RavishingRickRudo

Hmm, pay $50 to see maybe 1 or 2 good matches, or watch the TUF 2 Finals on SPIKE for free and see 3 awesome fights, any one being guaranteed to be better than the best match on the WM card. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions.

BONG.

The PRIDE 12-16 box set is definitely worth it, IMO. Nog debuts at PRIDE, Silva obliterates Sakuraba, Liddell fights in PRIDE for the first time, Quinton Jackson debuts... there's a bunch of really fun fights (Jackson/Sak, Silva/Hendo, Liddell/Mezger, Nog/Coleman.. you will get your moneys worth) http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/p...ther/ufctit.htm for UFC title histories Pride Title Histories are pretty simple as the champs rarely have title defenses, and PRIDE has been in tournament-mode for the past few years, so any losses (Arona beats Silva) don't warrant a title change. HW: Nog beats Herring to become first PRIDE HW champ Fedor beats Nog Nog beats Cro Cop to become Interim Champion after Fedor is sidelined with an injury and cannot defend against Cro Cop. Fedor beats Nog to unify the HW title MW (205) Silva beats Sakuraba to become first PRIDE MW champ WW (183) Dan Henderson beats Murilo Bustamante LW (165 - I think) Takanori Gomi beats Hayato Sakurai

I fucking hate April Fools. It's not like I read it and believed it... ... but dammit, I wanted to believe it so badly. *Jack walks in the bunker, sees Henry Gale* Jack: Who is this man? Sayid: This man calls himself Henry Gale. But we learned that Henry Gale died on this island and he has assumed his identity. Jack: Why? Sayid: We believe this man to be an other. The others are a group of people who terrorize us on this island, who have even attempted to kill us. Jack: So he has information that could be useful to us. Sayid: Yes. Possibly. Jack: So let's interrogate him. Sayid: I have. Jack: No, I mean, REALLY, interrogate him. Sayid: Trust me, I have. Jack: Did you threaten to kill him? Sayid: Yes. Jack: Did you put a gun to his head? Sayid: Yes. Jack: Did you shoot his wife in the knee cap? Sayid: He doesn't have a wife. Jack: Hmm... Jack: Did you talk in a whispery voice and then yell at him at random intervals? Sayid: Of course. Jack: And he still didn't give you anything? Sayid: No. Jack: Sonnofabitch.

If you search on YouTube you can find the Rich Franklin All Access that was done one SPIKE a few weeks ago. Search "Rich Franklin" and I'm sure you will find it. There are usually fighter diaries posted when there's an up coming event, I know Insidefighting.com has done them before, and I know Mike Swick did one for his last fight which you can find on his blog and website.

Not only is this non-news, but this is old non-news.

We learn from the map notes Locke saw on the blast door that the black smoke "monster" is called Cerberus - tv.com

You know I really wrestled with the decision for a long time, and what I discovered was that I love wrestling, and I think I want to go pursue professional wrestling - Mitch Hurwitz explaining why he bowed out of Arrested Development. O M G O B

He says it works, which sounds more like a thumbs up than **. Ebert generally gives thumbs up to something that, while for everyone wouldn't be good, for people who would want to see a movie like that, it would be good to them.

He's the King of Kings, so he'll come out carrying a large wooden cross on his back. Correction, an iron cross

No conflicts with Gilmore Girls~!

Maybe he gets carried out on a throne... by Orton, Benoit, JBL, Angle.

I wish the WWE Kurt Angle could be as righteously cool, balls out, and badass, as the actual Kurt Angle.

Well, you know what they say about blind squirrels I've come to a conclusion... It must suck being a black person on this island. The real Henry Gale is dead (I don't think they would have buried him like that if they killed him). Michael is MIA. Walt is kidnapped. Mr. Eko better watch himself.

Randy was really good for a rookie. He probably had one of the stronger rookies years in MMA history, imo. Plus he got to use his knees, which was sweet. Vitor was havin a really good year in 1997 until Randy derailed it. Vitor was a monster, destroying guys with very quick hands, and Randy comes along and beats him down. And Randy was considered too old even back then! Tito more relied on power than anything. He was successful with it but there were certain holes in it for it to be exploited. I haven't seen any of Hughes stuff pre-UFC, and by the time he was goin strong in the UFC it had developed their rules and rounds and weight classes more. Chuck is almost the same today stylistically, but a lot more refined. I've only seen 2 or 3 matches of his during that period, so someone else could probably give a better pov than me. Chuck was generally considered boring up until his fight with Vitor and then Babalu-on, and picked up a lot more steam during that period due to his affiliation with Tito. Royce never fought Varleans. Maybe you are thinking about Marco Ruas. Who, while looking nothing like Royce besides the dark hair and tanned skin, was the second most successful Brazilian in the UFC during that time. Severn was a really good wrestler, which meant he had good takedowns and control on the ground. Beyond that, he wasn't very good. He is often mocked for his slaps, because he doesn't throw punches. Don Frye was really good for that time. Tons of heart, good at wrestling, striking and did some submissions. Could be considered one of the first mixed martial artists in North America given that, but I might get some people (LEI!) calling me on that, which I welcome. Probably would have been helped out more if there were weight limits back then, as Mark Coleman ran over him mainly due to size and power. During his fight with Mark Hall, where he was pounding his ribs red and blue, he basically said to him "dude, you gotta quit".

