UFC 143: Details Of The New PPV Opening Montage, RIP Gladiator Man
by Matthew Roth on Feb 2, 2012 10:19 PM EST
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Fans and media have been celebrating since Dana White and the UFC announced that with the new Fox deal the Gladiator Man intro will retired. Good news is that UFC 143 will be the first time that people will be able to see the updated intro and it is fantastic.
The working title of the opener is 'Evolution' because it follows the evolution of the sport from the days of Royce Gracie vs Ken Shamrock all the way through the Zuffa Era. Featuring highlights with the likes of Georges St. Pierre, Matt Hughes, and Chuck Liddell, the UFC has decided to showcase the fighters that helped build the sport and promotion to the power house that it is today.
The footage was cut by Digital Domain, James Cameron's production company. A lot of the footage required digital updating since much of the video was originally not shot in high definition. The music was scored by Hans Zimmer, the man who wrote the music for Inception and Gladiator.
Dana White wouldn't give an exact figure but did say that the new opener cost the UFC an 'obscene' amount of money. The UFC did contract another production company as well. Dana said that elements of their video would be used in other television spots.
Full list of highlights after the jump...
SBN coverage of UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit
Gracie Shamrock UFC 1
Ortiz Tanner UFC 30
Hughes Trigg UFC 52
Liddell Ortiz UFC 47
Penn Sherk 84
GSP Hughes 65
Couture Sylvia 68
Jackson Wanderlei 92
Coleman hero shot, no fight listed
Lesnar Herring 87
Franklin Quarry 56
Junior dos Santos Gilbert Yvel 108
Cruz Demetrious Johnson UFC on VS
Griffin Bonnar TUF 1
Cain Lesnar 121
Liddell hero shot
Edgar Maynard 125
Aldo Hominick 129
Jones Bonnar 94
Silva Belfort 126
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"Coleman hero shot"
Please let it be this:
The Machiavellian.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 2, 2012 9:55 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
no
you’ll probably end up with this…
[i’ve been on BE for so long and still can’t post a gif correctly. sigh.]
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by Victor Rodriguez on Feb 2, 2012 10:49 PM EST up reply actions
Look between the subject & body text blocks.
There’s a picture of a tree all the way to the right. Click it & paste the URL of the picture in it. Preview your post to make sure it’s right, then post. If a picture isn’t online, you must upload it with a site like tinyurl.
The Machiavellian.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 2, 2012 11:02 PM EST up reply actions
The link he posted
Didn’t allow hotlinking, though, so maybe he did it right but couldn’t get a picture to show up in the preview.
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 2, 2012 11:03 PM EST up reply actions
Me too brotha. Me too. Ugh
Minowa is a little guy but he's very good to break a fighters foot and my foot is very special to me.
by dedstrk316 on Feb 3, 2012 6:41 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I met Coleman at Xtreme Couture just before UFC 100...
It was an amazing night. Just got done doing muay thai (taught by Ryan Couture, who i had not had the pleasure of seeing fight yet), and i sit down on their bleachers and who sits down next to me but the Hammer. My only question for him was what the hell was going through his mind right after he won that fight. His reaction was priceless, as he answered that it wasn’t until he was horizontal with the ropes that he realized he wasn’t going to make it. The embarassment was temepered by the amazing victory, which he did not think was even possible given the sudden change in rules which Pride dropped on him. He had expected a 3 round fight with Igor, only to have the Pride brass drop an unlimited time-limit fight on him right before. Here’s to the Hammer, still my favorite MMA hero (who doesn’t have a mustache).
Heh heh, not this guy! I outsmarted them, I’m gonna stream it illeOHWHATTHEFUCK?!?!
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 2, 2012 10:06 PM EST up reply actions 11 recs
awwwwww yeah!
Years ago someone told Polynesian DNA that everyone was surrounded by sea monsters and it believed them. It made humans that were immune to head injuries, fast enough to run on the highway, and big enough to use the carpool lane. Putting two of them in the same ring is like telling your local tectonic plates to fuck themselves.
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by Kevin Jennison J. Zametov-St Pierre on Feb 2, 2012 9:58 PM EST reply actions
We're a bunch of nerds.
Because most of us can pick out the exact moment they’re going to use for most of those fights.
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what is the over under on Anderson clowning folks at least twice in this opening?
¬_¬
by ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ on Feb 2, 2012 10:01 PM EST up reply actions
um, two?
ill take the over
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by gspmademegay on Feb 2, 2012 10:06 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I always liked Nate Quarry....
…..but you just know my man was scrolling down this list like:
“Please not again…oh please not again…..damn.”
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by BrothersGottaAndyHug on Feb 2, 2012 10:01 PM EST reply actions 11 recs
Most make sense, but Cruz/Johnson?!
