|
Foul Fowl posted:does anyone have any gifs of katsunori kikuno crescent kicking people's livers to powder? i just randomly thought about him today, i thought his style was going to revolutionise MMA but instead he decided to invite people to punch him in the face to prove the invincible warrior spirit of karate and his career fell off a cliff. Man, Dunc was such a huge fan of his style, and also talked up the taikiken kata Kikuno did, which started with this hissing kiai that sounded like he was gonna hock up a loogie. Random highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2DLv0B0NxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYBlv1lm4-I His terrible defense in the UFC made me forget that he had some real dynamite in his hands. I can't even think of his name in my head with an American pronunication; it's gonna be Schiavello's kahtsooNWOHreeee kihKUUnohh.
|
#
¿
Nov 3, 2021 04:46
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 22:11 |
|
|
Yeah, David "The Crow" Loiseau. He was imo top 5-10 in his era. So pretty good but not a threat to the best. There's always fighters who're regarded as good strikers, and he was billed that way. This is probably his most memorable win: 
|
|
#
¿
Nov 3, 2021 18:16
|
|
|
Forgot about this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBYmZsUjSFE quote:Tony Ferguson is type of guy to watch this to condition his ears.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 5, 2021 04:35
|
|
|
Ninja had somewhat of a redemption for staying in Shogun's camp and helping him put some successful gameplans together.shadow puppet of a posted: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. I like how honest they were with themselves about what they were doing -- it was dangerous and so injury prone that it's hard to develop and evolve open-rules weapons fighting, but we like it so we'll keep doing it. I swear there was a Fight Club style rule that if you showed up first time to one of their events, you had to spar someone. coconono posted:This album is unironically one of my favorite stupid albums of all time. 
|
|
#
¿
Dec 3, 2021 14:09
|
|
|
LobsterMobster posted:I feel like I saw the Dog Bros Stick Fightin on one of those shows where a guy would travel to a land, learn about the local martial art and then get his rear end kicked by an expert Rallarsving? It was Swedish but I saw a lot of subbed episodes somewhere when it was running. They had this gimmick called Wrestlegram where one of the hosts would dress up as a ... lucha gimp, and get delivered to wrestle their various guests. This is when they went up against a Swedish Olympic wrestler who's like twice his size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA0L4lSkQyw
|
|
#
¿
Dec 3, 2021 16:52
|
|
|
coconono posted:I know, its all great stuff. He's got a sweet song about his kid, another one about speeding down the freeway and a bunch a songs about fuckin. All done up in the same kind of synthy fakedeep stream of consciousness style. Arguably the greatest accomplishment done by the Gracies.  Hmm, can't give him the satisfaction. Not after Metamoris.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 3, 2021 22:07
|
|
|
Been carrying this around, albatross-like, for months, maybe. I dunno why, but maybe I get some catharsis here. Remember King Mo Lawal? I think he was one of the wave of late 2000s "whoa, this guy's really good at wrestling and is gonna train MMA [with DC] way more seriously than Mark Hammer!" Never came to be. At his best, he created fear with the reputational threat of a takedown, fighting from a slight crouch, right hand cocked at his chin in some semblance of defense and left hand waving out in front of his knee.  When he did shoot after throwing punches, it was usually just running in with his head ducked down hoping for the best. Would make Fedor proud. He had decent power, but terrible balance, no gas, never showed any growth as a striker, and never got better at wrestling in MMA. So maybe it was merciful that he got derailed by Emmanuel "The [Happy] Hardcore Kid" in maybe one of the more comical KOs of the era:  I can't remember if this is true of all the orgs Mo fought in that allowed shoes, but iirc, you couldn't kick if you wore wrestling shoes. Kicking was never his thing, but I definitely have engrained in my head Mo in that stance of his, shuffling around on the ring in his shoes, trying to make his big right hand work and failing most of the time. Anyways, I found out after reviewing his fights that he split a pair of KOs with Jiri. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3q3xOFc9Ww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9zRqyNqsTE Interesting to see a less weird (hair and style) version of Jiri out there.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 1, 2023 07:18
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 22:11 |
|
|
shadow puppet of a posted:Please post any tracks you can find and any other earnest fighter-made music below. https://youtu.be/KSIj1XHeiG0
|
|
#
¿
Mar 27, 2023 05:46
|
|