If you dedicated 14 years to a company and at the end of those 14 years you got a big fuck you, I don't care who you are, you would be pissed. And if a ton of shit happened after those years that you feel was because of that big fuck you, it would be hard to get over it. Bret didn't even want Montreal to be on his DVD and Meltzer had to talk him into it. He talks about it because it's brought up when he's being interviewed. The demand he made proves that he hates Shawn and he hated Shawn before Survivor Series.

OOOOOOOOH SHIT. That was somethin of an episode. For a recap. Lockes Flashbacks - He is preparing to propose to Helen by planning a picnic, Helen likes to read the obits and sees Lockes fathers name. They go to use funeral where Locke says he forgives him. Locke sees two sketchy lookin guys there and a fancy car. When Locke is inspecting a home, he sees the fancy lookin car and goes over to it. His father is in it. He explains to Locke that he faked his death to get away from those two guys, and that there is a bag of money in a safety deposit box and he needs Locke to get it (in compensation, Locke will get a couple hundred thou). Locke does it, runs into the baddies in his home he lies to them about his father, Helen asks him if Locke is lying and Locke says no. Locke gives his father the money, says he didn't do it for the money, says he plans on marrying Helen that night, Helen shows up and then leaves Locke, even after Locke proposes to her saying "You love him more than you love me". She leaves, his father leaves. The Island: Hurley, Kate, and Sawyer are playing Texas Holdum. Jack shows up and gives Hurley advice, basically we find out that Jack likes him some poker. Sawyer asks him to sit down, Kate taunts Jack by saying he has no fun, Jack sits. Jack owns them. We find out that he learned the game in Thailand and when Sawyer presses Jack on his wild side, Jack basically says "shut up and play". Eventually Sawyer loses all of his fruit (which they were betting with) and then offers to put up anything, and Jack says put up medicine. Sawyer does, Jack still beats him. Sawyer asks him why Jack didn't ask for the guns and Jack says "when I want guns, I'll get guns". Basically, Jack was the man in the episode, and was really fucking cocky. The whole thing was to keep Jack away from the Hatch. When Jack is goin back to the hatch Kate shows up and wants to know if she can go with him to the hatch cause she wants a shower, Jack says the shower is busted and she looks dejected because she really wanted to spend time with Jack. They get all flirty and Jack offers to take her back to the beach. But then they see a flashing light, go towards it, sees a box of Dharma brand Mac and Cheese and a parachute, so someone was sending down food. Charlie, Sayid and Ana show up and Jack asks them what they found out. In the Hatch, the emergency doors shut after a distorted countdown in the loudspeaker and flickering lights and Locke is able to get a crowbar under one door. He needs Gales help to lift it up and they are able to get it up enough and put a tool box under it. Locke goes under it legs first and it closes on his legs. At the same time the countdown is on and Locke tells Gale to go and insert the code, which he remembers after hearing it once. Gale does it, the lights go back on and everything goes back to normal, but only after a dark light turns on and shows on the door that Locke is trapped under the image shown on the previous page. Sayid, Ana and Charlie find the parachute/balloon and a gravesite. Sayid starts to dig it up. When they get back, and after they tell Jack, they go into the Hatch and shove Gale up against the wall. Sayid reveals that they dug up a man, and shows Gale a drivers license that shows a black man named Henry Gale. And we're out.

It's only in the past decade that the traditional martial arts has been rebuked by MMA, and only a small portion of the population knows about MMA, even today. Back a few years ago even less knew about it. That may change in a few years if it gets more popular, but it's not necessarily a guarantee. A lot of the public perception of Martial Arts comes from the movies. People have been conditioned that martial arts is the Bruce Lee kinda stuff with flying kicks and whatnot. The Karate Kid was another successful movie. Shows like Kung Fu and Ninja flicks. Then there's boxing movies. You don't really see Jiu Jitsu movies, or Judo movies, or even amatuer wrestling movies, mainly because they are not as stylish or as filmable as other martial arts. Besides, most parents don't enroll their kids in Martial Arts because they want their kid to be a successful street fighter. It's more for discipline and to interact with other kids.

