just in case you guys who r interested missed it!
.******MONDAY MORNING BLACK BELT*******
Those of you that are football fans get the title, those of you overseas, it’s funny, trust me!
I haven’t had much of a chance to give my thoughts on strikeforce’s event saturday, so bear with me:
Werdum and Silva was an OK fight, nothing special!
I’ll give credit where credit is due in the next two, Sokuju looked really good in the first round. He wasn’t as muscular and didn’t instantly gas! That said, Moussassi is the man. He is slowly but surely becoming one of my favorites and I personally can’t wait until he is in the UFC, probably sometime next year! Not that strikeforce doesn’t put on a good show, but there is so much more LHW competition for him to fight!
On to, in my opinion, the fight of the night! If you’re a one punch KO fan, you were probably bored during the Shields/Miller fight, but if you are into BJJ, it was a great fight. The back and forth up down and transitions in this fight were very impressive. I was in no way a Miller fan coming into this fight, and was a pretty big Shields fan/ By thew 3rd round I was rooting for Miller and really losing any respect or fandom I had left for Shields. His stand up is so bad that it’s actually pathetic, and for an elite BJJ black belt under a guy who’s only given out 2 or 3 black belts, he should be embarrassed at himself! He had numerous mounts and had Millers back too many times to count, and did nothing. 3 More seconds and he’s tapping and Miller wins. Yes, Jake won the fight, but he lost a lot of fans in the process! Also, I’m glad to see he’s no longer calling out GSP, GSP could come into a fight with Shields with a broken leg and would dominate him! You notice the only person interested in hearing him call out Cung Le was his butt buddy Gilbert Melendez? Jake lives and trains in the bay area, and I know for a fact has every opportunity to train at Andre Ward’s gym (the Diaz brothers do), try it out Jake! One last thing, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Jake, you’re not even the best MW in your camp. In a MW fight, Nick Diaz would make you look silly!
On to the main event. I don’t care what anyone says, Fedor was in trouble when Rogers was on top of him! In true Fedor fashion, he stayed calm and cool and won in great fashion! I don’t know where strikeforce goes from here. I for one have no interest in seeing Fedor/Werdum, I already know how that fight plays out! I truly don’t know who (other than Overeem) that strikeforce can throw at him and actually have a competitive fight.
I know a lot of you are jumping on Rogers for his post fight comments, and as you know, I’m old school and all about class and sportsmanship, that said, he’s never tasted defeat before. In the heat of the moment you got his true feelings. I’ll for one, give him a pass! He’ll go back and learn from this.
Overall a good night of fights, terrible color commentary, and too much nothing! When I say “too much nothing,” they try to fit in all this useless B.S. but we don’t get ring entrances, and 2 native Chicagoans actually got cut from the event. Yes they got their show money, but they didn’t get to compete after training to fight and didn’t get sponsorship money (which is reportedly higher than their show money). Also it ran 20 min over. PPV’s don’t go long, contractually they can’t! If you want to have a 3 hour show and compete with the UFC, then plan a 3 hour show, if not, plan your 2 hours better. I’m not into having to stream a main event online because I’m assuming the show won’t run into the news!
Good night of fights overall!

I saw the MT episode and also the rugby show in England. Did OK as a wing forward, but any idiot can play that position. It’s like being a wing in the backline, it’s just where you start out so you can’t do any damage. And yes, I’ve played both positions. It looked like keeping up with his teammates in the pub was going to kill him though.

no it won’t, ur talking about guys that will be well into their 30’s just starting out. Yes, lesser organizations would like them for name recognition, but you fail to realize that MMAists now are starting in their pre teens and teens, some goofball NFLer that is too old to still play competitively in the NFL doesn’t interest me as much as someone who has dedicated their life to it!

Okami was way bigger, and Burkman was his first fight after Swicking down to WW. I’m sure I saw his fight with Loiseau, but I’ll be damned if I can remember it. I think he’s far enough ahead of Hardy at this point to handle him in a relatively short but firework-filled fight.

agreed

LOL

I’m just kidding.
But I do think this to answer OJH or whatever his name is from yesterday about best fighter of all time:

If I had to pick a best fighter and possibly my favorite fighter,I might go with GSP as the best fighter of all time, he has consistently fought top competition and has destroyed fighters considered to be amongst the best of all time like BJ and Hughes. Apart from 2 stumbles he has improved and impresses with every fight and made his opponents appear outclassed in their element.
Fedor is great but overhyped and can’t claim any of these things.