He's very opinionated...
Robbie Lawler will be a guest coach with Hughes on TUF 6
http://www.mmascoops.com/news.php?page=/187426347
Shogun says he is amazed at the treatment he's getting from the UFC
http://www.mmascoops.com/news.php?page=/187313903
He's very opinionated...
"Get off me"
Joe Rogan will be in studio at The Ticket in Dallas in about 10 min's (12:30'ish)...can stream it here if you care to listen...
http://theticket.com/listen.htm
I'm going to his show Saturday night
listening at home.
There is no way I am going to make it Saturday
No choking out or even pretending anymore because of lawsuits from people that posed with Liddell and Hughes, then turned around and sued...
Not a lot of UFC talk...just about how big MMA has gotten and how they're going all over the world now.
Lots of Mencia talk...
There is a picture in realfighter from last year where some guy had Hughes choke him out and it looked vicious since the guys face was contorted in pain and he was red.
The caption stated his neck hurt so bad he couldn't eat that night. I wonder if thats it.
Its the issue with Franklin on the cover if you can find a scan of it.
"Get off me"
i swear to god rampage is one of my favorite fighters ever.
Luke at http://bloodyelbow.com/ has a funny write-up on his blog in regards to this article in the Washington post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2401564_2.html
Where Leonard Shapiro said:
Wouldn't it be nice to forever ban Ultimate Fighting from the airwaves, not to mention the pages of my favorite Washington newspaper? It's gratuitous street fighting violence, pure and simple, and spare me the mixed martial arts garbage or readership surveys that say it appeals to potential 18- to 34-year-old readers. You watch this stuff, you don't read.
Luke's response letter to Mr Shapiro:
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/story/2007/7/26/111511/516
Dear Len Shapiro,
I'm begging you: please tell me where you live.
No, I'm not an Internet stalker. No, I'm not going to come to your house after tracking you down on Google Maps. I don't care to even see you personally. I just want to know where you live.
You see, after reading the following comment you made about "ultimate fighting" in your column yesterday in the Washington Post, I knew I needed to find out where you hang your hat:
Wouldn't it be nice to forever ban Ultimate Fighting from the airwaves, not to mention the pages of my favorite Washington newspaper? It's gratuitous street fighting violence, pure and simple, and spare me the mixed martial arts garbage or readership surveys that say it appeals to potential 18- to 34-year-old readers. You watch this stuff, you don't read.
Oh, Lenny. How lucky you are! To live in a place where uncouth, out-of-shape, unknowledgeable street thugs and bored teenagers actually fight as well as professional athletes, Division I National Champion wrestlers, Olympic wrestlers and medal winners, Olympic judokas and medal winners, Olympic boxers, professional boxers, K-1 World Champion kickboxers, and Mundial winners must be a real treat.
Mr. Shapiro, you must tell what streets you walk by where these fights take place. To think that I've been wasting all this money watching these events when they're in my own backyard makes me sick! But hey, now that I know there are alleys in the metro area where I can see the same thing, I'm on easy street. And really, shouldn't I stop training? It's really, really hard and painful. I have to learn all sorts of terribly difficult skills. If all I have to do is find a back alley, that'd be much easier on my body.
I mean, how lucky you must be! You get to see fights in your own backyard that would make 4-time All American and Division I National Champion wrestler Josh Koscheck blush! How embarrassed must Olympic wrestlers like Dan Henderson and Olympic Silver Medalist Matt Lindland be to learn drunk rednecks are as skilled as they! How sad it must make Gold Medal judoka Hidehiko Yoshida to know his years of training can be duplicated by two obese losers in a back alley! How upsetting it must be for Olympic boxer Antonio Rogerio Nogueira to know any street kid can box as well as he without the slightest bit of training! How terrible professional boxers like Jeremy Williams must feel after realizing all you need to do to learn his skills is throw a haymaker or two! How mad must K-1 world champs like Mark Hunt must be! And how disappointed must BJ Penn, Marcio Cruz, Renaldo Souza, Roger Gracie, and others must feel knowing their expertise in jiu-jitsu - borne out of incredible sacrifice and training - becomes worthless in the INCREDIBLE streets where Len Shapiro lives!
