Comments on: Video: Big John talks Tito fence grab and more UFC 73

By: badass one

badass one — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:00:11 +0000

[quote comment=”101754″][quote post=”2708″]Its called ultimate fighting not ultimate wrestling[/quote]

Actually it’s called Mixed Martial Arts.[/quote]
that’s exactly right MMA

By: mcanena

mcanena — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:08:12 +0000

weel, they do say hes the best in the buisness

By: Gene

Gene — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:24:30 +0000

I just bought TUF season 3 and going into it I really didn’t like Tito Ortiz, there’s just something about a guy who promotes himself by talking trash about established athletes in order for people to remember his name that I find cheap. It reminded me of all the up and coming rappers who talk smack about famous hip-hop artists on their albums just to gain a bit of publicity. Anyway, Tito did prove himself to be a great MMA fighter in the ring so the trash talking wasn’t even worth it in my view, it just made him look unprofesional. In TUF3 Tito won me over by his level-headedness and sound couching, which really surprised the hell out of me. (Sigh) and then this crap happened. Tito made over 200 thousand dollars to tarnish what should have been a great fight for the MMA history book by his cheating and giving an all round lack-luster performance. I’ve learned to look past his pre-fight trash talk (and it was bad: WTF- he called Rashad a nappy headed hoe) because he always made up for it with his in ring performance. This time his out of ring unsportsmanship seeped into the ring and that draw was the result of it. Lots of kudos to Big John for calling a spade a spade and dishing out a very sound decision with the point deduction, maybe that will wake Tito the hell up and cause him to focus more on what’s going on IN the octagon.

By: Ade

Ade — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:18:43 +0000

Tito was warned if held again a point would be taken away, and it was. I think that was pretty straight forward. I have never been a fan of Tito’s (although he did make himself good to people who haven’t seen him before on the TUF program), but he did dominate the fight without a doubt. Rashad really needs to cut out that dancing around and doing nothing. He was losing the fight and he was still dancing around. I think he was definately intimidated. He better sort his act out next time he will not be so lucky.

By: Holdin Ropes

Holdin Ropes — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:34 +0000

Personally I thnik that TITO deserved the draw, everyone is saying that TITO dominated most of the fight, well he didn’t dominate the stand up, but he did take RASHAD down. If it was the other way round and RASHAD held the cage and TITO didn’t we amy be saying that RASHAD dominted and TITO should of lost. Anyway holla back and let me know what you think.

By: Holdin Ropes

Holdin Ropes — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:56:14 +0000

GUYS IF RASHAD TOOK TITO DOWN IN THE 2ND ROUND WHAT WOULD OF HAPPENED? PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

By: Adam B

Adam B — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:44:51 +0000

When the highlights of the fight are all from the losing fighter, your winning performance wasn’t very exciting.
verry well put

great post

By: Tap-Out

Tap-Out — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:56:48 +0000

I agree with Big John’s decision to dock Tito the pts, but I still think it was unfortunate that for the most of the fight - Tito dominated and had to walk away with the draw.

I’m not a huge fan of Tito so my opinion is hardly biased - but apart from getting a thumb in the eye and slammed at the end of the fight, Tito owned Rashad.

Tito should have walked away with the ‘W’ in my mind. I’m confident a rematch will be a decision in Tito’s favor, no doubt.

By: truestory

truestory — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:10:25 +0000

normally i would say in mma specially each fight is different so are each fighter.diff strenghts diff weaknesses diff training.most concentrate on one thing theyre really good at.sherk/franca sherk a powerfull explosive huge for 155 wrestler that can strike just overwhelmed hermes..but not to say he completey dominated cuz to do so u would need to finish.hermes is not known for being extremely athletic and obvously sherk is very.in a fight u do what u feel most cofortable without risking getting into a bad situation.all depends on your opponent with that said its mma i rather finish an opponent with a lazy left overhand right k o reel combination but if not comfortable doing so i would use whatever advatage i have to win fight.in this case wrestling and all out power.cant say its the most exciting to watch or even do since grappling for 25 minutes takes alot more outta ya than a 2nd round highlight reel ko

By: MWA

MWA — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:37:07 +0000

Big john is the man, I wish he could ref all fights. I too would have liked to hear his take on the Nog/Herring fight.

The Sherk/Franca fight was in no way boring. Yeah Sherk should have finished, but if any of you have ever rolled with a top caliber fighter and been treated like Sherk treated Franca, then you can easily understand how awesome Sherk’s performance was. It’s a really discouraging feeling when someone is that good and you have no answers.

Big Head/Little Head fight, now that fight was boring. I agree with the point deduction. I agree Little Head did do nothing except in the last 20 seconds but if he had been able to take Big Head down he might have been able to do something worthy of winning the fight but 2 separate times the for sure takedown was stopped with a fence grab. Point deduction = justified. Any which way though that fight was boring as hell and I really could care less if I see either of them in the UFC again. They offer no threat to the title. Therefore they are undercards in my book.

….and how about the Ken-Flo domination? Kenny is the real deal and I wont be surprised to see him make a run at the winner of Sherk/Penn.