Lord of The Curry

Are you considering going to the PRIDE show in October, Lei?

Wow, is Penn that dejected after the GSP loss that UFC is giving him a guaranteed win? I mean, I would be too but still. Figured they'd give him somebody like Diego, Karo or Fitch.

I don't think Mir has ever fought on two PPV's in a row so suffice to say he's all kinds of fucked in this one. Vera by crippling leg kicks, late round one/early round two. So assuming we see Monson get the next shot then Vera should be challenging by years end or early 2007.

They're doing Shammy/Tito on free so Shamrock's retirement speech post-fight can be seen on national cable. Seriously.

I don't know if anything official has been announced but it's pretty much been a known thing that when Fedor pulled out that the winner of the GP would be his sacrificial lamb on NYE.

Cro-Cop is back, thankfully.

That doesn't make sense given your Jeff Monson hatred. Dude looks like he'd be a great cuddler.

For reals. Just listen to Jerry Millen doing the PRIDE voice-overs. Every single one of them dudes is all about being hungry and shit.

Probably.

[Ned] Oh man Randall Orton RKOOOOOOOOOOO [/Ned]

As in a kimura with the dude applying the hold doing it from bottom position?

I assume you haven't heard of Silva before coming to the UFC. He's already beaten top middleweights, Jeremy Horn, Jorge Rivera, Lee Murray, and now Chris Leben. It's not like he's an inexperence fighter like Nate Quarry. You can make an arguement Silva has better wins then Franklin. Nope, Matt Hughes might able to beat him that time. But 1st he'll have to get past BJ Penn, because GSP will have to fight the winner of TUF4 for the title next. He fought welterweight in TUF3. The TUF IV winners will have to wait a minute because it's generally acknowledged that the winner of Parysian vs Sanchez will be challenging GSP for his newly won WW title.

Silva/Marquadt on the 64 card for a shot at Franklin in December makes perfect sense to me. Now THAT is a fight where Silva would need to knock the dude out quick or face a night staring at the ceiling.

Half the budget of Vice was probably spent on the boats and cars.

I think you're overrating Franklin and underrating Silva here to be honest. Franklin had difficulty with Jorge Rivera (who's on TUF IV) just under 2 years ago. Silva was above Quarry long before he stepped foot in the octagon and he'd fuck him up maybe worse then Franklin if the two were to go at it. Loiseau/Silva would be a sweet bout, though. Not too much danger in either guy taking it to the mat.

I'm not underrating Silva's chances so much as I'm pidegonholding them. He's not gonna sub Franklin, not gonna ground and pound him and not decison him, thus leaving a flash KO as his only way of taking it.

Silva better hope to God that the punch he throws at Franklin has Fedor-like power behind it because otherwise that lanky ma'fucka is being planted on his back and will remain there until Ace chooses how to finish him. It's a shame that this will apparently be Rich's first fight back as I like both guys but cannot under any circumstances root against Franklin. But hey, Joe Riggs isn't doing much these days. Anderson can kill him when he loses.

Bad Ma'Fuckas?

"The business"

Correction: Franklin/Silva would be a kickboxing match until Franklin takes Silva down and proceeds to own him en route to a submission victory.

My one fear starting this thread was that raza would use it to out his pro-wrestling meets mma fantasy booking. Fears confirmed.

Bottom line being that somebody isn't making it out of the first 5 minutes of that fight concious. I imagine Wandy will be looking for the kill early with the forsight that Nog/Barnett can easily go the distance.

Bombs do not have a #1 opening weekend for the most part, so no. Huge dissapointment is more accurate.

Yikes, in two weeks it's looking doubtful that Miami Vice will even be in the top ten.

Roman Zentsov would be the case, as he beat Gilbert Yvel in the opening round alternate match.