Originally Posted by
SleepingTalon
That's funny because I've met some aikido guys, and observed their training, and thought it was kinda weak. They did a lot of wristlock throws, and want you to "roll" with it. When one of them was showing me a wristlock throw, I didn't roll, and was like "ok, how come I didn't go flying across the floor man?" and he said "well, you need to roll with it" and I was like "umm..in a real fight, noone is gonna fucking roll because you decided to grab their wrist". They just concluded that I didn't "get it" and I came to the conclusion that they were "full of shit".
As far as the Pride vs UFC thing, well in general, Pride has got stiffer competition at some of the more noticed weight classes. Pride LW champion is Gomi, who is an excellent striker, but now the UFC has a new LW division with some VERY tough competition. UFC has Sherk, Yves, Hominick, Stevenson, Pulver, Florian, and now BJ Penn (arguable the best P4P fighter in the world). Pride doesn't have a WW division, well not one that's 170lbs, and the UFC WW division is probably one of, if not THE most competitive division in the world. Hughes, GSP, BJ Penn (he fights at WW too), Karo, and Diego, Fitch, Koscheck are all probably gonna be champion at some point in their careers. BTW, if you didn't see the Spike TV "Ultimate Fight Night" last week, I strongly urger you to watch the Karo/Diego fight that was shown live. It was fight of the year for sure, or damn close. Anyway, UFC and Pride both have guys that fight at around 185lbs, but this is where Pride FC starts to show its depth. The pride "WW" division, which is the same weight as the UFC MW division, has stiffer competition. Just Henderson, and Kang could probably beat Rich Franklin or Anderson Silva, and there are many others at that weight in Japan that are better (although Rich does have the skills to beat any of the Pride guys too). The LHW division in the UFC is ruled by Chuck Liddell, and while many people here think Chuck is gods gift to MMA, he just isn't. Don't get me wrong, Chuck is good, but Wanderlei would KTFO. Who else does the UFC have, Tito, Babalu? That's really it. I mean, they've got some TUF hand picked guys, but they aren't on the same level. Pride LHW's are a step up above UFC. The most dominan division of all is the HW's though. UFC HW's are PATHETIC. The UFC HW champ is Tim Sylvia. I don't wanna even discuss what Fedor would do to poor Timmy, because it's that bad. Infact, Mirko, Barnett, Randleman, and Nog would all murder him. UFC has Arlovski, Sylvia, Monson, Vera, Mir, etc. Arlovski, Monson, and Vera are the only ones with good upsides, and they're B-level compared to Pride's HW's. Pride is running their first US show in a few months, and they just announced a few fights last night. Fedor/Coleman are fighting, and Randleman/Shogun were the 2 they announced. I'm not really happy with the Fedor/Coleman fight since Fedor already kicked his ass, and that was back when Coleman was younger, but w/e. The other fight is OK, but I assume that Pride is just throwing these guys on the first show because they have name value in the US from their early UFC stints. They know Fedor is gonna crush Coleman, and look like a monster doing it. The UFC HW champ Tim Sylvia turned down a fight with Pride's HW champ, Fedor, which sucks because I hate Tim and wanted to see Fedor punish his cranium in under 5min. Tim knows he can't beat Fedor though, so he saved himself and ass kicking.
I don't know about this whole "Pride sending guys to the UFC" thing. This shits been said so many times and nothing ever comes of it. At the last PPV, they had Silva and Chuck do a staredown, and now it looks like the fight isn't gonna happen. So once again, it's not gonna go down. Sylvia won't fight Fedor and now this, I dunno, it just doesn't look too promising.
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