the amount of canceled bouts or impromptu catch weight fights would sky rocket. nevermind the fact that the body isn’t a calibrated machine, people need time to make weight specific weights whether they’re cutting a significant amount or not just due to the way the body regulates itself.
the real “problem” with mma and weight cutting is that the weightclasses are too damn wide. the diff between 155 lbs and 170 is huge, and again when you go up to 185 and then 205…and then 265. there’s not really much that can be done i suppose since there isn’t the same level of regulation that there is in boxing where the gaps between classes are only ~7 lbs but as long as there are 15-20 lb gaps in the divisions extreme weightcuts will happen.
if a mma guy walks around at 200, his choices are be undersized at 205, be normal at 185 or be oversized at a 170…in boxing he’d most likely just fight at 190. it’s even wilder when you consider that as mma guys get older they generally drop down to lower weightclasses which is completely unnatural.
Light Heavyweight bout: Quinton Jackson vs. Lyoto Machida
Welterweight bout: Matt Hughes vs. B.J. Penn
Middleweight bout: Gerald Harris vs. Maiquel Falcão
Light Heavyweight bout: Phil Davis vs. Tim Boetsch
Lightweight bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. Joe Lauzon
Spike TV Preliminary Card
Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. Brian Foster
Middleweight bout: Aaron Simpson vs. Mark Muñoz
Light Heavyweight bout: Quinton Jackson vs.** Lyoto Machida** Unanimous decision
Welterweight bout: **Matt Hughes **vs. B.J. Penn R2 TKO
Middleweight bout: Gerald Harris vs. **Maiquel Falcão **R1 Sub (Armbar) Light
Heavyweight bout: Phil Davis vs. **Tim Boetsch ** R2 KO
Lightweight bout: **George Sotiropoulos **vs. Joe Lauzon Unanimous decision
Spike TV Preliminary Card
Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. **Brian Foster **R1 Sub (Guillotine)
Middleweight bout: **Aaron Simpson **vs. Mark Muñoz R3 TKO
My picks have been sucking hard this season, I’ve been too distracted with homework and my upcoming study abroad.
SRKMMAFFL UFC 123 Rampage vs Machida
Light Heavyweight bout: Quinton Jackson vs.** Lyoto Machida** dec
Welterweight bout: Matt Hughes vs. B.J. Penn dec
Middleweight bout: Gerald Harris vs. Maiquel Falcão dec
Light Heavyweight bout: Phil Davis vs. **Tim Boetsch ** ko 1
Lightweight bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. **Joe Lauzon ** choke 2nd
Spike TV Preliminary Card
Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. Brian Foster tko 2
Middleweight bout: Aaron Simpson vs. Mark Muñoz tko 2
Light Heavyweight bout: Quinton Jackson vs. Lyoto Machida TKO RD2
Welterweight bout: Matt Hughes vs. B.J. Penn decision
Middleweight bout: Gerald Harris vs. Maiquel Falcão RD2 TKO
Light Heavyweight bout: Phil Davis vs. Tim Boetsch ko 1
Lightweight bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. Joe Lauzon decision
Spike TV Preliminary Card
Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. Brian Foster decision
Middleweight bout: Aaron Simpson vs. Mark Muñoz TKO 2
Jackson KO rd2
BJ Penn TKO rd1 or DEC (depends on the first exchange)
Harris DEC
Davis DEC unanimous ass whooping for 15 min straight
Sotirpoppadoppleradar DEC
Brown TKO rd2
Simpson TKO rd1
Saw a really nasty Women’s MMA gif. Girl knocks the other one out… then proceeds to stomp on her back (i think she breaks it) before the ref can stop her. Wtf! Anyone remember what fight that was?
So instead we rely on illegal immagrants to go ahead and make an average 4 births. So then in the future we’ll have even more old people to try and help thus taxing our social services and natual resources even more until we don’t have enough to support the people we do have.
man im fucking hyped for matt hughes vs bj…matt hughes has convinced me wrestlers are the real life super saiyans the older they get the stronger they seem to get. he’s not supposed to be that beastly at this age.
i got my boy j-lau winning but i can easily see george win. it just depends on which j-lau shows up…the crazy new englander who fucking raped gabe or the soso one from previous fights.
Surprisingly, I did not expect to see this (or maybe I should have?) but Bob Sapp was promoting Vindictus at G Star. Then again remembering all the other weird stuff he has done, this seems right up his alley.