Posted: 7/13/2009 8:55:16 PM EDT
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Im watching the women duke it out right now. Its kind of hot in a sick sort of way......... channel 35 on cox cable the comcast sports network.
Its called Elite fighter I believe. 
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Quoted: Im watching the women duke it out right now. Its kind of hot in a sick sort of way......... channel 35 on cox cable the comcast sports network. Its called Elite fighter I believe. Whenever Gina fought on EliteXC I would watch. I would definitely watch a "womens" UFC league as long as the women were reasonably good looking. But that's the problem with all womens sports. Once the hardcore atheletes, who tend to be sub-par on the attractivness take over, fans (who are primarily male) lose interest. Watching women fight is like watching any other women's sport then, junior varsity to the men's sports. |
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Quoted: A few of them are actually hot. Look up Gina Carano, she is supposed to have a big fight with some Eastern Euro-shemale thing at some point in the near future. If you're talking about Cyborg Santos, she's not that bad looking imo. Not pretty, but I'd watch that fight. Probably be a good one, and Gina will more than likely lose. |
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A few of them are actually hot. Look up Gina Carano, she is supposed to have a big fight with some Eastern Euro-shemale thing at some point in the near future. If you're talking about Cyborg Santos, she's not that bad looking imo. Not pretty, but I'd watch that fight. Probably be a good one, and Gina will more than likely lose. Drug test, problem solved. Have you seen the "Woman" she is fighting? Steroid chin/face much? What I saw maid me cringe. |
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Drug test, problem solved. Have you seen the "Woman" she is fighting? Steroid chin/face much? What I saw maid me cringe. How Santos acted after her fight against Hitomi Akano made me cringe. The part about having a fighter come up from like 130 to fight a fighter trying desperately and failing miserably to come down from 165+ makes me cringe. A very transparent attempt at a pro-wrestling style "put over" by that organization. |
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Drug test, problem solved. Have you seen the "Woman" she is fighting? Steroid chin/face much? What I saw maid me cringe. How Santos acted after her fight against Hitomi Akano made me cringe. The part about having a fighter come up from like 130 to fight a fighter trying desperately and failing miserably to come down from 165+ makes me cringe. A very transparent attempt at a pro-wrestling style "put over" by that organization. There is not enough depth of talent to really worry about weight classes, short of 50-100 differences. Let them get into whatever fighting shape/size they want and let them go. Worked pretty well in the initial UFCs. If Carano loses it will be bad for womens MMA. |
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A few of them are actually hot. Look up Gina Carano, she is supposed to have a big fight with some Eastern Euro-shemale thing at some point in the near future. Damn. She can kick my ass whenever she wants 
http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/GinaCarano.jpg http://thingsfatpeoplehate.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/gina_carano_.jpeg I'd let her slam me against the wall for foreplay..."You ready yet, you ready yet"? "Yes mam". |
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I think it's interesting that Santos and Carano are trying to fight at 145. Neither one will make weight (exaggeration, Carano will, but it might be close)... Muscle is heavy. That wasn't quite my point... They're both kind of heavy to fight at 145, why not fight at a catch weight? |
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There is not enough depth of talent to really worry about weight classes, short of 50-100 differences. Let them get into whatever fighting shape/size they want and let them go. Worked pretty well in the initial UFCs. There are lots of reasons to worry about weightclasses. People are already squeamish about MMA, womens MMA in paticular. Watching a 165er demolish a girl who's trying to come up from 120 for a payday not going to do womens MMA any favors outside of giving the rednecks something to pull their puds too. Just makes state athletic comissions push different rule sets on women. |
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I think it's interesting that Santos and Carano are trying to fight at 145. Neither one will make weight (exaggeration, Carano will, but it might be close)... Muscle is heavy. That wasn't quite my point... They're both kind of heavy to fight at 145, why not fight at a catch weight? Ask the promoter. Like Anna hinted it might be a push attempt in Caranos favor, particularly if Santos has to drop 20-30 pounds. Santos winning would be bad, Carano is far more marketable. |
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I think it's interesting that Santos and Carano are trying to fight at 145. Neither one will make weight (exaggeration, Carano will, but it might be close)... Muscle is heavy. That wasn't quite my point... They're both kind of heavy to fight at 145, why not fight at a catch weight? Thought that was funny, too. Probably because if they fought at their walk weights it would be harder to trick 135ers into coming up "just 10 pounds". |
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There is not enough depth of talent to really worry about weight classes, short of 50-100 differences. Let them get into whatever fighting shape/size they want and let them go. Worked pretty well in the initial UFCs. There are lots of reasons to worry about weightclasses. People are already squeamish about MMA, womens MMA in paticular. Watching a 165er demolish a girl who's trying to come up from 120 for a payday not going to do womens MMA any favors outside of giving the rednecks something to pull their puds too. Just makes state athletic comissions push different rule sets on women. Didn't Carano fail to make weight at 145? Your hinting Santos is around the 165 mark, a "Catch" weight makes sense. A massive weight dump requirement screams push. |
