MMA Nation on 106.7 The Fan Recap: Jon Anik Talks ESPN's MMA Live, UWC's Mike Easton Improves Wrestling and Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery Results
by Luke Thomas on May 17, 2010 12:50 PM EDT
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PrintThe above video is me talking to the Washington Post about Washington Combat's "Battle of the Legends". One small note: Gustavo Machado began his training with Jean Jacques Machado, but is a member of Gracie Barra. It sounds like I'm suggesting Gustavo is related to Jean-Jacques, but he is not. Anyway, on to the show.
The show began by me giving a brief recap of the Washington Combat event that took place in DC. Pedro Rizzo's leg kicks are outrageously painful even at the age of 36. Gary Goodridge, by contrast, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's time for him to stop competing. On a more positive note, Ovince St. Preux looked a tad sloppy but improved and managed to put away Claudio Godoi. I'd also note Novia Uniao's Marcos Galvao's comeback didn't show a hint of ring rust. And James Kimball walks us through the week in MMA with The Opening Bell.
In segment two we took calls on Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery, specifically, talking about the strange judging, poor commentary by the Showtime team, Jacare's improvement, Pat Miletich's acumen at color commentating and much more.
Segment three features my interview with ESPN's Jon Anik, host of ESPN2's MMA Live. We talk to Anik about the development of the show, what kind of internal metrics at ESPN will define success for the show, whether or not MMA Live is too closely associated with or affected by the UFC and plans to take MMA Live on the road.
Segment four is my interview with UWC bantamweight champion Mike "The Hulk" Easton. Easton talks about his controversial win over Chase Beebe, what that fight taught him, how he's worked to improve his wrestling and why he believes he's top 10 in the world at 135lbs. He takes on Ryan "Lion" Diaz on May 22nd at UWC 8.
Segment five we get back to everything Strikeforce with analysis and calls. We talk the ossification of Arlovski, Overeem bullying Rogers like a man bullies a girl, the ballad of Antwain Britt and everything else on the card.
Podcasts can be found here. I'm on Twitter as is Othello as is James Kimball. We're also on Facebook. Thanks for your support and SPREAD THE WORD.
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Easton talks about his loss to Chase Beebe
Is this a typo? I thought the decision was allowed to stand for that fight?
Ha
Nice catch. Talk about a Freudian slip. Whoops.
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by Luke Thomas on May 17, 2010 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Good show this week
Totally agree with your assessment of John Anik’s skillset. If Gus Johnson had a 10% the humility that Anik does, I don’t think he’d catch nearly as much flak.
Anik
Doesn’t coast on his other sporting ventures for credibility in MMA. He tries to earn it all over again. How do you not love that guy?
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Rogers by TKO – Going with my gut here. We’ll find out if my gut has shit for brains.
Arlovski by TKO decision – I felt there were too many finishes predicted so I changed this one.
Jacare by sub – doesn’t matter which one. any one will do.
Gracie by sub – see above.
Britt by decision.
by pud333 on May 14, 2010 8:05 PM EDT
Yeah, my guts have shit for brains.
Couple things: Despite the embarrassing commentary, the SF show was actually very enjoyable. At the end of the day, it came down to the fighters making or breaking the show, and I think they delivered. Especially Overeem. I don’t know what happened there. I guess I was too impressed by what Rogers did against Fedor. Sure he still had a bunch of holes, but he really took it to Fedor in that fight. I figure that must have skewed my view of Rogers’ abilities. I actually had to go back and rewatch that fight and in hindsight, it appears I put way too much weight on that fight. This prediction ranks up there with my Irvin will beat Silva prediction as one of the worst for sure.
Anik is definitely worth every penny. The guy pulls his weight and then some. Whenever McNeil opens his mouth, I cringe, but Anik seems to be the perfect guy to ground that broadcast.
Lenne Hardt?
I watched the video above and whoever was announcing the winners sounded a lot like Lenne Hardt (the lady who announced named in PRIDE). Was she there or was that a sound-alike?
Wow, nice touch by Washington Combat! I have no idea what it cost them to get her, but I can’t think of a better way to add some of the PRIDE nostalgia without breaking the bank on video packages.
She was great
But people in the audience didn’t even know who Kenny Florian was, so they were utterly clueless about Hardt. I don’t know if they appreciated her talent.
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Regarding the Jacare fight, I scored it 30-26 Jacare.
The first round was 10-8 EASILY. How in the fucking hell can you give any of those rounds to Joey Villasenor?
i think what the 29-28 was
giving jacare a 10-8 1st rd. then giving joey a 10-9 2nd rd.. then a 10-9 jacare 3rd rd. I know id doesnt make sense to many of you.. but if you think about it.. it does makes sense.
the judges saw what you saw total domination 1st rd. 2nd round jacare was totally holding him down for most of the round.. but at the end joey had gotten up a few times without takign too much damage and got in a couple decent exchanges.. obviously breaking jacare’s nose because it was bleeding. then a normal 3rd jacare with some td scoring. the judges just felt that breaking someones nose wide open justified the round compared to getting td and submissions that didnt finish. honestly i would rather deal with a couple submisions i escape than the damage from a huge 2 straight down my nostrils. but thats me.
you know what i dont make sense either.. joey’s score would be 8 + 10 + 9 = 27 not 28 i need a calculator.. or maybe the judges do. and thats the problem ;D they must of just gave joey a 9 in the first round.. which isnt to far out of reach since jacare was dominating position but was he raining down blows that hard?
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