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^ this is my point.

I don't think Kimbo busted the bloodbag on the ear, I believe Thompson was bleeding from INSIDE THE EAR, which should warrant a stoppage.

The only time I've ever seen someone bleed from inside the ear is after an EXTREMELY loud noise near the ear, such as gunshots or explosions. And guesswhat, most of the time, there is hearing loss.
 
Then you treat it like a cut and let the doctor take a look.

You don't jump in and call the fight.
 
His ear most likely became solid, due to not draining it soon enough like someone mentioned earlier. Sorry I didn't mean for you guys to think that thehorrible ground game in this fight was my only reason for me thinking this was shady. As a mma/bjj fighter myself, it was just hard to watch.
 
I'ma newcomer to MMA and although the ending to the Lawler fight and Kimbo's fight were disappointing, I'm still interested in watching tonight,mainly because I've fallen in love with Gina Carano. I hope CBS gives this a few extra tries because it really could be a solid show.
 
Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

I'ma newcomer to MMA and although the ending to the Lawler fight and Kimbo's fight were disappointing, I'm still interested in watching tonight, mainly because I've fallen in love with Gina Carano. I hope CBS gives this a few extra tries because it really could be a solid show.
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The main event for tonight's WEC show should be good. Faber is the posterboy of the WEC, his nickname is the "The California Kid" buthe doesn't even look like a MMA fighter. He finishes fights and he can submit you or know you out. Pulver is undefeated at 145 and likes to bang.
 
I have my DVR set for tonight. They're actually showing a bunch of fights before the show tonight and....

If you live on the west coast.. the event starts at 6:00 PM
 
-if fighter A is getting hit in the head with what is literally TAPS in the forms of elbows, with no sort of velocity, and is giving the thumbs up to the ref, if you were fighter A, taking no damage, would you want the fight stopped? would you as a spectator want to see the fight stopped?
As a fan: No, don't want it to stop. If the fight is gonna finish, I wanna see a finish.

As a ref: I would stop it. If the guy has a dominate position and the other guy isn't going anything from bottom except getting hit (even if they werepitter patter shots), I stop the fight.

I'ma newcomer to MMA and although the ending to the Lawler fight and Kimbo's fight were disappointing, I'm still interested in watching tonight, mainly because I've fallen in love with Gina Carano. I hope CBS gives this a few extra tries because it really could be a solid show.
Watch tonight mannn. WEC, SOLID card all around. I'm pretty sure people already know about the Uriah/Pulver fight. The Torres/Yoshiro fightshould be good depending on where the fight takes place. Torres is NASTY on the ground and Yoshiro likes to bang. Rob McCullough is fun to watch. The prelimshas Donald Cerrone (solid 155er), Jeff Curran, Chase Beebee (who was the champ before Torres), and Valencia/Cruz should be damn good. Hopefully they decide toplay some of the prelims.
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A high school friend of mine, Mark Munoz, is making his WEC debut today, too.

He was brought into the sport by Uriah, and both coached wrestling at UC Davis.

I can't wait until the show.
 
In case anyone missed it:
http://rapidshare.com/files/119295976/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119298776/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119301359/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119303992/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD1.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119306764/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD1.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119309342/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD1.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119311962/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD1.part7.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/119314920/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119317843/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119320826/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD2.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119323438/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD2.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119326083/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD2.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119328758/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD2.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119331617/EliteXC.Primetime.Saturday.Night.Fights.CD2.part7.rar
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Phil Baroni is such a media %$!%@.

Hilarious.
 
only fight i was anticipating was gina carano

they stopped the kimbo fight too early in my opinion. kind of disappointed, but you know they were trying to spoon feed him an easy win.

gus johnson was calling that thing like the march madness and he witnessing a 16 knocking off a 1, lol
 
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[h1]UrijahFaber ready for tonight's WEC headline status[/h1]
by Dave Meltzer on Jun 01, 2008 at 4:30 pm ET

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In a weekend where the term "the biggest" is being thrown around liberally, it may be the smallest that winds up as the most memorable.

