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Carolina is the SI Superbowl pick? By whom, Dr.Z?

Is he working on a contract with Cage Rage, or just accepting one fight deals all over the place? I don't know why he doesn't sign with PRIDE. More money + better competition + more recognition = obvious choice. It's not like he can't handle that top competition either.

Hey yeah, you were gone for awhile. Funny note about Bonnar calling it north-south; at BJJ practice today, the instructor kept referring to it as 69 as well. At first I was like huh? but whatever. It's weird too because he's an old school Brazilian kind of guy, so to hear him call it that was kind of surreal.

Bob Barron is a racist.

Here's hoping that Busta reverts back to the best P4P fighter in the world that we saw against Matt Lindland. I never saw a fighter deliver as good a performance or as dominating a one as he did in that match. I wish he could go back to that.

The "bold" statements being made in this thread are about as bold as saying Danny Baldwin has a better body of work than Pauly Shore. The special olympics analogy works as well.

What incident do you speak of?

First Chuck imitates HHH with his "I'm gonna hold onto this belt till I retire" schtick, now Dana gets all Vince McMahon-ish, I don't like where this is going.

From MMAWeekly: "We saw three fighters eliminated last week on the debut of Ultimate Fighter Season 2. What should we expect tonight? Here's brief preview. Episode 2 - The Teams Are Picked Air date: 8/29/2005 The coaches make their choices and Team Hughes battles Team Franklin in the first challenge. The opening fight of the season is a knockout brawl between two welterweights. " I missed last week, and would appreciate it if someone could u/l or PM me a link for a downloadable version of the first episode, through YSI or something.

To Kahran, I consider the GTA Toronto because that's what it is, Megacity and all. Oshawa is not Toronto, but North York and Markham certainly are. Toronto is fine, but I agree that a lot of times the crime and lack of friendliness from people bring it down a peg.

That's fair, but at this point it's too much of an assumption to say Silva would beat Arona again. He lost to him pretty soundly, and while he did some stupid things, things that if he were to change he might beat him next time, in this fight he didn't do anything he needed to win and was essentially outclassed. You can even say Arona got the better of the fight on the feet since that low kick was pretty nasty. Unless Wand proves himself again in another fight with Arona, I would have to say that Arona is the better fighter between the two.

Silva did NOTHING on the ground. He did what Anderson Silva usually does, tie someone up and maybe go for a futile submission, hoping for a standup. A black belt in BJJ should be trying a lot more, or look a lot better. I think we can all agree that he's a shitty wrestler. Shogun and Arona would have to be better then him. Right? How could you argue that they wouldn't? That makes him three. If Arona was able to ground and pound him like that, I'd hate to see what Randy Couture would do to him. Chuck Liddell is obviously going to be ranked better, due to solid wins over top competition and good showings. Hence why I'd put him at five.

In addition to Fedor not wanting to take chances on the feet disappointing me, him taking too many chances on the ground also disappointed me. Just stick to the sidemount guy, he kept going for full mount and failing, giving up guard. He doesn't seem to show patience and let things happen, he tried to force his way onto full mount and against someone as athletic and strong as Cro Cop it didn't work. Maybe he needs to go to BTT and learn from Noguiera

Me, on Apr 3, 2004. You, right after. The Chuck bandwagon rides on~! For the record, I'd love to see him fight Shogun, that would be a crazy fight. While Horn isn't the best fighter out there, the way Chuck dismantled showed that his fight against Randy was no fluke; he knows how to stick to a gameplan, which was the key in beating Randy and won't gas out while doing it. Of course Randy probably won't do what he did last time, try to strike for the clinch, but honestly, what else could he do? Shogun however, is fucking nuts, and maybe that would throw Chuck off of his gameplan. It might happen, since Shogun technically isn't PRIDE's champion.

The Highlight of the night had to be Arona holding on to Silva and smack talking to him right before he got up, only to have Silva go "C'mon man, don't do that." Then seeing him get KTFO was better. Wanderlei Silva proved that he's a one dimensional fighter, and I would put him at the bottom of the top five were I to make such a list. Fedor could have KO'ed Cro cop on the feet, but I guess he wanted to play it safe and take it to the ground. Shogun is the man at 205 in PRIDE, though PRIDE fucked themselves over with the matchmaking, considering that Silva is technically third in the Company, yet is the champion. Fucking retarded. How do they work out the situation now? My only guess is to have Silva defend his belt as its own entity and have Shogun's GP Belt be its own title as well.

He's a new addition to the LHW ranks.

Neither I think, right now I'm hearing that he's gonna stay at 205 to fill that division with some new blood, as in the past twenty four hours we've pretty much had three new guys in Irvin, Horn and MVA. With the guys they already have, throw Rampage in there, and you've pretty much rebuilt their division, which before TUF was sagging with only Couture and Liddell realistically, as Tito and Vitor was already on the outs.

For the record, Chuck never poked him in the eye. He just had blurred vision from getting knocked silly. Just had to throw that out to stop the haters, though I doubt anything will Also, Horn had blurred vision and could not see after Round 1, which would lend more credence to what I said above, in addition to showing that even though he was outmatched, that he's one tough SOB and that the choker label is one that is undeserved. Choking to me is failing to perform to your potential on the big stage and cowering back at any slight sign of damage due to nerves. Fighting with blurred vision is insanely tough, especially when you're getting knocked around like he was. Can someone gimme a PBP on the interviews before/after the Trigg fight? I heard he was practically crying after. I'd like to hear what he said before the fight to make a nice little contrast.

Overall TOronto has like 6 million or something, including all the boroughs.

The whole Purple Rain soundtrack, but the Superfly soundtrack is also very good. Glad I'm not the only one who owns it. I actually have the special two disc edition, but I haven't heard the second one yet.

Don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure it's part of some storyline on Lost, that show on ABC.

I remember hearing that Toronto on average has about 50-60 gun deaths a year. Detroit has about 2000. I don't know if those are completely accurate, but if it's anywhere close, fuck.

I couldn't watch Frank Trigg get tapped out twice within the span of one hour.

Them being pimped in one article about another Canadian band just makes me hate Pitchfork even more. They're that bad, they're like a Canadian version of Sage Francis, but WORSE.

The worst are those swollen members. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks K-Os sucks. I actualyl like what little I've heard of the dears though.