Also, about time we changed the format of the picks. The whole "let me pick 4 fights and get them all right" thing was a bunch of garbage. Pick the whole card like men.
Here's mine. I'm not feeling a lot of these fights, pick wise. Lots of potential upsets.
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view) Jose Aldo (c) vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title) Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares
Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX) Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira
Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho
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I really hope there was some sort of massive misunderstanding or significant illness that made Rumble miss weight by that much. Otherwise I wouldn't have an issue if he gets cut if he either can't make 205 tomorrow or loses.
I think there is still a pretty good chance this fight gets canceled. Once he starts re-hydrating, I don't see how he can stay under the 205 lb limit. Doesn't he weigh close to 230 lbs when he's not cutting?
Rumble came in at 197. Holy ****. What a disrespectful piece of garbage. How are you not going to even try and make weight? Slap in the face to both Vitor and the UFC. Surprised Vitor even agreed to take the fight. Dana probably threw him a bunch of cash to not blow it off. He had every right to.
He had to sweat the weight off. Johnson just ate McDonald's.
What the **** is Rumbles problem? He's so unprofessional. I would have no problem if the UFC cut him for this.
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I think there is still a pretty good chance this fight gets canceled. Once he starts re-hydrating, I don't see how he can stay under the 205 lb limit. Doesn't he weigh close to 230 lbs when he's not cutting?
My guess is he realized he wasn't going to make weight, so didn't even bother to hit the sauna. I bet he stays under 205 tomorrow because he didn't even cut weight today.
Jose Aldo (c) vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title) Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX) Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira
Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle
Caio Magalhaes vs. Fabio Maldonado Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho
Jose Aldo (c) vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title) Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson (for franklinweight title - Johnson has a day to make 195 pounds, but more likely he somehow weighs in at 214 tomorrow)
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares
Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX)
Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira
Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle Caio Magalhaes vs. Fabio Maldonado Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho
I wouldn't sleep on Mendes though. If he gets the takedown, he has a chance. If not, he's got a puncher's chance but more likely Aldo eats him alive.
Also, about time we changed the format of the picks. The whole "let me pick 4 fights and get them all right" thing was a bunch of garbage. Pick the whole card like men.
Here's mine. I'm not feeling a lot of these fights, pick wise. Lots of potential upsets.
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view) Jose Aldo (c) vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title) Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares
Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX) Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira
Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle Caio Magalhaes vs. Fabio Maldonado Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho
To your first point, that is what we are doing now. If you don't pick a fight, its a loss.
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Something must of happened to AJ on fight week. I'm told everything was on schedule when he left for Brazil.
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Illness? Threats? Rumble did seem like he had everything together, I find it difficult to believe he simply got lazy at a higher weight class and let himself weigh in at 197. I'm really not sure what to make of this, I'm sure something will come out sooner or later.
Something has to be up with Johnson. It seemed like his training and everything was going fine. Something must have happened (injury, illness, etc) for there to be this issue.
Regardless, pretty brutal. I'll leave my pick as Johnson over Belfort but I'm not at all confident in that.
Something has to be up with Johnson. It seemed like his training and everything was going fine. Something must have happened (injury, illness, etc) for there to be this issue.
He probably got cocky, thought 185 would be a breeze and had a ****** diet this camp. When it came time to cut weight this week and he realized he was heavy he thought "ehh, 20% fine isn't so bad I won't even bother cutting weight".
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
Jose Aldo (c) vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title) Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares
Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva
Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX) Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle
Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho
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Illness? Threats? Rumble did seem like he had everything together, I find it difficult to believe he simply got lazy at a higher weight class and let himself weigh in at 197. I'm really not sure what to make of this, I'm sure something will come out sooner or later.
He's just a lazy and disrespectful punk who should not be in the UFC. He does not deserve to be there, as shown by his lack of caring.
He's just a lazy and disrespectful punk who should not be in the UFC. He does not deserve to be there, as shown by his lack of caring.
I just watched the weigh-in video, and when he comes out he's hamming it up for the crowd. You'd think he'd be sombre and mad at himself, but nope he's goofing around and acting like it's a joke.
He's just a lazy and disrespectful punk who should not be in the UFC. He does not deserve to be there, as shown by his lack of caring.
Agreed, but I doubt they're going to get rid of him, even if he loses.
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
Jose Aldo (c) vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title) Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares
Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX)
Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira
Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho
What's to say? He came out smiling, etc. He knew he missed weight and was just trying to troll everyone in the crowd then. He's a punk.
So what? Dana knew before he weighed in what the situation was. Rumble "trolling" the crowd has nothing to do with why he missed weight. The most he missed by at welterweight was five pounds. I find it hard to believe that after months of hard training in preparation for his first fight at a new weight class that he would simply get lazy in the days right before the fight and miss by 12 friggin pounds.
So what? Dana knew before he weighed in what the situation was. Rumble "trolling" the crowd has nothing to do with why he missed weight. The most he missed by at welterweight was five pounds. I find it hard to believe that after months of hard training in preparation for his first fight at a new weight class that he would simply get lazy in the days right before the fight and miss by 12 friggin pounds.
These are my thoughts as well. I think there's more to it. Some sort of injury I assume.
According to Johnson’s manager Glenn Robinson of Authentic Sports Management, who spoke to MMAWeekly.com on Friday, ‘Rumble’ woke up on Friday morning weighing 191.5lbs, only 5.5lbs away from the 186lb weight limit for middleweight.
With three hours to go until weigh-ins, Johnson was only a pound and a half away from making weight when his body started feeling off.
Robinson says that Johnson started feeling sick and unstable, and so the UFC doctors came in to check him out to see what exactly was going on.
The doctors gave Johnson fluids to see if it would improve his condition, and within a couple of hours, the Blackzilian fighter started to come back to life. Unfortunately, at this point it was too late to cut the weight back down to 186lbs.
“It was medical reasons, it wasn’t for lack of effort,” Robinson said. “The UFC was extremely supportive and said health comes first."
So he was at 187.5 three hours before the weigh-ins and they pumped 10 pounds of liquid into him?
Sounds to me like he got overly dehydrated from trying to cut too much weight. Maybe if he would do things properly (or you know... fight at a weight-class that doesn't have him cut 30-40+ pounds) this wouldn't happen.
I have absolutely zero sympathy for him. If he loses I hope he gets cut. How often can a guy miss weight and get away with it?
Here are my picks:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view) Jose Aldo (c) vs. Chad Mendes (for featherweight title) Vitor Belfort vs. Anthony Johnson
Mike Massenzio vs. Rousimar Palhares
Carlo Prater vs. Erick Silva Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX) Sam Stout vs. Thiago Tavares
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Ednaldo Oliveira Yuri Alcantara vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Ricardo Funch vs. Mike Pyle
Felipe Arantes vs. Antonio "Pato" Carvalho
He's an idiot. The whole point of him moving up to middleweight was so that he would be closer to his fight weight. Instead, he figured herp derp i'm fighting at 185 I can add more muscle. It just puts him into the same situation as when he was cutting to 170.
Last edited by DeathFromAbove: 01-13-2012 at 06:26 PM.
