UFCmania 'Motivator' contest winners!

by MMAmania.com on Jul 5, 2007 9:30 AM EDT Comment 43 comments

And the winner is ... "So Easy" from UFCmania reader ianstx00.

It certainly wasn't easy, however, judging this contest. But we've finally put together the winners for our wildly popular "Motivator" contest, which ran for less than a week and received more than 500 submissions in the comments section and via email.

And yes, we looked at every single last one of them.

Thanks to everyone who participated -- these were some great (and sometimes cruel) creations. Hopefully we can do something similar real soon.

Congratulations again to the winners. I'll try and track you down, but to make things easier, feel free to email me to find out how to collect your booty.

The winners:

First place:

ufc motivator contest 1
Entry: "So Easy"
UFCmania reader: ianstx00
Grand prize: $250 in cash and a $100 free play from BetUs.com.

Second place:

ufc motivator contest 2
Entry: "Sibling Rivalry"
UFCmania reader: cable1119
Prize: $100 in cash and a $100 free play from BetUs.com.

Third place:

ufc motivator contest 3
Entry: "Two knockouts"
UFCmania reader: Matt Budgell
Prize: $50 in cash and a UFC DVD

Honorable mention:

ufc motivator contest honorable mention 1
Entry: "Perseverance"
UFCmania reader: ianstx00

Honorable mention:

ufc motivator contest honorable mention 2
Entry: "Fitch gate"
UFCmania reader: The Spida

Honorable mention:
Entry: Everything MWA (15+ entries)
UFCmania reader: MWA

Thanks again to everyone who participated, as well as BetUS.com, which put up some nice prizes for our winners -- just in time to place some bets on UFC 73 this weekend.

Feel free to check out all the entries in the comments section of the original post. I'll also paste a few links in the comments section that received some attention if you don't want to scroll through them all.

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Here are some other quality entries:

by UFCmania on Jul 5, 2007 9:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

hahahahaha, those are great. Grats to the winners.

by Luppers on Jul 5, 2007 9:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

1st place winner really deserved it, its HILARIOUS!!!!

by Sanjaya on Jul 5, 2007 9:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I hate to say it, but none of those are very good (not that I can do any better). The Shogun/Silva Jiu-Jitsu one is still my favorite mma motivational poster.

by flatline79 on Jul 5, 2007 9:57 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I hate to say it, but none of those are very good (not that I can do any better). The Shogun/Silva Jiu-Jitsu one is still my favorite mma motivational poster.

It wasn’t original. That has been around forever.

by UFCmania on Jul 5, 2007 10:08 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

HA it doesn’t matter what u think because I came third!:)… 50 bucks is mine and a ufc dvd:)… I wonder which one it will be?… I have so many I have no clue which one I want:)

by Matt Budgell on Jul 5, 2007 10:11 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z268/clint2186/motivator3329484.jpg That one was really good.

by can a comp. cal 10x10x10x10.... on Jul 5, 2007 10:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey Mania… What’s the e-mail I contact to get information about the prizes?… I sent two e-mails already but I don’t know which one is right:P… sorry for bothering you

by Matt Budgell on Jul 5, 2007 10:20 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My favorite of those is the perserverance. Sadly, photobucket is blocked, so I can’t get to the others ;(

by Yohnstoppable on Jul 5, 2007 10:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey Mania, I’ve got an off subject question for you. I’m going to be in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic while 73 is going on. Would you or anyone one else on here happen to know if the UFC is broadcasted in that country. I’m just trying to figure out if I need to purchase it and set my DVR to record before I leave.

by MMALovinFool on Jul 5, 2007 10:33 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

excellent choices.

by bw on Jul 5, 2007 10:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I saw almost the same thing on Cro-Cop’s myspace page(probably a fan one). Somebody posted a picture of GG kicking CC in the head, at the bottom it said “High Kicks, so easy a caveman can do it”. Who stole from who now? That is way to much of a coincidence lol. I can’t get the picture now since Im at work and myspace is blocked, but I will find it and post it this evening if I have time.

