Abu Dhabi Combat Club Highlight Video

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The Vid (read below first)

 

 

Not everyone's cup o' tea, but any and all feedback would be appreciated.

 

*EDIT: Almost forgot that you need to register to SubFighter.com to see any of the videos. They have quite a few so, I'd say it's worth it... then again, I have ulterior motives.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

I just watched it again and it's amazing, bro. Awesome work. It shows how fun grappling and mat-work can be and that striking isn't the only thing that is exciting in MMA. That one armbar using the shoulder as a fulcrum has to be the neat-o-est submission I've ever seen (next to Mirs sub on Williams and Satos flying armbar).

 

Q: Was that Carlos Newton in one of the clips??

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Actually, I've gotten a few "Who's that?" questions from some of the guys I've shown, so hear's a quick rundown of who does what in the video (may have missed a few, and be prepared to see a whole lot of familiar names):

 

- Mark Kerr passes Josh Barnett's guard

- Tito Ortiz escapes Ricardo Arona's triangle choke

- Rodrigo Medeiros sweeps Roberto Magalheas

- Ricardo Liborio passes Kiyoshi Tamura's guard

- Jean Jacques Machado sweeps Tsuyoshi Kohsaka

- Royler Gracie sweeps Joao Roque

- John Lewis rolls Caol Uno

- Vitor Ribeiro takes down Rumina Sato

- Alexandre Ferreira sweeps Chael Sonnen

- Ricardo Liborio sweeps Kiyoshi Tamura

- Murilo Bustamante & Ricco Rodriguez scramble

- Rodrigo Gracie takes down Carlos Newton

- Tito Ortiz reverses Matt Hughes

- Leo Viera backmount rolls (?) Eddie Bravo

- Royler gracie armbars/triangle chokes Juan Valles

- Ricardo Almeida takes down Yuri Stetsenko

- Mario Sperry kneebars against Mark Kerr

- Ricco Rodriguez kimura's Rodrigo Noguiera

- Ricardo Almeida gulliotines Ricardo Arona

- Ricardo Arona & Karim Barkalaev scramble

- Tito Ortiz takes down Rumina Sato

- Mark Robinson sprawls on Ricardo Morais

- Mark Kerr takes down Josh Barnett

- Vitor Ribeiro takes down Rumina Sato

- Vitor Belfort takes down Genki Sudo

- Matt Hughes take down Tito Ortiz

- Jean Jacques Machado omo platas Caol Uno

- Rumian Sato attempts a flying armbar/kneebar on Tito Ortiz

- Marcelo Garcia locks a choke on Vitor Ribeiro

- Rodrigo Gracie gullitones/takes down Carlos Newton

- Ricardo Arona prepares for a triangle agaisnt Tito Ortiz

- Baret Yoshida attempts a flying triangle against Naoya Uematsu

- Royler Gracie footlocks Joao Roque

- Ricardo Arona takes down Tito Ortiz

- Mark Kerr gulliotines/takes down Mario Sperry

- Genki Sudo leaps down on Rodrigo Gracie

- Tsuyoshi Kohsaka escapes Jean Jacques Machado's triangle

- Akihiro Gono & Nino Schembri scramble

- Rumina Sato & Vitor Ribeiro scramble

- Nino Schembri triangles/omo-platas Alexander Savko Sasha

- Ricardo Arona & Tito Ortiz scramble

- Carlos Newton foils Rodirgo Gracie's attempt to pull guard

- Roberto Magalheas attempts a rolling kneebar on Rodrigo Medeiros

- Vitor Ribeiro & Rumina Sato scramble

- Tito Ortiz escapes Matt Hughes' gulliotine with a sweep

- Rodrigo Gracie leg tosses Genki Sudo

- Jean Jacques Machado armbars Caol Uno

- Tito Ortiz slams Matt Hughes

- Genki Sudo & Vitor Belfort scramble

- Tito Ortiz escapes Ricardo Arona's gulliotine

- Caol Uno takes down John Lewis

- Tito Ortiz takes down Ricardo Arona

- Akihiro Gono escapes Nino Schembri's backmount

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- Jeff Monson in Roberto Traven's guard

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- Mario Sperry defeats Enson Inoue

- Sean Alvarez defeats Ricco Rodriguez

- 1999's 66-76Kg weight class top 3: Jean Jacques Machado (1st), Caol Uno (2nd), Hayato Sakurai (3rd)

- Mark Kerr chokes/neck cranks Mario Sperry

- Caol Uno locks a finishing choke on John Lewis

- Jean Jacques Machado submits Caol Uno via back choke

- Ricardo Morais footlocks Mark Robinson

- Baret Yoshida kneebars Alexandre de Freitas

- Naoya Uematsu kimuras Jean-Neol Charollais

- Mario Sperry armbars Larry Parker

- Leonardo Silva dos Santos rear naked chokes Tetsuji Kato

- Jean Jacques Machado rear naked chokes Sergei Onishuk

- Mark Kerr kimuras Josh Barnett

- Leo Vieira arm triangle chokes Morris Clifoni

- Fabiano Iha armbars Joe Hurley

- Hayato Sakurai armlocks Eddie Ruiz

- Tito Ortiz North/South chokes Rumina Sato

- Baret Yoshida flying armbars Wellington Dias

- Baret Yoshida kneebars Gustavo Dantas

- Ricco Rodriguez kneebars Rodrigo Noguiera

- Carlos Machado triangle chokes Arystos Aleksandridi

- Alexandre de Freitas gulliotine chokes Yoshinori Konishi

- Nino Schembri omo-platas Alexander Savko Sasha

- Jean Jacques Machado armbars Tsuyoshi Kohsaka

- Ricardo Almeida rear naked chokes Yuri Stetsenko

- Nino Schembri triangle armbars Akihiro Gono

- Ricardo Liborio armbars Kiyoshi Tamura

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Yowzas, that's a lot of high profile names. I didn't know so many people took part in ADCC. There's a lot of dream matches taking place there (Hughes/Ortiz, Sudo/Belfort, Kerr/Barnett, etc).

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Yowzas, that's a lot of high profile names. I didn't know so many people took part in ADCC. There's a lot of dream matches taking place there (Hughes/Ortiz, Sudo/Belfort, Kerr/Barnett, etc).

Don't forget Arona/Ortiz by the way (which Arona took.....by decision)

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Back when I was more of a Tito nuthugger, I hated the way that match happened out. Nowadays, I can understand why Arona went about things the way he did (and a better udnsertanding of how the scoring system wrosk helps): Arona had just had a long, drawn-out matches with Hiromitsu Kanehara (although he dominated via points) and tough ex-champion Kareem Barkalaev, whereas Tito had won his first two matches in about 10 minutes combined via subs. So, Arona pulls guard before points time starts, and waits for Tito to start tiring himself out. Once he's tired in OT, Arona comes back and keeps Tito on the defensive and wins via Advantage.

 

However, I still hate watching Arona in ADCC for the most part.

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However, I still hate watching Arona in ADCC for the most part.

Arona in ADCC, Arona in MMA, either way I'm yet to see him as very interesting...

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Actually, for anyone who might still be interested, I made one more change to the video, replacing the Royler Gracie footlock sequence with Fernando Vasconcelos' back suplex on Caol Uno. I think it really adds to video, but was minute enough that I didn't want to rebump a dead topic. But since it's back up anwyays, might as well mention it.