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    Official PRIDE GP 2004 Thread

    Just thought I'd add the Sherdog update for this, it's pretty informative. So what are the bets on this one? I thought I'd lose the last UFC 47 card, but I got all of them right from what I remember, so I'm gonna go with some picks on this one, and see how I do. Fedor, Noguiera, Cro Cop, Leko, Silva, Kharitanov, Herring, Schilt. If the rumours are true, which I doubt, then I'd take Arona over Rampage. I suspect the Leko fight will be a work, since they're fighting a pro wrestling match later. That would be shitty. If Leko kicks his head into the first row like I expect, than I doubt it.
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    Why ESPN sucks

    I'll ask again; how is Michael Wilbon a racist?
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    Official PRIDE GP 2004 Thread

    Isn't Arona like a master submissions guy or something? I know he wins most of his matches by decision, but the skills are there. He's got a black belt in BJJ and is what I think the next wave of guys will be; great wrestlers who know how to submit people.
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    What do you look like...

    Fascinating. Are you being sarcastic dude? Or do you really want me to go on?
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    Why ESPN sucks

    How is Michael Wilbon racist? I agree about the Sunday Night Football crew. Easily the worst on television. For ANY sport.
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    Official PRIDE GP 2004 Thread

    You had no intention of buying the show because you're a tool. This is easily one of those "Must-buy" shows, the spoilers only proved that. There's a reason to see every match on this show, especially Silva-Sentoryu. Maybe it was the two straight months of Meltzer putting the show down and half a joke, followed by there not being a card until like two days ago that did't breed confidence. I was kidding really, no finalized card until a week into the show would scare many off, but than you ignore the fact that PRIDE has been doing that for ages.
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    Official PRIDE GP 2004 Thread

    You had no intention of buying the show because you're a tool. This is easily one of those "Must-buy" shows, the spoilers only proved that. There's a reason to see every match on this show, especially Silva-Sentoryu.
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    Official PRIDE GP 2004 Thread

    I have to say that I regret reading the spoilers. Shit woulda been so much cooler and more markworthy had I watched it without knowing what happened. That is the *last* time I ever read the spoilers, no matter how bored I may be at the time or how anxious I might be of the event, because the viewing experience is much worse. Folks, that match and the card in general really *is* that unpredictable. 'tis the world of MMA.
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    What do you look like...

    Internet jargon cannot describe how much I laughed at this one.
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    Black College Women Take Aim at Rappers

    I didn't know they even had colleges that only had black women, let alone enough that this particular one could be called the most famous. Pretty much a lost cause this is.
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    Columbine: 5 Years Later

    Pretty much, which is why I don't feel sorry for most of the victims since they were asking for it to happen in the first place. When you start to play with fire, you might get burned. "Your honor, the man shot my son in the head." "Well, he said I was a dork" "Your honor, I rescind my complaint. My son had it coming." Bullets don't hurt people --- WORDS hurt people. -=Mike ...What next? Women who dress provocatively DESERVE to be raped? If I were dressed like a police officer, I would expect people to come and ask me for help.
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    Official PRIDE GP 2004 Thread

