Ultimate Fighting

[Laxergirl]

does anyone else like watching this? i usually watch it when it comes on TV and ive seen some of my guy friends dvds. i love watching it! i dont really know that much about it but i do know some of the big names. i know one of our memembers here has a name of a fighter (royce gracie) as there screen name thing. my favorite guy is the iceman, chuck liddell. he is the man! i also like whoever is fighting tito ortiz, haha.

PS- Its prolly weird that im a girl and i like watching UF and all that but :crazy:

[middieman1]

I don't really watch it but my friends older brother fights in it but hes not on TV.

[roycegracie47]

Personally, I'm more of a Pride FC fan, as you get to see more international fighters instead of guys who just trained in either South Beach FL, Huntington Beach CA or Middle of Nowhere Iowa. I actually don't like most of the American fighters, some are good, but the majority of the newest crop come off as meat heads in my opinion.

Guys I like to watch are Rumino Sato, "Mach" Sakurai, Kazushi "The Gracie Killer" Sakuraba, Igor Vovchancin, any old Bas Rutten fights, Wanderlei Silva, Chuck Lidell, I love to laugh at old Tank Abbot fight (including his brief stint in WCW, priceless) and of course Royce and Renzo Gracie (although watching Sakuraba-sama destroy their entire family is always good).For K-1 I like Mirko "CroCop" Filopovich, Ernesto Hoost, Big Bob Sapp (who doesn't really) and Peter "The Lumberjack" Aerts.

A good sight for MMA (inclueds Pride, UFC, King of the Cage, K-1 etc.) is www.sherdog.com
They have tons of highlight reels

[shiftylax]

Oh, man - I love MMA. UFC is great, Matt hughes is the biggest badass I have ever seen. He was fighting Frank Trigg and Trigg kneed him in the nuts and Hughes just went crazy. He didn't drop like a normal guy he just got enraged and choked Trigg out. Sick fight. Pride is OK, I like the cage better. No where to run.

[Superman]

oh man i was watching UFC one time and this guy got put in an ankle submission hold and his whole ankle snapped.... it was so nasty

[roycegracie47]

A personal favorite was the Pride match between Kazushi Sakuraba v. Renzo Gracie. Kazushi pulled a standing kimura taking them both to the mat, forcing Renzo to tap. When Renzo got up, it became clear Sakuraba had disclocated Renzo's arm at the elbow as it was pointing in the other direction. Renzo simply looked at it, then in one motion snapped it back into place like nothing happened so he could shake Sakuraba's hand.


Ken Shamrock's comeback fight at the same Pride was also a pretty memorable match as he'd been away from MMA and Wrestling for quite some time.

[Laxergirl]

i definately love matt hughes too, no one can touch him in his division. and how can you not love ken shamrock? the world's most dangerous man most definately! did anyone watch that series on spike tv or whatever that was called like ultimate fighter and it was like 16 guys trying to get into the UFC? i liked one of the guys who won, his name was diego sanchez. the other guys name was like forrest griffen or something like that. has anyone heard anything about these guys since (like have they fought in anything yet?)

[roycegracie47]

i definately love matt hughes too, no one can touch him in his division. and how can you not love ken shamrock? the world's most dangerous man most definately! did anyone watch that series on spike tv or whatever that was called like ultimate fighter and it was like 16 guys trying to get into the UFC? i liked one of the guys who won, his name was diego sanchez. the other guys name was like forrest griffen or something like that. has anyone heard anything about these guys since (like have they fought in anything yet?)


Didn't really watch the show. Saw maybe five minutes and enough commercials for me to fall back on hatred of meatheads (though not meatwads). While I don't discount their dedication of work ethic, but as a martial artist with many years of teaching under my belt, these guys come of as the guys I would not want in my class, and the stereotypicla guy I teach to avoid in self defense.

Matt Hughes also falls under the categorey of the few Americans I happen to like.

[shiftylax]

Yeah, actually the whole cast fought on the championship night, but only the championship bouts were telelvised. To promote the new seaosn of TUF, Spike is showing the unaired fights in a replay before the premiere. I don't want to spoil anything, but Swick wins his fight in less than 30 seconds against one of the no name guys on the show. If you go to Ufc.tv they have all of the info and Spike should start promoting it soon as it is premieiring in less than a month. Griffin won his first PPV fight. Also, I second the recommendation of www.sherdog.com - best MMa site out there.

[bloodilax977]

I love UFC. Boxing kick-boxing and wrestling all in one. and no pads. it's great stuff. CHUCK LIDDEL RULES

[roycegracie47]

I love UFC. Boxing kick-boxing and wrestling all in one. and no pads. it's great stuff. CHUCK LIDDEL RULES
Bit more complicated than that. It started out as the best representatives from different types of fighting , and billed as such to see which martial art would come out on top. Boxer v. Karate, Greco-Roman v. Muay Thai, Vale Tudo v. Pancrase, BJJ v. Jeet Kun Do etc. It wasn't until UFC3 that this changed. The reasons came in UFC 2 when 98 lb weakling Royce Gracie came in and destroyed every opponent on his way to the title. People took that as a mislead that BJJ and Vale Tudo were the perfect arts to mast er to get through the tourney (but any student of the Jeet Kun Do philosophy will tell you the same thing we TLFers say about perfect head/stringing/shaft ?s: it's all preference and what works best for your fighting style). So as fighters began training for the the third competition, thet all began figureing out how to mix striking with grappling to great effect, you could no longer be a student of one style and escape unscathed (with the exception of Royce who went on to get another couple belts). And when did anyone ever wear pads aside from on the gloves and a fighter's cup??

[Middie_Hero19]

I like chuck lidel and tito ortiz. Have you guys seen them fight eachother? Totaly awesome.

[Laxergirl]

hell yes. and the iceman kicked tito's *** :clap:
tito :dummy: chuck liddell :love:

[ShermanLax607]

yea i watch that... high channels late at night on HD, great stuff on the submissions and what not

i did see tito get beat, but it wasnt really a 'whooping' in my eyes

[bloodilax977]

By pads i meant gloves cuz gloves soften the impact a ton. But the whole story thing is pretty cool. I never knew that. but chuck liddel still rules. and tito's okay.

[Middie_Hero19]

What do you mean gloves soften the impact a ton???????? THat is wrong. Havent you seen 1-3 punch knock outs on the ufc? They had to start using gloves because of so many fighters breaking fingers and hands in the middle of a fight.

[roycegracie47]

Trust me, grappling gloves do nothing to soften the impact, well maybe some do, but the ones I own are pretty hard. Enough padding to protect my knuckles, whilst giving the other guy no protection from my knuckles...but then again, it's not my knuckles he should be worrying about, it's how much I will make him resemble a pretzel.