Len, I must know what alleys and streets you traverse. Don't you realize I could make a fortune?!?!? I wouldn't need to pay highly-skilled, highly-trained, highly-athletic, highly accomplished professional fighters thousands of dollars to fight! All I need are some coordinates to your neighborhood and I can see the exact same thing. Man, are you one lucky guy or what?!
Well, I was going to train tonight, but why bother? I was going to learn some Greco-roman wrestling (you know, the Olympic sport?) takedowns this evening. Then I was going to take a lesson on how striking in mixed martial arts is completely different than boxing or kickboxing because of the necessity of takedown defense and power distribution through the stance alters what is and is not allowed, but what's the point? I'm just going to head over to your neighborhood where I'll be magically transformed into the professional athlete I've always wanted to be. Why sacrifice time with friends and family for years? Why be called "street fighters" by ignorant columnists who don't have the slightest clue what they're talking about? Why spend years learning a craft when all I need to is throw a wild, off-balance, haymaker at someone else and I can get the same thing?
So Mr. Shapiro: are you going to help me out or what? Please, I beg of you. Tell me what alley you're in where you see anything approximating what's on television. No one else in the world is able to do it. Everyone else with a mammalian brain keeps telling me that mixed martial artists are experts in wrestling, judo, jiu-jitsu, thai boxing, western boxing, and other forms of combat athletics. But apparently that's not the case. Apparently you know a street where any yokel who shows up can put on the exact same display.
I must know where this is. Won't you help me?
Sincerely,
Luke Thomas
BloodyElbow.com
Freelance Writer for Real Fighter Magazine
Senior Writer for MMA Madness
Host of MMA.tv's WhoopAss Radio
Host of Any Given Saturday
Television Color Commentator for Washington, D.C.'s Mixed Martial Arts Championships
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Shapiro's response:
Luke,
Glad to see you can read and write. Let's agree to disagree, okay, but I really do love it when these athletes start whaling away on their faces and heads. It's great sport.
Len Shapiro
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To which Luke responded:
Len,
I agree to disagree insofar as you're more than welcome to not like mixed martial arts. That's perfectly fine. But like it or not, anyone with even a cursory knowledge of MMA understands just how much of a sport it is.
Luke
could be...they said it was a copy that posed with Hughes...
telling you guys...real fighter is awesome. $15 a year. Buy it.
Holy ! mo pwned the out of that guy!
Marcus Aurelio interview...
http://www.mmanews.com/ufc/MMANews.c...s-Aurelio.html
Complete Idiot's Guide to "Ultimate Fighting"...I have a feeling that JPG's of this book cover will be used as retorts on forums all over the world for years to come...
http://ufcjunkie.com/2007/07/26/rich...mate-fighting/
Some Pride fights are on "UFC on Demand" now...which explains why the new Pride/Zuffa company is yanking stuff from youtube, etc...
http://fightlinker.com/?p=368
That wasn't Luke mo homie
The latest on Fedor in the UFC...his participation in Combat Sambo is the biggest snag at this point...
http://www.sherdog.com/news/interviews.asp?n_id=8422
http://ufcjunkie.com/2007/07/27/repo...r-sweepstakes/
Sherdog.com: As Fedor’s manager, can you please fill us in on the current state of his contract negotiations.
VF: At the moment we are in negotiations with a number of organizations who have put offers on the table. I’ll be blunt in saying that the UFC offer is the most financially attractive one. However they are very harsh in their terms and are not very flexible in actually negotiating them.
Fedor has now been the PRIDE heavyweight champion for four years and I think we have earned the right to negotiate a contract that suits both parties. Instead we are faced with a blunt “you are either in or you’re out.” This does not really suit us. If the negotiations continue in a similar manner, we’ll prefer to fight for less money but with an organization which is more flexible.
The problem is that Fedor is the face of Combat Sambo in Russia. His popularity is at a level where he is acquainted with president Putin himself, in part because he is so successful and well known for Combat Sambo here.
