MMA XV: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

ChillyWilly

*MMA XV: Dang-a da dang-a da dang*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNfYDKST95Y

This thread is for the discussion of all things MMA related. Wanna talk about different martial arts styles and their comparative usefulness? Go ahead. Want to talk about the latest event you went to or saw on TV? Please do. Are you involved in fighting, whether it be in a cage, ring or at a competition of some sort? Tell us about it! We want pictures, videos, stories or anything else related to MMA that sparks (*drumroll*) debate and/or discourse.

Please be aware that when fights are in progress, this thread will be full of spoilers and things that you probably don't want to read unless you're watching the fight live along with the rest of us. I promise that I will never update the thread title to reflect any results until, at earliest, the following Tuesday after an event. Anything you see in the thread before then is at your own discretion.

I'd like to thank doug_grammar, adytum, MetalJared, B:L and anyone else who's made an MMA thread before. At this point, we've all used and re-used each other's ideas for our own particular OP, whether it be for how sections are separated out or how organizations and champions are listed. So credit is due to anyone who's used their time to keep this thing updated and looking sweet. I LOVE ALL OF YOU HAVE MY CHILDREN.

...ahem. Sorry.

*Major Organizations*

Spoiler:

The UFC is the biggest MMA organization on the planet and they (arguably) have the best fighters in their respective weight classes. They have shows on Pay Per View, Spike, Versus, Facebook and Ion (even though no one knows what the fuck Ion even is). They rule the MMA world with an iron, Dana White shaped fist and they plan on taking over the world and making MMA bigger than football, soccer, guns and cigarettes.

Their parent company if Zuffa, which recently absorbed WEC into the UFC and then bought the only organization that was even close to matching them, Strikeforce. It's a good time to be a Zuffa employee.

*Current UFC Champions*

Spoiler:

Heavyweight: Cain Velasquez
Last Title Defense: N/A
Next Title Defense: Nothing official has been announced, but most likely 11/19/11 against Junior Dos Santos

Light Heavyweight: Jon Jones
Last Title Defense: N/A
Next Title Defense: 9/24/11 against Rampage Jackson

Middleweight: Anderson Silva
Last Title Defense: 2/5/11 against Vitor Belfort...Winner by TKO at 3:25 in the 1st round
Next Title Defense: 8/27/11 against Yushin Okami

Welterweight: Georges St. Pierre
Last Title Defense: 4/30/11 against Jake Shields...Winner by Unanimous Decision
Next Title Defense: 10/29/11 against Nick Diaz

Lightweight: Frankie Edgar
Last Title Defense: 1/1/11 against Gray Maynard...retained due to Draw
Next Title Defense: Unknown

Featherweight: Jose Aldo
Last Title Defense: 4/30/11 against Mark Hominick...Winner by Unanimous Decision
Next Title Defense: Nothing official yet, but most like against Kenny Florian on 10/8/11

Bantamweight: Dominick Cruz
Last Title Defense: 7/2/11 against Urijah Faber...Winner by Unanimous Decision
Next Title Defense: 10/1/11 against Demetrious Johnson

Spoiler:

Strikeforce is the second largest MMA organization in the world. While they've never been as well organized or as powerful as the UFC, they do have a great stable of fighters and they've put on some excellent shows. Their heavyweight champion is the first man in combat sports history to hold world titles in both MMA and K-1, which is a pure kickboxing event. Pretty impressive stuff.

Strikeforce was acquired by Zuffa on March 12, 2011. While the company line regarding Strikeforce is that everything will be "business as usual", it's generally accepted that, like the WEC before them, they will eventually be absorbed by the UFC when the time is right. We'll see how things go.

*Current Strikeforce Champions*

Spoiler:

Heavyweight: FUCKING UBEREEM
Last Title Defense: 5/15/10 against Brett Rogers...Winner by TKO at 3:40 in the 1st round
Next Title Defense: Unknown, rumors abound that he will face the winner of the Strikeforce Grand Prix now that he is no longer a participant in said tournament

Light Heavyweight: Dan Henderson
Last Title Defense: N/A
Next Title Defense: Unknown, fighting Fedor Emelianenko on 7/30/11

Middleweight: Ronaldo Souza
Last Title Defense: 1/29/11 against Robbie Lawler...Winner by Rear Naked Choke at 2:00 in the 3rd round
Next Title Defense: 9/10/11 against Luke Rockhold

Welterweight: Nick Diaz
Last Title Defense: 4/9/11 against Paul Daley...Winner by TKO at 4:57 in the 1st round
Next Title Defense: Nick vacated his title to face Georges St. Pierre for the UFC Welterweight belt. Names like Santos, Daley and Woodley are in consideration for the fight to crown a new Strikeforce champion

Lightweight: Gilbert Melendez
Last Title Defense: 4/9/11 against Tatsuya Kawajiri...Winner by TKO at 3:14 in the 1st round
Next Title Defense: Unknown, but has repeatedly asked that the UFC give him a shot against the future winner of Edgar/Maynard. If the Nick Diaz/GSP fight is any indication of the future, he may get his wish late this year or sometime next year

