UFC 61:Bitter Rivals: The Fight card!

**Hulk** · 07-09-2006 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Emelianenko

This was the shittest event i have ever seen. The main event was absolute disgrace, u cudnt even call it a championship fight. Man sack UFC they been failing to deliver as of lately. Absolute disgrace

Why what happend? I didin't order it. Was it boring? Who won the two big rival fights? Tito and Arlovski I would guess. But I hope Shamrock somehow pulled it out.

**Snakey** · 07-09-2006 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Emelianenko

This was the shittest event i have ever seen. The main event was absolute disgrace, u cudnt even call it a championship fight. Man sack UFC they been failing to deliver as of lately. Absolute disgrace

Why what happend? I didin't order it. Was it boring? Who won the two big rival fights? Tito and Arlovski I would guess. But I hope Shamrock somehow pulled it out.

Sylvia got a UD and shamrock unfortunately got tkoed in the first round. At least sylvia won, been a fan of his for a while. Wish ken had of won though.

**Von Milash** · 07-09-2006 06:45 PM

arlovski may as well go back to washing dishes.

**steady_E** · 07-09-2006 06:58 PM

To explain what happened in a bit more detail Tito got Shamrock on the ground and against the cage then landed a huge elbow! you see it really hurts Ken as his arms open up and alow Tito to land another 5 or 6 big elbows forcing the ref to stop the fight.
Ken shamrock then gets straight up and protests the stoppage even though he could not inteligentely defend himself.

**gillpad** · 07-09-2006 09:46 PM

Post UFC 61 thoughts: After watching one of the most hyped UFC events ever, one cannot help but be dissapointed. The possible comeback of a used up Shamrock fed the anticipation right up until his initial attack was crushed and he ended up on his back, once again, with Ortiz pounding on him. You might thing that of all the training Shamrock did in preparation for this event, he might have sharpened up his bottom/back skills, where he is absolutely abysmal. He is not going to take Ortiz or any other respectable modern wrestler down, so he might have anticipated spending some time in that position. The filler fights were pathetic, from the first bloody mess onwards. Here is a huge question for the UFC as it attempts to polish its image: why not clean up the puddles of blood? It looks horrid and barbarc. What fighter wants to get caught on his back in another fighter's puddle of blood? And why not stop the fight earlier? -- even if the bleeding fighter can continue? I'm sorry, but the bloodied warrior image is something that really doesn't need to be a part of this. And the final fight was with Arlovski and Sylvia was no more than a 3rd tier boxing match. What has been boxer couldn't have wasted either of them? There was obviously some huge caution for either of them to go to the ground. Arlovski was not going to take Sylvia down -- Sylvia, though absolutely one dimensional, is so tall and awkwardly strong, he is nearly impossible to take down; he's an ungainly goofball, but uses his dorky resources to his best advantage. His punches are short and on target -- and with his long arms and shoulderless upper body, he cam direct them with deadly efficiency. However, against a 3rd tier pro boxer, he, or Arlovsky, would be far outclassed. So what we were left with was a 4th rate boxing match with two guys that quickly bored us to death with their very limited boxing skills. As much as the Ortiz fight was anticlimactic in its sudden ending, this one was anticlimactic in its incredibly boring duration. 'Scuse me, but diesn't Arlovsky remember how to kick? Doesn't he spend hours every week training kicks? Or anything else, rather than just his two step boxing routine?

**VictorCharlie** · 07-09-2006 10:00 PM

the fights that weren't showed on tv actually were the best of the night. Hats off to Josh Burkman though, tough fight with neer and he came out w/the win

**gillpad** · 07-10-2006 04:12 AM

I'm sort of thinking that if Slyvia is the antithesis of what a fighting human being should look like. Hiw gangly, awkward posture is something that is made even worse looking by his one dimensional fighting style and his excessively primitive facial expressions -- all of which are superbly enhanced by his 'make my look at stupid as you can' haircut and facial hair. This unfortunate combination has to cause any normal person to want him to lose, which naturally is something that is frustrating, since he is winning. One wonders why? What about him makes him a good fighter? I really cannot tell. I do know that being shoulderless seems to give him a more precise punching range -- its also possible that certain primitive elements give him an edge over more civilized individuals: this situation naturally doesn't augur well for those who think technique and skill will serve them well in an event that seems to be replacing professional boxing as a combative spectator sport. How will the future fighters train, if they realize this? Perhaps lobotomies will become popular once again....or some other procedure that diminishes the IQ...

**Hulk** · 07-10-2006 05:59 AM

Sucks Shamrock got stomped again by Tito. Thats just pathtetic after all the hype. I'm surprised no one was KO'd in the main event though. Specially if they kept it on their feet the whole time. And yes Sylvia is a huge ogre looking fuck. He's tuff though.