Fight appreciation thread

[mcantar18c]

I can't be the only guy on here that enjoys it, so how bout a thread to talk about it.
UFC, WEC, MMA, BJJ, Krav, whatever.

Anybody catch UFC 134? I think Anderson Silva sold his soul to the Devil.

[Sharpienads]

The only fight I've seen was back in February when I wa at JRTC. I think it was a title match or whatever it's called. Regardless, it was the main event. Can't remember who was fighting, but the one guy kicked the other guy in square in the face and knocked him out. Sweet kick, but I was kinda disappointed. I expected more of a fight. Oh well.

[Sharpienads]

Sorry the first reply to your thread was such an uninformed, disappointing post. I think maybe if I watched it more I could get into it. [Beer]

[Glock Shooter]

Been a fan of MMA since UFC #1. Started my son when he as 6 with Easton Brazilion Jui-Jitsu (Renzo Gracia student). He stuck with it for 3 years but turned it in for basketball. His teacher is Eliot Marshal, who had a role in the UFC tv show and fought a few times. If he fought like he trained he'd be wearing a championship belt.

[ray1970]

I'm almost as much of an MMA junkie as I am a football junkie. I watch just about every chance I get. I haven't had the chance to go to a live event yet but seems like every month my TV bill has some pay-per-view event on it. While I really prefer the UFC, I have been watching a lot more Strikeforce lately too. Waiting for the day when the UFC gets a womens class going. The fight I would love to see the UFC make happen (even if it is a catch-weight bought) would be Anderson Silva vs. George St. Pierre. Both of those guys are running through their weight class and I would love to see them fight each other even if no titles were at stake. Either that or Silva needs to make the move up to light heavy-weight and maybe find some competition there. (I realize he dominated his one and only light heavy-weight bout but look who he fought- there is better talent in that division he could have faced)

Anyways, I am sure there are plenty of other MMA fans on this forum. [Beer]

[glockedandloaded]

MMA fan, Fighter, Instructor here. great fights last night, i felt bad for forrest

[steveopia]

While I really prefer the UFC, I have been watching a lot more Strikeforce lately too. Waiting for the day when the UFC gets a womens class going. The fight I would love to see the UFC make happen (even if it is a catch-weight bought) would be Anderson Silva vs. George St. Pierre.

I like Strikefore too. There's been talk about a womens class in the UFC for a long time now but I don't see it happening since Strikefore already has it. I would think it probably doesn't make sense business-wise for the UFC to have a womens class since Zuffa owns both organizations now. But who knows . . . . I'd love to see a lot more of Gina Carano either way.

That would be a sick fight between Silva and GSP. I think they'd have to do a catch weight match (non-title) to make it fair though IMO. As far as the current 185 weight class goes, who's next for Silva? My vote would be the winner between Sonnen and Stann. And even though it makes me a wee bit nauseous to listen to Sonnen's rhetoric he's the only one who has even come close to taking Silva's belt recently so I'm hoping he gets a rematch.

I'm really looking forward to GSP vs Diaz. And even though the Diaz brothers are respectable role models ([Stooge]) I'm hoping that GSP dominates that dude. I'm also looking forward to Dos Santos vs Velasquez. It's really too bad that Velasquez's injury is making Dos Santos wait so long to take his belt. [Tooth]

[steveopia]

MMA fan, Fighter, Instructor here. great fights last night, i felt bad for forrest

I had to work early so I wasn't able to watch the fights last night. I looked up the play by play on Sherdog this morning though. Reading about the Rua vs Griffin fight made me have to search it out. I found it, watched it. I kind of had that embarrassed feeling for Griffin while watching it. He looked horrible. You think that was just nerves or what?

[sbouslog]

I like to go watch the local guys fight. Every now and then you are able to catch a glimpse of a fighter before they go to Bellator or UFC. We have some good training camps out here for guys (team wildman, grudge, ect), and some good venues to watch them at (ring of fire, fight to win, rmbb). The two local guys to watch right now are Brandon Thatch and Josh Cavan. Both have great potential. Word on the street is that Thatch is headed to the UFC after his last first round victory in ROF 41. Cavan will still be doing local fights for a year more before they bring him up. Tickets for these events are pretty inexpnsive and every now and they you can catch a really good fight.

