Bobby Lashley Would Dominate The UFC & Wang, Hughes & Mariano Rivera Are The Keys To A Yanks Championship posted by Colin Linneweber

Bobby Lashley Would Dominate The UFC 

Former WWE and ECW champion Bobby “The Dominator” Lashley pulverized mixed martial arts veteran fighter Bob “The Beast” Sapp via TKO less than two minutes into their bout Saturday night at “Ultimate Chaos” in Biloxi, Miss. Moments after the opening bell rang, Lashley (4-0) easily grappled the enormous Sapp (10-5-1) to the canvas.  

Once Lashley, 32, seized the advantage, he connected with a vicious barrage of punches on Sapp, 35, until the onetime PRIDE and K-1 star tapped the mat to signal to the referee that he wanted the fight called at 1:17 of the first round.

"I got a good shot in the eye and was unable to see," explained the onetime University of Washington offensive lineman who was chosen by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1997 NFL Draft. "He got me in the eye. No excuses, He got me down today and controlled it. Give it up to Bobby Lashley."

Lashley, a chiseled 255 pound physical specimen who attended Missouri Valley College and won three national amateur wrestling championships there between 1996 and 1998, acknowledged how important it was that he gained control of the matchup from the outset.

"Going up against Bob," Lashley noted of the man he surrendered 67 pounds to for the main event, "you always expect the big bulls. I had to take him down, cover and pound. The first thing is to win: ground-and-pound to wear the big man down. He has a big punch. I used my ground-and-pound and got out of there."

Bobby Lashley Would "Dominate" The UFC posted by Colin Linneweber

Former WWE and ECW champion Bobby “The Dominator” Lashley pulverized mixed martial arts veteran fighter Bob “The Beast” Sapp via TKO less than two minutes into their bout Saturday night at “Ultimate Chaos” in Biloxi, Miss.

Moments after the opening bell rang, Lashley (4-0) easily grappled the enormous Sapp (10-5-1) to the canvas.

Once Lashley, 32, seized the advantage, he connected with a vicious barrage of punches on Sapp, 35, until the onetime PRIDE and K-1 star tapped the mat to signal to the referee that he wanted the fight called at 1:17 of the first round.

"I got a good shot in the eye and was unable to see," explained the onetime University of Washington offensive lineman who was chosen by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1997 NFL Draft. "He got me in the eye. No excuses, He got me down today and controlled it. Give it up to Bobby Lashley."

Lashley, a chiseled 255 pound physical specimen who attended Missouri Valley College and won three national amateur wrestling championships there between 1996 and 1998, acknowledged how important it was that he gained control of the matchup from the outset.

"Going up against Bob," Lashley noted of the man he surrendered 67 pounds to for the main event, "you always expect the big bulls. I had to take him down, cover and pound. The first thing is to win: ground-and-pound to wear the big man down. He has a big punch. I used my ground-and-pound and got out of there."

Lashley, who joined the United States Army after college and also continued to wrestle there, validated his desire to become a force in the cage with his flawless performance against “The Beast.”
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Lyoto Machida finally a title holder posted by LXY

Machida's recent victory to claim the UFC light heavyweight title was definately a long time coming.  This blog is not about the fight.  Rather it is ongoing debate which Machida is a symbol. 

   15-0
   hasn't lost a single round
   over 2 years in UFC before a title shot

While 2 years seems like nothing to the casual observer, many in mma circles have wondered why he hasnt gotten a title shot sooner.  People who both like/dislike him agree; his style is boring.  No one can doubt he is a great fighter but his style is not one which brings in casual fans.  This is not a mma dillema but a sports dillema in general.  MMA has the image though of brininng the "best" fighters in the world.   It also has an image of modern, appealing to younger adults, and borderline anti-traditional martial arts.  Machida's Shotokan karate strikes are obvious compared to the Thai kickboxing strikes you normally see.  He's calculating and counter-striking which is bad for excitement (but good in actual combat). 

