RavishingRickRudo

One episode can be "Nate Diaz works for Mannys Family" Nate: "Yeah so Manny invited me over to his hood for some stuff or somethin, and I said sure cause Manny was cool and shit and I show up at his uncles restaurant and there's, like, 5 old dudes sittin at a table in the corner talkin with a bunch of money on the table and shit and some fag comes up to me and tells me to work in the kitchen and I Aint No Bitch so I said I'd fight him on the spot and then one old dude gestured to another table and a bunch of other fags in suits got up as if they were strapped and I said I'd fight them too, cause guns ain't shit to Nate Diaz. So just when I was going to fight everybody, Manny shows up to clear things up. They thought I was the fuckin busboy, man."

Jesus Fudge, of all the matches, the Lyoto/Heath build was by far the best. God I want to see that fight. Also, did he say "Fiscally" or "Physically"? And they needed to have someone else mirror Lyoto on the beach. Like Chuck Norris or something.

Maybe Lei can shed some light on this, but from what I've seen of Gonzaga, how is he going to hold Mirko down even if he gets the takedown? He seemed to have problems with top control from the fights that I have seen, where the guy would just get back up. Now, this was a high level BJJ guy, but Cro Cop ain't no slouch.

Countdown thoughts: PRIDE!~ Footage! IGOR KNOCKOUT! SILVA KNOCKOUT! FEDOR!!!!!!!! On UFC TV. Already the PRIDE acquisition has paid off.

Nate wasn't very explosive aggressive, he was very relaxed fighting even when he was putting pressure on Emerson, and I think that's what ultimately did it. I have no idea what kind of style that is, but it's effective. It's pressure without pressure, or something. The opponent does most of the work when they fight tense and you fight relaxed and they gas and you don't.

Nate is PWNING Emerson. Jesus fucking Christos. That was awesome.

Nate is like a poor mans Aoki with his grapplearts.

Good first round. Nate was effectively countering Emersons punches while Emerson was blocking the takedown well. Both guys got tagged, but I think Nate landed more and better shots and he was much more aggressive so I give the round to him.

Nate just walking up and pointing without saying a thing was boss. "He's the one who thinks he's hardier" Hardier? "The Diaz Brothers are angry at everyone"

"You know what, anything goes here" "What I'm looking for is a mudslide" "You're pretty excited about this" Gabe leaving violated. Jens laughing like a school boy. No Beef. "My therapist tells me you don't get the REAL effects until the second one" "I'm chillin, I like to smile and laugh" "Nothin against a gay dude, if you're gay you're gay, but these guys aren't gay but they're actin gay"

There is no way Cory fights any time soon. They are Hamilling him. Are they using porn music?

And they really need to do a show called "Nate Diaz Hates Everybody". Where they put Nate in various situations and he talks about how he hates all the people around him. Put him in a retirement home, a daycare, fast food restaurant... and then watch him HATE. I like how Tony and BJ are feigning ignorance of colonics. We know you know you crazy guys. Cory freakin out is fucking hilarious.

"When I was in Thailand I did it" - Gabe with the quote of the show.

Jin telling ghost stories is the greatest thing ever. I luv this show.

Yeah, I had forgotten but... hey... bitch has a fuckin body on her.

Yeah, it was on the live show and on the UFC 43 dvd.

Some word association with Anderson Silva: Rich Franklin: A great champion David Loiseau: An underestimated fighter Carlos Newton: A true Samurai Mike Swick: He's not very well-known, but he's very good Fedor: Anvil's instead of hands Minotauro: A master of his art Ricardo Arona: A warrior with a big heart Babalu: A good guy Chuck Liddell: A real life iceman Matt Hughes: A dwarf who is full of himself GSP: A high level athlete Wanderlei Silva: No comment Rudimar: He has a bad attitude

SPIKE: Oh, it's you. XANDER: (closes door) I saw you ... in the cemetery with Buffy. SPIKE: Yeah? (with bravado) Can't see how it's any business of yours. XANDER: It is my business because Buffy's my friend .. and she's gone through some stuff lately that ... well, it's affected her, and you're taking advantage of her. SPIKE: (sighs) She's upset about her mum. (takes a drag on his cigarette) And if she turns to me for comfort, well, I'm not gonna deny it to her. I'm not a monster. XANDER: Yes. You are a monster. Vampires are monsters. They make monster movies about them. SPIKE: (sarcastic) Well, yeah, you got me there. Season 5~!

