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an interview taking place on the news about the dangers of UFC, with Rich Franklin and Dana White the president of UFC. The newsreader highlighting the dangers.
Personally I love watching it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V66P-CWsQ0&search=ufc

Fiddy

i noticed them talking about banning ufc, it would only go underground, then there would be no medical team, no paramedics, no structure. to be honest im a huge fan of ufc, i think mma is the future of martial arts, and combat sports in genral, i cant wait for july 8th, tito ortiz v ken shamrock, its gona be all out war, the first fight between them was my favorite fight in ufc history.

FastFordChris

see the brit won ultimate fighter 3

stonehavencossie

Michael bisping

he was absolutely awsome. would like to see him fight the deaf guy (hamill) i think. The middle weight fight earlier was a cracker. Was waiting for the ginger guy to take a beating all the series. Fair play though it was an even fight and they both got contracts.

We always have to watch the events the next evening on bravo.

Anyone know how we can see it live ? Id be willing to pay

I have a new found respect after the way ortiz treated his fighter in ufc3 so i want him to beat shamrock

GARETH T

what you dont think it already goes on?

Porkie

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Boxing is actually FAR more Dangerous in my view. Boxing has continued blows to the head for 12 rounds as opposed to a couple of punches, knees, kicks and then some wrestling and a choke...

DaveEscos

Id love to enter UFC!

Porkie

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Er Dave you would get badly hurt within 5 seconds??? so why!!!!

Watch this for a FIERCE video!

can't believe how tough both guys are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPO3...earch=kimbo%20

Gannon is a FAILED UFC fighter... so fuck that Dave how hard?!?!? He was in hospital for a long while after. And he WON!

DaveEscos

Lee, im not saying id get anywhere... just id love to enter IF I had the training/strength for it.

I started up boxing last year and im getting VERY bored of it

this looks just my cup of tea

ive always liked hospital food anyway

Porkie

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Watch that Video. Its AMAZING! The white guy is a copper!

How that goes 10mins I will never ever know!

DaveEscos

see how quickly they get tired though..

that Kimbo is the bloke from the infamous 'back yard' fight vid yeah?

VERY hard men imo

GARETH T

ya sure he is,,,,,

both them men are hard as nails,,,,

Porkie

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That Backyard fight is PONY. This video is not... a simply unbelievable will to win from both men.

Gannon said after he came out of hospital that he had nothing but respect for Kimbo and that he 'team' let him down with the silly rules of that fight.

DaveEscos

the back yard fight was lame, on the other guys part. But 'kin hell did it show how much of a bruiser Kimbo is! Really fucked the other blokes face up!

Porkie

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habe you seen Gannons face at the end of that fight?

Matt

ever thought of moving into martial arts then as a happy meduim?

and i dont mean farty karate

Matt

how the fuck dide he keep keep getting up after such a beating

Porkie

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Shocking isn't it Alot of the damage was done early with the two Guillotine standing chock holds apparently. Would have really really taken it out of Kimbo.

He does very well considering he has no real experience in MMA

GARETH T

whats welding got to do with it?


sorry crap joke

Matt

tbh theres not a lot of mma in there though lee, not one kick or elbow and an uproar at a few knees (explain??), some holding yeah but thats only a small part

i like to see toe to toe, ufc annoys me when its on the floor so this gannon kimbo fight was very good in that respect

still gobsmaked how they manage 10 mins of it, a 3 min round in training on the pads fucks me up and as mr lee says "boards dont hit back"

check this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7dwI...ch=muay%20thai

love the move at 2:30, pure class, ballsy as fuck to turn your back like that, straight out of the movies that one

GARETH T

Matt

wicked video matt,, i love watching muay thai

Porkie

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Mat, I didn't say there was alot of MMA in there. and there is a reason.

basically that Kimbo dude offered to fight anyone anywhere anytime... so Gannon said ok and flew over to fight.

Now Kimbo's team were not THAT stupid and knew that their fighter would get kicked to death or put in a choakhold by an experienced UFC or MMA fighter like Gannon.

