UFC 85: London, England: Matt Hughes Vs. Thiago Alves / The Ultimate Fighter 7

civ_eng_girl

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

we missed you and ceg. :( well actually i missed everyone, as i was by myself for the east coast feed!

hey guys! sorry i've been MIA for a while....

my friend Colleen and my 'nephew' Shea are visiting for the week, and i played in a golf tournament yesterday (poorly )...

i didn't watch the whole event, but i did get home in time for Gina's match. Colleen was brave and watched it with me. i tried to explain as much as i could to her, but as we watched kaitlin's bruised face in a rear naked choke, i was unsuccessful in swaying her over to the pro-MMA side of things.

i'm also moving offices at work tomorrow, so might be offline for yet another day.

missin' everyone... xoxox

ps. Gina!

mookie blaylock 10

civ_eng_girl wrote:

hey guys! sorry i've been MIA for a while....

my friend Colleen and my 'nephew' Shea are visiting for the week, and i played in a golf tournament yesterday (poorly )...

i didn't watch the whole event, but i did get home in time for Gina's match. Colleen was brave and watched it with me. i tried to explain as much as i could to her, but as we watched kaitlin's bruised face in a rear naked choke, i was unsuccessful in swaying her over to the pro-MMA side of things. : o : p

i'm also moving offices at work tomorrow, so might be offline for yet another day.

missin' everyone... xoxox

ps. Gina!

gina indeed!

you were missed last evening, ceg. thanks for trying to introduce new fans, but as you thought it wasn't for colleen, eh? it was a great fight, though. kaitlin showed great heart and gina showed excellent skills and great game plan.

the announcers didn't notice, as they had the bad camera angle, but gina actually was close to catching a gogplata! :eek: when kaitlin took her down in the first. kaitlin's elbow wasn't all the way through, though, so gina couldn't trap her arm to the mat and finish it. would have been an exciting finish, but kaitlin was able to turn the right way to get out of it.

wec just starting now...

mccullough vs. alexander to start. i thought curran vs. brown was on the main card, but i guess not...we'll see how mccollough comes back after a big title loss to jamie varner.

(sorry to hear about the results in the golf tournament...:()

once more...haha...gina!

leafs4ever

beachdweller wrote:

I got to think there is more money in going the way of the traditional sports, and getting a tv contract of some kind. PPV definitely sucks ass.

really? i thought with all the ppv buys they would make more, but if it must be free tv, i guess i'm ok with it

leafs4ever

civ_eng_girl wrote:

hey guys! sorry i've been MIA for a while....

my friend Colleen and my 'nephew' Shea are visiting for the week, and i played in a golf tournament yesterday (poorly )...

i didn't watch the whole event, but i did get home in time for Gina's match. Colleen was brave and watched it with me. i tried to explain as much as i could to her, but as we watched kaitlin's bruised face in a rear naked choke, i was unsuccessful in swaying her over to the pro-MMA side of things.

i'm also moving offices at work tomorrow, so might be offline for yet another day.

missin' everyone... xoxox

ps. Gina!

another golfer???? what'd ya shoot? I was a little off yesterday and landed up with a 91, still a decent score for me. Par'd the 1st and last hole and had an eagle chance on the 8th hole, but 2 putted. got the birdie atleast

ReleasH

Hello friends!!

Watching the McCullough vs. Alexander right now. Nothing too exciting in Round 1 yet.

I thought it was interesting that Clay Guida is standing right near the entrance to the octagon. I wonder how Dana/UFC feels about having one of their fighters currently under contract at a WEC event.

leafs4ever

ReleasH wrote:

Hello friends!!

Watching the McCullough vs. Alexander right now. Nothing too exciting in Round 1 yet.

I thought it was interesting that Clay Guida is standing right near the entrance to the octagon. I wonder how Dana/UFC feels about having one of their fighters currently under contract at a WEC event.

I don't know if WEC is owned by ufc or not but they are close. UFC is always promoting WEC and always point out wec fighters in their audience. Not to mention that a contracted ufc fighter (Mir) is commentating i think.

ReleasH

I don't know if mma has the right format for a traditional tv sports contract. It works well for baseball, football, basketball, hockey because they have very regular games, whereas mma has events every couple of weeks. We'll have to see how this CBS/EliteXC experiment works out.

mookie blaylock 10

ReleasH wrote:

Hello friends!!

