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No worries. I always bring the tough guy act in here since it's an MMA thread. LOL.
Sorry man I was just in a bad mood. But you did bring up the tough guy act first
No worries. I always bring the tough guy act in here since it's an MMA thread. LOL.
psst...wang listen to your coach.
...and don't bawl like a 2 year old on national tv .
yeah my grandfather watched that fight with me and it was his first ever MMA fight. Now he thinks MMA is stupid. "Boxing is a real sport"
Some folks don't realize that the many of the contestants on TUF are not even good enough to make any UFC card. They don't represent top-level mma.
Alot of my black friends dont like MMA for what ever reason. They say its gay to roll around on a sweaty guy. All they care about is boxing, which i dont follow very much. It seems white people and asians like mma more.
lol...well at least he got a good sample to judge it by...
My grandmother swears it's fake...
Don't expect many elderly to follow it, as they grew up with boxing...
Watching guys throw a flurry, hug, be separated, then repeat...for 12 rounds...is so much less gay...
A guy like Rampage will draw black fans...
Based on the previews, it looks like Gabe just about kills himself cutting weight in tonight's episode...I wonder if we get to see him fight Corey or not??
Thank goodness the Gabe Ruediger show has been canceled.
I hated that show.
Ruediger is a huge . As much as I laughed at Andy Wang's stupidity last week, at least he got in the octagon and fought.
Ruediger is nothing more than a talker who will never be able to back up his own hype. Dana was way more pissed in last night's episode than when Jeremey Jackson jumped the fence.
Well, I'm stoked about next week's episode. Two fights!
As if Ruediger didn't look bad enough, he adds linsult to injury by posting this:
http://mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=ListM...6&FID=1&pc=276
"Hey everyone, sorry I havent been on here, but Ive been focusing on my training and less on the negative comments I see here.
I just want to say, please take what you see on TV with a grain of salt. Ive said it many times before and Ill say it again. REALITY TV is NOT Reality. I realize that Im painted as a less than stellar character, and it is causing a LOT of you to pass judgement. I saw the show as just that, a show. I wasnt looking at it as the UFC and I wasnt looking at it as anything more than a tool to ensure my face would be recognizable. Basically, a marketing tool.
I allowed my behaviour to be “over the top” and made sure my antics were always in the fore front. In retrospect, i would have done things very different, but it DID work. Im human and will make more mistakes in my life and I will be accountable for it. We all do STUPID things, I just had a camera on me when I did it.
From this point forward, Im going to let my future actions decide who I am. The past is just that and I will not allow it to define me. My dedication is to be the best fighter I can be, and that is where my focus is now. Im thankful that I have a great team that supports me 100%. I have Dan Henderson, Heath Sims, Sokoudjou, Shawn Tomkins, Mayhem Miller, Art Santore, Rani Yahya, Dave Gardner, Ryan Parsons and everyone at Team Quest supporting me, so I guess Im not THAT bad of a guy! LOL
To those that support me, Thank you. Im glad that you can see through the hype and still feel that Im worthy of your support. To those that pass judgement blindly. Im sorry that a TV show completes your reality. I hope that with my future endevours you might see a different side. To those that hate me regardless, well, you have more than enough ammunition now!LOL There are those that will hate you regardless of what you accomplish.
Im more than happy to talk to anyone in an adult fashion and explain my view point more in depth, so feel free to check out my website WWW.GABGODZILLA.COM and contact me through there. If you want to send a “Your a pussy,blah blah blah” note. The web admin just deletes them."
So it wasn't reality that he didn't take his opportunity seriously and waited until the last minute to cut weight and give up?? OK
If he thinks he has a career in MMA, I'm sure it won't be on the big stage in the UFC.
I'm glad I didn't watch this episode. Sounds like it was pretty bad.
Actually, I found the whole "Gabe/Sauna" fiasco quite amusing.
"Put me back in... I can do it if you just put me back in..."
More tears and more BS...what a surprise...
Dana White should have his ass kicked for all the BS hype he spewed leading up to this season. Not surprising at all that the ratings are down...
At least we get 2 fights next week...
Worst episode ever, at least whats his name gets to come back, although he wasnt immpresive the 1st time and Im pretty sure Corys gona jack him up
Andy Wang responds:
Gabe,
You need to call me, man. We were friends before the show, but man, come on. You put a lot of us in bad positions...we missed practice time, we were one training partner short while you were out doing your thing, the van rides were constant headaches and distractions.
Remember that talk we had at the house...come on man, learn from all this, don't pass ALL the blame on to others or call them morons for going off what they see each week on TV. Yeah, they edited all of us to a certain degree, but some of the things you did, you put us on the spot man.