So they insisted on a few rules and Gannon agreed on them.

1. No kicking - but they also 'meant' no knees BUT did not specify (hence the uproar when Gannon knees him)

2. No Groundwork - as Kimbos team did not want him getting choaked out. However they did not bank on gannon using a standing Choakhold

Gannon was an experienced UFC fighter with alot of MMA skills where as Kimbo is just a backyard brawler. Thats why I think Kimbo did well!

Two very TOUGH guys

DaveEscos

not really Matt.. been boxing forover 4 years so at least i know whats what..

havent the time or energy to learn a 'new trade'

mad vid btw

Fiddy

thats called bareknuckle boxing, where there is basically no rules, so no, i dont think it does already, what you are refering to is fights like on snatch, that is not mma.

Porkie

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Fiddyuk!!! LOOK AT THE VIDEO I POSTED!!!

thats an underground limited MMA fight! so it DOES go on!

Fiddy

if im wrong i hold my hands up, but i dont see the need for underground mma when it is a massive international sport, that would be like undeground football, imo why do it undergound when you can go to a gym, which there is at least 1 in most town or city nowadays, where you can be trained proper mma instructors, and actually make a proffesion of it. back in the day when mma was first starting out, it was pretty much like an underground fight, anyone who has seen old video's of the pride fighting championships in japan will tell you that. but now there is more rules, and structure to the fights. ive noticed reference to the kimbo fights, i posted the second fight against gannon months ago when someone started a thread about the first one in the backyard, kimbo is basically an underground fighter, but he is very 1 dimentional, beacuse his forte is boxing, his first in the backyard was a boxing match, his second fight against gannon kept getting interupted by people shouting "no knee's, no knee's", for me it was a miss match, a boxer against a mixed martial artist, and gannon didnt even go mma on him, he caught him with a couple of knees, if he had gone full mma on him, the fight would have been lucky to last 60 seconds.

Fiddy

and good luck to michael bisping, he did england proud in the ultimate fighter 3

FastFordChris

gypsys have been bare knuckle fighting for years, although theres not much skill in it if you ask me, doesnt take much brain power to stand there and knock 3 bells of shite out of someone.

they'll never ban ufc as its becomming to popular and making to much money and even if they did it would only move down to mexico, the whole brutality arguments been thrown around for years for boxing but thats never been banned, govenments stand to loose to much money to ever ban it and if ufc keeps going the way it is the same will apply there.

ufc's become very tame compared to its early days but its had to in order to be seen as a "professional sport" which i would say has been for the better.

it wont be long till sky sports catch on and start showing it when the bravo contract is up so that should promise some ppv shows etc.

Sean_RS

cant wait for the Shamrock fight!! Going to be a mint Stella fight night!!!!!



I'd love to do UFC... Would get te shit kicked out of myself though

Mike Rainbird

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All those wanting to do it reminds me of the Friends episodes with the multi-millionaire that wanted to do it .

OvaBoost

gypo kids at my boxing club relatives bare knuckle box lol
I also get fucked in the 2nd/3rd round on the pads at boxing...just my calfs get very tired and ache like fuck
My gym re-opens 12th august for the new season cant wait it's so boring without it lol

Matt

ahh got you now lee
a huge re the choakhold then lol
2 very tough chaps indeed
ive even more respect for gannon now for being blagged into using way less than he is capable of and still coming out on top then

thought you said you started last year?
youre the one who said you was getting bored
i know a few people who cage fight, no pure boxers amongst them
8 point contact mo fo
tell you pal im addicted, its fucking fascinating

this isnt the ultimate hair quiffing championship mike so no hom comments re womens tv programmes thankyou please

Porkie

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I remember that Mike, 'I've conquered the business world, the mental world and now I want to conquer the Physical world'

and he got his ass kicked!

FastFordChris

by tank abbott if i remember correctly

pauldowts

kimbo is awsome,

have you seen the vid where he fights the guy with long hair in the car park??

what a punch!!!!

Matt

this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=kimbo&v=n13ce8HK_Tg