Bullshit Stoned dont give me the "Injury" excuse. Everybody says that when they get beat or have a lackluster performance. I hate it.
Lutter is a C Level Fighter, I dont care about his BJJ black belt as an overall MMA fighter he is C level at best and he has Silva on his back at will. Imagine what a good wrestler would do to Silva.
Dude, i know that excuse is used a lot but have you ever thought that sometimes it's true. Silva's takedown defence become non existent it was pretty obvious if you've seen him before that something was wrong you don't just lose the ability to block takedowns because
Lutter's takedown attempts were hardly wonderful....
....and don't forget how he demolished
Franklin...is he a C level fighter?
Pride doesnt suck but it has vastly been overrated by people who do this withe verything.
UFC is mainstream so people love to hate on Mainstream things and act like more underground lesser known things are better and superior when in reality they arent.
Dude you should know me better than that. Now i prefer
PRIDE because you get loads more ground based stuff, lot's more submission fighting which as you know is my thing whereas
UFC you are getting more and more stand up. Look back at
Gonzaga vs
Cro Cop,
Gonzaga was dominating him on the ground with elbows, doing damage and they got stood up that was bullshit but that was a combination of appeasing the fans and protecting
Cro Cop, no way should they of been stood up.
Rampage may not be the same fighter as he was in 2003 but Chuck is 100 times better since then so if Chuck's victory doesnt mean much, rampage's doesnt mean much in 03.
He's hardly a 100 times better you are prone to exagerrating a tad
my point is, he's got better
Rampage hasn't.
Rampage has lost that aggression that
Mike Tyson like killer instinct, i'll be shocked if
Rampage wins, if he does i'd put it down to
Chuck being nervous due to what happened in 2003....
...The whole point of a "
PRIDE" vs "
UFC" thing is the best in each weight division facing off. Well
Rampage was NOT the best
LightHeavyweight in
PRIDE,
Henderson,
Shogun &
Wanderlai are all superior....
...as for
UFC vs
PRIDE the first fight in the
MMA Series occured at
PRIDE 34 and
Monson won so it's 1-0 to
UFC, for now.
Both promotions i love watching, both have great fighters and both have some poor fighters, what annoyed the hell out of me was the way people were jumping up and down laughing when
Cro Cop lost saying
PRIDE sucks, that became the general consensus on many of the forums based on one fight which is bullshit.
The truth is they both have great fighters for that organazation. but doesn't mean that they transfer well to the other. i
Spot on. Look at guys like
Wanderlai and
Shogun these guys finish their opponents with soccer kicks and stomps, hell they aren't even legal now.
Look at
Matt Hughes and
Tito Ortiz, they love to shove their opponents into the side of the cage (can't do that in
PRIDE) and
Tito loves to unleash the ground and pound with those elbows, well in
PRIDE he couldn't do that either, well he could now since the rules are being switched (Unfortunately) but before he would of been unable to.
And on the subject of
Cro Cop, he's suffered defeats before, shock ones to (See:
Randleman) and he's come back stronger, i still expect he to be
Champion in time, he's a smart guy who will learn and come back better than ever, one defeat means nothing!
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