But a neo-Nazi henchman with a heart of gold, right? Right? The way Kampmann took McFedries punches and fought through it, it won't be easy for Franklin to finish him. It's gonna be a fight.

Franklin/Kampmann is tits.

CNN is always funny. Especially on these kind of stories. It's not quite HYOOOOGE like 9-11, but it's just big enough. Had it been just the two people, there would have been one reporter, maybe an hour dedicated to it, a graphic or two and that's it. Now they get to have a score, team coverage, constant interviews, every anchor and personality involved, and the constant baiting for unnecessary gory details and a desperate attempt at finding witnesses along with Anderson Cooper on location within 24 hours.

"Jesus Christ, can we get anyone who knew someone who got killed in this??! I really want to use my empathy voice! FUCK!" I luv CNN.

You KNOW they were giddy since they've been covering the racist radio guy for way too long. "Thank god we don't have to interview any more well-spoken black people. Now we get to use our serious music and talk about our favouritest thing ever: Record-setting Death toll."

I did some Fighter Of The Weeks on another site, I'll post some here. Nothing definitive, just fighters presented in the way I see em and as many of their fights I could find. Name: Matt Hughes Nickname: - Record: 40-5-0 Style: MMA Association: MFS Elite Height: 5'9 Weight: 169 DOB: 10/13/1973 A lot of hype surrounds Randy Couture, and deservingly so, of being the UFC's greatest champion. With holding both Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight titles (twice) to his name, and doing so well-past his thirties and into his forties, Randy Couture has earned his spot in history. But if anyone actually looks at that history, certain question marks come up. A 14-8 record, for instance, is a good record, but not one that screams greatness. 22 fights, also, is another stat, that, for someone who has been in the sport for 10 years is a bit on the low side (especially in a sport where you have guys like Travis Fulton and Jeremy Horn exceed the 100 mark, and where someone like Cro Cop can win 20 fights in half that time). But the biggest negative stat of all, the biggest question mark on Randy Coutures career, goes along with his most positive stat: 4 title wins. On December 21st, 1997, Randy beat Maurice Smith for the UFC Heavyweight title. On November 17th, 2000, he beat Kevin Randleman to hold that title for the second time. The grand total of successful title defenses of his Heavyweight title? Two. The grand total of guys he defended successfully against? One. That's right, Randy Couture only defended his title successfully against one guy, Pedro Rizzo. His first reign was ended due to a contract dispute, and the second person he fought to defend his title he lost to. On September 26th, 2003, Randy Couture beat Tito Ortiz to become the undisputed Light Heavyweight champion. On August 21st, 2004, he beat Vitor Belfort to hold that title again. Total number of successful title defenses of his Light Heavyweight title? 0. He lost the belt in his first defense to Vitor Belfort. His second reign was ended by Chuck Liddell on Randys first defense as well. So here we have Randy Couture, 4 time champion who only defended it successfully against one guy. Now, Randy is one of my favourite all-time fighters. I hope he gets to be a 5 time champion this Saturday. I am not doing this to run-down Randy Couture. It's just to put into perspective what Matt Hughes has done in his career. 40-5-0. 2 time Welterweight champion. 8 title defenses. Matt Hughes has one of the best records in history. And more importantly, if you take a deeper look, there are no question marks, only exclamation points. Leading up to becoming UFC champion, Hughes had a nice record. Wins over Joe Doerkson, Akihiro Gono, Dave Menne. Those are good wins. Where greatness comes in is after he became champion. Carlos Newton, Hayato Sakurai, Gil Gastillo, Sean Sherk, Frank Trigg in his first reign. Georges St. Pierre, Frank Trigg, Joe Riggs, Royce Gracie, BJ Penn in his second. Where Randy Couture found greatness in winning the title, in essentially being the challenger, Matt Hughes found it in defending the title, in being the