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VX, your team was no joke either, I had you right behind Gert.

Yeah, I actually voted Gert's team the best. He got hosed in the rankings, IMO.

Just an observation: Steviekick seems to be benefiting greatly from Erving and Gilmore's inflated ABA statistics.

I didn't know we could do this

I call shenanigans if your team wins, only because you have Jordan

Well, hopefully it proved I was better than 12th since I took the 5th ranked team to the absolute brink.

I'm in agreement with whoever said MMA fighters have some lame ass nicknames. Seems like everybody that walks to the cage (especially Americans) has to have one, regardless of how stupid it sounds. Ken Flo is one of those names that sounds decent enough by itself, but when used with his full name, Kenny "Ken Flo" Florian, just sounds ridiculous. Simple ones like "Rampage," "Iceman," and the "Natural" seem to work best.

Remember when a lot of people on here were riding Kongo's jock, proclaiming him the next big thing at HW? You know who you are! As for the answer to the topic's question, Michael Bisping. Dude is just an unprofessional prick.

Yeah, B.J. can be kind of a prick, but he can also be reserved and seem pretty nice at times. The licking blood and running back to the dressing room stuff is what kind of makes me shake my head. It's cool to show enthusiasm, but damn, act like you've done it before. GSP is almost always respectful (though he talked shit to Serra in the interviews leading up to their match, but come on, it's Serra, he gives as good as he gets) and treats his victories like another day at the office. Yeah, he shows enthusiasm with the back flip, but he doesn't scream profanities (not saying B.J. does these things), bury his opponent or put on some kind of macho, pro wrestling-like, testosterone fueled celebration. Couple that with being a freakish athlete and you have one of the most well respected fighters in the world, at least by me.

I like both guys, but B.J. is just too weird for me sometimes. GSP

It's no worse than much of the disrespectful bullshit that goes on post-fight in the UFC.

Cool, thanks for doing this.

Well, at least you're being optimistic, heh heh

I saw that today. I guess they are assuming that Rampage's legal trouples won't interfere with his fighting career and that Shogun will be injury free (no small task for him as of late). Interesting to see if Quinton has improved his clinch game, but seeing as how he is 1-3 against Chute Boxe/former Chute Boxe fighters (with the one victory being a disputed decision) tells me that he is about as good as he will get against them. Lost a lot of respect for Quinton since the Forrest fight, so it wouldn't bother me too terribly much to see Shogun beat him, then march his way back to the top for a rematch with Griffin (hopefully with a match against Chuck along the way).

Does this have our whole squad or just the starting five that you listed?

Not going to happen... Stop living in a dreamworld. Yes, sir. Anyway, he has left the organization in the past and nobody thought Randy was going to leave either.

If the UFC signs anyone of those fighters, I'll change my mind... But at 170, there are more valid fighters who are not in the up and coming stage who can give BJ a challenge. Therefore the best option for him right now is the welterweight division. In the UFC's current LW division, he is head and shoulders above the rest of the competition. I was thinking more along the lines of B.J. leaving to fight one or more of them in another promotion. Especially considering that a few of the guys I mentioned would have difficulties passing certain mandatory tests...

I didn't even know the Janitor still fought. Has he been hurt or just fighting on smaller cards?

I'd prefer B.J. to stay at 155 if only for the off chance that he will one day rematch Gomi or face Calvan, Kawajiri, Aoki, Melendez, etc. I know it's probably a long shot that any of those fights happen, but there is obviously a better chance that they will happen if he stays at his current weight. Say, for instance, that B.J. moves up to 170 and beats GSP. Where does he go from there? At least if he stays at 155 and beats one of the above he can move on to the next fighter since the competition at LW is probably the fiercest and toughest out of all the weight divisions.

It wasn't surprising. It's great, but not the greatest of all time.

I loved the movie, but this is kind of ridiculous.

Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. I just didn't want to be the first guy to admit that they weren't really, truly impressed by Lesnar's domination of Herring. It surprised me, yes, because I thought Herring would at least put up more of a fight or try to utilize some type of submission game (please, withhold your laughter), but Lesnar's victory really didn't tell me anything other than that he's strong and has good takedowns and he can beat somebody who can be sloppy and inconsistent.

