[IcemanCometh]

It looked like three elbows to me if you watch the replay. It also looked like all three hit Shinya's shoulder/trap which could have caused a stinger in the nerve up there which trust me can hurt and suck.

[Terry77]

I thought he messed up his collar bone or shoulder if anything. There are pics of Aoki in a sling.

[sjbboy38]

its been a while since i've seen such a respective crowd...no booing, only cheers from the japanese crowd...

[sworddemon]

That was a crazy high kick by JZ! I wish that fight would have continued.

Cro Cop still didn't look amazing, but I liked the clinch work. I can't remember the last time I saw him throw a knee. Maybe he tried a couple times in the Kongo fight, but I don't remember. Nice to see him in front of a Japanese crowd. Hopefully he gets some real competition.

[Aaronyman]

the Alvarez/Dida fight was a massacre...that was some brutal shots he was taking over and over again....i loved that fight

the rest of the event was pretty solid....CC really beat Mizuna down...jeesh he ate alot of hard shots

[bbjd7]

TB everyone knows Dida doesn't believe in TDD or Guard look at his fight with JZ.

[T.B.]

Originally Posted by bbjd7

TB everyone knows Dida doesn't believe in TDD or Guard look at his fight with JZ.

Very true. I guess I was just happy to see Eddie win, but I do like Dida though. He's got serious skills. Just needs to fine-tune his striking a touch (to not throw with so much reckless abandon), and work some TDD...and he'll be a beast @ 155.

He'll be back though.

[bbjd7]

Very True he has crazy power and his Knees are fantastic which he didn't show in this fight.

His problem with TDD is he is so aggressive that he is moving foward all the time which makes it hard for him to sprawl however he does need to learn some Jiu Jitsu since his brother a great BJJ black belt who has a number of succesful schools, and the co owners of his gym are the Rua brothers who while slightly lacking in their stand up have fantastic ground games.

However he defiantly has the shorts down because those Punisher UDL shorts looked sick.

[T.B.]

Originally Posted by bbjd7

Very True he has crazy power and his Knees are fantastic which he didn't show in this fight.

His problem with TDD is he is so aggressive that he is moving foward all the time which makes it hard for him to sprawl however he does need to learn some Jiu Jitsu since his brother a great BJJ black belt who has a number of succesful schools, and the co owners of his gym are the Rua brothers who while slightly lacking in their stand up have fantastic ground games.

However he defiantly has the shorts down because those Punisher UDL shorts looked sick.

Exactly. Dida is relentless when he's throwing (as I was saying), and he just loves to close the distance and bang...well, Alvarez hung tough, eluding shots and would go for the TD, and like you said - once Dida was over committed like that, he was easily taken down. No time to even think about a sprawl cause you're already in such short range. He'll learn though. Like you said: they need to give and take from each other...him and the Rua's. Dida can work them on the standing aspect, and they can teach him some ground tricks.

All great fighters learn more from losses than they do victories, as we all know. He'll come back better than ever, and when he does...we'll all be impressed.

Oh, and I found a SICK picture of Dida. I was thinking about avatar'ing it for you bbjd - interested?

[bbjd7]

Would love a sick Dida Avatar I gotta put on the Frank Av the week leading up to his fight but after that I would defiantly like to have the Dida avatar just to show I ain't off my boys bandwagon.