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#1 ·
Guys, can we talk about some random Pride stuff here?
Lets make this the "Speak your mind about Pride thread". I m just bored, and every time I look in this section, the last post was like 12 hours ago. It bothers me. A lot.
 
#5 ·
asskicker said:
I know more people need to post here. Theres like 10 random UFC threads a day. Im always closing, mergings, and doing other shit in UFC yet Pride cant find a single thing to talk about. It sucks so many more people care about UFC.
Yeah lol, the good thing however is that the Pride forum usually has more educated discussion. I mean we don't have a "Pride Smacktalk" forum do we? Lol.
 
#6 ·
Random Pride Discussion Thread

I've decided I am going to post more in the Pride forum, so let's start. This is just to keep the Pride section more active and to spark some interesting conversation.

How about Josh Barnett? We haven't heard anything from this guy since the Pride-UFC merger talks. I know that he has expressed ill-thoughts to returning to the UFC, but its hard to argue that he wouldn't make things even more interesting. I don't want to turn this into a UFC discussion, but I just want to throw out there that Barnett would pose problems for guys like Randy, Gonzaga, Sylvia and Vera.

Barnett has had a fairly good Pride career. Although the highly anticipated bout with Fedor has basically been abandoned, Barnett is now the number two man in the Pride HW division.

It's funny how things change isn't it? At one point, Pride had an untouchable HW division, but now they've got basically nothing.

Let's play around with this thread, and see where it takes us.

Discuss.
 
#8 · (Edited by Moderator)
the real hitman said:
I love pride so much...watchin the japanese referes saying "judge judge judge READY GOOOOOOO"
Thats sooooo awsome
i love it
Haha, I thought I was the only one who really gets a kick out of that. Barnetts the man. Always brings it and his fights are generally almost always entertaining as hell. Hes already beaten Randy pretty soundly but he was on the juice at the time. He has to stay over at Pride, hes pretty much the face of the heavyweight division if Fedor ends up going somewhere else. Though if he were to come over to the UFC I would love to see him and Big Nog fight it out for the third time. I watched the first two fights again a couple of nights ago and they are as good as it gets when it comes to a great well rounded heavyweight fight. Good stand up battles, great sub attempts, reversals galore on the ground. Nog almost having Barnett arm barred in the first fight and Barnett almost getting the rear naked choke in the second are two of my favorite sub escapes ever. I might have to go back and watch them again now.
 
#14 ·
We need more Butterbean ACTION!

You know who I miss though...Guy F'N Mezger.

Also, I can't wait until Gomi gets his ass whipped again. :D Yeah, that's what I said...

Shoooooguuuuuuuuun! Or should I pronounce it like in his entrance theme? :D "Show gooooooon!"
 
#17 ·
Random Pride FC Thoughts

Well, Kharitonov was trying to get a contract to fight on one of the Elite XC cards in June, but it did not work out. I guess he isn't signed with Pride at the moment because I thought Pride Worldwide wanted their contractd to be exclusive.

Who will move up from Lightweight(155) to Welterweight(170)-maybe Aoki.

Are Kang and Trigg still with Pride? As they both fought they're last fight in a different organization.

Wandy won't be included in my power rankings until he comes back.

I have plenty more questions but no answers for them. Please update the PrideFC website!!!

------------------
Top 3 guys in the company
1. Fedor
2. Shogun
3. Barnett
 
#20 ·
TREY B. said:
You know who I miss though...Guy F'N Mezger.
I miss Guy, too. Seriously, Guy was awesome. Well, he still is, actually.

Telligman vs Igor was a fight that should get more love. Sure, it wasn't as great as Rizzo vs Telligman, but there were some glimpses of swank scattered throughout. Definitely not the dull fight that people say it was.

I wish Igor whooped Alistair Overeem in the MW GP, because Shogun vs Igor would've ruled so much.

Shogun, is of course, awesome as hell. Shogun vs lil Nog is swank stuff.
 
#21 ·
Bushido 8

I'll give some thoughts of a Pride event I just watched, Bushido 8, it has to be one of the best Bushido's and top Pride event overall I've ever seen.

1. Josh Thomson getting out of Sugie's armbar and then slipping into a kneebar was wicked awesome, and it really makes me wonder were the hell Josh Thomson has gone because he showed great skills in this fight.

2. Kang vs. Semenov wasn't the MOST exciting fighting ever, but I still loved it, Kang is my favourite fighter (along with GSP) and yah, just super cool.

3. Aurelio vs/ Nakao - ..just in the process of watching this fight.

4. James Thompson gets his first win in Pride, with a "swank"(Damone) knockout of Sentoryu.

5. Joachim Hansen vs. Imanari, probably one of my favourites on the whole card. Watching Imanari trying to dive at Hansens legs going for leg locks was just bloody hilarious. Hansen realy showed he wasn't impressed especially after Imanari get's him in a leg lock and Hansen escapes then walks away as if it was nothing. But the BEST part is when Imanari shoots for the last time, Hansen lands the most devestating left knee (I don't think he even jumped) and again walks away as if it was nothing.....I'm reallying digging Joachim after this fight.

6. Misaki vs. Acacio was just a fast paced actios packed brawl, realy dug this fight.

7. Kawajiri vs. Firmino, Kawajiri took a while to get going but his foot stomps and finish at the end of the fight were just wickedly cool. Just pulled of the UD.

8. Minowa submitting Kimo was awesome.

9. Baroni Knocking Chonan out was awesome.

10. And just in the Process of watching Gomi vs. Silva.

It was one huge ass card, which is why I'm still not finished it. If you haven't seen it yet (sorry I spoiled it for u), but I highly recommend seeing it anyway. you won't remember all the outcomes anyway because there are so many fights!.

