Watched the UFC Last night and...

**the phenom** · 02-11-2007 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by Starr

Originally Posted by the phenom

i was actually dsapointed with silva he can be taken down way to easy espaecailly travis lutter travis is not a good fighter that he won like tha against a sorry drined dude it was disapointing

Silva has a very good ground game too and he submitted Lutter at Lutter's own game, thats impressive

i agree but he can be taken down to easy

**Purist** · 02-11-2007 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by the phenom

Originally Posted by Starr

Originally Posted by the phenom

i was actually dsapointed with silva he can be taken down way to easy espaecailly travis lutter travis is not a good fighter that he won like tha against a sorry drined dude it was disapointing

Silva has a very good ground game too and he submitted Lutter at Lutter's own game, thats impressive

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.

**Preme** · 02-18-2007 03:07 AM

Originally Posted by Hulk

I'm sure that the UFC guys mentioned this or maybe they didn't but Jackson vs Eastman was actually a rematch, and Jackson had lost the first fight back in the King of the Cage days. Back when "Rampage" was first starting to do MMA. I gots it on DVD. Also you guys see the arms on Eastman?! The fuker must have 20 inch arms at least, he's a fukin monster.

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.

**Hulk** · 02-18-2007 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by Preme

Originally Posted by Hulk

I'm sure that the UFC guys mentioned this or maybe they didn't but Jackson vs Eastman was actually a rematch, and Jackson had lost the first fight back in the King of the Cage days. Back when "Rampage" was first starting to do MMA. I gots it on DVD. Also you guys see the arms on Eastman?! The fuker must have 20 inch arms at least, he's a fukin monster.

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.

Yep, he has the build to be a running back.

**The Boxer** · 02-19-2007 06:12 PM

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.

**VictorCharlie** · 03-02-2007 05:20 PM

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?

**ukgaz** · 03-02-2007 06:10 PM

"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

**Von Milash** · 03-02-2007 06:14 PM

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.

**Von Milash** · 03-02-2007 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by ukgaz

"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

1-3, no doubt played a factor, but I think the key issue right now is Pride's inability to generate TV revenues.

**ukgaz** · 03-02-2007 06:43 PM

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