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Post by Will Da Beeste on Feb 14, 2008 17:13:59 GMT -5
Like Sherdog, but no wankers.
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Post by Lord Chenney on Feb 14, 2008 17:17:13 GMT -5
will do you have any idea about this cage rage card? other than ken shamrock i know nothing. im sure ive seen buzz berry before though.
should be a night full of comedy whatever the weather.
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Post by Kimble on Feb 14, 2008 17:20:01 GMT -5
I remember that time Joe Son got punched in the balls by Keith Hackney & we talked about it everywhere for months.
UFC 3, UFC 4, Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn, Keith Hackney, Emmanuel Yarborough, & Matt Hughes = the extent of my UFC knowledge.
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Post by Will Da Beeste on Feb 14, 2008 17:24:49 GMT -5
The Cage Rage card has got some decent fights on it. And the whole event is more "geeeezer!" than a hundred Jason Stathams.
Also, Ken fucking Shamrock is going to be there.
Predictions for UFC 82?
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Post by Lord Chenney on Feb 14, 2008 17:25:45 GMT -5
funnily enough i watched ufc4 at the weekend. a bunch of mma illiterate friends were over. its my favourite mma to watch. some absolute comedy on there.
i love how in the early ufc's the commentators and announcers are talking out of their arses the whole time. no one knows what the fuck theyr eon about. each fighter is introduced differently every time. that guy patrick smith is involved in 4 fights accross ufc1 +2. each time the announcer says something different. if taken all together he is:
a black belt in karate, kickboxing, hapkido, tae kwon do world kick boxing champion undefeated north american karate champion 4 time tae kwon do heavy weight champion
royce gracie makes him sub in around 20 seconds.
got to love the old days.
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Post by Will Da Beeste on Feb 14, 2008 17:28:04 GMT -5
I love the whole thunderdome ethos - fight till you go limp, then do it again and again until only one person is alive. Back to Cage Rage, just check this out (with the volume up!) www.cagerage.tv/Imanari vs Silva will be a decent fight, as will Batten vs Remedios.
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Post by doo doo on Feb 14, 2008 22:00:57 GMT -5
just checked it out, never heard of it before but Imanari vs Silva looks fucking decent. suprised EliteXC was branching out and doing fights across the pond.
I love the old UFC fights. back then and still today, not that it's bad but they aren't even (in my mind) MMA because the only mixing of Martial Arts are the two fighters going at it. I read somewhere (somewhere reliable and in actual print, not Sherdog) that SEG used to pride themselves on the "nothing stops the fight except KO, submission or death!" (say that in an announcer voice and tell me you can't imagine it on the Radio/TV) angle.
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Post by Will Da Beeste on Feb 15, 2008 6:21:46 GMT -5
Cage Rage has been going for quite some time. Although now it is strictly division two, it's where some very tasty fighters won their first belts - Anderson Silva and Bisping for example. They used to have some sort of affiliation with Pride, but UFC fucking hate them. In fact the bullying bastards are suing them for using the phrase "Ultimate Fighting" when that it how most people know the sport, even if they don't know UFC.
The best thing about it is that it is run by two hilarious baldy bouncer types who are total geeeeeezers. They also run a gym called Elite Fighting Systems in South London, which I am going to start supplementary training once a week.
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Post by Lord Chenney on Feb 15, 2008 6:42:12 GMT -5
those two bald chucklebrothers need to not be the public face of cage rage anymore. i know theyre promoters, but their manly lovers routine does not attract the casual fan. the small one is especially annoying.
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Post by Will Da Beeste on Feb 15, 2008 6:44:35 GMT -5
That's Dave O'Donnell! He's a right NUTTAH!
I know what you are saying. They are too much.
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Post by Will Da Beeste on Feb 19, 2008 15:04:59 GMT -5
I may go along to Dave O'Donnell's class next week for a pre Cage Rage warm up. It is meant to be a decent MMA training session and you know what I like best? The price ... £5 for 2 hrs!
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Post by Lord Chenney on Feb 19, 2008 15:07:34 GMT -5
you mean the small bald guy that cant stop mugging it for the camera from cage rage? i cant imagine him teaching anything.
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Post by Will Da Beeste on Feb 19, 2008 15:13:55 GMT -5
He's a right geeezer!
Cage Rage was started to raise the money to get new equipment for their gym. They were the first MMA gym in London, and maybe, UK. My mate has trained there and said it is way informal - you can pretty much just do what you like, which you may want to do if you know your stuff already. Classes at some gyms are compromised by beginners. I think this one is pretty full on.
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Post by doo doo on Feb 19, 2008 17:02:59 GMT -5
first MMA gym in London, no shit? I know what you mean about the gyms being flooded with n00bs because it's the same way over here. and I am not even that big into it but I went last Thursday with my boy Fig, who is toying with getting back in it and if he does I will too... we talked about "just doing something", and it looked more like a fucking frat meeting. I am not a fan of the current rise in MMA popularity. like this new movie "Never Back Down" anybody heard about this? besides being my banner ad, the movie is of the "Step Up" or "How She Move" type. seriously. replace dancing with fighting. on a good note, did anybody catch Tank Abbott versus my boy form Florida, Kimbo? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0pBHeJMkUtoo good.
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Post by Will Da Beeste on Feb 19, 2008 17:12:43 GMT -5
mma is still small potatoes over here, doodoo. gyms tend to specialise in one discipline like thai boxing or BJJ, with MMA classes as an afterthought. The best in London is probably London Shootfighters, which produces a lot of fighters and is a full time MMA gym. Full of nasty characters though. It was Lee Murray's gym. Say no more.
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