UFC/Pride Mixed Martial Arts Thread *Many contain Spoilers*

[Ryan H.]

Originally Posted by cAtDaFeLiX

Alexander owned Jardine at the end of that fight. Those 2 uppercuts landed perfect. That one shot Jardine gave him seemed to piss him off huge.

For Tito, I watched it too Ryan. Tito was scared of Dana and Dana trained like a mad man that entire time. Tito is a little baby and no wonder the next UFC 72 he's not even listed on the main poster as fighting. I'm glad Chuck owned him and set him in his place.

Dana didn't do near the training he would have needed to to compete with someone like Ortiz, IMO, but I can understand how there was no percentage in him taking Dana on publicly. He probably wanted something quiet, and something where Dana didn't train at all so he could just pound on an old guy for awhile.

As for Tito in general, at first I despised him because of him playing the 'bad guy' as Cowboy puts it, but TUF 3 really showed the guy does have class and he's probably the best coach that TUF has had yet. However, the stupid crap he pulled with Dana just irked me.

[dillonthebunny]

does anyone know what martial arts any of these guys do?

most of them would have a base art then built upon it. ...end up doing some fkg nutty fighting sht.

[cAtDaFeLiX]

Alot of MMA fighters are based in 2 or 3 certain forms or mixes of them. A stand-up fighter is a mix of boxing and kickboxing. Most of the fighters are also skilled in wrestling (Not the WWE kind of course lol)

I've seen fighters skilled Karate, Judo, Greco-Roman wrestling, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, boxing, Shoot wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, full contact karate. The list goes on and on. Each fighter is different and has different styles.

When there's a match, most fighters will train to up there skills on what the other fighter has. Rampage above is a "Freestyle Wrestling/Brawler". The "conditioning" they go through is also insane.

Chucks fighting style is kickboxing but my guess is he trains in all sorts of different styles (He's going to need it to re capture that belt lol)

[Ryan H.]

Originally Posted by dillonthebunny

does anyone know what martial arts any of these guys do?

most of them would have a base art then built upon it. ...end up doing some fkg nutty fighting sht.

In MMA if you're not skilled in Jujitsu/Wrestling you're not going to be a very successful fighter. Most MMA matches go to the ground at some point, and at that point an understanding of ground based martial arts is an absolute must. Most MMA athletes train in either Brazilian Jujitsu or wrestling.

For stand up arts, any decent, straightforward striking art is fine, such as boxing or kickboxing, which are the two most common IIRC. You're not going to see a bunch of people trying to use kung fu or tae kwon do or any of the more stylized arts, because they're not really practical in these situations.

Most really good fighters are some mix of wrestling, jujitsu, boxing and kickboxing/muay thai.

[psxextreme]

You guys can see the whole fight here:

http://www.ufcfight.com/mma/2007/05/...e_whooped.html

[cAtDaFeLiX]

Originally Posted by psxextreme

You guys can see the whole fight here

Damn

[Ryan H.]

Originally Posted by cAtDaFeLiX

Damn

I just watched it via that link. Try again.

[cAtDaFeLiX]

yay

[Cowboy22]

For all those talking about how Dana "won't put up with that kind of shit" in regards to the two dudes who got into the brawl on TUF, the two have been scheduled for a fight on the undercard of the finals. He was so outraged that not only did he air the brawl in its entirety (after promoting the shit out of it all year), but he's paying them for a sanctioned rematch on national TV. Obviously, a lot of his flip out was for show and he realizes that that sort of thing can bring in some viewers. Which is cool by me, I'm looking forward to seeing it.

[Ryan H.]

Originally Posted by Cowboy22

For all those talking about how Dana "won't put up with that kind of shit" in regards to the two dudes who got into the brawl on TUF, the two have been scheduled for a fight on the undercard of the finals. He was so outraged that not only did he air the brawl in its entirety (after promoting the shit out of it all year), but he's paying them for a sanctioned rematch on national TV. Obviously, a lot of his flip out was for show and he realizes that that sort of thing can bring in some viewers. Which is cool by me, I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Scheduling them for an undercard match is a lot different than giving them a chance at a $100,000 contract. Yes he knows it can bring in viewers, but if that was all he cared about, he would have found some other way of punishing them and kept them on the show, hoping it would happen again.