Women's Middleweight: Cyborg Santos
Last Title Defense: 6/26/10 against Jan Finney...Winner by Murder, Death, Kill at 2:56 in the 2nd round
Next Title Defense: Unknown. No one wants to fight this bitch. Rumors also abound of her wanting more money and possibly signing with the WWE since she can't get the money she wants and can't find any opponents. Time will tell

Women's Welterweight: Marloes Coenen
Last Title Defense: 3/5/11 against Liz Carmouche...Winner by Triangle at 1:29 in the 4th round
Next Title Defense: Unknown

Spoiler:

Bellator is an up and comer in the MMA scene. They do things a little differently than the big boys, running in seasons and doing a lot of their matches tournament style to decide either their champions or who the current champions will face. It's different, it's interesting and since they were picked up by MTV2 for their 4th season, they've been having some solid ratings.

Let's hope that they can become a viable alternative to the juggernaut that is the UFC/Strikeforce duo. Competition is never bad and Bellator has plenty of great fighters on their roster. Cheers to the little guy!

*Current Bellator Champions*

Spoiler:

Heavyweight: Cole Konrad
Last Title Defense: N/A
Next Title Defense: Unknown, but will be facing journeyman Paul Buentello on 8/20/11 in a non-title bout

Light Heavyweight: Christian M'Pumbu
Last Title Defense: N/A
Next Title Defense: Unknown

Middleweight: Hector Lombard
Last Title Defense: 10/28/10 against Alexander Shlemenko...Winner by Unanimous Decision
Next Title Defense: Unknown, but has fought and won twice since his last title defense. Is currently on an 18 fight win streak. Let's get him into Strikeforce or the UFC, please.

Welterweight: Ben Askren
Last Title Defense: N/A
Next Title Defense: Unknown, beat Nick Thompson in a non-title bout on 4/9/11

Lightweight: Eddie Alvarez
Last Title Defense: 4/2/11 against Pat Curran...Winner by Unanimous Decision
Next Title Defense: Unknown, will be against Michael Chandler

Featherweight: Joe Warren
Last Title Defense: 9/2/10 against Joe Soto...Winner by TKO at 0:33 in the 2nd round
Next Title Defense: Unknown, but will be against Patricio Freire, also participating in the Season 5 bantamweight tourney at the moment

Bantamweight: Zach Makovsky
Last Title Defense: N/A
Next Title Defense: Unknown, beat Chad Robichaux on 4/16/11 in a non-title bout

Women's Straweight (115 lbs): Zoila Frausto/Gurgel
Last Title Defense: N/A
Next Title Defense: Unknown, beat Karina Hallinan on 3/5/11 in a non-title bout

*Events that are coming up sometime in the near future that you may want to stick into your eyes and ears*

Section coming soon


*PAFC!*

The Penny Arcade Fight Club is the closest we get to taken all of our hidden (sexual) frustrations out on each other. It's a tournament style slobber knocker full of fun run by adytum, who is totally awesome.

Go to MMA Playground, sign up and then get with Adytum to be part of our league and our tournaments. Our past champions include facetious, Spectrum (2x) and Inquisitor (2x). Can you join them in the PAFC Hall of Champions?

Season 5 of the PAFC concluded on July 2nd with Inquisitor winning his second title in a row. Congrats to the now two time champion! Pay attention to the thread to find out when Season 6 will start up.



I'm always up for constructive criticism about the OP. I don't have any kind of Photoshop skills or any of that fun stuff, so I'm pretty much limited to text unless you want to send me something to put in here. Feel free to post in the thread or PM if there's something you don't like or think needs to be changed. I browse the forums at least once a day, so I'm always up for a chat.

Happy MMA-ing!

adytum

PAFCR6

1. adytum
2. Venkman90
3. Inquisitor77
4. Snarfmaster
5. Zzulu
6. TehSpectre
7. Star
8. B:L
9. XRDD
10. fmz65
11. Sweeney Tom
12. facetious
13. Raoulduke20
14. DasUberEdward
15. MayGodHaveMercy
16. ChillyWilly

Sweeney Tom

Amazing OP, Chilly!

adytum

That fight should have been over, but meathead tripped over himself.

TehSpectre

HANG ON MORECRAFT

Edit: Fuck yes, still in this! There is no way Mitrione doesn't finish this in round 2.

adytum

Guys, stop posting in the old thread, you're going to get it locked

C'mon Mitrione

adytum

Morecraft's tattoo is big and jiggly and awful.

Edit- terrible double leg.

dlinfiniti

what, you're not even gonna post the video in the op?

JustinSane07

The goal is to get it locked, you tard.

TehSpectre

Finish him, Mitrione.

adytum

JustinSane07 wrote: »

The goal is to get it locked, you tard.