Combat Sambo is a Russian sport that’s not at a level of difficulty of MMA, but is hugely popular with our public. Fedor must represent Russia in Combat Sambo and at world championships, specifically the ones coming up in September. All we want him to do is compete something like once a year in Combat Sambo. But the UFC is not happy with that.
Their proposal has all kinds of clauses, all kinds of fines etc. that do not suit us. The UFC is not really that eager to communicate and negotiate. The negotiations are still continuing, and we will try very hard to get our demands met, if not Fedor will simply not compete in the UFC, even though that will be unfortunate as they currently have one of the, if not the, strongest, heavyweight divisions in the world.
ShoXC wrap-up...was a pretty good night of fights. You can probalby watch them on proelite.com...
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=8425
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UFC 74 site is up...
http://74.ufc.com/
It's beyond me how they can not have a picture of certain guys. Marcus Aurelio has fought in Pride for the last 3 yrs and they don't have a picture? Not even a mugshot on ufc.com!
http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=even...htCard&eid=760
Jeez...
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UFC releases Shogun promo video...not surprisingly it's missing his brutality against Rampage, and any stomps or soccer kicks...
http://mmaannotation.blogspot.com/20...omo-video.html
So here it is if you haven't seen it lately.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2n...n-ramp_extreme
I'm a huge Rampage fan but watching that fight you have to feel bad for him. You can tell when his rib was broken and it just got worse from there...
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I miss the Pride ref cam!!
http://ufcmania.com/2007/07/27/frida...n-mma-ref-cam/
and the blood red towels are cool too...
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Joe Lauzon's brother Dan challenges Gabe Ruediger to a fight...or a cake eating contest... (fighters have green names...Dan is "The Upgrade"...Gabe is "Godzilla"...Joe is "Baby Joe Lauzon"
http://www.mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=L...1&FID=1&pc=715
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Checkout "Human Weapon" on the History Channel if you haven't yet (9:00 CT on Friday nights).
Jason Chambers is one of the hosts...
http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/f...FighterID=4430
He's been posting updates on the show on the UG forum. There will be an MMA episode with Couture, Forrest, etc...
http://www.mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=L...90&FID=1&pc=35
and a Sambo episode with Fedor??? Hope so...
http://www.mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=L...57&FID=1&pc=27
"Joe Lauzon's brother Dan challenges Gabe Ruediger to a fight...or a cake eating contest... (fighters have green names...Dan is "The Upgrade"...Gabe is "Godzilla"...Joe is "Baby Joe Lauzon""
I needed that laugh.
Glad you got a kick out of that Evan
60 Minutes is re-airing their MMA segment from January on Sunday night...
http://ufcjunkie.com/2007/07/28/60-m...ent-on-sunday/
Chuck picked Jardine from this list: Jardine, Shogun, Ryoto Machida, and Nakamura...
http://www.ufccountdown.com/news/chu...fight-jardine/
http://www.mmascoops.com/news.php?page=/187513689
wonder why..
Although im sure Chuck could pick apart Kazuhiro just as easily
ufc.com STILL doesnt have a picture of big nog in his profile
Wants an easier bounce back fight.
wonder why..
Honestly I think this could be a very cool stand up fight but I just think its too rewarding for Jardine and "spinning tires" for Chuck.
With that said, Chuck has fought and beaten some of the best so I suppose he deserves it.
Really Chuck could beat anyone on that list except maybe Shogun. Id still give Chuck a good shot to take that too.
Oh my.........
From MMQB on cnnsi.com
Quote of the Week II
"I believe Vick had a passion for dogfighting. I know many athletes who share his passion. The allure is the intensity and the challenge of a dogfighting to the death. It's like ultimate fighting, but the dog doesn't tap out when he knows he can't win."
-- Deion Sanders, in a column for the Fort Myers News-Press.
All I can say is this: These players, and player-sympathizers who write about the quasi-justification of NFL players being involved in this detestable bloodsport, need to start understanding what the rest of us in the United States think. Dogfighting is sick, and whoever participates in it is equally sick.
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