"Someone should make a UFC/MMA thread"

[Roto13]

UFC is gay porn for straight people.

[DK]

I watched UFC 121 a few days ago and forgot to comment. Anyway, it was pretty exciting for 4/5 fights going to decision. Of course, the one that didn't was epic with Velasquez absolutely destroying Lesnar. Lesnar won his last title defense, but it also included getting his ass kicked for the entire first round, so I would be really concerned about him ever getting that title back if he doesn't change something dramatically.

Sanchez vs Thiago was another great fight, with Sanchez dominating the latter two rounds. I have to question the judge who scored it 30-26 Sanchez, though, because Thiago won the first round.

Also, since when has John McCarthy been back?

McCarthy has been back for a few months I think, has been around for a couple of the last events from what I recall.

Thought 121 was fairly dross outside of Sanchez/Thiago and the main event personally. Was so happy when Diego won, love both of these guys and the fight had FotN written all over it as soon as it was signed, but thought Diego needed the win more than Paulo did so yeah I was glad he pulled out the victory. His slam was epic as well.

Then yeah, the main event, jesus christ. I was excited for the fight for a good few weeks before hand and expected it to be crazy, I even commented to Paul right before it began like "this fight is going to be absolutely ridiculous, I'm calling it now", but it absolutely shat on any expectations I had. Was geniunely fantastic, as soon as Lesnar charged out and started throwing knees I was going mad, and then when he launched into the flying knee I lost my . At that stage everything I was expecting disappeared and I had no clue what was going to happen. Haven't been so into a fight in ages, had so much adrenaline going. Then when Cain started smashing the shiet out of him and took him down, man it was epic. Brock's poncy little pimp slap was hilarious as well. Loved it, was a great great fight. And yeah Brock's got to make some serious changes to his training camp and stuff if he ever wants to seriously challenge as a heavyweight again.

Also in response to Roto, you are totally right, apart from the fact that UFC is a brand name and what you meant to say was MMA. I can't count the times I have rubbed one out watching Randy Couture hug a man to death against the cage and wished it was me, it is the hottest thing on television. uNF

[Raistlin]

Thought 121 was fairly dross outside of Sanchez/Thiago and the main event personally.

Yes, there were two really awesome fights and the rest kinda boring. That's still a solid UFC in my book.

I think Lesnar is too tentative. Or at least he looks almost afraid a lot of the time. I'm not sure if the tentativeness is justified due to him not having the skills of the other guys or whether that itself is a tactical error on his part.

I can't count the times I have rubbed one out watching Randy Couture hug a man to death against the cage and wished it was me, it is the hottest thing on television. uNF

I think Couture must get off on it as well; he does it often enough.

[DK]

I think the biggest problem Lesnar has is that he isn't pushed in training because of his setup, he is the boss at his gym and he makes them train how he wants to train. Which, according to various sources, includes them not being allowed to hit him. There are several reports of him whining in earlier years about getting hit in training, apparently he fired Brett Rogers as a sparring partner because Rogers KHTFO and "hit him too hard", and there was another thing with Tim Sylvia and someone else who I forget who he trained with and moaned about getting hit in standup so he quit. It's highly likely that whenever he does train standup at his gym, he is the one punching and he doesn't spar to get beat up. So he takes getting hit like most untrained people do, by running away and turtling up. Until he mans up and learns how to take a punch (not like he has a bad chin or anything otherwise Carwin would have killed him, he just has never trained to not react badly to getting hit) he will always fail against people who he can't take down at will and gets punched in the face by.

[Raistlin]

Which, according to various sources, includes them not being allowed to hit him.

That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard about an MMA fighter. No wonder he's gotten his ass kicked lately.

[Raistlin]

So I watched UFC 123. It wasn't too bad. It started out promising, with two submission victories. I always see people going for kimuras, but I haven't seen many win with them.

It went kind of downhill after that. Falcao was exciting for the 2-3 minutes he was active, but for the rest of the fight (80% of the first round and all of the third round), he literally did absolutely nothing. Even Rogan started ragging on him at the end.

I wasn't disappointed to see Penn KO Hughes... but I would've preferred it to be at some point after 4:55 in the first.

I'm kind of surprised Jackson won (and Jackson looked surprised himself). I thought Machida won the first and third rounds. But admittedly the first was close.

[Crop]

So I watched UFC 123. It wasn't too bad. It started out promising, with two submission victories. I always see people going for kimuras, but I haven't seen many win with them.

It went kind of downhill after that. Falcao was exciting for the 2-3 minutes he was active, but for the rest of the fight (80% of the first round and all of the third round), he literally did absolutely nothing. Even Rogan started ragging on him at the end.

I wasn't disappointed to see Penn KO Hughes... but I would've preferred it to be at some point after 4:55 in the first.

I'm kind of surprised Jackson won (and Jackson looked surprised himself). I thought Machida won the first and third rounds. But admittedly the first was close.

