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Bushido was a show introduced by Pride to showcase their lighter weight fighters. They used to have a few heavyweight matches on there to draw, but the success of Bushido since the tournaments have allowed them to discontinue that. Other recommendations: Pride 10: Return of the Warriors (Saku/Renzo, Shamrock/Fujita, Igor/Enson, Silva/Mezger, Yvel/Goodridge), Pride 19: Bad Blood (Newton/Pele, Shamrock/Frye, Nogueira/Enson), Total Elimination and Final Conflict from 2003 (LHW tournament including Silva, Rampage, Liddell, etc.; only bought through pridefc.com, Sherdog, and other online retailers; pretty pricey however) I believe the rule if both fighters tumble out of the ring is to restart them standing; unless there is an injury in which case it goes to either the judge's score cards (if it's out of rd.1, IIRC) or is ruled a no contest. If another fighter intentionally throws another fighter out of the ring, it's grounds for disqualification. If a fighter intentionally crawls out of the ring (see: Herring vs. Fedor), he receives a yellow card. Hope that helps.

I can afford the ticket, but the cash to fly out there would be too much. This is great news, but too bad it's under shitty American MMA rules.

If you don't know what to do now, wait until you graduate college, then the fun really starts!

Because I don't have a lot of those matches on DVD. Its true a lot of those matches have been released on a lot of recent dvd's but a lot of people do not own all those dvd's. I guess that's true... though I thought they would have had a few more "new" matches than ones we've all see 1000 times.

Careful, any more Wes Sims is God jokes are gonna turn this place into another DVDR.

I'm willing to give Sergei the benefit of the doubt due to him injuring both of his arms in his past couple fights. He's at least shown me a little bit in his wins, unlike Aleks who really has only beaten scrubs. However, Lei does shit on every fight that doesn't involve one of his favs , so take what he has to say about this fight with a grain of salt, it will probably be a good/great fight.

Here's my lists with the same players you used; I did not use ABA stats/awards for consideration, only NBA. Center: 1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2. Wilt Chamberlain 3. Bill Russell 4. Shaquille O'Neal 5. Moses Malone 6. Hakeem Olajuwon 7. David Robinson 8. Willis Reed 9. Elvin Hayes 10. Wes Unseld Power Forward: 1. Bob Pettit 2. Karl Malone 3. Tim Duncan 4. Charles Barkley 5. Kevin Garnett 6. Jerry Lucas 7. Billy Cunningham 8. Kevin McHale 9. George McGinnis 10. Dennis Rodman Small Forward: 1. Larry Bird 2. Elgin Baylor 3. Julius Erving 4. John Havlicek 5. Scottie Pippen 6. Dominique Wilkins 7. James Worthy 8. Alex English 9. Bernard King 10. Adrian Dantley Shooting Guard: 1. Michael Jordan 2. Oscar Robertson 3. Jerry West 4. Allen Iverson 5. George Gervin 6. Rick Barry 7. Kobe Bryant 8. Clyde Drexler 9. Pete Maravich 10. Reggie Miller Point Guard: 1. Magic Johnson 2. Bob Cousy 3. John Stockton 4. Isiah Thomas 5. Walt Frazier 6. Gary Payton 7. Tiny Archibald 8. Jason Kidd 9. Tim Hardaway 10. Kevin Johnson

I'm glad i'm not the only one who hates Lindland because of his stupid stupid fanboys. You hear that Blockhead Dan?? Ban me now you stupid looking cocksucker...I hope they bring Lindland back so Franklin can knock his ass out and shut everyone up...if I remember correctly the dumb bald bastard knocked himself out trying to slam Falaniko Vitale a few years ago... Lindland looked pretty good against Rampage, I've got nothing against him... On a side note, anyone who bashes the DVDR MMA board is fine by me.

Allan Goes def. Kazushi Sakuraba via Unanimous JD in a just world. I was gonna mention that too, but I don't think there were judges in that fight.

Pride works: Any fight that Takada won Ogawa vs. Goodridge There have most assuredly been other fights where one fighter was probably asked to "take it easy" on the other fighter, but for out and out pre-planned finishes the above "fights" are the best examples. As for Saku's fights being worked, that's opening up a huge can of worms for some people, but I'm not among them, I consider all of Saku's fights to be legit. Of course he got some help in some (the Mezger fight for instance) but IMO all of the fights he had in Pride were legit. To answer your other question about the year by year list, Dama: http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfi...ganization_id=3

Reggie Miller was no. 62.

Why would someone want to buy this when 95% of the matches have already been released on DVD?

Manhoef has excellent standup but his wind sucks and he's never really been tested on the ground by anyone noteworthy. Great fun to watch, though.

I'm not accusing you of this YPOV, but it seems like a lot of the people that are saying Rampage lost are the same ones who said he was washed up and finished, as if they don't wanna believe that he is still a good fighter.

It's exciting, called a FOTY canidadate by some, though I believe there is too much clinching for that. Still a great fight, however.

I thought he did really well against Lindland, and actually scored more takedowns, which is amazing considering Lindland only got one takedown himself and he is an Olympic Silver medalist. Matt looked really great too, throwing high kicks, a backfist (?!) and several sub attempts that Rampage was able to power his way out of.

*waits for Dramamara or whatever his name is to come in declaring Rampage/Lindland was the worse desicion ever* Personally, the fight should have been a draw, but I can understand a Jackson decision. Lindland won the first, Jackson the second, and the third was probably a draw, but Jackson did finish pretty strong with the elbows, busting Matt open. He also connected with a pretty stiff jab, but Matt did have the guillotine sunk in fairly tight. No qualms with the decision, though, great effort by both guys.

You neglected to mention the fact that the cut was caused by an inadvertant elbow, and would have been declared a No Contest had it not been a tournament fight.

In news that's sure to make Lei wet himself, Shinya Aoki and Hioki Hatsu are confirmed for the next Pride, against Jason Black and Jeff Curran, respectively. Gilbert Melendez is also scheduled to fight against Nobuhiro Obiya and Kawajiri will be fighting Chris Brennan.

As EHME said, the Rampage/Lindland fight was a VERY, VERY close fight. Great escapes by Quinton, Matt showed a lot of determination as well.

Study habits? In community college? Seriously though, it's the way to go, unless you're one of those people that just has to get away from their parents and immediately go to a four year college. Saves you a ton of money too. Additionally, I can count on my hands the number of papers I wrote in my two years at community college. Compare that with a freshman year at a four year school and you'll be glad you went to CC.

Woah, that's pretty cool.

Fedor's adaptability is the greatest asset of his game. I really can't see him having any trouble using the cage to his advantage.

Well doesn't he have to be clean if this is in America? Unless of course he was roiding during that picture.

I'm not sure if Pele has better standup than Manhoef. Manhoef has more power and seems to have more control, while Pele can get kind of wild at times, though he is much better in the clinch. I say it's a tossup. As for Newton/Manhoef, it's really the only fight that I really care about on that card; Saku and Akiyama win in squashes and Rodrigo/Oyama, *ugh* unless it ends like Oyama/Ryan with Shungo going batshit before falling into a wicked armbar.