What fights have you watched today?

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  1. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    Forgetting Sudo, prime Fernandes? Cruz yeah.. Probably ranks above him. But Torres? No way.
     
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  2. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    I suggest taking a further look at his resume... Even Yahya is a solid scalp. Yahya was just coming off a title shot against Beebe - where he lasted the distance. Yamamoto beat the hell out of him and secured the stoppage. So there's a real good case for him being the best at 135 even in 2007, it wasn't until Cruz came a long that Yamamoto's greatness at the weight really became challenged.
     
    UnleashtheFURY, Sep 7, 2017
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  3. ForemanJab

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    Yamamoto was a great fighter for a few years, incredible natural athlete. It must be remembered that he came into the sport as a pure wrestler and picked up the striking game very quickly. He even gave a kickboxing legend like Masato a tough fight in K1. His biggest mistake was trying to be a 3 sport athlete and make the Japanese Olympics freestyle wrestling team. He badly broke his arm in qualifiers and was never the same again.
     
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  4. ForemanJab

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    He definitely has a very solid resume and some underrated wins. The Mongolian guy, forget his name, that he KO'd was pretty good, I remember him beating the hell out of Gono.
     
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  5. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    That "Mongolian guy" funnily enough was scheduled to fight on last weeks One FC, he's 41 but has still been able to hang there(not the UFC but there's some solid operators) the fight was scrapped though.
     
    UnleashtheFURY, Sep 7, 2017
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  6. Kevin Willis

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    Holm vs Correa or whatever her name is, the one who made fun of Rowdy Ronda rotten crotch and lost in like a minute. and it was boring beyond belief.

    I guess she also talked crap to Holm and got another KO for her trouble. God damn; I am talking about and watching WMMA LOOL What's wrong with me? The only ones I like are Cyborg and that actual female who is fighting Nunes this weekend.
     
    Kevin Willis, Sep 7, 2017
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  7. Todd498

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    I hope Shrek gets flatlined this weekend for delaying the handing over of the belt to Valentina.
     
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  8. lufcrazy

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    I'll look over his resume and watch some of his fights.
     
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  9. Brixton Bomber

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    1) Kid would kill Torres. Literally.
    2) There was talk of him fighting Gomi back then. That's how special Kid was.

    Kid vs Frankie Edgar? Oh gosh, that'd have been some fight!
     
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  10. lufcrazy

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    I've been looking into him more.

    He completely slipped my radar.

    Guess that's partly because his division didn't exist whilst he was fighting and I don't always rate heroes that highly.

    Alexandre Nog slipped my radar at first as well tell I saw his name pop up a few times as well.

    Not fully rated Yamamoto yet but when I've watched everything I can pre 2010 I'll probably be inserting him into my ATG rankings.
     
    lufcrazy, Sep 9, 2017
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  11. lufcrazy

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    Kid Yamamoto.

    Watched a bit of him now, as much as I can find anyways.

    He seems like a complete nob with all the show boating and that post stoppage g&p but talent wise he looks a beast and I see why he's highly rated.

    His wrestling is obviously world class great takedowns and great positional grappling on the map, but his speed and aggressive striking is very impressive as well.

    I would favour him over the likes of Beebe, Wineland and Torres. Not sure if he'd be able to grind down Cruz and Garbrandt though with their outside game.
     
    lufcrazy, Sep 10, 2017
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  12. lufcrazy

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    Rampage Vs Evans.

    Sugar Rashad picks up a very big victory here over heated rival Jackson.

    Rashad lands a huge punch in the opening exchanges that hurts Rampage badly. He controls round 2. Round 3 was going the same way but then Rampage lands a huge shot of his own and comes within a whisker if finishing the the fight before Evans recovered well and sees the fight out.

    Over 5 rounds this would have been interesting.
     
    lufcrazy, Sep 16, 2017
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  13. lufcrazy

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    Almost a month since my last update.

    Watching Leben vs Akiyama.

    What a war.

    It's a shame Leben ran into Silva when he was basically unbeatable, he'd have been in a great match up with Franklin.
     
    lufcrazy, Oct 10, 2017
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  14. lufcrazy

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    My spreadsheet corrupted

    So this is just incase it happens again, my rankings as of year end 2010

    1 Anderson Silva
    2 Georges St Pierre
    3 Fedor Emilinanenko
    4 BJ Penn
    5 Matt Hughes
    6 Jose Aldo
    7 Kazushi Sakuraba
    8 Mauricio Rua
    9 Wanderlei Silva
    10 Rodrigo Nogueira
    11 Frankie Edgar
    12 Lyoto Machida
    13 Dominic Cruz
    14 Jake Shields
    15 Dan Henderson
    16 Rampage Jackson
    17 Rich Franklin
    18 Mirko Filpovich
    19 Chuck Liddell
    20 Randy Couture
    21 Royce Gracie
    22 Frank Shamrock
    23 Urijah Faber
    24 Gilbert Melendez
    25 Kid Yamamoto
    26 Shinya Aoki
    27 Rashad Evans
    28 Takanori Gomi
    29 Miguel Torres
    30 Alexandre Nogueira
    31 Cain Velasquez
    32 Sean Sherk
    33 Fabricio Werdum
    34 Tito Ortiz
    35 Josh Barnett
    36 Paulo Filho
    37 Junior Dos Santos
    38 Ken Shamrock
    39 Alistair Overeem
    40 Ricardo Arona
    41 Evan Tanner
    42 Mark Coleman
    43 Carlos Condit
    44 Forrest Griffin
    45 Nick Diaz
    46 Anthony Pettis
    47 Renzo Gracie
    48 Benson Henderson
    49 Hayato Sakurai
    50 Mike Brown
    51 Carlos Newton
     
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  15. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Not sure if I've overlooked anyone.
     
    lufcrazy, Oct 10, 2017
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