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Ja.. daarom vraag ik me het al te meer af. Dana is de laatste tijd vreemd bezig maar toch..quote:Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 13:11 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
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Overstappen naar Bellator is career suicide, de UFC brass zal er echt niet wakker van liggen.
Vind je? In de docu 'Mexican fighter' kreeg ik echt een heel ander beeld van 'm.quote:
Ben wel benieuwd naar de waarheid achter dat Melendez verhaal, het lijkt me sowieso wel een beetje een arrogant mannetje..
American ninja, Ninja Gaiden, Real Motherfucking ninja shit.
Machida
Jacare
Silva
Andrade
Oliveira
Jacare
Silva
Andrade
Oliveira
Bringing them big boy toys, I do big boy things, I make big boy noise
Was al voorbij gekomen dat Hans Stringer bij de UFC zit? Benieuwd of hij wat potten kan breken daar in tegenstelling tot Michael Kuiper.
Andrei Arlovski is a Belarusian heavyweight who has been in the MMA game for quite some time. His first professional fight dates back to 540 B.C. where Leonidas won as the underdog in Sparta
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Attended: UFC 99 - UFC 167 - UFC 175 - TUF 19 Finale - Invicta 13 - UFC 189 - Fight Night 84 / 87 / 90 - TUF 23 Finale - UFC 200 - UFC 205
4 time, 4 time, 4 time, 4 time TUP champion!!!
4 time, 4 time, 4 time, 4 time TUP champion!!!
Machida
Jacare
Silva
Musoke
Oliveira
Ik hoop van harte Mousasi, maar denk dat Machida wint.
In principe heeft Gegard de tools om te winnen, maar de kwaliteit van zij tegenstanders is een tijd lang niet zo hoog geweest als die van Machida. Tel daar het thuisvoordeel van Machida bij op en dat dit voor het eerst sinds lange tijd weer op 185 is voor Gegard...
Jacare
Silva
Musoke
Oliveira
Ik hoop van harte Mousasi, maar denk dat Machida wint.
In principe heeft Gegard de tools om te winnen, maar de kwaliteit van zij tegenstanders is een tijd lang niet zo hoog geweest als die van Machida. Tel daar het thuisvoordeel van Machida bij op en dat dit voor het eerst sinds lange tijd weer op 185 is voor Gegard...
Andrei Arlovski is a Belarusian heavyweight who has been in the MMA game for quite some time. His first professional fight dates back to 540 B.C. where Leonidas won as the underdog in Sparta
quote:Cage Warriors Fighting Championship returns this Saturday, February 15, with the opening event of the promotion’s 2014 schedule.
CWFC 64, which will be headlined by a highly-anticipated bout between bantamweight contenders James Pennington and Cory Tait, takes place at The Forum in Kentish Town, London, England.
As always, the event will be broadcast live to every corner of the world, while tickets are available to purchase HERE. Doors open at 5.45pm, with the first of 11 professional bouts scheduled to begin at 6.30pm local time.
The six-bout main card kicks off at 9pm GMT (4pm ET/1pm PT), following three Facebook prelims, which stream live and free of charge to the entire world from 7.45pm GMT (2.45pm ET/11.45am PT). Find broadcast details for your region below.
- Watch the Facebook prelims live HERE. https://www.facebook.com/(...)=app_113165568775888
- Watch the main card live via:
LIVE STREAMING
MMAjunkie.com | USA and Canada only
www.IrishMMA.tv | Ireland only
CageWarriors.tv | Rest of the world (excluding the UK)
http://www.cagewarriors.tv/
LIVE TV
Premier Sports | United Kingdom
Setanta Sports 1 | Ireland
Fight Now TV | USA
The Fight Network | Canada, Belgium, Portugal, Turkey, Middle East
Fight Klub | Poland
TV3 Sport | Denmark
Setanta Action | Africa
ESPN | Oceania, Caribbean
MAIN CARD | 9pm GMT (4pm ET/1pm PT)
James Pennington vs. Cory Tait
Boubacar Balde vs. Jake Bostwick
Danny Roberts vs. Juan Manuel Suarez
Benjamin Brander vs. Nad Narimani
Laura Howarth vs. Amanda Kelly
Matt Inman vs. Gregor Weibel
FACEBOOK PRELIMS | 7.45pm GMT (2.45pm ET/11.45am PT)
David Howell vs. Brad Wheeler
Cameron Else vs. Spencer Hewitt
Andy Kerr vs. Charlie Watts
http://www.bloodyelbow.co(...)g-college-penn-state
Pat Cummins, an undefeated and relatively unknown light heavyweight, will face Daniel Cormier in the co-main event of UFC 170. Bloody Elbow's Mike Riordan takes a critical eye to his past fights and decorated career as a wrestler.
On the eighth day of February, 2007, Daniel Cormier had a hell of a day on the wrestling mats. The 2004 Olympian competed in America's premier international wrestling tournament, the Dave Schultz Memorial, opting to enter the 120 kg weight class, up from his normal weight of 96 kg. The extra mass did not affect him at all, as he mowed down one elite American heavyweight after another. In the semifinals, Cormier beat Tommy Rowlands, a top five finisher in the World Championships, and in the finals, Cormier edged out 2008 Olympian Steve Mocco.
Both Rowlands and Mocco were impressive wins, but Cormier's most resounding performance of the day may have come in the quarterfinals. There he defeated a very good heavyweight named Pat Cummins by a lopsided margin, scoring seven points in the four minute match, while yielding none.
Moving up in weight, and soundly defeating a wrestler like Cummins says amazing things of Cormier's skills. For, as you will see, Cummins was awfully darned good.
Pat Cummins's Wrestling Career
Before Cummins became the "Rocky" story of UFC 170, he did the same thing in NCAA wrestling. As a high schooler, Cummins never placed in the top eight of Pennsylvania State Championships, and he only joined the Penn State University wrestling team as a walk on. During his first three years at Penn State, Cummins yielded only mediocre results on the mats as he bulked up from his high school weight of 189 pounds to well over 200 pounds. As a sophomore, he secured the job as Penn State's starting heavyweight, then, as a junior, he suddenly went from a relative nobody to one of the very best heavyweights in the entire nation. In 2003, he completed his break-out season by placing fourth at the 2003 NCAA Wrestling Championships.
In developing from a wrestling also-ran to an All-American, Cummins had taken part in one of the sport's great Cinderella stories, and he was not yet finished. In his senior year, he would defeat NCAA champion Tommy Rowlands in an early season dual, and ascend to the number one ranking in the country. Cummins's spectacular final season culminated in a meeting with Rowlands in the NCAA finals. Though Cummins lost his final match, he ended his improbable run in college wrestling as the second best heavyweight in the country.
After college, Cummins continued his competitive career as a freestyle wrestler on the Senior level. For the first few years on the freestyle circuit, he wrestled at 120 kg and enjoyed decent success as one of the better heavyweights in the USA. Then, in 2009, he dropped weight classes from 120 kg to 96 kg, and his freestyle career really took off. A leaner, meaner Cummins achieved higher finishes at various events, and in 2010 he claimed his first international tournament championship, winning the gold medal at the Dave Schultz Memorial.
Later in 2010, Cummins showed truly world-class wrestling ability by making the finals of the World Team Trials challenge tournament. There, he dropped a fairly competitive match to 2012 Olympic gold medalist Jake Varner. With his performance at the trials, Cummins finished his wrestling career as the third ranked 96 kg freestyle wrestler in the United States, and had he not gone in a different direction, he would have had an outside shot at making the 2012 Olympic team.
The wrestling technique of Pat Cummins
Cummins was one of the most exciting and dynamic big men seen in college wrestling this century. Despite wrestling against giant men, he carried with him the versatile set of techniques normally seen in much smaller wrestlers.
Cummins had a fondness for shooting right handed high crotches. Above, you can see him take this shot against Michigan's All-American heavyweight Greg Wagner (who trounced Cain Velasquez in his final college match). Not only does Cummins have the mobility to penetrate on Wagner, but he also has the strength to lift the massive man completely off the mat.
In this sequence, Cummins shoots a head-inside single to Wagner's left leg, and finishes with a quick trip. You do not often see a heavyweight with the athleticism to take true shots to both sides and finish them with ease, particularly against an opponent as big and skilled as Wagner.
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In 2005, Cummins won the heavyweight championship in the first and only season of the ill-fated, and fairly wacky, Real Pro Wrestling. Though the show looked corny, it featured first-rate wrestling competition. In the two bits of footage above, Cummins demonstrates his competency in upper-body wrestling, as well as his immense power, launching Wes Hand in two high amplitude throws. Just for perspective, the 250 pound Hand is best known for coming within a whisker of defeating Brock Lesnar in the finals of the 2000 NCAA Wrestling championships.
[I'll add here that placing the RPW wrestling surface on a raised platform was a terrible idea, like, YAMMA pit terrible.]
The Fighting Style of Pat Cummins
Watching the entirety of Cummins fighting catalogue only takes about ten minutes. Throughout his short fights, he looks poised, polished and sharp, though, admittedly, his competition is abysmal. Cummins adopts a smart, unabashedly wrestling-centric approach. Striking only serves to set up shots, and he looks for the takedown as soon as possible. Once on the ground, he looks very comfortable in the grappling phase of the fight; he maintains good posture, generates impressive force on his grounded strikes and has even finished one of his fights with an arm triangle.
Overall, Cummins exudes confidence and skills which belie his lack of cage time, but, without question, he has never taken on a fighter in the same universe of ability as Daniel Cormier.
Final Analysis
In all honesty, Cormier represents a nightmare matchup for Cummins. Cormier has vastly more experience in actual fights, has faced infinitely superior opponents and possesses a vastly more sophisticated striking game. If he wants to win, Cummins absolutely needs to take the fight to the ground; unfortunately he faces a man who once held him scoreless in a real wrestling match, and who has never come close to yielding a take down in a fight.
Hopefully, as a reward for taking this fight, the UFC gives Cummins a couple more chances, because I believe he is a legitimately good fighter who can make a serious mark on the current landscape of the light heavyweight division. Against Cormier, however, he has about as much hope as boxing Homer Simpson facing Drederick Tatum after fighting nothing but hobos.
Pat Cummins, an undefeated and relatively unknown light heavyweight, will face Daniel Cormier in the co-main event of UFC 170. Bloody Elbow's Mike Riordan takes a critical eye to his past fights and decorated career as a wrestler.
On the eighth day of February, 2007, Daniel Cormier had a hell of a day on the wrestling mats. The 2004 Olympian competed in America's premier international wrestling tournament, the Dave Schultz Memorial, opting to enter the 120 kg weight class, up from his normal weight of 96 kg. The extra mass did not affect him at all, as he mowed down one elite American heavyweight after another. In the semifinals, Cormier beat Tommy Rowlands, a top five finisher in the World Championships, and in the finals, Cormier edged out 2008 Olympian Steve Mocco.
Both Rowlands and Mocco were impressive wins, but Cormier's most resounding performance of the day may have come in the quarterfinals. There he defeated a very good heavyweight named Pat Cummins by a lopsided margin, scoring seven points in the four minute match, while yielding none.
Moving up in weight, and soundly defeating a wrestler like Cummins says amazing things of Cormier's skills. For, as you will see, Cummins was awfully darned good.
Pat Cummins's Wrestling Career
Before Cummins became the "Rocky" story of UFC 170, he did the same thing in NCAA wrestling. As a high schooler, Cummins never placed in the top eight of Pennsylvania State Championships, and he only joined the Penn State University wrestling team as a walk on. During his first three years at Penn State, Cummins yielded only mediocre results on the mats as he bulked up from his high school weight of 189 pounds to well over 200 pounds. As a sophomore, he secured the job as Penn State's starting heavyweight, then, as a junior, he suddenly went from a relative nobody to one of the very best heavyweights in the entire nation. In 2003, he completed his break-out season by placing fourth at the 2003 NCAA Wrestling Championships.
In developing from a wrestling also-ran to an All-American, Cummins had taken part in one of the sport's great Cinderella stories, and he was not yet finished. In his senior year, he would defeat NCAA champion Tommy Rowlands in an early season dual, and ascend to the number one ranking in the country. Cummins's spectacular final season culminated in a meeting with Rowlands in the NCAA finals. Though Cummins lost his final match, he ended his improbable run in college wrestling as the second best heavyweight in the country.
After college, Cummins continued his competitive career as a freestyle wrestler on the Senior level. For the first few years on the freestyle circuit, he wrestled at 120 kg and enjoyed decent success as one of the better heavyweights in the USA. Then, in 2009, he dropped weight classes from 120 kg to 96 kg, and his freestyle career really took off. A leaner, meaner Cummins achieved higher finishes at various events, and in 2010 he claimed his first international tournament championship, winning the gold medal at the Dave Schultz Memorial.