Gary Shaw was proclaiming Saturday night's first live primetime MMA event ever on a major network, a two-hour CBS special, as the biggest thing ever to happen to MMA. Spike TV tabbed the basic cable television premiere of the Dec. 29 Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva, which went head-to-head with the main events on the CBS show, as the biggest match in the history of MMA.

Yet all week, the best hype job has been the endless commercials all over cable sports programming and building up of tonight's Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver match for the World Extreme Cagefighting featherweight championship.

Champion Faber is billed as the No. 1 fighter in the world, which, at least within his weight class, he very well may be.

It's also billed as the biggest match ever, which it most surely isn't, although it is the biggest featherweight match ever, biggest WEC match ever, and biggest MMA match in its short history on Versus.

The anticipation is being built without any bad blood or grudges. For Faber, Pulver was the fighter he dreamed about facing when he was younger, years before getting into the sport. Former UFC lightweight champion Pulver has nothing but glowing comments about Faber's skills.

The two share a lot of similarities. Both grew up with rough childhoods, and were undersized guys who learned to wrestle and fight. Both ended up as high school and college wrestling stars, Pulver at Boise State and Faber at Cal-Davis.

Faber was 14 when he saw Royce Gracie dominate the early UFC events, and when he was in college, he used to imagine what he'd be able to do if he faced Pulver, then UFC's first lightweight champion.

"He's the most dangerous guy I've fought," said Faber. "He can knock me out because he's done it over and over again. My challenge is to do my game plan, avoid being finished, and be the one doing the finishing."

Pulver is known for the left hand of death, while Faber is known for explosive athleticism, almost a smaller version of Georges St. Pierre, but with more varied and creative attacks.

As an example, take his most recent fight, on Dec. 12 when he retained his tile by using a guillotine on Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Jeff Curran. Right before the finish as Curran had taken one of Faber's legs off the ground going for a takedown, Faber, balancing on the other leg, lifted the leg on the ground up to crash a knee into Curran's chin hard enough to stun him and lead to the finish. Faber said it was something he came up with fooling around in practice.

But Pulver will be the first to tell you about the differences. Faber, nicknamed "The California Kid," looks like a fitness model you'd see on a magazine cover. He bears an amazing resemblance to 1980s wrestling heartthrob Kerry Von Erich, and if we're judging based on looks, it's a battle between a prized show dog and, as Pulver describes himself, a mutt.

"This is hands down the biggest moment in my career," said Pulver, 33.

"I've had big moments. The first time I main evented at the Mohegan Sun, the first time fighting Caol Uno, the first time headlining in Las Vegas. People say, `Who wants to see two little 145-pounders fight.' Well, obviously, people do."

But don't let the idea Faber looks like some pretty boy in a health club fool you into thinking he's a manufactured star. He's won his last 12 fights in a row against quality opponents, and none have gotten out of the second round. Overall, he's 20-1, with his only loss to Tyson Griffin when fighting as a lightweight, and giving up about 18 pounds of real bodyweight inside the cage. Pulver, UFC's first lightweight champion, who has spent almost his entire career fighting men physically bigger, is 8-0 when fighting as a featherweight, also with none going the distance and seven knockouts.

If Faber has a weakness, it's that he's fearless.

"I've always believed since I was a little kid that I was a tough guy that nobody's going to beat up," said the 29-year-old Faber. "At times it was unrealistic, but now it's something I've given my life for."

Faber has gone, in less than one year, from being someone who even the UFC fans in his home town didn't know, to becoming one of the biggest drawing local stars in the game. He owns his own MMA training gym, and trains a team of fighters. With the exception of Frank Shamrock and Cung Le in nearby San Jose, nobody outside of UFC has been able to sell 10,000 tickets to an MMA event in North America, a number this event is just shy of as of Thursday night.

When the WEC booked Arco Arena, it was only to be set up for 6,000 people, and given that UFC hadn't done well the last time in town (paid attendance: 8,622), there was a lot of questioning if they were booking too large a venue.

