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Luigi Thirty posted:So I'm still watching these old UFCs and uh, Tank Abbott. Please give me the summary of Tank Abbott and his homemade fighting style named after a video game. Believe it or not he had an amateur wrestling background. His fighting style wasn't as good as WARRIOR TRAINING either. It's a shame people have to watch UFC 9 to experience WARRIOR TRAINING but it is the high point of the UFC.
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Can someone find me a video of Tank Abbot singing badly in WCW? It truly is the highlight of that man's career.
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MassRafTer posted:Believe it or not he had an amateur wrestling background. I was surprised that he actually wrestled with that Russian dude for like 15 minutes before getting submitted. Just when you thought Joesondo (a fighting discipline based on committing murder and carrying crosses around) was the peak.
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Campbell MacLaren revealed on twitter that the production team just invented PIT FIGHTING because they wanted something that sounded slightly more formal than DRUNK GUY FROM THE BEACH. Tank Abbot was also the first fighter to wear two gloves in the UFC.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Here you go http://tinyurl.com/nz85kmy God damnit
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Mr. Nice! posted:Here you go http://tinyurl.com/nz85kmy Great job
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Captain Log posted:I'm trying to track down a video I had forever that the link eventually went bad on. It was a collage of the pre Wand Rampage two talk up followed by the fight highlights shot put together in an epic way with an eventual multi color effect kicking on when Wand started lighting Rampage up with knees. I loved the video so much it even took me literally over a year to track down the song that was playing, which was Fat City by Muggs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY7YmV_ib5I
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Are heel hooks effective in MMA? I thought you could just sit up and blast someone in teh face.
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EmmyOk posted:Are heel hooks effective in MMA? I thought you could just sit up and blast someone in teh face. Well, Bas Rutten don't believe in heel hooks, I think. But then he doesn't have knees anymore either, so I'm not sure how trustworthy he is.
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EmmyOk posted:Are heel hooks effective in MMA? I thought you could just sit up and blast someone in teh face. Heel hooks work, but its a high risk move. If it works, the dude should tap quick. If it doesn't work, you have just put yourself in a really bad position. In my opinion, fighters should not go for heel hooks unless they find themselves already in a position to take it or their name is Imanari.
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EmmyOk posted:Are heel hooks effective in MMA? I thought you could just sit up and blast someone in teh face. rousimar palhares got fired from the UFC because he was winning too quickly with them, and his opponents wouldn't quit whining about it
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What you've started to see as more people who actually have a complete leglock game is people going for the heelhook from the bottom, and then when people stand and turn to defend it, use the space they create to get back to their feet.
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DekeThornton posted:Well, Bas Rutten don't believe in heel hooks, I think. But then he doesn't have knees anymore either, so I'm not sure how trustworthy he is. That's straight ankle locks, which bas claims will only cause pain and not do damage, which they most certainly will
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fatherdog posted:What you've started to see as more people who actually have a complete leglock game is people going for the heelhook from the bottom, and then when people stand and turn to defend it, use the space they create to get back to their feet. This is a good point which I didn't consider. I was thinking mostly of people that would drop back from top position for a heal hook.
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fatherdog posted:What you've started to see as more people who actually have a complete leglock game is people going for the heelhook from the bottom, and then when people stand and turn to defend it, use the space they create to get back to their feet. Crocop of all people started doing this
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Captain Log posted:God damnit Biafraid posted:Great job It never goes out of style.
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What are some great/funny examples of fighters refusing to fight during a match? Kalib Starnes running in a circle all fight at UFC 83 or Anderson Silva riding his invisible bicycle at UFC 112 both come to mind as the funniest examples to me. The first couple minutes of Silva vs Diaz too.
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projecthalaxy posted:What are some great/funny examples of fighters refusing to fight during a match? Kalib Starnes running in a circle all fight at UFC 83 or Anderson Silva riding his invisible bicycle at UFC 112 both come to mind as the funniest examples to me. The first couple minutes of Silva vs Diaz too. Not really a refusal to fight but Chris Horodecki attempted to casually jog away from Anthony Njokuani at WEC 45 and the result was both great and funny.
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projecthalaxy posted:What are some great/funny examples of fighters refusing to fight during a match? Kalib Starnes running in a circle all fight at UFC 83 or Anderson Silva riding his invisible bicycle at UFC 112 both come to mind as the funniest examples to me. The first couple minutes of Silva vs Diaz too. Nick Serra lost a fight because he refused to stand up from the buttscoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--kqaR4QAHE Conversely, Eddie Alvarez furiously circled away from Aoki's buttscooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awh8P4HW3Kk
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projecthalaxy posted:What are some great/funny examples of fighters refusing to fight during a match? Kalib Starnes running in a circle all fight at UFC 83 or Anderson Silva riding his invisible bicycle at UFC 112 both come to mind as the funniest examples to me. The first couple minutes of Silva vs Diaz too. trevor berbick (rip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru8DzzSBq2s also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22wYrVmj4Tk
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Triticum Guzzler posted:trevor berbick (rip) Those were both amazing. Did nobody tell Trevor Berbick the rules?
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Also worth noting - Yoshiaki Yatsu vs Gary Goodridge, where Yatsu spends twenty minutes attempting the "palm on opponent's forehead" defense from third grade.
