Combat Sports on TV - Assault in the Ring on HBO Tonight
by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 1, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
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I just wanted to remind all of our readers that the boxing documentary Assault in the Ring debuts tonight at 10:00pm Eastern on HBO. The documentary covers the Billy Collins vs. Luis Resto fight that took place in 1983. This fight may sound a little familiar and if so it is because I talked about it on this site when discussing the Shane Mosley/Antonio Margarito fight when a plasterlike substance was found on Margarito's gloves.
I covered a lot of the story in the above linked article but without having watched the film yet I still think it is safe to say it will be a combination of sad, frustrating, enraging, and tragic. As a combat sports fan this is the kind of story we need to familiarize ourselves with for the future. We can always hope that something like this will never happen in MMA but we've all heard stories in the past of glove and wrap tampering and it is all but assured that we will see something of this nature happen somewhere down the road. It is just a sad truth of the fight game that there will always be someone looking for an advantage and eventually someone goes to an unbelievable extreme.
This is a story worth checking out and I hope as combat sports fans you take the time to watch it.
Trailer for the film (at this point it was still titled Cornered before HBO purchased the rights):
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There is also live boxing on Showtime tonight...
but I don’t think it will be anything that appeals to non-boxing fans. Should be good fights though.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 1, 2009 2:03 PM EDT reply actions
My wallet hopes you're wrong
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 1, 2009 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Added a trailer in the extended entry
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 1, 2009 2:14 PM EDT reply actions
Everytime I’m reminded of that story its even sadder.
I truly hope nothing like that ever happens in MMA. That might be too big a thing to hope for, but at least the UFC can monitor behavior enough to make it less likely to ever happen in the big show.
Also, this is the sort of story that makes me want to punch Lampley in the nose whenever he talks about the nobility and whatever of boxing.
by Foxskinrug on Aug 1, 2009 2:28 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
What makes boxing more noble than
any other combat sport, or any other sport for that matter?
I don’t think they’re actually going to let him kill me... And if he does kills me, book sales will really go up. Boom…win-win, bitch.- Forrest Griffin on Anderson Silva
by ufc4 on Aug 1, 2009 3:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Yes I guess he does, thats his opinion he works for HBO boxing after all .Maybe he thinks that because you can trace boxing back to 688 BC and then to 1743( Londen prize fighting rules) and then 1867( marquis of queensberry rules) that bo.xing has a much deeper history. I dont necessarily believe that myself and I am sure that MMA can be traced back as well I am just trying to give some perspective to his view points.
Just because something is old does not mean it is noble. To criticize MMA as he often does for being brutal and then invoke a history of bare knuckle prizefighting with little to no rules as a noble history is exactly the kind of hypocrisy that makes me hate that arrogant fuck.
I dislike Matt Hughes and Twidder.
Lampley just called me because he was so upset about what you guys said .He would really like an aplogy
Because boxing handles itself with more class than MMA. MMA is marketed as extreme tough guy sport with hard metal, energy drinks, and trite gladiator themes. MMA needs to treat itself like a sport before people treat it with respect.
Out of respect...
for Collins I’m going to ask that we not turn this thread into a boxing vs. MMA debate. anything further along this line of discussion will be deleted. Please stick to the topic of the post
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 1, 2009 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions
What is essentially MMA can be traced...
back to the very first Olympics in 776 BC. I just read a book on ancient Greek civilization that said that the wrestling event was a “combination of modern-day wrestling, judo, and kickboxing.” Sounds like MMA to me.
Abe Lincoln was NWA Champ!
Tony Schiavone said so!
Not wrestling, my bad…I meant to say the ancient sport of pankration that was full-contact fighting was essentially MMA. Apparently all of the Greeks in the pan-hellenic games (there were 4 events that were held each year and attended by all greeks, the Olympics and 3 other events) participated in pankration, with some rules such as no biting, hair-pulling, nut-kicking, etc. It turns out that the Spartans, badasses that they were, lifted those rules for themselves, believing them to be too limiting.
Check out this awesome story from the Wikipedia entry for pankration:
In an odd turn of events, a pankration fighter named Arrhichion (Ἀρριχίων) of Phigalia won the event despite being dead. His opponent had locked him in a chokehold and Arrhichion, desperate to loosen it, broke his opponent’s toe (some records say his ankle). The opponent nearly passed out from pain and submitted. As the referee raised Arrhichion’s hand, it was discovered that he had died from the chokehold. His body was crowned with the olive wreath and taken back to Phigaleia as a hero.
Wow.
^ beat me to it
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
by Derek Suboticki on Aug 1, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah...didn't check my own title...
I suck
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 1, 2009 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Who wraps fighters' hands now-a-days?
Themselves, a team member, or an impartial third-party?
by MMAInFeRioRiTy on Aug 1, 2009 3:19 PM EDT reply actions
Team member...
with the athletic commission supervising.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 1, 2009 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
how do you not get knocked out by being hit so many times with such a hard object, its like being hit in the head with a mallet
Life would have been a lot better for him if he did...
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 1, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
This story proves...
…how STUPID the entire “I’ll never tap” theory really is. Just imagine if “tapping” was part of boxing. Yes you can just quit, take a knee, etc. But it’s so looked down on.
All I can say is this...
….The only way anyone is going to knock someone like Brock Lesnar out is if they fill their fighting gloves with cement…
I would usually find a humorous picture for a response, but words will do just fine.
This is a serious subject. Two families were destroyed due to a horrible act of greed. Not really something you joke about.
"He built his whole reputation (as a) waffle house chef. They've been serving him up ham and eggs with a side of canned tomatoes." - Don Frye on Fedor Emelianenko
Really well done
Very good documentary. Real tragic story for both sides. Panama Lewis ends up looking the worst in all of this.
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