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Favorite MMA Signature moves? *POLL*

Best MMA signature move?

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WalkenWouldOwn said:
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So many good flying armbars. There's a good compilation vid on youtube. Not sure who was first. Could be its own thread.
 
Holic said:
Reminds me of the old cracked article Seanbaby wrote about MMA moves:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-9-most-creative-mma-attacks-ever/

Anderson Silva's Disco Assault
There was a time not long ago when Anderson Silva seemed untouchable. His opponents moved in slow motion compared to him. There was one notable exception, when he literally took the most strikes anyone had ever taken in a UFC bout, and then he won. Which means that besides being faster than everyone, he was also immune to face punches. Some asshole was definitely cheating when they made Anderson Silva.

Silva began to realize he was invincible. Each fight he became more and more playful, dancing and slipping around his opponents' attacks before finally knocking them out. And why not? Fighting doesn't always have to be serious. For example ...

In Silva's title defense against Chris Weidman, he started off with only dance moves and wiggles. This in itself isn't unusual for a first round. Most fighters like to feel out their opponent's range and timing before they attack. Watch the starting round of a traditional muay thai fight and you'd swear it was just two boys working up the courage to share a first kiss. However, Silva took it to the next level. It was five straight minutes of pointless bullying. I don't speak Portuguese, but I think his cornerman was screaming "Take his backpack! Pee on that queer's Dungeon Master Guide!"

After the bell, Silva went back to his corner and everyone watching thought the same thing: "Oh man, he humiliated that guy. NOW he's going to kill him!" Except Silva forgot the second step in dickish fighting -- the fighting. Silva came out and kept fucking dancing. No one had ever tried this. Could you beat a man using only the power of dance?

He ducked, slipped, and dodged punches while making no effort to throw attacks of his own. It had long ago stopped making sense as a fight strategy; he was only hoping to hurt Weidman's feelings. I'm obviously speaking with the wisdom of hindsight, but imagine two men meet on a road. One has a bag of punches, while the other has a bag of dodges. The first man is going to look stupid for a little while, but the second man is going to look stupid forever.

Was the Move Effective?

No. Not at all. While Silva pranced, Weidman was free to try anything. The end came when Weidman combined a right cross with a right hammer fist, because if his opponent is only going to shimmy, he might as well use some of his fifth grade wing chun. Silva dodged both strikes, but in doing so tucked his chin against his own chest. It had nowhere to go as Weidman's left hook crushed his jaw bone into his brain stem. Silva's Soul Train line suddenly transformed into a medical film on how knockouts work. If you're an alien producing a video on the non-genital weak points of humans, you're not going to top this.
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LOL awesome article. Thanks for sharing.
 
Shaddows said:
Machida's one for Karate Kid. It was amazing IMO and literally "from the movies".

Hughes power bomb from triangle was also a huge thing (at the time). Oh the back and forth on that one...... (he was by far my favorite fighter, so it was amazing).
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I still don't know where I land on the Hughes slam. It's like he decided to slam Newton, but as he went for it he passed out. I think that slam was 50% gravity, and 50% hughes.

If Newton didn't grab the fence, it would have been 100% Hughes and we probably would have had our first MMA paralysis via neck break.
 
I'm so happy with Sherdog right now for acknowledging my man Rampage. Legend.
 
Kleinschuster said:
Dude why no gifs? I bet most people here don't know half the moves you mentioned.
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My gif game is weak. I was being lazy and leaning on my sherbros to provide the juice. I know how to make polls though :)
 
Hespectfully said:
I still don't know where I land on the Hughes slam. It's like he decided to slam Newton, but as he went for it he passed out. I think that slam was 50% gravity, and 50% hughes.

If Newton didn't grab the fence, it would have been 100% Hughes and we probably would have had our first MMA paralysis via neck break.
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Agree.
As a huge fan, I was in shock of everything.
I denied he was out for a long time until I got myself to watch the tape again.... and even then , as you say, there was the fence grab.

It was an amazing fight, as most of Hughes fights were at that time...
 
Shaddows said:
Agree.
As a huge fan, I was in shock of everything.
I denied he was out for a long time until I got myself to watch the tape again.... and even then , as you say, there was the fence grab.

It was an amazing fight, as most of Hughes fights were at that time...
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Matt was a beast. I love hearing the gym stories about how ridiculously strong he was. If you can suffer through a couple hours of Joe Rogan, the Pat Miletich episode was awesome. He talked about Matt at length. Well worth a listen.
 
Hespectfully said:
Matt was a beast. I love hearing the gym stories about how ridiculously strong he was. If you can suffer through a couple hours of Joe Rogan, the Pat Miletich episode was awesome. He talked about Matt at length. Well worth a listen.
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I hate Rogan's podcast... but if you say that was good, i will brave it!
Do you know when was this? (Must be a long time ago)
 
Shaddows said:
I hate Rogan's podcast... but if you say that was good, i will brave it!
Do you know when was this? (Must be a long time ago)
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Pretty recent, like sometime in March.

Beware though. Pat ventures into Eddie Bravo territory. He has his own podcast called "The Conspiracy Farm." I'll leave it at that.
 
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