Comments on: Video: ESPN MMA Live Episode 18

By: Dr Doom

Dr Doom — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:26:57 +0000

Dolfgang ,

When I was a kid I played a game called team handball . (see youtube for video)I set the all time record with 176 goals and 65 assists in 4 straight championship seasons . My overall record was 40 wins 1 loss (first game I ever played) and 4 ties .After I lost the first game , I never lost again . my name is in three different gyms where I live and set the records so I know what its like to be like mike …. how do ya like me know ?

By: DolfanG

DolfanG — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:50:02 +0000

Sugar wasn’t showboating??? Are you serious??? There is no way that anybody that ever saw Sugar Ray fight can say with honesty and integrity and a straight face that he didn’t showboat… come on now. Next you’ll be telling me that Dion Sanders didn’t showboat either. I loved watching those guys because they were the very best at what they did even though they showboated.

nev-o

I’m so sorry to disappoint you, but whatever it is that you do when your fighter beats your buddy’s fighter, I don’t do that. I’ll cheer for the guy that I want to win, but when it’s over, I just smile and feel good about it. I don’t do any back-flips or spike anything and I don’t run around the place backwards with my arms stretched out nor do I spin around one one foot.

I have always subscribed to the advice from Jim Brown, the football great, when he told a younger guy: When you get to the endzone, act like you’ve been there before.

I used to love to watch the old guys when they’d hit a homerun: the team would meet them at homeplate and they would shake hands and go sit down. The old football players would score a touchdown and flip the ball to the official and head to the sideline. That’s the stuff I like to see. I’m not a coreographed celebration kinda guy. Please forgive me for my shortcomings and my disapproval of those that showboat. Who knows?… Maybe with proper medication, modern science can cure guys like me. But I am what I am and I’ve never even been to la la land… sheltered life and all…

By: Dr Doom

Dr Doom — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:16:29 +0000

Did he win or not ? Sometimes people try to hard to create a personality for themselves on the way up . Just leave the showboating aside with evans ,he’s just trying to be recognized . He just needs to be less flashy and let his hands to the talking right now —-the rep will solidify with the wins .

By: nev-o

nev-o — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:33:33 +0000

mo ali mo ali he backed it up float like a butterfly im the greatest of all time

By: nev-o

nev-o — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:31:35 +0000

Everyone deep down likes the iceman he was huge part of making the ufc what it is today he is old and wise and has fought the best in the world and by the way i bet alot of these guys have taken ballet for balance agility just like guys in the nfl!!!!! read a book get ur facts right ur just jealous these guys train every day year round for two things self glory and to entertain us so if u dont like the after dance dont watch

By: nev-o

nev-o — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:26:41 +0000

dolfang look at the nfl and look at the mlb ozzie smith use to do a backflip after a sweet catch things havent change in sports these are grown men they work there asses of let them celebrate kind of like all of us do with our buddies…if the guy u want to wins beats the crap out of the guy ur buddie wanted to win u get a bit cocky too and if u cant admit that ur in la la land its a stacked sport with the best in the world i would sure as hell break dance if i beat rich franklin and so would u

By: The Gunslinger

The Gunslinger — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:41:59 +0000

sugar ray wasnt shouwboating he won alot of fights that way its strategy….bobbing and weaving has been a strategy for age’s ask any boxing coach…ive loved boxing forever and i cant count how many fights ive seen and how many times ive seen them and they dont showboat its called bobbing and weaving and i will end it on that note

By: DolfanG

DolfanG — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:34:21 +0000

I don’t want to come off as a guy that hates Rashad Evans. I don’t hate him at all. I think the guy has some real talent and ability. I’m anxiuos to see where his career goes. Will he win the championship and then hold it for 10 years? I think this kind of talk is ridiculous, but if Rashad does become the LHW champion, will Anderson Silva move up to test himself against Rashad? Or might Rashad move up to HW and challenge whoever the champion might be? He’s a good fighter and he’s earned his title shot.

By: DolfanG

DolfanG — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:30:27 +0000

If you ever saw a Sugar Ray Leonard fight, then you must have seen when he would take his right hand and start winding it up ijn circles and then he’d throw a punch. Did you think for one nanosecond that’s just he way he throws a punch??? No, of course not. It was showboating. I was a huge Sugar Ray fan, but I can be honest… he showboated. Sometimes I was entertained by it, but I would have preferred that he never did that stuff. Now young guys like Rashad want to copy that. They ain’t exactly Sugar Ray. It don’t look good on them. Bobbing and weaving ain’t showboating. Rashad knows when he’s showboating… It ain’t just how he moves and he knows that. Let’s just wait and see if he does it in his next fight.

By: The Gunslinger

The Gunslinger — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:16:42 +0000

ELa, thats exactly what im saying man i used to love watching old boxing fights because thats what you would see…some of these guys just have never seen an ali or sugar ray fight…then they would know that its not showboating its bobbing and weaving which has been a fighting technique since ali started doing it and dancing in the ring works…the opponent gets frustrated because it looks like your having no problems out there and you make the other guy look bad…then they start getting aggresive and sloppy and get caught great technique…ive done it a few times to so thats why i agree with it