OT: UFC Fight Night!

[flyhi]

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Anyone else geared up to watch the fights tonite on Spike at 8pm? It's the finale of The Ultimate Fighter Reality show. I always watch the fights, but have an even more vested interest tonite - my former teammate is making his UFC debut. He got his butt beat by one of the finalists (Bermudez), but is a good fighter. His name is Stephen 'Badass' Bass. It will be pretty cool to see him on the big screen. We were a small team out of Savannah, GA and my former coach will be in his corner. He's fighting Brimage who is out of an extremely well known camp in Florida, so we shall see...

Anyways, fights are free tonite and the main event is Miller vs. Bisbing...they've been going at it all season and should be a phenomenal fight. Diego vs. Bermudez should be an all out war. The whole card should be great!

Between the SEC, OU v. Ok State and UFC fights...it's a stacked night!

 

[bobdolerson]

Isn't there some sort of relatedness requirement for posting in this forum? Not trying to be a bigger buzz kill than Buzz Killington, but people use this place for finding useful information from students and prospectives. Bogging it down with UFC fight night stuff doesn't really help anyone. I know, I know...one thread! But if this is allowed, and more allowed, eventually this is just a general forum with occasional foot talk.

That being said, I'm an Aggie that's watched his team disintegrate from 8th to unranked. NCAA football is dead to me.

 

[flyhi]

nm...BD is just upset about his Aggies

 

[hematosis]

wow dude you are my new best friend! i did mma after wrestling in college and it totally sucks that no one in my school watches this great sport. anyways, i saw the fight it was awesome!👍👍👍

edit..it was awesome but i'm bummed that miller lost. I really wanted him to win. I can't stand that no good english idiot. I'm also a little upset that tj lost.

 

[flyhi]

Finally a fan! Someone who will play 😀 I didn't have a wrestling background, just kickboxing and boxing. Started wrestling when I trained in Vegas...I admire you guys. Fights were great tonite, except Miller look absolutely horrific and was gassed out by the second round. Diego will go far. Did you fight?

 

[hematosis]

yes, i had 3 fights but it became really hard to train and still do well in pod school. I still train jujitsu and coach wrestling every now and then at a gym by my school.

and i agree with u about diego, one of the best arm bar submissions i've seen in a while.
on a side note, its really interesting that a lot of my classmates have an athletic background, and they are some of the best students in the class. I'm not sure what it is about it, but i think the great work ethic you develop from playing sports and being active really helps you in professional school.

 

[flyhi]

Props to you. MMA is the hardest training I've ever done. I cannot imagine having enough time in pod school. We were up to 5-6 hrs/day before a fight. I'm going to hang a bag in my garage at school and hope to do some jits, if I can find a good place but that will be about it.

Athletes are competitive by nature and I think in professional school (see, this thread IS about podiatry) when we aren't competing at that collegiate level any more, it becomes about putting the effort and discipline into our studies. I also think the fact that athletes are coached their entire lives...it correlates well to being taught a new subject in school and looking for mentors to learn even more from.

And, BD, this thread is completely about podiatry for me... a ruptured plantar fascia from kickboxing is THE reason I got interested in podiatry. Plus, many of us are interested in the sports medicine aspect of podiatry and MMA fighters have many, many lower leg and foot issues due to the stress they put on them day in and day out while they are barefoot and with zero protection. Only sissy's wear wrestling shoes (sorry if you did, hematosis 😛)

See, somehow we always end back up talking about the feetsies. 😀

 

[PADPM]

If you guys are the real deal and REALLY know MMA, then you must know the name Royce Gracie. Anyone involved with jujitsu knows the Gracie family who are basically roylalty in Brazil. When it comes to sports, the only other athlete more popular than the Gracie family from Brazil was Pele.

Well, a little know fact is that Royce Gracie's wife is a podiatrist. She does not use the name Gracie. I was involved with some of her training many years ago prior to her marrying Royce and when he and his family started the whole ultimate fighting theme.

