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Hi, you may have noticed the relative paucity of posts around here. I’m going to officially put the blog on hold while I figure out what to do next. I am thinking about launching a dedicated MMA Web site, but it will take a little time to get everything straightened out. For now, you can [...]
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Check out my recap of WEC 44 over at MMADogma!
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Almost everyone watching UFC 104’s main event except the judges saw Mauricio “Shogun” Rua win the light heavyweight title from Lyoto Machida. When Bruce Buffer announced the decision, the arena showered down boos and the Internet erupted with howls of “MMA is rigged!” This is especially troublesome because it says that even fans that watch [...]
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Finally, a new blog post? No, finally a decent fight on The Ultimate Fighter! Finally, a punch thrown in anger, with bad intentions! Both of those guys came to scrap. Schoonover landed the best combination this season up against the cage, and Jensen extracted himself from a guaranteed ambulance ride with a decent takedown and [...]
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Can we please dispense with the styles announcement at the beginning of the fight? “Fighting out of the blue corner, this man is a freestyle fighter/mixed martial artist/muay Thai fighter, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu expert and wrestler…” Hi, welcome to 2009, where everyone does everything and if you don’t crosstrain, you’re getting your ass kicked. Case [...]
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Pretty good night. Biggest surprise to me was Tyson Griffin. I was expecting a ground fight out of him and Franca, but I was shocked at how good Griffin’s muay Thai was. His footwork was excellent, and that move where he would kick under the check to tag the far leg was really savvy. Just [...]
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With Jackson-Evans postponed while Rampage films The A-Team, much has been made of fighters’ roles in movies lately (for instance). It’s time for me to weigh in, and in typical noncommittal fashion, I am noncommittal. Let’s take a look at the pluses: First, as I said in an earlier post, almost anything that gets MMA [...]
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There is an excellent article by Luke Thomas over at Sherdog that discusses Chuck Liddell on Dancing with the Stars. It was eye-opening for me because I was unaware that people had objections. I like this for the same reason I’m a fan of Kimbo Slice: just about anything, save serious injury or death in [...]
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I have kind of a bad temper because, well, I’m kind of a jerk. I got my laptop back from the manufacturer today; I had to send it back because something on the keyboard was messed up. So I got it back and it worked fine…for about ten seconds, until I plugged the external keyboard [...]
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A lot of fans have been talking trash about Forrest Griffin’s performance and subsequent hasty exit from the ring after his fight with Anderson Silva. I see the word “coward” bandied about, and the phrase “A real man wouldn’t do that.” To which I say: How dare you judge a fighter’s heart? What do you [...]
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