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Drug test, problem solved. Have you seen the "Woman" she is fighting? Steroid chin/face much? What I saw maid me cringe. How Santos acted after her fight against Hitomi Akano made me cringe. The part about having a fighter come up from like 130 to fight a fighter trying desperately and failing miserably to come down from 165+ makes me cringe. A very transparent attempt at a pro-wrestling style "put over" by that organization. Yea I agree but the crowd apparently loved it. I just shook my head when people in the crowd started to boo Hitomi because she wanted to take it to the ground. |
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I think it's interesting that Santos and Carano are trying to fight at 145. Neither one will make weight (exaggeration, Carano will, but it might be close)... Muscle is heavy. That wasn't quite my point... They're both kind of heavy to fight at 145, why not fight at a catch weight? Ask the promoter. Like Anna hinted it might be a push attempt in Caranos favor, particularly if Santos has to drop 20-30 pounds. Santos winning would be bad, Carano is far more marketable. They're both going to have to drop serious weight to make 145. Problem is that the talent pool gets shallow starting at 145 and drops off dramatically. Personally am trying to leep weight around 140 and open up the 135-145 spread. I came down from 165~, rigged my diet to burn off muscle as well as fat due to the available fights above 145 being even thinner when I first started fighting. |
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There is not enough depth of talent to really worry about weight classes, short of 50-100 differences. Let them get into whatever fighting shape/size they want and let them go. Worked pretty well in the initial UFCs. There are lots of reasons to worry about weightclasses. People are already squeamish about MMA, womens MMA in paticular. Watching a 165er demolish a girl who's trying to come up from 120 for a payday not going to do womens MMA any favors outside of giving the rednecks something to pull their puds too. Just makes state athletic comissions push different rule sets on women. Didn't Carano fail to make weight at 145? Your hinting Santos is around the 165 mark, a "Catch" weight makes sense. A massive weight dump requirement screams push. I suspect they're both around 165 walk weight. |
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Drug test, problem solved. Have you seen the "Woman" she is fighting? Steroid chin/face much? What I saw maid me cringe. How Santos acted after her fight against Hitomi Akano made me cringe. The part about having a fighter come up from like 130 to fight a fighter trying desperately and failing miserably to come down from 165+ makes me cringe. A very transparent attempt at a pro-wrestling style "put over" by that organization. Yea I agree but the crowd apparently loved it. I just shook my head when people in the crowd started to boo Hitomi because she wanted to take it to the ground. I love my sport but it sure does attract some ignorant mo-fos. |
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The drop off in talent makes sense, but Carano is just about the only very well-known female fighter... She's the kind of fighter that it makes sense, from a business perspective, to make/bend the rules for. Kind of like the UFC letting Lesnar fight at "265" when in reality he's entering the octagon at 280+. So why not a higher weight division? Like a 145-165 heavyweight division?
ETA: Or just have her fight at a catch weight every fight. Where the sport is now, it makes more sense to draw viewers than to be really strict about weight classes. |
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Drug test, problem solved. Have you seen the "Woman" she is fighting? Steroid chin/face much? What I saw maid me cringe. How Santos acted after her fight against Hitomi Akano made me cringe. The part about having a fighter come up from like 130 to fight a fighter trying desperately and failing miserably to come down from 165+ makes me cringe. A very transparent attempt at a pro-wrestling style "put over" by that organization. Yea I agree but the crowd apparently loved it. I just shook my head when people in the crowd started to boo Hitomi because she wanted to take it to the ground. I love my sport but it sure does attract some ignorant mo-fos. No different with men really, a slugfest is more entertaining than a chess match for 98% of people. |
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Drug test, problem solved. Have you seen the "Woman" she is fighting? Steroid chin/face much? What I saw maid me cringe. How Santos acted after her fight against Hitomi Akano made me cringe. The part about having a fighter come up from like 130 to fight a fighter trying desperately and failing miserably to come down from 165+ makes me cringe. A very transparent attempt at a pro-wrestling style "put over" by that organization. Yea I agree but the crowd apparently loved it. I just shook my head when people in the crowd started to boo Hitomi because she wanted to take it to the ground. I love my sport but it sure does attract some ignorant mo-fos. who are you? whats your record, and do you have any videos? id like to see. |
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The drop off in talent makes sense, but Carano is just about the only very well-known female fighter... She's the kind of fighter that it makes sense, from a business perspective, to make/bend the rules for. Kind of like the UFC letting Lesnar fight at "265" when in reality he's entering the octagon at 280+. So why not a higher weight division? Like a 145-165 heavyweight division? Water is a lot of it, fight weight is alaways a few pounds heavier even in the 145 range. 265 lean weight probably means 275 fight weight. When a fighter goes for weigh in they are often dehydrated, have not eaten, and depending on the closeness they may very well have had an enema done. |
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The drop off in talent makes sense, but Carano is just about the only very well-known female fighter... She's the kind of fighter that it makes sense, from a business perspective, to make/bend the rules for. Kind of like the UFC letting Lesnar fight at "265" when in reality he's entering the octagon at 280+. So why not a higher weight division? Like a 145-165 heavyweight division? Water is a lot of it, fight weight is alaways a few pounds heavier even in the 145 range. 265 lean weight probably means 275 fight weight. When a fighter goes for weigh in they are often dehydrated, have not eaten, and depending on the closeness they may very well have had an enema done. Knew about the dehydration and fasting... Had no clue about enemas. 
