i downloaded it and used my dvd players usb port to watch it on my tv. not a great event, none of the fights were super exciting. The wanerlei / franklin fight was ok but it went to decision... I think it was weak PPV for anybody who spent the $45-55 on it. 100-102 are all looking to be pretty stacked though, and then they're having 103 in dallas and most of the marquee fighters will have fought just in the past 2 months...
Did anyone catch the Ultimate Fighter Finale? If not you really should. Sanches vs Guida was so awesome. I expected Clay to dominate that fight because i have never been impressed with Diego. Thought it was gonna be a walkover. But Diego surprised me big time and made it a war. Like some have said, possibly the fight of the year.
Most of the fights were disappointing decisions, but the Sanchez/Guida fight was pretty amazing. People liked Lytle/Burns but I wasn't that enthused. Wilks looked awesome with the submissions in his TUF fight with Johnson.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I ordered UFC 100 earlier today. They have the SD version for $45 and the HD version for $55 and it made me wonder about that because I'm certain they shoot everything in HD regardless. Do they have some kind of filter to make it only SD even if it was recorded in HD?
I got the HD version to play it safe.
Doesn't matter if you shoot in HD, you can just reencode it to 480p, no big deal.
UFC 100 was ok... really enjoyed Hendo's KO over Bisbing... that was devestating. GSP pretty much just dominated Alves and wouldn't let him stand and bang, beat him up pretty good on the ground, and then the Brock Lesnar / Frank Mir fight was pretty much as you could assume it would go. Brock, the much bigger guy pretty much layed on mir the entire match and pounded him in the face. Mir showed a quick burst of impressive striking in the first seconds of the 2nd round including a 1-legged jumping knee to the face ala uriajah faber, but brock didn't want any of that so he layed on him some more and KO'd him.
Since I paid $55 for the ppv... I was disappointed because it seemed like all of the matches went by really fast, and the fitch / thiago matchup didn't happen until after the main event. I think if you order the PPV before it airs, they should show you the preliminary matches... I mean, I did pay $55. now i have to go find and dl them in order to see them.
The MMA world is going crazy right now...
Affliction cancelled it's upcoming event due to it's main event falling apart... they later came out and announced that their closing up their MMA operations, and then that they're going to go back to being a sponsor in the UFC, which means their fighters are now free agents for the most part.
Everybody is hoping that Fedor gets signed by the UFC. Also, Dana white apparently twittered "welcome back Tito" which many people think means Tito Ortiz is coming back.
The UFC is holding a press conference next week (31st) in which they're going to unveil a "laundry list" of announcements...
Also, I'm going to be at UFC 103 ^^ probably wont have the best tickets, but at the time I didn't think $250/350 per ticket was a smart idea right now.
Yeah, all thanks to roid-head Barnett, millions of dollars lost and a company goes out of business, further allowing one of the most corrupt sports orgs to come that much closer to completely dominating the sport and giving its athletes less say and control over their careers. Some say Barnett was paid to take the dive without taking a single punch from Fedor.
I've read that some of the fights will be picked up by Dream and Strikeforce for their August shows, since the fighters have been training and are ready to fight.
I'm surprised the UFC is allowing Affliction to become a sponsor again, but I'm sure it came with a lot of boot-kissing and kickback money.
I still don't think Fedor will sign with the UFC unless they meet his demands. Even before Affliction folded, Fedor and the UFC weren't seeing eye to eye.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Everybody is hoping for Fedor to sign w\ the UFC, love him or hate him. Affliction shutting down is a good thing all around though because honestly... I wanted to watch their fights but at the same time I didn't really want to spend $40-50 on the PPV.
Strikeforce is pretty solid right now and if they pick up some of the fighters and keep doing what they're doing, it will be good for all of the fans. I think that allowing affliction back into the UFC will also come w\ some fighter contracts which they'll have to re-negotiate.
I'm a huge Fedor fan but I don't see him in the UFC unless they allow him to fight in sambo tournaments for the honor of his motherland. Plus I think his company is controlled by the Russian mob and they want to muscle in on the UFC's interests, which is probably run by the Italian mob.
I like Strikeforce but really their roster is all b-list fighters and guys who couldn't survive in the UFC. Affliction actually had some A-list fighters mixed with B-list guys. Now some will sign with the UFC, some with SF, and some might fight in Japan.