Well Heath is solidly in the middle as a HW; not quite good enough to be considered a top HW, but too experienced and tough to be considered a bad one. Brock still needs some work, but he definitely impressed me more than he did against Mir (obviously). As for future HW champ, I don't think so, at least not as long as Nogueira is still there. GSP probably should have finished Fitch within regulation, but Jon is tough as nails so that can hardly be considered a knock. Wouldn't fighting Kongo next be a step down for Lesnar? Or does him being a very beatable fighter for Brock have something to do with it?

Yeah, me too. It's kind of like the pre-season rankings and I need for my team to prove itself in actual game play. I guess it works out kind of well since 16 is a nice round tournament number.

Super Duper FOTYC video/DL thread! I'll try and update this as the year progresses, I tried to find all videos in streaming format, but I had to use DL links for one or two, but thankfully none of the files were split. HAYATO vs. Ryuji (2.2.08 / K-1 Japan GP) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDzkBFaIoY8 Daiki Tsuchiya vs. Hidenori Yoshino (2.23.08 / Shooto) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76FplJir8M Se Ki Kim vs. Virgil Kalakoda (2.24.08 / K-1 MAX Korea) Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjYOKnzfPg Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t-9ozJoo-o Rich Crunkilton vs. Sergio Gomez (3.26.08 / WEC 33) http://www.mmavideosonline.com/2008/03/ser...crunkilton.html Frank Shamrock vs. Cung Le (3.29.08 / Elite XC) http://www.mmalinker.com/xSearch.php?name=...4486&vidt=i Kenny Florian vs. Joe Lauzon (4.2.08 / UFN 13) http://www.mmalinker.com/xExternal.php?vidid=6404 Mac Danzig vs. Mark Boeck (4.19.08 / UFC 83) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FG5TYLJ1 Jonathan Goulet vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka (4.19.08 / UFC 83) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X0PQN85H Bjorn Bregy vs. Errol Zimmerman (4.26.08 / K-1 Amsterdam GP) Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8ddKMNhIkM Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoUfFpx2xCw Remy Bonjasky vs. Melvin Manhoef (4.26.08 / K-1 Amsterdam GP) Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSEPS9hEMsk Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdTjABQGzi0 Daisuke Nakamura vs. Bukyung Jong (5.11.08 / Dream 3) http://www.mmavideosonline.com/2008/05/dai...yung-video.html Eddie Alvarez vs. Joachim Hansen (5.11.08 / Dream 3) Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ2GSEdDic4 Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVNTMgvJNok Caol Uno vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida (5.11.08 / Dream 3) Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSw_lZMmMko Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6G030q_KEE Robbie Lawler vs. Scott Smith (5.31.08 / Elite XC) [Poor finish almost forced me to leave it off, but before that it was money] Part 1: http://www.mmalinker.com/xSearch.php?name=...5155&vidt=i Part 2: http://www.mmalinker.com/xSearch.php?name=...5156&vidt=i Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda (6.1.08 / WEC 34) Send Me a P.M. Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver (6.1.08 / WEC 34) Send Me a P.M. Hideo Tokoro vs. Darren Uyenoyama (6.15.08 / Dream 4) Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_G_e02RT4M Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZEG7YXvOcs Gegard Mousasi vs. Yoon Dong Sik (6.15.08 / Dream 4) [beware: second round sucks, but first is great] http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/searc...-yoon-dre_sport Semmy Schilt vs. Jerome Le Banner (6.29.08 / K-1 Fukuoka) Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taAe9o7jXdQ Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot-th4mSq1k Shinya Aoki vs. Caol Uno (7.21.08 / Dream 5) Part 1: Part 2: Eddie Alvarez vs. Tatsuya Kawaijiri (7.21.08 / Dream 5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sMaGxwpNw Carlos Condit vs. Hiromitsu Miura (8.3.08 / WEC 35) http://www.mmalinker.com/xExternal.php?vidid=6496 Paul Slowinski vs. Aziz Jahjah (8.9.08 / K-1 Hawaii GP) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLl-d9WL2ew...feature=related Nate Diaz vs. Josh Neer (9.17.08 / UFN 15) http://mmadepot.blogspot.com/2008/09/ufn-1...vs-houston.html (Labeled wrong, but it's the right fight) Ruslan Karaev vs. Chalid Die Faust (9.27.08 / K-1 Final 16) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fj2SwYp_X0 Semmy Schilt vs. Peter Aerts (9.27.08 / K-1 Final 16) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqdoVXJtfDc Chris Lytle vs. Paul Taylor (10.18.08 / UFC 89) Part 1 Part 2 Enjoy!!!