2011 Bloody Elbow Tournament of Bad: Sweet Sixteen Voting, Part Two
by Mike Fagan on Jun 8, 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.
We kicked off the Sweet Sixteen yesterday in the Jon Hess and Art Jimmerson Regions. Polls will stay open for those matchups until midnight ET tonight. You can check out the full bracket here.
Today's matchups:
Harold Howard Region
(12) Aleksander Emelianenko competing with Hepatitis C vs. (16) Male fighters with tramp stamps
(3) Kazushi Sakuraba's right ear vs. (7) UFC's Youtube policy
Steve Jennum Region
(8) Cecil Peoples, in every form vs. (13) Tito Ortiz's postfight excuses
(2) Bob Reilly and the (lack of) regulation in NY vs. (3) "Never leave it in the hands of the judges"
Photos courtesy of Fight! Magazine, Susumu Nagao, Jeff Sherwood, Sherdog, Stephen Morrison, Youtube, Dave Mandel, Masa Fukui, Google Image Search, and MSPaint.
Voting after the jump. Polls close at midnight ET tomorrow.
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Wow. I am so torn now that Tito Ortiz has made it against Big Daddy Cecil.
Decisions, decisions…
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Never let it go to a decision, Bishop.
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by pdl on Jun 8, 2011 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
I think Tito can pull the upset.....
As bad as Cecil is, he does get it right from time to time. However, I don’t think Tito’s credibility can ever recover from “I had a cracked skull” LOL!
Not douchey enough for a Kindle yet.
hhahahah thank you fagan for the oj picture
Fine! I'll go build my own lunar lander, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack.
PRIDE fan boy
Tramp Stamps
Sakuraba
Peoples
Reilly
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
So close
Put in YouTube Policy and you’ve got a perfect ticket.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
by Dave Strummer on Jun 8, 2011 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions
yup
in terms of being bad for a sport I don’t see an ear as an issue but keeping a majority of zuffa material off of youtube does not help at all.
it just makes me want to spit up
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 8, 2011 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions
doesnt it also suck that the 131 prelims are airing on youtube
"I have smoked weed with alot of UFC champions" - Joe Rogan
"Você ta fudido. Se vai levar muita porrada, ta ligado?" - Anderson Silva
No thats better than them being on facebook, they may even have a higher quality stream. But you try to put those same ufc prelims on youtube the next day they will be taken down.
I got the exact opposite
Let the fighters fight, let the referees ref, but dear God, don't let the judges judge.
I have the exact opposite
"that guy just brings it to every post superbowl party there is, this guy is a stone-cold killer Jaws" - Jon Gruden on Ray Lewis
On cauliflower ear: "This guy’s tough. His ears are like potatoes. Looks like he got stuck in the birth canal, had to beat him out with a stick." - Don Frye
"He's still a little wobbly on his feet, ya know? Either that or he's got good rhythm." - Don Frye
by Matt Millen draft advisor on Jun 8, 2011 11:16 PM EDT up reply actions
exact same.
close calls, but yea
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by Cory Braiterman on Jun 8, 2011 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
ditto
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by SentientAndroid on Jun 9, 2011 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions
I thought it was confirmed last year....
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Come with me to another side of the world... so cold and so dark
I must have missed it. This would have been moderately big news too.
You know Joe, Brandon Vera is considered to be a Heavyweight George St.Pierre because he just comes, comes, and comes again... -Mike Goldberg, UFC 57
Cheick Kongo looks like a cross between Evander Holyfield and pop singer Seal!
Melvin Guilard looks like a little Kevin Randelman!
-Mike "All black people look alike to me" Goldberg, UFC 62/64
GRay Maynard
Saku
Cecil
The douchebag
On a side note UFC 130’s PPV buys are (Meltzer):
“Current estimates for UFC 130 based on both trending patterns as well as actual cable reports look to be in the 300,000 to 325,000 range (trending numbers would indicate the lower number, limited cable numbers indicate the higher number).”
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I'll admit these have been pretty good
I LOL’d @ the Youtube pic and the important clarification “in every form”.
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Bob Reilly is a willfully misinformed idiot saying dumb shit about MMA. “Never leave it in the hands of the judges,” is parroted by actual informed members of the MMA community as if it’s acceptable, including actual judges, which is basically saying “it’s your fault for expecting be at all competent at my job.” That is far worse.
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Couldn't agree more..
As much as some people hate it…the truth is, decision is an absolutely legitimate method of victory in combat sports. Trying to excuse poor judging as “well, you didn’t finish it…so what do you expect?” is annoying as hell to me.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Jun 8, 2011 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Exaclty.
Bob Reilly isn’t actively damaging MMA, he’s only hindering the expansion of the business into one market. Don’t let it go to the judges talk has a tangible negative effect on the sport itself. Easy pick for me.
