"Leg kicks certainly don't finish fights." - Cecil Peoples

[Paradigm]

Originally Posted by Bonged Kiwi

IIRC it was the first Machida v Shogun fight he was talking about when he said this.

The incompetence of the NSAC blows my fucking mind.

yeah...too bad Shogun Machida I was at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Originally Posted by ManiacTroll

Guy has no clue whatsoever. Should take a leg kick from a good kicker himself, and then try to state his useless opinion again.

That a retard like that gets paid to judge fights is a something beyond comprehension.

whats even more ironic is that there have been Thais within a few miles of his own gym instructing MT.

even crazier than that is this pic:



Pornsaneh is a killer with the low kicks...watching this vid always motivates me to work on my low kicks:

[LondoMollari]

[Paradigm]

Originally Posted by LondoMollari

news flash! Aldo didnt finish the fight! lol

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sport...in-at-wec-48/1

[FRANKIE 総統]

Originally Posted by Paradigm

whats even more ironic is that there have been Thais within a few miles of his own gym instructing MT.

even crazier than that is this pic:

Yeah he's the MT coach at the house of champions last I looked,the gym next to a Subway.

It's strange how much Cecil looks like my dad lol.

[usmctanker242]

Originally Posted by tdluxon

Cecil Peoples doesn't know $hit... I can't believe that they lets someone this clueless judge

I don't agree with this. I do agree that he's a horrible judge, and god damned god awful ref, but he knows martial arts.

I used to train Kenpo/American Kickboxing in Las Vegas with a former professional kickboxer named Eddie "Flash" Newman. Peoples and Newman were close, personal friends, and on our sparring nights, every once in a blue moon, Peoples would show up. This was back when he was in shape, of course. He was fast as fuck, no lies. The man is not ignorant of the fight game, just highly opinionated.

Funny shit is, when we would do the stupid point-fighting TKD shit, and he was the official, he would do that same "leg lift" weird shit. At the time I just thought it was normal, but now, damn it's fucking funny.

Edit, here's a pic of Flash and Peoples. lmao

[usmctanker242]

Originally Posted by kidnic

So the exception is now the norm? Brilliant!

That fight was fucking horrible though, as Don Wilson put it (paraphrase) "If Paul did the same thing Ruas was doing, it wouldn't be a fight, it would be two guys trying to avoid each other."

[LondoMollari]

Originally Posted by Paradigm

news flash! Aldo didnt finish the fight! lol

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sport...in-at-wec-48/1

In fact, he did.

After the first 2 rounds, Faber's leg was demolished and the only reason the fight wasn't over is because Aldo took mercy. Crippling your opponent is the same thing as a stoppage imho.

[Eric Bradach]

Originally Posted by Mumrik

TYou know, the lack of low kicks in the first long part of that video had me worried it was going to be a tibia break. Thank god it wasn't

Someones never hear of Pronsanae

[Aunty Dana**]

The guy is a lunatic lol.

[kidnic]

Originally Posted by usmctanker242

So the exception is now the norm? Brilliant!

That fight was fucking horrible though, as Don Wilson put it (paraphrase) "If Paul did the same thing Ruas was doing, it wouldn't be a fight, it would be two guys trying to avoid each other."

Easy to say that now but but back in those days MMA fights didnt happen very often. I had heard about Marco Ruas and I was very excited to see him fight. Guys like that changed the game. Don Wilson didnt know shit. The fans didnt know shit and neither did the fighters. The sport was being formed as we watched it. What you call "horrible fights" were anything but that to me. I'll never forget pre internet, pre MMA fighting. It was what I had been waiting for for a very long time and to witness it at its birth was amazing.