Who's watching it tonight? It's on Spike so you don't have to worry about paying I'm stoked about the Houston Alexander fight but I'm really bummed that they may not air the Clay Guida fight wtf is that about? The guy puts on an insane show! He deserves more light.
i thought there was a UFC fight this weekend also, i thought it was in England...searched spike for it and seen nothing. just figured it was free on spike cuz of the time diff. and that they coudn't offer it live.
Yea but May 24th feels like it's light years away. I hope Penn beats Sherk because he's a steroid abusing douche bag but I know that won't be easy. For those saying "Sherk didn't know there was steroids in that supplement..." c'mon...the guy was consuming something ridiculous like 30 servings a day of that "supplement" from Xyience. It's like smoking cigarettes with 10percent marijuan@ in them, you know what's going on but you can say you didn't know what was in the cigarettes. "Sean Sherk, you're dead."-BJ Penn
I'm actually a lot more excited to see the Matt Serra Vs. George St.Pierre fight on April 19th. Which is two weeks away from this coming Saturday I believe. I hope GSP tears Serra a new one because he's a cocky, arrogant, pr1ck.
As far as tomorrow night's fights go, I'm just looking forward to the Houson Alexander Vs. Irvin and the Clay Guida Vs. Random guy fights. I don't care much for the other super hyped fights.
On another note TITO ORTIZ has a fight coming up soon and to my knowledge it's his last fight according to his contract which he will probably get destroyed in considering his opponent. I think they're using him as food. What I think would be hilarious is if Tito comes out and lays on the floor and taps out before a single fist gets thrown because he hates Dana White and the UFC these days, that would be awesome.
St. Pierre/Serra should be crazy too!!! How can you say that about Serra though? You really think he comes off as cocky and arogant?
If I could only watch one or the other i'd take the Penn/Sherk fight ALL DAY. B.J. Penn is my favorite fighter, and IMO may be the greatest of all time when it's all said and done. And yet, he's essentially the challenger in this fight. Maybe not technically, but you know what i mean.
BTW I love that you hate Sherk for being a steroid abuser, but you can't wait for the Alexander vs. Irvin fight. If you were gonna paint a picture of a couple athletes who look like they sure as hell have taken some performance enhancers, it'd be those too LOL
hey guys isnt florian fighting soon and lauzon also or is that tonight i served florian at the restraunt i worked at he isnt that big of a guy at all lol but i would not want to fukc with him at all lol. looks crazy
"hey guys isnt florian fighting soon and lauzon also or is that tonight i served florian at the restraunt i worked at he isnt that big of a guy at all lol but i would not want to fukc with him at all lol. looks crazy"
That's cool that you met him, he seems like he'd be a nice guy. Was he?
You definitely wouldn't wanna fu<k with Kenflo, he's a bad dude.
"St. Pierre/Serra should be crazy too!!! How can you say that about Serra though? You really think he comes off as cocky and arogant?
If I could only watch one or the other i'd take the Penn/Sherk fight ALL DAY. B.J. Penn is my favorite fighter, and IMO may be the greatest of all time when it's all said and done. And yet, he's essentially the challenger in this fight. Maybe not technically, but you know what i mean.
BTW I love that you hate Sherk for being a steroid abuser, but you can't wait for the Alexander vs. Irvin fight. If you were gonna paint a picture of a couple athletes who look like they sure as hell have taken some performance enhancers, it'd be those too LOL"
They're all questionable but SHERK and Hermes Franca got busted for using steroids. The funny thing is Franca admitted to it and Sherk denied it.
""hey guys isnt florian fighting soon and lauzon also or is that tonight i served florian at the restraunt i worked at he isnt that big of a guy at all lol but i would not want to fukc with him at all lol. looks crazy"
"So much for your fight of the night Rob. LOL....maybe KO of the night. Crap that was fast."
Haha, it was the fight of the night ^_^ I don't think Houston has much of a chin after seeing this fight but then again I'm not sure if I've ever been hit as hard as he has been. He now has two losses by K.O. so it's not looking too good.
Lauzon got owned pretty bad in stand up and on the ground. At least he went out while defending himself but there was no way for him to get out of that from the looks of it. Sometimes you can escape a full mount by giving up your back and flipping or spinning but it's dangerous to do because there's always a risk of your opponent getting the hooks in and submitting you but you have got to do something in that situation. Defense doesn't win the game in that type of situation but Lauzon's great either way.
The Hammer is a pretty decent fighter and ALMOST everyone knows that he's really undefeated. The loss on his record is COMPLETE and TOTAL BULLSH1T. Anyone that watched that fight knows he beat the sh1t out of that loser Michael Bisping but the judges gave the win to Bisping because he's from England(?) and the fight was in England(?). Hammil is unbeaten to this day if you ask anyone that watched that fight. It really pisses me off. I don't think Hammil has what it takes to beat the other light-heavyweights though.
