Comments on: Today’s chalkboard (6/16/08)

By: IceMuncher

IceMuncher — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:16:25 +0000

I agree Mickdawg. JZ was threatened in his fight against Aoki, but he was never in danger of submitting. BJ has much better BJJ than JZ, so I don’t see Aoki doing much of anything on the ground, and BJ would demolish Aoki standing.

BJ is the worst possible match-up, skill wise, for Aoki.

Technically, I guess you could say the same thing for any other 155lb fighter.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:43:34 +0000

The series of events with the “huge announcement” (with the latest interview trying to downplay it and pretend that the UFC was never going to announce anything to the public) is getting more comical with each passing day, and more similar to Eric Bischoff with each passing day.

If it’s just the announcement of the “Matt Hughes at home” reality series, that’s not a huge announcement, either. If it’s a deal with ABC, Fox, Mayweather, or the New York commission, that makes them liars for saying that it wasn’t any of those things.

The only remaining possibilities would be: A) All of the negotiations to sell the company have finally resulted in a deal, or B) There’s an announcement of some kind but not a huge announcement.

Hopefully, this “huge announcement” won’t end like Eric Bischoff’s similarly desperate “huge announcement,” which as you’ll recall if you were unfortunate enough to witness it, was just Bill Goldberg turning heel (and later basically continuing to play a babyface character and going back to being a babyface with no explanation).

By: MickDawg

MickDawg — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:12:05 +0000

Michael David Smith
“I think Aoki is the favorite to win the Dream Lightweight Grand Prix, and after that I’d love to see him come to America. B.J. Penn might be the best lightweight in the world, but we won’t know for sure until we see Aoki in UFC.”

Oh, we know for sure.
Certainly, Aoki won’t be the one to dethrone BJ.

Aoki is beating guys because he has a BJJ advantage over all of them,
And for most, it is a HUGE advantage.

But if he ever faces Penn, his advantage will be nil.

What’s Aoki going to do? Pull guard the whole fight?

His punches are too weak, his striking is sloppy, his wrestling is sloppy.

Penn would pick him apart on the feet.

The most interesting part of this match would be Aoki’s guard vs. BJ’s top game.

Aoki is most comfortable on his back, and BJ is most comfortable on top.

If it hits the ground, this would be the most likeliest scenario.

But in any case, I don’t see BJ Penn getting caught in any submissions Aoki tries…and standing, it’s not even close.

By: Shinji Sasaki

Shinji Sasaki — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:29:14 +0000

Why do you insist in spell Shinya Aoki`s name Shin`ya? For someone who call himself a Japanese expert is mind blowing to see how you fail to understand Japanese names doesn`t use apostrophes at all.