The MMA Thread
Since there's a SE Boxing Thread that evolved out of the PBF/Pac abortion, I thought we should have a SE MMA Thread as well. Threads for individual events don't do as well, they don't get too much traffic unless it's a huge fight, and they usually die shortly afterwards, leaving no place to talk/gossip/whatever about MMA inbetween big fight cards.
So here's the SE MMA Thread. Think of it as Threadzilla for MMA.
Upcoming events:
4/10
UFC 112 from Abu Dhabi
Anderson Silva vs. Demian Maia
BJ Penn vs. Frankie Edgar
Matt Hughes vs. Renzo Gracie
4/17
Strikeforce: Nashville
Dan Henderson vs. Jake Shields
Shinya Aoki vs. Gilbert Melendez
Gegard Mousasi vs. Muhammed 'King Mo' Lawal
4/24
WEC 48 on PPV
Jose Aldo vs. Urijah Faber
Ben Henderson vs. Donald Cerrone
Mike Brown vs. Manvel Gamburyan
5/8
UFC 113 from Quebec
Lyoto Machida vs. Shogun Rua
Josh Koscheck vs. Paul Daley
Kimbo Slice vs. Matt Mitrione
Patrick Cote vs. Alan Belcher
5/29 - Two events
UFC 114 From Las Vegas
Rampage Jackson vs. Rashad Evans
Forrest Griffin vs. Antonio Rogerio 'Lil Nog' Nogueira
Michael Bisping vs. Dan Miller
ALSO
DREAM 14
Not a lot of announced matchups for this card yet. So far
Nick Diaz vs. Hayato Sakurai
LHW GP with possible participants
Babalu Sobral
Gegard Mousasi
Sokoudjou
Also rumored to be on the card
Marius Zaromskis
Joachim Hansen
Current Hot Topics in MMA:
*UFC 112 Taking place in Abu Dhabi, the first UFC outside the 'western world' in a longtime.
*Fedor to the UFC? Again? Kevin Iole says it's more likely than ev...Dana says 'Fedor has become my obsession...
*Also in the link above, Dana promises to bring a UFC to the troops in Afghanistan, and has his eyes on a show in China.
*TUF 11 is underway
*James Toney has signed with the UFC, first opponent still unknown
O'Malley getting outwrestled in a rout was the opposite of the decision UFC wanted.
if belal and merab are the future of the UFC, they may have to look at some rule changes
if bones retires after stipe, they won't have 1 US born champ
could see omalley just moving up to 145 and fighting guys like max, volk to make money...doubt he can get that much better grappling to beat merab/usman anytime soon
Wrestling is back.
Which sucks cause it is by far the most boring mma.
What was the deal with Herb in the main event. Yelling at everyone lol.
That was fine.
But Herb yelling work at the dude when he was on top was weird.
Was it this thread when someone said "they should never stand them up"?
Cause that's one of the jew Joe Rogan points I agree with.
If a dude can lay on you for 25 mins and you can't get up then tough **** that's a loss.
yeah herb was telling them to keep working when merab was circling omalley up 3-1 or 4-0 in the 5th like he knew omalley losing was bad for the brand as well
bizarre stuff from him
if belal and merab are the future of the UFC, they may have to look at some rule changes
if bones retires after stipe, they won't have 1 US born champ
could see omalley just moving up to 145 and fighting guys like max, volk to make money...doubt he can get that much better grappling to beat merab/usman anytime soon
Every round starts on the feet, no kicks or knees to the head are allowed against a grounded opponent (albeit the definition of 'grounded' is changing soon) and the referee will stand them up if not much is happening. The rules are already weighted in favour of strikers.
The MMA meta will keep changing. O'Malley discovered too late that front kicks to the body work well against Merab. Future opponents will target Merab's midsection, he'll get winded and not look so tireless, the knockout will come.
