Comments on: Thursday talking chatter

By: Diamond Dave Williams

Diamond Dave Williams — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:37:13 +0000

Zach, why do you have to keep slamming Pride. It seems to me when you are challenged on an opinion you go to extremes to push the the other opinion as nonsense or moranic. This seems hiporcritical to me. Try taking the high road and enjoy all of MMA.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:33:20 +0000

And I was one of those people – mea culpa, mea culpa.

By: Zach Arnold

Zach Arnold — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:27:52 +0000

Seems to be fate just keeps on slowly continuing to hammer nails into PRIDEâ€™s coffin. Honestly 18 months ago if you tried to convince ANYONE that PRIDE would be having this kind of trouble getting fighters on cards and keeping them there AND that this was going to be the final lineup – theyâ€™d call you loony.

I wouldn’t have predicted the line-up now. But I did predict trouble 18 months ago – and got laughed at severely.

By: Zach Arnold

Zach Arnold — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:27:08 +0000

Critic – you’re making a mistake giving up our site. Really. In all seriousness, I try to spend as much time on here to gather links so that you don’t have to go elsewhere.

In fact, I strongly suggest that you keep checking this site out and also checking Fightlinker.com, which does an excellent job of gathering stories from all the various MMA sites.

By: The MMA Critic

The MMA Critic — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:01:45 +0000

Pride USA has been a complete bust so far. I should be called PRIDE LIGHT, because that is exactly what it is. They have dumbed down their product for the US audience.

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Not like it matters much, but I won’t be posting her (or anywhere else) for a while. I’ve decided starting at the beginning of the month to give up the majority of the internet and email. I’ve spent far too much time online since the beginning of the year and it is a necessary change. I don’t think I was addicted, but I was definitely heading down that path.

I will still be keeping up on the sport on a superficial level through this podcast and beatdown. And I’m still a Wrestling Observer subscriber. But beyond that, any forums or blogs have just been consuming too much of my time.

I wish everybody the best.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:49:24 +0000

I’m glad a sports website with the resources of Fox had the ability to still not be able to tell the difference between Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira!!!

Well done boys! Excellent research skills – such as going on PRIDE’s website, which while usually woefully outdated has been able to at least provide such hard hitting information.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:46:36 +0000

Talk about “when it rains, it pours”

Seems to be fate just keeps on slowly continuing to hammer nails into PRIDE’s coffin. Honestly 18 months ago if you tried to convince ANYONE that PRIDE would be having this kind of trouble getting fighters on cards and keeping them there AND that this was going to be the final lineup – they’d call you loony.

I guess this also goes to show that their lacksadaisical approach to announcing and setting up matchups right up until the last second really bites you in the ass when you have to deal with commissions and sanctioning bodies.

By: JThue

JThue — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:39:30 +0000

I’m a big fan of PRIDE, but I get depressed looking at the final lineup. This was supposed to be the next step after October, but instead it’s more of a step down in card quality and competitiveness. Granted they’ve been unlucky, but it’s the old tale of good and bad luck in good and bad times…

By: JOSH

JOSH — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:56:10 +0000

SOOOO STOKED for PRIDE. Will be there in the 16th row on the floor. Cant wait, the card is rather stacked IMO!

By: JThue

JThue — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:15:39 +0000

http://www.pridefc.com/pride2005/index.php?mainpage=news&news_id=1013

James Lee vs. Travis Wiuff is official, along with the match order for Saturday.