Hogan is pretty much the benchmark for me and I found myself rethinking a lot of my dispositions and how I thought about wrestling after watching him vs. Andre WM III a few months ago. He did what he was supposed to do, he got the fans to go nuts, he got their money. That's what workers do. He did that better than the vast majority of wrestlers in history yet he gets called a horrible worker because he didn't fit into peoples perverted ideas of what a worker is. I worker is someone who works the crowd, it's as simple as that. What Hogan did wasn't realistic and that's where he gets the criticism, but he still some how made it real to those who watched him, and that's what really matters. Hogan/Andre was a great match. It just was. It was iconic, it had 80,000 people going nuts and jumping up and down. It worked. I tried to find out why. I tried to justify it's greatness to prove to those who said it was a horrible match that it wasn't. It's like solving a puzzle. Lots of people, those that say it was a bad match, will write it off as being a bad match and not put any thought into why it worked, but my Hogan bias pushed me to see that side. I watched it, I tried to find an indepth story that I could point to and say "look! it's good! look at what they did!", but it was pretty light and not very substantive. They build Hogans come back throughout the match and it lasts for a minute and then its over. That's not Misawa/Kawada or anything. But then it occurred to me that they didn't have to be Misawa/Kawada to get the fans going. That wrestling matches didn't have to be elaborate or technical or in-depth. They just had to get the crowd going and that's what they did. The opening Hulk up and failed Body slam, which paid off with the slam at the end. Andres control segments and the moves he used were varied as not to bore everyone. The spots on the outside. The bearhug. The clothesline. It was sufficient to keep the crowd interested and wanting to see Hogans come back and for Hogans come back to pay off. So while, on paper, a clothesline and a bodyslam and a few headbuts don't make a great match, great matches aren't made on paper. Hogans selling in that match wasn't particularly consistent, but that didn't matter. He did it well enough. There's no nuances and subtlety in Hogans work, but that doesn't matter and it shouldn't matter. It worked. When he got slammed down he'd reach out and scream. Not the greatest acting job, but the fans saw it as Hogan getting beat up by the big man and they bought it. Job done. Things work or they don't work. If they work, you can't tell me that they didn't, you can only tell me why they did. If that match was horrible, then it wouldn't have worked, and you could have used Hogans selling, the lack of moves, the lack of story, the short payoff, as reasons why it didn't work, but since it did, none of that shit matters.

I do blame JR. I know he has to do it, but he does it badly. It's because he's been doing it for so long and I've heard the song too many times. He doesn't change, he continues doing the BAH GAWD AUSTIN BOOMER JEZEBELLE BOWLING SHOE THE GAME YADA, and it gets tiresome. I understand why he does it, but it doesn't stop me from not liking it and being annoyed by it, and it doesn't stop everything he says from lacking credibility.

They brought Styles in because he was one of the few guys they could have brought in that the fans wouldn't have immediately hated him because "he wasn't JR".

Announcers need to have credibility and my problem with JR is that he sounds like a used-car sales man. He simply shilled too much the same way and it all became interchangable and watered down and I could never believe a single bit of it. So his constant yelling at the end of shows doesn't so much make me want to see what he's hyping as much as it makes me roll my eyes. He went beyond being a cliche.

How in the world would the night be ruined just by having HBK sitting in the crowd? Because he hates HBK. The very sight of HBK makes him feel agitated. And with Brets emotional condition after the stroke, apparently that would effect him greatly and take away from his return and goodbye. None of us can know how Bret would and does feel, and how that would effect him but Bret. And Bret clearly feels that it would ruin his night. But again, Downhome can't understand this because Downhome is having a really tough time with empathy in regards to Bret. And since Downhome can't understand how Bret could feel that way, Bret is childish and stupid to feel that way and make that one demand.

There have been plenty of opportunities for Bret to be in the spotlight. The WWE has been putting offers at his door for years now to get back in the ring, to participate in angles. This isn't a spotlight thing. You want to talk about Bret having an ego, of course he does. If you want to talk about Bret being selfish, of course he is. He wants his legacy to be remembered. He thinks he had a great career, that he was a great wrestler, and he doesn't want that to be forgotten. He obviously thinks of his career highly. That's pure ego. I just don't think any of us can say that it's unreasonable for what he's asking.

It's so easy to say "suck it up" when you aren't in the position he is in. You can't seem to get that. You relate it to your family gathers, but this isn't a family gathering. Do you think Bret wants HHH there? That he wants Hogan there? Flair? Of course not. So he is obviously able to "suck it up", is he not? And to Bret, this is his night to say goodbye. He had said on many occasions he wants that, he has said that to McMahon, so this is not new. This is a big event for him and he believes Shawn being there will ruin it. Why should Bret have to have his night ruined just so Shawn could be there? Answer that.