champion. Matt Hughes' career actually began one year later than Randy's, in 1998. A 2-time state champion, 2-time All American Division I wrestler, Hughes had the base to become a successful fighter in MMA's early years. Having fought in every promotion under the sun, from Extreme Challenge to RINGS, Hughes slammed his way into the UFC during it's "dark age". This is important, because not many people had seen or known who Matt Hughes was, on a national level, going into his title challenge with Carlos Newton at UFC 34. It was supposed to be a successful title defense for Carlos Newton, who had just won it from Hughes' mentor and long-time champ Pat Miletich some 6 months earlier. After all, Hughes got tapped by Dennis Hallman TWICE in under 20 seconds both times. Dennis Hallman. Carlos Newton was a UFC poster-boy (literally, they had him up on all their posters as the Zuffa-run, remodeled, and newly returned to PPV UFC was investing millions in advertising) and came down to the ring accompanied by Angie Everhart, big fro, and Bootylicious music. As has been a trademark of Hughes nicknameless career, the 8 time defending champ came down with little pomp (though much circumstance). Carlos Newton was one of my favourite fighters at the time (still is as an all-time fave), so needless to say I was a bit upset at the outcome. I didn't know who Matt Hughes was, nor did I know what he would become, so I pretty much hated the man from the first time I saw him. His win over Newton was much disputed, though glorified and remembered by HL reels ever since, as he was clearly out from Newtons triangle, but Newton was seen as being KO'd first from the powerbomb. What is forgotten is that the fight itself was great (as was the standard at the time for The Ronin). Still, I hated the man. My hatred increased during and after the Sakurai fight. I had no idea who Sakurai was, but he was Japanese and Ricco Rodriguez was loving him up on commentary, so I was siding with him during this fight (plus, his 20+ wins and only 1 loss record was very impressive, and Mach was considered one of the best P4P fighters at the time). Hughes obliterated him for 3 rounds before putting him away with GnP at the 3rd minute mark of the fourth. Then came the Newton-rematch, which Hughes ended in spectacular fashion for another 4th round GnP win. It was clear in his fights that Hughes was very strong and very talented, but rough around the edges. He powered out of moves, rather than using technique. He out-muscled his opponents and was very successful in doing so. However, there are only so many times strength beats technique, which has lead to the Hallman-effect, for Hughes. Dennis Hallman is known in MMA for two things, having tapped out Matt Hughes. Twice. Dennis Hallman. And for getting kicked in the balls by Frank Trigg. Other than that, his career is unremarkable. But this has led to probably the only question mark on Matt Hughes record - ability to be submitted. In 45 fights, he has only been submitted 3 times. 42 other guys have been unable to tap him, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blackbelts like Carlos Newton, Renato Verissimo, and Royce freakin Gracie have been unable to submit him, but that doesn't matter because he was tapped out by Dennis Hallman. This unbalance in rationality, this Hallman-effect, has and will dog Hughes for the rest of his career. Because Hughes primarily relied on strength to win fights, eventually strength is just not enough and you have to go somewhere else to win. As shown against GSP, Joe Riggs, and Frank Trigg, Hughes has rounded out his game and has become quite the offensive submission artist. In fact, most of his wins have come by submission. Which is often forgotten when describing Hughes. As a strategy, Hughes out-muscles his opponents and takes them to the mat, uses his strength and positioning ability, as well as his GnP, to either stop the fight or set himself up to submit his opponent. Hughes stand up is not nearly as developed, as evidenced by his most recent loss to Georges St. Pierre. The lowest point in Hughes career would have to be the Sean Sherk fight. Sherk was known on the underground scene for some time, racking up some 20 wins that amounted to a nice undefeated streak. But everyone