jimufctna24 Posted June 22, 2019 Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) The Ranallo documentary is really interesting. It is difficult to watch at times, especially the scenes after the Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight where Mauro is clearly struggling with his mental health. There are, however, scenes that are really touching. He's always been a bit marmite. Some find his enthusiasm endearing. Others find it overbearing. Personally, I have always had a soft spot for him. He was Pride's lead announcer when I started following MMA properly in 2005. As I waded through Pride's back catalogue, in particular the events they hosted in 2003 and 2004, he was usually present to call the action. Thus, for me, he was the voice of Pride FC. I felt his commentary declined a bit in Strikeforce. He had a habit of overusing pop culture references. But to be fair, the Strikeforce commentary booth was a mess. Gus Johnson was pretty terrible. A two man booth with Mauro and Pat Miletich would have probably worked much better. I haven't heard much of his recent work for Showtime Boxing, but I haven't minded his work for Bellator alongside Big John. I certainly prefer him to Mike Goldberg. Regardless, whatever he does going forward, he'll always be remembered in MMA circles for this. Probably the most famous call in MMA history. Edited June 22, 2019 by jimufctna24 Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted October 19, 2019 Author Paid Members Posted October 19, 2019 any decent Youtube channel recommendations? I'll throw one in, Dan Hardy's Full Reptile channel is really good and worth subsribing too. He's got a team working with him doing breakdowns, video blogs, podcasts etc. well worth checking. Any others? Quote
jimufctna24 Posted October 19, 2019 Posted October 19, 2019 21 hours ago, Egg Shen said: any decent Youtube channel recommendations? I recommend Jack Slack's channel. He can be a bit of a killjoy, and when he has it in for someone he doesn't let it lie, but he's very knowledgeable and offers some great insight. His breakdown videos, in particular, are usually fantastic. - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2i7H-EzzpQLeaj3Qplatjw Bas Rutten's channel,is also worth a look. You can view all of his fights in Pancrase. - https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialBasRutten Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted October 23, 2019 Author Paid Members Posted October 23, 2019 Tito struggling. The last clip is gold. Quote
Magnum Milano Posted October 24, 2019 Posted October 24, 2019 I don't keep up or really follow MMA anywhere near as much as I used to and this may very well be old news, but I saw this video for the first time the other day and thought it was tremendous. In the spirit of Genki Sudo, Andy Nguyen's awesome entrance from Rizin. Screaming Pride lady on ring announcing duties makes it all the more better. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 5, 2019 Author Paid Members Posted November 5, 2019 some geezer has taken the time to upload a ton of old ufc events in full, dunno how long they'll stay up but thought this may be of interest to some of you... get to the channel through the link ^ Quote
jimufctna24 Posted November 5, 2019 Posted November 5, 2019 Aye, I found that channel a few weeks back. I watched the Bas Rutten vs TK bout on it. They teased a Rutten vs Rizzo fight afterwards. What a fight that would have been! Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted April 11, 2020 Paid Members Posted April 11, 2020 Great highlight of one of the hardest sods in MMA history; Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted April 20, 2020 Paid Members Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) This is kind of cool. Behind the scenes with Dan Henderson before his fight with Bustamante at the 2003 Pride Grand Prix. Just noticed my last post in this thread was a Hendo video as well. I guess I go back to his highlights a fair bit. Edited April 20, 2020 by wandshogun09 Quote
jimufctna24 Posted April 22, 2020 Posted April 22, 2020 I have no memory of that fight for some reason. I checked the full card for Final Conflict 2003 last night. The only fights I had zero recollection of were Hendo vs Bustamante and an undercard bout pitting Heath Herring against Yoshihisa Yamamoto. Odd. Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted April 22, 2020 Paid Members Posted April 22, 2020 Yeah Hendo just blitzed him. I seem to recall thinking it was a bit of an early stoppage but I haven’t seen it in years so my memory is hazy on that fight. The rematch at Shockwave 2005 went the distance and was really close. Hendo had a few iffy decisions his way around that time. I remember thinking Yuki Kondo was unlucky to not get the nod against him and maybe Bustamante too. People forget now but there was a time when Hendo was nicknamed ‘Decision Dan’. Quote
jimufctna24 Posted April 23, 2020 Posted April 23, 2020 Yuki Kondo used to make his entrance to Enya. For that, and that alone, he will always be one of my darlings. Quote
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted April 30, 2020 Paid Members Posted April 30, 2020 I'm sure yiz all know of this, and somebody has already posted it (but I can't find it) but this is a pretty fucking wonderful channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZBhYdrkmHA_a52RXmRujHA The mini-docs are incredible and I reckon the rug will be pulled from under this channel by the powers that be very soon. Props to the Big Franny, T-Ferg and Gaethje ones, in particular: Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted April 30, 2020 Author Paid Members Posted April 30, 2020 MMA needs more channels like that. There are some amazing boxing channels where fans make documentaries/highlights better than what you see on TV. The MMA ones aint upto snuff. Quote
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