The Big Book of English for MMA: Brazil Edition! Including Such Staples As:
"I'm Ready For Fight!"
"I'm Excite For Fight"
"I'm Train"
"He Will Receive The Punch"
"I'm Good Standup"
Yup.,
And there wasn’t much to find in that fight.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 2, 2012 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
Really? Because the Faber fight was not only more significant but way more exciting.
The Big Book of English for MMA: Brazil Edition! Including Such Staples As:
"I'm Ready For Fight!"
"I'm Excite For Fight"
"I'm Train"
"He Will Receive The Punch"
"I'm Good Standup"
I dunno all Cruz fights have the same memory for me, him with his hands near his shoulders shifting side to side and going “hu hu hu” throwing some jab straight combination then moving the opposite direction shifting side to side.
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by DirtyML on Feb 2, 2012 10:09 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Good Cruz footage is like the Zapruder film.
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Its like bad cow bell
No such thing.
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by TheFilt on Feb 2, 2012 10:34 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I’m guessing it’s the suplexs he hit in that fight.
by Dpez71 on Feb 2, 2012 10:38 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Cruz-Johnson was really great and has Cruz dumping Johnson on his head with a great German suplex.
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by RagingNoodles on Feb 2, 2012 10:39 PM EST up reply actions
face the pain boys
the gladiators dead.
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by gspmademegay on Feb 2, 2012 10:05 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I am hype!
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by Chris Hall on Feb 2, 2012 10:07 PM EST via Android app reply actions
Face the Pain replaced by Hans Zimmer?
I can live with that.
watch it just be the theme to gladiator
It's just a world, it's just a life.
by DirtyML on Feb 2, 2012 10:10 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
They could show late term abortions
and it would be more tasteful.
"I'm ready for fight. If I'm win, no win. I don't know. But, I'm ready for fight. This is my working[shrugs shoulders]" - Anderson Silva
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by TheFilt on Feb 2, 2012 10:35 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
How do you know how abortions taste?
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by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 2, 2012 10:38 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
it was in international waters, okay? give him some slack.
I'd rather be trollin'.
by thirdparty on Feb 2, 2012 10:42 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
You don’t know what hunger really means. Rich boy.
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by TheFilt on Feb 2, 2012 10:48 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
they could show a pussy monster and...
well, you get the idea.
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by gspmademegay on Feb 2, 2012 10:59 PM EST up reply actions
Should be GSP vs Serra 2 instead of Hughes 2.
by RUSHoverSPIDER on Feb 2, 2012 10:14 PM EST via mobile reply actions
The head kick is a more dramatic individual moment than anything from the Serra rematch.
Those knees where brutal, but anything in the montage will be on screen for a few seconds, so it must be immediate.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 2, 2012 10:33 PM EST up reply actions
For the gladiator:
The Machiavellian.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 2, 2012 10:32 PM EST reply actions
so THATS why hes such a company man!
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by gspmademegay on Feb 2, 2012 11:00 PM EST up reply actions
Too much Lesnar not enough Bones Jones or Anderson Silva.
by Meek Mill on Feb 2, 2012 10:39 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
I hear what you're saying
but I think 2 Lesnar highlights is perfect:
1. yes he was in the UFC and yes he had his moments (knocking Herring head over heels)
2. but he’s gone now, (Cain knocking him out)
by polevaultking on Feb 3, 2012 7:55 AM EST up reply actions
Little do you guys know
Hans Zimmer is a huge fan of Stemm and sampled the shit out of Face the Pain.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:43 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Why not just use the Baba O Reilly highlight?
It’s arguably the best highlight there is and already made.
by Rabbit915 on Feb 2, 2012 10:55 PM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
I don't believe the UFC has broadcast rights to that song...
…just in-Arena….
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by BrothersGottaAndyHug on Feb 2, 2012 10:59 PM EST up reply actions
Yup
Whoever airs the CSI stuff bought the entire Who back catalogue, I believe.
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 2, 2012 11:01 PM EST up reply actions
It's also too long
Goes on for quite a while, IIRC.
"A belt only covers two inches of your ****and the rest you need to back up on your own." Royce Gracie (allegedly...I just read it somewhere and thought it was cool for my sig!)
Yeah, Baba O'Riley is over 5 minutes
One of favorite songs though…it was made to be used for highlights and montages…it evokes an instant feeling of nostalgia. At least for me anyway.
And the way it builds up…damn, I love it.
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
Because it's like five minutes long
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by the fight, what you saw, in the ring."
by Horselover Fat on Feb 3, 2012 10:15 AM EST up reply actions
I remember going to UFC 136.
I was so excited to see it in person, but for some reason they didn’t show it, I was so damn pissed.
Ahoy-hoy.
