Comments on: Friday Fight Fun Video: Third man MMA ref cam

By: personaljournalist

personaljournalist — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:09:33 +0000

how do i find more of this guys vids?

By: HOWaiian_tapout

HOWaiian_tapout — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:00:06 +0000

r.i.p PRIDE

By: Monthblanc

Monthblanc — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:20:41 +0000

Wicked shit right there that was an awesome vid!

By: Mark Johannus

Mark Johannus — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:03:28 +0000

P.s. Can’t wait to see GSP destroy KOS!

By: Mark Johannus

Mark Johannus — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:02:36 +0000

As an MMa fan, that was the best HL/MMa vid I’ve ever seen!!! WOW! Sick facking vid!! Seing Cro Cop after Big Nog submitted him…man I love that dude…win or loose he’s an embassador to our sport.

By: flassasin24

flassasin24 — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:57:38 +0000

Sorry If I bruised your ovaries there. It was just a joke, Susan

By: Neo Spyro

Neo Spyro — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:50:39 +0000

Thanks for the PRIDE perspective. I personally don’t care too much about the intros and normally like to see instant action. But i’d definitely be curious to go behind-the-scenes.

Anyone know of any links to behind the scenes of crocop, cyborg, and others?

By: john

john — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:25:24 +0000

[quote comment=”113503″][quote comment=”113437″]Someone posted it a couple of weeks ago on another site and people got all sentimental. It shows partly an aspect of PRIDE that many people loved: every fighter had his own path and story within PRIDE and fans had alot more insight into whats going on behind the scenes. You saw footage like this from former fights, you saw the fighters hanging out backstage, fighters meeting up with fans around the arena, footage from their life within the hotels and some pranks they pulled.

Somehow I never got such a feeling in the UFC. Its always 1-2 scenes of the main event fighters about their final preparation, then the fight, a silly interview with Joe Rogan after the decision and inbetween an hour of commercials. Pride had that whole “entrance” thing worked out, fans really thought of the fighters as gladiators (the UFC equivalent is the stupid intro scene with a homoerotic bodybuilder re-enacting a scene from the Gladiator movie with Russell Crowe).

Yes, this comment is biased, not objective, I am a PRIDE nuthugger, but maybe there are a few others of us here as well and share the same sentiments.[/quote]

I agree that the Pride atmosphere was a lot better than the UFC, fans, intros, etc.[/quote]

Pride had the better production by far…. How about those opening ceramonies? Bushido production was always good… Ill never forget when Sakuraba was walking to the ring at critical countdown 2005…. The sun rose on the arena dome… Great production.

From this aspect UFC not even close to Pride

By: Mahde

Mahde — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:23:21 +0000

[quote comment=”113437″]Someone posted it a couple of weeks ago on another site and people got all sentimental. It shows partly an aspect of PRIDE that many people loved: every fighter had his own path and story within PRIDE and fans had alot more insight into whats going on behind the scenes. You saw footage like this from former fights, you saw the fighters hanging out backstage, fighters meeting up with fans around the arena, footage from their life within the hotels and some pranks they pulled.

Yes, this comment is biased, not objective, I am a PRIDE nuthugger, but maybe there are a few others of us here as well and share the same sentiments.[/quote]

There is nothing wrong with being a “nuthugger”. I’ve been called one on this site before. I agree that Pride had a few elements to its production that far outshine their UFC equivalents, but the UFC has certain features that are better.

With Pride, it seemed to be more about the fighters, not the league. The only element of this I found annoying were the entrances. They were too long most of the time. I did like the complete warrior element, which is hard to describe, that they created as a backdrop. Also, because it was in Japan, where martial arts has a long history, the fans “got it” more than they do here. Top all that off with the tournaments.

Having said that, the UFC has a good thing going with TUF, but it would def be better if they upped the caliber of fighter. I prefer the cage to the ring, mostly because its annoying when they have to move the fighters away from the ropes.

I left a lot out, because I dont want to type forever, but I think the best thing would be for both the UFC and Pride to adopt the more preferable elements from each.

By: ILJO

ILJO — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:18:56 +0000

yea that video was awesome