Forrest Griffin after UFC 86

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It took a poker legend, Johnny Chan, to end the magical run of new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Forrest Griffin, this weekend in Las Vegas. Stick with fighting, Forrest, it seems to be paying the bills — he took home a reported $350,000 for his win last night in addition to a $60,000 “Fight of the Night” bonus. That’s right … $410,000 bananas.

July 6th, 2008    

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Comment by knowone
2008-07-06 22:18:55

I love Forrest because he seems like an everyday guy. But after having watched that fight again at the very least it should have been a draw. Rampage won rounds 1,3&4. I know round 2 was a 10-8 round but that was the only decisive round for Forrest. Look at rounds 3&4, although Forrest was busier most of his shots weren’t ever landing. Still, congratulations to him and I hope he trains even more because he will be seeing either Chuck, Wanderlei, Machida or Rampage Again. It sucks to be champ.

Comment by Liddell-Marquardt-GSP-Sherk
2008-07-06 23:59:27

Don’t know what fight you were watching but okay …. And yeah, It’s gonna be short lived cause his next opponent is, regardless of who it is, will win.

Comment by Stagger-Lee
2008-07-07 05:00:01

I just got home from work and i thought i would post my thoughts on the weekend fights..or maybe I should call them the “the WEAKend fights”..

Wow I knew the card wasn’t all that great to begin with, but I figured there would be at least some good fights on the main card…The pre fights were probably better then the main card…That Cole Miller fight was definitely the best fight of the night(very entertaining)-I enjoyed every minute of the bout’..

On to the main card thoughts.

T.Griffin/Maximus- My prediction was Max but I didn’t put any loot on this one..Not much to say about this fight, but it was mad boring!..Just a bad match-up in general.

Kos/Lytle- My prediction was on Lytle and I did bet on this fight..I put down $50 on Lytle and was very unhappy with the fact that Lytle did not let himself explode..I was hoping that Lytle was going to bring it 100% and finish Kos..Boy was I wrong!..Very bloody fight. so you got to love that, but all around I wasn’t very entertained with this fight aswell.

Joe Daddy/Tibau- Now this fight started to heat up the night a bit..I enjoyed this fight much more then the first two..All around not to shabby of a bout..Won some cash of Joe Daddy.

Cote/Big Dog- This fight was entertaining for the first round and then went down hill..Boring 2nd and 3rd..I lost some cash on this fight aswell..

And now the main event-

I was looking forward to this fight for to long to just watch imo- another “bad call” from the judges score cards..

First let me say that after the way I was talking about Rampage running through Forrest with no problems and just all the sh:t talk I said about this fight before-hand? You all are welcome to rub it in on how I was wrong..Just remember I would have rubbed it in if Rampage smashed through Forrest like I posted one hundred times!

But in all honesty I do believe Rampage did win and it was a bad call. But like I said before “I am a huge Forrest fan” so I will get over it.

my score card would have looked like this-
1st-Rampage 10/9
2nd-Forrest 10/8
3rd-Rampage 10/9
4th-Rampage 10/9
5th-Rampage 10/9

I started to think after the fight that maybe Forrest did win the 5th, but that would still add up an even draw and the champ would keep his belt?, but after I watched the fight 10 more times, I am set with the scores I had in the first place..oh well’ Forrest did deserve to win in a way because Rampage fought a terrible fight, and did not show up to WAR, and Forrest did..Forrest is the new champ and I give him all the props and respect I can give him..
I did not end up betting on this fight, and I am glad I didn’t. Because I would have bet Rampage via one sided beatdown and that did not happen.

All around this was the worst UFC this year, and I hope to not see a crappy card like that agian..Most the fight were boring and I did not like the judging in the main event. and I barely broke even on my bets.

-sorry! getting kind of long.
I’ll stop my rant! in closing I just want to say congrats Forrest Griffin! the new LHW champ of the world!..wow sounds weird.

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Comment by john
2008-07-07 08:03:51

Stager lee: I could not agree more! just a boring night of action. Violentmike Called ma as soon as the event was over and said the same thing. I just git iff the phone with PhilQny and he was also teling me what a terrible event it was. It was just a crappy night of fighting and the UFC should be ashamed of themselves for that crap after we waited 9 months to see it!

