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See: James Thompson vs. Don Frye.... and Takiyama vs. Frye... fucking terrible technical fights but entertaining and ridiculous and dramatic.
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Yeah but I'm not complaining about it... I still think it was an entertaining fight... I just think they gassed.
Two tough dudes who aren't what they once were, going toe-to-toe, yeah they gassed out and it got sloppy. who fucking cares. It was still entertaining to me, and everyone in the arena. Only snooty stuck up MMA fanboys who think it's "bad for the sport" are going to complain about it. |
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lol and Bonnar and Griffin both gassed THE FUCK out in their first fight. Both of them could barely stand by the third round. You gonna tell me they were bad for the sport too?
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Donkey Punch Elite
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HAHAHAHA seriously?
they gasses in the third from the frantic pace they kept the entire fight, and when they got tired they kept going. The two slobs last night got tired in the first because they didnt train. And they got tired in a fight that looked to be in slow motion to begin with. |
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Donkey Punch Elite
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Do you actually read the posts I made or just pick and choose what you want to interperet from the words you can read in them?
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boop/bop/beep
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Me and you will have to disagree.
And Bonnar and Griffin were both pretty "sloppy" in that fight. Not exactly crisp striking. But they banged it out and it was a great fight. People are just used to more from Shogun, because he's been able to give more. Unfortunately the knee injuries have fucked him up. And I don't think it has anything to do with performance enhancers, because in Pride he fought in America on a couple separate occasions where there is testing. So either he wasn't on them, or he knows how to get around it. |
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You honestly need to calm down though. It's just a fuckin fight lol, and I happened to enjoy it, doesn't make me a terrible person.
I respect you for training mma and my bad for calling you a couch fighter, I actually apollogize because I'd be pissed in your shoes, but I'm a fan of mma just like anyone else, and I like to watch fights and I don't really like trashing fighters unless they don't fight (see Kalib Starnes), and these guys fought. Not very good performances but it led to a good brawl and they showed heart. Just what I saw and took from it. Sue me. |
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I dont have a problem with the fight so much as you being a dooche... thanks for the apology
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You're the one who told me to shutup when I said I enjoyed the fight
and then I retorted via calling you a clown.
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I was entertained by Shogun vs Coleman.
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I found myself really into the backstory of the fight, so I was able to look past its technical shortcomings. I was rooting for Coleman, by the way.
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Oh wow! 2 other people who enjoyed the fight! :O
Maybe it wasn't a gigantic insult to mma. |
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I dont care that you liked the fight... actually I enjoyed the laughing at it, I took problem with you giving both fighters praise and saying they both showed tremendus heart.
Where in any of my posts did I say you were wrong for enjoying the fight? I only touched on the fact that both competitors were slobs. Plus the fact that you are a complete dooche. |
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Not once did I ever question you for enjoying the fight! If you just said I enjoyed the fight, I would have never said anything but you went on to say how they showed heart and performed like warriors blah blah blah.... I took issue with that. Then you went on to be a complete idiot who couldnt handle someone calling them out on something, and instead of listening to what that person had to say you took like an immature 3rd grader. Again you have made yourself look like an ass hole. |
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Actually I just argued with you, the worst I called you was a snob and a bit of a baby... you brought in the name calling.
I appreciated them slugging it out, that's all. I thought they showed heart, I don't see what's wrong with that? In no way shape or form did I think they turned in top notch performances, but sometimes you don't, and the best you can do is put on a show and duke it out. |
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Honestly, the reason I think Shogun showed heart was because of his injury. He probably thought he was in good shape going into the fight, but as it turned out he wasn't. It's hard to come back after such bad injuries, I can't possibly question his will to compete. And Coleman...well he's an old man and looks it, he seemed like he was going to die, he could have verbally tapped at any point but he went and met Shogun in the middle of the ring. You're a fighter yourself, haven't you gassed? I don't know, I've personally been shit tired during a work out or a rugby game, and have wanted to give up so badly cuz I could barely breath. They were able to put on a show and I respect that.
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Nobody asked Shogun to say before and after the fight that he was in perfect physical condition. He chose to say it. How can you just think you are in shape as an elite fighter? The ammount of training fighters do, and the level of physical checks done on a rehabbing fighter is so thorough that his condition must have been well known in advance. I mean, surely he had Coleman sized guys sparring with him every day. He never looked at all sharp or deadly in the first round so the fact is he was in bad shape.
Coleman without the juice he has abused himself with for so many years, will never be able to gain the stamina or explosive power of even a lower level LHW. That's just how it is. He has about 60lbs of muscle mass that slows him down, and is rendered useless now. My point is Coleman is in terrible shape. he can't have trained like the Bonnar's and GSP's of this world, and the fact he spent years cheating, has caught up. And Shogun was in just as bad shape. Neither showed much if any technique in what they did or had a neautralising gameplan for the other. This is the premier league of MMA. I don't watch the lower leagues because the standard isnt as high. And on a card with fights as good as Horn/Palhares, Davis/Lytle, Franklin/Hendo. Where all those guys worked their asses off in the gym, none of them were seriously gassed and all went the distance, they didn't deserve the exposure they got because they basically didn't work as hard, and as a result the standard was dreadful. An awful representation of where MMA is in 2009. call me a snob all you fucking want, but I don't watch elite level sports to see amateur standards of competition. |
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I don't think they looked like amateurs. They were sluggish by the end, but amateurs they weren't.
