Junior Dos Santos Overcomes Big Obstacle in Preparation for Title Shot

by Kevin Haggerty on Mar 24, 2011 4:37 PM EDT

(video courtesy of UFC)

Noteworthy points:

1) Brazilian Portuguese may translate worse into English than any other language in the world. It may just be that those who get paid to do the translation need to sharpen their chops. Regardless of the reason, it just always looks and sounds like children who are just learning to speak. With as many as Brazilians as we have in the UFC, they may need to look into making an adjustment in that department. Maybe Ed Soares can just be on call 24-7 to pretend to translate what the fighters are saying and give us the answers we want to hear.

2) Paula Sack may be the best/worst name for a journalist, a woman, or a person....ever. Apparently, she isn't kidding. I looked into it (investigative reporting quota for the day is now filled).

3) Has Dana seen this? Does he really want his 240 pound investments hanging from rock cliffs where they could easily plummet to their messy demise(s)? I like a thrill as much as the next guy but it seems particularly foolish in this case.

4) If you're sitting at home/work saying to yourself: "It must be a slow MMA news day if he's having to write about Junior Dos Santos climbing a rock." Valid point. Hard to argue. Quick! Pull up the spreadsheet! Your wife/boss is coming!

Is it Friday yet? :)

By Kevin Haggerty of MMA Buffet

http://mmabuffet.blogspot.com

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was JDS on belay? Or bouldering 40 feet up?

morbidly curious, and I don’t want to bother with silverlight

I wonder if someone has open sores codec for replacing silverlight

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by ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ on Mar 24, 2011 4:42 PM EDT reply actions

He does appear to be on belay. Do you need Silverlight just to watch Youtube vids?

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by Kevin Haggerty on Mar 24, 2011 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions

oh looks like my flash is broken right now

I just assumed it was silverlight

and if he is on belay let the man do whatever he wants

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by ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ on Mar 24, 2011 5:24 PM EDT reply actions

i posted this in the fanshots a couple of days ago… paula sack is lovely in it…

by gabriezim on Mar 24, 2011 5:40 PM EDT reply actions

I'll take Eduardo

Shoguns manager/translater all day and twice on sundays over Ed Soares. He seems to really care that he not only gets the essentials correct, but he will hunt for just the RIGHT words to get the tone too.

by hardlyworking on Mar 24, 2011 10:20 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs

Quick! Pull up the spreadsheet! Your boss is coming!

Is it Friday yet? :)

HA!!!

I tend to be biased towards strikers . . . exciting strikers.
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VEe is ANIMated!

by VeeisAnimated on Mar 25, 2011 9:09 AM EDT reply actions

3) Has Dana seen this? Does he really want his 240 pound investments hanging from rock cliffs where they could easily plummet to their messy demise(s)? I like a thrill as much as the next guy but it seems particularly foolish in this case.

It’s a Via Ferrata. It’s impressive but there is almost no risk, a sparring session is more dangerous. This one looks exhausting for a guy as big as Cigano though.

Well, anybody who knows me knows I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true. Or what did or didn't happen.

by MarcoDos on Mar 25, 2011 11:36 AM EDT reply actions

1) to be fair americans don´t do very well when they are trying to speak portuguese also ;) and don´t count on Ed Soares to do translations. I´m sure he is fluent in both languages, the problem is when his dirty little mind decides to completely change the statements and that happens a lot.
2) Ohhhh.. Paula Sack….
3) Climb that damn rock Cigano!! You can do it!!!
4) alt + tab

by edtSD on Mar 25, 2011 1:53 PM EDT reply actions

alt + tab

I’m surprised at how many people don’t know about this…

When I'm on the mic it goes down, CINTRON

-Joell Ortiz

by The Lethal Haze on Mar 25, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks for that one

You filled my “learn something new every day” daily quota.

When I'm on the mic it goes down, CINTRON

-Joell Ortiz

by The Lethal Haze on Mar 25, 2011 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions

+ 1
Didn´t know about that one.
And you gotta be organized for the alt+tab work. It wont worth nothing if you have another MMA blog on the next window ;)

by edtSD on Mar 25, 2011 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions