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I dunno with Watts. He had this big grin on his face after he got into it with some teenagers. But when the shit was going down with Hero he seemed pissed. I dunno if they can do it, but bleechers would be GREAT for that venue.

Osiris vs. Bishop was SHIT, though. It was supposed to be hatefilled and whatnot, and started out fine with Osiris jumping Bishop before he entered the ring with a kendo stick. And then they decided to ignore the hate and just have a shitty wrestling match where they did moves that had no right to be in a match where two guys hate each other. And the vast majority of the moves were contrived and could be seen a mile away. Then they went into a kobashi/misawa deal where they traded elbows for a while and then traded chops and it was retarded. Bishop does a really awful job concealing his leg slaps when he tries to make a contact-noise, which wouldn't be a terrible problem if he didn't do them a dozen times in a match. No blood either. Just rubbish. The tag match with Asylum kinda sucked too. They were doing traditional tag spots that were beyond their ability. The distracting-the-ref spots didn't work very well and it was kind of a mess. But whatever, now is the time and there is the place for developing shit like that. The 4 corner tag match was so much better, and they had the crowd going bonkers at one point. Not to criticise too much, but they kinda let the crowd dim down from their peak and couldn't sustain it (the crowd was waiting for a out-side dive and they prolonged it too long). They did get some of it back but I thought they waited a lil too long. Not a big criticism, but its important to strike when the iron is hot. I got there a bit late (didn't want to wait in line for 45 minutes so I got there a lil after 8pm) and just caught the end of Beef/Paysan. Did I miss anything? The "double knee in the corner" spot was way over-done tonight too.

Sweeney is the fucking man. That ass spot was the spot of the night, next to Chris Hero yelling "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!" at some fans. But Sweeney was the performer of the night, and damn near got the most reactions from the crowd and his biggest move was a second rope elbow drop. It's so weird. The first UWA show I saw, I didn't like very much. So I went into the second show with low expectations and enjoyed it more, so my expectations were raised going into the 3rd show. And I really didn't like that show at all. But this show was really good. Like, really good. Better paced, the matches didn't go all that long, Sweeney/Darkstone was tremendous, Shelley/Sabin was great and could have even gone longer, MDogg/Hero was just surreal. Best show yet, IMO. This was the biggest crowd at the show that I have seen, and they didn't start to annoy me until the second last match, so yay! Dueling chants suck. Especially when guys go "LETS GO SABIN!" one minute, and then "LETS GO SHELLEY!" the next. I hate you all. Sabin and Shelley had great chemistry and did some complex stuff and executed it well. There were 2 incidents with the crowd which reminded me of crowds of yesteryear, which I enjoyed. Watts and Flurry were egging on the crowd, spitting water and whatnot at them and the fans threw some back and they got up in each others' face. The second was much more physical with Chris Hero punching a fan, and then I guess another fan punched back and a ruckus ensued. Which was great. The crowd was buzzing and wouldn't sit down afterwards (which sucked, for me). The closer the fans are to throwing acid on wrestlers, the happier I will be about the state of professional wrestling. Fucking with the crowd was the theme of the night, as Josh Prohibition came out and challenged the entire crowd to a fight. This lead to a guy in a hooded sweatshirt that turned out to be Petey Williams, which was a nice surprise.

Shamrock is probably healthier now than he was when they fought at UFC 40.

It's not the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWZz6Uk05ck&search=ufc A Forrest Griffin interview from Sherdog. Not necessarily a great interview, but it certainly is a change in disposition from Griffin.

Let's first admit that editing plays a part in shaping things against Ken Shamrock. They have shown the guys having a few days off, but the vast majority of their time there has been training - which they tend not to show. So maybe the guys have had 4 days off, but 20 days of training? You don't really know. I think Ken is just trying to keep his guys in game shape and hope that their previous training is sufficient. He probably thinks he can't tell them anything they don't already know, that he doesn't have enough time with them to make them better as fighters, so teh best he can do is keep them healthy. This has been the approach of the coaches, IIRC, for the past two seasons. One coach wants to mold guys, improve them, and make them better fighters, the other coach thinks the job is already done and its up to him to make sure they are just ready. I know Hughes and Franklin had those dispositions where Hughes was choosing guys who were ready, and Franklin wanted guys he could help improve. The thing with Ken is he just kinda sucks and doesn't really add anything to that other than a bunch of speeches, it seems. I think short-term training can benefit guys who have had little training to begin with - working with Tito will vastly improve Matt Hamills game, for example, which is why Tito is saving Matt for last so he can get the maximum amount of training. I am not a fighter, so I could be wrong, but I would say that when a fighter gets in the cage or the ring, most of the little bits of training go out the window and the long-term training takes over because it has become engrained and is an instinct. A wrestler who has been training for the last month in boxing isn't going to continue to box when he gets punched in the face - he's going to instictually go for the takedown. So in regards to Jesse, a week of sporadic training with a BJJ coach isn't going to make him more aware of avoiding the armbar. To build a reaction like that, to build instincts, I imagine takes longer.