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The drop off in talent makes sense, but Carano is just about the only very well-known female fighter... She's the kind of fighter that it makes sense, from a business perspective, to make/bend the rules for. Kind of like the UFC letting Lesnar fight at "265" when in reality he's entering the octagon at 280+. So why not a higher weight division? Like a 145-165 heavyweight division? Water is a lot of it, fight weight is alaways a few pounds heavier even in the 145 range. 265 lean weight probably means 275 fight weight. When a fighter goes for weigh in they are often dehydrated, have not eaten, and depending on the closeness they may very well have had an enema done. Knew about the dehydration and fasting... Had no clue about enemas. Like I said depends on the margin. If it means missing out on a big payday after extended training, you'd do it too. I even been told sometimes you have a spit cup so as to not swallow saliva. You'd be surprised what people come up with. |
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The drop off in talent makes sense, but Carano is just about the only very well-known female fighter... She's the kind of fighter that it makes sense, from a business perspective, to make/bend the rules for. Kind of like the UFC letting Lesnar fight at "265" when in reality he's entering the octagon at 280+. So why not a higher weight division? Like a 145-165 heavyweight division? Water is a lot of it, fight weight is alaways a few pounds heavier even in the 145 range. 265 lean weight probably means 275 fight weight. When a fighter goes for weigh in they are often dehydrated, have not eaten, and depending on the closeness they may very well have had an enema done. Knew about the dehydration and fasting... Had no clue about enemas. Like I said depends on the margin. If it means missing out on a big payday after extended training, you'd do it too. I even been told sometimes you have a spit cup so as to not swallow saliva. You'd be surprised what people come up with. from high school wrestling to jiujitsu/mma, ive done all the above, minus enemas lol. shave everything, diuretics/lax, sweatsuits, spitting.but yeah i would only agree to enams if it was a million dollar deal.
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I would let Gina Carano choke me out whenever she wants...
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I would let Gina Carano choke me out whenever she wants... Gina Chokes out Reporter http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2416/ginacarano.gif Effing hot.......... |
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The drop off in talent makes sense, but Carano is just about the only very well-known female fighter... She's the kind of fighter that it makes sense, from a business perspective, to make/bend the rules for. Kind of like the UFC letting Lesnar fight at "265" when in reality he's entering the octagon at 280+. So why not a higher weight division? Like a 145-165 heavyweight division? Water is a lot of it, fight weight is alaways a few pounds heavier even in the 145 range. 265 lean weight probably means 275 fight weight. When a fighter goes for weigh in they are often dehydrated, have not eaten, and depending on the closeness they may very well have had an enema done. Knew about the dehydration and fasting... Had no clue about enemas. I've used laxitives. I've never quit felt confident that I'd get all the water out if I did an enema. Diet Laxatives Sweat suit Sweat-Suit +Sauna Thats my order of prefered ways to cut weight. I've also done the spit in a cup thing over the course of an 18 hour drive to a venue but really I only managed to spit about 12 ounces though, I filled up a little cup. |
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I have watched a few of the fights...usually get disinterested, as most womans sports, it is not as exciting or as entertaining. I appreciate them trying, working out, training etc....but it is not going to take off. A few bouts here and there mixed in. Won't have a huge following or on par payouts. YMMV. |
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The pool of women MMA fighters just isn't as close to that of the men to start a full fledged competitive fighting league.
Look at this thread, as you see weight class problems of cutting and gaining to fight evenly matched etc. Hopefully, with the continued boost in MMA's popularity, the few televised female fights and purses paid will continue to get more frequent and better. |
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I would let Gina Carano choke me out whenever she wants... Gina Chokes out Reporter http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2416/ginacarano.gif Damn, there is just something extremely hot about a good-looking woman that could easily kick your ass.
Oh and surprise surprise, she's from Texas.
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I could have swore Randy Couture said his wife was getting ready for her MMA fight. http://www.mmafightgirls.com/post/1784/randy-coutures-wife-kim-couture-to-fight-mma-feb-23-pictures-and-video/ Not her first but I had no idea she was a fighter too. |