[UberTong]

I'm with ray1970, its tied for football with me. I order just about every MMA event there is and I always go to the local stuff. One of good personal friends is Brandon 'Rukus' Thatch and he's a local guy who I think has the ability to go bigtime. He actually just won an AR from Daniel Defense for winning his last fight.

[sneakerd]

I would participate in this thread, but I won't talk to Ubertong because he bought a Sig "1911".[Muaha]

[UberTong]

PM me your addy, and I can overnight some maxi pads to ya. :) [Beer]

[sneakerd]

[ROFL2] good one.

[glockedandloaded]

I like to go watch the local guys fight. Every now and then you are able to catch a glimpse of a fighter before they go to Bellator or UFC. We have some good training camps out here for guys (team wildman, grudge, ect), and some good venues to watch them at (ring of fire, fight to win, rmbb). The two local guys to watch right now are Brandon Thatch and Josh Cavan. Both have great potential. Word on the street is that Thatch is headed to the UFC after his last first round victory in ROF 41. Cavan will still be doing local fights for a year more before they bring him up. Tickets for these events are pretty inexpnsive and every now and they you can catch a really good fight.

where are the local fight at around here

?

[sbouslog]

Ring of fire takes place at the Broomfield events center, fight to win takes place at the national western complex, then there is a venue at te red lion hotel in the northfield/stapleton area. Red and jerrys in littleton has them and I have also gone to a fight at some arena in Colorado springs. The major local fight promotors are ring of fire, fight to win, rocky mountain bad boys, and I think full force fighting. I know that there is one that I am forgetting though.

The next fight that I am going to is fight to win : zombies. It is at the western national complex on Oct 21st. I am good friends with the guy fighting in the main event and if anyone needs tickets I can get them at face (no surcharge fees tacked on). PM me if you are interested. FYI they do pat downs at the door so leave your piece in the car or wear an ankle holster.

[Irving]

Broomfield event center has Ring of Fire. The best fight I've ever seen was at a Ring of Fire event. I wish it was on video.

The first UFC fight I ever saw was Randy Coture vs. Tim Silva. I've seen pretty much every fight since then, up until December of 2010 when I started working weekends. My lady got the fights last night, but by the time I got home, I only saw Jamboun vs. the guy with the trout on his back. I missed every single fight that I wanted to see. :(

[ray1970]

MMA fan, Fighter, Instructor here. great fights last night, i felt bad for forrest


where are the local fight at around here

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One would think as a fighter and trainer in the local area you might know the answer to this one without having to ask. Just saying. [Coffee]

[glock74]

UFC 134 was full of great fights.

[mcantar18c]

One of the best fights I've seen was at WEC 51 at the Budweiser Event Center in Broomfield... around October or so last year. The championship fight was a bit of a letdown, but the other big name fight on the card was Donald Cerrone vs Jamie Varner (the two hate each other, makes for great entertainment). Cerrone kicked the shit out of Varner... at one point he gave him a running knee to the face. The fact that it was a cowboy beating the hell out of some douchebag city boy made it even better.
Best part was I got free floor level tickets, drank for free all night, and ended up sitting next to Cerrone's smoking hot cousin who invited me to the afterparty.

[glockedandloaded]

One would think as a fighter and trainer in the local area you might know the answer to this one without having to ask. Just saying. [Coffee]

ive lived in this area for almost 3 weeks now. moved from Joplin MO
[Beer]

[Irving]

That's No Excuse!!!!

