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I havent watched it yet, but sounds entertaining enough to give it a shot. They're de. not portraying mma in a realistic way tho.
This may be old news, but I'm currently wasting another hour of my life watching BET's "Iron Ring" MMA reality show.
This show is setting the sport back 10 years.
Correct. It's not at all about pushing the sport. It's about the producers at BET trying to cash in on the current popularity of MMA.
Oh yeah, almost forgot: Rashad Khan is a fucking joke and needs to shut the fuck up.
Same thing goes for that Novell guy who was "teaching" all the fighters that hokey "throw a punch and stand there, so that I can trip you" kung-fu bullshit. At least, they panned the camera around the room to show all the fighters laughing at him while he was showing them that garbage.
Both of those guys are fucking disgraces and I would pay big money to see them step into a cage / ring to teach them what "all that romancin' on the ground" is all about. Every time a fight hits the ground, one of those idiots makes some stupid comment like that.
Guys with 8th grade educations and felony convictions pretty much run the shows..what do you expect
There is comedy, there is high comedy, and then there is "Iron Ring".
Some of my favorite moments:
Pre-fight one of the "coaches" says to the camera "Why is he doing all stretching and warming up. Man, in a street fight you don't get to warm up"
I believe he was serious not kidding around.
One of the rappers, TI I think, during a selection fight screaming "you can't win a fight from yo back!" to his would-be fighter
Mayweather jawing it up with Shonie... making fun of his clothes, talking smack, etc... and Shonie saying "I'd leg kick the shit of him"... I am praying this will escalate but it's not likely because they haven't been promo-ing any tense scenes between the two
all the scenes of the coaches "training" at their respective gyms... it's mostly video of them doing TMA forms and stuff. All except for Shonie, Mayweather, and some guy who fights MMA and looks like a really good striker I don't remember his name
The fights have been pretty entertaining. Hell it IS MMA so that can't be ALL bad. A lot of explosive fighters with wrestling and striking and a couple of BJJ guys who seem to be winning their fights. I'll keep watching for the comedy and fights.
They actually have rappers as the head of the 6 teams. Ludacris, "T.I." and Lil Jon are three of them. I think Shonie Carter is the only MMA guy heading a team. Floyd Mayweather is another. So, yeah, in one scene the rapper T.I. is preaching to these fighters about how they haven't done anything yet, they can still be cut at any time, etc. These rappers havent' trained 1 day in their life, and are lecturing these fighters? Ludacris is hyping one "fighter" because the guy said "I ain't even a fighter, I'm just trying to get out the hood".
The referee is awful. They stand the fighers up anytime good ground work is in progress. Just awful, horrible show.
BTW, the figthers talent isn't bad. Seem to be decent small show type fighters, not TUF quality, but decent. Just hate that they are getting caught up in such a disaster of a show.
There is comedy, there is high comedy, and then there is "Iron Ring".
Some of my favorite moments:
Pre-fight one of the "coaches" says to the camera "Why is he doing all stretching and warming up. Man, in a street fight you don't get to warm up"
I believe he was serious not kidding around.
One of the rappers, TI I think, during a selection fight screaming "you can't win a fight from yo back!" to his would-be fighter
Mayweather jawing it up with Shonie... making fun of his clothes, talking smack, etc... and Shonie saying "I'd leg kick the shit of him"... I am praying this will escalate but it's not likely because they haven't been promo-ing any tense scenes between the two
all the scenes of the coaches "training" at their respective gyms... it's mostly video of them doing TMA forms and stuff. All except for Shonie, Mayweather, and some guy who fights MMA and looks like a really good striker I don't remember his name
The fights have been pretty entertaining. Hell it IS MMA so that can't be ALL bad. A lot of explosive fighters with wrestling and striking and a couple of BJJ guys who seem to be winning their fights. I'll keep watching for the comedy and fights.
It's just a bunch a street fighters.
The show is confusing as hell, it's poorly done but entertaining nonetheless.