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Yeah the TUF 2 Finale is one of those overlooked shows that had some really good stuff on it.I hadn't seen it for a few years until last week when ESPN Classic repeated it.

Florian-Cope was a great opener and kinda historic for the 2 subs in 1 fight.

And I've gotta say the Stevenson-Cummo fight was a much,much better fight than I remembered.Cracking fight and even though I already knew the result I was really rooting for a Cummo upset by the third round.

Even the Rashad-Brad Imes HW Final was an entertaining slugfest.Not a great technical fight but just 2 guys throwing leather until they both gas and then throw more leather.

And obviously Sanchez-Diaz is an awesome fight.One of the best ground based fights in UFC history.I think it was the first grappling type fight that really made me appreciate the ground game.

On paper it looks like pretty much a 1 fight show but I'd recommend people who haven't seen it to give it a chance.Good stuff.

Think UFC 52 was my first real time UFC,think it was on Bravo delay too.

I first saw MMA just before that though and the first fight I ever saw was Wanderlei vs Hendo from Pride 12.I was at a mates house who was big into MMA at the time and he was watching it on his computer.When I saw that fight I was hooked and instantly became a huge fan of Wanderlei.

Then I saw UFC 52 with Chuck-Randy 2,Hughes-Trigg 2 and GSP-Mayhem Miller and there was no going back.

Watched UFC 39 today.Some good stuff on this one.

Some highlights

Tim Sylvia vs Wesley 'Cabbage' Correira

Sylvia's UFC debut and he was also billed as 'The Grizzly Bear' .Probably Sylvia's most exciting fight aswell,if he fought this aggressively after he won the title he probably wouldn't have got half the hate he did.

This was just a wild brawl and a lot of fun.Big Timmy just proved to be the better striker.Unbelievable some of the shots Cabbage takes in this one,amazing he never went down.

Phil Baroni vs Dave Menne

Well,not much else to say really is there

Caol Uno vs Din Thomas

One half of the tournament to crown a new Lightweight champ.Good,close technical fight with lots of grappling.Uno took the decision with ground and pound after whethering a storm of submission attempts from Thomas.

BJ Penn vs Matt Serra

Other half of the LW tournament.Really close,entertaining fight.Serra looked great and really gave BJ all he could handle.Dunno why the crowd started booing towards the end of the fight,I thought it was a cracking little battle.

Randy Couture vs Ricco Rodriguez

For the vacant HW Title after Barnett was stripped of the belt for testing for steroids....again.I hadn't seen this fight before.It was better than I expected to be honest.The first couple of rounds was all Randy and it was looking like he'd cruise to victory pretty easily.Ricco came back strong in the later rounds once he figured out he had to get on top of Randy and finished him in the 5th round.

The other fights were Sherk vs Radach,Lindland vs Salaverry and Gan McGee upsetting Pedro Rizzo with a huge overhand right leading to Marco Ruas throwing the towel in for Rizzo between rounds.

Enjoyable card I thought.

EDIT- Oh and by the way MMAUniverse is doing a buy 1 get 1 free offer on all K-1 Hero's DVDs at the moment.I'm getting me some of them.Glad I waited now.

Here's the link

http://www.mmauniverse.com/offers/SS44

Bellator have agreed on an international distribution deal to air their footage worldwide.Really pleased about this.

With Bellator's second season rapidly approaching, the budding fight promotion has partnered with Engine Entertainment to handle its international distribution.

 

While Bellator has already partnered with Fox Sports Net, NBC and Telemundo in the U.S., as well as The Score in Canada, Engine Entertainment will handle the distribution outside of those two countries.

 

Engine Enteratinment will handle the distribution for all 24 of Bellator's live events in 2010, as well as any additional premium pay-per-view events that the promotion produces.

 

The deal also calls for Engine Entertainment to handle the distribution of Bellator's 12 previously aired shows from 2009.

 

"Bellator is very pleased to be working with Engine Entertainment

I completely missed Rioheroes on the net and I was still a fan back then if it was around 06/07.Sounds crazy,like a real life Bloodsport or something.

Yeah the Penn vs Gracie fight was a bit underwhelming.Still nice to see it anyway but I'd like to have seen BJ go for the kill a bit more.

And Magnum,that Rioheroes stuff sounds mental.This is the first I've heard of it.Where did you find that?

Haha I was watching that Penn vs Gracie fight from ROTR 6 last night.That 'incident' mid-fight was wild.

Yeah by the 12th everyone(including Clottey and his corner) knew there was no way he could win the decision anyway so he should have just thrown caution to the wind I think.I'd rather throw everything out there and get knocked out than just try to survive and regret it after.

Maybe he'll take comfort in the fact he went the distance with Manny while De La Hoya,Hatton and Cotto couldn't but I think part of him will look back with regret and thinking he could have done better.