http://www.alessiosakara.com/video/valetud..._vs_Amougou.wmv http://www.alessiosakara.com/video/valetud...vs_Maiorino.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCY-6PrSfgI&search=sakara

Because it's awesome?

I've been hit by Mike Zambidis and let me tell you, a baby elephants fart hits harder. I know that too, because... well, that's a story for another day. F4W~! sez that the fightnetwork has bought MMA weekly. I hope this leads to MMA weekly being on the radio up here, because I can't stand the LAWs shitty and inconsistent coverage by two guys who can't pronounce half the fighters' names let alone know anything about fighting and who had Randy Couture as their 2004 FOTY despite fighting only twice against the same guy who wasn't even a top ten fighter and losing once. And didn't make mention of the Bushido Tournament at all in their year end reviews, despite it being one of the best shows ever... I have issues with the LAW, yes.

Rocky IV's training sequence - contrasting Rockys with Dragos. Fedor does similar stuff to Rocky, but he NEEDS to climb up a mountain and be chased by a car in the snow and train in a barn.

I think the benefits would outweight the negatives. One, it would help build TNAs audience. Two, it would help the relationship between Spike and UFC (not that it is hurting right now, but it would be a nice gesture from the UFC to Spike to help another Spike show out). Three, it would give the MMA audience something cool and rare to see. Four, it would help get over whomever would be associated with the UFC guys. It's not like TNA is the WWE here, where it is seen by millions and millions of people who may not even know what the UFC is, and therefore create a the negative pro wrestling stigma around the UFC. It's with TNA, who is already grouped with the UFC in both Thursday Night Knockouts and Must Bleed TV and whatever SPIKE is calling it. It would just be something fun for the audiences of both shows.

I am not saying I necessarily agree with Kens training methods - I'd choose Tito's camp any day of the week, but part of that is because Tito knows more than Ken and is more well rounded. I am not saying Ken is the best coach, and I am not even saying Ken is a good coach (the nutritionist is a laugh). I am just saying, I see his point in regards to giving his fighters time to rest and not push them to injury and it's a good one. Kristians conditioning would not have improved enough for him to go one full round, let alone 2 with Bisping. You don't just improve your ring shape in 3 weeks. And it's not like Ken is totally ignoring them, either. He's just not killing them. If Bisping and Kristian switched sides, Bisping would still slaughter him. The crappy fighters are going to stay crappy, the good fighters are going to stay good. Even if the crappy guys are going to improve relative to where they started, they are not going to get good enough to beat the superior fighters. You can't improve that much in this kind of environment. If you look at the guys who came into TUF and were successful, they weren't successful because of the training they received there, they were successful because coming in they were already good fighters.

Well here's the thing - the guys who are in there aren't going to improve dramatically in the time they are there. The guys who are good are going to stay good, the guys who are bad are going to stay bad. The good guys are going to thrash the bad guys. So why train the shitty guys? And more importantly, why work the good guys to death when the odds of them getting hurt are much greater than them improving in this setting?

Yeah, it was a weak card), definitely, and things are vastly improved across the country in regards to MMA popularity. Still, they got burned on that first Florida show. I recall Dana talking about some of the territories he'd want to explore - Mexico, Texas, Canada - I can't recall if Florida was one of them or not. Tito/Ken would be in a tag match, and the match would mainly be centred around Ken/TNA worker 1/TNA worker 2 - because Tito is not a trained pro wrestler. Titos partner gets beatdown, Titos main action is making the same and throwing Kens partner around until Tito and Ken go face to face for a brief moment and then it breaks up.

Ken is trying to have his guys avoid injuries, and it's a pretty good strategy especially if Tito is killing his guys in training.