else aboveground? Not so much with the knowledge. The fight between the two at UFC 43, coming off two big shows headlined by Shamrock and Abbott respectively, did one of the worst numbers in the companies history in front of a Florida crowd that the UFC didn't bother coming back to until 2006. Needless to say, despite his impressive record and career, Matt Hughes was unpopular with the masses, and myself. This started to change around the second Frank Trigg fight. For both me and the audience. You see, it's hard to get behind a guy who always wins. It is. We are an underdog culture. We like to see people get knocked down and then get back up. We can relate to that, it gives us hope and inspires us when we fall. It's why we love Randy Couture. He is this old dude who is facing guys who are bigger, stronger, and younger, but he rises above it and manages to win. It doesn't matter how many times he defends the title, it matters how many times he wins it (and loses it, and wins it back). With Matt Hughes, he was usually the guy doing the knocking down. A bully. What the Frank Trigg fight did was put Hughes down, literally, and in the face of a sure loss, force him to get to his feet (again, literally) and take the fight back. It was a huge moment, not only for Hughes, but for MMA as that was the first big show Zuffa had put on, in a post-TUF world, in front of their largest PPV audience. A great match, and one that Dana White refers to as one of the best he has ever seen. After that, Hughes popularity began to rise, but it wasn't until he beat Royce Gracie that he became one of the UFC's biggest stars. The win over Gracie put to bed the past and recognized what MMA is today, and in the process, Hughes scored a dominant win over one of the biggest names in the game - if not the biggest. As big as that fight was, I would argue that the second BJ Penn fight did a lot more for Hughes than anything else. Again, it's the underdog syndrome. Hughes lost big time to BJ the first time around tapping out to a RNC and people were Hallman-effected. And it damn near happened again, too, as in the second round BJ had a tight triangle choke where Hughes strength couldn't save him, but the bell did. Hughes was down, losing both rounds to Penn, but he rose in the third and dominated the Hawaiian like no other had done, putting BJ on his back and grinding him out for the finish - the only time Penn had been finished in his career. It is perhaps that will to win that best defines Matt Hughes. You can have him down, you can have him out, but he will find a way to win. And in those key fights, against Penn and Trigg, we saw that the strongest muscle Hughes has is his heart. Matt Hughes vs. Robbie Newman RINGS USA, 9/20/2000 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...s-robbie-newman Matt Hughes vs. Pele Warriors War 1, 2/8/2001 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...s-robbie-newman Matt Hughes vs. Brett Al-azzawi RINGS USA, 3/17/2001 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/matt%2Bhughes/2 Matt Hughes vs. Jorge Pereira WEF 8, 1/15/2000 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...rge-pereira-wef Matt Hughes vs. GSP UFC 65, 11/18/2006 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...georges-st-pier Matt Hughes vs. Joe Stern EC 23, 4/2/1999 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...es-vs-joe-stern Matt Hughes vs. Hiromitsu Kanehara RINGS, 8/11/2001 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...itsu-kanehara-r Matt Hughes vs. Joe Guist EC 35, 6/29/2000 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...es-vs-joe-guist Matt Hughes vs. LaVerne Clark EC 29, 11/13/1999 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...rne-clark-ec-29 Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn I UFC 49, 1/31/2004 http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/...-vs-matt-hughes Matt Hughes vs. Royce Gracie UFC 60, 5/27.2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uart4xsN-4s Matt Hughes vs GSP I UFC 50, 10/22/2004 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=30...p;q=matt+hughes Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg II UFC 52, 4/16/2005 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5...p;q=matt+hughes