MMA IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER SPORTS because of its ties to actual combat.  This is why the balance between sport and entertanmaint is much more icy.  Other sports can always change the rules to make the game more entertaining.  sure they might piss off some old guys but who cares; they probably don't buy jerserys and hats.  MMA on the other hand has an air of legitemacy that makes changing rules for the sake of entertainment a little bit trickier. 

Obama’s Speech Wasn’t Controversial. But, Charlie Weis’ Coaching Is, Bobby Lashley Would Thrive in the UFC & The WWE Will Beat the Denver Nuggets in a Fight posted by Colin Linneweber

Obama’s Speech Wasn’t Controversial. But, Charlie Weiss’ Coaching Is

Amidst great controversy regarding his support for abortion rights, United States President Barack Hussein Obama II presented the commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame last week.

Notre Dame’s President, The Rev. John Jenkins, was widely criticized by dozens of American Catholic bishops for inviting our nation’s 44th President to speak and also for granting Obama with an honorary degree despite his stance on abortion.

Following the commencement, Obama spoke last Sunday night at an Indianapolis fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee and he initiated his address by jesting that the hoopla surrounding his appearance at South Bend “paled in comparison to what to do about the football team.”

“That’s an issue we may not resolve within my four years,” remarked the graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.

“Eight,” shouted a spectator in the audience, obviously disenchanted with the Fighting Irish football program that has a record of 10-15 over the past two seasons on the gridiron.

“All right, well, maybe in eight we might get it done,” Obama, 47, teased.

Irish Head Coach Charlie Weis, who has gone a disappointing 29-21 at his alma mater since becoming the 28th head football coach in Notre Dame history, signed a 10-year deal worth a reported $30-40 million in 2006.

Assuming that he doesn’t receive his deserved termination notice beforehand, the contract would allow the portly Weis, 53, to waddle along the Notre Dame Stadium sidelines through the 2015 season.

UWC 6 Capital Punishment posted by Warcorpse

UWC 6 is this Saturday and the Warcorpse wants you all to watch it! It will be streaming live on Sherdog.com for FREE! The card is headlined by the UWC Bantamweight Title Fight between Mike Easton and Josh Ferguson. Other fights on the card Include Rashad Woods taking on War Machine in the 175 pound division. The two time National Muay Thai Champ Jose "The Pistol" Villarisco will try MMA again when he fights Mikey "The Burque Bulldog" Lovato for a good mid-card fight and the event opens with Kris "Savage" McCray in a fight against Ronnie Wuest. 8 fights in all.

Like i said the event will be streaming live on Sherdog.com and it's a great chance to see up and coming fighters. At their skill level they are some good prospects for the UFC down the road. Especially Kris McCray the only one of them I've seen This guy has a bright future in MMA at the moment. He's mauled through all the amatures he fought and the two pro fights. And  Mike Easton will be in the WEC sooner rather then later.

The only down side is that Tito Ortiz will make another of his famed appearances not to fight or anything. Just making a little more money off his name. He'll be there for the meet and greet before the event and I'm sure do some shameless self promotion and UFC bashing at the event.  

 Good event to watch except for Tito 

Warcorpse will be watching!

Anderson Silva's Title Fight what a crock posted by Warcorpse

Now the first thing that I want to say is that I don't blame Anderson Silva for the debacle at UFC 97. It really wasn't his fault and I have to give credit to Chuck for coming to his defense. However on a whole UFC 97's card for the most part stunk.

For me personally the night was tainted by the fact that it's a real possibility that it was Chuck Liddell's last fight. As much as I hate to see the Iceman go I hope he doesnt stick around so long that he wrecks his legacy. That paled in comparison to the Main Event. Thales Leites vs Anderson Silva when this fight happened I wasn't expecting anything just a good fight. Those hopes died when in the first ninety seconds NO ONE THREW A SINGLE PUNCH. That was both of there's fault. Then it went on to get worse with each on going round of Leites constantly going to the ground. Every time that Silva would try and get close Leites would go to his back. It was honestly painful to watch. It was boring and just a bad fight.

