Dream 5 * Affliction Banned * Ultimate Fight Night *
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dj1470 said:
Tim Sylvia is a chump but he's never been dominated in that fashion...
Randy, Big Nog and Arlvoski have all beat Sylvia but not in even close to the way Fedor manhandled Timmie....
And in 36 seconds....
I think I wrote 38 in my other post....Was off by 2 seconds, sorry!!!
I was blown away with the performance by Arlovski. I've seen the majority of his fights and I would have to say that he preformed a lot better than I expected. Barnett showed a lot of balls by standing up with Rizzo. I was beginning to get worried that Rizzo would land a kick and GNP Barnett until the ref stopped in and right then Barnett knocked him out.
As far as Fedor. LOL, I'm still speechless. I expected Fedor to win easily but not that easily.
BTW Manji, thanks for your help with the picks, I owe you a few hundred in lap dances and drinks. I wish wish Franca would have won...I would have made just under 2K in a long shot parlay I had if he had won.
Do you have any strong leans for the Dream card? I was thinking about taking Alvarez and the line just dropped from +150 to +100 which means money is pouring in on him. Aoki is still a 3:1 favorite and I don't feel like laying those odds again Uno, because he does have a strikers chance.
Thanks in advance.
As far as Fedor. LOL, I'm still speechless. I expected Fedor to win easily but not that easily.
BTW Manji, thanks for your help with the picks, I owe you a few hundred in lap dances and drinks. I wish wish Franca would have won...I would have made just under 2K in a long shot parlay I had if he had won.
Do you have any strong leans for the Dream card? I was thinking about taking Alvarez and the line just dropped from +150 to +100 which means money is pouring in on him. Aoki is still a 3:1 favorite and I don't feel like laying those odds again Uno, because he does have a strikers chance.
Thanks in advance.
Young_City said:
Tournaments make the outcomes so much harder to predict....
I'm going with Kawajiri....but if he takes too much damage in his first fight it might be Aoki...
Hell, it would be funny if an alternate like Hansen would win the tournament...
Pulled the trigger on these plays:
Kuniyoshi Hironaka
Shinya Aoki
Joachim Hansen
And a small play on Aoki winning the tournament.
Lots of juice but I had a good day thanks to the Argos. Only a hour and a half before the show starts.
Kuniyoshi Hironaka
Shinya Aoki
Joachim Hansen
And a small play on Aoki winning the tournament.
Lots of juice but I had a good day thanks to the Argos. Only a hour and a half before the show starts.
So I managed to catch the fights in a bar in downtown. Affliction didn't do a great job in promoting, and not too many bars I've called were showing it. Nevertheless, I found one and it was a great night.
Affliction started off a bit slow, and the production wasn't top notch (too dark, too quiet, and awkward pauses). What is the deal with Megadeth, they were relevant in the last century. The fight picked up with a slick submission by Mark Homnick. Good to see Barnett and Arlovski fight, and they were pretty impressive. They should fight next to see who fights Fedor, even though I think either would be a better match up for Fedor than Randy, but business is business.
Had a great chance to introduce Fedor and his overall awesomeness to my friends, but he disappointed me, in a good way. 36 seconds was damn quick. I remember him saying after the hand injury that he wants to finish fight ASAP, and I guess he's a man/machine of his words. Tim Sylvia is no pushover, and was ranked 4th in HW. This just shows that Fedor is still good, and comes in with a great game plan and executed it perfectly. I hope he fights the worthy contenders, stay focused, and wins (he's a true athlete of the sport, and a good face for MMA).
UFN was alright, the things that impressed me were Dolloway's Peruvian necktie, that crazy kick by Markham, and of course Anderson Silva. The rest were average to boring (Vera's dry humping of Reese). Irvin made a mistake to strike from the outside with the Spider instead of clinching with him (didn't he say his clinch is better than anyone Silva's faced?). Rampage better take notes in prison, because that's how you turn your opponents' leg kicks into weapons against themselves.
I didn't get a chance to see DREAM 5, and I would have thought Aoki would've taken it. Brutal payback by Hansen for that Gogoplata 2 years ago. This shows Aoki is still rather one dimensional, and does not have the standup game that the elite lightweights have (e.g. Penn). He's still young, and with a good standup I think he can challenge Penn for world's best LW.
Affliction started off a bit slow, and the production wasn't top notch (too dark, too quiet, and awkward pauses). What is the deal with Megadeth, they were relevant in the last century. The fight picked up with a slick submission by Mark Homnick. Good to see Barnett and Arlovski fight, and they were pretty impressive. They should fight next to see who fights Fedor, even though I think either would be a better match up for Fedor than Randy, but business is business.
Had a great chance to introduce Fedor and his overall awesomeness to my friends, but he disappointed me, in a good way. 36 seconds was damn quick. I remember him saying after the hand injury that he wants to finish fight ASAP, and I guess he's a man/machine of his words. Tim Sylvia is no pushover, and was ranked 4th in HW. This just shows that Fedor is still good, and comes in with a great game plan and executed it perfectly. I hope he fights the worthy contenders, stay focused, and wins (he's a true athlete of the sport, and a good face for MMA).
UFN was alright, the things that impressed me were Dolloway's Peruvian necktie, that crazy kick by Markham, and of course Anderson Silva. The rest were average to boring (Vera's dry humping of Reese). Irvin made a mistake to strike from the outside with the Spider instead of clinching with him (didn't he say his clinch is better than anyone Silva's faced?). Rampage better take notes in prison, because that's how you turn your opponents' leg kicks into weapons against themselves.
I didn't get a chance to see DREAM 5, and I would have thought Aoki would've taken it. Brutal payback by Hansen for that Gogoplata 2 years ago. This shows Aoki is still rather one dimensional, and does not have the standup game that the elite lightweights have (e.g. Penn). He's still young, and with a good standup I think he can challenge Penn for world's best LW.
