UFC 84: Sean Sherk Vs. BJ Penn / Tito Ortiz Vs. Lyoto Machida / Silva Vs. Jardine

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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    like a busy sparring match, diaz comes out pawing the jab, mixing in some body shots and straights and has inoue circling backward for most of the beginning. diaz gets a takedown, then inoue gets a couple of curious "timeouts" to check his nose and another one? :confused: diaz eventually starts staying in the middle and trading with inoue and inoue's corner finally throws in the towel once diaz really starts getting the better of it against the ropes. inoue was pretty much out on his feet.

    intermission, and then the LW tourney!!! :)
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    Tatsuya Kawajiri Vs. Luis Buscape...

    buscape works early to try to take the fight down. kawjiri works hard to defend. buscape ends up on his back and kawajiri does some damage with strikes while trying to pass guard. after it gets back to the feet, buscape continues to try the clinch and they are broken up. kawajiri lands a big right hand off the break and buscape pulls him into guard after he drops where kawajiri continues to ground and pound. kawajiri's fight so far...
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    kawajiri works more ground and pound for the second until buscape transitions to his back and has a late RNC attempt. not enough as kawajiri dominates for a unanimous decison.

    Joachim Hansen Vs. Eddie Alvarez coming up! :)
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    can't believe this is going to the second! both guys land a hard punch at the same time to start things off, but eddie's drops hansen. eddie goes in for the finish, but hansen regains composure. eddie gets in some shots on the ground and it's back standing. eddie lands harder rights. hansen lands some lefts. eddie lands low leg kicks, hansen lands a high kick. hansen gets dropped a couple more times and taken down a couple more times, but ends with some knees and punches. eddie certainly ahead at this point. each time hansen and alvarez made contact at the same time, hansen was the one who was hurt. i am suprised!

    to the second!

    oh, and in the theme of heavy tunes for the night, hansen comes out to the heaviest, a little 'angel of death' by slayer. :)
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    what a fight! eddie comes out and gets another takedown, but hansen kicks him off strongly and tries for a sweet and quick armbar, but eddie escapes and ends up mounted but gets out. back to the feet and more strong exchanges. eddie gets another takedown and hansen gets him into a kimura using his legs and one arm!!! eddie gets out somehow and then gets caught when hansen drops into a kimura then transitions, when eddie rolls, to an armbar, which eddie escapes again! he finishes strongly with both fighters trading, but a high kick and a few strong hands from eddie seals a unanimous decision for him.

    hansen asks for the mic after the match and says, "eddie, you are the toughest man i have ever fought, thank you. it is always nice to compete here in front a japanese auidience, it is good to win in front of a japanese audience, and it is also good to get beaten in front of a japanese audience. thank you eddie." great show of class and respect from both fighters at the end. i am very impressed with eddie alvarez!
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    ishida vs. uno!!! :)
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    uno comes out to smells like teen spirit! :D (techno version for japan, of course ;))

    not what i expected! uno avoids five takedown attempts with incredible balance! uno uses his reach and outstrikes ishida, breaking his nose on a knee punch combo. (edit: i guess it wasan uppercut.) ishida gets dropped a couple of times, but recovers quickly. ishida finally succeeds on his sixth takedown attempt. uno goes for a kimura and ishida counters with an armbar, a la hughes vs. st-pierre part one. uno recognizes it, though, and they stand up. uno lands some more on the feet but gets taken down again and ishida gets his back. ishida tries for a rear naked choke near the end of the round. uno rolls out slickly to get on top with a couple of strikes to finish the round...

    pretty good fight so far...

    to the second and it's more of uno using his reach. ishida gets a takedown and it looks like uno is going for the same kimura but gets an incredible sweep to mount and takes ishida's back. immediately, he sinks in a rear naked choke with no hooks in!! finishes the fight when ishida taps. incredible finish. :) uno!!! i'm happy for him. he was a huge underdog, a lot of people wrote him off in the tournament, and he beats one of the top LW's in the world!

    it's been great doing play by play tonight. thanks for chatting everyone...haha sounds like everyone enjoyed the show. :D
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    just during the last few seconds, ceg. he was celebrating the win doing the "i got mc'donalds'" from eddie murphy...but he was singing "i got controool" instead. : D it was pretty funny. doing his moves and describing them..."got some janet jackson here...": D


    well, conveniently, just after i posted that i'd missed it, i turned on the t.v. to find TUF rereuns, and caught both the Dante/Brandon fight that i slept though, and the last episode which i missed most of.... i think i was searching online for flights or something? :rolleyes: ;)

    the Dante/Brandon fight was a bit of a let-down. I understand why Rampage was so upset... it was a tough call... Dante had control for most of the fight, but Brandon was way more active, even from the bottom... hmmm....

    wow! Matt's knockout of Jeremy was pretty spectaular!! it was one of those total slow-motion moments... Jeremy.... falling.... :eek: and i was laughing pretty damn hard at Forrest's screaming (or squealing?) "where's the animal????" hahahaha....

