Comments on: UFC 76 – the aftermath

By: Body_Shots

Body_Shots — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:12:46 +0000

He’s either being defensive or feels validated by the results of tonight’s PPV (hard to say without hearing the context). A lot of people believed Shogun-Griffin and Jardine-Liddell were horrible match ups and mismatches on paper, that obviously wasn’t the case.

I watched the post fight presser, it was validation.

By: Jason Gatties

Jason Gatties — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:31:22 +0000

Bravo Dana! I’ve been saying the same things for years about internet “opinion” sites that attempt to pass themselves off as “news” sites. Of course all the mma “journalists”, probably Zach included, will be offended by what Dana said but the truth hurts somethimes.

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:09:57 +0000

45 Huddle…you sure seem to watch a lot of things that you don’t enjoy. Why not stick to reruns of Friends?

By: ajax

ajax — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:09:53 +0000

The UFC needs a serious dose of steroids and a new rule set(tounge in cheek of course, but I do miss it).

By: D. Capitated

D. Capitated — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:51:32 +0000

Well, what kind of position is boxing in? I just watched countdown to Taylor/Pavlik…. And neither have any marketability. Hence why a fight for the World Middleweight Championship between 2 undefeated fighters is being given away on HBO.

Pavlik’s been on HBO once and people got psyched for him because he banged out with his opponent. Before that, he was bouncing around Versus and Shobox cards. Nobody saw him and few people wanted to face him. Its like me telling you that Dan Henderson/Quinton Jackson was on Spike because neither guy is interesting to the layman and have boring personalities. Then again, I remember people saying that Pavlik was a “boring guy” and that he was in no way controversial, in spite of his reputation as a partier and the fact that he beat up a cop.

By: zenki

zenki — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:45:55 +0000

hahaha…

I couldnt agree more..But as crooked as Dana is the fight probally will still happen . Exspecially with the resent showings of all the other Pride fighters having troubles in the cage. Its a golden oppertunity for Dana to pull te old told ya so crap from his previous wants on promoting this fight.

By: JThue

JThue — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:25:52 +0000

I would rather not see Wanderlei – Liddell at all than seing it in December. It’s basically a freakshow fight at this point. It’s the kind of hype fight K-1 would book for NYE. What is the rivalry? That they’re the two unbeatable 205-champions of the world, top class strikers, representing the two top promotions in the world. But they’re no longer unbeatable, they’re no longer champions and there aren’t even two companies anymore. The entire basis of the rivalry is gone. At this point it would be below UFC’s standards(I can’t believe I’m typing this) to book and hype this fight, and Dana White is all too aware of that.

And Marcos Rosales apparently thought both Sanchez and Liddell won their fights. Added up that makes for damn near proof of a blatantly star struck judge.

By: zenki

zenki — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:55:04 +0000

Add me to the chorus of “Lidell vs Silva” anyway.

Both coming off 2 ugly losses. Winner regains stardom, loser retires

Wandy fights smart and goes the route taken and plainly shown by Jardine hands down Wandy wins.. If Wandy gets caught up in the ufc hype and fights a emotional fight then theres a good chance hes gonna get caught by Liddel and loses.. Wandy’s style doesnt match Liddel to good.

By: zenki

zenki — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:52:47 +0000

45 Huddle Says:

September 23rd, 2007 at 11:18 am
I don’t disagree that the ring to cage element is part of the factor. However, that has nothing to do with the huge stamina issues we have seen, along with the pudgy body types of these Pride Fighters.

You would think that but how often do u c a guy pushing another into the ropes with all his might tring to get positon on him that way u dont.. In the cage u use it to your advantage if your not use to it a man full force pushing u into the cage is gonna gass u out..

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:01:41 +0000

I don’t think this chaos hurts, as long as the fans have somebody to cheer for. Forrest Griffin is really popular, so that win did a lot of good things for the UFC. Quinton Jackson not only beat Chuck Liddell, but then he won a solid fight with millions of people watching on SpikeTV.

Feeding Quinton a guy like Jardine wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. It would likely give him another win…. Giving the appearance of a more dominant champion…. Before they feed him another top contender like Griffin, Silva, Evan,s Ortiz, or Machida.