by ragnarr on Jul 5, 2007 11:00 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

BTW the one posted on this page was much funnier just because of that caveman expression on the guys face! Classic.

by ragnarr on Jul 5, 2007 11:01 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I’m sure Guida would be proud of this.

by Schiro on Jul 5, 2007 11:02 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

winner is hilarious

by Stafo on Jul 5, 2007 11:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Thank you UFCMania!!!! I’m just glad all my hard work paid off….especially since I’m broke as a joke!!!

by ianstx00 on Jul 5, 2007 11:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Congratulations, ianstx00, you definitely deserved it!

by Hughnior on Jul 5, 2007 11:38 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yea congrats to the winners… I’m just glad I got a post in the “Other Quality Entries” (the Insomnia one). Impressive from the winners, and I enjoyed all the rest as well. Cool contest.

by CPlan on Jul 5, 2007 12:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Thank you UFCMania!!!! I’m just glad all my hard work paid off….especially since I’m broke as a joke!!!

Hard work??? There are at least three just like that floating around, just not with Clay. One with AA when he was hairy KOing Buentello, the CC/Zaga one, and one with Sumolev(?) in a bodog fight titled “Neat” as the hair removal stuff. Next time everyone just plagarize. You’ll be sure to win.

by MoreThanUFC on Jul 5, 2007 1:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I saw almost the same thing on Cro-Cop’s myspace page(probably a fan one). Somebody posted a picture of GG kicking CC in the head, at the bottom it said “High Kicks, so easy a caveman can do it”. Who stole from who now? That is way to much of a coincidence lol. I can’t get the picture now since Im at work and myspace is blocked, but I will find it and post it this evening if I have time.

Its not a pic actually, its a screenshot of a video some guy made and uploaded to youtube, which is ONE MONTH old, so its save to assume the video is not the plagarized one.

Not very convincing choices, but oh well..

by YouTapped on Jul 5, 2007 1:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ragnarr: you meant this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg3Si9aPxU8

by YouTapped on Jul 5, 2007 1:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hard work??? There are at least three just like that floating around, just not with Clay. One with AA when he was hairy KOing Buentello, the CC/Zaga one, and one with Sumolev(?) in a bodog fight titled “Neat” as the hair removal stuff. Next time everyone just plagarize. You’ll be sure to win.

1) Don’t hate, Congratulate…I, honest to God, have never seen any of those that you mentioned…
2) “hard work” is meant to be sarcastic…learn it
3) I think you meant to say “plagiarize”…but it’s ok…we can’t all plageriarize wurdz frum tha dickshunary ez owr own..

by ianstx00 on Jul 5, 2007 1:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Haha excellent stuff guys!

by Scott White on Jul 5, 2007 1:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ragnarr: you meant this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg3Si9aPxU8

yeah kinda, what Im talking about was a picture though, it had the UFC ring background too, so it may be derived from this commercial. Again I can’t look at it now since Im at work (working really hard as you can see). But I will check it out when I get home tonight. I will post the link to the myspace page since there are like 10 CroCop pages.

Either way I still think the one with Guida is better.

by ragnarr on Jul 5, 2007 2:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Congrats to the winner! Well deserved! Thanks to all that participated!

Could someone please explain the poster Insomnia? Thanks!

by ShadowoftheDarkgod on Jul 5, 2007 2:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hard work??? There are at least three just like that floating around, just not with Clay. One with AA when he was hairy KOing Buentello, the CC/Zaga one, and one with Sumolev(?) in a bodog fight titled “Neat” as the hair removal stuff. Next time everyone just plagarize. You’ll be sure to win.