"The Hammer is a pretty decent fighter and ALMOST everyone knows that he's really undefeated. The loss on his record is COMPLETE and TOTAL BULLSH1T. Anyone that watched that fight knows he beat the sh1t out of that loser Michael Bisping but the judges gave the win to Bisping because he's from England(?) and the fight was in England(?). Hammil is unbeaten to this day if you ask anyone that watched that fight. It really pisses me off. I don't think Hammil has what it takes to beat the other light-heavyweights though."
I agree 100% with every word of that. That decision was a complete joke.
"Haha, it was the fight of the night ^_^ I don't think Houston has much of a chin after seeing this fight but then again I'm not sure if I've ever been hit as hard as he has been. He now has two losses by K.O. so it's not looking too good."
Personally i'm not much of a believer in the strong/weak chin stuff. I mean it isn't a scientific or predictable thing to me. So many times you'll see a fighter get absolutely hammered right on the jaw repeatedly, and never go out. And then those exact same fighters occasionally will get knocked out COLD by a little glancing blow. In that sense i think knockouts are kind of mysterious/unpredictable. But the Irvin/Alexander fight sucked to me. I don't really care to see a guy get KO'd on the first punch......I wanna see them throw bombs for at least a minute or two. Houston's career is ALREADY on thin ice IMO. If you're a bang it out kinda guy, and you get dominated the way he did in his 1 fight that wasn't just stand-up, you sure as hell better beat the guys who DO stand up with you.
I thought the Lauzon/Florian fight was pretty cool. I DO think that Lauzon was right about being stronger and more athletic than Florian. I thought J-Lau got the best of it in the clinch with take downs and such. I'm with Rob though, Lauzon was mounted for SO long and the fight was so close to being stopped i was wondering why he wasn't giving up his back to escape, I mean a guy who trains with B.J. Penn sure as hell should know how to defend a choke. But hey maybe him not rolling over is just a credit to how good Kenny is at controlling the position.
Nate Diaz has a WORLD of potential. I can't say i've seen him beat any top tier opponents quite yet, but Pelligrino was a step up for him, and he handled it beautifully. Nate's triangles are slick as fu<k, he seems to have a way of surprising opponents with them, even against skilled jiu-jitsu fighters.
Yea but you guys have to remember the huge mistake the Pelligrino made by giving that submission to Diaz. Slamming guys like that is always dangerous because you run the risk of getting submitted and slams may be exciting to the crowd but they're not really too effective unless you can K.O. your opponent with a slam on the back of someone's head but most guys are smart enough to take the slam on their shoulders or back. I've submitted my friend who's 6' 5'' 265 pounds tons of times because he goes for a slam using his brute strength and then ends up tapping. Slams can be effective but they can be dangerous as well depending on your opponent's submission skill.
04/19/2008 7pm PT / 10pm ET Event Type: PPV Live Location: Centre Bell, Canada
Description: UFC® comes to Canada for the first time ever on Saturday, April 19th! One year ago, Matt "The Terror" Serra shocked the world by defeating Georges "Rush" St-Pierre for the UFC® Welterweight Championship. Now, after defeating Matt Hughes in December, St-Pierre enters the Octagon™ as the Interim Welterweight Champion to face the man who took his title - this time, in his home province of Quebec. Can Serra beat St-Pierre for a second time? The undisputed king of the 170-pound weight class will be determined at UFC® 83: SERRA VS. ST-PIERRE 2 - Saturday, April 19, live on Pay-Per-View from Montreal, Quebec.
Centre Bell doors open to the public at 7pm ET First bout will begin at 8pm ET On television at 10pm ET / 7pm PT
Alright, guys I want to hear everybody's opinions on the upcoming event. Personally I want to see Matt Serra destroyed because he's such an a sshole and I think GSP is the better fighter all around but eh...anything can happen. Rich Franklin will also be fighting but why? So he can be #1 contender and get his nose broken for a 3rd time by Anderson Silva? Jason Macdonald is also fighting even though he's not really good compared to the other fighters but his role in the UFC is to attract the Canadian fan base so that's why he's kept around and gets a fight every time Rich Franklin does. I'm hoping that cocky pr1ck Michael Bisping get his a-ss kicked but I'm not familiar with his opponent so I won't try to call it. Either way I'm really excited about and have been waiting for this event for a looong time.
lol why does everyone hate Serra so much all of a sudden?
This fight card is pretty boring to me actually. IMO they're trying really hard to boost the 185lb division, because the fans basically know it's weak outside of Silva. Franklin gets a gimme vs. Lutter, Bisping gets a gimme against Charles McCarthy (i'm pretty sure i could beat this kid lol), Nate Quarry > Kalib Starnes, and Jason McDonald should beat "el dirte".
gsp SHOULD beat Matt Serra but who knows, I guess the fight has potential if gsp chokes.
"lol why does everyone hate Serra so much all of a sudden? "
All of the sudden? If you watched all his interviews you'd understand. The guy talks so much sh1t it's unreal. He's cocky as hell and thinks he's unstoppable. Like you said though GSP SHOULD beat Matt Serra and that's what I'm hoping for.