Then I can't pull out the PAFC stuff, smartypants.

adytum

I like this ref a lot.

Morecraft looks horrible.

edit- ko'd

TehSpectre

Woo

ChillyWilly

Well done, Spectre. Mitrione should have finished in the first when he got him down, but he got stifled into the second.

Poop.

JustinSane07

Matt Mitrione: 5-0 with 4 KOs.

I wonder if they'll move him up in competition level soon. I mean, he gassed pretty easily and he probably has a shit ground game, but against someone like Carwin he could probably hold his own.

David_T

That's a nice KO. Boom, boom, then just walk away.

dlinfiniti

aww how come dream didnt make the cut up there
they have an event on july 16

ChillyWilly

JustinSane07 wrote: »

The goal is to get it locked, you tard.

Not really. There's no reason to wait. Starting a new thread right before the official card seemed appropriate.

Also, what Tum said.

Also, WHY DOES IT FUCKING MATTER CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE FIGHTS.


@dlinfiniti: If you want to write up a little summary for Dream and list their champions, you can PM them to me and I'll be glad to add them. As it is, I don't personally follow them because I don't have HD Net and I don't think the majority of the thread does, which is why I've never officially kept track of them (and I don't think anyone else has, either).

But like I said, I'll list them if you want to send me the info.

adytum

Kongo

All lookin' like a hobo

dlinfiniti

adytum wrote: »

Kongo

All lookin' like a hobo

thas your boy right there
learnin from the best
kimbo slice

adytum

Blah blah blah interview

More punching

B:L

adytum wrote: »

Blah blah blah interview

More punching

I like how they [strike]lied[/strike] built up Matt Brown without mentioning his losing streak of 3.

Punchy McFist

There's a minor mistake in the OP. Lombard is the middleweight champion in Bellator, not the light-heavyweight champ. Christian M'Pumbu is their champ at 205.

Metal Jared

That's quite the hair art on Doomsday.

Metal Jared

B:L wrote: »

adytum wrote: »

Blah blah blah interview

More punching

I like how they [strike]lied[/strike] built up Matt Brown without mentioning his losing streak of 3.

Yeah it's almost like they are fight promoters and their business is to make fights seem interesting. Weird.

TehSpectre

Metal Jared wrote: »

That's quite the hair art on Doomsday.

It's his thing.

adytum

I'm surprised to see Doomsday recover after all that.

TehSpectre

Doomsday doesn't get KO'd, Ady.

He's a robot.

Edit: Since Chilly didn't 100% this pick, I still have a chance. Gonna all come down to the last fight.

B:L

Punchy McFist wrote: »

There's a minor mistake in the OP. Lombard is the middleweight champion in Bellator, not the light-heavyweight champ. Christian M'Pumbu is their champ at 205.

Cold Konrad also seems a bit Chilly.

ChillyWilly

Punchy McFist wrote: »

There's a minor mistake in the OP. Lombard is the middleweight champion in Bellator, not the light-heavyweight champ. Christian M'Pumbu is their champ at 205.

That is very odd. I'm looking at the original word document that I pulled over for the OP and it has the info right.

I'm...confused. O_o

adytum

ChillyWilly wrote: »

Punchy McFist wrote: »

There's a minor mistake in the OP. Lombard is the middleweight champion in Bellator, not the light-heavyweight champ. Christian M'Pumbu is their champ at 205.

That is very odd. I'm looking at the original word document that I pulled over for the OP and it has the info right.

I'm...confused. O_o

Your OP is rigged.

JustinSane07

Hahahaha.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ChillyWilly

I don't know what you're talking about, B:L... :lol:

Turns out the info was in there, but I left out one quotation mark and it somehow made Lombard the LHW champ. Strange.

EDIT: Not feeling good about my Doomsday pick.

B:L

TehSpectre wrote: »

Doomsday doesn't get KO'd, Ady.

He's a robot.

Edit: Since Chilly didn't 100% this pick, I still have a chance. Gonna all come down to the last fight.

Doomsday's gameplan is shit.

He almost got OMOPLATA'D that's how shit his gameplan is.

TehSpectre

I honestly don't know what Doomsday is thinking.

ChillyWilly

New video in the OP if any of you are bored of this fight.

You've probably seen it, but it's a fun little video.

adytum

Eh.

JustinSane07

Hahaha.

I don't like winning by decision, but I got kids to feed.

ChillyWilly

Is this due to Howard's conditioning, a terrible gameplan or both?

Howard is only 5' 7''...he should work on his ground game and head to lightweight. He could drop a little bit of his muscle mass and still be one of the bigger guys in the division.

EDIT: Howard lost, not surprising. Go work your ground game and cardio in a smaller organization and come back in a year and half.

adytum

Charlie Brenneman

Whoever you are

This the opportunity of a lifetime

Don't mess it up

TehSpectre

So, if I get 22 points and Chilly gets 14...we will be tied at 62.