Strikeforce 'Houston' Results: Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante Stops Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal to Become the New Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion
by Luke Thomas on Aug 22, 2010 8:19 AM EDT
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Almost no one thought Feijao had a chance.
Feijao was the aggressor early winging big punches, but landed nothing. Mo showed his takedown dominance with a monster carried slam, but Feijao quickly scrambled back to his feet. Feijao was able to defend other takedowns attempts and even land the better strikes, both punches and driving knees to the body of the Strikeforce champion. Feijao was able to close out the round with a strong leg kick.
Lawal opens the second round showing a lot more movement, but Feijao was opened the round with a monster outside leg kick. From a jumping roundhouse kick that was partially blocked, Feijao dropped to the ground, but was able to stand back up without a ton of extra effort. Mo was also able to land several cracking body shots for several minutes throughout the round.
The third opens with a slugfest that saw the Brazilian take a few shots, only to land the much more important ones. Lawal and Feijao exchanged until several hard shots from the Brazilian sent the Texan crashing to the mat. Mo was able to stand again, but was battered with hammerfists and elbows until referee "Big" John McCarthy stops the fight.
The bout was stopped at 1:14 of round three.
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Another one bites the dust, Coker will be even more depressed today than he’s been the past few months.
Anyways the second happiest person aside from Feijao tonight is Mike Kyle funny how things work out sometimes.
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cause what's your Rampage to Rashad Evans/"
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Great fight
Fights a little slower pace than UFC I think, hate the booing though.
The night separated the vets from the possible “up and comers”.
king mo couldnt deal with feijao's size
feijao looked gigantic today id love to know what he weighed at fight time, and once mo couldnt get him down he was in trouble and started catching bombs
We have a saying back home that if your coming on, COME ON!!!!
Mo did not seem to interested in getting him down, I think his big mistake was gameplan, it should have been all wrestling, no fooling around standing and banging with Feijao.
he tried a few times and feijao came right back up
and gave him plenty of shots and knees for trying
in the 2nd mo was effective in hitting his body and legs to soften him up for takedowns in the later rounds, but the longer he stood up the more open he was open to feijaos devastating strikes and couldnt deal with it
We have a saying back home that if your coming on, COME ON!!!!
Mo was fighting like Rashad Evans
He’s not at Evans’ level yet
Plus he, like Evans, is undersized at 205.
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by S.C. Michaelson on Aug 22, 2010 3:17 AM EDT up reply actions
He was trying to fight like Rashad
with much crappier takedown technique
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Ya rashad is a much better wrestler than Mo
/sarcasm.
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Mo looked like crap last night
There’s no way you can defend the technique he displayed last night. Mo may have a better pedigree, but he looked TERRIBLE last night.
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getting kneed to the jaw will do that to you
by dreamers_12345 on Aug 22, 2010 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Both King Mo and Lashley lose!
The Lay and Pray didn’t work today. The casual fans are the winners tonight!
by Paul Stan on Aug 22, 2010 12:23 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
There has been A LOT of talk about how wrestling is ruining MMA and how wrestling is dominating the sport. However, Mo and Lashley (and Roller in the Pettis vs Roller fight at WEC 50) losing shows that wrestling alone is not enough in MMA, and there are fighters out there that know how to get back up from getting taken down or are good at stopping takedowns (not Griggs, but the other two fights showed this).
by chrisbboy82 on Aug 22, 2010 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions
Very good point.
I drove from Georgia to Tennessee for the Strikefore:Nashville fight and listened to a barrage of booing from the crowd the entire night because of how King Mo and Jake Shields fought for ten rounds. I was fairly disappointed myself. I give King Mo props for trying to work his other skills in this fight as well, but I can’t say I’m sad to see him lose.
King Mo and Lashley are 2 completely different fighters
King Mo is still For REAL, Lashley is not. Mo’s strking is pretty solid but he needs to work on his defense more and holding his hands up.
