UFC 75 - London: Rampage Jackson Vs. Dan Henderson / Mirko Cro Cop Vs. Cheick Kongo

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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    cool video, as always, mook! :)

    but of course i had to watch the video of georges, too!

    here's a new GSP-ism for us!
    "I want to tank all the fan that stick to me..."
    :D

    ...but, of course! i was surprised at how many interviews they had on their site. i knew they were covering quite a bit more on sportsnet connected, but there is the MMA section of videos on the site i was not expecting to see.

    i didn't catch that GSP-ism, so "tanks" for pointing 'dis ting out. ;):D
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    just a thought ot two heading into the weekend...does anyone feel like there has not been a lot of talk about the match up between rampage and handerson? it seems like a fight of this magnitude would be receiving more press coverage or talk amongst MMA fans, but i'm not feeling the usual excitement in the lead up to the fight from most fans. anyone getting the same impression? do you feel like if chuck liddell had won the fight against rampage and was fighting dan henderson in a unification match that it would be a much bigger story? maybe the UFC fans have not had a chance to get to know rampage quite well enough yet, and dan henderson hasn't fought in the UFC since forever so there could be an unfamiliarity there as well.

    i wonder if UFC 74 and 75 being so close together has anything to do with it? could it be that after all the years of the complaining from fans about not having a true undisputed champion is being laid to rest in one weight division, and that since sometimes people like the focus on the negative more than the positive, they're just not talking about it as much?

    anyone have any thoughts? it could turn out to be a quick fight, a boring fight, but they match up so well that it should have all the makings of a very good fight and one that will show who is the LHW champion of the world. it's hard to see how it won't be a memorable match.

    did i ask enough questions in this post? :D i could be just talking out me arse here, of course...;):D anyway, just wondering if anyone was getting the same impression, or had a totally different perpective...
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    just a thought ot two heading into the weekend...does anyone feel like there has not been a lot of talk about the match up between rampage and handerson? it seems like a fight of this magnitude would be receiving more press coverage or talk amongst MMA fans, but i'm not feeling the usual excitement in the lead up to the fight from most fans. anyone getting the same impression? do you feel like if chuck liddell had won the fight against rampage and was fighting dan henderson in a unification match that it would be a much bigger story? maybe the UFC fans have not had a chance to get to know rampage quite well enough yet, and dan henderson hasn't fought in the UFC since forever so there could be an unfamiliarity there as well.

    i wonder if UFC 74 and 75 being so close together has anything to do with it? could it be that after all the years of the complaining from fans about not having a true undisputed champion is being laid to rest in one weight division, and that since sometimes people like the focus on the negative more than the positive, they're just not talking about it as much?

    anyone have any thoughts? it could turn out to be a quick fight, a boring fight, but they match up so well that it should have all the makings of a very good fight and one that will show who is the LHW champion of the world. it's hard to see how it won't be a memorable match.

    did i ask enough questions in this post? :D i could be just talking out me arse here, of course...;):D anyway, just wondering if anyone was getting the same impression, or had a totally different perpective...

    I agree with you that there has not been much hype to Rampage v. Henderson. At least nothing like there was for Liddell v. Rampage or Couture v. Gonzaga. Obviously to the devoted mma fan, Rampage and Henderson is a pretty big fight ... great match up, unification, etc. But to the casual Spike TV/UFC fan, neither fighter is particularly well known. Also I find it interesting that Rampage's fight title defense is a unification fight against a very good fighter. I do think it'll be great fight and will probably end suddenly with a TKO.

    I don't think it's an issue that UFC 75 is so close to UFC 74. Back in June there were several events right in a row that generated a lot of interest/hype. You would think that a free event on Spike would have a big following, especially with Hamill v. Bisping who are well known from TUF.
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    ReleasH wrote:
    I agree with you that there has not been much hype to Rampage v. Henderson. At least nothing like there was for Liddell v. Rampage or Couture v. Gonzaga. Obviously to the devoted mma fan, Rampage and Henderson is a pretty big fight ... great match up, unification, etc. But to the casual Spike TV/UFC fan, neither fighter is particularly well known. Also I find it interesting that Rampage's fight title defense is a unification fight against a very good fighter. I do think it'll be great fight and will probably end suddenly with a TKO.