[ray1970]

ive lived in this area for almost 3 weeks now. moved from Joplin MO
[Beer]

That makes sense. Wasn't trying to bust your chops. I was just curious. Welcome to Colorado! [Beer]

You'll like it here.... we actually have four seasons. [Coffee]

[glockedandloaded]

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Truly i have Failed

[flan7211]

UFC and MMA are cool but are more sport fighting IMHO. Kav and Systema are a lot more in the I'm not here to win a match but kill you area.[Coffee]

[mcantar18c]

UFC and MMA are cool but are more sport fighting IMHO. Kav and Systema are a lot more in the I'm not here to win a match but kill you area.[Coffee]

For entertainment, I absolutely love MMA. Was active in it and had a pretty good record for 7 years, till I signed my first contract with the Army and decided I didn't want to risk an injury... same reason I stopped riding bulls.
But for serious unarmed combatives training for self defense, I know of nothing better than Krav and Systema. I did Krav for a few years when I was doing MMA and absolutely loved it... nothing says "I don't have time for your bullshit" like an elbow to the trachea. I've actually just recently started becoming very interested in Systema, I'm looking into getting some training time in with Sonny Puzikas.

[MattR]

Andersen is a bad man, he is getting older but he doesn't take damage in fights. He seems to train right, you don't hear about injuries in training camp like all the other fighters these days, so I don't see any reason why he can't fight for 10 more years unless he gets bored. I really only see about 6 fights that make sense for him though, Stann and Sonnen are both going to get a shot. I think Sonnen should get the first chance because he did work over Silva pretty well but I really don't think that did anything but wake Silva up and I don't think Stann is quite ready yet. And maybe Leben, he has improved a ton since that loss to Silva. Then I think its up to 205 for Silva, I think Shogun would be a good start, then Rashad or Jon Jones, then the other. I think the UFC going Back to Brazil next year will be the only chance we have to see St Pierre vs Silva, it will give St Pierre a chance to bulk up and maybe get a warm up fight at 185. I'm afraid that the St Pierre Silva fight could be a boring fight, Silva likes counter striking, I don't think Georges' jab them to death gameplan will work against Silva. I don't think Georges has that killer extinct right now, he seems to be fighting not to lose lately. That may change after the Diaz fight, I don't think Diaz will win but he will take the fight to Georges and hopefully beat him a little to bring out that killer instict he used to have.

[Chad4000]

Interested for a long time. I saw kimo fight in hawaii once... He lost lol

[UberTong]

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Above is a local champ, Brandon 'Rukus' Thatch. I hype the guy because he is a cool, down to earth guy and a good buddy. He's amped right now because he won an AR for winning Ring of Fire 41. We are going to go blast it this upcoming labor day weekend if anyone wants to join.

Also, a guy I went to high school with Tyler 'Thunder' Toner fights out of Aurora and is coming up.

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http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc518/UberTong/toner1.jpg

[UberTong]

Andersen is a bad man, he is getting older but he doesn't take damage in fights. He seems to train right, you don't hear about injuries in training camp like all the other fighters these days, so I don't see any reason why he can't fight for 10 more years unless he gets bored. I really only see about 6 fights that make sense for him though, Stann and Sonnen are both going to get a shot. I think Sonnen should get the first chance because he did work over Silva pretty well but I really don't think that did anything but wake Silva up and I don't think Stann is quite ready yet. And maybe Leben, he has improved a ton since that loss to Silva. Then I think its up to 205 for Silva, I think Shogun would be a good start, then Rashad or Jon Jones, then the other. I think the UFC going Back to Brazil next year will be the only chance we have to see St Pierre vs Silva, it will give St Pierre a chance to bulk up and maybe get a warm up fight at 185. I'm afraid that the St Pierre Silva fight could be a boring fight, Silva likes counter striking, I don't think Georges' jab them to death gameplan will work against Silva. I don't think Georges has that killer extinct right now, he seems to be fighting not to lose lately. That may change after the Diaz fight, I don't think Diaz will win but he will take the fight to Georges and hopefully beat him a little to bring out that killer instict he used to have.


I was a fan of Sonnen bigtime, til he whooped Silva's ass only to come back postive for da JUICE.

[glockedandloaded]

dont forget federal inditements for money laundering

[BPTactical]

Whaddabout Jerry Springer?
Those are good fights too ya know.................[Coffee]

[Irving]

I think that Thatch guy was one of the fighters at the Ring of Fire event we went to.

EDIT: Just watched the video, that is definitely the guy we saw.