Rickson in da house! Diego Sanchez headlines TUF 9 finale as a BJJ brown belt

it was royler dude

who cares, it’d be awesome if it was any Gracie.

Rickson is the man…hands down. Any Gracie will say the same thing…

Getting a brown belt from Saulo Ribiero is about as legit as it gets. Saulo’s book ‘Jiu Jitsu University’ is one of the best traditional BJJ books out there.

An FYI for Washington State BJJ artists:
June 27th Royler Gracie Seminar in Fife.

Tabasco is right about saulo- one of the greatest ever. Man, i am too cheap to buy the book but it’s a must from just browsing through it. I really want to get it coz my bad white belt habits are off the chart, gotta correct them now before it’s too late.

I am sure that it is very tough to get a brown belt from Saulo. My instructor was a student of Carlson Gracie, and later one of his students, Carlos Henrique. It usually takes over a year just to get your blue belt where I go. Some places hand belts out like they came from a Cracker Jack box.

If,they really want him to lose they’ll put him,against a decent striker with a good ground game!Since it supposedly be the coach who choose the match up…They know that he’s got no ground defence.So i can’t wait to see,against who he’s gonna be match up if it’s the opposing team who’s get the pick!

well if he wins and gets a contract he will bring more viewers than any constant thats on there, how many guys win that show and are a big draw right off the bat? he gets more because he will bring in more just like when brock got a huge contract even though he only had 1 fight.

great points roy…you’re coming around, jk

not that i agree with it, but it is what it is.

where do you guys think he will be picked at?
will he be someones first pick? or last?

i will go with 2nd pick

I don’t think the fighter who wins the show or beats Kimbo needs to worry about getting Kimbo’s contract… they are going to become household names immediately and as long as they fight hard they will be making higher figures quickly. I think that Rampage will pick Kimbo as his first pick as a joke but I think he’ll be a good coach for Kimbo. I’m thinking Kimbo wins his first fight and then is submitted in the second fight.

And what if Kimbo puts on even a slightly respectable performance… Dana may decide to sign him to a small deal and go after Seth to promote a rematch under the UFC banner. Huge payday for the UFC with little investment.

Oh yeah…. go Diego!

your right dj, dana will get every penny out of this he can.

U guys are all FOOLING yourselves if you think that after the show Kimbo isnt going to be making Good money in the UFC!!! I know he wont win the show but that wont matter the least bit. I have NO DOUBTS that he will still be fighting on the Main card of the Finale like Junie Browning did…He will be making more then the standard TUF losers that make it to the UFC contract of $8k to show and $8k to win…not to mention the boatloads of money he will make in sponsorship money as a UFC fighter. Kimbo will be making more sponsorship money than some UFc champions.

He isnt stupid, and Dana isnt either. Get used to it…Kimbo is a UFC FIGHTER, and a well paid one at that!!!!!

It’s not about how good or not you are for the 55th time, it’s about how many fans you draw…

i still like him i mean 1 fight ‘hugging’ nick diaz and he gets all this abuse when before that he was known as 1 of the most energetic fighters in the UFC who always brings the fight! He needed the win and got it – most people would do the same!

A lot of people used to be fans of the pace he set until they realized he was just a fast dry-humper. Not me though. I’ve been an anti-nut-hugger of Guida from the beginning. You may all climb aboard my anti-Huggie Bear bandwagon.

I’m not a huge fan, but you gotta give him credit he comes in great shape. Needs to cu his hair though………

1 fight?? just because he pushes the pace doesn’t mean he doesn’t hug!

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I thought MacDanzig was robbed against him. I was seriously shocked when that decision was said. And the Diaz robbery.

I remember someone saying that Guida isn’t an exciting fighter, he fights other people who make it exciting. Tyson and Huerta were his best fights, and those guys have a knack for being in good fights. Although for Tyson, not recently.

I gotta say I am still a fan of the Clay. I have liked the guy since his strikeforce days. Everyone may bash him but he does what he feels he needs to do to win.

Look at it from this perspective. Take Sherk. For a long time Sherk would use the same strategy. Take down, pepper, lay, get stood-up, repeat, and he was extremely successful. Then fans started saying he was boring and needed to change. Enter the new “I think I can box” Sherk, and look what happens. He starts losing. Now everyone is screaming for Sherk to go back to his wrestling.

Like him or not, you have to respect Clay for sticking with what works for him. No matter what, a W is a W, and in the end, thats what it is all about.

I don’t think that Guida’s style is going to be able to get him to the higher level of LWs that he’d want to be at but I like the guy. He trains down in Chicago and is a generally down to earth guy. Just needs to expand his arsenal a bit more and learn to be a little lighter on the feet when trading punches.

Clay Guida is a gate keeper at best, and a boring one at that! All his intensity, energy, and his “Fast pace” just equal a ton groping, hugging and just a gross display of MAN LOVE!!!!!

YOu want to see Clay Guida fight? Put on gay Porn of a guy with long hair and watch it in fast forward….THats a clay Guida fight to the T!!!!!!

Priceless

I’m sorry I know I may get a lot of crap for this but how can people get on Clay’s case for laying and praying. Just because he did it for one fight does not mean that is all he does. He brings the fight to people. I agree with what Cole said, Sherk is the biggest lay and prayer here. It got him a tainted Belt in the UFC NO doubt he was roiding when he beat Kenny. He was as borign as they come. Clay will beat Diego because he will bring the fight to Sanchez. Then it will be Clay vs. Kenny for the belt which will be a great fight. Not sure who to pull for in that one.

Trust me, there are some Guida fans still around. After the Diaz fight when I coined the nickname “Huggie Bear” I was getting some serious hate from some people for dissing him and his “relentless” style.

The funny thing is that I’ve heard people tell me that they have seen Guida referred to as Huggie Bear on other sites as well.

Huggie Bear and Tupperware are probably my two nicknames that stuck the best. Too bad Tupperware was thrown in the recycling bin a few years ago…

Diego just destroyed Joe Daddy, who was the No. 1 contender not too long ago. And that was in his first fight after a major weight cut.

Beneath Penn and Florian, the picture is muddy. Diego may have the most upside. Assuming he beats Guida, maybe a fight vs either Edgar or Maynard for #1 contender status?