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Joe Rogan clarifies his twitter post about Fedor

banter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:40:19 -0000

via the UG

I made a short twitter message about the Fedor Rogers fight, and I got a lot of feedback from it, so I thought I should elaborate when I got some free time.
What I said in the message was that I thought Fedor got exposed a bit.
What was going through my mind after the fight before I wrote that tweet, was that I was surprised that Rogers was able to easily reverse Fedor, despite the fact that he's not a very experienced grappler. The conventional wisdom was that if Fedor could get the fight to the ground he would be able to finish it quickly, but obviously that wasn't the case.
Rogers wasn't able to hold Fedor down and only landed a few clean shots, but I couldn't help wonder what Lesnar would have been able to do with that position.

I think part of Rogers' success there lays in that he's very powerful and athletic, and also that he's just such a huge guy. At 230lbs I absolutely believe that Fedor is the very best in the world, but at 265 I'm not sure if that weight difference is not too much of a disadvantage. For sure he's one of the top 3 pound for pound fighters in the world, and determining who is number 1 is really just a matter of opinion and speculation. The truly amazing thing about Fedor is that he has gone through his career as a heavyweight undefeated except for one cut, yet he could easily fight at 205 or possibly even at 185 if he really wanted to get crazy. That just shows you what a special fighter he is.
At heavyweight when guys like Lesnar or Rogers get up as big as 265 at the weigh in and maybe 20lbs over that during fight time I really wonder if these gigantic super athletic guys with better grappling like Brock might be able to exploit that size advantage where Rogers couldn't.

I've always been, and continue to be a huge fan of Fedor. I love his style, I love his no frills approach to training, and I love his emotionless approach to combat.
Objectively though, I think there are some exploitable holes in his striking that we saw a little in the Arlovski fight, and the size disadvantage he has against the best big men might be a big problem if they were to meet as well.
He's not perfect, but he sure is fun as hell to watch.

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Here is the original twitter

As for the fedor fight, I thought it was very interesting, but I thought Rogers hesitated, and I felt like Fedor got exposed a bit

BE Malware?

banter — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:30:11 -0000

Got this google chrome warning when I clicked on today. You guys might want to have SBNation have a look at their banners.

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Five Ounces of Pain & plagiarism?

banter — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:18:57 -0000

Five Ounces of Pain is ripping off MMA Junkie

I know lots of sites recycle facts and quotes from other sites, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen as blatant a rip of one article as what 5 Ounces of Pain did with an MMA Junkie article yesterday. The whole thing is literally re-written paragraph by paragraph. The exact words may be different, but it’s still a total lift … without even the decency to link back to the original article!

Online plagiarism

Online plagiarism

Content scraping is a phenomenon of copy and pasting material from internet websites, affecting both established sites [7] and blogs[8].

Free online tools are becoming available to help identify plagiarism [9], and there is a range of approaches that attempt to limit online copying, such as disabling right clicking and placing warning banners regarding copyrights on web pages. Instances of plagiarism that involve copyright violation may be addressed by the rightful content owners sending a DMCA removal notice to the offending site-owner, or to the ISP that is hosting the offending site.

It is important to reiterate that plagiarism is not the mere copying of text, but the presentation of another's ideas as one's own, regardless of the specific words or constructs used to express that idea. In contrast, many so-called plagiarism detection services can only detect blatant word-for-word copies of text.

Dana White says Canadian fighter Georges St. Pierre was illegally greased

banter — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:19:56 -0000

"Do I think that he got greased? Yeah, I do," White told The Canadian Press prior to the UFC 95 weigh-in Friday at the Dominion Theatre. "Absolutely, 100 per cent, I think that that guy was rubbing grease on him.

"Do I think Georges was trying to cheat? Absolutely not at all. But that cornerman was rubbing grease on him. You cannot do that."

Was it needed?

"He didn't have to put grease on him. ... Georges St. Pierre was winning the fight, he was dominant in the standup and on the ground. To have a fight or a fighter like St. Pierre tainted over a stupidity, I hate it. It sucks."

Story Source I'm kind of tired of this whole story but its still important to follow it, IMO.

Tom Atencio addresses slow ticket sales rumor

banter — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:20:37 -0000

Source UG

Just wanted to come on here and respond to all the rumors going around that we have only sold 1200-1500 seats. First of all i have no idea where this information is coming from, but it could'nt be farther from the truth. In reality we are opening up more seating to accomodate the demand for tickets. This event is stacked from top to bottom, and i personally cant wait to see every fight! For those of you that can't make it out to the event be sure to watch the main card live on pay PPV as well as the complete undercard for free on HDNET.

THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!
Tom Atencio Affliction Entertainment Group