CBS To Begin Airing MMA Bouts

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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    leafs4ever wrote:
    i saw ken push kimbo at the weigh-ins, and it's just ken being ken. Doing absolutely anything he can to draw attention to the fight. For some reason it always works...

    ken's gotta sell it! haha :D
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Wow! what crazy night!

    There goes the legacy of Kimbo Slice! :p
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    LOL. turns out the Gina Carano-Kobolt match was the best. ;)

    Arvolski-Nelson was good too though.
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    LongRd. wrote:
    Wow! what crazy night!

    There goes the legacy of Kimbo Slice! :p

    i thought seth would probably take him down and submit him in the first, but instead kimbo goes down to a jab (followed by a few hammerfists...)! it certainly was a crazy night! :D
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    i loved how Kimbo was all trying to be intimidating in the pre-fight interview, sayin' very little and tryin' to look tough.

    BUT during the post-fight interview, he talked a lot and said 'it's all good, there's still a party after the event' and it was an improv fight. :rolleyes:

    I dunno, he came off like he was there for the money and not for the competition.
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    a different tune, i suppose you could say, afterwards. :D

    it sounds like there were a couple of excellent fights on the undercard as well from reading the play by play.

    sounds like you caught the whole show, long rd.?
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    a different tune, i suppose you could say, afterwards. :D

    it sounds like there were a couple of excellent fights on the undercard as well from reading the play by play.

    sounds like you caught the whole show, long rd.?
    Yeah I watched the whole show!

    All the non-main events matches were surprisingly good.

    1st match was Benji Raddach vs. Murilo Rua: Raddach started off strong with standing attacks but Rua never went down and stood his ground even after taking some nasty punches.
    The big blow was when Rua missed a Muay Thai knee thrust and slip to the ground. Raddach landed some big punches to Rua's face as he was defenseless on the gorund.

    Raddach got the OK win.

    2nd match was Gina Carano vs. Kelly Kobald. Kobald was aggressive with a grapple attack to maintain Carano's standing attacks. What hurt Koblad was that she wasn't able to attack consistantly because of the grapples. Carano got enough punches and kicks to get a cut over Koblad's eye. Carano's hits was the big difference. She got the unanimous decision.

    3rd match was Andrei Arlovski vs. Roy Nelson. Somewhat similar to the Carano-Kobald match. Nelson was going for the grappling holds rather than attacks. Seemed like Arlovski knew his game plan but waiting and waiting for Nelson to tire out and eventually he did. The big finish was when Arlovski got a nice thrust kick to Nelon's leg to unbalance him and got some nasty punches to the face. Arlovski won by KO.

    4th match was Welterweight Title Bout: Jake Shields vs. Paul Daley: A bit boring if you like the hits and attack style because Shields used his great grounding skills and eventually get a submission armbar in the 2nd round for the win. Daley was on his back in defense for most of the match.

    Main event: Kimbo Slice vs. Seth "Somebody"
    Well, no need for a review because it lasted about 12 seconds with Kimbo getting knocked out. :p

    Arlovski was probably the most skilled fighter of the night. He has a lot of styles to attack with on both the ground and standing.

    Can't wait for the night MMA event!
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    excellent summary of the main card, longrd.! :) you should be writing the play by play for the show!

    in agreement with your points too. the matches went pretty much as i'd expected, with the exception of radach vs. ninja. i thought ninja was going to take him down in the second and finish it on the ground. he weathered a huge early storm, though. oh, and i thought seth would take kimbo down and submit him, not ko him!

    i'm definitely looking forward to the next show :) ...next free one is ufc 89 on spike, i believe. should be a good one as well. lots of close matches on paper.
  • Trailer
    Trailer Posts: 1,431
    What a joke that was!! No Shamrock.. Kimbo's more concerned about the afterparty than winning the fight and gets beat by a reality show contestant. As far as I can tell, the only thing EliteXC has going for it is Gina. Why would Tito Ortiz want to sign on to this crap? Yeah, he'll make more money and dominate the (lack of) competition... but does any real MMA fan really respect EliteXC?
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • NCBRI
    NCBRI Posts: 1,902
    What happened to Shamrock? I found a blurb somewhere on the net before the fight saying he wasn't going to be able to fight because of a bad cut? His brother wanted to take his place but they wouldn't let him?

    Glad I went to the Carolina/UCONN game last night instead of staying in to watch this mess.
    Brian
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    Trailer wrote:
    What a joke that was!! No Shamrock.. Kimbo's more concerned about the afterparty than winning the fight and gets beat by a reality show contestant. As far as I can tell, the only thing EliteXC has going for it is Gina. Why would Tito Ortiz want to sign on to this crap? Yeah, he'll make more money and dominate the (lack of) competition... but does any real MMA fan really respect EliteXC?

    the only two fights that i can see for tito there are babalu and rafael feijao. very possible that he could lose both. otherwise, they don't really have access to LHW's...maybe bobby southworth, but that would be a hell of a boring fight.

    bit of a strange signing, i guess.
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    NCBRI wrote:
    What happened to Shamrock? I found a blurb somewhere on the net before the fight saying he wasn't going to be able to fight because of a bad cut? His brother wanted to take his place but they wouldn't let him?

    Glad I went to the Carolina/UCONN game last night instead of staying in to watch this mess.

    yeah, it actually turned out for the better, ncbri. :) i also read the rumours about frank wanting to step in. he hadn't gone through the medicals and what not, so they went with seth and scrapped seth's match vs. aaron rosa.

    the rest of the show was very good, and the main event turned out to be better because of the change, too! :D

    edit: to answer the question about ken...he claimed he was doing some light sparring and happened to catch a head butt in the process, opening a cut over his left eye. he needed stitches to repair the cut and he was, therefore, not cleared to fight.
  • nothingman44
    nothingman44 Posts: 1,496
    MMA is boring...

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