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The reviews are coming in
By Zach Arnold | July 8, 2006
On the UFC 61 PPV:
Observer – Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock is up next. This came off badly. Ortiz slammed Shamrock hard and was hammering him and hit five elbows. Ken wasn’t doing much to defend, well actually nothing, and it was stopped. Ken got right back up. Really Ken likely wasn’t getting up, but you don’t know for sure. It was too early but it was 2-3 elbows away from what what would have been it. The reaction is ugly. “Bullshit” chants. This was not what the UFC needed with this kind of momentum.
F4W Online – Final verdict: DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DON’T BUY THE REPLAY.
Knockout Zone – All in all, a complete suck fest. But allow me to come to the UFC defense for a moment. Fight fans can be complete morons, I mean you only gotta check out MMAWeekly’s “Sound Off Forum†or Sherdog to see what I’m saying. Quotes like “If this is the product the UFC is going to put out there, I’m not going to pay my hard earned moneyâ€. Well then don’t fucking buy it then. Dana White & Zuffa have NO CONTROL over the outcomes. They cannot force people to stay busy.
Fight Report – I watched this event with a group of seasoned boxing fans who’ve recently been getting into Mixed Martial Arts. Just as any veteran MMA fan was they too found the event quite disappointing.
Technorati search – a lot of MySpace/LiveJournal personal blog reviews, with most posters feeling extremely angry about the show.
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It was pretty bad. However on my blog I defended the UFC a bit against the “forum fight experts” or “saturday night promoters” out there.
Andrei was very disappointing, Silva was cool, Mir was fat, Tito was an ass, Ken was as expected, and Randy had great sound effects. All in all, very “gah” night.
Out of curiousity, who reffed Shammy/Tito?
The great Herb Dean was the referee of that, Royal.
Is that “great” or great ref Herb Dean?