MMA fans

Nothing that happens with Fedor is luck. He knew Arlovski would commit, and he made him pay. Easy to telegraph.
 
Fedor totally drew the flying knee in. Coming off the ropes with his arms down in the hopes Arlovski would fall for it... and he did.

I wanted Arlovski to win.

Would love to see a rematch but this time Arlovski not be so wild and hold back a bit more.
 
That was a joke right?

Nope! MMA reminds me of that "Brutal Death Metal" thing - they think they are heavy by destroying snare drums and eating mics. But it's weak. No dramatic, no show, no "big" feelings. MMA is like this. It lives on the hype, but the matches are boring, violent and short. No big show, no dramatic, no aesthetics, little storytelling. No fun at all...
 
Nope! MMA reminds me of that "Brutal Death Metal" thing - they think they are heavy by destroying snare drums and eating mics. But it's weak. No dramatic, no show, no "big" feelings. MMA is like this. It lives on the hype, but the matches are boring, violent and short. No big show, no dramatic, no aesthetics, little storytelling. No fun at all...

HhHAHA

"They think they are heavy?"

Dude.

I'd bet you every penny I have if you trained for a week like these guys do you'd have a little more respect for what they do.
 
It's not that I disrespect hard work, but MMA just doesn't entertain me. I prefer the "larger than life"-illusion the WWE creates with all the comedy stuff and comic-style characters.
 
It's not that I disrespect hard work, but MMA just doesn't entertain me. I prefer the "larger than life"-illusion the WWE creates with all the comedy stuff and comic-style characters.
Fair enough, just don't count out that the reason that it's not as entertaining is because we actually FIGHT. Fights aren't meant to be pretty or like the movies.

WWE is just entertainment.

Its all good though.
 
He said going into the fight he had no strategy

i really don't know why anyone has a "strategy" when going into a fight, because you never know what the other guy's going to do at any given moment

even if you think you have the other guy's style pegged, he might've been spending the last year in the gym learning totally new shit to throw at you
 
i really don't know why anyone has a "strategy" when going into a fight, because you never know what the other guy's going to do at any given moment

even if you think you have the other guy's style pegged, he might've been spending the last year in the gym learning totally new shit to throw at you

MMA isn't a sport really about knowing your opponent, for that very reason. It is to an extent, important to know their style and see how they fight, but it's more important to strategize YOUR approach. It's critical in MMA to know yourself first.

A great fighter from around here Joe Lauzon is the JEDI MASTER of strategy. He knows that if a fighter is strong in... say jiu-jitsu, he's going to polish up on his jiu-jitsu skills and beat his opponent at his own game. Because, if your opponent's strenght is jiu-jitsu and you have him beat there, well then he's pretty much fucked with a knife.

It's very important to strategize in this way, going into a fight with no strategy is a recipe for cream of fail with a side of pwned.

Fedor however is an assassin , so he can get away with it hahaha.
 
It's very important to strategize in this way, going into a fight with no strategy is a recipe for cream of fail with a side of pwned.

i see where you're coming from in terms of pre-fight strategizing and training, but i can't stand it when i see guys in interviews before fights saying shit like "i'm gonna take him to the ground and submit him", or "i'm gonna keep this fight standing up and KO that fucker" - because it NEVER ends up the way they say/think it will
 
Dave1978 maybe Brock Lesnar can 'open' your eyes to MMA?
I highly recommend you to try to get into mma a bit more, those matches are so much more exciting!

cheers!
 
Chuck Liddell is a great example of this. People are finally learning how to beat him at his own game, though.

i wouldn't say that about chuck at all

he much prefers to fight standing up, but a lot of people forget that he was an NCAA national champion wrestler...dude is capable of rolling on the ground with anyone, but much prefers to throw bombs

or, lately, to eat them...
 
He may be a good wrestler, but wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu are two different things. I have no doubt Chuck's got decent jiu-jitsu, but I think if he worked on that a bit more and used it he'd catch a lot of motherfuckers off guard and might start winning some fights again.