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What a thread. I'm a big remembering guys enthusiast. Remember TUF2's Danny Abaddi who served as Matt Hammil's ward and sandwich maker, and he gave that really awkward speech about "Dad I said if I can take your beating I can take anyone's beating" in the precious few seconds of non caretakering screen time. Remember HIROYA who was a 16 year old kid prodigy undercarding post pride mma stadium events with highschool kickboxing? Where do you go on to in life from there? Remember the entire existence of Phil Baroni. You've probably been lucky enough to have not for a while. Remember Sean Sherk eating massive chunks of walleye out of tupperware on camera as a way to sell a PPV fight. What sort of future is there for an early days UFC guy that is too small armed to become a fireman? I hope he's doing ok. Remember the tales of the original "Zombie" grappler in Japan from around just before the Rumina Sato era who was disillusioned with this training so he'd come to tournaments and open mats and just submit everyone with the "clothespin" submission by expertly pinning his ankles against their neck. He used to compete wearing socks. Someone else out there has to Remember This Guy. Remember this guy?  I have no idea who this is anymore but his well lit MMA photo has been in my images folder for an eternity.
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Remember Kopylov and Giant Ochiai? I sure do. RIP Ochiai. RIPS to Ryan Gracie, despite the documented record that that guy was an rear end in a top hat at Pepe beach according to Walid. Much RIP to Rockson Gracie. Rolls too. have some RIP. Kopylov ,I'm assured by the absence of a death date on wikipedia is alive an well living that good life of an aging man somewhere in central Russia.  Probably looking exactly the same as he did 20 years ago. Good for him.
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Jun 13, 2021 17:01
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Remember the MixFight.ru guys? https://web.archive.org/web/20010808084628/http://www.mixfight.ru/eng/sportsmen/sportsmen.html Like Roman Zentsov and cancerous hitman Amar Suolev? Remember eYada.com's Eddie Goldman's streaming radio show and how horrible his voice and mouth sounds were on a microphone and 56k audio streaming compression? Remember Sakuraba's first trip to America and how everyone dressed up in their Saturday best?  Remember the irascible promoter of UFC Iran whose tenacious use of free webhosting in the very late 90s presented a fascinating bizarro universe where basement and outbuilding orgs like HooknShoot were the peak of MMA org development and SEG never got gazumped by Zuffa.  Speaking of HooknShoot Remember watching guys punch eachother in a drywalled home with blue mats on the floor in mpeg files and accepting that as a normal and legitimate 90's MMA event? I hope all those guys are doing OK now. Execpt Amar Suolev.
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Jun 23, 2021 02:46
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Where are the great MMA svengalis of yesteryear? Remember Gokor Chivichyan? King of the 1 fight undefeated record? Tim Catalfo the guy who bravely ripped off WCW's goldberg with his nickname of "Obake" earned in the Japanese fighting underground as a master of small joint manipulation? Colin Oyama who ripped off Rampage or was ripped off by Rampage? Billy Rush the dehydration and rehydration master that always got half the commentary airtime when Joe Riggs had a fight? Dale "Apollo" Cook who turned mild-mannered Todd Hays into an Stoppable force? Remember that old asian lady matinal arts grand master with big hair in heavy makeup who had an early 2000s web presence and a dojo full of paying misfits who posted their beachfront training photos on the web and it ended with this IT guy in a torn up shirt sitting in lotus position on a piling having achieved mcdojo nirvana? What was that martial art called again? Anyway, these were guys. Let us remember them.
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Jun 29, 2021 00:34
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I was randomly remembering some guys today and was thinking about what became of those guys that had like 300+ semi-amateur fight records. Your Jeremy Horns, your Aaron Rileys, your Dan Severns, Your that 60 year old guy who was still fighting, your Shannon Ritches, your Travis Fultons.... Don't look up that last one if you want to keep your wistfully fond memories of Travis. He died this week Some guys shan't be remembered in the future.
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Jul 17, 2021 00:46
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LobsterMobster posted:Santiago vs Misaki 4lyfe Gonzaga vs Jordan 5ever
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Jul 23, 2021 22:09
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Also remember that time Shogun Rua lost an important match in pride and he directly blamed the loss on having to help his girlfriend move? Great days. People don’t make excuses like that that anymore.
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Jul 23, 2021 22:11
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I forget when I stopped watching TUF but those guys are some of the guys I like to remember the most. Remember the first season when carrying an armchair on a beach was the sole determining factor in what would be your MMA future? I happened upon a picture of the season one cast and I swear on my life I remember who Ganyo was, I remember Willa Ford, I very clearly remember the guy who got cut without ever even once touchin'em up at Magzzagattis behest, but I could not remember for the life of me the guy in the back middle. With the head shaped like a fire hydrant. Nothing at all in my vast databanks of remembered guys. If you remember this man then I salute you. Also since he is dead now I'm sure he'd appreciate in a ghostly way being remembered once more. Solve the riddle for yourselves and go look him up.
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Jul 28, 2021 01:33
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LobsterMobster posted:He was Vitor's weird clone-son Vitor has a Kirill Sidelnikov?