Just an overall great event.
 
#22 ·
TREY B. said:
We need more Butterbean ACTION!

You know who I miss though...Guy F'N Mezger.

Also, I can't wait until Gomi gets his ass whipped again. :D Yeah, that's what I said...

Shoooooguuuuuuuuun! Or should I pronounce it like in his entrance theme? :D "Show gooooooon!"
Butterbean is entertaining. Who'd of thunk it? Bean by KEYLOCK!

Guy was awesome. He seriously got screwed out of so many damn decisions, and he had the heart of a fighter. I'd love to see Guy/Tito 3, just because Guy is freakin' awesome.

Gomi, Gomi, Gomi. In the Diaz fight, I seriously thought he was the high one. Hopefully he comes back strong in the LWGP.

Random Shogun chants. Noice.

/\/\etallica said:
Random Pride FC Thoughts

Well, Kharitonov was trying to get a contract to fight on one of the Elite XC cards in June, but it did not work out. I guess he isn't signed with Pride at the moment because I thought Pride Worldwide wanted their contractd to be exclusive.

Who will move up from Lightweight(155) to Welterweight(170)-maybe Aoki.

Are Kang and Trigg still with Pride? As they both fought they're last fight in a different organization.

Wandy won't be included in my power rankings until he comes back.

I have plenty more questions but no answers for them. Please update the PrideFC website!!!
I thought Sergei was going to fight on the K-1/EliteXC super card?

Hmm, I assume you mean if Pride WW takes over the UFC weight classes? I'd see Aoki, Diaz and all of the bigger 160'ers. But then again,it's just an extra 5 pounds to cut, I am sure guys would like to fight as bullies at the smaller weight.

As far as I know Kang and Trigg are still with Pride. Kang said at 33, that he wants to fight in Pride again, and I think Trigg still has one fight left on his contract.

Yeah Pride is really slow on updating their website and putting out fight cards. I hope they start to quicken things up now that they are in Zuffa control.

Damone said:
So, I watched the Wanderlei tribute last night on FSN, and man, how come Fujita vs Wandy doesn't get much love? Seriously, that was one of Wandy's best fights, and it was a huge win against a tough as hell HW.
It was a pretty good fight. It proved that Wandy could hang, as he was fighting the freakin' Ironhead. Honestly, it was great to see Wandy pound a huge HW.

Damone said:
I miss Guy, too. Seriously, Guy was awesome. Well, he still is, actually.

Telligman vs Igor was a fight that should get more love. Sure, it wasn't as great as Rizzo vs Telligman, but there were some glimpses of swank scattered throughout. Definitely not the dull fight that people say it was.

I wish Igor whooped Alistair Overeem in the MW GP, because Shogun vs Igor would've ruled so much.

Shogun, is of course, awesome as hell. Shogun vs lil Nog is swank stuff.
Ah, Igor. Yeah Tellingman/Igor was a good fight, but I can see how idiots that just fast forward through the fights could have disliked it.

Unfortunately for Igor, that was probably Overeem at one of his best showings, but yeah Shogun/Igor would have been sweet.

Indeed, Shogun/Lil Nog is a fight that will go down in history. In fact, all new sign ups to the forum should have to watch the fight, just so that they are informed of the sweetness of this fight.
 
#23 ·
-There is nothing better than random Shogun chants. It makes me all tingly inside.
-Butterbean amuses me. A lot.
-I think the Mark Kerr can opener hurt Borisov really bad. But why didnt he push off on Mark's face?
- I cannot belive Mark Hunt survived the head/axe kicks from Crocop. Can anyone remember his post-fight interview? He could barely speak.
 
#24 ·
herton17 said:
-There is nothing better than random Shogun chants. It makes me all tingly inside.
-Butterbean amuses me. A lot.
-I think the Mark Kerr can opener hurt Borisov really bad. But why didnt he push off on Mark's face?
- I cannot belive Mark Hunt survived the head/axe kicks from Crocop. Can anyone remember his post-fight interview? He could barely speak.
I actually re-watched that fight on Saturday, and I am still shaking a bit. I don't understand how someone can take that many kicks to the head. And yeah, Hunt was stuttering like crazy in the post fight. Just because he didn't get KO'ed doesn't mean he didn't lose a couple hundred brain cells.
 
#25 ·
You know what pissed me off the most abuot that fight? The fact that Crocop didnt wanna just win that fight. He wanted to win it via the LHK or LAK (you know). That pretty much sums up so much of his career. Its the classic
Croatian ego that prevents him from learning and adapting. I know all about it.
Its his raw talent and hard work that made him so damn good, but if he really made himself a little more humble to himself - he could challenge the Almighty.

*^^^All bitter talk.^^^*
 
#26 ·
silvawand said:
1. Josh Thomson getting out of Sugie's armbar and then slipping into a kneebar was wicked awesome, and it really makes me wonder were the hell Josh Thomson has gone because he showed great skills in this fight.
Really, really good fight. Seriously, Thomson pulled out the armbar slip into the kneebar, and I was immediately reminded of Frank Shamrock doing it in an instructional video. Looks like Thomson picked up a couple of pointers from Frankie. Thomson rules.

Hunt's head is amazing. Seriously, he just got a little annoyed by the headkicks, and ran after Mirko late in the fight. That loveable, pudgy, ironhead is awesome. I dug the hell out of Yoshida vs Hunt.

Body Blow is such an awesome event. lil Nog vs Nak was suh-wank. Stiebling & Shoji go to war. Rampage demolishes Randleman. Fedor pounds big Nog's head into paste. Fedor totally plays Nog's game in the guard, and outclasses him, which is amazing considering that Nog's grip strength is unreal.
 
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