2011 Bloody Elbow Tournament of Bad: The Champion
by Mike Fagan on Jun 20, 2011 8:00 PM EDT
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After a long and extensive process, esteemed colleague Brent Brookhouse and I are proud to bring you the 2011 Bloody Elbow Tournament of Bad, an idea from the local Chicago sports radio show, Boers and Bernstein. The concept is simple: compile a list of 64 of the worst things related to the sport of MMA and pit them against one another in an NCAA Tournament-style bracket. You, the readers, vote on each match up until we have our ultimate champion.
Your 2011 Tournament of Bad Champion
MMA Judging
Well, there you have it. We started this journey a month ago. We battled through some questionable seeding. We frowned at some uninspired voting. We laughed during the good times; we laughed during the bad times. And now we're left with the ultimate bad for 2011: MMA Judging.
MMA Judging was a strong favorite heading into the tournament. It went undefeated during the regular season, stomped through the conference tournament, and had everyone perplexed as tournament czars placed it into the bracket as an 8 seed.
Despite the low seed, or perhaps fueled by the disrespect, MMA Judging went on a tear that may never be seen in tournament play again. It opened with a thrashing of play-in entrant Lactic Acidosis, the 90-10 differential the largest in the entire tournament. Number one seed Mike Goldberg, human sound board, fell by a 3-1 margin in one of the most impressive performances of the month.
MMA Judging's next two opponents, Fight of the Night bonuses to bad brawls and Leonard Garcia scorecards, both failed to reach 20% of the vote.
And in the finals, against another strong contender reeking and oozing and pulsating with bad, Cecil Peoples, in every form, MMA Judging breezed through a 60-40 decision.
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Don’t be surprised that the actual worst thing on the list won. Just sayin.
"Osama is dead.... Amazing what Americans can do when the PlayStation network is down..."
by Hendo_One-Shot on Jun 20, 2011 8:08 PM EDT reply actions 8 recs
Very true, good sir!
"You eat what you kill, and that is all." -Shane Carwin
by James Anthony on Jun 21, 2011 6:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Cecil Peoples never die
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/382541/20081124070930_E80E4658.JPG
"I'm a little worried about being a slut"
~ Bobby Hill
post fail
"I'm a little worried about being a slut"
~ Bobby Hill
This tournament was awesome.
Sig betting against The-gentle-way is like playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic weapon. The only thing he knows more about than fighting is pleasing women, and my girlfriend is thankful for that.
Brutal sig/avatar
Learn JiuJitsu.
by RolloTomasi on Jun 20, 2011 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions 9 recs
yep
Sig betting against The-gentle-way is like playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic weapon. The only thing he knows more about than fighting is pleasing women, and my girlfriend is thankful for that.
by Earl Montclair on Jun 20, 2011 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeesh
Almost as bad as the Chiefs logo I had to rock throughout my ban.
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
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by Derek Suboticki on Jun 20, 2011 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, let's not live in the past
The early favorite for the next TOB is Boot Scoot Boogie by that cool band Verdooom.
.....
by Scabby Knuckle on Jun 20, 2011 8:49 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Gracia,Cecil and Bad Judging are all the same thing, I don’t think all 3 should have been on there, just bad judging(which is why Gracia wins and what Cecil is).
I am free because I choose to be so-Me
by Kefka on Jun 20, 2011 9:06 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Still shocked Bruce Buffer's shenanigans never made it to the tourney.
360 intro at UFC100 FTW
"Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but it seems to me that when the giant who holds up the Earth dies, we are screwed!"
"The ink of a scholar is more precious than the blood of martyrs."
by AwkwardwithwordmakingisGoldberg,huhJoe on Jun 20, 2011 9:33 PM EDT reply actions
or this guy's facial decorations...
But i suppose that would be better fit in a Tournament of Suck-Awesome
"Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but it seems to me that when the giant who holds up the Earth dies, we are screwed!"
"The ink of a scholar is more precious than the blood of martyrs."
by AwkwardwithwordmakingisGoldberg,huhJoe on Jun 20, 2011 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
it's just so much more awesome when you realize he reffed a keith jardine fight.
Brothers just helpin’ each other out.
by Body Triangle on Jun 21, 2011 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Even more awesome when you realize he didn't ref so much as he flew around the cage with his hairy face-wings.
My my, how his wooly face flapped. I could barely watch the fight through the tears of laughter.
"Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but it seems to me that when the giant who holds up the Earth dies, we are screwed!"
"The ink of a scholar is more precious than the blood of martyrs."
by AwkwardwithwordmakingisGoldberg,huhJoe on Jun 21, 2011 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds like MMA Judging beat a bunch of pieces of... MMA Judging
Peoples (bad judge), Garcia scorecards (bad judging), and FOTN (which is often used to reward a guy screwed by bad judging).
Also, are you saying you seeded a play-in 9th?
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
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Still Subo at Fightlinker.com
by Derek Suboticki on Jun 20, 2011 9:36 PM EDT reply actions
Can Someone Tweet This To Dana
Maybe he’ll finally give BE some love.
If BE "got love" from Dana
BE would lose some “cool points” IMO.
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by RolloTomasi on Jun 20, 2011 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
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
Editor, HeadKickLegend.com
Still Subo at Fightlinker.com
by Derek Suboticki on Jun 20, 2011 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Not cool.
I’m done here.
Learn JiuJitsu.
by RolloTomasi on Jun 20, 2011 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions
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