    Emilienenko Fedor v. Mark Coleman _______________________________________________________________ He walked into the octagon and tore up the competition, dominating everyone along the way in only his first night of Pro MMA competition. He popularized the Ground and Pound technique most wrestlers use today. Mark Coleman was the most dominant fighter the UFC had seen since Royce Gracie. He was gorilla strong and ended all of his fights very quickly, at an intense pace. Interestingly enough, these two factors hid what his strongest weakness was from us. It is well known that lots of muscles takes up lots of oxygen. Also, that it is much easier to go hard as Mark Coleman did when you know you will finish the fight in under three minutes, or not fight at all (a trend in tournaments that Mark Coleman has won). Eventually, you realize that gassing out in the ring is the worst thing that you can do, and everything that hurt before hurts like hell afterwards. "Believe me there is no worse feeling in the world than, being out there and being tired. Mark Kerr was in my corner against Maurice Smith, and the whole time he wanted to throw the towel in. *Intersplice clips of Maurice kicking Mark's ass* It's a horrible feeling..." - Mark Coleman, The Smashing Machine What has Mark Coleman done about this? Apparently he has worked on his striking since his loss to Nogueira years ago, but in his last fight with Don Frye I didn't notice much of anything. It was fairly boring to say the least., and he just took him down and pulled a Lay and Pray. Either way, upon winning the GP in 2000, Mark Coleman was once again a dominant heavyweight, and many thought that he'd be the contender for the first HW Title fight. Noguiera stopped him in a huge upset at the time, and coupled with the fact that he had many injuries he didn't fight for a year and a half. Is he back now, will he be able to defend his GP crown? He better be, because he will be facing a man who is the favourite for this competition, and someone who excels at all aspects of the fight game... _______________________________________________________________ Emilienenko Fedor is Mark Coleman with a vast set of submission skills. Emilienenko Fedor is Mark Coleman if he knew how to strike. Granted, Emilienenko Fedor is Mark Coleman if he was not as good at the takedown as he is now, but that's a small price to pay. With the most devastating GnP in the Heavyweight division, Emilienenko Fedor is Mark Coleman V 2.0. Fedor has earned all the hype he has gotten. He beat Gary at Gary's game, Noguiera at his game, and Herring at his. Sure, the ground game he uses tends to be the same, but he's never had to change it. If he hits like a motherfucker on the ground, why not keep it that way? He destroyed Gary on his feet, and that was before he started training with the Red Devil Club, notorious for their Kickboxing ability. Okay, I might be a tad biased here, but seriously now, those facts are arguable at least, definitive at best, and I'd say that they were closer to the latter. Fedor has credited Coleman in regards to the forming of his own GnP game. Is this just one of those things that fighters say? Probably, it's a nice compliment to have anyway though. You'll always hear Wanderlei Silva talk about how he trains the same for every fight, and he approaches it the same. Noguiera goes in with the same game plan as well. They are somehow proud of this fact. Sure, it works for them now, but will it always? It didn't for Noguiera, and the reason for that is that his opponent did NOT look at it the same as he did every fight. Fedor has one thing covered that very few underestimate in the ever evolving game of mixed martial arts; intelligence. He plans out for individual opponents because he knows that you cannot approach them all the same, he knows that every fighter has different strengths and weaknesses. He was asked to fight for the Title at PRIDE 24, but declined in order to better prepare for Noguiera. You think Nog had changed his gameplan? Obviously not, he looked at it much in the same way as he did all of his fights. It cost him. BIG. In the form of his head bouncing off the mat like five times. I also doubt Fedor's thumb was hurt, it might have been, but odds are he did it so that he could have apt time to prepare for a Cro Cop who would've approached it the same way he did his fight against Heath or Igor. People would have said that Fedor was ducking him, but if this were true I'd say that Fedor did Cro Cop the favour, as he lost in order to learn that this wasn't K1, along with the fact that he didn't have to suffer a beating to do it, but I digress. ________________________________________________________________ This is an old guard v. new guard kind of matchup, and that's what makes this the most interesting fight in the first round. It's the winner of the first GP vs. the favourite for the current one. It's definitely got the most interesting backstory, and will probably be the most telling. Will Fedor be able to handle Coleman's wrestling ability? He hasn't fought someone who was a better wrestler than he. Did Coleman learn from his mistakes in the past and improve his conditioning/striking? But I tell you, Fedor will beat Coleman. There's no doubt in my mind. On paper, Coleman has a chance to Lay and Pray, but I think that Fedor will knock him out standing before that has a chance to happen. His boxing skills make it easy for him to recover and defend the takedown, as he doesn't have a muay thai background that makes him commit (an advantage for once regarding standup skills). I say TKO Rd.1. Mark my words, Fedor will put Coleman on his back....in the same way Pete Williams did EDIT: Sherdog you lazy fucking ass
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    Columbine: 5 Years Later