I might be able to find the videos but you have to watch the weigh-ins and the pre-fight conferences and post-fight interviews to see what I'm talking about. They'd be really hard to find on UFC's website since it's been so long but you can probably watch a pre-fight interview already with Matt Serra and I'll bet he's talking junk. "isn't that the way all fighter are?" No way man, look at how humble GSP is and Anderson Silva, you don't see those guys every talking sh1t.
Unfortunately I didn't get to watch this event for various reasons. I did however read about the fights. Fights went pretty much like i predicted.
I read about the Quarry v. Starnes fight dude. Starnes already had a reputation as kind of a pu$sy and it sounds like he confirmed that. Judges scored the bout 30-27, 30-26, and 30-24.... lol 3 10-8 rounds from one judge!!!
"OMG!! I am LMAO at Nate Quarry. That was some ultra Pwnage."
That was definitely funny. At least he made a sh1t match into a memorable one by what he did haha. GSP DOMINATED Serra horribly, Serra had absolutely nothing for GSP, it was great.
So Kenflo was the guest commentator? That interview is epic. I kept expecting Quarry to say something like "yeah those kicks to the vag!na really took the wind out of his sails", but Quarry is too nice a guy.
It was a great night for mixed martial arts on Saturday in Montreal, as an enthusiastic sellout crowd of 21,390 packed the Bell Centre to watch hometown hero Georges St. Pierre reclaim the UFC welterweight title from Matt Serra at UFC 83.
It wasn't such a good night, though, for Kalib Starnes, who spent most of the evening running from Nate Quarry in their middleweight bout. A native of Surrey, B.C., Starnes was booed heavily by the Canadian crowd that had been boisterous in its support of all the other Canadians on the card.
After losing a unanimous decision on scores of 30-26, 30-27, and an unheard-of 30-24, Starnes received even worse news: He was cut from his contract by UFC president Dana White.
"He just doesn’t belong in the UFC and after his performance the other night, he should consider a new line of work," White said Monday.
Quarry pressed the action the entire fight as Starnes simply circled and refused to engage. Late in the third round, Quarry pretended to run like he was a track star in trying to find a way to get Starnes to fight.
After the bout, members of Quarry's corner were complaining to Starnes about his lack of activity. Starnes shouted an expletive at one member of Quarry's team, called him a derogatory term for hom0sexuals and challenged him to a fight.
Starnes couldn't be reached for comment about his performance, but Quarry expressed disappointment with Starnes' lack of effort.
A one-time contestant on The Ultimate Fighter, Starnes was 8-2 going into the bout and had had quality victories over Chris Leben and Jason MacDonald.
"I think if you're fighting in the UFC, you've got to come to fight," Quarry told UFC.com in a post-fight interview. "I would much rather get knocked out than lose a decision running backwards. No disrespect to Kalib. I know the stress really gets to you. A lot of guys, they focus on not wanting to lose instead of wanting to win. I didn't mean to disrespect him in any way. I just got frustrated because you can't fight when somebody's moving backward that fast."
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May 11 – Dream lightweight tournament: Dream, the MMA division of the Japanese powerhouse Fighting Entertainment Groups (FEG), has its third show on Sunday. It’s the first that airs live in the U.S., on HDNet at 3 a.m. Eastern late Saturday/early Sunday from Saitama, Japan. A replay will air at 4 p.m. ET Monday.
The lightweight tournament that began March 15 has three quarterfinal matches scheduled: Caol Uno (24-10-4) vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida (16-3-1), Eddie Alvarez (13-1) vs. Joachim Hansen (17-6-1) and Tatsuya Kawajiri (21-4-2) vs. Luiz “Buscape” Firmino (12-3). The fourth, Shinya Aoki (15-2) vs. Katsuhiko Nagata (4-2), has been moved to June 15 to give Aoki recovery time from injuries sustained in his April 29 win over tournament favorite Gesias Calvancanti.
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May 24 – B.J. Penn (12-4-1) vs. Sean Sherk (36-2-1): The main event for UFC 84 in Las Vegas is the UFC’s biggest lightweight title match in years, if not ever. The Hawaiian-born and bred Penn, who won the title on Jan. 19 with a one-sided squash of Joe Stevenson, is considered to have all-aro
I'm stoked about the Houston Alexander fight but I'm really bummed that they may not air the Clay Guida fight wtf is that about? The guy puts on an insane show! He deserves more light.
I hope Penn beats Sherk because he's a steroid abusing douche bag but I know that won't be easy. For those saying "Sherk didn't know there was steroids in that supplement..." c'mon...the guy was consuming something ridiculous like 30 servings a day of that "supplement" from Xyience. It's like smoking cigarettes with 10percent marijuan@ in them, you know what's going on but you can say you didn't know what was in the cigarettes. "Sean Sherk, you're dead."-BJ Penn 