Hi Everyone, i just came across this via BJ Penns Facebook Page

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With the release of the 2010 demo, and PYSCO78's recent fan post about getting together online via ps3/360 i figured this would be a good time to suggest to all us gamers out there about a 2010 tournament

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I've been meaning to write this post for a while ( well since watching MMA live last week ) In that episode there was an Interview with Phil "Mr. Wonderful" Davis and they talked about how he got his nickname. Then i saw the Maniac ring walk tunes post.

So it got me thinking about what would be my Fighting Nickname... i still have not come up with one ( but i am notoriously bad at picking names... took me about a week and a half to name my hamster when i was a kid) So i was wondering what other maniacs would choose.

Also out of curiosity i have added a poll of MMA nicknames to see who people think has the best MMA nickname

feel free to comment on some others as there is so many to choose from and i might of missed some obvious ones, and i will add them

We all know about the state of Judging in MMA ( Machida vs Rua for example)  and i was reading a few back issues of a magazine called the New Scientist, and i came across a very interesting article about How colour can effect the outcome of Close fights.

Here is an extract from the article

IMAGINE you are an experienced martial arts referee. You are asked to score a number of taekwondo bouts, shown to you on video. In each bout, one combatant is wearing red, the other blue. Would clothing colour make any difference to your impartial, expert judgement? Of course it wouldn't.

Yet research shows it almost certainly would. Last year, sports psychologists at the University of Münster, Germany, showed video clips of bouts to 42 experienced referees. They then played the same clips again, digitally manipulated so that the clothing colours were swapped round. The result? In close matches, the scoring swapped round too, with red competitors awarded an average of 13 per cent more points than when they were dressed in blue (Psychological Science, vol 19, p 769). "If one competitor is strong and the other weak, it won't change the outcome of the fight," says Norbert Hagemann, who led the study. "But the closer the levels, the easier it is for the colour to tip the scale."

 

and you can find the whole article here Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind

So i started wondering if this could effect the outcome of MMA, so i rewatched a few close fights

Shogun (Blue Corner) Vs Machida (Red Corner)

Matt Hamill (Blue Corner) Vs Michael Bisping ( Red Corner)

Brandon Vera ( Blue Corner) vs Randy Couture (Red Corner)

and every time the red Corner was the winner,... to check fight metric

Shogun (fight metric winner) Vs Machida

Matt Hamill (fight metric winner) Vs Michael Bisping

Brandon Vera ( fight metric winner) vs Randy Couture 

This means that in actual fact the blue corner should of been the winner

So what does this mean? Well i dont really know, we could go on and check a load more fights and see what happens with them, but according to the Article the results only varied by 12% when the colour switched ( it should be roughly 50/50 )

When they analysed the results they found that shirt colour appeared to influence the result, with nearly 55 per cent of bouts being won by the competitor in red. In closely fought bouts it was 62 per cent (Nature, vol 435, p 293). "It should have been roughly 50 per cent red, 50 per cent blue, and this was a statistically significant deviation," Barton says. "Skill and strength may be the main factors - if you're rubbish, a red shirt won't stop you from losing, but when fights were relatively symmetrical, colour tipped the balance."

So guys what do you think, could this be the missing factor in close fights,  or is it just random coincidence?

before you vote/post a comment i do urge you to read the article first, and even check out some fights of your own to see what the outcome is, the 3 i picked where the first ones i thought of so i was pretty surprised when the results were spot on with the scientific findings

Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind

Well im not the biggest Jesus st Pierre fan, dont get me wrong the guy is by far best WW in the world, but on other hand my G/F is a bit obsessed with him... So i figured as part of my anniversary present to her i would get her the I Love GSP t-shirt off his website... 

only to find out its gonna cost me anywhere between $33-48 for postage alone, the T-shirt is $30, so im actually paying more for some pleb to stick it in an envelope put a stamp on it and post it to UK... than what it prob cost to make the bloody tee

I for one now am boycotting GSP as he is a money grabbing leg humping twat....

Rant over!

PS rant not over. even did a photoshop as i got nothing to do in work and im pissed off :D

via i154.photobucket.com

PPS. Hardy better knock him out!

 As most people know by now UFC is coming back to Ireland, having just come home to Belfast for xmas, i was mentioning to my dad about the UFC, and he knows alot of promoters here, and rumour has it the UFC will be doing Belfast and not Dublin.

So i Know alot of the regulars do random trips to various events, so im suggesting if UFC does do belfast ( or even dublin) why not have a mania road trip over the pond to the emerald isle, having alot of contact here thro my dad i can prob organsise hotels etc for a mania road trip. i for one will defo be going to an Ireland UFC with my house mates etc so my question is would any of the regulars be up  for a european mission??

its still a good few months off, but its best to lay the ground work now so if people are interested let me know an i can see what i can do to try organise mania invasion of ireland!