MMA Discussion Thread

repoman

He's one of my fave guys in the UFC so I deffo don't want him cut!

djcla

Wow TUF was good

Fit

Both fights were good, I always felt Uraih was always gonna be there from the start & was really happy to see Josh have the wind taken out his sails by Kevin.

I think this season of TUF has been the best for a long time & that was helped by the fact that the majority of guys were there to try to win rather than be clowns for the cameras. I was impressed with the way Sonnen went about coaching his team, yeah he's a good talker & can sell promos but as a coach he always seemed genuinely interested & trying to help improve his guys skillset.

repoman

You could sort of tell that Dylan's heart wasn't in it when he walked into the room but I was shocked to see how fearful he was.  That said, Hall is a scary dude.

Josh is a dick but I really like his fighting style and for a while the other guy was just on top doing nothing.  But the submission was decent.

Am psyched for the finale now.

Flimber

Was not helped by being told three times that "he didn't deserve/wasn't supposed to be there". What the frig sort of pep talk is that ? And in the skirmish itself he refused to engage and put anything on his opponent, as if he was far too scared of getting clocked on the way in/out. That fight wasn't going to be won by the strikee fearing the striker; Dyl's big chance would have been to get at him at 4:59 left on the clock in Rd. 1 and bully the bully. Uriah, as handy as he seems to be, is still to face anyone of serious quality and experience. The boy done good and is being made marketable. Might be three fights away from a title shot, if he carries on making DW whoosh with self-congratulation for finding him.

Mike.

BigStu1972

As soon as Dylan got hit by Uriah you could see all the confidence drain from his face. From then on it was about not getting hit again. I was glad to see Kevin win his fight , you could see what that meant to him. I'm pretty sure he won't be scared of Uriah when they fight in the finale and will no doubt be working on his wrestling from now until then.
Overall an excellent series of TUF with some very good fights despite nothing of note happening in the house which is probably the exact opposite of how the next series will turn out.

repoman

Yep, less drama more training/fight footage.  That's what we need.

If they can just stop that 'coming up' nonsense halfway through the show, it'd be perfect.

Not looking forward to the next series at all.

repoman

Main card
Weight Class    Method Round Time Notes
Bantamweight Urijah Faber vs. Scott Jorgensen     
Middleweight Kelvin Gastelum vs. Uriah Hall    [a]
Women's Bantamweight Miesha Tate vs. Cat Zingano   
Heavyweight Travis Browne vs. Gabriel Gonzaga     
Middleweight Robert McDaniel vs. Gilbert Smith  

(how on earth is Bubba on the main card?!?!)
   
Preliminary card (Fuel TV)
Middleweight Josh Samman vs. Kevin Casey  (should definitely be on the main)   
Middleweight Luke Barnatt vs. Collin Hart     
Middleweight Dylan Andrews vs. Jimmy Quinlan     
Middleweight Clint Hester vs. Bristol Marunde     

Preliminary card (Facebook)
Featherweight Cole Miller vs. Bart Palaszewski     
Featherweight Justin Lawrence vs. Daniel Pineda     
Featherweight Sam Sicilia vs. Maximo Blanco

djcla

how on earth is he getting a fight at all, he does not deserve it imo

BigStu1972

Most likely as a favour to Jon Jones
defo last chance saloon for bubba though