The entire time i was wondering why in the hell Leites if Silva was not taking the bait WHY did he presist. If your the challenger you HAVE to beat the champ the champ dose not have to beat you. The judges unless you completely beat the snot out of the champ will always favor the champ in a decision victory. I mean how many times in that fight did Leites intentionally go to his back I lost count after ten. I've never seen a fight that the fans started to boo from almost the time it started to the time it ended going from boo's to a repeated GSP chant to finally a Bullshit chant. Because in my opinion that's what Leites viewed the fight as bullshit.

UFC 97 Results posted by Tony Chavez

Man, am I disappointed. One of the worst cards I've seen in a while. And Anderson Silva? What the hell, man?

Anderson Silva v. Thales Leites

The worst fight I can remember seeing. I've probably seen worse. But I can't remember them. Picked the fighter, but way off on the method. Terrible fight.

Results: Silva. Unanimous Decision

My Prediction: Silva TKO, rd 2 (1-0)

Chuck Liddel v. Mauricio Rua

 I went with my heart on this one and was very disappointed. Liddel still didn't check the leg kicks, and in the end shows his age in the form of much less speed. KO.

Result: Rua, TKO, rd 1

My Prediction: Liddel, TKO rd 2 (1-1)

Krzysztof Soszynski v. Brian Stann

One sided fight here. Soszynski shows his superior ground game in impressive fashion.

Result: Soszynski. Submission, rd 1.

My Prediction: Soszynski. KO rd 3 (2-1)

Cheick Kongo v. Antoni Hardonk

Striker vs striker with a clear winner. Kongo used his reach and Hardonk's own bread and butter, leg kicks to secure an early victory.

Result: Kongo. TKO rd 1

My Prediction: Kongo, UD (3-1)

Steve Cantwell v Luiz Cane

I watched the fight with some homies and one of them thought Cantwell won the fight. The fool is crazy, Cantwell got one round tops.

Result: Cane. UD (4-1)

Jason MacDonald v Nate Quarry

When I was picking this one I was totally up in the air. I'm not surprised in the least I got this wrong. Wasn't televised, crazy.

Result: Quarry. TKO rd 1

My Prediction: MacDonald. TKO rd 3 (4-2)

UFC 97 Predictions posted by Tony Chavez

Here we go. Live at 8PM on Pay-Per-View. You know I'll be there, will you? These are my predictions. I went 4-0 with my choices at the last fight night, so let's see if I can keep it rolling.

Anderson Silva(23-4) v. Thales Leites(14-1)

I have alot of respect for Thales Leites, but he's got no chance against the Spider. Leites is a black belt in jiu-jitsu, but so is Silva, and then some. Silva has the best striking in the UFC, maybe in all of MMA. I don't see this one going for too long

Prediction: Silva. TKO, rd 2.

Chuck Liddel(21-6) v. Mauricio Rua(17-3)

There are people who say Chuck Liddel is past his prime, and there are those who say that Shogun(Rua) is one of the most vicious strikers in the game. I disagree with both of these groups of people. Liddel may have been caught up in the fame, he may have been caught up in his own hype. I don't know, but I believe those problems are behind him.  John Hackleman and Tony Robbins have Chucks mind back where it should be. Rua is hype and past glory. His last fight was against a dinosaur. You and I could've knocked out Mark Coleman's old ass. This should be an exciting fight though, I'll say that.

Prediction: Liddel. TKO, rd 2.

Krzysztof Soszynski (17-9-1) v. Brian Stann (6-1)

Krzysztof is a beast. He's big, surprisingly fast, and good at submissions. All around talented. Brian Stann, formerly the WEC LH champ, is rough but tough. I don't think he's got the same skill set as Krzysztof, or the same experience, but he's got a big hands and a punchers chance. Wouldn't be totally surprised if Brian pulled it off, but...

