AboveAverage484

Bellsouth?

I only share the folders when Kazaa is on, and that's only when I'm downloading something. How do I know if my provider is SBC?

What do you mean, I've got like 200 files off of Kazaa plus a lot of MMA highlight videos.

Ya know Kinetic, that sounds like what needs to be done. Uh, how do you defrag or run disk cleanup? I know, I'm dumb.

Well, Semmy has beaten Bonjasky, Michael McDonald, and Musashi and drew with Hoost, which is as impressive a first four fights I've seen. (that sounded awkward, but you catch my drift) He was scheduled to fight in the 2002 GP, but was "hurt" and withdrew, with Hoost taking his place. Plus, he's kind of boring in K-1, I'd rather see him in MMA.

Was it sicker than this: http://216.40.244.4/k1/k12001final/k12001f...v_vs_pettas.zip

ADCC is a grappling only organization, a lot of "dream matchups" by MMA standards have taken place there, including: Tito Ortiz vs. Ricardo Arona Ricco Rodriguez vs. Murilo Bustamante Nogueira vs. David Dodd Carlos Newton vs. Rodrigo Gracie Caol Uno vs. John Lewis Matt Serra vs. Dan Gilbert Royler Gracie vs. Jaun Valles Jean-Jacques Machado vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka Carlos Machado vs Arystos Aleksandridi Schembri vs Salexander Savko Mark Kerr vs Josh Barnett Vitor Belfort vs Genki Sudo Ricco Rodriguez vs Antonio "Minotauro" Nogueira Matt Hughes vs Tito Ortiz Jean-Jacques Machado vs Ricardo Arona Rumina Sato vs Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro Fabiano Iha vs Joe Hurley Roberta "Roleta" Magalhaes vs Rodrigo "Cumprido" Medeiros Baret Yoshida vs Wellingoton "Megaton" Diaz Eddie Ruiz vs Hayoto "Mach" Sakurai Mario Sperry vs Larry Parker Eddie Bravo actually beat Royler Gracie last year in one of these competitions.

I'm pretty damn sure he was having heart palpatations. He called for Pete Williams to throw in the towel when he was in the corner cuz he thought he might be having a heart attack. I doubt he gassed cuz if anything he would be getting air just sitting in the corner.

Rizzo fought in K-1 twice I think, he lost to Michael Thompson of Kyokushin Karate (Andy Hug) and won his other match I think. Out of the names you listed Rizzo and Rutten would probably do the best since Rizzo is a former Brazilian muay thai champion and Rutten wasn't too shabby either. Belfort may have the hand speed but I don't think I've ever seen him throw a kick and I've seen very few knees from him. Being one dimensional will only get you so far in K-1. (ask Bernardo) Liddell is too reliant on his haymakers and would probably get KO'd. I know he has a hard chin, but we know that because he's taken a lot of shots, and coming from some of the strikers in K-1 that's pretty dangerous. He does mix it up with knees and kicks, so I would peg him higher than Belfort. I don't believe Penn will be doing kickboxing in K-1, only MMA, because he is kind of in purgatory in K-1 standup; he's 170 and supoosedly walks around at 190, but the K-1 Max fighters are sub 70 kg(150 lbs.) while the heavies are 205 and up. On the early cards there used to be a lot of lesser weight fights on the cards but it's pretty much strictly HW now.

Yeah, I've got that clip, too. It may have just caught Gary in the right spot. I've seen weaker KO's in K-1. (Filho/Greco) (Aerts/Bernardo I)

Well, yeah, but it's still a jab, people don't get knocked out by jabs. Boxing implies that there is no power behind jabs because you're not using your body weight, therefore it's difficult to get KO'd by one unless; (a) you have a weak chin, or (b) the jabber is extremely powerful. Take your pick on the Goodridge/Le Banner fight.

I hate Sapp as a K-1 fighter, I wish he would fight strictly MMA. His only other win over a name fighter is against Abidi and he was a big pussy against Bonjasky and Cro Cop. If he fought someone like Le Banner or Hunt, guys with good boxing skills, he would get wasted. He got floored by Kimo and Seth Petruzelli in his last fight which is also pretty pathetic. Until he consistently fights B level fighters and beats them he remains unranked. Goodridge should stick to MMA, his style is too out of control for K-1. He's better than Sapp because he has more control over his punches, and uses knees and kicks, but he still can't hang with the big boys in K-1. His "fight" against Bernardo was a rigged piece of garbage, as he knocked Bernardo down with a punch to the shoulder, tried to hit him again when he was down, and then was awarded the fight by TKO, despite Bernardo getting up immediately afterwards with no signs of damage shown. BTW, Bernardo DESTROYED Gary in the rematch at Inoki Bom-Bay-Ye 2002. As for the fight against Hunt, Hunt fought injured and still managed to win, but Gary did show improvement, albeit the ability not get KTFO'd in the first minute like he did against a Le Banner JAB in the 2002 opening rounds. I like Gary, though, cool guy. Well I find Fedor similar to Igor striking-wise and Igor got picked apart by Hoost with low-kicks in '99. Wanderlei is too small for K-1, but he did stand and bang with Cro Cop, albeit a Cro Cop that was afraid of takedowns and muay thai clinches, two things illegal in K-1. Yvel has fought in K-1, against Ray Sefo, and it was similar to Igor's fight, in that both displayed great toughness, but eventually succumbed to lowkicks. Thanks

I'd rank Mirko as an B+ fighter in his prime. He lost to Hoost three times, he beat Aerts in 2001, but lost to Hug in 2000. He lost to and beat Bernardo in the 1st round, and he fought and beat Le Banner back in '96 when both fighters were still fairly young. Only victory by KO/TKO out of the previously mentioned was against Bernardo. I'd rank him with Filho and Sefo in the B+ category. FYI: A+ Hoost Aerts A Hug A- Bernardo (I may be stretching, but he was VERY dangerous whenever he fought '95-'98) Le Banner B+ Filho Sefo Cro Cop Greco B Leko Hunt Bonjasy Ignashov Holm Carter Williams B- Abidi McDonald Musashi Satake (token Japanese fighters) C Pettas Skelton Van Dams and then everybody else, I may be forgetting some fighters, but that's a very rough draft of the K-1 grading system *edit* Screw it, Greco is a B+ and Carter and Holm are B's, and Feitosa is downgraded to unranked. Told you it was rough, I changed my mind five minutes after posting.