    Pretty much, which is why I don't feel sorry for most of the victims since they were asking for it to happen in the first place. When you start to play with fire, you might get burned. Whose to say that most of the victims picked on them first? I remember a girl saying that maybe they did this since she turned him down for a date at the prom or something. Yeap, real cruel.
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    Official PRIDE GP 2004 Thread

    Mirko Cro Cop v. Kevin Randleman ___________________________________________________________ There were not many men who looked as dominant when they fought as when Mirko has this past year. He ended all of his fights in less than three minutes since coming to PRIDE as a full fledged MMA fighter. He was flashy, gaining a bit of cockiness along the way, talking about how he was going to be the first MMA Fighter to be both K1 champion and PRIDE HW Champion in the same year. The fact that he destroyed the high calibre of opponents that he faced only cemented this fact. We were all enamoured by "His Left Foot", as we tried not to blink in fear that we might miss the finish. Did I say all of his PRIDE fights? I meant all TWO of them. Did I say high calibre? I meant a broken down old fighter whom the sport has long passed (I hope I'm wrong, I really love Igor) and a wrestler whose not even great at that, and whose just *good* at everything. He didn't do anything to deserve the amount of hype that he had received during his initial undefeated run, and this was proven when he fought Antonio Noguiera, aka Minotauro, aka The Guy who just won't get KOed. And Cro Cop did try to KO him, but he just couldn't, and due to his suspect ground skills(something that K1 fighting really won't prepare you for, although getting run over by a truck prepares you to take in that punishment), he lost. Since that loss, Mirko has been taking fights in order to try and show that he's improved on the ground. He has fought a very tough wrestler in Ron H2O Waterman, and...no one else of note really. The point is that Mirko is focused too much on trying to show that he's great, instead of actually being great. He wanted to be the PRIDE Champion, but do it by doing what he did to be successful in K1. He wanted to show his improved ground skills, but he did by fighting a straight up wrestler who was clueless as to what he should do once he got to the ground. Unlike before, Cro Cop telling us he's improved immensely on the ground won't do it, he has to show us by hanging in there with the top guys on the ground, particularly the one that beat him. In this tournament, he will have the chance to do just that. _____________________________________________________________ Kevin Randleman is the ultimate case of being "all potential and not much else" in the world of MMA. He has world class wrestling skills and has good hands. That's a dangerous combination in MMA, yet he doesn't know how to use it. He seems to get hesitant and holds back. I can't explain it. I was pumped when I heard talking before his match at PRIDE Final Conflict. I expected him to go out and do what he said, that is tear through the LHW division. As usual, he flopped and when Bas Rutten, one of Kevin's biggest fans, told him that he didn't know why he seemed to hold back in the ring, Kevin gave him an equally uninformed answer: "I don't know why either." Kevin Randleman is a tough motherfucker. He emerged out of an abusive relationship as a kid and got out on his own. Upon crashing in his SUV the roof of his car ripped open, tearing the side of his head in the process, not to mention throw him out of the car with the engine on top of him. What does he do? Why he just throws it right back off. This guy has faced adversity in his life and has seemed to come out strong. So why can't he do that in MMA? He has had some generally boring fights, and the excitement is dictated by whomever he is fighting. He seems to tense up, and literally plays the LNP game while waiting for a Judge's decision. Fights that he should win in the first round, normally go to the end for a JD, which he sometimes loses. It seems that whenever he's the favourite, he fucks up big time. Kevin is a huge underdog here. Even if he gets past Cro Cop's wicked sprawl, he will not be able to finish from there, and Cro Cop can just as easily get back up. But "The Monster" will be training with his best friend and mentor Mark Coleman, who is also in the GP. How is that relevant? I don't know, because I don't see Kevin going past this round so I didn't feel like adding a little blurb on what he needs to prove, because I don't think he will. Even in losing though, if he manages to take it to Cro Cop and make things exciting, I would have to say that he would be one step further in becoming the Monster that should be sitting atop the LHW division. _______________________________________________________________ The question for this fight is "How long will Kevin keep Cro Cop on his back?", because that's his only hope to win the fight. I don't see it happening for very long though, let alone much at all because of Cro Cop's wicked sprawl. Knowing how cocky the guy is however, he might want to fight on the ground to "prove" something. Kevin has been talking about how much he's been training and how ready he is for this, but I'm hesitant to believe him since he's said that numerous times only to fall short. Cro Cop will win by KO via High Kick in the first round. Hopefully Kevin shows something though, he would be an interesting wrench in the division. I'm too lazy to provide real profiles, so I will link you to Sherdog where you can find it yourself lazy ass. Go to stats, than fighters or whatever
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    Catholic Church recommending that pro-choice