The idea of defending a title in your home town would seem to be a benefit, but there is also the added pressure. Cincinnati's Rich Franklin couldn't wait to get out of the state when preparing for UFC shows in Ohio. Matt Serra figured fighting in Montreal against St. Pierre would be to his benefit because all the pressure was on St. Pierre, although that theory didn't play out so well.

"The pressure is the same as it's always been," said Faber. "It's a dangerous environment but that's what I've chosen for my living. The pressure has been there since I decided I was going to be the kind of guy who is going to be a champion. My life is good whether I win the match or not. I've got my friends and family who are always going to be there. For a living, I work out all day, and get a chance to test myself. It's not like my life's over if I lose."

Faber, ranked No. 7 in Yahoo! Sports' world pound-for-pound rankings, is physically a little smaller than Pulver. Faber's natural fighting weight class would probably be bantamweight (135 pounds, as he wrestled at 133 pounds in college) but when he started, there was little opportunity for anyone lighter than 155. When the chance opened up at 145, he ended up becoming the first legitimate star in the division.

"My goal in the last couple of years has been to put on weight for this weight class," he said. "I went in as a 133-pounder. I was a 133-pounder for five yeas. As of late I've been trying to put on weight. I walk around now at 154, but I've gotten as high as 158 after a big dinner."

"Wrestling wise, I don't think I've been in with a bigger threat," said Pulver. "B.J. (Penn) had good takedowns, but Urijah's style is a catch wrestling. I haven't been against too many guys this fast and this explosive. He's one of the pound-for-pound best. I've been against hard hitters and I've been against good grapplers. I've fought against guys at 160, but never been in with anyone like him."

Dave Meltzer covers mixed martial arts for Yahoo! Sports. Meltzer, who has published the pro wrestling trade industry publication the Wrestling Observer Newsletter since 1982, began covering MMA with UFC 1 in 1993. This story originally appeared on Yahoo! Sports and is syndicated on MMAjunkie.com as part of a content-partnership deal between the two sites.
 
Honestly thoughs elbows at the end of the second round were not hard enough to warrant a stop. Sure he was not really defending himself but there was no realdamage being cause. Kimbo gave that boy some hard punches though but just couldnt sealed the deal. Kimbos strong part is his stand up and should not try to geton the ground. He lacks proper reversal knowledge to even mess with the ground. He was clearly trying to show everyone he could do more than stand up butfailed misserably.
 
faber is a good all around fighter...very impressed. 12 straight wins....but he did lose to tyson griffin (i think?). I'm not really sure how he'sgonna stand with jens pulver...remember this dude's arch rival was bj penn.
im gonna say pulver is gonna take this. If Faber does win...he may actually be ready to fight the top fighters
 
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Took this .gif from sherdog. Last night I actually laughed my #$@ off after I seen this. I heard Frank chuckling in the background too or not

Clean shots by Kimbo thats for sure.
 
If they let Kimbo Slice lose last night, EliteXC would be in big trouble (if they're not already)...


And I cannot stand professional sports writers referring to UCD as Cal-Davis.
 
Originally Posted by jehims

faber is a good all around fighter...very impressed. 12 straight wins....but he did lose to tyson griffin (i think?). I'm not really sure how he's gonna stand with jens pulver...remember this dude's arch rival was bj penn.
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Yeah he lost to Tyson. The fight should've been stopped a few seconds into the fight and ruled a NC when Faber got a BIG gash on his head from hittinghis head on the cage when he shot in. Not to mention Tyson was a MUCH bigger fighter.
 
Originally Posted by super roach

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Took this .gif from sherdog. Last night I actually laughed my #$@ off after I seen this. I heard Frank chuckling in the background too or not

Clean shots by Kimbo thats for sure.
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WOW.
 
the way dudes ear popped was so damn gross i have a weak stomach and that was prob the most graphic thing ive ever seen on regular tv
 
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