Tank Abbott another detrement to MMA's future posted by Warcorpse

David "Tank" Abbott the grey breaded warrior as some call him. We all remeber him from the early days of MMA and in the early days of the UFC. I'm going back to about 1996 to about 98. Tank had a name for himself. Could knock out anyone with those heavy hands. Of course durning this time period it wasn't true MMA it was more style vs style. I think just his whole look. I mean the guy looks like a badass got his fame going then in 1998 Tank Abbott signs with the WCW and becomes a professinal wrestler. Really helping out the sport that helped him get where he is today. So he stays in the WCW till it's fall all the while MMA evolved into what it currently is.

So in 2003 he comes back to the UFC and has done nothing to improve is style or martial arts or sub. He's going with the same bar-room brawling that worked so well in the past. Well the rest of the roster in the UFC continued to evolve and get better. Tank was murdered in the first round every fight. So then he quits and fights off and on for the next couple of years picking up only one win in 2005. Has one fight in Pride and Strike and loses both of them horribly. In 2007 he takes on Gary Turner in Cage Rage and gets soundly beat in the first again. Then came the event that might as well been put on by the WWE.

Tank vs Kimbo

Of course Kimbo beat him and every 14 year old lit up the internet saying that Kimbo was the greatest fighter in the world. Then I thought we might be lucky enough for him to retire. NOPE he gets on the Wargods farce with Ken Shamrock. At Wargods he fights Mike Bourke another bar room brawler that's got guess what a LOSEING record. You would think the two main event guys would want to fight someone who's got a slightly better record or hell EACH OTHER! Well Abbott beat Bourke so i guess that proves that he's at least the best brawler still around.

Ken Shamrock MMA founder, pioneer, embarrassment and wash-up posted by Warcorpse

Ken Shamrock a name that's synonymous with MMA. A fighter at UFC 1 back when it was style vs. style. He lost in the semi-finals to the legend Royce Gracie. A few years later he'd fight Royce again to a draw at UFC 5 at that time an unheard of end for a Gracie fight. Shamrock leaves the UFC in 1996 to go fight in Pride. At the end of 2002 which I'll call his peak or at least before he started desecrating the sport that made him a household name his record was 20-7-2. He came back at UFC 40 to start his feud with Tito Ortiz. They had three fights Shamrock one none of them. In fact Kimo is the only guy he beat from 2/24/02 till 2/13/09.

During the seven years Ken repeatedly continued to make a joke out of himself and the sport. Not just with his stupid hot head antics which is really unbecoming any martial artist but with the fights he took. Like with Robert Berry a guy that's not even in the top 1000 fighters. Anyone ever heard of Robert "Buzz" Berry I haven't all his fights are in Cage Rage. Guess what he beat him to with a first round KO. So UFC take a look at Robert Berry I mean he beat a man you put in your HALL OF FAME!!! that should ensure him at least 2 or 3 fights in the octagon. I'm not even going to write about that crock of bull**** that EliteXC tired to pull with him and Kimbo. For the sport's sake thank whatever God you believe in the fight was called off.

So in February Wargods/Ken Shamrock Productions Staged a little event called St.Valentines Day Massacre. That's an appropriate Title for all it did for the sport. The event was co-headlined by Shamrock and Tank Abbott (I'll get to Abbott in another post) Shamrock fought Ross Clifton a super-heavyweight with a impressive 6-9 record. Never heard of Clifton either not surprised. Go check out Gladiator Challenge. Well the fight was a joke for Shamrock who easily out maneuvered and out classed the guy. To Clifton's credit he tried his best to take Shamrock out but it wasn't nearly enough. I just find it sad that Shamrock had to get that lopsided of a opponent to get his first victory in almost seven years. Yeah he's a legend alright.

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