MMA Thread

[CrimsonGhost56]

tell me how silva was going to get out from the bottom against Okami

Okami is a ADCC level grappler, Maia barely beat him on points and couldnt sub him, he would smother Silva and GnP him for a win

Silva a beast, but the hype train is out of control

hype train? hes 23-4 with 9 wins in a row. dana seems to hate okami so who the f knows if they will fight. akiyama gets a title shot before okami ... book it

 

[Liquidrob]

hype train? hes 23-4 with 9 wins in a row. dana seems to hate okami so who the f knows if they will fight. akiyama gets a title shot before okami ... book it

yes, hype train, p4p best, could be the LHW champ, blah, blah, blah

GSP is the best fighter in the UFC and has proven it way more than Silva

 

[Liquidrob]

hype train? hes 23-4 with 9 wins in a row. dana seems to hate okami so who the f knows if they will fight. akiyama gets a title shot before okami ... book it

silva has no answer for japanese kryptonite!

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

yes, hype train, p4p best, could be the LHW champ, blah, blah, blah

GSP is the best fighter in the UFC and has proven it way more than Silva

Even if Anderson is a top 5 UFC fighter its still a pretty high accomplishment. Technicalities of whos actually the best p4p in the world are kind of irrelevant when the talent level being discussed is so high.

 

[Liquidrob]

lol, Dana at it again, I told you he fears Okami

A source close to the camp of UFC middleweight contender Demian Maia has informed CagePotato.com that the Brazilian is expected to be offered the next middleweight title shot against the winner of the Anderson Silva/Thales Leites bout (in other words, Silva) late this summer.

There's no official date set, but our source says Maia's camp is expecting the bout to take place in late August, which would most likely put it at UFC 102 in Portland, Ore. The middleweight title bout would certainly bolster a card that's rumored to be headlined by Randy Couture returning home to the Pacific Northwest to take onAntonio Rodrigo Nogueira.

If anybody's earned a shot at the middleweight strap, it's Maia. The undefeated submissions wiz made Chael Sonnen look like a novice in his last bout, and his jiu-jitsu skills would offer a challenge that we haven't yet seen Silva face during his run as UFC champion.

Stay tuned for more details as they emerge.

Silva doesnt want any of this

 

[calgaryballer]

lol, Dana at it again, I told you he fears Okami



Silva doesnt want any of this

If anybody's earned a shot at the middleweight strap, it's Maia

Or maybe Okami? If I was Okami, pretty soon I'd head back to Japan for some fat paydays and way easier fights

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

anyone have a link to the K-1 fights last night? manhoef got knocked out and overeem lost a close decision to bonjasky

 

[EmpireWF]

Dont think they aired on HDNet yet. Tape delay.

Sucks if Okami gets shfted like Parisyn ended up.

 

[Bigpapa42]

anyone have a link to the K-1 fights last night? manhoef got knocked out and overeem lost a close decision to bonjasky

It was on HD Net early this evening. I caught part of it and forgot to PVR the rest. Manhoef got straight up dropped. He wasn't outright unconscious but its kickboxing not MMA. He looked like he had the other guy in trouble and waded in, then got nailed on the button.

 

[Liquidrob]

anyone have a link to the K-1 fights last night? manhoef got knocked out and overeem lost a close decision to bonjasky

 

[Liquidrob]

Looks like Overeem got robbed, but K1 scores differently, Overeem is a beast

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[calgaryballer]

K-1 has weird scoring. And at the GP last year they switched to a system where they announce the judges scores at the end of the round, which I find doubly weird

EDIT - after watching the fight, I scored it

10-9 Bonjansky. I think Overeem's two illegal kicks might have cost him the round (you can't catch the leg and kick out hte other leg) They scored it a draw which I could also agree with
10-9 Overeem
10-8 Bonjasky - the knockdown earns him a point and the fight, whcih is really shitty for Overeem, because he didn't to much otherwise the last two rounds

Overeem looks almost too big to punch effectively

 

[Bigpapa42]

So my friend that had a fight in Quebec yesterday lost. Guillotine choke. Sounds like he did well early, then probably got caught. Sucks, as a win would have given him a title shot. Not that W1 is exactly a monster name promotion, but its essentially the replacement for Montreal's TKO promotion. Carlos Newton was on the same card. If my buddy won last night and his next fight, he would have had a shot to make the WEC by the end of the year. Still possible, just gonna take longer.

Edit - just noticed the event made the lead article on Sherdog. My buddy is Sean Quinn.

http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/newton-kos-khatib-at-inception-16771

 

[Bigpapa42]

http://www.sherdog.com/pictures/event/8/Pictures-Carlos-Newton-Scores-KO-16794

Here's the Sherdog photos from the fight my friend had.

One of the cooler stories he had was that he ended up cutting weight with Carlos Newton. Newton fights at 170 and was walking around at 220 before he started cutting in the lead-up to the fight.

 

[calgaryballer]

How far ahead was that? 50 pounds!!!!! Thats a huge amount of weight to lose

 

[Bigpapa42]

How far ahead was that? 50 pounds!!!!! Thats a huge amount of weight to lose

Not sure how far out that was. My guess would be when his training camp started proper, which would be somewhere between 3-5 weeks before the fight.

My friend started his weight cut about 2 weeks prior to the fight. He was at his heaviest ever - 162 pounds - and made 135 fairly easily.

 

[calgaryballer]

Not sure how far out that was. My guess would be when his training camp started proper, which would be somewhere between 3-5 weeks before the fight.

My friend started his weight cut about 2 weeks prior to the fight. He was at his heaviest ever - 162 pounds - and made 135 fairly easily.

You two must be quite a pair when out on the town in Regina. I know girls who weigh 150 and they probably aren't 90% muscle like I'm sure your friend is

 

[Bigpapa42]

You two must be quite a pair when out on the town in Regina. I know girls who weigh 150 and they probably aren't 90% muscle like I'm sure your friend is

Yeah, we're both pretty stocky. He's only about 5'6" and solid. I'm about 5'11" but somewhere over 300, stocky as hell. What makes it even more interesting is that his fiancee is an Olympic caliber wrestler - so she only weights about 110 pounds but she is as stocky and ripped as Quinn is.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

sooo UFC Fight Night 18 is on tommorow followed by the premier of TUF 9

Carlos Condit vs. Martin Kampmann
Gleison Tibau vs. Jeremy Stephens
Ryan Bader vs. Carmelo Marrero
Cole Miller vs. Junie Allen Browning
Tyson Griffin vs. Rafael dos Anjos
Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Horwich
Brock Larson vs. Jesse Sanders
Jorge Rivera vs. Nissen Osterneck
Rob Kimmons vs. Joe Vedepo
Tim McKenzie vs. Aaron Simpson
Steve Steinbeiss vs. Ryan Jensen

not too shabby, should be some good fights. looking forward to see how condit and bader do.

 

[EmpireWF]

Bader's right hand of doom should come into play.