    I don't think it's an issue that UFC 75 is so close to UFC 74. Back in June there were several events right in a row that generated a lot of interest/hype. You would think that a free event on Spike would have a big following, especially with Hamill v. Bisping who are well known from TUF.

    as always, i appreciate your input, releash. :) i was wondering if y'all were getting the same impression.

    i guess maybe we may have to wait and see when the ratings come back how much of that following tunes in on saturday. i'm guessing it will be a fair amount.

    countdown show on tonight too. :)
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    as always, i appreciate your input, releash. :) i was wondering if y'all were getting the same impression.

    i guess maybe we may have to wait and see when the ratings come back how much of that following tunes in on saturday. i'm guessing it will be a fair amount.

    countdown show on tonight too. :)

    THANKS for the reminder mookie!! I had completely forgotten about the countdown show. :D
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    good countdown show. it was worth it just to hear mirko say "shit happens" when talking about his last fight. :D i might be leaning back to cro cop in the fight on saturday...don't know what's going to happen, but i'm getting excited thinking about it!
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    good countdown show. it was worth it just to hear mirko say "shit happens" when talking about his last fight. :D i might be leaning back to cro cop in the fight on saturday...don't know what's going to happen, but i'm getting excited thinking about it!

    dobro! dobro! i knew you'd come back to your senses, mookie! :D

    ReleasH wrote:
    I don't think it's an issue that UFC 75 is so close to UFC 74. Back in June there were several events right in a row that generated a lot of interest/hype. You would think that a free event on Spike would have a big following, especially with Hamill v. Bisping who are well known from TUF.

    i'm not so sure about that.... i was out to dinner with a friend the other night, and i mentioned that UFC 75 was on this saturday, and he said "Really? wasn't one of those things just on?", kinda with a screwy look on his face... :) i don't think people are expecting there to be two event so close together... and also there hasn't been a lot of advertising... i remember for the Ortiz/Liddel fight a while back, there were posters up everywhere and everything... hmmm.... strange.
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    good countdown show. it was worth it just to hear mirko say "shit happens" when talking about his last fight. :D i might be leaning back to cro cop in the fight on saturday...don't know what's going to happen, but i'm getting excited thinking about it!

    I actually didn't think it was that great of a countdown show. I expected more analysis of rampage and henderson. did you see how small Henderson's striking trainer was? I hope he sparring with some guys closer to rampage's size too.

    and they kept going over and over mirko's loss to gonzaga. I think it is impt to emphasize how that fight will affect mirko's mental game, but I would have liked to have seen more about his training for this fight. he started training in a cage and working elbows but they didn't cover much else.

    how was the coverage of hamill v. bisping? I fell asleep before it came on, although I did see that bisping was training at big bear with rampage.
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    i'm not so sure about that.... i was out to dinner with a friend the other night, and i mentioned that UFC 75 was on this saturday, and he said "Really? wasn't one of those things just on?", kinda with a screwy look on his face... :) i don't think people are expecting there to be two event so close together... and also there hasn't been a lot of advertising... i remember for the Ortiz/Liddel fight a while back, there were posters up everywhere and everything... hmmm.... strange.
    I guess I could understand confusion if there were two PPV events on so close to each other, but since UFC 75 is free, i'm not complaining. I do agree with you about the advertising though.
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    ReleasH wrote:
    I actually didn't think it was that great of a countdown show. I expected more analysis of rampage and henderson. did you see how small Henderson's striking trainer was? I hope he sparring with some guys closer to rampage's size too.

    and they kept going over and over mirko's loss to gonzaga. I think it is impt to emphasize how that fight will affect mirko's mental game, but I would have liked to have seen more about his training for this fight. he started training in a cage and working elbows but they didn't cover much else.