    I didn't find the second fight to be all that exciting either (did i miss something?)... but Rampage's little dance at the end was rather hilarious... perhaps an Eddie Murphy reference? but mookie, isn't it "i got some iiiiiiccce creeeaaam!"?? from Delerious? :D




    oh! mookie. glad you liked the Dream show... sounds like everyone had a great time... :p
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    we must all agree, leafs! :D very good points about lyoto. this could be the difference maker in who holds the belt, eh? you could well retain and leave me and lbc hangin out in the basement...with releash and ceg two points apart in the middle. ;)
    like i said, i hope i'm wrong and i go to the bottom cause i'm seriously cheering for a tito win... just can't see it happening
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    hey civ, the 2nd fight was pretty good, i can't remember all of it right now, but both fighters came out swinging and ended in a nice KO (can't remember who won sorry). I just remember it being a slugfest.

    I didn't read your write-ups about the dream show mookie, I just ordered HDNET today when i woke up (can't believe it was only 9 bux for all the hd channels, what the hell was i holding out for) so i'm going to watch it at 4 when they have the rerun. I hope it turned out good
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    Heads up guys - Gina Carano will be interviewed on ESPN's E60 on Tuesday at 7 pm EST! :) She is being billed as an "mma machine". Should be interesting, hopefully they won't focus too much on her American Gladiators job.
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    hey guys haven't had a chance to watch dream yet but i will respond to what you wrote when i get the chance mookie...

    i just read a couple changes to UFC 85. It appears that Goulet will not be fighting Paul Kelly since he doesn't have enough time to prepare.
    http://www.mmanews.com/ufc/Jonathan-Goulet-Not-Fighting-Paul-Kelly-at-UFC-85.html

    and also Leban will not being fighting bisping since he has turned himself into police and will be in jail for 35 days (i think that's the right number). Jason Day will be taking his place!

    http://www.mmanews.com/ufc/Jason-Day-To-Replace-Leben-At-UFC-85:-Bedlam-.html
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    more strong striking from shoji in the second, but yamazaki has more takedowns and control...

    yamasaki by unanimous decision after a relatively uneventful match.

    ya i have to agree, it was a good fight but nothing really exciting happened. Some really good shots and that arm bar escape was scary, i though he broke his arm at one point. Still not a bad fight to open the show with.
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    i'm a little disappointed in the lack of outfit for mayhem ;), but the breakdancing routine he came in with was pretty impressive. the long zebra pants underneath his trunks aren't bad either...haha

    he starts out in typical mayhem fashion...stands in the middle of the ring looking at his opponent over his shoulder and then does a karate stance. lands a number of knees from there, but is hurt by one punch and goes for the takedown and plays with shibata on the ground from there out...

    takes the time to wave to the fans and give the peace sign to the big screen. numerous knees and punches to shibata until the ref finally stops the fight. mayhem moves into the last spot for the MW tournament at DREAM 4.

    mayhem then gets on the mic and actually knows a few japanese phrases! pays respect to shibata and the fans and tells them, in japanese, "i am a demon! i am a ghost! i am a super monkey!! :D

    this was my 1st time seeing mayhem and he was very impressive. What kind of outfit does he usually come out to? The breakdancing was awsome. I love the knees to head but don't really understand why they don't allow for the elbows to a downed oppenent. They may cause more cuts i guess, but i still think they should be allowed.
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    the game plans were ckear, and kim actually works his way in to range to attempt a takedown, but a striking exchange ensues and kim gets the better of it! takes manhoef down and gets control on the ground. manhoef eventually muscles his way to side control, lands a couple of hammer fists, but then ko's kim on the ground with a knee. looks like the first knee knocked him out, but the second was a certain illegal blow to the back of the head. hard to tell which one was the one that ended the fight...

    anyway, manhoef becomes the alternate for the MW tournament.


    Daisuke Nakamura Vs. Bu Kyung Jung next...

    go jung! i hope he finally gets a win here! two great fights so far against aoki and ishida, but both losses in game efforts.

    man those knees are scary... another good fight from fighters that i don't know at all lol. I think Kim was out after the right hammer fist right after the fitst knee, he kind of turtled from it. Then the knee to the back of the head was just scary and the like 3 or 4 more hammer fists. Well, atleast we can't say the refs make quick stoppages lol
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    jung does not know how to be in a boring fight! jung lands some shots and some nice knees, even a flying one, and sets the tone for the first round by judo throw into back control and straight into an armbar. from there, reversals and numerous sub attempts by both guys. nakamura with leg locks and kimuras and jung with armbars...great match so far...to the second...

    another early armbar escape, this time by jung and they come back to the feet where nakamura lands a right hand for a knockout. great fight, feel bad for jung. three excellent matches in his first three bouts and three hard fought losses.

    yup another great fight, that's 3 in a row, this card has been really good so far. Jung seems to be a good up and comer but there are 2 things that i think are his downfalls, at this point. He seems to get too excited, like when he could have taken nakamura's back easily, he jumped almost all the way over it and landed up on his back. Maybe i'm wrong but that's what i saw. Also he doesn't have the strongest chin, although that punch to end the fight was perfect he did seem to get rocked a bit in the 1st round aswell (recovered very quickly). I could be wrong again, i haven't seen any of his other fights so i'm just going by what i saw on here.
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    like a busy sparring match, diaz comes out pawing the jab, mixing in some body shots and straights and has inoue circling backward for most of the beginning. diaz gets a takedown, then inoue gets a couple of curious "timeouts" to check his nose and another one? :confused: diaz eventually starts staying in the middle and trading with inoue and inoue's corner finally throws in the towel once diaz really starts getting the better of it against the ropes. inoue was pretty much out on his feet.

    intermission, and then the LW tourney!!! :)

    another great fight, gotta give inoue alot of credit he's a freaking warrior. I have no idea why you would want to stand and trade with a guy who is a way better striker than you. Even though nick's real strength is on the ground lol. The 2nd timeout was because of an illegal blow by Nick. It was for kicking a downed opponent to the head, it looked more like it was to the body but atleast there was no card pulled. Nick really needs to work on his defence, bas mentioned this a couple times in his commentary. He just stands and trades and if he faces a better (more powerful) striker he may be in a lot of trouble due to cuts and stoppages. Smarten up Nick! you have so much talent
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    kawajiri works more ground and pound for the second until buscape transitions to his back and has a late RNC attempt. not enough as kawajiri dominates for a unanimous decison.

    Joachim Hansen Vs. Eddie Alvarez coming up! :)
    well not a great fight, like the 1st of the night, it was good but nothing too exciting. still that's 4 great fights and 2 good ones, can't complain
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    what a fight! eddie comes out and gets another takedown, but hansen kicks him off strongly and tries for a sweet and quick armbar, but eddie escapes and ends up mounted but gets out. back to the feet and more strong exchanges. eddie gets another takedown and hansen gets him into a kimura using his legs and one arm!!! eddie gets out somehow and then gets caught when hansen drops into a kimura then transitions, when eddie rolls, to an armbar, which eddie escapes again! he finishes strongly with both fighters trading, but a high kick and a few strong hands from eddie seals a unanimous decision for him.

    hansen asks for the mic after the match and says, "eddie, you are the toughest man i have ever fought, thank you. it is always nice to compete here in front a japanese auidience, it is good to win in front of a japanese audience, and it is also good to get beaten in front of a japanese audience. thank you eddie." great show of class and respect from both fighters at the end. i am very impressed with eddie alvarez!

    FOTN!!! what a great fight, both of these guys are tough as nails. Hanson is incredible, he was rocked hard i don't even remember how many times and recovered everytime within a second. Eddie had some incredible sub defence and got out of some that he really shouldn't have. Absolutly great fight and good decision by the judges.
    extremely respectful words after the fight by boths warriors... i'd like to see both of these guys fight again
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
  • leafs4ever
    leafs4ever Posts: 833
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    uno comes out to smells like teen spirit! :D (techno version for japan, of course ;))

    not what i expected! uno avoids five takedown attempts with incredible balance! uno uses his reach and outstrikes ishida, breaking his nose on a knee punch combo. ishida gets dropped a couple of times, but recovers. ishida finally succeeds on his sixth takedown attempt. uno goes for a kimura and ishida counters with an armbar, a la hughes vs. st-pierre part one. uno recognizes it, though, and they stand up. uno lands some more on the feet but gets taken down again and ishida gets his back. ishida tries for a rear naked choke near the end of the round. uno rolls out slickly to get on top with a couple of strikes to finish the round...

    pretty good fight so far...

    to the second and it's more of uno using his reach. ishida gets a takedown and it looks like uno is going for the same kimura but gets an incredible sweep to mount and takes ishida's back. immediately, he sinks in a rear naked choke with no hooks in!! finishes the fight when ishida taps. incredible finish. :) uno!!! i'm happy for him. he was a huge underdog, a lot of people wrote him off in the tournament, and he beats one of the top LW's in the world!

    it's been great doing play by play tonight. thanks for chatting everyone...haha sounds like everyone enjoyed the show. :D

    another good fight, uno landed some great punches like you said and was very impressive in this win. That sweep was perfect and he really deserved this win.

    thanks for the play by play mookie, it was a great card and i'm very happy that i finally got HDNET. I still think the octogon is better for mma and that that 10minutes 1st round is insane, but dream was very good and i'm sure i'll be tuning into dream 4
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
    09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06

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