I don't want to get into it here because I respect you more than that, but don't go out like that, putting all the blame on the editors or you just wanting to get TV time so pulled some stunts...your moves had an impact on all of us.
-Andy
http://mma.tv/tuf/index.cfm?ac=ListM...=1037936&FID=1
Gabe is a fatass. 155 is not even his weightclass.
Lauzon is a beast! You wouldn't expect this kid to unleash a fury like that from the way he acts or talks. He completely dominated his opponent. I think everyone there was thinking, "Holy , this guy is for real!"
As far as Emerson/Hill, I thought Hill won the 1st round, Emerson took the second, and the 3rd because of the leg kicks. Emerson wasn't aggresive enough in the 3rd, but I was still surprised to see Hill get the decision. Emerson should have been legkicking the out of him all day long. It would have been a victory if he had.
I gave the last round to Cory by just a hair. It was pretty close though. Rob definitely would have wrapped it up with a few more kicks. I give him all the credit in the world for doing fairly well with such a reach disadvantage. Hill is some kind of freak.
Agreed...
I really like Lauzon...he doesn't hold back. And talk about executing your gameplan...
Kinda funny that Hill had no professional fights. He's an interesting project. I thought the 3rd was a toss-up, with a slight edge to Emerson due to the leg kicks.
Joe's weekly blog in the Boston Herald...
http://sports.bostonherald.com/ufc/v...icleid=1000610
Week 6: Making the most of my shot
By Joe Lauzon, Friday, May 11, 2007 - Updated: 10:15 AM EST
(Brockton native Joe Lauzon, a UFC lightweight fighter and member of the cast of TUF 5, will give exclusive insight to bostonherald.com readers immediately following each week’s episode. Here is his commentary on Episode 6.)
This week we have two fights in one show. I square off with Brian Geraghty, while Rob gets a second chance and has the opportunity to fight Corey Hill. Team Pulver picked the fights, but we were very happy with the matchups. I was ready to fight anyone on Team Pulver and was happy to be fighting who I thought to be their toughest remaining fighter. In one of my earlier blogs, I talked about how we tried to play some mind games with Team Pulver and get them to choose a fight we wanted, which was Corey vs. Rob. It didn’t work at the time, but in the end it did work out as that was the fight Team Pulver chose now.
I had actually met Brian before we moved into the house on the show. I had fought down in Florida a few times before fighting in the UFC, and Brian was on one of those cards so I was able to see him fight. He was warming up in the same lockerroom as me and, the way he was moving around, I could tell he was good on the ground. Then he was hitting mitts and he looked great there too. I got to see his fight and he completely dominated the kid with punches, then kneed his opponent in the head and put him away. I remember thinking, ‘Damn, I don’t want to fight him.’ Fast forward to the first day of the show and there he is. Wonderful.
The first day there we had evaluations with the coaches. Brian was in my group, and I don’t remember if I did any stand up with him, but I know we did some grappling and he took me down and kept top position on me. It really went his way from start to finish, which was a little discouraging. One thing that kept me positive, though, was thinking about how I hadn’t trained in nearly two months prior to the show, and I would do better after getting back into the routine. I had injured my wrist a month and a half before the show, so I wasn’t able to do any boxing or wrestling. I decided to rest my wrist and hope that it would be better for the show, which it was. If you pay attention to the Team Penn training sessions, you will notice that in almost every clip I have my wrist all taped up. So I took a beating in evaluations, but knew I could do better once I had a few days to train. The fighter I was on the day of evaluations was a far different fighter from the one that had trained with B.J. Penn five hours a day for four weeks straight. My cardio and technique were much better come fight time, and I was super confident going into the fight.
Leading up to this fight was a little different for me, because Brian and I were hanging out the night before we fought. Just talking about how much it sucked making weight, we were both sitting there stuffing our faces with everything from water to pasta to shakes to Snickers Ice Cream bars. I don’t ever ‘hate’ someone I am fighting, but I also don’t usually hang out with them the night before the fight either.
really don’t get nervous for my fights. Some guys like to get all amped, get excited and get into their ‘zone.’ I like to stay calm. I just talked about how I had been training five hours a day for four weeks straight. Why do some people get nervous about doing 15 minutes of something you spent countless hours doing? It’s different than training, but it’s not so different that you should entirely change everything you do. For me, I stretch out and jump around for a few minutes to get blood flowing into my legs. That’s what I do before training and that’s what I do before I fight. Everyone is different, but it’s what works for me.
I think I really had B.J. worried while warming up and before the fight. They kept joking, ‘You know you have a fight, right?’ but they were good and understood I knew what I was doing and how I liked to warm up, and they let me do my thing. Once I got in the octagon, B.J. really starting getting worried: ‘Let’s go, Let’s go, Joe. Be aware. Wake up! C’mon, hands up!’
Something I found funny watching the show was how accurately I predicted my fight. That’s always the big question people like to ask: How are you going to win? How is your fight going to go? During my pre-fight interview I said, "Take him down, beat him up on the ground, put him in our corner, grind him against the fence, drop bombs, beat him up, mount him, choke him out.’ Aside from the lack of mounting him, I really couldn’t have been more visionary. I didn’t really remember how my pre-fight prediction went, but looking back, it’s kind of cool. That was my ideal fight, and it went perfectly.
Like I said, I knew Brian had good standup, so I rushed in aggressively when he threw his first punch. I had been working a lot of wrestling with Tony Desouza, and it showed by how quickly I got in for the takedown. Starting off on the right foot is important to get the momentum of the fight in your direction, and that’s just what I did until it was over. Once I had the body lock, I slammed Brian (and my own head) down hard on the mat. I threw a few punches, kept him at odd angles on the fence, making it tough to defend, and landed some good punches and elbows. With one of the elbows I knocked him out for a split second, and I knew the fight was mine. He had that dazed and confused look and was clumsy and lost coordination. I stood in his guard and cleared his legs and threw a big elbow with bad intentions. It looks on the video like I missed, but I think I grazed the side of his head with it before it landed solid with the floor of the octagon. Either way, Brian got back to his feet but was still clumsy and slow because of the earlier elbow that knocked him out, and I jumped on his back and sunk the choke.
The fight really couldn’t have gone any better for me, and I think it was a pretty dominant performance. Most importantly, I was happy to have it be over with. In fighting, there is always the saying, ‘You are only as good as your last fight.’ I had a lot to live up to coming off my win over Jens, but I was happy with how the fight went.
I think B.J. was proud that I gave 100 percent. I listened to what he showed me in training, and went in there and used it in my fight. A lot of the things I did in the fight came directly from what we did in training — most notably the shot. I had drilled that a lot with Tony in training, right down to how I cleared the legs out.
The No. 1 question everyone asks me: How was it being on the show when you knocked the other coach out? This episode finally addressed the fact that I knocked out Jens in my last fight. One of the things Jens had said to Brian was, ‘Forget that he hit me.’ Jens even needing to say that shows you how much of a mental advantage I have on a lot of people in the house. It’s never a good sign when your coach is telling you, ‘Forget that he knocked me out’ — that’s not a confidence booster. Jens and I acted like professionals to one another. I wasn’t about to go running around pointing it out to everyone, and he wasn’t going to be bitter about it and call it a lucky punch or anything else. In MMA, you can live and die by a single punch. You can’t start talking about when you lose it was a lucky punch and when you win it’s because you were better. You just have to see it for what it is ... it only takes one.
When I walked into the gym on the first day, he came over and gave me a big hug and was joking about how I was ‘the upset’ and screwed up all of his plans. It was weird training for the fight with Jens, and talking about how he was coaching the show, and I was just looked past by everyone leading up to our bout. It kind of brings a smile to my face knowing Jens was supposed to knock me out to hype him as one of the coaches on the show, and here I am as a contestant because I knocked him out instead.
Watching this week’s episode, I had no idea Corey had so few fights. I was still under the impression he had eight-or-whatever fights coming into the show. I am super impressed by that. He came in fearless and didn’t care how much more experience everyone else had. He came in to win and that’s what he did this week.
We thought it was a good matchup for Rob. Rob has good standup, was in great shape and has good takedown defense. Corey kind of comes in throwing bombs but doesn’t have very technical standup. Corey has a lot of reach, though, and moves around well. When we were in the house, I thought Rob won the fight. After watching it half a dozen times, I still think he won the fight. They even showed a clip of Dana saying he thought Rob won, so it seems odd to me that the judges saw it otherwise. I thought Corey had Round 1 and gave Rob trouble adjusting to the difference in reach. In Round 2, Rob came back hard with leg kicks and did a lot of damage with them. The leg lock at the end of Round 2 ensured Rob the round. Round 3 was more Rob doing damage with kicks, and I thought he had the round. Corey moved forward more, but it’s tough for Rob to keep coming forward and walking into jabs the entire round. Rob did way more damage as a whole, and I still thought he took Rounds 2 and 3. I didn’t agree with the judges’ decision, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
Lauzon is the guy to beat in my mine. Id love to see Diaz and Lauzon is the finale. Corey Hill did not impress me at all. If he fights anyone with decent striking hes done.
Will team pulver have to make a trade or something with team penn to even up the teams?
It's very possible.
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