Later in 2010, Cummins showed truly world-class wrestling ability by making the finals of the World Team Trials challenge tournament. There, he dropped a fairly competitive match to 2012 Olympic gold medalist Jake Varner. With his performance at the trials, Cummins finished his wrestling career as the third ranked 96 kg freestyle wrestler in the United States, and had he not gone in a different direction, he would have had an outside shot at making the 2012 Olympic team.
The wrestling technique of Pat Cummins
Cummins was one of the most exciting and dynamic big men seen in college wrestling this century. Despite wrestling against giant men, he carried with him the versatile set of techniques normally seen in much smaller wrestlers.
Cummins had a fondness for shooting right handed high crotches. Above, you can see him take this shot against Michigan's All-American heavyweight Greg Wagner (who trounced Cain Velasquez in his final college match). Not only does Cummins have the mobility to penetrate on Wagner, but he also has the strength to lift the massive man completely off the mat.
In this sequence, Cummins shoots a head-inside single to Wagner's left leg, and finishes with a quick trip. You do not often see a heavyweight with the athleticism to take true shots to both sides and finish them with ease, particularly against an opponent as big and skilled as Wagner.
Animation4_zps1b79bb2a_medium
In 2005, Cummins won the heavyweight championship in the first and only season of the ill-fated, and fairly wacky, Real Pro Wrestling. Though the show looked corny, it featured first-rate wrestling competition. In the two bits of footage above, Cummins demonstrates his competency in upper-body wrestling, as well as his immense power, launching Wes Hand in two high amplitude throws. Just for perspective, the 250 pound Hand is best known for coming within a whisker of defeating Brock Lesnar in the finals of the 2000 NCAA Wrestling championships.
[I'll add here that placing the RPW wrestling surface on a raised platform was a terrible idea, like, YAMMA pit terrible.]
The Fighting Style of Pat Cummins
Watching the entirety of Cummins fighting catalogue only takes about ten minutes. Throughout his short fights, he looks poised, polished and sharp, though, admittedly, his competition is abysmal. Cummins adopts a smart, unabashedly wrestling-centric approach. Striking only serves to set up shots, and he looks for the takedown as soon as possible. Once on the ground, he looks very comfortable in the grappling phase of the fight; he maintains good posture, generates impressive force on his grounded strikes and has even finished one of his fights with an arm triangle.
Overall, Cummins exudes confidence and skills which belie his lack of cage time, but, without question, he has never taken on a fighter in the same universe of ability as Daniel Cormier.
Final Analysis
In all honesty, Cormier represents a nightmare matchup for Cummins. Cormier has vastly more experience in actual fights, has faced infinitely superior opponents and possesses a vastly more sophisticated striking game. If he wants to win, Cummins absolutely needs to take the fight to the ground; unfortunately he faces a man who once held him scoreless in a real wrestling match, and who has never come close to yielding a take down in a fight.
Hopefully, as a reward for taking this fight, the UFC gives Cummins a couple more chances, because I believe he is a legitimately good fighter who can make a serious mark on the current landscape of the light heavyweight division. Against Cormier, however, he has about as much hope as boxing Homer Simpson facing Drederick Tatum after fighting nothing but hobos.
Nice! Ik kwam z'n profile laatst ergens tegen en dacht dat het een mooie toevoeging zou zijn aan de LHW divisie.quote:
Was al voorbij gekomen dat Hans Stringer bij de UFC zit? Benieuwd of hij wat potten kan breken daar in tegenstelling tot Michael Kuiper.
En dezelfde maand nog zit ie in de UFC
Mja, aan de andere kant hoefde Gegard niet veel te cutten op 205. Ik gooi het er ook op dat Machida de laatste jaren op hoger niveau heeft gevochten en het thuisvoordeel heeft. Maar kansloos is Gegard zeker niet, Machida is wat wisselvallig, als hij geen opening vindt dan kan hij makkelijk verliezen op punten.quote:Op zaterdag 15 februari 2014 15:43 schreef Fyodor het volgende:
Ik hoop van harte Mousasi, maar denk dat Machida wint.
In principe heeft Gegard de tools om te winnen, maar de kwaliteit van zij tegenstanders is een tijd lang niet zo hoog geweest als die van Machida. Tel daar het thuisvoordeel van Machida bij op en dat dit voor het eerst sinds lange tijd weer op 185 is voor Gegard...
Ik ga mee..quote:
Machida
Jacare
Silva
Musoke
Oliveira
Ik hoop van harte Mousasi, maar denk dat Machida wint.
