UFC 88: Breakthrough - Liddell vs. Evans

[UFC 88: Breakthrough - Liddell vs. Evans]

courtesy of MMAJunkie:

 

* Rashad Evans vs. Chuck Liddell

* Rich Franklin vs. Matt Hamill

* Dan Henderson vs. Rousimar Palhares

* Karo Parisyan vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida

* Tim Boetsch vs. James Lee

* Roan Carneiro vs. Ryo Chonan

* Matt Brown vs. Dong Hyun Kim

 

looks like a pretty sick card, lot of star power. Evans, Liddell, Franklin, Henderson, Parisyan on one card looks good to me. Carneiro vs. Chonan will be an submission clinic

[The MMA Folder Presents: Half-Year Poll for 2008]

Fight of The Year: Miguel Torres v. Yoshiro Maeda

Fighter of The Year: Forrest Griffin

Show of The Year: WEC: Faber v. Pulver

Best KO: James Irvin 8 sec. KO

Best Submission: Aokiplata

Best Promo: Mike Brown mocking Jeff Monson

Fighter to Watch: Brian Stann

Weight Class of The Year: Affliction Heavyweight

[UFN - Silva vs. Irvin]

Vera's a bum...I hope he gets KOed by Jardine

[Affliction - Banned: Fedor vs. Sylvia]

MMAMania is reporting an Arlovski/Emelianenko fight in October in Vegas.

[JoeDirt's old school match thread]

Chris Jericho's WWE Debut

[Awesome Wrestling Pictures]

[Sandman arrested]

Wish I could say I didn't see this coming...hope sandman recovers and gets sober again

 

[What Might Have Been: Old School Edition]

If Michaels left, Bret Hart would have stayed and had the ladder match with Razor Ramon. If anyone read Hart's autobiography, they would know that Hart is the one who introduced the Ladder Match idea to Vince. He was supposed to have the first ladder match, but Vince gave it to HBK. My guess is that Vince would have made the Hart Foundation faction up like DX. How successful this would have been, I have no idea.

[Smackdown Spoilers for 7/25]

sounds like a pretty solid show...I'll have to tune in for this. It would be really nice to see Smackdown take care of guys like Shannon Moore, Brian Kendrick, Jeff Hardy and Kennedy. I think Shannon Moore is really underrated....his 3 count gimmick with WCW was one of the best things that they had in a horrible promotion near the end.

[Rated PG Superstar?]

I'd rather good wrestling than the lame attitude era angles any day. Guys like Jericho, Kennedy, HBK and Cena can be great on the mic without making it lude and inappropriate

[The complaints over 'unrealistic' angles]

these kind of angles can be pulled off if they are done well. If they were going to hit Cena with a car, at least have him looking hurt like 3 weeks after. He came out on RAW absolutely fine...it was irritating. In the old days, Ricky Steamboat would get hit with a ring bell and sell it for 6 months.

[Bobby Lashley, WWE copyrights, and AAA]

AAA's parent company is run by the third richest man in Latin America and he's able to pay off the rights fees.

 

fair enough

[What Might Have Been #1]

I wonder what is going to happen with Regal? He has to be on thin ice

[WWE fans at their finest]

really wanted those chairs eh?

[Does WWE have to many titles?]

I personally think that there should only be one championship belt, one IC level belt, one set of Tag titles and one Women's championship....but titles are used as getting people over so I guess it wouldnt work. It seems like everyone has a title though

 

[Guys who you KNEW sucked]

I like all of those old time guys like Duggan, DiBiase, Slaughter etc. The fact that people still talk about them speaks volumes for them. I personally always hated Scotty Too Hotty. One thing in wrestling that I can't stand are all these gimmicky ground attacks. You have The Peoples Elbow, The Worm, The 5 Knuckle Shuffle, the Road Dogg knee drop thing and now Kofi Kingston has one..ugh.

[Affliction - Banned: Fedor vs. Sylvia]

looking forward to this event....I cant believe people think Sylvia will put up a fight

[Vince McMahon = Howard Hughes?]

I'm for the Howard Hughes idea!

[Smackdown Spoilers for 7/18]

i still dont feel comfortable watching Vickie on TV kissing Edge...kind of doesnt seem right

[News You Can (barely) Use]

Bret Hard did an interview with Canada.com where he pretty much bashes Hulk Hogan and says he would never do martial arts...good read.

[UFN - Silva vs. Irvin]

what if Irvin wins? Will it be a bigger upset than Serra vs. GSP or Gonzaga vs. Cro Cop?

[MMA in Pictures]

[Announced Round By Round scoring in MMA]

If we want overall fight scoring, we're going to need better MMA judges. If these guys mess up something as simple as 10-9 rounds, they aren't going to be able to score an entire fight right. Get Big John, Dan Severn and maybe Eddie Bravo or something to judge fights

[UFC 87 - Seek and Destroy]

i was willing to write off Roger Huerta as the latest project for the UFC hype machine but when he beat Clay Guida I was impressed. I still like Florian in this fight though.

[MMA Comments that Don't Warrant a Thread]

i have no idea what is going to happen with Rampage....he really escalated that situation