Florida has legalized MMA and the UFC ran a show there a few years ago (UFC 42 - Hughes vs. Sherk as the main). It was near-disaster, though. The fans weren't very responsive and I don't think the gate did very well. Needless to say, they never went back. I don't see any reason why the UFC and TNA can't work together, since they share the same tv block. Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock going face to face in the Impactzone, then tagging with a TNA guy respectively for a tag match would be fun. But like the article said, Tito is healing from an injury and doesn't have a ton of time to train after recovery.

Ortiz suffers broken leg, will fight Shamrock in July anyway - 4/28/2006 by Michael DiSanto Prefer Full Page Format? Click Here Talk about a rollercoaster ride. Moments ago, Tito Ortiz left the doctor’s office in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California and finally got the official word as to the extent of his myriad of injuries suffered before and during his fight with Forrest Griffin at UFC 59 back on April 15. He called InsideFighting to break the news. “The news is good and bad,” Ortiz told InsideFighting. “The good news is that my ACL is healing well. There are no serious tears. And my LCL is only stretched, so that will be fine, too. As for the bulging discs in my back, they’ve given me some anti-inflammatory pills and might go the route of a cortisone shot. That treatment plus some rest and I’ll be fine.” And the bad? “I suffered a broken leg when I checked a kick,” he admitted. “I fractured the fibula in my left leg. But the doctors said that it will be fully healed in four-to-six weeks.” Unfortunately, the injuries guarantee that Ortiz won’t be able to compete at UFC 61 on July 8. “I can’t fight in July because there won’t be enough time after my injuries heal to get into top shape,” he explained. “I would love for Zuffa to hold Ken Shamrock until August and let us fight at UFC 62. I’d definitely be ready to fight by then. But I know they won’t postpone the fight. They’re going to give him to Forrest Griffin instead.” In fact, UFC President Dana White already announced that he is going to substitute in Griffin for the injured Ortiz against Shamrock on July 8. So that begs the question: If Tito could play matchmaker, who would he choose to fight next? “I would prefer to fight Shamrock because there has been a ton of buildup for the fight,” he said. “It’s something that I’ve wanted for a long, long time. But Forrest is going to beat him in July and that will be the end of Ken Shamrock. That’s not all bad, though. I definitely want a rematch with Forrest so I can show the world how badly I’ll beat him when I’m healthy. So I want a rematch with Forrest Griffin in my next fight.” Fifteen minutes after receiving that call, Ortiz called InsideFighting back with a massive exclusive update. “It really came down to the fact that I’ll be 100 percent healed in four-to-six weeks and will have six weeks to train for Shamrock,” Ortiz said in a shocking revelation. That’s enough. I’ll be ready. I got home and decided that I don’t want to let the money go from a Shamrock fight, so I called Dana White and made his year. He was pumped when he heard that I’m willing to fight Shamrock on July 8, even though I have a broken leg. I just want to get back in there after the Griffin fight and give Shamrock a beating.” But the broken leg? “I’ll be ready,” he insisted. “I’ll let my leg heal and then will do my road work for six weeks and get into great shape. The broken leg isn’t as bad as a torn ACL would have been.” Needless to say, Ortiz sounded down and upset when InsideFighting spoke with him multiple times over the last few days. But he was completely upbeat and excited in this last conversation, one where he delivered the news with conviction and purpose. “This is the life of a fighter,” Ortiz laughed. “It’s an emotional rollercoaster. But I’m fighting Shamrock in July. I made my decision. I told Dana just a few minutes ago. It’s happening. What it really comes down to is being mentally strong. I’m excited. I really want to fight Shamrock. I don’t want to give that fight to Forrest, so I’m going to fight him no matter what.”

Inflammatory statements? This is neither the time nor the place.

Because its a reality show.

7 decisions vs. 6 decisions. Two of which were against NOGUIERA. I'd say Fedor is less likely to go to a decision than Nate in any given fight.

KUMITE! KUMITE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVoBHalGms8&search=bloodsport THEE scene from THEE Wizard. The 80s were truly the golden age of film.

What would this thread be without the ubiqutous 80's asian hero Gedde Watanabe? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_FoUcDSFxs&search=uhf WHEEL OF FISH!

I saw Major League II in theatres. White Lightning, baby. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV7Da_NfwlU&search=footloose FOOTLOOSE, MOTHERFUCKERS.

It would also be a sin if we didn't get "Blame it on the Rain" from Paris.