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by Sugel Mendoza on Feb 3, 2012 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Feb 2, 2012 10:59 PM EST up reply actions
not enough j.o.e. but i like it.
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by gspmademegay on Feb 2, 2012 11:01 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Condit vs. Hardy should totally be there. Agreed.
Oh, and diving head-first into a choke in the Lytle fight!
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
Screw it I’m ordering it! Haven’t ordered one in a while.
Also, no Shogun? :’(
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
just show shogun-hendo to kick off every ppv.
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by gspmademegay on Feb 2, 2012 11:02 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Word!!!
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Feb 2, 2012 11:15 PM EST up reply actions
Hans Zimmer...Dana Did his homework rite!
DFW picked my favorite score writer for some of the best movies out there!
From Inception, to the Pirates of the Carribean, to the Dark Knight. You gotta buy his stuff and or pick up on one of his other contemporaries, Klaus Badelt.
Looking forward to watching the Intro now.
Win!!
The Rock?
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by the fight, what you saw, in the ring."
by Horselover Fat on Feb 3, 2012 10:15 AM EST up reply actions
Excellent
But this only means Gladiator Man is gone, right? Face the Pain hasn’t died yet, has it?
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Hahahahahahaha
So you get a kickass new intro but the bullshit song stays. Slow steps I guess.
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So we get a 60 second Hans Zimmer themed montage
Followed by the usual ‘fighter specific’ highlights to Face the Pain?
I’m cool with that.
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
I don't mind the fighter specific highlights
But man Hans Zimmer then Face the Pain? That’s like putting cheap gas in a Ferrari.
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Feb 3, 2012 8:10 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Man, did anyone ask him why that is staying?
I bet he listens to it in his car all the time when he drives..
I like it
It’s kinda sorta grown on me over the years,
"A belt only covers two inches of your ****and the rest you need to back up on your own." Royce Gracie (allegedly...I just read it somewhere and thought it was cool for my sig!)
Same here
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
Are you for real?!!
Face the Pain is staying? What the….
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Feb 3, 2012 8:07 AM EST up reply actions
I might miss the old intro, that music got me fired up. But let’s see how this new one pans out. :-)
I know I'll miss it
I feel like it was tradition
by polevaultking on Feb 3, 2012 7:58 AM EST up reply actions
Not trying to be a stickler, but I am 'The movie guy'
Digital Domain is not James Cameron’s production company…at least it no longer is.
It was founded by him and Stan Winston(rest in peace) and Scott Ross.
In May of 06 it was purchased by another company…whose “principals then included Wyndcrest founder John Textor, director Michael Bay, former Microsoft executive Carl Stork, former NFL player and sports television commentator Dan Marino, and Jonathan Teaford”
Basically, most people simply say that Bay owns the company now.
Also, Hans f’cking Zimmer composing the score is f’cking HUGE! The Dark Knight, the Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Inception, this guy is like this generations John Williams…he is almost the go-to guy for great movie scores.
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
"Composed by Hans Zimmer" is a relative term though
His company does all sorts of soundtracks these days and they all get branded as “By Hans Zimmer”. For example “Crysis 2” also featured a “soundtrack by Hans Zimmer” and in the end there were three tracks done “by Hans Zimmer” and from what I heard the studio basically sent in their soundtrack, Zimmers company rearranged the music a bit and allowed it to be branded “by Hans Zimmer”. Obviously, they’re still doing great work there, but how much of Hans is in Hans Zimmer music these days varies greatly, I guess. ;)
"A belt only covers two inches of your ****and the rest you need to back up on your own." Royce Gracie (allegedly...I just read it somewhere and thought it was cool for my sig!)
I think a lot of that happens with video games
I know when someone is credited as a composer for a feature film…usually the vast majority of it is them.
"You got Floyd Mayweather making 25 million dollars...he can't stop the double leg." - Nick Diaz
The Thin Red Line was one of the best works he's ever done.
And also of note, Crimson Tide, and the themes for True Romance and Backdraft.
by Ikuhisa Quinoa on Feb 3, 2012 9:46 AM EST up reply actions
The Thin Red Line was the shit.
"You've got Floyd Mayweather making $25 million. He can't stop a double-leg..." Nick Diaz.
by pud333 on Feb 3, 2012 10:53 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
This actually sounds really cool!
Glad they put some effort and money into it. Really looking forward to seeing it now.
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by the fight, what you saw, in the ring."
No Frank Shamrock?
I’m disappointed they only have the Gracie/Ken Shamrock fight to represent the pre-Zuffa era. Frank Shamrock really deserves to be in there.
Face the Pain
isn’t something I’d be cruising around town listening to, but it’s become the sound of the UFC over the years and gets me amped up everytime. Hoping they keep it for the main card montage.
by deathbydegrees20 on Feb 3, 2012 11:50 AM EST reply actions
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