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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:24 am    Post subject:

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cool... hopefully couture and fedor soon thereafter.

yeah, hopefully Affliction goes dead and Fedor will have to fight in the UFC....
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:44 am    Post subject:

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cool... hopefully couture and fedor soon thereafter.

yeah, hopefully Affliction goes dead and Fedor will have to fight in the UFC....


As long as Affliction is around, don't count on it....

As for Afflication, if you listen to Dana White, he's betting/hoping that will be dead by the new year...

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None have been more vocal than UFC President Dana White. Since Affliction's emergence, his not-so-affectionate moniker for the company, "the t-shirt guys," has often been followed by a prediction of the company's approaching demise. In a teleconference Tuesday announcing Randy Couture's return to the UFC, White was true to form.

"In this economy right now, losing money is a really bad thing," he said. "There's nobody out there looking to fund anything, nobody's spending any money, nobody's investing in anything. When you're losing the kind of money that these guys are losing, you've gotta sell a lot of t-shirts to get back that money."

Until now, White's attacks have been limited to verbal slings and arrows thrown at Affliction. But during Tuesday's conference call, in response to questions about various legal disputes surrounding the Couture case, the outspoken president also may have hinted that his company could take its opposition to the next level -- possibly the courtroom.

"My dispute with Randy Couture is done," White said. "I'm not saying that my dispute with anybody else is done."


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White told reporters he doesn't plan on stealing Affliction's crown jewel, Fedor Emelianenko, for a fight with Couture, even though Emelianenko's Affliction deal is exclusive only to the U.S. White remains unwilling to co-promote with Emelianenko's management company, M-1 Global, preferring to wait for Affliction's demise to pick up the Russian's services.

"These guys are dying on the vine, they'll be gone in a couple of months anyway, and Fedor will have to come here," said the outspoken UFC president. "You're not under contract if the company isn't in business anymore."


Meanwhile, White issued another prediction of Affliction's end.

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"I would be (expletive) horrified if Affliction is still in business by January," he declared. "They're going to burn a lot of cash in the next few months, believe me. Good luck to 'em. I'll be sitting here waiting to see what happens."



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:52 am    Post subject:

Hope Rampage finally gets his revenge!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:58 am    Post subject:

Mods, I think it would be a good idea to consolidate the most recent MMA threads into one... unless people object. I just thought it would be nice to have all the MMA related post in one thread... especially with all the news coming out and various different posting here on the LG.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:25 am    Post subject:

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The iceman should call it quits already.


I agree. I've long been a fan of Liddell's but these short embarrassing losses are too much to watch. At least he was fun to watch while it lasted.














btw, Couture v. Lesnar FTW! I hope the old man can come ready again. Then, OMG, maybe Fedor in Affliction! I drool
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:27 am    Post subject:

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Hope Rampage finally gets his revenge!


Have Rampage and Silva fought already once?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:30 am    Post subject:

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Mods, I think it would be a good idea to consolidate the most recent MMA threads into one... unless people object. I just thought it would be nice to have all the MMA related post in one thread... especially with all the news coming out and various different posting here on the LG.


That'd be pretty sweet
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:16 am    Post subject:

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Hope Rampage finally gets his revenge!


Have Rampage and Silva fought already once?

Twice...and Silva blew up Rampage both times!

My head still hurts watching Silva knee Rampage in the head...
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:21 am    Post subject:

Here are the first 2 fights...

Wanderlei V. Rampage 1

Wanderlei V. Rampage 2


and i'm pretty sure Part 3 is gonna go the same way!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:15 am    Post subject:

IMO, its not that Chuck is running out of gas. In fact, I think he still has alot more fighting in him. His recent losses is more due to the fact that other fighters are realizing what what his weaknesses are, and exposing it in every match. Chuck's kryptonite seems to be anybody with the last name Jackson recently.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:25 am    Post subject:

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Chuck's kryptonite seems to be anybody with the last name Jackson recently.

so he doesnt like Never-Never Land is what your saying??!?!?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:03 pm    Post subject:

Looks like Chuck is the new gatekeeper for light heavyweight. You beat him you are in the top 10 of the div.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:42 pm    Post subject: UFC Fighter Evan Tanner goes to desert, reported missing by friends, possibly found dead

Trip being planned.

Story about body being found in desert.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:00 pm    Post subject:

Wow.... sad...

They are reporting that the body they found is indeed Tanner...
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:14 pm    Post subject:

Holy wow! that is sad!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:21 pm    Post subject:

Any word on what happened?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:45 pm    Post subject:

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Any word on what happened?



Not sure what happened but here's a link to a story.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:12 pm    Post subject:

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Any word on what happened?



Not sure what happened but here's a link to a story.

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“I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment, could cost me my life,”

Sounds like Into The Wild
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:33 pm    Post subject:

I was reading in the Chino Champion about a guy who moved from Chino to Forest Falls a month ago and was found dead this weekend high up in the mountains there. Not a great week for hikers.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:02 pm    Post subject: MMA Legend Evan Tanner assumed dead

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Sad, sad day in mma....RIP Evan Tanner
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:01 am    Post subject:

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Being a minimalist by nature, wanting to carry only the essentials, and being extremely particular, it has been a little difficult to find just the right equipment. I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment, could cost me my life. I've been doing a great deal of research and study. I want to know all I can about where I'm going, and I want to make sure I have the best equipment.

I know adventuring is great... but why put yourself through that!
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:56 am    Post subject:

sad news, indeed.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:26 pm    Post subject:

Not that I want to denigrate his memory, but the whole trip was poorly thought out and executed:

1. Tanner travels to the desert on a just-purchased (possibly used) motorcycle. No shake out or testing.

2. He frets about the special equipment he'll need for the trip, yet runs out of both gas and water the first day.

3. He's ventures alone, a total neophyte out in the Mojave Desert during one of the hottest times of the year

4. He gets into trouble, so he successfully calls a friend for help. Then he leaves his camp (60 to 100 miles from a town), rather than staying put and using or building a shelter (crazy).
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:07 am    Post subject: Hurricane Ike KO's WEC 36 Event Tonight (Rescheduled for Nov. 5th)

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Due to potentially dangerous weather conditions in Florida, the promotion decided to postpone its WEC 36 event scheduled for Sept. 10 and push the fights back to Nov. 5 instead.


Damn, was having people over to watch the fight!
O Well!

Hurricane Ike KO's WEC 36 Event Tonight...
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Hurricane Ike KO's WEC 36 Event Tonight (Rescheduled for Nov. 5th)

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Due to potentially dangerous weather conditions in Florida, the promotion decided to postpone its WEC 36 event scheduled for Sept. 10 and push the fights back to Nov. 5 instead.


Damn, was having people over to watch the fight!
O Well!

Hurricane Ike KO's WEC 36 Event Tonight...


Lil Evil Jens Pulver was on that card too.

UFC/WEC has a lot good fights coming up...

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UFC has some good fight coming this fall/winter:

Keith Jardine Vs. Brandon Vera (10/18/08)
Sean Sherk Vs. Tyson Griffin (10/25/08)
Anderson Silva Vs Cote (10/25/08)
Kenny Florian V. Joe Stevenson (11/15/08)
Wanderlei Silva Vs Rampage (11/15/08)
Lesnar Vs Couture (11/15/08)
BJ Penn Vs GSP (1/31/09) *rumored*

WEC:

Jens Pulver Vs. Leonard Garcia (11/05/08)
Urijah Faber Vs. Mike Brown (11/05/08)
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