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» Danzig's pick for Tito vs Forest |
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Nov 20, 2009 - 12:40 PM - by CreatureCore
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From sherdogs pros pick, found it pretty funny.
Mac Danzig: Seven years ago, I was coming off a decision loss in the WEC that was held in Connecticut. As if a five-hour plane ride back home after a disappointing loss wasn’t miserable enough, Tito Ortiz was sitting directly in front of me. He had been wearing his UFC belt everywhere the entire weekend of the fight and was still wearing it in the airport and now on the plane ride home, too. He had to turn it backwards to comfortably sit on the plane. He proceeded to tilt his seat back as far as it could possibly go. This left nothing in my forward vision except for a giant yellow head, not to mention the fact that his seat was basically in my lap, which was more than mildly uncomfortable. Over the course of the next five hours, I tried my best to sleep, but every time I opened my eyes, there was a huge sphere of yellow hairs with dark roots coming in no less than 12 inches from my face. I was bordered on the right by a window and on the left by Colin Oyama. Luckily for me, I was able to suppress this memory for quite some time, but after seeing that giant yellow head bounce around the ring a few times afterward, I’d get flashbacks. Rumor had it that just a few weeks earlier, Lee Murray soccer-kicked a giant yellow beach ball in a British pub. Forrest by TKO in round three.
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» Royce Gracie Interview 11/17/09: "Who is he?" [Eddie Bravo] |
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Nov 19, 2009 - 9:49 PM - by SOUTHPAW
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On November 12th, 1993 in Denver, Colorado, combat sports as we knew them changed forever. It was on this night that a new sport was unveiled. A company called SEG Sports held a revolutionary pay-per-view event. Dubbed The Ultimate Fighting Championship, this event would pit renowned practitioners of several different fighting styles in a one-night tournament. When 26-year-old Royce Gracie entered the cage that evening, very few people could have imagined that he would not only run through the evening's competition, but that he would also initiate a major change in the way that the general public viewed fighting. At approximately 175 pounds, Royce efficiently dispatched of multiple opponents that were much larger and quicker. As Gracie racked up win after win against bigger and stronger athletes, many fighters worldwide began training, at least to some degree, in the discipline of jiu-jitsu. The sport on display at that first UFC was quickly dubbed "No Holds Barred (NHB)" fighting and that initial pay-per-view event drew over 86,000 buys. The sport eventually evolved into what we now know as mixed martial arts (MMA) and jiu-jitsu has become a discipline that is extremely well represented in MMA today. Those of us who are sports fanatics know that terms like legendary get thrown around FAR too often. Very few athletes can truly be called iconic figures in their sport. Because of the accomplishments of Gracie in MMA's embryonic stage, most observers would agree that terms like "legendary" and "iconic figure" would be appropriate terms for Royce Gracie. He was MMA's version of John L Sullivan, the first superstar in his burgeoning sport. Royce Gracie finished his MMA career with a 14-3-3 record (* one of those losses was because he was unable to continue in a tournament due of injuries sustained in a prior victory), with twelve of... [Read More]
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» GSP Video Interview Pt. 2: talks Olympics, Retirement |
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Nov 19, 2009 - 9:30 PM - by SOUTHPAW
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On retirement:
"I want to retire on top, I don’t want to retire after a couple [of] knockouts because my number-one priority is my wellbeing, not my success."
"It’s very hard for a boxer or a MMA fighter to retire on top."
On what motivates him as a fighter:
"I started fighting because I like the art itself. I like martial arts; I’m a mixed martial artist. I didn’t first start fighting for the money because when I started I didn’t have any money. I was working three jobs at the time. I was studying at university, so I didn’t have any money. I did it for the... [Read More]
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» Dana White: "Brock Lesnar Had a Hole In His Intestine" |
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Nov 19, 2009 - 3:39 PM - by SOUTHPAW
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Quote:
White cautioned that things could still go either way. He could fight. He could not. No one knows at this point. Lesnar was resting Wednesday at his home in Alexandria, Minn. and was scheduled to visit the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. early next week for a battery of tests.
"He had a hole in his intestine," White said. "The (stuff) was leaking into his stomach. That's what was causing him so much pain. That and he had abscesses.
"The doctor told him he hasn't been right for a year. His immune system has been trying to fight this thing and that's why he was susceptible to getting sick."
That likely explains Lesnar’s original diagnosis of mono. He had been weakened to the point that he was unable to train for the Carwin fight for much of October. That prompted the original delay in the fight. Then last week, the intestinal problem flamed up and Lesnar was hospitalized.
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» Top Rankings |
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Updated
by Nodachi on September 30th, 2009
Heavyweight
1.Fedor
2.Lesnar
3.Mir
4.Big Nog
5.Rogers
6.Carwin
7.Santos
8.Arlovski
9.Werdum
10.Overeem
Light Heavyweight
1.Machida
2.Jackson
3.Evans
4.A.Silva
5.Griffin
6.Rua
7.Mousasi
8.Cane
9.Lil Nog
10.T.Silva
Middleweight
1.Silva
2.Marquardt
3.Henderson
4.Belfort
5.Santiago
6.Okami
7.Shields
8.Lawyer
9.Akiyama
10.Mia
Welterweight
1.Pierre
2.Fitch
3.Alves
4.Shields
5.Hughes
6.Parisyan
7.Thiago
8.Koscheck
9.Zaromski
10.Sakurai
Lightweight
1.Penn
2.Aoki
3.Alvarez
4.Kawajiri
5.Florian
6.Hansen
7.Calvancanti
8.Hirota
9.Maynard
10.Edgar
Featherweight
1.Brown
2.Faber
3.Aldo
4.Hioki
5.Fabiano
6.Inoue
7.Assuncao
8.Garcia
9.Mishima
10.Sandro
Bantamweight
1.Bowles
2.Torres
3.Ueda
4.Mizugaki
5.Tamura
6.Cruz
7.Ribeiro
8.Benevidaz
9.Yahya
10.Page
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