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theres always internet streams to watch it on.. 220. He said it in the irvin vs silva post conference. He needs to start fighting guys his own size.

yeah im pysched for 3 solid cards. i think im anticipating coleman vs shogun the most for the next fight. But hendo vs franklin should be damn fun too. I would be more hyped about penn/gsp but Arlovski vs Fedor is going to be crazy too. I hope Arlovski wins cause im going for the underdog here. I think someone needs to capatalize on the way fedor punches. Punching from the outside leaves him open and most people dont seem to have the skill to throw a good combination at him. We've seen that crocop backs off too much when in pressure. I hope Arlovski goes in the pocket and throws a haymaker that connects. You know whats going to make Anderson Silva vs Leities suck even more ontop of the fact that Thales is a can, is the commentating. Where Anderson will come into the ring as some mma god, be fighting who they hype as the greatest middleweight contender in Thales and then after Anderson knocks him out joe and goldie will praise how awesome the fight was and how Anderson ko'ing a can was the greatest thing they ever witnessed like the Cote fight.

Afflicition has done a super crappy job of hyping up a ppv of a great fight with Fedor/Arlovski. The sad thing is that Arlovski is actually doing the hype himself on his youtube channel. So instead of waiting for a UFC Countdown type of show for affliction it appears he makes his own countdown show and uploads it to his youtube account. So here it is: Arlovski getting ready for Fedor. Behind the scenes: Andrei watching videos of Fedor at his house and writing down notes

i havent decided where im going to watch affliction yet as im looking forward to seeing Dennis Kang fight this saturday first. Then the week after that its Arlovski/Fedor, Then the week after that its Penn vs GSP. 3 solid back to back weeks of MMA! Every UFC, Dana White has some video blogs he does leading up to the fights. They show you some behind the scenes on what is occuring and Dana patting himself on the back on how rich he is by spending money and showing the world. So here is the 2 for UFC 93. this is from Saturday: from yesterday this is the UFC channel if you want to keep up to date leading up to ufc93.

master of the rubber guard Eddie Bravo and i think best friend of Joe Rogan will be in Vancouver tomorrow folks at 10th planet jiu jitsu on hastings street near the PNE. If anyone wants to see him in person teach jiu jitsu moves. He has his own type of jiu jitsu that hes developed. Eddie tapped out Royler Gracie at ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club) Submission Wrestling World Championship) Royler has won that more than anyone and also a record of 3 years in a row. Its a place where you get invited kind of like the movie bloodsport and the best compete in jiu jitsu. It was pretty big an american tapping the brazilian dude out. "How does Free Training for December sound? It’s true… training from Dec 1st to Dec 19th is FREE for all 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu and MMA classes! All you have to do is pay the $99 registration free" its free all you have to do is pay $100. or you can download his dvd: "mastering the rubberguard" on the interwebzzzz i've said too much.

Yeah 5 million is the total buys for 2008. The first show in January was UFC 80. The last show in 2008 was UFC 92. Thats 12 UFC's. 5 million divided by 12 = 416 666 buys on average. They were on pace for 420 000 like i showed up top. But a lot of that has to do with the company expanding, more viewers and the huge amount of people Brock Lesnar brings in. UFC 91 did almost more buys than Tito Vs Chuck. And Brock is not a real Mixed martial artists yet. The list that i got was from InsideMMA hoted by Bas. They get their information i believe from Dave Meltzer too and his findings on wrestling observer and his column on yahoo. I think they are talking total as well. In England they dont use the PPV system. They use Santanta sports. They pay a monthly fee to get all type of sports. North America is different. But like i said before i do think the fighters deserve more money especially with Dana Driving around in his ferrari and guys on the low end making like $7 0000. And yeah we didnt factor everything like DVD sales where the fighters i dont think get a cut, and the promotional money they receeiver from harley davidson, miller lite or whatever. But also in UFC's defence they are trying to reinvest the money back into the company and make it global. I think the pay will get higher and higher as georges st pierre said in an interview. I think the company should go public with their earning so everyone can get a better insight. At the moment we are all kind of guessing who is getting paid what because even the fighters dont want to tell you how much they make. I think Couture can not handle Brock. Couture is getting old. Same with Noguiera hes taken one too many shots. He looked horrible in that match. Couture is up and down. The only reason why he wanted to fight brock first was to get paid. He knew if he fought Big Nog he would lose and he wouldnt make much money. Because I mean who wants to see Fedor vs Couture now? Not that i ever really did because I always though Fedor was a true heavyweight champion while Couture was just the the king in a weak HW division. Its tougher to fix a fight in UFC because the refs are not the UFC. They belong to the Nevada State Atheltic Comission. In Japan that fight is not sanctioned so they can do what they want. Tell their refs to work the fight, tell the fighters etc. haha I guess we will have to just disagree on this. I think if you fix the matches, and arent sanctioned as a sport, dont care who wins or loses like Pride did you are an event. If a governing body referees your show, and winning and losing are important then you have a sport. Thanks yeah the debate is fun. I enjoy reading almost everyone's posts here. Well done ole chap.

whoops sorry missed your post yesterday. Yeah UFC should put in more money for their intros. I mean if they dont like the all out opening, atleast change up the gladiator and the talking at the start.

you forgot to add them getting taxed. UFC got 440 000 ppv buys in 2007. (2008 figures not out yet but they were averaging 420 000 in july i think)

I think the difference for me is that I care about the fighters. I dont want them to die for my entertainment. I want them to fight again like a real competition. Not like UFC 1 where everything goes including nut shots. Just because no one died in Pride doesnt mean you can continue to do it. The NSAC is there for that very purpose so its not human cockfighting and is an actual sport. If Wanderlei killed someone with head stomp, it would have given pride a black mark and fox wouldnt even show it. Nothing happened in the past. That doesnt mean it wont in the future. The UFC crowd is nothing like the WWE. Its not an edgier WWE. There is a huge difference between FAKE fighting and REAL fighting. The UFC waters down its shows so it can have more shows. The way pride ran its business is the reason it continued to lose money. Thats why pride is here no longer. Remember if you have a lot of stars in each show, you have to pay them a lot of money. If they all get PPV revenues then you are left with nothing. You can have 1 great UFC every 2 months or you can have 4 medium ufcs in 2 months. Pride business strategy was horrible. If Pride ran their show like an actual business and not some circus side show they would still be here today. That on top of accusations the Yakuza (Japanese Gang) was helping run the show.

If a fighter in MMA dies you can pretty much kiss MMA ever coming to Canada goodbye or it ever getting real popular in America. I think if someone dies PPV companies might refuse to carry it like they did in the early 90's when UFC was going bankrupt. They said it was too violent and the politicans were trying to get it banned.

I agree on why they are not using the elaborate openings. He wants to keep it like boxing as he was a amateur boxer before. I still like the pride opening more though because it was like a martial arts competition. UFC has some great design work on their websites and on UFC unleashed. Things are revamped there. When the VS screen comes up you have new graphics and the UFC logo is lighted and everything but for some reason on the actual broadcast they go back to the crappy 1990's flashing lighbulbs design... as if light bulbs flashing is some great design work that needs to be kept. Their VS screen is the old crappy version. And Pride is what it is because they were formed by guys that owned wrestling i think.. Pancrease and such so they took this entertainment opening. I guess there are people on both sides. It seems like they dont want to change the brand. EVen fighters have said that gladiator in the beginning sickens them. Its just so low budget. There are guys in UFC that keep their openings but the UFC does not show them like Akhiro Gono his entrance in pride: his entrance in ufc. .. not the same effect hah. I prefer the grande opening and hate the low budget ufc opening and some people want to see guys just walk into the octagon and no real opening to the show. The way i see it even if some UFCS suck which they do at least we saw some interesting opening even if the fight itself sucked.

I think its great. I like that the cage allows a fight to keep going like a real fight. Its much more safer too. Its the same reason Mirko Cro Cop lost in the UFC. You had lay n pray in pride as well though. Gracie vs Sakuraba was a 1 1/2 hour fight! but i think UFC has changed now where if you were on the ground and not doing enough they will stand you back up. I think its much better than in pride where you had wrestlers going in to tackle a guy, he would move and the wrestler would fall out. If Georges St pierre everr fought in Pride the amount of times he would fall out of the ring would be crazy. He would shoot for a takedown the other guy would fall back and they would go through the ropes, and then a restart.

The weight classes were there but the fighters were all over the place like Sakuraba, Minowa, Wanderlei, Ninja Rua. I like the ground war a lot something pride kind of lacked. UFC will let the guys up if it gets too boring. If you see the early prides like Mark Kerr it became too rediculous when his opponents got scared of him and would intentionally fall through the ropes so they could get back in and get position. I liked the face to face stare downs in pride though. Those were intense. But if you dont care for ground wars that much then you should watch K-1. Pure punching and kicking. More stand up action. Same with affliction. Too many fights were ruins with the constant restarts because they were falling off the edge, and guys constantly falling out of the ring through the ropes.

really? I love them both. But the UFC octagon is far superior than the Pride Ring. I hate afflicition for doing it too. Too often you see guys fall through the ropes or that annoying restarting pride had. I love UFC for keeping the action going. If they hit the fence they keep going. No one falls out or gets cornered. Weight classes are better too because they dont harm the competitor in the long run. After that kick by cro cop Wanderlei was never the same. He keeps getting knocked out now. And i think the soccer kicks are too dangerous too. You could sersiously hurt a guy's head like that. Like if the head is stationary and someone like cro cops lets it fly. on another note I think ufc elbows should be left out. Because it causes too much blood and it stops the fight even though the guy is still ready to fight. You get these deep cuts. But Pride production values were sooo much better than UFC. UFC has no opening. Its just crappy metal music and then a guy walks out of his locker room. When you saw a pride opening it felt like you were watching someone of epic proportions. When you see a pride opening and then a UFC, the UFC looks like some low budget start up business. edit: I thought affliction would have a pride opening but they too are going for that stupid heavy metal approach. When are they going to get it through their heads that MMA viewers arent into heavy metal. They want ozzy ozbourne to perform and some other metal bands inbetween fights? err no.. and that crappy ring is being used again.

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I think those are the only 2 times he has been hit. But randleman is not a good MMA guy. He only works on his wrestling everything else is whatever. He got footlocked by Shogun quite easily. I think he got rocked by rampage as well. Fujita is a speciman. They say this skull is thick.. like scientifically they said his skull is super thick and they had trouble doing tests. That would have been funny to be the doctor that day. Fujita: So what do the tests say doc? Hows my brain do i have a concussion? Doctor: Im not sure, we were unable to locate your brain.

and Coleman had the brilliant idea of bringing his little daughters to the match... Although i would say Fedor's punching is accurate and powerful he throws them oddly and leaves himself open just like Wanderlei. He throws these looping punches and if someone jabbed him there or let one go like Rampage did against Wanderlei it could hurt him.. and dare i say.. *gasp* knock him out..

some big works coming out of freddie roach, arlovski's boxing trainer and someone regarded as one of the best boxing trainers in the world as he just coaches manny pacquia (sp?) and oscar de la hoya. He said Fedor has weak technique and that if it stays standing Arlovski will kill him. I was like

BJ talking trassssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! down with BJJJJJJJJ!!!!!!!!!

hha yeah. lets hope! I hope GSP submits him after a vicious ground and pound. that would be the ultimate.

It causes a huge problem though. If BJ beats GSP, the logical thing would be for BJ to fight Anderson. If you cant beat a LW there is no reason for you to fight for the MW belt. If BJ got all 3 belts the divisons would go out of whack. If Silva loses to GSP then Silva should not move to LHW because he couldnt get it done at MW. I think thats the problem with this whole planning. Loser champions won't move up. They will want to stay there to get their belt back. For BJ this match means nothing hes the only one that wins in this situation. IF he loses. oh well hes a lw. If he wins he does want he wants. In my opinion i think its more exciting to see a champion move up to another division than to see losers like Rich Franklin. Its nice but not that exciting.

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Dana has actually screwed up the WW and LW division by giving BJ a title shot. It is actually bad for business in the long run. If BJ wins then instead of there being a title fight every 4 months like it is at the moment there will be a title shot only once a year basically. BJ will have to fight at LW then wait 4-6 months and fight at WW. All the while LW, and WW contenders will wait way too long. If GSP beats Anderson this will screw up WW and MW. Its too much to risk for just 1 good fight. Brock Lesnar is the exception because he gets super huge ratings from a group that they cant get on their own. the WWE fanbase. Thats why Brock is paid more than pretty much everyone in the UFC. Him as a rookie is getting paid like $250 000 plus ppv revenue while other guys who get their first HW fight earn like $7000. Plus with Brock winning it doesnt screw up another division in the process. The reasonable thing to do is for BJ to move to WW and fight. GSP to move to middleweight and Anderson to move to LHW. You can make more exciting fights since the current competition has been exhausted.

The BJ Penn/ GSP fight is a scam for GSP. BJ has done nothing at WW to prove he is a contender. This whole thing is created because Dana White forced BJ Penn to move to LHW after the loss so he can build a lightheavyweight division and feature him on TUF to get viewers. The division was dissolved a few years before and lacked talent. Now it has some talent but not enough to challenge BJ other than florian. The reality is that Anderson Silva has run out of opponents in the middleweight division basically after Dan Henderson and so he can either move up to LHW to face some guys his own size or move down to fight GSP. He should realistically fight in LHW as the guys are his size and he wont have a reach advantage anymore. He chooses to fight guys with a smaller reach. So basically BJ penn has no one to fight. Anderson Silva has no one to fight + his ppv buys do horrible because no one wants to see take on cans for the most part. He is fighting another can in April in montreal. GSP is offered the fight and he will take it because he gets PPV revenue and it will make him rich. As for Anderson though he needs to fight at LHW now because the middleweight division is weak. I doubt he could beat chuck liddell, shogun, rampage, arona etc. He has to stop fighting cans.

I dont think Anderson deserves a LHW shot as the LHW division is far superior to middleweight. Anderson hasnt proved he is good enough to face top 10 LHW's.