All Purpose UFC/MMA/That Kind Of Thing Thread

Inky_Wretch · Jun 5, 2008

Seabasket said:

Inky_Wretch said:

I still haven't come across an explanation about Thompson's ear. That wasn't normal cauliflower ear.

It was inflamed and filled with blood, so why wasn't it drained before the fight? Should we get DocTalk to look at the photos?
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I was told that he hurt it in training just a few days before the fight and draining an ear takes several days to heal so there wasn't enough time.
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It takes several days to heal a needle prick?

Seabasket · Jun 5, 2008

Inky_Wretch said:

Seabasket said:

Inky_Wretch said:

I still haven't come across an explanation about Thompson's ear. That wasn't normal cauliflower ear.

It was inflamed and filled with blood, so why wasn't it drained before the fight? Should we get DocTalk to look at the photos?
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I was told that he hurt it in training just a few days before the fight and draining an ear takes several days to heal so there wasn't enough time.
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It takes several days to heal a needle prick?
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I'll answer that even though you called me a prick ;D

I'm no doctor but from what I understand after draining the ear they need to give it time for the skin to reconnect with the cartilage, otherwise you have loose skin that can easily tear off and that'd be even more gruesome that a popped hematoma.

Mr7134 · Jun 7, 2008

An amusing Japanese commercial for razors that features Wanderlei Silva commercial and Mark Coleman…

Mr7134 · Jun 7, 2008

The Times has an excellent piece on it's website by Sam Sheridan, who wrore a A Fighter's Heart.

The piece is called...

Cage fighting: a man's ultimate thrill

What makes a Harvard man want to take part in the most brutal form of cage combat? Sam Sheridan explains his obsession with an ultra-violent sport now hitting London
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It really is good.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article4050586.ece?token=null&offset=0

Inky_Wretch · Jul 15, 2008

Rampage Jackson in high-speed pursuit and arrested ...

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=13689

Giggity · Jul 16, 2008

Inky_Wretch said:

Rampage Jackson in high-speed pursuit and arrested ...

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=13689
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Sweet - if a marquee guy is getting chased down in a high-speed pursuit, MMA must finally be a legit big-league sport!

Seriously though, that sucks. You don't want your most charismatic fighter getting mixed up in this kind of shit, especially when Griffin-Jackson II has the potential to be so lucrative.

Mr7134 · Jul 16, 2008

Interestingly, there has been no mention of alcohol or drugs. TMZ has an interview that an MMA site conducted with Rampage the day before the incident. He seems slightly off kilter.

http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/16/rampage-pre-rampage-im-fat-and-messed-up/

I do wonder how the felony charges play out as Quinton Jackson already has an assault conviction in California stemming from a junior college incident that his high school wrestling coach, Peter Bolgeo, described to the Memphis Commercial Appeal last December....

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/Dec/25/sportsman-of-the-yearquinton-rampage-jackson-f-l/

...When Jackson was ruled ineligible to compete as a senior because he had turned 19, Bolgeo spoke with Jackson's mother about sending him to Lassen Community College in Susanville, Calif., a school with a powerhouse wrestling program that had offered Jackson a scholarship and an opportunity to earn his GED. Bolgeo knew Jackson would wither away without wrestling at Raleigh-Egypt. So off he went to the West Coast, for the first time, to practice with All-Americans. By all accounts, his life there was pleasant enough until he overheard a teammate -- a 300-pound teammate, as Bolgeo tells the story -- screaming at his mother on the phone. This annoyed Jackson, bothered him.

Jackson asked him how he could speak to her that way, his teammate encouraged him to mind his own business. At some point during this exchange, according to Bolgeo, this teammate slugged Jackson in the face with the phone. The two young men had scrapped before, but their latest round escalated when Jackson tasted blood on his lip.

"When he sees blood, he snaps," Bolgeo said. "He took the phone away from the boy and about beat him half to death. He got into a lot of trouble for that...
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Inky_Wretch · Jul 17, 2008

Jackson arrested again ...

http://mmamania.com/2008/07/17/report-quinton-rampage-jackson-arrested-again/

Seabasket · Jul 20, 2008

For posterity, I would like to note that on July 20 at a few minutes after midnight, ESPN.com had MMA as its top story, just for an hour, but this was the first time ever.

Top story featured Affliction and UFC with top pound-for-pounders Fedor Emelianenko and Anderson Silva both posting dominant wins.

Norman Stansfield · Jul 20, 2008

Holy crap.

Anderson Silva wasted James Irvin 1:01 into the first round.

Caught a kick by Irvin, knocked him out with one punch, and then opened a gash the size of a large vagina under Irvin's right eye when he got onto him on the ground.

Oh, and Irvin had an ad on his ass for condomdepot.com.

ATLienCP · Jul 20, 2008

Fedor dominates 2 time UFC champ Tim Sylvia in 36 seconds. Baddest man on the planet and its not even close.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=38835114

Mr7134 · Jul 21, 2008

Thinking about it, it's sad that the weekend's Affliction show wasn't the one to air on CBS. If it did Fedor would be a superstar and he'd have a ready made opponent in Arlovski who looked very, very good while having a great fight with Ben Rothwell.

Also, USA Today, on their website, have a poll about who Fedor should fight next. Kimbo Slice is winning with 32% of the vote. That fight would be a massacre.

Alexander Emelianenko actually does want to fight Kimbo. He gave an interview a few days ago and mentioned it.

….Aleks Emelianenko: In reality, as a fighter, as a fighter he’s weak. For me anyway. My promoter [Vadim Finkelshtein] suggested this fight to his promoters, that I go there and fight Kimbo. And they’re not taking the fight. They realize that for me he’s too weak.

I won’t be fighting with him, playing with him. I’ll go there and tear him apart, bite him in two. Exactly like it was with me and [James] Thompson, whom it took almost three rounds for Kimbo to put away.
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