…MMAmania.com reader “Mark E.”

Congratulations on winning your FREE copy of UFC 84: Ill Will when it becomes available for release on August 26.

Mark correctly guessed none other than “Gumby” himself, Jeremy Horn as the mystery fighter.

And kudos to the MMAmaniacs for an impressive showing. I knew we had some savvy readers but the 500+ correct responses in such a short time was positively baffling.

Except of course for the reader who submitted “Takanori Gomi” as their answer. I ask that you please hang your head in shame.

Mark was not the first correct response, but unfortunately the ones that beat him to the punch failed to include a link from our DVD store that featured Mr. Horn in action!

Again, great job to all of those who responded correctly.

But having said that, you can only blame yourselves for the level of difficulty in tomorrow’s contest.

You heard correctly. Since this contest was over so quickly, I have no choice but to crank out another giveaway to help us get psyched up for this Saturday’s stacked lineup of fights.

Only this time there will be no free rides.

Get your thinking caps on Maniacs and check back with us tomorrow morning for a second crack at winning your free copy of UFC 84: Ill Will from our DVD store.

I can promise you it won’t be so easy the second time around.

See you then!

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Comment by jd
2008-05-21 20:50:13

Well, at least I feel good about getting it right. I just saw this contest not to long ago.

Can’t wait for tomorrows.

Comment by ViolentMike
2008-05-22 08:19:53

MANIA,

WHat time did Mike E send in the answer? I sent mine in at 11:42 am Eastern Time. Are you sure that it wasn’t Mike M that won???

LOL, I was away from my desk for like an hour, and when I came back that contest was at the top when I refreshed. I know it wasn’t up for long. What time did it go up?

I’m really curious to see how close I was. I really thought that I was going to win…

Comment by kevin
2008-05-22 10:45:40

I put vandy, but I knew afterwards I was wrong. I just assumed it was someone competing in UFC84, with the pictues and title…MY BAD!!

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Comment by boz
2008-05-21 21:08:12

wow … we get it .. you have a dvd store. alright.

Comment by Soups
2008-05-21 21:22:16

woo … we get it .. you’re an ass. alright.

Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 21:56:23

LoL! Word to that . . .DICK!

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Comment by Jesse Holland
2008-05-21 22:20:18

Get used to it boz. Unless of course you want to cut me a check to help keep the site up and running.

Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 22:41:36

I was refering to the original rude comment by boz, not agreeing with him.

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Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 22:42:28

Oh, i thought you wrote boyz . . . bottom line boz is a penis = )

 
Comment by boz
2008-05-22 12:07:01

Damn, you guys are taking me too seriously. I was just poking a bit of fun at the site for so shamelessly plugging the dvd store. I love this site and think its awesome you guys have a some revenue sources, but come on, you got to admit asking to include a link to the dvd in the store with every entry deserves to be made fun of a little bit.

 
 
 
 
Comment by FarCry
2008-05-21 21:14:19

That was pretty easy actually.

Comment by MMAmania
2008-05-21 21:34:51

I think Jesse just admitted as much.

 
 
Comment by c-war
2008-05-21 21:14:58

Except of course for the reader who submitted “Takanori Gomi” as their answer. I ask that you please hang your head in shame.

lmao!

Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 21:59:35

Thats what i was gonna comment on, LoL!!!!!!!!!!!! I first sent in Dan Henderson (then realized he never beat a TUF season winner or appeared on TUF which i didnt notice as a part of the criteria at first) Then sent in Gumby but it looks as though i was beat to the punch (no pun intended) BUT Gomi, Gomi!!!! LMAO!!! Thats as bad as sending in Melvin Guillard or something LoL!

Comment by nick j
2008-05-22 02:28:15

Yeah the key was the TUF winner bit, was doing my head in tho… couldnt get Heath Herring out of my head for some reason, worring!

Did get it but knew about 200 people would have got it first, bring on the next questio… why couldn’t school be like this!!!!!!!!

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Comment by ToeLock
2008-05-22 08:56:40

The thing for me with that part….I wasn’t sure if they were actually looking for someone who had been a TUF “Participant” or just someone who may even have only been on a guest appearance once…Oh well

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Comment by c-war
2008-05-21 21:18:15

Grats to Mark for following the rules but out of curiosity, who got theirs in first time wise? I thought I put mine in pretty quickly.

Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 22:00:53

I sent mine at 9:54am PT

 
 
Comment by fightfan
2008-05-21 21:20:17

DAMMIT!!!!!!!!

Just got it. A LITTLE too LATE!!!!!!

Unless he got it earlier today. Figured it out just after this came out. I checked back to see if there was a winner before I emailed again with Horn. GRrrrrrrrr!!!

 
Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 22:10:29

Win or Lose, thanks for a chance at the free BJ Penn DVD and what could be the best UFC of the year MANIA!

 
Comment by Alex
2008-05-21 22:12:16

Horn has fought Liddell, Couture, Frank Shamrock and Dan Severn. That’s more than two former UFC champ’s, right?

