Casey Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 That Nasukawa kick was crazy and awesome at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Random RIZIN 10 notes: The show drew 7,910 fans which is a slight increase from the 7,732 from the last Fukuoka, Japan event. Tenshin requested a kickboxing tournament and Sakikabara said there's plans to possibly to start an 8 man kickboxing tournament in July with Tenshin, Kyoji and Taiga as potential participant. Fighters from Brazil, Europe, America and China are expected to participate. Semi finals in September and finals on NYE. It looks like Murata suffered a broken orbital bone. Jairzinho's yellow card was because he had cream rubbed on his body. Unsure if a potential Kanna Asakura and RENA rematch at the moment. Sakakibara praised Nunes, Kape and Garcia for their performances which means they should get an offer to return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Hope Lanchana Green is brought back as well, being a late replacement good to see her, she was my favorite on that Ultimate Fighter season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Daron Cruickshank walked out to Real American yesterday and it was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 On 5/7/2018 at 3:34 AM, Edwin said: Random RIZIN 10 notes: The show drew 7,910 fans which is a slight increase from the 7,732 from the last Fukuoka, Japan event. Very different times of the year, which is interesting. I guess they have a big enough core audience in Fukuoka since the last day of Golden Week is usually the "u-turn" day when lots of people are on the road traveling home. New Japan uses the draw of the Hakata Dontaku (2 million people coming into the city) to get at least some of their audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 I get that Mo is substantially smaller than Bader, but getting knocked on your ass by a Ryan Bader jab at the beginning of the fight and never recovering should lead to some big career decisions being made. Not a good look. Also, this: Guy wanted to one-up Brock Lesnar's spin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share Posted May 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Oyaji said: I get that Mo is substantially smaller than Bader, but getting knocked on your ass by a Ryan Bader jab at the beginning of the fight and never recovering should lead to some big career decisions being made. Not a good look. Also, this: Guy wanted to one-up Brock Lesnar's spin. The Bader-Mo fight and the HBO main event of Sadam Ali getting squashed by relatively unknown Jaime Munguia (between that and Linares losing, not a good night for Oscar De La Hoya) ended around the same time. I sent a text to our old moderator sprewellrimz who agreed that it's time for Mo to retire and probably coach wrestling. His knees have been shot, and he spent most of his career competing in the wrong weight classes. Bader and Phil Davis exposed that the Bellator LHW division is just pure garbage, but it's not like we all didn't know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 I have no idea what to think about this David Rickels vs Michael Venom Page fight. I have been sick of Rickels for years as I just don't think he is that good but has a goofy gimmick that people seem to like. MVP has this incredible reputation of being great but I don't know if I have ever see him against a legit challenger. All this fight is Page just dancing around embarrassing Rickels getting a few good shots in. Then hit clocks him and busts him open bad and he just fucking quit. I mean maybe he has a broken nose or something but it looked like he was just sick of Page's goofiness and just had it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 Did no one else bother watching The Angel of Death demolish Thanh Le in less than three minutes? Aguilar is a BLD (bad little dude). He needs to get called up to UFC stat, he has nothing left to prove in LFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 26, 2018 Author Share Posted May 26, 2018 2 hours ago, OSJ said: Did no one else bother watching The Angel of Death demolish Thanh Le in less than three minutes? Aguilar is a BLD (bad little dude). He needs to get called up to UFC stat, he has nothing left to prove in LFA. I suspect he will be on the Contender series at the very least seeing as Thanh Le already had a fight last season and was probably going to make another appearance this upcoming season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Bellator 200 was a great show. Hopefully MVP will set up in competition in his next fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Jiri Prochazka vs. Bruno Cappelozza, Saori Ishioka vs. Miyuu Yamamoto, Kanna Asakura vs. RENA II and Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Hiromasa Ogikubo have already been announced for RIZIN 11 on July 29. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 I DVR'd Glory 54 yesterday and boy do I want Rico Verhoeven to do MMA while he is still in his prime. Against HW kickboxers, he can just sleepwalk his way to a 50-45 decision. It is a damn shame no one will offer him the money to do it. This is how I know Viacom isn't that serious about Bellator competing with the UFC. Verhoeven could walk in and be their HW champion for both MMA and kickboxing and sell out large arenas in the Netherlands and other places in Western Europe. He wouldn't be their first ever homegrown draw since he has been a kickboxer forever but he would be a better alternative than Chael and Fedor seeing as he still in his 20s. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 PFL 1 NYC was last night Alex Nicholson with a nasty flying Knee to win in the 2nd round . Palmer won by Submission in the 2nd round and Harrison won the TV main event by DEC. PFL 2 is in 2 weeks from Chicago the 21st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 DVR'd it and watched it after work. Nicholson was getting his ass whooped before that flying knee. I get that that they only have certain number of fights they can throw on TV but the presentation (especially w/ Bas and Todd Harris still there) feels like WSOF just with a more convoluted concept mixed with those early Bellator cards with random main events with fighters loosely rooted in Latin America. Instead of doing six weight classes, I would have done two or three tops. If you can only do four fights on TV and all the rest of the fights have to be on Facebook or wherever with clips being shown on the broadcast later on, it makes it even more difficult to follow along. You had Steven Siler and Alexandre de Almeida get six points each but they show Lance Palmer, Timur Valiev, and Andre Harrison on the broadcast since they're more notable in terms of their relationship with the promotion under its former name. The rules kinda make sense (more pts for a faster finish), but if you have favoritism towards who makes the broadcast due to that reason, it's going to be stupid when certain fighters have mediocre performances. Andre Harrison is clearly the best fighter on the card (probably the whole promotion in terms of potential), the hometown guy, and the guy PFL is most invested in the wake of the mass exodus of notable ex WSOF fighters. So it also makes sense he is in the main event. My question is why is he matched up with a former UFC fighter who never made it past the prelims on those international Fight Pass card. You're spending all this money on these tournaments and one of the participants in the main event of the first ever card to present this concept is JUMABIEKE TUERXUN, a man won a grand total of zero UFC fights (0-3) in his one year with the promotion. What? I mean Harrison almost did get him out of there, but even Couture noted at the end the fight was sorta boring when Harrison just couldn't massacre him on the feet and Tuerxun was in survival mode while Harrison was in his guard. Keep in mind...this is the MAIN EVENT on the FIRST show of their inaugural season. This ain't a random prelim fight where the crowd is just starting to trickle in like some UFC card in Vegas. Yet, two guys who won in the prelims off TV where three points ahead of Harrison on the leaderboard. I mean this is no fault of Harrison at all. He looked good, and he isn't a big finisher anyway. PFL just put him in a really bad spot. Not only did they pick a no name guy to face him, they picked one who was super tough, just fought twelve days earlier, and consequently, seemed to only be there for a paycheck. So the impressive finish they were betting on to skyrocket Harrison didn't happen and the end of the show was super anticlimactic. Also, Bas Rutten may be one of the worst post fight interviewers of all time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 We almost got a bonafide Dragon Sleeper in one of the CES matches tonight. Miletich said he wouldn't want to use that in a fight for fear of paralyzing somebody. Last three fights were all solid and the sudden finish in the third of the main was pretty out of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 PFL #2 O'Connell did commentary for several of the prelims fights then got rocked in the 1st round but was able to recover then win by stoppage in the 2nd round. High vs. Escudero ended in the controversy with the ref staying High lost by submission but High strongly protesting then storming around ringside after the fight. Kayla Harrison won her debut and just ran thru her opponent with her Judo Foster was losing to Nijem then he hit a Bicycle knee after a spin kick missed to win via ground and pound after it landed. Brooks won the Main event by DEC against Firmino PFL #3 in 2 weeks from Washington DC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Ilima Lei is so great. Love watching her fight. Definitely hope to see more of Alejandra as well. Valerie/Kristina was pretty fun stuff too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Macfarlane is always a joy to watch and looked amazing against a super tough opponent. Lara is super tough and only 23 so she has a crazy amount of time to grow plus going to team Grasso should improve her stand up. She can easily always stay around the time of the division and work her way to another title shot or join UFC division down the road. Letourneau/Williams was a great fight and Letourneau vs. Macfarlane in Hawaii will be amazing if it happens. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 If you missed it on Thursday, here is video of Jake Shields getting welcomed to the Terrordome by the son of his former two-time opponent Ray Cooper III. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Watched that this morning now Shields has to win his 2nd fight to make the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Budd looked way better in this fight then in her last fight however as pointed out by Chael her opponent's game plan was confusing. Before anyone watches Bellator 202 be warned the replays of Dantas vs. McDonald has a nasty injury in the fight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Agreed thought Budd looked fantastic all around last night, great victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Bellator Kickboxing has some good fights but Bellator 203 was a better show with 4 1st round finishes and a great main event plus it only last 2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 PFL #4 5 fights 4 finishes plus Harrison winning by DEC. If the seeds hold Harrison will face Palmer in the Semi Finals. The opening fight with Nicholson was the best fight because of the 2nd round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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