    I'm Anglican. Catholics are conservative compared to us. I'm not talking about Baptists. Which one's Anglican? There are so many, is that the one that Henry VIII started because he wanted to divorce a wife or something?
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    JR trashes internet, Puro on Byte This

    MMA is one of the hotest things in Japan. It has surpassed pro wrestling over there. It also explains Inoki putting MMA before wrestling. Next step: USA
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    Catholic Church recommending that pro-choice

    So non-Catholic Christians are better? For the most part, conservative Catholics are considered WAAY Liberal by Non-Catholic Christians. Things like allowing non-Christians into heaven only prove that point.
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    JR trashes internet, Puro on Byte This

    Mark Coleman & Kevin Randleman beat Shinya Hashimoto & Toshiaki Kawada (14:16) *Points to sig* And I don't like shoot wrestlers, MMA Fighters seems more appropriate. Shoot fighters reminds me of those "Catchascanshoot" guys. This is slightly different. I think everyone's main point on the subject is that Ross should not be insulting wrestling in Japan when it's as bad as it is in the US. Question: Is MMA more popular than Wrestling in Japan, or is it like here, where the WWF is more popular than the UFC?
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    Any more site columns

    What caused him to write on here anyway? I didn't bother reading it because I don't care about wrestling anymore really, but I thought he was hated here and that he hated the board anyway...
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    Former Cardnial Pat Tillman killed in combat

    How is the media reporting this "glorying" their war efforts? If it was the government reporting this news your argument would almost make sense. But since this report is being passed predominantly by the liberal medie, it's actually the exact opposite of what you're accusing. Its all about their war effort. Its a glorious sacrifice for one's country. How grand! Thats the way it is protrayed. And honestly, everyone who is calling me ignorant, who is ignorant? Do you only get moved when someone "famous" dies? Who cares what he gave up. Every single person who died gave up their family...some their wives...some their children. I'd say passing up a life with one's family is just as bold as giving up a lucratice NFL contract. Money doesn't buy you happiness, in most cases, its the other things you can't buy...like a loving wife and children. Its terrible that Tillman has died, it just sickens me that he has been transformed into a tool by the government/media of almighty sacrifice for one's country. Its kick to the nuts and a spit on the face of all of the other nameless sodliers who died. You only get complimented and martyred if your famous and the Americans can make a campaign around your death. It's about the fact that people have connections to him. Sure, many others have died, but we didn't know those people. Technically we don't know him either, but still, many have watched him play and he's a public figure. It's only natural that when someone everyone knows dies will they get more attention than someone whom everyone did not know, unless there was some oddly ridiculous circumstance surrounding it.
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    Weirdest thing you've found in a library book or

    I wasn't thinking that. Way to speak for me asshole. I don't go to libraries, so I can't really say I've seen anything weird.
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    The 2004 NFL Draft