    how was the coverage of hamill v. bisping? I fell asleep before it came on, although I did see that bisping was training at big bear with rampage.

    it was a good countdown show dammit! :D haha

    yeah, dan has the small trainer and quinton has the, shall we say, slighty more rotund trainer in juanito. ;) as far as the bisping and hammill coverage goes, it was mostly about their rivalry on the show and settling who may have come out on top of tuf 3 if matt had been healthy. juanito says they have a surprise for matt, and matt says he plans to take bisping down and ground and pound him. he also opened his own facility.

    sokoudjou was one of the guys i saw dan sparring with so he would be a good guy for dan to train with in terms of size, strength, ko power, and he could probabaly mimic quinton's style somewhat.

    looks like kongo has gone to train his wrestling, which is a good thing, but i don't think he'll need it too much in this fight. with mirko now training in the cage i'm sure he's developed some circling techniques to escape the larger fighter against the cage. i would have liked to have seen some more of that too. i was happy to hear mirko say that he was done talking about the last fight, but you're right...they harped on it, of course.

    looking forward to seeing the reactions for the fighters later on when the weigh-ins are posted. :)

    edit: oops, getting ahead of myself thinking it was friday, and not thursday...
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    it was a good countdown show dammit! :D haha
    .
    okay I am giving the countdown show another chance tonight ;)
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    yup, still not a great countdown show mookie ;). and no all access bisping or henderson?

    will you let me know what happens at the weigh-ins tomorrow? thanks in advance :D
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    well, i'm just waking from my rip van winkle-esque slumber here, so i'm going to go watch the highlights on the UFC page. it looks like everyone made weight, and cro cop came in at a svelt 220 and looks to be in fantastic shape physically. kongo towers over him in the picture i saw, though. could be kongo's hat, possibly. ;)

    you took the words right out of my mouth with the all access show, releash. after i watched the countdown again, i was thinking how nice it would have been to have a special on somone new this time...henderson, bisping, cro cop (if he'd ever do it! :)). i'm surprised they were able to get as much out of him as they did.

    let's get on it...temecula's not that far to drive, right?! :D ...zagreb...???

    ...and can i make a post without a spelling error...no, i cannot...
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    So I just got home and was flipping through channels ... Spike is replaying UFC 70 at 8 pm central time. Guess I know what I'm doing for the rest of the night now. :D

    Happy everyone made weight ... apparently Rampage wore tangerine underwear at his weigh in! :p
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    ReleasH wrote:
    So I just got home and was flipping through channels ... Spike is replaying UFC 70 at 8 pm central time. Guess I know what I'm doing for the rest of the night now. :D

    Happy everyone made weight ... apparently Rampage wore tangerine underwear at his weigh in! :p

    :D

    "fruity drawers", as joe rogan referred to them. it looked like dan was having a hard time keeping a straight face.

    UFC 70, eh? i forgot again...you are better than a tivo, my friend! :)
  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    :D

    "fruity drawers", as joe rogan referred to them. it looked like dan was having a hard time keeping a straight face.

    UFC 70, eh? i forgot again...you are better than a tivo, my friend! :)

    LMAO!!! Joe Rogan cracks me up. I think I would have a hard time keeping a straight face too!

    Happy to be your personal ufc tivo, my friend! that might be the nicest thing anyone has said to me all week!!
  • cropdustress
    cropdustress Posts: 4,339
    Hey, Tim. Long time no write :D

    You gonna watch Cro Cop tomorrow? Think I might ;)
    "I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened"
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    hey y'all! :p

    was pleased to find UFC 70 on tonight! great way to wind down after a long week, and a tough yoga class... :D
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    let's get on it...temecula's not that far to drive, right?! :D ...zagreb...???

    i'm in!!! i wanna go back to Croatia so bad! :o:)
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    cropdustress wrote:
    Hey, Tim. Long time no write :D

    You gonna watch Cro Cop tomorrow? Think I might ;)

    no spoilers this time, ms. cro crop! :p:D
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~

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