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Post by DUCE on Aug 22, 2005 0:43:05 GMT -5
DSE/PRIDE announced the line-up for their 8-man 185-pound Grand Prix tournament. The first round of the tournament will take place on September 25th:
185-pound GP first round:
Dan Henderson vs. Ryo Chonan
Murilo Bustamante vs. Masanori Suda
Phil Baroni vs. Ikuhisa Minowa
Daniel Acacio vs. Akihiro Gono
Reserve matchup:
Paulo Filho vs. Ryuta Sakurai
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Post by DUCE on Aug 22, 2005 0:51:38 GMT -5
WHY IS PAULO NOT IN THE TURNY!? The man is undefeated at a high level of competition.
"New York City Bad Ass" vs. "The Punk"
Dan Henderson is being fed Ryo. This could be the show stealer if Ryo doesn't act like a "bad ass"
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Post by Magog1 on Aug 24, 2005 0:56:52 GMT -5
He's not in the tourney because they can't always sqeeze everyone into these damn things. Some one really good always gets clipped, and that's a good thing because when they do get there shot, you'll tune in. If you gave a mma fan everything he wanted all the time well.. then he'd be a UFC FAN(ZING!) jk, i ment to say he'd be spoiled rotten and it would get harder and harder to keep him. In truth I always bust on wanderlai for not taking enough real challenges.. but it's damn smart. He picks his spots, where as I'm certain Chuck will burn himself out bending over back wards trying to prove he's a a bad ass. It won't be Dana White's fault (though I"m sure he won't try and stop it), I can see that in Chuck. He wants to look like the invincible champ Randy was when he moved down in wieght. He has a pretty good game plan actaully.. I mean if he manages to avenge all his loses.. (including jackson) and Wanderlai never accepts his challenge, he'll be in a pretty good position to fraunt like he is in deed the man. (I'm not saying he will be, but he'll be alot better of than he is now not that he's hurting right now).
Now I don't want you to get the wrong idea.. I don't honestly beleive Chuck could beat wanderlai, not at all, but if he's the only one persuing the fight, it makes him look alot better as a champion doesn't it?
Hell I'll even do you one better, if they ever fought and Chuck won I'd probrably beat Duce online to making up an exscuse why Chuck won. Wanderlai is just focused precise fighter. Chuck has improved (He moved back and measure his foes... it reminds me a little bit of Pedro Hizzo).
Now Actaully duce if you wanted to make a good argument about something smelling fishy after the Horn fight.. if you saw Horn's face.. he was clearly P@ssed off about something when his crew was adressing him. The first people to mention anything about the eye was the UFC announcers. You act like this is some huge cover up. He got punched in the eye, thats it. I know the thumbs illegal but can you really be expected to aim around the eye with a fist?
Better yet lets end the argument.. I'll conceed Chuck cheated in the fourth round if you can honestly tell me Horn was winning that fight. He wasn't.
I think alot people (net fans, Horn) see Chuck as a unskilled fighter with out any ring savy, and a real striker with the right talent would tare him apart. Horn wasn't winning in the stand up, which was a HUGE waste because his real skills belonged on the ground.
Or maybe Jeremy Horn isn't as great as everyone thinks.. I rember seeing his fight with Vernon TIger white (that was a while back) and I wasn't terribly impressed. He has talent.. and I'll be happy to see him fight Randy, or hell even go to Pride (he's been there before right?) but he didn't fight smart that night. End of story.
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