At that time, no one really understood jujitsu. They saw this slender guy get in the ring with these huge monsters (the original UFC pitted masters of mutiple disciplines against one another) that looked like they were going to kill Royce. They were bulked up and twice his size. He would immediately take them to the ground and get on his back. The untrained audience thought it was suicide. Then he would wrap the huge monster in a knot, and before you know it the huge monster was tapping out with Royce having the guy in some submission hold no one had ever seen.

Hence the beginning of MMA.

I had the opportunity to meet and train with him and his skills and speed were beyond comprehension. He had a counter for every move you could imagine, and he anticipated a move before I thought of the move.

Yes, he lost as he aged, but in his prime he was unbelievable. He and his wife have a couple of kids and living in California where she practices.

 

[347932]

If you guys are the real deal and REALLY know MMA, then you must know the name Royce Gracie. Anyone involved with jujitsu knows the Gracie family who are basically roylalty in Brazil. When it comes to sports, the only other athlete more popular than the Gracie family from Brazil was Pele.

Well, a little know fact is that Royce Gracie's wife is a podiatrist. She does not use the name Gracie. I was involved with some of her training many years ago prior to her marrying Royce and when he and his family started the whole ultimate fighting theme.

At that time, no one really understood jujitsu. They saw this slender guy get in the ring with these huge monsters (the original UFC pitted masters of mutiple disciplines against one another) that looked like they were going to kill Royce. They were bulked up and twice his size. He would immediately take them to the ground and get on his back. The untrained audience thought it was suicide. Then he would wrap the huge monster in a knot, and before you know it the huge monster was tapping out with Royce having the guy in some submission hold no one had ever seen.

Hence the beginning of MMA.

I had the opportunity to meet and train with him and his skills and speed were beyond comprehension. He had a counter for every move you could imagine, and he anticipated a move before I thought of the move.

Yes, he lost as he aged, but in his prime he was unbelievable. He and his wife have a couple of kids and living in California where she practices.

Wow!! He was THE father of modern Bazilian Jujitsu and invented MMA basically. He started off fighting with a Karate Gi on, but then his opponents would complain that he cheated. If memory serves, he then started showing up in Speedos basically and still kicked their asses. He was absolutely brilliant. Think the speed of Bruce Lee, but on the ground. A true master.

 

[bobdolerson]

I remember watching the original UFC, UFC 2, etc. and wondering "who is Hoice?"

Royce was phenomenal, far ahead of his time. His conditioning wasn't up to the extremes of today, but at the time he was unstoppable. I saw Matt Hughes put him in an armbar and displace it far beyond anyone else able to take, and Royce just calmly stared ahead, not making a peep.

Royce is the man.

 

[flyhi]

VERY cool, PADPM! I trained under Ricardo Cavalcanti, from Brazil, who got his 5th degree black belt from Carlson Gracie, Sr. I watched that fight you mentioned...it was amazing to watch him have his way with guys twice his size. There were basically no rules back then either, which is why it almost failed as it was too brutal for typical human consumption.

Very interesting about his wife being a podiatrist!

 

[hematosis]

If you guys are the real deal and REALLY know MMA, then you must know the name Royce Gracie. Anyone involved with jujitsu knows the Gracie family who are basically roylalty in Brazil. When it comes to sports, the only other athlete more popular than the Gracie family from Brazil was Pele.

Well, a little know fact is that Royce Gracie's wife is a podiatrist. She does not use the name Gracie. I was involved with some of her training many years ago prior to her marrying Royce and when he and his family started the whole ultimate fighting theme.

At that time, no one really understood jujitsu. They saw this slender guy get in the ring with these huge monsters (the original UFC pitted masters of mutiple disciplines against one another) that looked like they were going to kill Royce. They were bulked up and twice his size. He would immediately take them to the ground and get on his back. The untrained audience thought it was suicide. Then he would wrap the huge monster in a knot, and before you know it the huge monster was tapping out with Royce having the guy in some submission hold no one had ever seen.

Hence the beginning of MMA.

I had the opportunity to meet and train with him and his skills and speed were beyond comprehension. He had a counter for every move you could imagine, and he anticipated a move before I thought of the move.

Yes, he lost as he aged, but in his prime he was unbelievable. He and his wife have a couple of kids and living in California where she practices.

By the beard of Zeus, ain't that something. Never would have expected that.