it up. So you can argue about the distance and his position, but he never seems to have intended to follow it up, regardless if it knocked Leites off balance (as it did), tripped him, whatever. This was the case with all the shimmying, dancing, shoulder-shaking and so on that Silva did through the fight. It was intended as show-boating, not a way to open his opponent up. I don't really have much issue with showboating in a fight, but when someone is showboating and not using the opportunities it may create, I don't see how that fight can be seen as aggressive throughout the fight and attempting to exploit any opporunity. That's simply a contridiction to me.Comment
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Looks pretty similar to me. Hendo Franklin Newton Horn = Parysyian Sherk Hughes and Penn. 2 of those dont belong at 170 at all.
In case you forgot he got KOd by Serra. Silva Champ reign and UFC streak is more impressive than GSPs in the same stretch.Amazing how only his last 2 fights have gone the distance the rest were absolute rapings and beatings all of a sudden "he circles".
Thats the attention span UFC has to deal with when putting on fights I guess. 30 seconds and 2 fights.
Neither hold a candle to Fedor whos fought everyone , pummelled every one , and hasnt lost in 8 years arguably ever.Best reason to have a license.
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Ill say this much more abt the GSP/Silva debate.. im definitely bias towards one fighter. Furthermore, Anderson is getting a hard time right now despite still being a great fighter, but even Dana is saying he was embarrassed by the fight with Thales. Thats coming from the owners mouth.. so.
In other news: Bobby Lashley announced on his Twitter (what a great media source) that his next fight will be against Bob Sapp. That should be fun.Comment
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Anderson > GSP.So, metaphorically speaking, our physiology basically has the universe mapped out and you're thinking it needs to be taught addition & subtraction.
-Alan AragonComment
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The light heavyweight title fight scheduled for the Strikeforce card on June 6 has been postponed as the champion, Renato "Babalu" Sobral, has been forced out of the bout with the due date of his child being born falling too close to the fight. His opponent, Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante will remain on the card against an as of yet unnamed opponent.
The news was announced on MMAWeekly Radio Monday night by Feijao's manager, Ed Soares, who said that his fighter is still expected to be on the card, but still hopeful to get a shot at the title upon Babalu's return later this year.
Sobral's manager, Richard Wilner, later confirmed the postponement. "When the fight was originally proposed, it was for a May date that was kind of up in the air. Strikeforce used that date for the (Sho MMA: Strikeforce Challengers) show, then told us the date was going to change to June 6," he told MMAWeekly.com. "We basically said okay, but about three days after that, the doctor's confirmed that Babalu's baby was meant to be born on May 24. Then we immediately told Scott Coker and Strikeforce. The fight was then postponed to the August show."
Sobral won the title in November 2008 after defeating former champion Bobby Southworth by TKO due to a cut on his opponent's head. The fight against Feijao was supposed to be his first title defense since capturing the belt.
Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante will step into the June 6 card on a three-fight win streak, with his only career loss coming by way of disqualification while competing for the International Fight League.
While with EliteXC, Feijao compiled a 3-0 record defeating opponents like Travis Galbraith and Wayne Cole, before having his contract purchased by Strikeforce as a part of the Elite XC buyout.
Soares didn't know at the time who Feijao would face, but Strikeforce will likely try to find an opponent soon with the card just over 5 weeks away.Comment
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Im trying to get into like the UFC stuff because i wanna play and understand this new game coming out:
UFC 2009 Undisputed (looks good)
so im watching it and stuff
just wondering wats the easiest way to understand like all teh stuff happening in the ufc/mma world?
btw i just watched some ufc 97 matches online, wow that KO on Liddell... hahaComment
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What exactly do you wanna know?
Basically its 3, 5 minute rounds (5 if its a title fight). The winner is based on judges scoring or by KO, Submission, Ref Stoppage, etc. Scoring is based on striking, takedowns, takedown defense, ground control, and some other shit lol. Thats the basic run down..Comment
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To keep up to date on the sport favorite these websites:
to learn about the sport itself then just watch a bunch of fights and "buy" some instructional DVDs,Comment
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