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by fr8nk the tank on Aug 22, 2010 1:05 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I should have expanded more, especially with King Mo. King Mo is not a one dimensional wrestler, but it really goes to show that even with a wrestling pedigree like King Mo’s, MMA and using wrestling in MMA is a whole different animal. I felt that in this fight, Feijao more or less was able to nullify the wrestling/grappling of King Mo by stuffing takedowns and getting back on his feet when taken down, but Mo was not able to nullify Feijao’s striking, and even invited it by putting his head down to throw body shots only to eat knees from Feijao.
Agreed
I figured it was a matter of time till Mo got caught. Didn’t think tonight would be it.
He keeps his hands far too low. Especially for a primarily boxing style striker.
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by aaronb on Aug 22, 2010 1:49 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I thought 12 to 6 elbows were illegal?
Not taking anything away from Cavalcante’s performance, but it looked to me like every elbow that he landed at the end of the fight was of the 12 to 6 variety. Anyone care to tell me why I’m wrong?
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by The Pope of Chilitown on Aug 22, 2010 12:24 AM EDT reply actions
Looked to me
like he was hitting the side of Lawal’s head with elbows that weren’t quite 12 to 6 but were close. I think it was kosher, but I see where you’re coming from.
I thought they were more of a different variety where the elbows were more at a right angle (9 to 3) or at a diagonal, but I don’t believe they were thrown at a total 180 degree downward angle. If they were 12 to 6, they would hit the back of Mo’s head or the back of the neck.
by chrisbboy82 on Aug 22, 2010 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions
I thought the same thing immediately after the stoppage
“They had to have been something other than 12 to 6 or else McCarthy would have stepped in and gave a warning” is what I was thinking to myself. But after the replay I didn’t see anything but 12 to 6 elbows landing on the side of Lawal’s head.
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by The Pope of Chilitown on Aug 22, 2010 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Those might be considered 9 to 3 then, but I don’t know for sure. I was under the impression that with the fight standing and hitting the side of the head that those are considered a different type of elbow (I remember an obscure fight in the UFC where Stun Gun was blasting Jason Tan with those same type of elbows). I thought that 12 to 6 means straight up and straight down usually from a mount position.
by chrisbboy82 on Aug 22, 2010 12:45 AM EDT up reply actions
They looked 12-6
not to mention all but 4 of them hit Mo in the back of the head
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The elbow rule is pretty dumb. And Mo was pretty much out and was ducking into the elbows.
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by MyFistYourFace on Aug 22, 2010 12:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Dumb or not
illegal is illegal.
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by The Pope of Chilitown on Aug 22, 2010 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions
I think the difficulty is determining what is 12 to 6, especially when the fight is on the ground or one guy is on his knees. The rule just needs to be gotten rid of.
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by MyFistYourFace on Aug 22, 2010 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions
I agree that it is a terrible rule
but it is illegal
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They weren't 12-6 at all...
they were landing to the side of the head. 12-6 would have landed with the point of the elbow directly on the base of Mo’s skull.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 22, 2010 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions
I was always under the impression that 12-6 were elbows brought upward and then down on the point of the elbow
I need to see the fight again but that sounds like what I was seeing
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I thought 12 to 6 was determined by the motion
not what part of the arm is landing on what part of the body.
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by The Pope of Chilitown on Aug 22, 2010 12:44 AM EDT up reply actions
This is the obvious problem.
We have a rule that requires vast interpretation, which by the way, everyone interprets differently. The disagreement in this instance alone proves that the rule itself is not practical for MMA.
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by MyFistYourFace on Aug 22, 2010 12:47 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
everyone doesn’t interpret it differently.
People that post on sherdog and here have trouble understanding it, but it has been years since a fighter, commentator, or ref has had any trouble describing or interpreting what the actual rule is.
by Phildo on Aug 22, 2010 8:21 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rohan and Couture
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by thetakeover on Aug 22, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
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by thetakeover on Aug 22, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
this is a false statement
Randy and Rogan both had trouble figuring out what was and wasn’t 12-6.
