No problemmy bad sorry
No problemmy bad sorry
Fedor fought a bunch of bullshit fights. Most of them were non title, but he was still fighting pro wrestlers when he was the #1 HW in the world, and one of the 3 times he actually defended his belt was to Mark Hunt who was coming off of a loss. 9 out of 10 times the title fights in the UFC make sense.
How many "bullshit" fights did Fedor have?
Are you aware that Fedor fought 3-5 times a year for most of his Pride career every time he fought a "bullshit" fight he had other fights against contenders that same year?
How many times do the UFC champions fight contenders per year? Fedor fought more contenders per year than just about any recent champ you can name.
Are you aware that Mark Hunt was a top ten HW fighter? Is your complaint that he was coming off of a loss? The UFC is notorious for giving the "wrong" fighters title shots and pushing certain fighters over more deserving fighters on the roster. And that's when they're not letting the champ freeze the division for years while fucking around with superfights, non-contender fights or fights with people in other divisions.
That's what people complain about when they complain about matchmaking in the UFC. In Pride, the top guys fought the top guys all the time. It didn't matter that they had cans sprinkled in because they fought so often.
It was actually pro wrestling that paved the way for MMA in Japan.
It all goes back to Karl Gotch and Billy Robinson, who trained together in old school catch wrestling, both went their different ways in the pro wrestling world and ultimately both of them ended up in Japan training pro wrestlers. Gotch trained Yoshiaki Fujiwara, who trained Suzuki and Funaki, who recruited and trained Ken Shamrock, Frank Shamrock, Rutten, going on to found Pancrase. Robinson would train most of the UWFI wrestlers that would go on to become Pride.
Then I don't think a lot of modern fans really understand the influence that Rings had on Pride. Pride basically swallowed up Rings, took their best fighters(Fedor, Overeem, etc), stole their ideas, then put them out of business in 2002, right around the time that Pride really started to kick ass.
The guy who founded Rings, Akira Maeda is connected to Takada, Fujiwara, and Tiger Mask. Those four guys all came out of the same dojo and basically laid the groundwork for what MMA would become. Their bidding war over Rickson Gracie would basically shape the history of MMA.
If you take away pro wrestling's direct influence on MMA history, you take away Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn, Suzuki, Funaki, Frank Shamrock, Bas Rutten, Sakuraba, Takada, Fedor, Pancrase, Pride, Rings, Shooto never happens. I think it's safe to say that maybe MMA never happens, especially when you consider the influence that pro wrestling had on Mitsuyo Maeda, who taught the Gracies how to grapple.
Maeda was living in a YMCA in Alabama at one point during his travels, learning tricks of the trade from the pro wrestlers he befriended in the 1900's. He basically taught the Gracie's Judo with some old school pro wrestling tricks and submissions worked into it. I mean, if you take all of that away, what does that leave MMA? It would have basically been just a toughman contest, it would have died an early death, if it even would have happened at all.
Besides Conor, GSP, and Hendo who has been getting Bullshit tittle shots? ....
But having your champions fight pro wrestlers is more legit I guess
Like that Crocop punk. Or that Dan Henderson push over.
BULLET VS PRICILLA 243-3Pride, as much as I loved it, were not exactly always the best matchmakers
Sounds like bullshit. This is what you are really looking for:
That would be scary as shit...Damn..Gothenburg, Sweden whole team got blasted in under a minute LOL.
I like it. It’s like an old school parking lot rumble between rival gangs.
They should snap their fingers on the way to the ring though.
Agreed both put on awful displays of matchmaking, pride certainly made more of them tho.BULLET VS PRICILLA 243-3