    I think a lot of people, me included, believe more in BenRo than Eli. That's laughable.. a lot of people are writing Eli off just because of his last name. Eli has the tools to be as good as Peyton -- not saying Ben won't be good, but I would definitely take Manning over Roethlisberger. I'd say it's quite the opposite. If Phillip Rivers name was Phillip Manning he'd be the prospective #1 and Manning would be behind him and Big Bust Roethlisberger. Yes, people have Eli at #1 because of his last name, but some of those are the SAME people who say that he's going to be a bust just by looking at what Peyton has done for the Colts. Those people would be right, since Manning has been a terrible QB since coming out of college. Yeap. Eli Manning will be a star, although he'll have a couple of shaky seasons to start off, like EVERY great QB. I mean seriously, when did it become that a guy had to be amazing from the start and that a team had to win a Superbowl early for him to be great? I remember how five years ago people were talking about how Drew Bledsoe was in the twilight of his career, and was running out of chances. Just because a guy has a bad season or doesn't win an NFL championship early don't mean he ain't great. Peyton is probably the best QB in the league, top three at least. Yeah, we don't Eli to be anything like him.
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    Jacques Martin fired as Senators coach

    It's mainly because Joe Dumars isn't the GM of an NHL team. Anyways, the coaching fraternity is a tight one, so unless you've been blacklisted, you'll get another chance. Big Bird's probably the most logical choice, as he helped the Devils get over the hump and win the Cup. Couldn't argue with Quennville, though... Unless you're Native Indian. *Ba Dum bum pshh*
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    MMA Comments that Don't Warrant a Thread

    Royce insisted on those rules, btw. Since 4/7/1994. That's when I'd say that it became clear Royce's style was out-dated. Renzo is keeping up with trends, his grappling is more offensive than Royce's, his strategy is to end the fight rather than hope that your opponent makes a mistake (which has always been Royce's strategy). As Shamrock, Takada, Sakuraba and Yoshida have demonstrated, if you don't give Royce your arm or back on a plate, he struggles to submit you. Royce insisting on those rules is a big misconception. He was initially told that the fight would have no time limits and that there would be a finish, where all of a sudden they changed it to a time limit with a finish being an automatic draw. It's just that it annoys me when people call Royce a bitch just because of the "special rules" thing, when in most cases it's not even his own doing. There's another one, Semmy Schilt "beat" Hoost before, you'd imagine he'd be a great K1 fighter.
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    MMA Comments that Don't Warrant a Thread

    Royce is the most skilled and the most accomplished. Who else rivals him? Certainly not Renzo or Rickson. Royler? I've only seen the fight against Sakuraba, but he didn't seem in Royce's league there. Sakuraba was a pro-wrestler for UWFi, a shoot style promotion, but I've also seen him in MMA fights as early as 1996, so he wasn't just some pro-wrestler who decided to see how well he could do in PRIDE. He trained in Brazilian Jui Jitsu and kickboxing, and probably some Amature wrestling, too. Sakuraba's aura was essentially that he was a very smart, creative, and energetic fighter who always put on a show. He was known for using lots of flashy moves that most fighters wouldn't bother with, like spin kicks, diving foot stomps, cartwheels, mongolian chops, which made his fights more exciting. On top of that, he was highly skilled and defeated some dificult opponents like Royce, Newton, Jackson, and Belfort. I knew about why he became so popular, but what I meant by aura (bad choice of words admittedly) was how in the hell did a pro wrestler become so good at fighting? I vaguely remember hearing that Saku was like a national amateur champ, don't know the truth to that though. I've heard that Renzo rivals Royce, although I don't know how much truth there is to that, and I've seen old BJJ instructions from the Gracies where Royce was the dummy, as opposed to the guy teaching, which was the Gracie with a porno moustache, don't know his name. What was the story with Ken at PRIDE 10? Why the towel, why the hard feelings after the fight. He was *dominating*. I know a lot of people don't like him, but you can't take away the fact that he's a smart fighter, and that he is pretty well-rounded. He couldn't knock Fujita out, but who has? Speaking of PRIDE 10, Eddie Bravo wasn't that bad on the stick. I actually thought he added to the match. So do PRIDE fighters only know they'll be fighting a week beforehand or what?
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