Fedor, Mousasi, and Belfort in the UFC would be pretty amazing.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Fedor had a press conference yesterday where his M1 handlers pretty much took all of the questions. Their announcements consisted of fedor "headlining" the EA mma game that will sorta rival the UFC 09 game.. this game likely will bomb.
Questions about the UFC turned out to be lame and they gave the same old answers about how they want to co-promote w\ the UFC and that M1 will be hosting more and more events in the future... so fedor signing seemed less likely after that. We'll see though.
Dana White is having a press conference tomorrow in which he's going to unveil the laundry list of news for the UFC.
Strikeforce picked up the Babalu / Mousasi matchup which will be for the Strikeforce LHW championship. They also got Jay Hieron to fill in against Nick Diaz which will be for the Strikeforce WW championship.
So, if no more changes happen to that strikeforce card, it's still going to have 4 titles on the line : cyborg / carano for womens championship, thomson / melendez for lw championship, babalu / mousasi for lhw championship and diaz / hieron for the ww championship.
I think it's awesome... I'm more excited for this strikeforce card than I am for ufc 101 or ufc 102, I'm going to ufc 103 so that will be exciting... unless i can't see anything.
Vitor Belfort vs Rich Franklin @ UFC 103 which i'm going to be attending live...
Tito Ortiz is back in the UFC
Dana White was unable to sign Fedor
Dan Henderson will fight Anderson Silva next @ 185 for a title match... I was expecting some more major announcements since everybody knew Vitor was coming and that Tito was likely returning also.
The big earth-shaking move that Dana White was hinting at didn't materialize, but I think the guy speaks in hyperbole most of the time. Fedor wasn't signed and there is no network TV deal, either of which is what most thought the big news would be.
Belfort returning to the UFC is cool, but fighting at LHW again? He made the move to 185 and looked crisper and quicker by most accounts. I'd rather see him fight Mousasi at LHW than Franklin.
Tito returning isn't very compelling either. Not many matchups I care to see with him at LHW. He's another wrestler/GnP guy and there's enough of them in MMA.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Befort / Franklin is going to be @ 195 like the franklin / wanderlei fight was. They hinted at bringing Vitor in to fight anderson silva at the last fight night they had on Spike tv. If franklin beats him though... idk who they have him fight after that.
I can't believe you're lucky enough to be going to UFC 103. It will be an amazing card and there's no way they can show all the great fights on the PPV unless it's a bunch of 1 round KOs.
Just a quick rundown:
Vitor Belfort vs. Rich Franklin
Junior Dos Santos vs. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic
Martin Kampmann vs. Mike Swick
Efrain Escudero vs. Cole Miller
Josh Koscheck vs. Frank Trigg
Hermes Franca vs. Tyson Griffin
Jim Miller vs. Thiago Tavares
Tomasz Drwal vs. Drew McFedries
Paul Daley vs Brian Foster
Jason Brilz vs. Eliot Marshall
Unbelievable. This is a better card than UFC100.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
i can't believe they added more fights to the card! I'm going to have to do some research and find out how early they usually start the prelims, and I'm probably going to take off work to goto the weigh-ins the day before.
OHHH... they pulled the Sean Sherk fight from the prelims... maybe going to use it for UFC 104... that sucks, I watned to see sherk in action.
You're not missing much, he's a pretty boring fighter.Originally Posted by itadakimasu
People are really excited about these undercard fights so you should be sure to catch them:
Hermes Franca vs. Tyson Griffin
Jim Miller vs. Thiago Tavares
Tomasz Drwal vs. Drew McFedries
Paul Daley vs Brian Foster
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
McFedries is either knocking somebody TFO or getting KTFO himself.
Ha, UFC is counter-programming the Strikeforce Carano vs Cyborg show by airing UFC100 on Spike for free. They're serious about destroying Strikeforce for signing Fedor.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Anyone watch Strikeforce Carano vs Cyborg? Mousasi kicked Babalu's ass, Melendez kicked Ishida's ass, Werdum subbed Kyle, and Cyborg destroyed Carano. It was pretty tough to watch Carano get handled like that. It was like she was fighting a man almost.
Congrats to Cyborg, but she really has no competition in women's MMA. Not sure what she does for her next fight.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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