During the Silva/Lindland fight Randy was saying that the elbows Silva was landing were illegal. And in the Jones/Hamill fight Joe thought it was a stoppage.
"Your not gonna jab and shoulder roll your way away from Brock Lesnar; He is gonna fuck you." - Joe 'High as Fuck' Rogan
They had trouble figuring it out with Anderson Silva, that was years ago. And the ending of hamill/jones was confusing as hell, but they haven’t acted like they don’t’ understand the rule in a while.
They may not like it, but they have not been confused about it for years. People online refuse to understand the rule, but they people that need to get it.
and the rule is?
i mean the exact quote, bc i don’t get it either
I believe 12-6 is dependent upon the angle of the elbows from the body of the striker. i.e., Beansie was standing up straight, so 12-6 would be coming straight down on the back of Mo’s head. In actuality they came down on Mo’s ears.
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by Ephemeral Artery on Aug 22, 2010 12:40 AM EDT up reply actions
I agree. It’s a stupid rule, but you can’t call something 12-6 when it’s not being swung at a 90 degree angle. Plus, I think Big John was actually the one who founded that rule, even though he didn’t want to. The NSAC twisted his intention, which was to prevent paralization from dropping any elbow to the base of the spine. So if anyone should be making the call, it’s BJM.
Thanks for the clarification, because I had no idea. In that case, it is absolutely a ridiculous rule. I thought it was stupid all along, but that’s crazy.
And, since he was standing straight-up, this would mean that they weren’t 12-6, anyway.
Sorry, just for clarification, as I finish writing this, I’m curious: so a fighter on his back can’t really ever throw 12-6? Because the fight with Silva vs. Lutter, when Silva had Lutter locked up and was throwing elbows, Randy Couture (who was helping to call the fight) questioned the legality of the blows (until he saw the replay), because the elbows were (he thought) coming down 12-6 in relation to Silva’s body (12 being Silva’s head, 6 being his feet)… unless I’m remembering this completely wrong, in which case, carry on.
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by Ephemeral Artery on Aug 22, 2010 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Mr. Fantastic can throw those elbows from his back, but that’s about it. Randy was confused, and that fight marks the last time an announcer or fighter has shown real confusion on the rule. John McCarthy explained after that fight how they were legal, and the only confusion has stemmed from message boards and comment sections since then.
It is a very stupid rule. It was put in to appease doctors in NJ after witnessing some brutal elbows when they were in the process of first sanctioning the sport. here you can read mccarthy explaining it the whole story, i swear i saw a video of him doing it once but i can’t find it. Basically, it needs to look like Jones/Hamill, if anything is different, it’s a legal elbow.
Thanks.
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by Ephemeral Artery on Aug 22, 2010 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
The elbows were a almost 12-9… picture an elliptical machine motion. RFC was coming all the way around on most and striking the side of Mo’s head. There were a couple thrown 12-6 and Big John told him immediately to watch the back on the head.
Decent fight. Mo’s stand up needs work. He throws the same predictable combinations over and over. Looks like James Toney didn’t show him anything when they trained together.
Would love to see Greg Jackson get ahold of him.
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by PackMMA on Aug 22, 2010 12:25 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Man, wrestling...what a great base for MMA.
by wrathofreason on Aug 22, 2010 12:26 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
i know right
look how badly jon jones, rashad evans, brock lesnar, cain velasquez, frankie edgar, and matt hughes have done
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by milk72 on Aug 22, 2010 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
not an accurate analogy
Those guys all won fights early in their careers by wrestling.
The striking acumen came later in the case of Rashad, Frankie and Cain. Hughes and Brock still use wrestling as their main weapon — and always will. Jon Jones is a once-in-a-lifetime talent who can’t be tossed into the “wrestling” or “striking” category.
“I’ll just walk right through Muay Thai knees,” is not a strategy any of the above guys did, do or will employ. They wrestle effectively…Mo is a great wrestler who wants to be a KO artist…but he’s a lousy striker.
Hopefully he’ll learn from this and be more realistic about his gameplanning. Either that or he’ll become the LHW Jorge Gurgel.
Rashad has striking acumen?
Could have fooled me…
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Salmon and Forrest as well
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by Cory Braiterman on Aug 22, 2010 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
lol at even mentioning Salmon
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by KingAtRock on Aug 22, 2010 12:55 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
a KO win is a KO win
acumen, maybe not in that fight, but he had enough to KTFO that “big-head” dude just fine
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by Cory Braiterman on Aug 22, 2010 1:03 AM EDT up reply actions
KO power and good striking are not the same thing.
Rashad’s boxing is piss poor. He lost standing against Lyoto, Thiago Silva, Rampage, and Forrest until the finish. His footwork is awful and his head movement is just short of comical. Don’t act like his punching is good striking.
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everyone save Shogun
has lost to Lyoto standing (and everything else). He was doing just fine against ’Page in the stand up and landed that big shot at the beginning that helped him set the tone for that fight. He was also doing just fine and probably winning the stand-up against Forrest in that fight too.
Is Evans a great stand-up guy? No. He certainly did get roped by Machida and a bad-back Thiago still nearly put him away. He’s certainly not awful and has enough (T)KO wins to warrant being in the decent level.
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by Cory Braiterman on Aug 22, 2010 1:02 AM EDT up reply actions
Dude... he's really not a good striker.
His double jab (that connects once) to a level change for a takedown is effective for the takedown, but not good boxing. His overhand right has power, but is far from well thrown. What other punches does he have? How is his defensive movement? His footwork? His use of angles? Kenny Florian has a ten times better boxing (not even striking, just boxing) than Rashad. I don’t get why people care about Evans’ hands…
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Dude
Forrest was lighting him up with kicks that whole fight and Rashad wasn’t doing much of anything, he was widely accepted as being down two rounds when it went into the third.
Matt Hughes has some serious "mentally challenged" strength applying a choke to Ricardo Almeida’s neck strong enough to squeeze a turd out of his other end.
Apparently Cain is also a great striker now.
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He was in the Nog fight
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pretty sure its accurate
he mocked wrestling as a solid base and i said a bunch of guys who excel with a wrestling base
and to be honest i have no idea what ur talking about i never said anything about mo’s strategy for the fight i just said wrestling is a great base to have
We have a saying back home that if your coming on, COME ON!!!!
this has more to do with a discussion that happened a couple of days ago
by debating if wrestling was the best base style to have. I think people can excel with any base style they have as long as they can implement other styles into their games, I just don’t thin there is any one best base style to have, the guy you responded to was just being ironic.
the following two things are signs of weaknesses:
stay silent when it's needed to speak up, and speak up when it's needed to stay silent.
Wrestlers who have failed to learn any jui jitsu or striking fail in the end. Strikers and jui jistu players that fail to learn wrestling fail in the end. MMA is fun.
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by Neil Manich on Aug 22, 2010 12:57 AM EDT up reply actions
my thoughts as well!
the following two things are signs of weaknesses:
stay silent when it's needed to speak up, and speak up when it's needed to stay silent.
The Brazilian's
…are taking over again. It was only a matter of time.
by memitim on Aug 22, 2010 12:52 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
What weight classes do you see that happening in?
If anything, by the end of 2011, it is highly likely that only Aldo will still be a champion…
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by BigDNotDallas on Aug 22, 2010 1:04 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
we each must become like fishermen, and go out on to the dark ocean of mind, and let your nets down into that sea
by Barack Lesnar on Aug 22, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Fitch is doing okay
Toronto FC - Where road games are forfeited and we STILL have no idea how to play from behind.
by SSreporters on Aug 22, 2010 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Wins a win
And the only person who’s been able to beat him in years is GSP, another fighter who style is built around wrestling.
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I knew all the wrestling haters would be out in force after this...
Mo’s problem wasn’t wrestling as his base. Mo’s problem was crappy wrestling technique in execution. He bent at the waist, extended his arms as he dove forward while looking at the mat, and shot to the man instead of through him. Those are mistakes I scream at 9th grade JV kids for making.
Wrestling didn’t get Mo beat last night. Crappy technique did. That, and a very good opponent who executed his strategy well.
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by duck on Aug 22, 2010 8:12 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Why do you think Mo had such crappy technique? Isn’t it embarrassing for a world class wrestler to make such mistakes?
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by dancingChicken on Aug 22, 2010 8:25 AM EDT up reply actions
I honestly have no idea
I’m going to try and find some of Mo’s freestyle matches and see what his traditional freestyle double leg looks like. It can’t look like what we saw after the first half of the first round.
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by duck on Aug 22, 2010 10:37 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
well lashley had a great reason for calling out bums
being one certainly helps make that decision for u
We have a saying back home that if your coming on, COME ON!!!!
This is how they keep shooting themselves in the foot.
you can’t promote one fighter in a two man fight and hope to build stars, its just too much risk. At least put yourself in a win win situation. Don’t know how many times their going to do this, but maybe they will learn.
They do the EXACT same thing
That EliteXC was doing.
It has to be the Showtime reps. Coker can’t possibly be this stupid.
fixed
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by DamnSevern on Aug 22, 2010 1:57 AM EDT up reply actions 17 recs
um
I thought thoose elbows were 12-6…..
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That was an awesome finish
The title fights were pretty good. I wonder where the winners go from here?
Back to Brazil
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by thetakeover on Aug 22, 2010 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Why in the hell could he not get the takedown? That was bizarre.
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by ChiCubs23 on Aug 22, 2010 12:31 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
cause he was knocked out...
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Yea, he was rocked out of his mind and kept eating bows.
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by MyFistYourFace on Aug 22, 2010 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Because his technique was HORRIBLE
He had no leverage, no power on those shots. None. Never lowered his level, was using his arms extended which robbed him or any power, hell, he was looking at the floor as he shot. If you look at the floor, you will end up there in painful and violent ways.
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Alternate title: Mo No! Feijao's Kapows Signal Fall of Lawal
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 22, 2010 12:38 AM EDT reply actions 8 recs
Hahahahahaha
Toronto FC - Where road games are forfeited and we STILL have no idea how to play from behind.
by SSreporters on Aug 22, 2010 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions
you've been saving that for a while
back pocket those good sayings til they’re relevant, the hallmark of a good writer
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by Cory Braiterman on Aug 22, 2010 12:53 AM EDT up reply actions
I have a deep love of awful rhyming headlines...
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 22, 2010 1:01 AM EDT up reply actions
That’s awesome.
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by Richard Wade on Aug 22, 2010 12:54 AM EDT up reply actions
I had Lashley and Mo in a parlay but it was play money so I’m not mad.
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by MyFistYourFace on Aug 22, 2010 12:39 AM EDT reply actions
this loss will be good for mos career. he has to learn to keep his hands up and defence in the clinch. Other that he did a good job
by Mohammedini Hussein on Aug 22, 2010 12:45 AM EDT reply actions
That's a fair point
He did have to get knocked out eventually.
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by Neil Manich on Aug 22, 2010 12:47 AM EDT up reply actions
they were working though
until Feijão said; “fuck this shit, here, have some knees!”
the following two things are signs of weaknesses:
stay silent when it's needed to speak up, and speak up when it's needed to stay silent.
Well yeah, that's the thing
It’s… it’s like an adventure game. You know, one of those DOS ones that were just text?
You are in a cage. You are in a Thai clinch. You are King Mo. What do you do?
> Throw body shots
You throw a few body shots, and they’re kind of effective! Feijao loses 2 health… Feijao knees you! It’s super effective. -20 health.
> Shit goddamnit this worked in EA MMA
I do not understand ‘shit’. Feijao knees you again! -20 health.
> Fuuuck.. uh restart
You are in a cage. You are in a Thai clinch. You are King Mo. What do you do?
> Escape clinch!
You use your Wrestling Pedigree +4 and Fight Knowledge +2 to escape the clinch! Feijao throws a knee! It misses!
> Woo!
etc. etc.
by Pyrgz Krum on Aug 22, 2010 2:20 AM EDT up reply actions 10 recs
owww wow, golden
i programed one of those on high school.
always good for a great laugh
Feijao is pretty cool
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I think all of us who like MMA ....
were very lucky this week. The WEC in the middle of the week offered fantastic fights as did this strikeforce event. It’s a shame my cable company replaced HD NET with the Smithsonian channel or I’d be watching the SRC event. I guess I’ll either stream it on the lappy or catch it tomorrow.
Big ups to SF for coming with a really entertaining card. I enjoyed every fight. The only questionable event was the referee standing Lashley up when he had the full mount, checking the cut and not giving him his position back. He probably would have lost in round 3 anyway but that would’ve put him up 2 rounds and all he would need to do is survive to win.
I hope you’re kidding.
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by Richard Wade on Aug 22, 2010 1:09 AM EDT up reply actions
All the people that want to jump off Mo's wagon do it now
I’m going to be on it because I’m a loyal fan
"You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity."
The people harping about how wrestling is a joke or
It’s not the best base in MMA are overreacting.
Toronto FC - Where road games are forfeited and we STILL have no idea how to play from behind.
Yes he lost once so he’s now a total bum.
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by JamesR on Aug 22, 2010 1:30 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I always thought King Mo was a........
mediocre fighter. Never was a big fan of his skills. He might be a good wrestler but other then that not impressed with him at all.
Exactly!
The fickleness of some so called fans is sickening. Lawal will be back, he’s still very inexperienced for the level he’s fighting at, thats all.
A couple more “warmup” fights in SF and he’d look very nice in the UFC MW division.
by ufc4 on Aug 22, 2010 9:15 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I don't think anyone is saying he is a bum...
although if they are they are idiots. Mo is a quality prospect that has a while to go but has all the tools to climb into the elite.
However, Strikforce’s marquee LHWs, Mo and Mousasi, both have been extremely recently ranked in the top 10 of a shark-tank division despite almost no quality wins in that division for either of them. Mousasi was able to ride out his loss to Mo with his rep only slightly battered because “well, Mo is top 10 too and he basically just held him down.” Now Mo has lost to an unranked fighter in a very visible matchup. I think that means we all need to finally look at Mo and Mousasi and agree that while both have excellent skills, Mo and Mousasi are not top ten yet and therefore were ‘overrated.’
by Enmascarado on Aug 22, 2010 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions
If Mousasi Wins The Dream Tourney
I very much want to see him face Feijao. Their styles could make for a great fight and for once SF would have nothing to lose. It’s a win/win match up.
As far as Lashley is concerned it’s his own fault. If he had face tougher, more well known competition tonight and lost it wouldn’t have been nearly as damaging. Even if it was Rogers. Getting carried out in a stretcher by a guy who isn’t even training full time is a huge blow. Now, he falls into circus show category like HMC, Sapp, and Zulizhuno. Long road back to any respectability.
Wish we could have seen the Cormier fight.
by memitim on Aug 22, 2010 1:35 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Seriously?
If you think wrestling in MMA is overrated then you are an idiot. If you think Muay Thai, BJJ, Boxing or even Wrestling is the best base then you are an idiot. It is called mixed martial arts for a reason. You have to adapt and overcome to your opponent, I think Sun Tzu said it best “If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.” Guess what? That’s what happened this past evening and that is what happens to ignorant fighters.
Nope
by NaciremaDream on Aug 22, 2010 5:03 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
The fact is
Just like in boxing, there just aren’t many guys at a really high level in MMA. King Mo didn’t look great against Mousasi, it was more that Mousasi looked pathetic against a good wrestler. In LHW the elite are all in the UFC, and there are only a handful there.
Ferijao winning really spices up the SF 205 division
Kyle Rematch
Mousassi
Mo Rematch
Pee Wee Herman?
Babalu
To me it makes the division better than watching Mo clean out the division.
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Mo Looked good in round 2 and 3
His mistake was he got cocky (what surprise) and hung out in Rafael’s Thai plumb too long and paid for it. Outside of that he was killing his body. Mo comes back from this better he just needs to humble himself a little bit.
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great fight
I agree with Roman. I think Mo had some good rounds in there, but ran out of gas a bit and was cocky, whereas Feijao was steady, stuck to his game plan, and was able to land a few more solid punches. I still think Mo is a great fighter, and I’ll definitely give credit to Feijao who proved himself last night.
Anyone else bugged that they keep dropping half the names of Brazilian fighters?
That shit really annoys me. Tonight it was “Jacare Souza”, dropping his first name Ronaldo. And for Feijao, it was “Raphael Feijao”, dropping his last name Cavalcante.. I really hate this trend, it’s like they think their names are too complicated to remember for US fans. See also, “Chris Cyborg”. What in the fuck? Stupid stuff. Anyone agree?
by Horselover Fat on Aug 22, 2010 12:48 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Yeah yeah, I misspelled Rafael.. big whoop.
by Horselover Fat on Aug 22, 2010 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions
if the fighters complain, then it’s a problem.
They are adults, they have the right to be called what they want to be called.
How about if the fans complain, then it’s a problem. Here you have one at least. Granted, I haven’t heard anyone else mention it, but still.
Do you really think though that this is a choice by the fighters, and not Strikeforce / Showtime? I don’t have any evidence of course but I assume that it’s on SF, not the fighters themselves. Either way, I don’t like it.
by Horselover Fat on Aug 22, 2010 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
i dunno, but i think Jacare’s opinion on what he should be called matters more than yours, or ours.
Just like Jacob Ortiz, Mirko Filipović, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou Nkamhoua, and Cheick Guillaume Ouedraogo. If they want to be called Tito, Cro Cop, Sokoudjou, or Kongo, that’s up to them.
Well I agree to an extent, but that doesn’t mean I can’t think it’s silly.
I prefer the formula first name, nickname, last name. It’s understandable if someone with a shitload of complicated names drops one or a few (like Sokoudjou and Kongo), but when someone like Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos suddenly wants to become just Chris Cyborg, I cringe. Patricio “Pitbull” Freire is now apparently only Patricio Pitbull with Bellator, same thing there (although someone told me it’s the same in Brazil). It’s something about it that just seems inappropriate and disorderly to me.. their names are very simple to begin with, and generic stuff like Cyborg and Pitbull doesn’t sound good as a replacement for their last names IMO.
Again, maybe it’s just me who is annoyed by this, I understand what you’re saying and why it might be beneficial to them and everything.. just not something I’m fond of
by Horselover Fat on Aug 22, 2010 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions
It might’ve happened.. I’m assuming you’re saying this stuff is common there too? I don’t keep up with the sport, but I do know about at least Ronaldo and Ronaldinho who would apply to this discussion. Also I noticed they had one guy named Thiago Silva when I watched one of their games at the world cup this year, that was somewhat amusing.
by Horselover Fat on Aug 22, 2010 8:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Mo finally got some sense knocked into him
Dude was full of himself ever since getting into MMA. Hopefully this is a wake up call.
by daftshadow on Aug 22, 2010 2:47 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I was really impressed with his TD defense.
Once MO realized he couldn’t take RF down at will, he seemed kinda lost.
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