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Jul 28, 2021 03:07
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Remember KJ Noons and that infuriating fight in Elite XC, itself an already infuriating promotion, when before every feint he'd first touch his bangs on his awful curtians proto-hockey haircut and it led to a spectacularly horrible fight against a countering figher in nate diaz? How do you counter a guy touching his bangs? There were apparently news articles written about it. https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/noons-commits-difficult-cut-reluctantly-visits-salon-143605167.html
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Sep 2, 2021 01:15
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Jardine goes down in mma history for his epic uncontested coast through TUF because video game lover matt Hughes has a perverse obsession with beating suga-ray shad and also for the most unnatural xyience plug ever delivered by mortal man. Plus that time he was uppercutted into oblivion by that sorta journeyman older guy who I entirely forgot about but now remember fondly for his anti-jardine services. Who was that guy? Someone please remember upon him.
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Sep 2, 2021 18:53
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The upper-cutter was Houston Alexander. Thank you, Houst, for remixing Keith’s brain neurons Also, remember Trevor Prangley? I’d rather not, but here we are.
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Sep 2, 2021 19:14
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Lid posted:No that was a different story, guy im thinking of in the d-leagues grabbed a microphone after a fight and started pointing to random women in the audience demanding a blowjob desperately. Speaking of this I also miss dead drunk horny tonya evinger interviews. I was going to guess that guy in the photo was Brandon Vera. Can huerta still afford to flex on mma people with his WINNING brand Japanese boxing gloves? Does he still use the same now ragged decade old pair?
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Sep 2, 2021 22:41
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Can I also remember entire orgs in here? Specifically all of “Night club to the Fight club” WFA frequented by club vips Tiki Ghoson and Frank Trigg? How unlucky is the world that someone’s 4am rewarch hallucinations of “Lionheart” didn’t actually come to pass. Also that time Iron Ring tired to cast its MMA reality show by having a bunch of guys just show up at a spot in New York City expecting to audition and instead having them fist fight each other with zero preparation, sanctioning, medical, insurance, weight classes or anything remotely legal. Sad that the totally insane era of American mma startups will never come back. poo poo I just had to throw out my free YAMMA t shirt last week. Rip that org too.
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Sep 2, 2021 23:00
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Same but for Ricardo Morias. He should have been an unstoppable jits monster. He should have been a household name. Action figures, blockbuster movie cameos, a line of oversized activewear. Instead we got a lot of nothing stretched out over too much time.
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Sep 3, 2021 17:43
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Eat This Glob posted:second was tamden "the barn cat" mcrory. You've never truly watched a Tamdan McCrory fight until you watched a Tamdan McCrory fight with someone who had a huge crush on Tamdan McCrory. As my friend did throughout Tamdan McCrory's tenure as a bottom card fighman. He was a very beautiful man, apparently.
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Sep 4, 2021 02:46
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Freudian slippers posted:Evan Tanner,
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Nov 3, 2021 19:03
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Freudian slippers posted:I... do not remember this, but would like to learn more! It was the beautiful fruit of another night of Ol’ Ev spewing his mind’s contents out on The Underground. He had some bold vision of a new community of accountability whereby you shed your name and were assigned a Warrior number so you’d no longer be burdened by names, only the warriorness of yourself would remain. This would allow your fellow warriors in the community to better address you and support your highly accountable warrior efforts. It was surely to be an online thing if someone other than Evan could be roped into making it for him. Sadly I don’t remember if he envisioned a real world component. Because I would like to have imagined Evan out there in the desert that would eventually kill him, but happy and surrounded by fat mma nerds numbered Warrior 2 through Warrior 35 or so as they sweated through their at the time hard to get Pride logo T-shirt’s. Maybe that is what he set out to look for that fateful day. His numerical warriors.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:31
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Branko Cikatić. There is a name that doesn't often pop into ones head at random while washing dishes. But I'm glad it did.  I admire his last of respect for Mark Kerr and his stupid little fly tattoo. quote:Though the end came officially at 2:14 of the first frame, the bout took much longer than that owing to the stoppages due to Cikatic's deliberate fouls. After Kerr, the impressively-physiqued newcomer to Pride, wrapped Cikatic's legs and threatened to bring him to the mat in the opening moments, Cikatic hooked his arm under the ropes in a clear violation and refused to release it as the refs attempted to pry the men apart. Sorry that you died last year Brank, I hope you made it a miserable afternoon for the grim reaper trying to liberate your soul from your corporeal body.
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Nov 14, 2021 00:03
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Remember the Dog Brothers? The mma offshoot of LA based stick and cudgel fighters who would knock each others fingernails out with sticks and cudgels in public parks while wearing fencing Masks (sometimes) during that very late 90’s anything goes period of combat sports. Wow they have a Wikipedia page. With cited quotes from Tait Fletcher no less. I had forgotten about their -dog nickname granting scheme. I need to get better at remembering these guys.