Comment by stryker
2008-05-22 01:12:07

The 2 current are: Randy Couture & Anderson Silva
The 2 former are: Chuck Liddell & Frank Shamrock

 
 
Comment by Alex
2008-05-21 22:13:13

Hmmm I suppose it could be argued that Couture is still champ, and that Severn never really was.

Comment by c-war
2008-05-21 23:04:59

No argument, he is still champ. Nogeira is the interim champ.

 
 
Comment by Landowner
2008-05-21 22:16:25

No, I’m pretty sure it was Takanori Gomi.

Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 22:21:45

LMAO!

 
 
Comment by kneetotheface
2008-05-21 22:30:31

What about Jens Pulver? Unless I am mistaken, he has: 1) Competed in both arenas, 2) Been on TUF as a coach, and defeated winner Joe Stevenson, and 3) has beaten champions BJ Penn and “bantamweight” champion Caol Uno way back when. Am I missing something key?

Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 22:44:22

Another current champion . . .Did he also beat Jackson, Noguiera, St.piere, or Silva . . . No sir.

Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 22:45:51

Those are two formers (BJ and Caol) and BJ is also a current but Jens didnt beat another current.

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Comment by stryker
2008-05-22 01:14:05

it didnt say he beat a champ, only that he fought a current champ.

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Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-22 02:06:10

I was replying to the other guy that originated the post and i didnt mean to put “beat” i just ment faught.

 
 
 
Comment by ToeLock
2008-05-22 08:58:37

Also i dont think he has competed in 3 weight classes….But i cant remember now if that was the criteria

 
 
Comment by kneetotheface
2008-05-21 22:33:56

Oh, and he has fought at 145 (WEC), 155 (UFC) and 160 (PRIDE Lightweight).

Comment by Jesse Holland
2008-05-21 22:37:07

The second round of clues would have eliminated Jens from the choices, however the contest never got that far.

 
Comment by b.w.
2008-05-21 23:45:44

i said jens also. i couldnt figure wich tuf winner horn beat. forgot about forrest. jens was close though.

 
 
Comment by damon
2008-05-21 22:49:00

that is bull i sent jermy horn soon as that bullentin whent up what the F*** is up with that thats not cool

 
Comment by Craig
2008-05-21 23:01:09

Here’s my question, how many people actually sent in the answer along with all the evidence. I doubt I was the first guy to send it in, but I might have been the most thorough.

Comment by ( (Adam G) )
2008-05-21 23:16:10

I wrote all the explanations but thats what probably cost me time and the win LoL, ehhh, whatever, gained some MMA knowledge in my search i guess = )

Comment by Craig
2008-05-22 13:44:15

Agreed. While writing all that stuff, I figured to myself, “Self, you just cost yourself a DVD by being thorough.” Oh well.

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Comment by weoweoweo
2008-05-22 01:10:53

dammittttttt i thought i won a dvd hahahaha. i shouldve seen the post earlier. haha.

 
Comment by moonuk
2008-05-22 05:27:06

so it wasn’t Andy Wang?

Comment by cmon_chokehim
2008-05-22 08:32:51

Danni Abbadi?

 
 
Comment by Chris
2008-05-22 08:52:18

The currect champions does not include Randy Couture, Jeremy Horn lost to Big Nog back in 2000 at WEF 8

 
Comment by mike
2008-05-22 09:54:04

try and post early in the morning if u can. some people actually work during the day!!! great site!!!

 
Comment by Bil
2008-05-22 11:28:04

Man i did it with my other email address and thought i definetly won, i actually wrote thanks for the dvd aswell until my brother told me to delete it. My first post didnt include the link but a minute or two later i resent with the link but oh well you win some you lose some. I live in the UK and if i did win would i have recieved a copy? I like the competitions man they are challenging and educational. I first thought it was BJ Penn but then noticed he hasnt fought in Pride. I did send in Jeremy Horn after going to Wikipedia and writing the name of the TUF winners and saw that Forrest Griffin got beat by Jeremy Horn back in the day so i clicked on his name and saw that he fought in pride, appeared in tuf6, fought frank shamrock and chuck liddell who were the former champs and i wrote Anderson Silva and Randy Couture/Antonio Nogueira since Randy has resigned i wanted to be sure. But it was definetly a bit of a challenge and congrats to Mark E for winning a copy of what im sure will be the best UFC PPV in a long time. Jay Dee “BJ” Penn vs Sean Sherk is getting me so damn excited, Silva vs Jardine is gonnna be similar to the epic fight fought by Silva and Liddell back in December, It will be exciting to see what Tito will do in the match and after the match, will He perform as good as he did against Liddell back in UFC 66 or will he get beaten by the up and coming Lyoto Machida, will he send a message towards dana white with a message on his T-shirt, we’ll see.

 
Comment by robwhiskey
2008-05-22 12:12:28

i submitted ruight when i saw this yesterday …and i check this site alot…so i think i have a good chance at winning and the answer is
JEREMY HORN

 
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