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This is loving ancient history but I've been watching the old UFCs and Don Frye won the Ultimate Ultimate and was supposed to fight for the super title in 12 but it was Coleman instead and I didn't hear it explained why on the broadcast. Can anyone remember why that was? Did he not want to fight Severn? Vitor Belfort just showed up too, pretty cool that a guy from that far back is still fighting now. He totally ran through everyone in the tournament too. After awhile watching these old ones in a row you sort of forget how comparatively garbage these guys were until you see a modern fight and then go... oh, right the dudes fighting now are really insanely loving good at fighting. I'm 12 UFCs in and I don't think I've seen even a single attempt at a proper headkick, even by the dudes billing themselves as 4th degree blackbelts in Tae Kwon Do, Karate and Savate who seem mostly to just windmill at people before getting taken down. Where I'm at now it seems like wrestlers have pretty much taken over and no one seems to have any loving clue how to deal with them. Also young Bruce Buffer kind of sucks but is a million times better than the Goins dude he replaced, I think I could probably have done a better job of announcing than him.
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Just wait for the headkick it makes a big debut
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Kuno posted:Where I'm at now it seems like wrestlers have pretty much taken over and no one seems to have any loving clue how to deal with them. you can pretty much skip to circa ufc 70 now
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Dangersim posted:Just wait for the headkick it makes a big debut lol yeah also ufc 17 owns dont skip to 70!!!
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One enjoyable aspect of the UFC 12-35 era is that you can see the specific fights that led to specific points in the unified rules. Watch Militech-Burnet and see if you can guess which rule came from that fight!
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I know it's not a head kick, but I think that push kick from Pat Smith on Moncayo at UFC 6 right at the beginning of the fight is still one of the best kicks I've seen in competition. 1996 was Maurice Smith cracking Silveira with a huge headkick, but that was outside UFC.
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Coleman got kicked to death pretty early on IIRC.
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Gordeau kicked Teila Tuli in the mouth so hard that he fought the rest of the night with teeth embedded in his foot, but Tuli was on his knees at that point
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Kuno posted:This is loving ancient history but I've been watching the old UFCs and Don Frye won the Ultimate Ultimate and was supposed to fight for the super title in 12 but it was Coleman instead and I didn't hear it explained why on the broadcast. Can anyone remember why that was? Did he not want to fight Severn? Don't worry that head kick is coming. When you least expect it too.
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CommonShore posted:Campbell MacLaren revealed on twitter that the production team just invented PIT FIGHTING because they wanted something that sounded slightly more formal than DRUNK GUY FROM THE BEACH. I've read this before but it isn't true, its some dude from UFC 4 I think. I'll go watch it and find out. e: Melton Bowen  Count Roland fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Jul 9, 2015 |
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Is adding a second "n" to McGregor's name the new phantom "h" people were giving Ronda?
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-Atom- posted:Is adding a second "n" to McGregor's name the new phantom "h" people were giving Ronda? I'm a Conor as well and I had students call me Connor in emails despite having to type in my email address which has my name spelled correctly in it. It is a depressing phenomenon
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EmmyOk posted:I'm a Conor as well and I had students call me Connor in emails despite having to type in my email address which has my name spelled correctly in it. It is a depressing phenomenon haha ya, i get genuinely depressed when people use another common spelling of a common name too
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fatherdog posted:What you've started to see as more people who actually have a complete leglock game is people going for the heelhook from the bottom, and then when people stand and turn to defend it, use the space they create to get back to their feet. Pickett/Almeida 1 just had a great example of that
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So Chad said it's not so much that Conor hits very hard as it is he has great accuracy. What exactly does he mean by this? Does he just mean getting through guard or does he mean particular parts of the head?
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EmmyOk posted:So Chad said it's not so much that Conor hits very hard as it is he has great accuracy. What exactly does he mean by this? Does he just mean getting through guard or does he mean particular parts of the head? I guess it's sort of a combination of both. Some guys just have a brilliant knack for finding their opponent's chin, no matter where it moves and even if they're off balance mid-combo. Some guys will whiff a lot. Conor connects clean a hell of a lot of the time, and it's a function of both. This is a really good recent example of accuracy from a rangy puncher: 
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EmmyOk posted:So Chad said it's not so much that Conor hits very hard as it is he has great accuracy. What exactly does he mean by this? Does he just mean getting through guard or does he mean particular parts of the head? Getting hit in the chin is how you get knocked out, if you watch the replay conor jabbed to find his range then made an angle as chad was circling off the cage (away from conors power hand but conor is so long he can still throw that left straight across his body) and hit chad right on the chin from the exact right angle with the exact right timing that chad didmt see it coming and thus couldnt roll with it or brace for it
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Triticum Guzzler posted:I guess it's sort of a combination of both. Some guys just have a brilliant knack for finding their opponent's chin, no matter where it moves and even if they're off balance mid-combo. Some guys will whiff a lot. Conor connects clean a hell of a lot of the time, and it's a function of both. This is a really good recent example of accuracy from a rangy puncher: I haven't watched Bellator in ages, but that hairline looks very familiar. Is that THE BARN CAT?
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