Listening to the haters is getting old. Don’t these people have better things to do? Sad, really, when you think about it.

by AdRock on Jul 5, 2007 2:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice work to the winners, very clever and well earned.

by Sir Chokemout on Jul 5, 2007 2:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I didn’t even get an honorable mention? I figured my PRIDE Revenge one would’ve taken the cake, lol.

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z70/jondoeftw/Sak_revenge_PRIDE.gif

WORK!

LOL

Congrats to the winners.

by Kayo on Jul 5, 2007 3:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb39/gspistheman/motivator1459925.jpg
I know it’s too late but i thought it was funny anyways

by steveland on Jul 5, 2007 4:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Thanks Mania for putting on another great contest. Keep them coming.

Thanks everyone who participated for the hilarious comedy (motivators and comment wars)and congrats to the winners for their hard work. Just watch out, 2 honorable mentions in a row. I looking for the win next time out.

by MWA on Jul 5, 2007 5:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I dont think you picked the right winner. terrible judging by far. “so easy” any one can vote. Im sure Im not the only one upset.

by hammer on Jul 5, 2007 5:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I didn’t even get an honorable mention? I figured my PRIDE Revenge one would’ve taken the cake, lol.

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z70/jondoeftw/Sak_revenge_PRIDE.gif

WORK!

LOL

Congrats to the winners.

that is preety good my fav is still the big tim one with the young girls

by george on Jul 5, 2007 5:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Here is the picture I was talking about posted on myspace:

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z150/mrothk01/caveman.jpg

by ragnarr on Jul 5, 2007 6:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Congrats to the winners!

I knew that one would eventually take 1st place.

Thanks for 2 Honorable Mentions, though.

by JOJO on Jul 5, 2007 6:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I disagree with the winner. I give no credtit to the judging team. “so easy” any one can vote. it makes the whole thing not worth it.

by hammer on Jul 5, 2007 6:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i really liked the nose job one with rich franklin getting kneed by silva, i thought that one might place in the money…the caveman one was definitely funny…i didn’t really like the frank stallone one though, i think 2nd place is a bit high for that one, and the 3rd place one had a nice clever punch line and two hot chicks so i’m sure thats why that one got in there, but i think it should have been more about the fighters than the ring girls or the announcer, oh well…congrats to the winners

by tha spida on Jul 5, 2007 7:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I actually thought the second place winner should have been number one. Really funny. Number one was funny too. Funny comment ian bout the plagerize. I cant spell either.

by Gus on Jul 5, 2007 7:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Wait… why are 2 of the winning posters also listed in the “Quality entries” list? That doesn’t make much sense.

by Kayo on Jul 5, 2007 7:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I disagree with the winner. I give no credtit to the judging team. “so easy” any one can vote. it makes the whole thing not worth it.

LOL, day late, dollar short but still…

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z70/jondoeftw/ufcmania.jpg

by Kayo on Jul 5, 2007 7:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Did anyone else think they were going to win when they got an e-mail about your paypal i.d. I did lol.

by jason bang on Jul 5, 2007 8:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Did anyone else think they were going to win when they got an e-mail about your paypal i.d. I did lol.

no but i had forgot i set up a betus.com account just in case and forgot about and tuesday i got a call from betus.com i was like sweet! i got all pumped up for nothing

by mikeclem on Jul 5, 2007 9:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Why was my post erased? Because the links are hosted on another MMA site?

by Manfred on Jul 6, 2007 4:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I didn’t even get an honorable mention? I figured my PRIDE Revenge one would’ve taken the cake, lol.

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z70/jondoeftw/Sak_revenge_PRIDE.gif

WORK!

LOL

Congrats to the winners.

Sorry bro, but if I didn’t see that particular gif used a billion times I’d agree with you ;)
But I too was slightly dissapointed I didn’t get a mention with this one,

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q104/cptgreenbeard/domination.jpg

…but tastes vary, and there were some splendid works sprinkled in a field of pewps :)

by Sir Chokemout on Jul 6, 2007 6:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs