Yamma Pit Fighting quick recap and results

i predicted wiuff to win. way to go!

I survived YAMMA

Worst event ever! Just horrible. The new surface does the opposite of what its supposed to. It makes it easy to take down opponents because their legs are easier to grab when they are higher, plus they are off balance. A bunch of fat guys humping for 5 min at a time.

Worst event ever! The new surface and format just leads to a bunch of hugging on the ground for 5 min at a time. Travis just held people down the whole time. Complete waste of time. The new surface is terrible.

is ther any pics of the yamma pit surface?

LOL, george bush was fighting? JK, I wish it would have been a different GW I’d definitely pay to see someone punch him in the face :)

40 bucks for this Bull Shit? What a joke.

i will NEVER EVER watch this shit EVER again!!! a total waste of my time!!

I agree thew surface didn’t seem to do anything except cause new problems. You can be easily rushed back only to slide from underneath yourself and then loose all control. I still can’t believe I watched the entire thing.

thats 40 dollars and 2 hours of your time that yall are never getting back i knew this event whould be crap i looked at other sites and thers over a hunderd people complaing about how shitty it was

I feel asleep before Butterbean got beat up. The surface is a joke. I was hoping for a better fight between Wiuff and Rodriguez. Ricco needs to lay of the fast food, beer, or something. I could not believe the horrible shape he was in.

This will probably be their one and only event. Years from now, people will look back
on all these tiny, pathetic attempts to cash in on the growing mma trend and laugh their asses off. Mark Kerr should fight with a t-shirt on.

Comment by Gord
2008-04-12 00:02:57
Maybe someone should translate ENGLISH for you. GSP said,“HE WOULD BEAT SERRA”, Then he said , he will fight him 10 times with the same outcome. To bad you only like USA fighters, because your American ego is going to get CRUSHED in just over a week. Why don’t you mind Anderson Silva (Brazilian) spanking all your American buddies. No offence to Americans,just this mentality.

LOL, this guy must have missed my (100 or so) posts that say Anderson Silva is my favorite fighter. Sorry I couldn’t fully understand “frenchy’s” broken english. I can’t wait until Serra knocks him out again!!!

Q: Your opponent, Matt Serra, has described himself as Rocky in Rocky IV and you’re the Russian freak with no heart named Drago. How do you see this fight?

A: I’m like Rocky in Rocky III where I lose the first time, then come back and beat Clubber Lang.
Just read this from an interview from GSP and had to laugh at all the Rock references. He said in the UFC promo he was like rocky 2, now he’s like Rocky 3, and next week he will be like rocky 4, but not as the russian…but as Apollo!!! LOL

I didn’t see the event, but just looking at the results, that’s a lot of decisions to go to. 3 unanimous decisions in one night from Travis Wiuff doesn’t sound particularly exciting to me.

If my understanding of the Constitution is correct, someone would have to be both over 35 years old and a natural born U.S. citizen to defeat George Bush, and I don’t think Ricco Rodriguez qualifies.

The Surface of the Yamma Cage is going to be used as a reason/excuse for losing. Example, Kerr might say “If i was fighing on flat suface like a ring or UFC/Strikforce, ect setting, i would have beat Oleg”. And, the same goes for Rodriguez. Rodriguez always complains about losing. Not to mention, Rodriguez was in an interview with Bas, and he claimed he could have beat Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira if he were allowed to use elbows. Now, i’m just proving my point on why i think the Yamma Pit Fighting seeting will not fly, and the “Ring” is just one of the reasons why Yamma is out.

It seems that the decision by Yamma to pay per view this event v.s. airing it for free might be a blessing for them as few people watched it. It might give Yamma a chance to “go back to the drawing board” and work on and change the ideas that obviously plagued their first event. A free event, younger fighter, a redesigned cage, and a new website might all be good starts.

I guess channel 13 isn’t a network channel cuz it’s been airing UFC WIRED for sometime now?

I couldn’t even watch the whole thing. It seemed like most of the fighters save for a few were out of shape. Then there was Butterbean, that guy’s legs just straighten out when he gets taken to his back, real good defence there. It made me feel like I could take that guy on now. lol I feel sorry for you john, having to sit through the whole thing.

The production values with the show was simply horrible. It felt like the 1990’s again.

The Yamma Pit reminds me of a skateboard pool ramp. I like the idea to keep the action fast paced by eliminating stalls against the cage. But, clinching against the cage, dirty boxing against the cage, ground and pound against the cage are part of cage fighting. Fighters like Dan Henderson and Couture use the cage with a lot of effectiveness.

Personally, I enjoy the intricacies of cage clinch work – overhooks, underhooks, leverage, wrestling.

If these guys want FAST PACED non-stop action, sign better fighters.

11 fights

2 submissions

2 TKO’s

7 decisions

The surface promoted ‘hump and lay’ tactics, not elimited them.

War Taktarov!!! Tak ix naxui!

The event was boring, the fighters washed up and out of shape, the surface made every fight end up on the ground, the ring announcer was talking a lot of bull, the entire event felt like a complete waste of time. This Yawna ground fighting will not survive… Can’t imagine why they wasted their money producing this???

Butterbean’s best feat ever was Knocking out Johny Knoxvile in a department store.

did anyone really expect much with butter bean and pat smith as the main attraction. if the next one features the brady bunch vs the partrige family dont expect much, now you will still order it because who wouldn’t a fight is a fight but dont expect a technical bout.

Ricco Rodriguez defeats George Bush via unanimous decision. Lol George Bush

Butternean’s leg kick were the funniest thing i have ever seen in mma. Thanks Yamma for a good laugh.

Where did they find the announcer?? At first I couldn’t stand him but by the end i was loving his voice. He sounded like a munchkin popeye. Brilliant!
Did anyone else feel bad for Butterbean when he fell over and looked like a fat turtle on his back that couldn’t get up?

Yamma pit fighting, in my opinion, turned out to be a spectacular event. I sat ringside watching the event which proved above the hype. One thing I didn’t notice was the push into the cage entrapment to just beat the crap out of someone. This environment was not conducive to that. As a lifetime martial art enthusiast I felt that it showcased more skills and gave the wrestler a fighting chance. The 28 degree angle of the dojotube surrounding seemed to bring people back to the ring. It also seemed to maximize take downs. A slighter degree angle may decrease that scenario. All in all I think we watched more exciting fights. Let’s hope Bob Meyrowitz has the insight to bring in big named fighters that would attract more viewership and ultimately be good for the sport. We’ve got interviews with every fighter after their victory and some clips you just can’t see anywhere else at www.dojotube.com Dojoe.