When the Pitbull Bites - A Thiago Alves Documentary
by Anton Tabuena on Dec 5, 2010 10:22 PM EST
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Kahleem Poole-Tejada made a short documentary and career highlight of Thiago Alves as he prepares to face John Howard on UFC 124:
Captured during a peak training day, combined with a career highlight, When the Pitbull Bites aims to be a hybrid project.
Shot on location at the American Top Team training facility in Coconut Creek, Florida and within Institute of Human Performance in Boca Raton, Florida. This small project takes us into Thiago's training methods, a short career highlight and a peek into his partners' lives as a leading team in Mixed Martial Arts.
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Would like to see the winner face Rick Story, Alves is a good gatekeeper to the stars and he can fight another wrestler to see if he’s covered up the holes Fitch and GSP exposed.
This is an epic short-documentary
He’s so damn fierce when he fights. I’ve never really liked him, but when i saw this one i couldn’t help but..
Great short documentary.
Here’s hoping Alves destroys Howard, Fitch smothers BJ for 3 rounds and we get to see Alves vs BJ! That’s one match up I would LOVE to see!
It's not "The Reem" quality by any stretch.
But its enjoyable and shot well.
"A guy in Texas came up to me and told me ‘Frye you're not mixed martial arts, you're no holds barred’, and I said you're god damn right partner." ~ Don Frye
good video...
but it wasn’t so much a documentary as it was a highlight reel…..i expect documentaries to go in-depth and bring me places I can’t normally go, such as, in the fighter’s psyche or maybe see their life away from the cage. This film felt very reminiscent of youtube fan vids where people string together a fighter’s entrance with their knockouts played in conjunction with either hip hop or metal. I’m not bashing the film, it was good, I just wouldn’t label it “documentary”
That’s why I called it a “hybrid”. Not simply a documentary in the singular sense.
In addition, the soundtrack is based off of Thiago’s own personality. The dude is hip hop through and through- even was mouthing the words to the TI bit [his entrance music] while I showed him the original work.
But thanks though.
Do you have any films yourself as a good reference for a docu that I could learn from? :-)
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