Abidi is a lot better than many give him credit for. The only thing is he can look really good or really shitty, I mean, he did KO Aerts a couple years ago. He just has a tendency to get out of control and his heart really isn't in some matches.

One thing everyone has to remember is that boxing and K-1 are two entirely different entities. Frans Botha was handily beating Tyson in a boxing a couple years ago, but he's 0-4 in K-1 against B-level fighters.

This is only out of the bands I listen too, and I didn't include live albums or compilations. 1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid 2. Metallica - Master of Puppets 3. Slayer - Reign in Blood 4. Metallica - Kill 'Em All 5. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 6. Sepultura - Chaos A.D. 7. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast 8. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 9. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz 10. Motörhead - Ace of Spades 11. Megadeth - Rust in Peace 12. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell 13. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 14. Dio - Holy Diver 15. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 16. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman 17. Metallica - ...And Justice for All 18. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power 19. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? 20. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss 21. Judas Priest - British Steel 22. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell 23. Black Sabbath - Sabotage 24. Metallica - Metallica 25. Judas Priest - Stained Class 26. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 27. Anthrax - Among the Living 28. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath 29. Scorpions - Blackout 30. Sepultura - Arise 31. Scorpions - Love at First Sting 32. Sepultura - Roots 33. Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather 34. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 35. Motörhead - Overkill 36. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Vol. 4 37. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains 38. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance 39. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny 40. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 41. Judas Priest - Painkiller 42. Iron Maiden - Killers 43. Rainbow - Rainbow Rising 44. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll 45. Slayer - South of Heaven 46. UFO - Lights Out 47. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden 48. Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules 49. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 50. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin Thanks for reading!

Just the acoustic version?

I've always considered Defenders of the Faith to be overrated for some reason, I guess because I like three songs on there real good (Freewhell Burning, The Sentinel, and Love Bites) and the rest are just kind of there.

Well, Slayer used to cover Def Leppard so this sin is forgivable as well.

AoO, what I really want to know is based on the list above, would I be wasting my money by purchasing this disc, again basing this on the bands I have listed above? Also, what's your opinion on Down II? I had heard NOLA kicks ass from numerous people, but that Down II sucks the meat missile. Is this entirely true?

I was pretty damn sure Possessed was from Florida. *edited* Waitaminute, they're from San Fran, who the hell am I thinking of then?

Yeah, I like the Black album okay, but I think it led to the some of the garbage we hear on the radio today, "mainstream" mainstream metal (catch my drift?) Radio accessible garbage like Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, some of Korn's stuff, Godsmac, etc. But then again, I have "Love at First Sting" on my list, but hey, I like "Rock You Like a Hurricane", it's a good "dumb" metal song. As for Venom, Celtic Frost, etc., most assuredly they would be on a top 100 list, but I haven't really listened to anything by either of those bands lately anyway.

I read this about Acid Bath on allmusic.com today: "When the Kite String Pops" "Acid Bath's debut is a malicious and sometimes downright disturbing album that defies easy categorization. They stitch together elements of death metal, '70s hard rock, thrashing hardcore punk and Black Sabbath-esque sludge into multi-sectioned songs that are both intricate and often surprisingly melodic. The production, especially the compressed drums and often-processed vocals, adds an industrial feel that increases the album's menacing vibe. "The Blue" kicks things off with a bluesy swamp metal riff before smoothly winding its way through a maze of tempo and riff change-ups, while the closer, "Cassie Eats Cockroaches," weaves spoken word samples and screaming vocals in and out of complex, Southern-flavored death metal riffing and precision double-bass drumming. Elsewhere, the songs range from full-on assaults ("Cheap Vodka" and "Toubabo Koomi") to creepy ballads, namely the goth-tinged "Scream of the Butterfly" and the largely acoustic "The Bones of Baby Dolls." Vocalist Dax Riggs handles this diverse material well, switching between distorted screams and a melodic croon reminiscent of Jim Morrison or Glen Danzig. His not-for-the-squeamish lyrics address such topics as drug abuse, rape, abortion, death, and self-loathing, but for the most part do so in an artful, vividly poetic manner. While it would have been stronger if a few of the weaker songs had been left off, When the Kite String Pops is still an excellent, diverse metal album that remains unlike much else, even years after it release." And AoO, did you get your screen name from the new band that one of their ex-members formed?

Yeah, mainstream metal is what I'm all about. Sepultura, Slayer, and Pantera is about as heavy as I'll get, as I've never been a fan of death/black metal. I'm kind of regretting not having anything by Accept on there, because I love "Fast as a Shark." Oh, yeah, you had Sabbath listed twice

Well, I can't say anything about your top five because I don't listen to anything you had but Slayer. Hey, "Reign in Blood" was in my top 5, though.