Comments on: Today’s chalkboard (6/26/08)

By: Josh Stein

Josh Stein — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:05:02 +0000

Ummm… thanks for posting the idiotic article. I’ll be tearing it to pieces shortly, and asking that these morons be fired for writing about things that they have never watched.

Anyways, I will genuinely thank you for showing my piece on here. This is a good site, and it’s nice to be on a respectable board.

By: IceMuncher

IceMuncher — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:38:14 +0000

If that’s the case, I’d still be just as excited to see Kid fight Torres.

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:08:33 +0000

Weren’t Kid’s last two fights at 135?

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:06:54 +0000

Sadly, Faber/Kid makes zero sense for all parties involved. One company would have to completely give into another. There is no way for anything even ground at this time.

To me, the big news of the day is how nicely the EliteXC card is shaping up. Shields/Thompson & Silva/Sergei are both really good fights.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:48:51 +0000

Looks like a “non-denial” denial from Jared Shaw regarding his father’s future with ProElite.

By: Mateo

Mateo — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:56:13 +0000

If that guy wants to rip on MMA, have at it. But to than go and defense football, boxing and hockey in the same article is too much.

Hockey has goons and retribution threats.

Football has players getting paralyzed, popular quarterbacks retiring from too many concussions and high school players dying each year.

Boxing has corruption, brain damaged fighters and many deaths from letting one fighter take way too much punishment.

No high contact sport is guilt-free. I personally don’t like hockey, football or boxing. I do like MMA and I don’t think it’s that brutal. Sure, some of the knock outs can look extreme and bones have been broken, but fighter safety seems to be paramount. While I want a good fight every time I watch, I don’t want any of the fighters to suffer long term damage.

The veterans so far like Gracie and Shamrock don’t seem to be suffering from any long term injuries or brain damage. Hopefully it remains that way.

And I don’t have blood lust at all. I want to see two tough fighters have at it, and reach a definitive conclusion, but actual bleeding doesn’t do anything for me.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:46:50 +0000

A five rounder wouldn’t affect Lyoto’s style at all. Watch him fight. He makes sure he comfortably wins one and two, and then turns up the heat in round three. For him, it’s a backup plan. If he can win the first two rounds, then the fight is his as long as he doesn’t get KO’d in round three. He usually always tries to win the fight in round three because of this.

Lyoto would do the same thing in a five round fight, the only exception is he’d fight so he wins one, two, AND three and then begins to gradually turn up the heat in four before trying to kill in five. It’s his pattern.

I think it says a lot that Brandon Vera was willing to fight Wanderlai in five weeks notice, but when Silva wouldn’t do it and Lyoto was proposed, Vera backed out. No one wants to fight Lyoto Machida at this point, and really…who blames them? No one still has come close to beating him. *I* wouldn’t want to fight him if I was in the LHW division.

By: Brandt

Brandt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:43:55 +0000

A five rounder might hurt Machida as well. If he begins to abandon his cautious style, he’ll be subjected to same danger as all of his opponents. If he gets that title shot, we’ll find out. Maybe Griffin will beat Jackson, and then Liddell will beat Griffin, and then it’ll set up a fight between Liddell and Machida. Or not.

I’d like to see a bunch of guys up against Machida at this point just based off of their strengths to see what would happen. Kinda like putting two aggressive insects in a cage like all those weirdos on YouTube do.

By: Jeremy (not that Jeremy)

Jeremy (not that Jeremy) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:04:22 +0000

I wonder if 5-round fights might be better for Machida than 3-rounders. His opponents always seem really frustrated and he seems to pick things up in the third round often. Adding another two rounds might increase his probability of knockout or submission substantially.

We don’t really have a metric for what he would do given ten more minutes yet.

By: D. Capitated

D. Capitated — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:57:09 +0000

Being allowed to get up to take more punishment after being pummeled is more barbaric.

So Shooto was barbaric for 20 years? What about Pancrase for the first half decade or so?

Honestly, the whole thing doesn’t read like he’s a boxing fan. He barely even mentions it. He mentions the fact that he doesn’t like seeing people on their backs being punched in the face, which makes him like an overwhelming number of people in our society.