Don't know if this is the place for this but is anyone else having problems with posting?

It's only started happening the last couple of days but when I try to submit a post sometimes it works fine but most of the time it just doesn't post at all.Weird.

Cheers in advance

EDIT- This post took 3 attempts before it worked.

As for an opponent for Hatton,I recently read there are early talks going on for a Hatton vs Marquez fight.

Don't know what to make of this.Apparantly Mike Tyson is making a comeback....with Don King FFS.

Mike Tyson

Wonder what the sun's headline would be if he was posting on here?

 

Bulger Killer Was Chris Benoit Fan.

 

We can reveal today that sick Jamie Bulger killer Jon Venables was a fan of child-killer Chris Benoit. While Jamie's family still have to suffer with their loss, Jon Venables spent his days and nights posting on Benoit-worship site 'The UKFF'.

 

The internet forum, which has a BNP-inspired logo, spends most of it's time:

 

- Talking about the killers 'workrate'

- Telling SICK jokes about cancer-stricken angel JADE GOODY

- MOCKING poor STEPHEN GATELY

- HARRASSING wrestling promoters like STEPHEN GAUNTLEY

- TEASING the handicapped mentalists on their board like MAB and 'VICTOR C'

 

One insider, who goes by the violent name of 'Carbomb' said 'it's sick. They constantly tease people and praise Chris Benoit, despite the fact he violently murdered kids, just like Jon Venables. I worry about immigrants. I think anyone who murders kids like poor sweet Jamie Bulger and poor little Daniel Benoit should be killed.'

Haha classic

Although you might wanna change your username....they'd probably think its a tribute to Chris Benoit

Can't wait to see this.Some real good fighters involved.Warren,Askren,Wallhead,Cummings,Hornbuckle and Curran are the ones I'm most familiar with.

I hope to see 'Judo' Jim Wallhead win the WW tourney.He was one I was sure UFC would have signed by now to be honest.Maybe the fact he's another Rough House WW went against him possibly causing another AKA situation where 3 WWs won't fight each other.

Penn vs Machida is one I've been meaning to watch for a while.Keep meaning to get some of them Hero's DVDs.

I'm gonna seek out the remainder of the non-UFC Penn fights now. I was a fan when they happened, but the fight were not as readily available as they are now.

I wanna get the BJ vs Renzo fight from K-1 in Hawaii 2005 on DVD.I think it's on youtube but it's not the same to me.

The only other fights he had outside UFC were Duane Ludwig from K-1 and the Gomi and Rodrigo Gracie fights from the Rumble On The Rock DVD set.

It's just the Renzo and Ludwig fights that are tricky to find.

Watched Pride 29:Fists Of Fire tonight.Decent show.

Mario Sperry vs Hirotaka Yokoi

Fabricio Werdum vs Tom Erikson

Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua vs Hiromitsu Kanehara

Igor Vovchanchyn vs Yoshiki Takahashi

Kazuhiro Nakamura vs Stefan Leko

Sergei Kharitonov vs Mu Bae Choi

Kiyoshi Tamura vs Aliev Makhmud

Alistair Overeem vs Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson vs Murilo 'Ninja' Rua

Mirko 'Cro Cop' vs Mark Coleman

Highlights of this one for me were

Little Nog vs Overeem-Really good fight.At the start it looks like Overeem's striking will be too much for Nog but he weathers the storm and earns the decision.Nog just had better cardio and ground control and also nearly finished an exhausted Overeem standing near the end.

Shogun vs Kanehara-Shogun's last fight before the famous GP tournament of 2005.He just destroyed Kanehara with kicks,knees and finished with the trademark soccer kicks and stomps.This was fairly impressive because Cro Cop couldn't finish Kanehara in 15 minutes and it took Overeem almost 2 rounds.It took Shogun about 2 minutes.

Cro Cop vs Coleman -This was classic prime Cro Cop.Coleman couldn't take him down which meant only one ending was likely.Mirko battered Coleman with hooks and finally a big uppercut then followed up with a brutal kick to Coleman's head on the ground.

Rampage vs Ninja-This was the first time I'd seen this fight.It's well known for the decision where Rampage got the nod from the judges and most people didn't agree with it(including Bas,Mauro and even Rampage himself).I did think Ninja should have won but it was a closer fight than I anticipated and not as bad a robbery as I expected from reading about it.

Good fight though and cool to see the rare sight of Page with the Afro.

Tamura vs Makhmud-Not really a highlight but worth a watch for all the wrong reasons.Tamura catches Aliev with a brutal knee to the 'pills' as Bas put it.Makhmud is down for ages,then the round ends.He comes out for round 2 and seems fine,then he waves at the ref that he wants out.Ref ignores him so he fights on only to wave the fight off again shortly after prompting his corner to throw in the towel.Odd fight.