Watching the McCullough vs. Alexander right now. Nothing too exciting in Round 1 yet.

I thought it was interesting that Clay Guida is standing right near the entrance to the octagon. I wonder how Dana/UFC feels about having one of their fighters currently under contract at a WEC event.

yeah, not too exciting through two now. rob's looking very conservative. as mir was saying, he's standing up easily when alexander takes him down...he should open up a bit, but maybe he's feeling rusty.

oh, and the UFC and WEC are both zuffa owned, so it's all cool about clay being there. no "punishment" from dana!

ReleasH

leafs4ever wrote:

I don't know if WEC is owned by ufc or not but they are close. UFC is always promoting WEC and always point out wec fighters in their audience. Not to mention that a contracted ufc fighter (Mir) is commentating i think.

You're right leafs, the UFC and WEC are close enough that it's probably not a big deal. btw, I'm not a fan of Mir's commentary.

Edit: Thanks for the info Mookie ... as usual you are full of useful knowledge. Hope the pain meds are working for you

mookie blaylock 10

ouch! south of the border!

leafs4ever

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

ouch! south of the border!

that's 2 now, the 1st one was a more a glance so they let it go

ReleasH

Glad I could catch this WEC event ... unfortunately, I'm on call Saturday night so I'll miss UFC 85. I'm bummed because Shamrock's Twin just bought a HUGE tv that would be perfect to watch the fights on.

mookie blaylock 10

ReleasH wrote:

You're right leafs, the UFC and WEC are close enough that it's probably not a big deal. btw, I'm not a fan of Mir's commentary.

Edit: Thanks for the info Mookie ... as usual you are full of useful knowledge. Hope the pain meds are working for you

thanks, releash. i'm just feeling a little mr. grumpy right now. took some morhine injections, so i am doing fine for pain, though. i'd almost rather be suffering through a broken bone than a tooth. it really does screw up your sleeping, eating, etc. pain in the butt!

anyway, one of the less eventful LW matches i've seen in a while. should be mccullough's win i guess?

mookie blaylock 10

leafs4ever wrote:

that's 2 now, the 1st one was a more a glance so they let it go

yeah, the second one was making me squirm here! right on the money.

leafs4ever

ReleasH wrote:

Glad I could catch this WEC event ... unfortunately, I'm on call Saturday night so I'll miss UFC 85. I'm bummed because Shamrock's Twin just bought a HUGE tv that would be perfect to watch the fights on.

that sucks... it should be a decent card.... hope you can catch a replay or something


the fight was pretty meh. I think Rob won it but it was pretty close... I don't see the 30-27 score but whatever, atleast i think the decision was the right one.

mookie blaylock 10

ReleasH wrote:

Glad I could catch this WEC event ... unfortunately, I'm on call Saturday night so I'll miss UFC 85. I'm bummed because Shamrock's Twin just bought a HUGE tv that would be perfect to watch the fights on.

d'oh! that sucks about 85, releash. :( shamrock's twin wouldn't mind if the rest of us come over....? :D

LOVEBOATCAPT0226

Did you guys catch Elite XC?? What a piece of crap, Kimbo wouldn't last 1 round with a Liddell or any other UFC fighter for that matter.

ReleasH

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

thanks, releash. i'm just feeling a little mr. grumpy right now. took some morhine injections, so i am doing fine for pain, though. i'd almost rather be suffering through a broken bone than a tooth. it really does screw up your sleeping, eating, etc. pain in the butt!

anyway, one of the less eventful LW matches i've seen in a while. should be mccullough's win i guess?

Sorry you are suffering with the broken tooth. How are you getting morphine injections? Are they over the counter in Canada?

leafs4ever

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

thanks, releash. i'm just feeling a little mr. grumpy right now. took some morhine injections, so i am doing fine for pain, though. i'd almost rather be suffering through a broken bone than a tooth. it really does screw up your sleeping, eating, etc. pain in the butt!

anyway, one of the less eventful LW matches i've seen in a while. should be mccullough's win i guess?

morphine you say umm i'm on my way over.

Ya that's about how i feel, not a good way to start off the night for the wec.

mookie blaylock 10

LOVEBOATCAPT0226 wrote:

Did you guys catch Elite XC?? What a piece of crap, Kimbo wouldn't last 1 round with a Liddell or any other UFC fighter for that matter.

i discussed it with myself, lbc.