Yeah I just watched it too a couple of hours ago. I can't say it was too bad, but that's probably just because I haven't enjoyed the majority of that last few cards anyway.

Falcao was a joke man. That third was terrible, you shouldn't even be allowed to do that I hope he gets a serious slap around the head for his pissing around.

The Penn fight was great, you could see Penn was so hyped up and didn't even have chance to get it all out before he knocked Hughes out xD. I was pretty shocked though, I thought Hughes would do much better.

I hope Jackson and Machida DO have a rematch soon, I felt the Machida won too, but I also think they can have a better fight than that. Aside from the second half of the third rounet, it was pretty poor. Best fight of the night for me was Davis v Botsch.

[DK]

just gonna quote a post in the MMA thread I made at another forum I post at cause cba to go over it again

So stoked with that card, apart from Karo losing which makes me cry, pretty much everything went how I wanted to.

Sotiropoulos looked all class again and I can't believe he's not anywhere in the title mix just yet, he is a complete monster and easily the most entertaining BJJ guy to watch in the UFC imho. Very happy he won, "J-lau" gtfo what an utter ponce. Got teabagged by Sot and deserved it.

Phil Davis is on his way to becoming my favourite fighter, he is a complete hero. His little pink Bret Hart shorts, always working to finish, the Mr. Wonderful sub which was insane, generally all round good guy. Entertaining fight too. Really hope they match him up against Bones Jones at some point would love to see him smash that gimp.

Harris/Random Chute Box guy whose name I forget was random as smurf. Some absolutely sick and insane action mixed with Silva/Maia levels of smurf all. Could have been great, ended up just being strange. No idea why the hell Harris was putting his arms up in the air at the end of the fight, he literally did nothing.

Penn /Hughes was CRAZY! BJ looked like a total nutcase coming out to the ring, and I was expecting a tough battle out of both of them, but he totally killed Hughes, amazing. Never been a huge fan of Matt Hughes either so I was particularly happy to see him get mashed up like that. Be interesting to see where Penn goes from here.

Main event, pretty much went as you would expect although Machida was extremely negative in the first two rounds. I had Page winning 2-1 and was pretty surprised it went to a split decision. First two rounds were close but Page had aggression and octagon control in the first, as well as a few solid blows (his uppercuts were nasty) and the fact that he spent about 3 minutes of the round Couturing Machida up against the cage and stomping on his foot and attacking the legs, thought that round was his. Second was pretty similar stuff part from Page getting the takedown so again that round was Page's. Third was a clear Machida round for mine, but Machida did absolutely jack shiet in the first two so I would have been pretty miffed if he got the nod. Was surprised Rampage thought he lost as well.

Sherdog forums are pretty hilarious with Machida fans screeching about a robbery, though. Especially the ones crying that Machida's leg kicks should have won him the first round and saying shiet like "SINCE WHEN DO LEG KICKS COUNT FOR NOTHING?!" Massive karma laid down for Shogun/Machida 1. Not as if any of Machida's kicks were significant or landed hard either.

But yeah overall very enjoyable card for mine, makes up for a few bad ones we've had recently. Apparently at post-fight press conference Dana White said there won't be a rematch between Page and Machida as well which I approve of. For one because I thought Page won pretty clearly, but also because Machida having 4 fights against 2 guys would be shiet.

[Raistlin]

UFC 124 was entertaining, especially seeing GSP beat up on Koscheck (though it would be nice to see a stoppage from GSP again sometime). I also liked Miller's reverse of Oliveira's attempted leg lock into a leg hold of his own. Also, how the hell did Danzig completely knock out Stevenson with a left hook while backing up?

[Marky Tee]

was quite impressed with new comer john makdessi
solid performance
i know a few serious martial artists that always slag off tae kwon do but seeing it used effectively was great fun to watch

[Mirage]

Well, 124 was the most entertaining UFC I have seen in a while. maybe in part because I am a bit of a GSP fan

[DK]

Apparently, this guy threw this smurfing Jackie Chan matrix kick in the last minute of the 5th round in a title fight that was a tossup as to who was gonna win until the knockdown. smurfing crazy, what a beast and what a way to win a belt.

[Mirage]

Now that's an awesome way to win. Was that in 124? I can't remember it

[Raistlin]

That looks like a WEC octagon.

[Peegee]

I'll be honest. I used to really like UFC (watched the old matches from 1-80+) and then the momentum just died. I think the fights were not exciting, and there's only so much grappling I can watch before I yawn (also internet is more entertaining)

It got to me watching the big matches down to watching it for the gimmicks down to giving up altogether.

But when Fedor Emelianenko started to gain a reputation as an undefeatable (well undefeated) champion except for this one vague right elbow strike which was illegal, I was intrigued. I have downloaded his fights and started watching them.

And I find the grappling fights that last 3-5 rounds are still bloody boring. I guess I'm just griping and ranting so people can remind me why I watched this to begin with?