In principe heeft Gegard de tools om te winnen, maar de kwaliteit van zij tegenstanders is een tijd lang niet zo hoog geweest als die van Machida. Tel daar het thuisvoordeel van Machida bij op en dat dit voor het eerst sinds lange tijd weer op 185 is voor Gegard...
UFC is developing 'uniforms' for fighters
quote:Could there be a day where UFC fighters are wearing a standard uniform on the way to the octagon? According to Dana White that is the plan, though it's something they're still working on and nothing is finalized. Bleacher Report's Jeremy Botter discussed what those plans could entail:
"According to multiple sources, the deal is with a major apparel company. Our sources also said the uniform will be head to toe—including fight shorts, walkout shirt and hats—and every fighter in the UFC will wear it.
Bleacher Report's sources also noted that several spaces on the shorts and shirt will be reserved for fighters and managers to sell their own sponsorships. But outside of those spots, the uniforms will consist mostly of UFC-branded product and the brand of the apparel company."
Fighters have been complaining about a lack of sponsor money for a while now, and it is assumed that this is what White was talking about in December as a solution for those woes. It would definitely work as another advertising tool for the company as well, since their logo would be all over the gear.
Lyoto Machida vs. Gegard Mousasi
Francis Carmont vs. Ronaldo Souza
Takenori Sato vs. Erick Silva
Viscardi Andrade vs. Nico Musoke
Andy Ogle vs. Charles Oliveira
Al afgelopen??
Francis Carmont vs. Ronaldo Souza
Takenori Sato vs. Erick Silva
Viscardi Andrade vs. Nico Musoke
Andy Ogle vs. Charles Oliveira
Al afgelopen??
Tis 15:37 in Jaragua do Sul, moet dus nog beginnen. Maar zag op tpb een ufc prelim download maar was nog van 166.quote:
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Ja, je picks tellen niet meer mee.
Goede picks trouwens, dat wel.
Iemand de tijden??
Attended: UFC 99 - UFC 167 - UFC 175 - TUF 19 Finale - Invicta 13 - UFC 189 - Fight Night 84 / 87 / 90 - TUF 23 Finale - UFC 200 - UFC 205
4 time, 4 time, 4 time, 4 time TUP champion!!!
4 time, 4 time, 4 time, 4 time TUP champion!!!
Klopt, maar voordat hij in de ufc vocht gaf hij zelf aan dat het cutten naar 185 hem steeds zwaarder viel. Denk dat hij nu sowieso wat betere begeleiding heeft. Denk dat Machida er goed aan gedaan heeft om naar 185 te gaan. Als Rashad Evans slim is doet hij dat ook. Zie hem op 185 veel meer kans maken dan op 205.quote:
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Mja, aan de andere kant hoefde Gegard niet veel te cutten op 205. Ik gooi het er ook op dat Machida de laatste jaren op hoger niveau heeft gevochten en het thuisvoordeel heeft. Maar kansloos is Gegard zeker niet, Machida is wat wisselvallig, als hij geen opening vindt dan kan hij makkelijk verliezen op punten.
Andrei Arlovski is a Belarusian heavyweight who has been in the MMA game for quite some time. His first professional fight dates back to 540 B.C. where Leonidas won as the underdog in Sparta
Ow... overheen gelezen!quote:
Timtable
UFC Fight Night 36: Machida vs Mousasi
01.30 uur:fightpass
04.30 uur:main card
01.30...
Attended: UFC 99 - UFC 167 - UFC 175 - TUF 19 Finale - Invicta 13 - UFC 189 - Fight Night 84 / 87 / 90 - TUF 23 Finale - UFC 200 - UFC 205
4 time, 4 time, 4 time, 4 time TUP champion!!!
4 time, 4 time, 4 time, 4 time TUP champion!!!
Gaat hem niet worden voor mij..quote:
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Ow... overheen gelezen!
01.30...
Mousassi wel, Carmont niet.quote:
Eerlijk gezegd zie ik Mousasi of Carmont wel voor een upset zorgen.
Andersomquote:
Attended: UFC 99 - UFC 167 - UFC 175 - TUF 19 Finale - Invicta 13 - UFC 189 - Fight Night 84 / 87 / 90 - TUF 23 Finale - UFC 200 - UFC 205
4 time, 4 time, 4 time, 4 time TUP champion!!!
4 time, 4 time, 4 time, 4 time TUP champion!!!
