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Found this masterpiece in my closet from 2009

WhoIsYou said:
A motivated BJ Penn during this part of his career was must watch. Penn was most likely drunk out of his mind when this happened, but It's sad to know an average schmo made him go night night.

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Funny that was the first time his chin was actually cracked, too. Should have made that prop bet ten years ago that "BJ Penn's first knockout loss will be in a restaurant-bar parking lot".
Would have made bank.
WhoIsYou said:
I had no idea BJ got the W in this street fight in the end. That's actually very impressive after taking a knockdown on cement

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Knockout* he was sparked.
 
This is a great coincidence, I just recently stumbled upon UFC 78 DVD Bisping vs Rashad and was absolutely enthralled by watching it, such an amazing flashback. Gono was on the card making his debut, may have been a prelim fight. But was interesting to think about all the changes, I don't think prelim fights were aired anywyere back then, just had to buy the DVD. The commercial for UFC vault on demand was interesting, wonder how well that actually worked back in 2007? What all fights were on there?

But this was an interesting card the UFC 78 DVD I found. This was such a glorious time, remember how unkown and uncovered the sport was on ESPN? I remember Mike and Mike(radio show I watched every morning on ESPN2) finally mentioning it that Memorial Day when Liddell fought Rampage and they were so clueless. Then when Randy fought Gonzaga that Summer ESPN finally covered the event and started including highlights on the shows. That was big time. What a good time.

So UFC 78 taking place later that year was like the first real non-stacked cool down show on PPV? This card should have been on Spike TV not on PPV, all the fights were 3 rounds.
 
What was PB's full name? He would have a fit in this thread.
 
What a great time for MMA. And myself. I was fit, beautiful and young.
Now I'm only fit and beautiful.
 
Bobby Boulders said:
Those assholes matched up Gono with Fitch.

"Hey, bud, we know in your last fight we matched you up with Dan Hardy, who is hard pressed to ever go for a TD, but get ready, bc this next fight you'll be defending them for 15 minutes, or spend that entire amount of time flat on your back! No worries, though, when you lose we'll cut you afterwards, for sure. At least you got that Submission of the Night bonus when you armbarred The Barn Cat."

Pricks.
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Erick Silva was on a quest to destroy Pride FC, complete with the backing of Dana. they legitimately could have had bigger stars, a bigger japanese market, had they matched up these fighters and built them up to get used to the octagon. now articles are coming out about how MMA is big in Japan again and UFC is looking for talent. They don't know how to build people up, just insert them into the biggest show ever, then talk shit when they get grinded out.
 
To the death Georges to the death.
 
USA!USA! said:
We all get old.. once the chin is gone, probably not a good idea to pick fights, even if its a fat dude outside a bar.. father time is undefeated.
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i don't think he knew his chin was gone. just before that he was tossing that guy around and saying he punches like a girl or something. he literally let that guy punch him because he was eating them like tictacs before that.
 
Nice find. I still have my old UFC 84 DVD, where Penn actually showed up and did well. Also Machida sent Tito packing, and Wand sent Jardine to the shadow realm.
 
Oh yeah, to the death, Georges. To the death. I love the buildup, but BJ really disappointed with that one. He always brought it, until he didn't.

koquerelle said:
What was PB's full name? He would have a fit in this thread.
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Peanut Butter.
 
Bonnar showed how damn tough he was in that fighter after surviving that spinning elbow by Jones
 
FreddieRoachsVoice said:
Machida looked like the final form of MMA fighter at that time. Crazy his reign at the top was so short but seeing Shogun rise again softened the blow. Much better times for the sport back then
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Was the best back then. Loved Shogun beating Machida but also did enjoy the Machida Era. Some real life karate kid vibes, pretty crazy to think about it. Karate, Sumo, BJJ as his main MA styles, probably never see that again at the top of the sport.
 
shinobimusashi said:
For the full effect you got to watch it on one of those big green original XBOX's hooked up to 300 pound CRT TV.
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My 18 YO nephew plays old video games on an antique CRT TV, on purpose. It's like a hipster thing. These kids prefer the grainy, shitty picture quality because it's "how the game was meant to be viewed". Fuck that. I grew up watching shitty CRT TVs and am never going back. I get the whole obsession with vinyl records or even casette tapes, but CRT TVs? No thanks.

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This place was a war zone around that time
 
Big Corey said:
My 18 YO nephew plays old video games on an antique CRT TV, on purpose. It's like a hipster thing. These kids prefer the grainy, shitty picture quality because it's "how the game was meant to be viewed". Fuck that. I grew up watching shitty CRT TVs and am never going back. I get the whole obsession with vinyl records or even casette tapes, but CRT TVs? No thanks.

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Super smash bros melee (actually a sick game competitively) is played on a crt because it's a timing thing--imagine trying to fight and everything you do is a half second off. I believe nowadays the emulation has gotten good enough to mimic the original inputs/display, so people play on that, but it's recent (2-3 years).

Some (perfectly modern) games do have those CRT-"filters", so it wouldn't surprise me if some people did it for affect.
 
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