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its worth a shot
You trying to bring Dallaskd out of hiding..
its worth a shot
Hey A-Train, i keep updating your ST predictions thread, you lazy SOB..
Reaction, not erection...
Poland is on fire today!!!!!!!!!
after the fight, i immediately stormed out of the resturant with some of my buddies poped a bunch of tabs without thinking about really. Went raving and almost over dosed. Spent Sunday in the hospital until that night.Where's Dallaskd?
He must be taking the Randy loss hard, he has my sympathies.
This is the first time ive been on the computer since Friday Saturady after noon i think.
on the fights...
Randy did well...I thought he did the best possible he could. Brock is just so damn big. His skills are a little to limited right now. Should be a good fight with Nog.
Uh okay, i'm assuming you are kidding, at least i hope so..
Should be indeed, Nog is more of a threat to Brock because he is bigger than Randy and he has all the Subs to threaten him. Plus nobody can take a beating like Nog and still win a fight..
We occasionally enjoy your conversation, dk. Don't be a dumbass and kill yourself.
what are tabs? X?
Randy got his head dribbled like a basketball.
I really enjoyed that card. Most entertaining in a while imo.
Yamasaki let that go a little too long.. Brock was maybe 3 or 4 more forearms and elbows from badly hurting Randy, he was on dream street after the right hand that put him down..
By Mary Buckheit
Page 2
LAS VEGAS -- In the bowels of the MGM Grand Arena, in a small room containing just a couch, a love seat and a TV mounted on the wall, UFC president Dana White sat in jeans, a long-sleeved shirt and socks. It was Saturday night, hours before UFC 91. Outside the room, thousands of fans were pouring in from the Strip. The undercard was already under way. The pay-per-view broadcast would go live at 7 p.m., but at 5:40, White was still in his socks. He sat like a glassblower, watching his carefully crafted creation take shape.
Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar delivers a punch to Randy Couture during their heavyweight le bout at UFC 91.
"Tonight's big," he said while watching Mark Bocek overpower Alvin Robinson on the in-house live feed.
"This redhead used to run around and beat on me when he was 16!" White said of Bocek with a laugh, staring at the TV from his couch. "He used to train us in jujitsu. Now look at him."
In the hours before the tangle, White seemed so confident in the power of the blockbuster card that he was able to sit back and laugh. After all, the event was headlined by a world heavyweight le bout between fan favorite Randy Couture and former WWE champion Brock Lesnar. With nothing to worry about, White took an extra moment to make fun of his boss.
"Watch this." He pulled up a video link on his laptop and started laughing even before it began to play. The clip was from the previous day, when UFC owner and gazillionaire casino maverick Lorenzo Fer ta tripped while walking up the steps to the stage at the weigh-in with a huge crowd watching. White watched it a few times and laughed hysterically at a slow motion version.
"Ahh, I've so been there," White said. "I've done it too. Mine was worse, but this is hysterical. Look, he catches the long toe of those shoes right there. Ah-ha! But he gets a hand down and saves it. Amazing!"
This is quintessential White. It's mere hours before a le fight and he's doing what he does best -- being himself. When the conversation came back around to Couture versus Lesnar, he refused to let a reporter's cynicism change his mood.
"C'mon Dana, I love Randy, but he's almost fifty!" said the reporter. "And Lesnar's just an unproven wrestler with bowling balls for fists. Why is it really an important fight?"
"It has what everybody wants," White answered definitively. "It has just enough to make everybody wonder. First you think, 'Randy's too old, and he's been out for 15 months,' but you want him to win. Everybody wants him to win. Then you think, 'Lesnar is just too big.'"
He continued, eyes widening: "It's like, no way, no shot, too old, too big. And then you remember that Lesnar is so inexperienced it's become a joke and he's facing the Hall of Famer who beat Tim Sylvia and Gabe Gonzaga when everybody was saying then that he was too old to do it. Now you're back to thinking it could go either way."
At this point, White was jumping up and down in his socks, like a fighter in a corner ready for the next round. His fists were clenched, arms bent at the elbows like he's about to touch gloves.
The excitement had clenched hold of him.
"There are just enough questions to keep everybody guessing," White continued. "Just enough questions about both of these guys to keep everybody talking and everybody tuning in."
White triumphantly raised his hands in the air and looked to the ceiling, saying, "That's it. This is it. I love it!"
White is right, everybody was waiting for this fight with baited breath. He did his job.
In a few hours, White and everybody else in the sold-out arena watched MMA's living legend, Couture, make his way to the Octagon again. The lights dropped and he emerged to Aerosmith's "Back In The Saddle." Some 15,000 spectators rose to their feet and the first cheers broke out. "Rand-y … Rand-y … Rand-y." It was a cry heard all night long -- before, during and even after Couture took a beating.
When Lesnar came out, it was a different story. His shoulders and biceps looked like a mountain range with a flat top. Metallica's "Enter Sandman" blared. Fans booed emphatically. The day before, Couture weighed in at 220 pounds. Later that evening, Lesnar said he stepped on a scale and tipped 276. No one fills the Octagon quite like Brock Lesnar. He's absolutely massive.
Somehow, the dwarfed Couture still seemed classic and immortal. To his credit, he survived the first round and even managed to cut Lesnar's right eye with a blow that ignited the crowd.
"He's bleeding! Lesnar's bleeding," one fan screamed.
It was the blood of false hope.
No one had real reason to believe Couture could beat Lesnar, not even for a second. But no one stopped cheering.
Finally, Lesnar knocked Couture to the ground and hammered him with a prolonged flurry of blows for the victory. Just as most everyone suspected. Everybody knew that, at the end of the day, a package delivered to Couture's front porch by Lesnar's hands would be more than he could stand.
The hero was dethroned. Goliath triumphed. So why didn't it feel like a disappointment? In the words of Dana White, UFC 91 had just enough to keep everybody wondering, which is really all it had to do to satisfy the fans.
Mary Buckheit is a Page 2 columnist. She can be reached at [email protected]
Thtat's why I putted an asterisk ...Reaction, not erection...
LOL you do it before I get a chance too :PHey A-Train, i keep updating your ST predictions thread, you lazy SOB..
haha
I rave all the time. Just rolled a little to hard on Saturday. I'm alright. I either see Brock by tko or a Nog sub. It won't go the distance. Kenny and Hazelett were beasts the rest of the card was meh..to predictable. It was great to see so many fights and fights finished too.
tabs, ectasy, rolls. whatever you prefer.
So what were Lesnar's post fight comments like?
Very respectful at the post-fight press conference and after the fight in the octagon. He thanked the UFC for the shot and Randy for coming back and agreeing to fight him.. He knows Randy is a legend and talking was not a good idea.
too bad brock grabbed the cage, i wonder how much damage courture would have done if he took him down..
Not much, the RD was almost over and he had no shot of holding him down. What impressed me most is how Randy did almost nothing in the clinch. Brock paced himself and whenever he wanted out, he got seperation and landed a big knee. He didn't go nuts like with Mir or even Herring, he was very calm..
How would this matched have turned out if Randy was in his prime?
Heading in most thought Randy was still in his prime. He had beat Tim Sylvia at age 43 and Gabe Gonzaga at age 44, both top tier heavyweights and he won in dominant fashion..
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