Plus classic a Igor Vovchanchyn KO on Takahashi.Brutal knockout that had Takahashi slumped up the ropes.

There's a real cool extra on this DVD too.Backstage with Bas Rutten where Bas shows you round the empty Saitama Super Arena before the show.You get to see Wanderlei posing in the Pride ring for some goofy Japanese media stuff and his face is priceless when he realizes Bas is ringside taking the piss with a cameraman.Plus you see Mauro doing forward rolls on the floor backstage,Yoshida cookies,and just Bas pissing about backstage.

Cool stuff like this really makes me miss Pride.I love the UFC,WEC,Strikeforce etc but Pride had a bit of fun with it.MMA is such a serious sport it's nice to see a more fun side to it like this.

Ahh right....should have guessed it was a work.Jones seemed to tap before the submission was even on fully,I just assumed he panicked and bottled it.

Oh yeah my Rumble On The Rock set came today

Looking forward to that.Not keen on the way the DVD box is designed though.Looks good on the outside but the discs are in plastic sleeves inside instead of the usual clip thingys that hold the discs in.Weird but looks a good set.

I'll be getting the Superbrawl ones next and some Cage Rage,K-1,Hero's etc.

I've been trying to get all the old Pride DVDs aswell.Last night I watched Pride 1 and had the 'pleasure' of sitting through Severn/Kimo.I hadn't seen it before but I'd heard it sucked....well it did.Perversely entertaining though listening to Quadros and Bas totally frustrated on commentary.Nathan Jones fought on the card aswell which I never knew about and from what I saw he was as shit at MMA as he was pro wrestling

Yeah I love all the behind the scenes stuff.The 2 disc UFC DVDs are a big improvement,think the first was 83 with the GSP-Serra rematch.Glad they've stuck with it.

Great stuff, you get the countdown, the weigh in's and fighter interviews...which is the pre-fight, post fight (in cage) and post fight interviews with each of the fighters, it's kind of irritating why they edit the interviews from the actual show on disk 1, that dont make much sense but at least they include em.

That is annoying.I'd rather they put it all in order so disc 1 would be Countdown,press conference,weigh ins and the prelims then disc 2 with the main card fights with the post show stuff and behind the scenes etc.

Then they could leave the pre-fight videos and Rogan interviews where they should be.

Yeah it was Sinclair or Pryce for me.Went with Sinclair just because he stopped Pryce last time they fought.Should be a good one though.Definitely think the winner of this fight will take the tournament.

Childish i know but saw this on Frank Warren's Wiki

 

Wiki Clicky

 

Warren is an Arsenal FC supporter and has a long term boyfriend. Since the shooting, Frank has had to be the "man" in the relationship and no longer on the receiving end of the pitch. He has mentioned previously he does miss the feeling of having his boyfriend rip through his anus, however he has since found a hot indian curry as a like-for-like replacement

 

Good stuff.

Yeah,I'm looking forward to Prizefighter on Friday,always enjoy them.

First round fights are

Prince Aaron vs George Hillyard

Bradley Pryce vs Neil Sinclair

Steve O'Meara vs Martin Concepcion

Danny Butler vs Brett Flournoy

Should be good.I'm going with Sinclair to come out on top but should be some good fights.

Yeah most of the Takada fights I've seen seemed dodgy in one way or another.

Only one I've seen that definitely wasn't was the fight with Tamura at Pride 23.Tamura just battered him with leg kicks for about 10 minutes and then knocked him spark out.

I remember reading about a fight between Takada and Trevor Berbick that was supposed to be worked but Takada started shooting and fucked Berbick up with leg kicks.Might have been in the UWFi days that one.

I heard Takada vs Coleman from Pride 5 was a work too and it did looked fishy to me.Even Bas on commentary seemed very suspicious from what I remember.

So. Gracie and Shamrock seemed delighted after their fight at UFC 5. I'm glad someone enjoyed it. The show only went to add to my love for Dan Severn. He seemed to explode out of nowhere at times too.

 

UFC 6 was good fun. I can see why Abbott vs. Taktarov was described as "must-see". It was grinding my gears for a while, but it's probably one of the more dramatic UFC fights I've seen. Both guys were absolutely shattered so I don't mind. As for earlier fights, the first round had all sorts of goodness. My favourite being Patrick Smith EXPLODING out at the start with a kick.

Was that the one where he just ran at his opponent on the opening bell and knocked him on his arse with a Muay Thai front kick?

I liked Pat Smith.I was surprised to learn he still fights.His last fight he lost a decision to Kevin Jordan as recently as August 09.Before that he beat Brad Imes in 28 seconds.