Davrum Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 Aldo is a beast. Purely Brazilian style of fighter. Wonderful to watch. Happy to see him display all the skill of the lighter weight fighters. Mendes is a really game fighter. Made it all the more exciting. It'd be nice if more Brazilians handled American wrestlers like Aldo does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Another mainevent falls through as Manuwa gets injured. OSP steps up to fight Shogun...which will probably be terrible. At least McCall and Lineker are the Co-main now. Benson Henderson vs Eddie Alvarez is now a thing. I was expecting them to give Alvarez a slightly easier fight but this should be awesome, beating Cerrone would have really established him but beating Benson at this point is almost as good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Personally I think OSP is a harder fight for Shogun. Hope he shows up. Also just saw that Anderson Silva and Shogun will coach the next Ultimate Fighter: Brazil, but won't fight each other at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I'm not sure who will be harder but I think Manuwa made for a more entertaining fight. I think OSP's plan is gonna be a 5 round lay and pray and I'm not sure Shogun is gonna be able to stop that at this stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Nick Diaz with one of the P4P best instagram posts of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Good news! Anthony Johnson is back from indefinite suspension! The LHW division really needs him, his win over Phil Davis looks even more impressive after the Glover fight. Hope to see Gus vs Rumble, they both agreed before he got suspended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Johnson's KO over Little Nog sort of impressed me, but I'm not much of a fan of his. It will be interesting to see if the ufc reinstates him right away given all the domestic violence issues going on in other sports. You're right about light heavyweight needing some new blood though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 He is already reinstated due to the civil case against him being dismissed and the UFC's own third party investigation, UFC says they're looking to get him a fight early next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 He is already reinstated due to the civil case against him being dismissed and the UFC's own third party investigation, UFC says they're looking to get him a fight early next year. http://m.memegenerator.net/instance/51631703Any word on a potential match up besides obviously Gus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 No but I don't really see it being anyone other than Gus; there were plans for Rashad v Gus since Rumble got suspended but Rashad doesn't want to fight Gus anymore. Rashad and Rumble wouldn't fight because they're teammates. So unless they decide to feed him someone like Bader I think it has to be Gus - which will be such an awesome fight. Early 2015 is gonna be a great time to be an MMA fan, there are so many awesome fights. Hopefully the MMA gods will stop injuring everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 UFC card in Sydney was awesome, every fight a stoppage (first time ever) - Whittaker and Rockhold looked amazing. McCall out of the Brazil card tomorrow, only interesting fight on the card for me. The injury bug continues to wreak havoc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSP Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Yeah, McCall/Lieiker (sp?) was by far the most relevant fight on that card. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davrum Posted November 8, 2014 Author Share Posted November 8, 2014 Robert Whittaker was one of the most entertaining fighters at 170 and now he's one of the most exciting at 185. Hester is a massive MW and yet Whittaker, in his first ever fight at the weight, ate shots like a monster. Well deserved bonus for those guys. Meanwhile Rockhold is the one I most want to see fight Weidman. His striking is so fluid, his wrestling so accurate, his submissions so beautiful and his face so dreamy. Jacare is excellent but Luke is excellenter and I'd back him to beat Jacare again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Yeah I agree, I think Rockhold vs Weidman would be amazing (and not only because they're both super attractive). It feels like such a shame non-TRT Vitor is fighting Weidman because I think he's going to get beaten easily. I would have really liked to see a rematch between Vitor and Rockhold to see how much difference the TRT made. I'm not sure what they're gonna do now, I seriously doubt Jacare is going to agree to fight Rockhold. Maybe Jacare vs Yoel Romero and Lyoto vs Rockhold? MW is looking very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davrum Posted November 8, 2014 Author Share Posted November 8, 2014 I don't think Jacare gets to refuse if that's the fight the brass chooses, nor would he try to. Fighters love a chance to rematch guys they've lost to and Jacare would back himself to take care of Luke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 They definitely can refuse fights that the brass want, they pay their managers a ton of money to talk to the UFC and get them the most preferable matches - lots of people refuse, Dana occasionally comes out and shames them for it. Jacare thinks he's earned a title shot, he just wants to sit out until they give him it. I think he's going to be very hard to convince to fight someone as dangerous as Rockhold but I guess we'll see because it's probably the fight that the UFC is trying to put together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gears of the Beast Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Well that was a pretty shitty card, massive robbery in the co-main and then Shogun just got murdered. I couldn't tell if Shogun slipped or if a strike brought him down, I turned it off before they replayed it. Shogun needs to retire and Brazil has biased judges - that card didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davrum Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 Just like everywhere else Brazil has all kinds of judges (witness Machida vs Davis) and shitty decisions happen everywhere (witness Pearson vs Sanchez). I agree about Shogun though. It's just not fun to watch him anymore. Ben Fowlkes wrote that it just made him feel "sad" and I get that 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Just like everywhere else Brazil has all kinds of judges (witness Machida vs Davis) and shitty decisions happen everywhere (witness Pearson vs Sanchez). I agree about Shogun though. It's just not fun to watch him anymore. Ben Fowlkes wrote that it just made him feel "sad" and I get that 100%.I'm going to respectfully disagree. Yes there are shitty judges everywhere, but Brazil seems to have the most. Seems to be a least a couple very controversial scorecards at every event there. But again that brings up the old saying of "don't leave it in the hands of the judges". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davrum Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 I'm going to respectfully disagree. Yes there are shitty judges everywhere, but Brazil seems to have the most. Seems to be a least a couple very controversial scorecards at every event there. But again that brings up the old saying of "don't leave it in the hands of the judges". I'm going to respectfully respond by mentioning that of the 29 (incl. "honourable" mentions) Most Disputed Decisions of 2013 a mere 3 were cases of a Brazilian "winning" against a non-Brazilian in Brazil. For both Assuncao/TJ and RDA/Dunham two of the "erring" judges were non-Brazilians. For Maldonaldo/Beltran the notorious Sal D'Amato was one of the 2 responsible. In all 5/7 of the erring judges in those fights were non-Brazilians. That kinda means that only 2/87 of the most disputed scores of 2013 came from a Brazilian judge in favour of a Brazilian fighter in Brazil. Even allowing for the fact I'm not doing exact science here, that's a remarkably tiny percentage. So in addition to the fact most of the judges who're fucking up are non-Brazilians, while 7/33 (21%) 2013 UFC events were in Brazil only 3/29 (10%) of the most disputed MMA decisions (they include other orgs) of the year were Brazilians beating non-Brazilians, which suggests Brazil features significantly fewer controversies per card than Everywhere Else. From that list we could also look at Mr Wonderful's "win" over Machida and add in Richman vs Bezzera and Stout vs Fodor in the US, where non-Brazilians were given highly controversial wins over Brazilians, and see that not only does the same thing happen in the other direction, but all 7 of the judges who scored against the Brazilians in those controversial decisions were non-Brazilians. So from a wider perspective it really does seem to go both ways and if anything the Brazilians are doing a better job than average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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