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Originally Posted by Starr
i agree but he can be taken down to easy
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Originally Posted by Starr
i agree but he can be taken down to easy
Does it matter as long as he's as effective as he is on the ground? It's like they say about Mayweather, there's nowhere in the ring where he isn't comfortable.Quote:
Originally Posted by the phenom
aye they did mention it, eastman beat jackson in his first ever MMA fight. Eastman was an x pro footballer to, i think he was a running back? im not certain on the positions of the american footy players, but it hink it was a running back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hulk
Yep, he has the build to be a running back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Preme
this lightweight contender was susposed to be fighting an MMA guy in south Korea on sunday. his name is Sirimongkol Singwangcha. any word on how he did.
I havent thought that Rampage has looked the same ever since the atrocious beatings he took from Wanderlei...never the less UFC's LHW is pretty thin and his addition is a good move, not to mention the rematch with Chuck. I'd pick Mirko over Sylvia, but w/a late TKO. Tim is so conservative it will take 4-5 rounds of CroCop working on him to put him away. I agree it will be a succession of vicious leg kicks that will ultimately spell tim's doom. Although I have the utmost respect for Couture, I simply don't see him being able to beat Tim. I'd go with a third round TKO or stoppage due to cuts. Anderson Silva is an awesome striker, and pretty well rounded, but is very beatable(see ryan chonan fight). I can think of a number of 185ers that will strongly test Silva. by they way i've been in Afghanistan for the past 4 months...what led to crocop leaving Pride..I thought they resigned him after the GP?
"what led to crocop leaving Pride"
Take your pick from
1) More money/fame from the UFC
2) Quicker route to the world title in the UFC
3) Doubts over how soon he would have had a rematch with Fedor what with fedor taking fight in russia. If he gets injured ( his right hand has not been 100% for a while) it would have been pushed back even further. Some have said he was avoiding fedor but I don't believe that for a second
4) Pride's future a bit clouded. Plus they are disorganised what with non title fights, etc
Pride is in financian disrepair. I think, basically, there was some sort of scandal... corruption in Pride... and the bottm line, they lost their TV contract, or couldn't rer-new it or whatever. so fighters are leaving because, IMO, it seems like Pride will go insolvent if they can't get past these scandals/contract disputes.
1-3, no doubt played a factor, but I think the key issue right now is Pride's inability to generate TV revenues.Quote:
Originally Posted by ukgaz
It will be interesting to see how the Pride for sale thing works out. TV companys in Japan don't want to get involved with them due to all the corruption. I think pride's future lies not with Sakakibara but with Ed Fishman, Zuffa or another unnamed party. Sakakibara has done well to build Pride ( with huge thanks to Kazushi Sakuraba in the early years) but that hard work is being undone despite a great Pride 33 and as a big mma fan it is painfull to watch