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Dec 1, 2021 22:20
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Lyle "Fancy Pants" Beerbohm. The Jerry Bohlander of Strkeforce. Lyle is the one on the.... it should be obvious. Remember when he got his first ever t-shirt contract, back when that was a hyooooge deal, when Todd "Affliction" Beard was in the prime of selling those enzyme-washed hot messes for $200 a shirt and rather than wait for someone credible to and wholesome to sign Lyle, Lyle jumped on the first patch of screen printable cotton he was offered and it turned out to be run by the literal nazis of Hoelzer Reich and rather than disclaim his sponsor Lyle posted "I don't know, its complicated" in response to the question of will he stick with the brand of actual nazi woodcutter fashion garments. I mean sure he probably had car payments to make on an FJ Cruiser or something, but c'mon Lyle, you could have been a much better remembered guy.
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Dec 3, 2021 03:06
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It’s pronounced “Beh-varre”
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Dec 4, 2021 05:31
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Remember the season-long tenure of Quentin “rampage” Jackson Cornerman? “Get up!” “Get up!” “Get up!” “Get up!” “Knee to the butt!” “Get up!” “Get up!” “Get up!” It was an especially long season.
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Feb 19, 2022 18:28
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He's already been remembered up in here before but whenever I see a mangled and distended bit of chain link fence i remember the time Tank Abbot spent what seemed like forever trying to extrude Yoji Anjo out of the ring through the bottom of the fence like a middling blob of japanese playdoh. Yoji's scalp must have hurt so bad the next day.
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Mar 9, 2022 22:22
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I'm saddened to report to the Remembering Guys thread that my look into the current whereabouts of Andre Roberts have him no showing a cush guest of honor spot at Warrior Games 7  Bad look Chief. Also remember Monte Cox, the would-be Dana that never was who'se proposed solution to every early days MMA promotional problem was the first and foremost taking out of all involved parties for steaks? Simpler days. Also, get your poo poo together Roberts. Its not cool to disappoint the sort of three year old that is being raised on early ufc .mpeg files played over the Roku via plex in lieu of an actual babysitter. That kid needs all the light he can get in his life's trajectory
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May 6, 2022 07:39
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Wait no. The steaks guy was Ken Pavia. Monte never made clear his dispute-steak policy. Sorry.
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May 6, 2022 22:44
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Sometimes in the grocery store I am reminded of Kim "Sugar Free" Couture who stepped into Randy's spotlight and got a ton of poo poo for just existing and who then went on to her own professional fights, as one would, and who fought her first fight through multiple rounds with an entirely hosed up lower jaw where a chunk of teeth got shifted upwards like a seismic plate proving that Kim was far tougher than Randy could ever lay claim to. When I'm reminded of Randy all that ever comes to mind is that gif of him doing the awkward dad intermission song groovin' neck dance while seated in the audience. Could someone please post that.
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Jun 18, 2022 18:32
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Remember TUF's Matt Hughes bible study group? Where the point of the selected parable was to remind his team how lovely a person he was?quote:Hughes gathers the troops and starts handing out bibles like they were high school yearbooks. He then instructs the fighters to read the book of Esther and find a character that most resembles him. lovely stuff. And remember how the week after that the queen took up 50% of the entire group's single hour of video games reward times? I am still to this day annoyed on behalf of the likes of a games-deprived Tommy Speer and Dan Barrera But maybe much less so for Dan Barrera though for that time when he took all his dirty clothes and threw them unsolicited into someone's in-progress washing machine load, having no underlying concept of a laundry cycle in his mind. I bet he put like his shoes and a Xyience soaked rag in there too. Monster. So lets strike his name, peruse the season wiki and instead sub in the entirely forgotten Paul Georgieff who is a guy I doubt anyone could organically remember.
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Nov 17, 2022 08:24
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With gobby Paddy filling up my tiktok today I am only reminded and remembering the last guy who had a middling and forgettable run in the UFC with bad management and a colonial revival hairdo. What is it with guys that vaguely resemble Cher's fictional son and the desire to sport 1700's revival hair style? But let us all shed a tear for the Team Takedown concept, whose domain was recently taken over by Chinese pornographers and for Jared himself who recently lost his mind to Web3 cryptoscum. edit: I seem to have confused my Rosholts. Oh well. shadow puppet of a fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Dec 8, 2022 11:13
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Remember when recently retired Rutten (Bas) realized that there wasn't money to be made in the "teach people how to be violent in a nightclub" instructional dvd industry so he made a career pivot into making stadium anthem jock jams.... and was terrible at it? Please post any tracks you can find and any other earnest fighter-made music below.
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Mar 27, 2023 04:25
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forkboy84 posted:Is YAMMA out there somewhere easy to access? I deeply love that absolutely horrendous idea. Yamma is stored in the heart. Also Buentello had a wonderful "everyman-pulled-right-out-of-a-bowling-alley-and-made-to-fight" thing about his person that really captured the lopsided distribution of roster types of his era. shadow puppet of a fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Mar 29, 2023 |
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Now that UFC and WWE are legally married I am forcibly remembering mma-wwf crossover Sylvester Terkay at you. There is not a lot of Sy Ter work out there on DeviantArt to help the mems come flooding back, but this here is a start. 
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