RavishingRickRudo

I can't stop being so cool, so don't hold that against me. It's hard being in the Elite.

This Huge Announcement by the UFC is bound to disappoint me. Simply because I am too excited and my hopes are too high. Irvin vs. Bonnar better be the slugfest it should be, dammit, or else I might just give up on the whole thing and stop invading the WWE folder with my Pro-MMA antics and stop trying to save all these poor pro wrestling fans from the cold hand of Vince McMahon.

I was angry and I didn't mean it. Forgive me.

*Spraypaints "UFC Rox/WWE Sux" on Forum Wall* *Scurries off*

Second best Hendo Pic Ever.

No, though if they manage to get another 2.0, I think I might freak out. If , there won't be a need for me to pimp it on here, in a few months, people will be in the MMA folder trying to pimp RAW "OH SHIT, YOU GOTTA SEE EDGE vs. CENA! THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME! THEY MIGHT, POSSIBLY, MAYBE, COULD HAVE AN OK MATCH THAT WON'T BORE YOU TO TEARS AND MAY ACTUALLY HAVE A COOL WRESTLING MOVE IN IT!! WWE IS ON THE RISE BABY~! ATTITUDE" Ok, MMAWeekly just said... That's a bit of a holy shit.

As if saying "This is pointless" on this messageboard, isn't pointless? POINT! Ultimate Fight Night is gonna tool this. Plus there's the Best of 2005 airing before it from 7-10. 5 Hours of Awesome vs. 2 Hours of WWE (I use WWE because words like "suck" "shit" "worst thing ever" can't even begin to have the same effect and convey the same meaning as "WWE"). But oooh boy, a grandfather in a TLC match~! Masters vs. Cena~! Shelton Benjamins Mama~!!~!!

UFC goes from having 6 live shows a year to having 18, as well as, new content shows each week. How is that not huge? Remember 2004? Remember 2003? Remember when we couldn't get this shit on a weekly basis and had to wait MONTHS for shit we will get every week now? That's huge.

Nope. That doesn't describe Joey Styles or any other wrestling announcer at all. rolleyes.gif Oh, so Joey has referenced matches from 1999 in his commentary in 2005? I can't recall him doing that. Joey has made comparisons of one match with another match and putting over both in the process? Here's a whacky question: would Goldberg have been able to do all these magical things you claim he can with a product he has no knowledge of? Goldberg would do research. He said that in an interview with The Law. He talked about how he announced for a beach volleyball game and before the gig he tried to learn everything he could about it, and he would have done the same for wrestling. The ability to focus on the match in front of you and nothing else. So if you have a jobber match on right now that really has no bearing on whatever PPV is coming up or any big match coming up in the show, the announcer should ignore all that big stuff and not bother to hype it up, or not continue to sell something that already happened in the show, and just keep his focus on the jobber match? And how come you didn't list "Selling the PPV?" or "Selling the Big Match?" or "Selling the Impact of an Angle" or shilling in general?

I really don't want MMA to have an insane amount of divisions simply because I can't keep track of them all. With boxing I'm like, "ok, so this is the super-junior-bantam-feather-light-heavyweight IWBFC title holder... and that means... what now? OOoooh, he's a pound and a half heavier than the junior-bantam-feather-light-heavyweight IWBFC holder." Sooo confusing.

Goldberg relative to most wrestling announcers is well above them. Goldberg brings up history and past bouts as well as personal information and other tidbits about the fighters, which is a helluvalot more than you see in wrestling. It's hard to find a good announcer, period, for anything and its a job with several subtle nuances that tend to get overlooked because of lil goofs like that or because of their cliched lines and delivery. Why people want someone with encyclopedic knowledge while overlooking and undervaluing the ability to, you know, do the job of a lead announcer is beyond me. And you liked Jeff Osbourne for fucks sake!

I will sleep on whatever I want! Whether it be a bed of money or a raggedy urine-soaked sleeping bag in a cardboard box at the back of a 7-11, dammit. There's a 123 lbs now? What are they, the leaf-blowing-on-the-wind-weights??

Throughout UFC history, there have been many groundbreaking announcements, moments that have both stunned and thrilled fight fans. But there's never been anything like this.On Monday, January 16th, during the Spike TV broadcast of Ultimate Fight Night 3, the UFC will raise the bar once again by announcing the biggest news in the organization's history, something that will stun the world of mixed martial arts.Don't miss this landmark moment in MMA history on Monday night. The Spike TV broadcast begins at 10pm ET/PT. -ufc.tv

But if Cena gets back on track with the fans, would the WWE put the belt back on him and go through on their original plans leading up to WM? I could easily see the TLC match being a bust, only for Cena to come down and "save the day" and deliver some of the crazier aspects of the TLC, which would get over with the fans.

Meltzer didn't like Monsoon either, and yall are fuckin crazy. Monsoon was tremendous. The crazy medical lingo, "the ______ one", and he managed to get over holds as simple as a sleeper by explaining how they work and what they're effects are. Meltzer said that Monsoon kept putting himself over and putting the wrestlers down, but I think that's a load of hooey. I think part of what helped my understanding of wrestling psychology as a kid was Gorillas commentary.

Camera men taking photos are different from Camera men shooting video. Shooting video means that it gets shown on screen and the fans react. A photo can just be for stock purposes. This is all irrelevant and boring, though

There's also shilling, throwing to various segments, reacting to unforeseen events, finding a place for fluff and knowing when to get down to business, keeping the chatter going and avoiding dead air, and also doing research and throwing in some enhancement material.

The camera guy probably isn't instructed by the UFC to take only a certain amount of photos of certain things.

Oh, look whose fancy now with his... Fireweights?

Well gee, your minutes worth of experience listening to Goldbergs commentary must give you much more insight into his abilities than my experience of listening to just about every fight he's called for the UFC. I never said that his commentary was mind-blowing or the best ever, it's just much better than Joey Styles'. My suggestion, and this goes for several people in this thread, make a list about what makes for a good lead announcer, because it seems a lot of people think it's just calling the right moves.

I think he was there to support Salaverry at UFN1 and there was a big issue with sponsorship and they were freezing Tito out.

I think it's an appropriate time to have the announcement (if it's the announcement I think it is). It's odd that SPIKETV is announcing it and not the UFC, though. Dana White has always been cautious about hyping things up too much. Even when he was working through TV deals, he'd never say anything other than "we're close". To say "The biggest announcement in UFC history" after they had a show where they announced Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock as coaches for Ultimate Fighter 3 and the return of BJ Penn all in about a 5 minute time frame, I am PSYCHED to hear what it is (and if it is what I think it is, it's pretty darn big and means the WWE will have to be stacking their RAWs a lot more from now on - so say thank you, wrestling fans, to Dana White and SPIKEtv ).

What are the odds that it turns into Cena vs. Edge TLC? I don't really care, actually. Too hyped for Ultimate Fight Night.

http://www.spiketv.com/index.jhtml#shows/f...ght/index.jhtml Kinda sucks to navigate given the video, but still, lots of great stuff on it. I recommend going to the flipbook section and checking out the photo of the blonde ring girl and then the photo of Randy Couture and Fez. It's so wrong.