Comments on: Yoshida vs. Barnett booked for WVR debut show

By: Ultimo_Santa

Ultimo_Santa — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:03:36 +0000

I find it funny when a bunch of “never was and never will bes” are online calling professional athletes “has-beens”.

I picture a fat slob covered in chips, drinking a beer in his la-z-boy recliner with a laptop on his knees, watching a fuzzy YouTube video of Barnett vs. Yoshida and yelling “See? You’re a has-been! A pathetic main-event fighter who only makes 10x more than I do a year! You suck!”

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:44:11 +0000

“Yoshida has been fighting at the “highest level” for the last few years not because he’s actually capable of doing so, but because he’s a drawing name due to his judo past.”

See Lesnar, Brock. NCAA and WWE “has-been”.

By: rainrider

rainrider — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:43:51 +0000

> Rainrider- I am so glad wrestlers from Japan have not blanketed their way to success like American wrestlers have done. Japanese MMA has been so much more exciting without lay and pray/rabbit punches wrestlers. Keep those yellow cards ready Japanese MMA companies!!

Let me keep it simple. The four most exciting Japanese MMA fighters are the follows: Sakuraba, Gomi, Sudo, and Yamamoto. The common factor is that they have free style wrestling background. Then the four most boring MMA stars from Japan are Kosaka, Takimoto, Yoshida, and Matsui. The common factor is obviously that they’re Judo players. Aoki, Uematsu and Shoji are rahter BJJ fighter/boxer than conventional Judokas.

By: D. Capitated

D. Capitated — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:33:33 +0000

Yoshida has been fighting at the “highest level” for the last few years not because he’s actually capable of doing so, but because he’s a drawing name due to his judo past. He hasn’t won a fight in almost 2 years. He lost to James Thompson. His “high level” wins in the last 3 were against a washed up noname boxer with a whopping 0-1 record in MMA, Tank Abbott, and a pro wrestler who’s MMA wins were all thrown fights.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:19:20 +0000

Yoshida is competing in a sport that he had little to no experience in. And at the sport’s highest level.

By: D. Capitated

D. Capitated — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:59:18 +0000

If Alexander Karelin had been attempting to compete the last 8 years, that would probably be a legitimate criticism by now.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:06:39 +0000

I guess that makes Karelin a has-been, yeah?

I mean,he hasn’t won a gold medal since ‘96… OMG, OVER A DECADE AGO!

What a wash-out. And he lost to Gardner in 2000, lol, Karelin sucks.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:27:12 +0000

I’m in no way defending the competitiveness of this match-up nor his credentials as an mma fighter. I just thought it was pretty much unnecessary to be referring to a guy as an “Olympic has-been”. He’s a mediocre MMA fighter who had promising potential at the beginning of his career but was fed to every foreign monster available in an attempt to recreate the whole “Saku” effect.

All I’m saying is I’m pretty sure if you started calling any inspirational American Olympic hero an “Olympic has-been” you’d probably get a pretty big reaction.

By: samscaff

samscaff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:48:56 +0000

I am a Pride fan. A huge one in fact. And I completely stand by what I said.

If Yoshida won his gold medal and went along with his life, of course I wouldnt call him a has-been. But the fact is he came back to the sporting world on his Olympic laurels and tried his hand at MMA. Therefore he is subject to criticism, as is any professional athelete.

The biggest win of his MMA career was against Don Frye, and that was still 6 years ago. Plus, Yoshida gets injured in every single one of his MMA fights. EVERY ONE. Now if thats not a sign of being old and a has-been, then nothing is.

Plus, newsflash, he’s not a legit heavyweight. This is a crap matchup. Guaranteed domination. Anyone who cant see that is blind.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:41:16 +0000

By your definition anyone that’s won an Olympic medal and isn’t currently vying for medals in present or future Olympics is a “has-been”.

Geez I can think of a few people that might be insulted if they knew their “legacy” as an Olympic champion actually boiled down to them being a “has-been”.