And crazy insane Bas Rutten was just on Inside MMA last week saying that he expects to see MMA in the 2012 Olympics. He clearly got hit in the head several extra times than necessary over the years.

Godspeed and PARTY ON!!!! BBWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHH!!

Oops, meant Olympic boxing.

Hmmm….linx. The olympics are FULL of sports that shouldn’t be there! I’m a HUGE football (soccer) fan and I don’t think soccer should be in the Olympics. Why? Soccer has the CUP! It doesn’t need the Olympics. To me, the Cup dwarfs all other sporting tournaments! Other “sports” that IMO should not be there? Let’s see: Anything that starts with the word “synchronized”, canoeing, walking, trampolining (maybe in the gay olympics), rythmic gymnastics, shooting (you get a gold medal for target practice?), baseball (that’s right, I said it b#tches, the best players in the world can’t be there, so the sport itself shouldn’t either), badmitton (both singles and doubles), and table tennis (ping pong? you can get a medal for f’in ping pong?). The olympic games are beyond irrelevant for the most part b/c everyone who has a hobby or is an “enthusiast” of something gets to compete in them. I better stop now, I could talk about this cr@p for hous. lol

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chefdaddy: I see that I have turned you into a Jacre fan! He is an amazing grappler, like on an entirely different level then the grappling that mma fighters are used to. Many fans think grappling is boring, not that guy! His jits is Off the charts, combine that with his GSP-like athletic ability and that mnakes him 1 bad mofo! Did you see the flying arm bars and flying triangles? or the takedowns? He is just amazing!

I cant wait to see him win the DREAM middleweight grand prix next month. What makes him tough to beat is that his opponents will have a very hard time getting any offense going when they have to defend constant and various different submission attempts. Can mount an offense if you are on your heels playing Defense…know what I mean?

Maia vs. Jacre grappling match was awesome and extremely technical. Maia starts the match up off on FIRE, he pulls guard and Jacre is busy defending, but it turns intop a great fight.

I completely agree Chef. I think the Olympics have lost a lot of relevance because the sense of true amateurism is gone and also because we no longer have to prove our athletic superiority over a bunch of roided up cheating commies. NBC did a great job milking the Michael Phelps story, but other than that there was really nothing I felt like I absolutely HAD to see.

LOL, yeah, I agree with ping pong, wtf were they thinking putting that in there. But the World Cup is much different than the football in the olympics, most of the players are young in the olympics so it’s a good way of getting to know them before they make it big. It’s also another excuse to ditch work and watch a great game :) (if it was only the cup, we could only do that once every four years, but we got the American Cup, Olympics, Liberator’s cup and of course the Brazilian cup!) Gotta go, it’s half time in Brazil vs Argetina, our biggest rivals!

“we no longer have to prove our athletic superiority”

Are you chinese PW? I think they have you beat already… Not trying to d-i-s-s the USA, but some of you guys just sound soooooooo i-g-n-o-r-a-n-t.

john, when and what channel is having that tournament for “Jacare”? That guy did stuff so fast, I had to go back a couple of times to catch it! REALLY want to see him in action!

I think I’m one of the few people who like tha fact that the Olympics are no longer strictly amateur. IMO, if you win a gold, you should be the best of the best. Not the best, except for a thousand other people. Oh well, just wait for my rants and raves over the winter games. lol

Chefdaddy: Jacre will have to win 2 fights in 1 night to win the tournament. I believe its the 23rd of September and I am sure that it will air on Hd-net, unfortunately its a channel I do not get on my cable package. So I will be stuck watching the fights on the computer.

I cant wait to eventually see him in the UFC. FYI he training at Extreme Couture and working his stand up with wanderlei.

THere is no one I prefer watching on the ground then Jacre. maia, Almeida, Palhares, wErdum, leites are close 2nd.

Chef, you’re a fan of someone you’ve never even seen fight??? That sounds strange.

And yes, all of the DREAM events air on HDNet.

I posted an amazing Jacre highlight video for him to watch. It showed both Jacre’s mma and grappling highlights and he loved it!

Vm: I got Jacre winning the tournament. your thoughts? I think he gets passed Zelg in the semi’s NO PROBLEM (but I like Zelg)!

VM, the highlight video blew my mind!I can’t say I’m a fan yet, b/c I’m very unfamiliar with him and I know nothing yet of his personality (that actually matters to me, if a guy seems humble/cool). What that video did was simply make me excited to hopefully become a fan!

GIve it time, u will become a fan. He seems like a humble, fun loving dude. NOt to mention his celebration: the “aligator crawl” and then flapping his arms like the Florida Gators is BAD ASS!!!!

Ah, ok. Now I understand. I just sour that he got past Mayhem Miller, who I am still hoping will be in the alternate match.

If Jacare can control where both the fights take place (on the ground) then he can easily win. However, all three of the other fighters do posses one punch KO power so it should at least be interesting.

Souza beat Miller, so I guess I’ll pick him to go all the way.

I didn’t even think it that way either, but you’re spot on!

The only advanatage it gave us was basketball(Even that was a bit embarassing in 2004. Baseball, between Japan and Cuba, we can barely get to the podium, since 1992 we have only take 1, 3 and 4(hell that is “Americas Sport”) or was. We generally do well in wrestling (there is nothing pro about that) last I checked…I think it hurts us when when our pros do not win.

MMA in the olympics would be to crazy. Here all the state athletic commisions give 30 and 60 day health suspensions to everyone after they have 1 fight, depending on the injury. You would have to go to the old style UFC or Pride style where fighters fought more then one time in a night, and upwards of 3 or 4 times depending where they got, and that was one of the main reason nobody would sanction it in the US originally. hen do the fighters where head gear like the boxers, do they do more of a point system like wrestling? So many points for a submission, takedown, escape, reversal, strikes, and so on….I think it would be really difficult to do and still keep the purity of the sport.