It's going to take Shogun a while to get used to fighting at the pace he once did. Dude's been through a lot and hasn't fought in a year, and before that gassed in his only ufc fight because he was badly injured. That's no excuse for his loss, Griffin was better than him that night, but his knee has proven to be a problem methinks. As for Coleman... again, dude can still cheat if he wanted to. These guys aren't dumb, they know how to cycle on and off of steroids. That's why certain guys still get caught, because they miscalculated. He gassed because he was fighting a guy who's better than him and at the beginning of the fight was pushing the pace...oh and he's 44 years old and not Randy Couture. I dunno man, I don't know what you expected out of these guys. Either Shogun was going to knock his head off early (which he almost did in the first round) or it was going to be a brawl, which it was. |
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K first off, they were sluggish by minute 3. Second, if you are a fighter the calibur of what shogun was, you know what it takes to get yourself into the shape you need to in order to fight. He didnt do that. If you are so injured that you cant train for the fight, then dont take it, because what you saw on saturday night was the best possible otcome out of any and as we all know it was still pretty bad. Third, the UFC randomly tests all their fighters within the months and weeks of their training camps and no matter where the ufc is fighting, they are still run by las vegas in that regard so they are tested right after the event as well. In other words no real way around getting caught. And to correct you, it was coleman who was pressing the fight in the beginning. Also its pretty stupid for you to say that shogun was that much better than him because i gaurantee you that if he didnt finally open up on coleman in the third that he would have lost on the judges score cards.
You dont know what we expected? We expected professionals to behave as such. Professionals take fighting seriously in and out of the cage. We expected UFC calibur fighting. That fight was no different than watching tank abbot get in there. To your credit the fight was "entertaining" but not in the sense that you are watching two fighters going out there and competeing, but more like watching two amature fighters who have no training go out there and duke it out. You watch that to see people pull off moves and do things that no trained fighter would do because they dont know any better and thats what saturdays fight looked like. |
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He definitely was on his way to a decision win. Look at Coleman's face after the fight. He was clearly the better fighter.
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He being Shogun
-edit- Honestly brother, you are sipping hard on the hatorade. Last edited by Ol Dirty Dastard; 01-20-2009 at 09:26 PM. |
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do you know how they score mma bouts?... coleman took him down at will and shogun wasnt exactly landing a ton of shots (like franklin was in his fight)... just the ones he did thow connected because coleman doesnt move his head, and for that matter did you look at coleman's face before the fight?.... it wasnt that much different
. just look at his face to determine who the better fighter is? forrest had a hole in his head by the end of his match with shogun... if he didnt finish him would you have still given the fight to shogun? common dude honestly brother you dont get it Last edited by Reavant; 01-21-2009 at 01:25 AM. |
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I am still arguing whether or not Coleman was done because the ref was breaking up the fight WHILE Coleman was going for a Double leg.
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He looked like he was out on the way down, but somehow recovered in about one second.
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That sounds more like Big Nog to me.
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eh he may not have been totally out but the stoppage was ok... theres been a lot worse stoppages i guess
although I thought it would have been awsome if coleman stuck it out and won the decision |
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I'm not reading all that ish, but Coleman looked hilarious throughout the fight. He looked so tired like he just wanted to go to bed. He had one oppurtunity, but he didn't finish.
btw I didn't know Vin Diesel was fighting |
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However I would say that fights are often down to interpretation. But most of the time up until the third when they were on the ground, Coleman was not doing damage to Rua, he was defending submissions and even got caught in an Omaplata, lol though obviously a very tired one. So to me, Shogun was the more active, and delivered the more punishing blows up until the finish. If we're just basing it on takedowns, then yea Coleman is ahead, but it's not like he controlled him, up until the third. But when they stood he got punished. Shogun's fight, through and through. Last edited by Ol Dirty Dastard; 01-21-2009 at 03:16 PM. |
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watch the fight again genius. every time shogun threw a knee he ended up on his back or it didnt really connect. he had good kicks to the legs but stopped throwing them. he never initiated a takedown, if he ended on top of coleman it was off of colemans takedowns.
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omaplata isnt a submission its a transition, one that he wasnt able to complete
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Uh an Omaplata is a submission, but it is mostly used to transition, I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Dustin Hazelett used it on Tamden McCrory to finish him but I forget.
And many of Shogun's knees landed, and Coleman was able to walk threw them, it took some super balls. He also was pasting him with punches. He was just sluggish cuz it was his first fight in year. Shogun did all of the damage in that fight. You're just showing some serious bias. Maybe because you hate Shogun...maybe because you were expecting more out of him and you were one of those guys who loved him, but you're being absolutely blind and ridiculous. Easy on the hatorade. |
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I had Coleman up 29-28 until the finish. (I was being generous and giving Shogun Round 2.)
Ultimately, the referee changed the final outcome of the fight. And I'm with Reavant on the "There's been worse finishes." At least Coleman wasn't standing when the fight was called off (Kimbo/Colossus.) CBN is right, though. Omo Plata is a submission that is usually used as a sweep. It's a low percentage finish. |
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Honestly most people I talked to had Shogun taking it 29-28, but again, it's up to interpretation... if ur big on takedowns, Coleman was winning the fight. However I'm more about ground control, and Coleman to me, showed none whereas Shogun seemed to be pressing the ground action up until the third round.
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yea i know its a submission but it doesnt work that way against anyone thats taken one jujitsu class before and of course im inflating that but seriously anyone who has any experience in jujitsu wount get subed by that. puting an ezekial choke on someone in their gaurd can be a submission too, but again, one class by a somewhat competant instructor will stop that. ezikial is basically smashing your forearm/wrist/hand into the trachea and wraping your other arm around the head and clamping down.
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Hence why I said "Low-Percentage." As in Low-Percentage of the people caught in the hold actually submit to it.
I've grappled a little bit with a guy who has done some jiu jitsu and has a pro wrestling background. I usually get dominated, but I hold my own. I've almost been Gator Choked of all things. I've been Americana'd a couple times. Closest I've come to actually winning was a poorly applied Achilles Lock. |
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