"Someone is WRONG on the internet. What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!"
-Randall Munroe
by pdl on Jun 8, 2011 9:34 PM EDT up reply actions
You guys make a good argument
But I voted for Reilly, and I have to disagree with the notion that he’s not actively damaging MMA. He is, at this moment, probably the most visible and vocal opponent of MMA in the country. He misses no opportunity to smear the sport to people who may not know any better, and because he’s the only politician who cares to talk about it, he gets many platforms to throw around his slanders. I think he absolutely harms MMA every time he opens his stupid mouth near a microphone.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
by Dave Strummer on Jun 8, 2011 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Disagree
NLIITHOTJ is a very stupid claim, but one that isn’t necessarily taken seriously. Somebody saying that isn’t going to change the fight.
On the other hand, Bob Reilly has made the sport we know and love illegal to 20 million people. While he isn’t stopping it altogether, his personal hatred for MMA and his agenda to hurt the sport at all costs is worse in my opinion.
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Legalize MMA in New York.
Legalize marijuana nationwide.
but he'll eventually go away.
NLITHOTJ ain’t goin anywhere.
by POW on Jun 9, 2011 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions
the “judges” comments are a form of justification of terrible officiating….how can any fan stand by that?
i agree with you.
as a fan who prefers a technically sound Fitching over a leather-slinging slobberknocker, I’m in the minority. What I’m saying is that this hackneyed idea of HAVING to finish fights is worse for the sport than Bob Reilly, because he’ll probably die soon but NLIITHOTJ won’t.
by POW on Jun 9, 2011 8:50 AM EDT up reply actions
but “judges” isn’t serious though. It’s simply a cliche to motivate fighters to work for a finish. Nobody is actually commanding a fighter to finish at all costs.
And as for justifying terrible officiating, that is a valid argument, but I think that falls under the “MMA Judging” category criteria.
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Legalize MMA in New York.
Legalize marijuana nationwide.
He does more to harm MMA
Then Ben Henderson thanking God postfight, yet that seems to be trucking along just fine
by MemphisMike on Jun 9, 2011 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hepatitis
YouTube
Tito
Reilly
"This is blood for blood and by the gallon. These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They’re back! There’s no choice left. And I’m ready for war."
by John Danaher's Hair on Jun 8, 2011 8:45 PM EDT reply actions
This was the first time for me that all of the choices were easy
tramp stamps
YouTube
Cecil Peoples
NLIITHOTJ
Never let it go to the judges will win this bracket
Or should
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"Never leave it in the hands of the judges"?
GSP, Fitch, and Joe Warren think that’s crazy talk.
by Scabby Knuckle on Jun 9, 2011 12:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Hep C is terrible and in my mind worse but
I’ve made it a point to never ever vote against male tramp stamps. Any man who gets one should have to have it removed with a rusty machete.
" Its like when I'm right I'm right, when I'm wrong I coulda been right, so I'm still right cause I coulda been wrong, you know, and I'm sorry cause I could be wrong right now, I could be wrong, but I'm right..." Bama
by 40 Cal. on Jun 8, 2011 10:46 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Gray Maynard is on his way to your place with a machete right now. Please stand by.
by POW on Jun 9, 2011 8:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Wow
I figured Cecil Peoples and Tito would go farther on before they matched up. Prob the toughest vote I’ve had to make here so far.
Tramp stamps.
The genesis of my irrational dislike of all things Maynard.
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by Wicky Wicky Scratch on Jun 9, 2011 12:16 AM EDT reply actions
I’m taking Hepatitis all the way to the finals.
"He's like Elvis in Korea! They love him there." - Mike Goldberg on Denis Kang
TMI
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by Wicky Wicky Scratch on Jun 9, 2011 2:10 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I don't mind tramp stamps
unless they say “Rode hard and put up wet.” That just makes me a little uncomfortable.
where do you hang out dude?
Sounds like interesting people.
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." .....cut to a couple months later....... "You can alter that sig now. I spoke with someone I know on the phone and she repeatedly addressed me as a female. Fuck." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on Jun 9, 2011 1:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Cecil vs Tito?
That’s like making me choose which child has to die. So unfair.
by pud333 on Jun 9, 2011 3:25 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Quiet down, Sophie.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Jun 9, 2011 7:59 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
am i the only one
that doesn’t really care about NYC?
my understanding is that people in New York don’t really care about MMA that much. if they did, it would probably be legal by now, as eventually happened in ontario.
It’s legal in Jersey and Philly so they can have events right over the border.
yes, it’s disappointing, but this fantasy that being in MSG is the holy grail for the UFC is misleading.
“don’t leave it to the judges” on the other hand …. anything to do with judges gets my vote in this tournament.
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