 
Comment by PhilQNY
2008-07-07 08:20:25

Guys.. Your boy Phil was mega tight after ufc86. I’m just starting to feel better today.. UFC86 ” what the F’@#%^&k was that!!!! “.. The whole televised portion of it was a snoozefest. The main event!! Suspect.

I had that fight very close. RD1 Page RD2 Forrest RD3 Page ( close ) RD4 Page ( close ) RD5 Forrest.. I thought Forrest impossed his game better than Page. PAge didn’t look sharp or explosive..and on the ground like BJJ white belt. I knew once it went the cards..Forrest would get the nod. But I thought would be a split decision. Or a draw. The whole thing smelled rotten.

 
Comment by PhilQNY
2008-07-07 08:31:06

It was intresting to hearthe crowd ” who loves Forrest ” boo him after he gets the title. The place was booing him. Suspect.

 
Comment by rp
2008-07-07 08:41:35

John’ it’s over give it a rest! your pathetic! i’ve said it before if don’t practice mma stop being such an expert! 2k is that big of a deal! go cry to your uncle!

 
Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 08:47:56

Tyson Griffin won by decision? REALLY? Wouldn’t have ever predicted that…

The Kos/Lytle fight was pretty good, better than some are saying. The people that had money on Lytle will of course hate that fight…

Stevenson/Tibau: Leading up to the fight I kept on saying how big of a WW Gleison is. He looked huge against Tyson Griffin and even bigger against Stevenson. He has a lot of potential and I expect him to start making noise in the LW division. I’m happy that Joe pulled out the win, with of course, a guillatine. If anyone should have a guillatine nickname, its Joe Daddy, not Mike “boring decisions” Swick.

Big Dog/Cote: How in the world can one of the judges not give Ricardo the first round?? 30-28. What is that? Ricardo did great in the first round and the second round was close up until he got clipped at the end of the round. Going into the 3rd, it was tied. But then Almeida just looked like he was out of it and didn’t even want to fight anymore. I did not understand it. He FINALLY shoots in for a takedown with 30 seconds left and gets it easily. WHY oh WHY didn’t he do this earlier in the round?

Griffin Rampage: Ok, what just happened??? Mad props to Forrest, this was the first fight of his that I have ever rooted against him, and that was only because I had a good amount of money on Rampage. Rampage won round 1. Forrest won round 2, but it wasn’t a totally clear 10-8 round. Sure, Rampage didn’t do anything, but Forrest never had him hurt while he was GnP’ing him(outside of the knee injury). Even Forrest’s GnP punches are weak. Once Rampage’s knee was hurt, it was all down hill because he couldn’t attack. However, in round 1, Rampage was backing up and waiting for Forreest to strike and get in close enough so he can counter. Rampage did not initiate any of the action. I thought that the fight was even going into the 5th round and whoever won that round wins the fight. Forrest should have won by decision, but not that lopsided.

When scoring the fights (even though its not boxing, but we do use the 10 point must system), I still think that you must slightly consider who is the champ. In order to beat the champ, you need to beat the champ convincingly. If you don’t get the finish, it needs to be a lopsided fight to get the nod in the decision. Considering that, which was my only glimmer of hope before the scorecards were read, I don’t think Forrest did enough damage to Rampage or beat him convincingly enough to be the new champ. But Forrest controlled the pace the entire fight and Rampage sure didn’t engage enough to win a 5 round decision.

As far as betting, WOW, what a tough night. My solo bets were on Rampage and Almeida. All 3 of my parlays had Rampage on them… Even a 2 man parlay, Joe Stevenson and Rampage paying a little higher than even money…

John, you talked to Phil after the event?

PHIL, I called you after the PPV and you didn’t answer, WTF??????? LOL

 
Comment by rp
2008-07-07 08:50:31

John, it’s so obvious you are so new to gamblin! I’m so glad for you you don’t hear real gamblers laughing so loud at you right now for 2k!lol

 
Comment by PhilQNY
2008-07-07 09:02:20

VM… When you called me.. I was going to choke out my friend.. that was a bad time. I was upest at the main event/ufc86.. what the F’ was that all about. I try to hit you back on Sunday afternoon. This morning I texted John about Ufc86..I’m just startingto feel better today. Thank God.. I didn’t bet $$$ on this event.. I would of called my sister on Sunday morning ” Come get me out of Jail “…I agree with your assesment of the fights. Rampage made a good point after losing the decision. that he will never wait 9months to fight again. I have a question.. If Forrest and Page were never coaches of TUF7, but were set up to fight for the title months ago.. do you think the out come would of been different??

 
Comment by '~stinky~fingers~'
2008-07-07 09:23:05

most certainly a bad night of fights.

very boring indeed!

not only bad cause i lost 57,000k but i also lost my friendly bet with my mma head from queens.

very dissapointing night.

in case u dont know or never heard-

i am from stockton and out there we say that rich peoples fingers stink. or we call them stinky fingers.

ie. if you have lots of cash ur stinkin rich. so stinky fingers means u have money to blow.

when i won the lotto my friends started calling me stinky fingers.

maybe after this past ufc i should change my name to-

-empty~pockets~

lol. just jokin.

i am a pro gambler and u win some u lose some.

i will be betting big on the affliction card to get my money back.

P.S-I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO PHILQNY, HE IS ALWAYS RIGHT ABOUT MMA FIGHTS.

 
Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 09:36:23

Also, after watching UFC 86, well, after watching the Joe Stevenson fight, I said that the UFC MUST, and I mean, MUST book Joe Stevenson vs Tyson Griffin. They will both be ready to fight at the same time too. UFC 90 in November works for me.

Joe Silva - PLEASE get this one done. They are too similar of fighters to have two of them near the very top of the division. Its time we find out which one is better.

Right now, I think I’d go with Joe Daddy on the sole basis that he can end a fight.

 
Comment by john
2008-07-07 10:20:08

Yeah, Stevenson/Tyson MUST be booked! I like Tyson, but finish a fight already! I wouuld give the edge in that fight to stevenson as well.

IMO, it was one of the most boring night of fights that I have seen in a long time. The fighter that impressed me the most was Tibau! I had no idea he was so big, and so young…This kid is going to be a PROPLEM at 155 for years to come. I think he had joe, but he went for the highlight win, trying to triangle joe out of the mount!

After Rampage almost “Arona’ed” Forrest, I doubt anyone will ever try and submit Rampage off their back ever again. Because Forrest would have gotten Donkey Konged if he didnt let go of that triangle, and Forrest is a big ass LHW, so if Rampage can Donkey Kong Forrets, he can do it to anyone fighting at 205 lbs.

The classic Grappler vs. Striker match up should be BAnned WHEN THE FIGHTERS ARE NOT WELL ROUNDED AND HAVE SO MUCH ON THE LINE….I was very dissapointed with that fight, not cause ASlmeida lost, but because I expected a much more exciting fight out of those 2. 1st of all, weather or not Okami has any US fans, it will be a travesty to over look himj in favor of Cote, especially after Saturday’s performance…Plus I am sure that Silva is dying to avenge his BS loss to Okami!

I rewatchefd the KOschek fight and it was a better fight than I originally thought. Because Kos had Lytle stacked up against the cage, I missed some of the Big Blows that Kos landed…re watching the fight, it was much better than I intitially thouight. After the event, I spoke with Violentmike and we talked about the Female judge that scored the Almeida fight all 3 rounds for Almeida. During the announcement of the decision, when it was up to the 3rd round, as soon as I heard that it was a female judge, I knew that Cote won the fight because she completely over looked the Ju jItsu aspect of the fight! Did the female judge also judge the Rampage fight?

Question: Do the same 3 judges judge every fight on the event, or do they rotate judges?

My scoring for the Rampage fight would have been a DRAW:
Round 1 Rampage
Round 2 Forrest (Maybe 10-8)
Round 3 Rampage
Round 4 Rampage
Round 5 Forrest

 
Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 10:30:59

Yeah, that female judge ruled it 30-28 for Cote. That means that she had one of the rounds 10-10. There is no way that any judge can say that Ricardo lost the first round. Big Dog clearly won the first round.

 
Comment by john
2008-07-07 10:34:05

I posted this on Sunday, but some of you missed it…. I would like to hear what some of the regulars on this site think about this post. VM, Phil, Stager, Kevin and the others that I respect like Linx aka BNF’s bitch, take a read and giove me some feed back:

For those that want to know what pissed me off, here it is:

I am more pissed at Rampage then I am at the Decision because Forrest haqd no choice other than winning a decision. In 25 minutes Rampage has the ability to finish anyone! AS fans we got jipped out of a highly anticipated title fight because there were about a million things that I did not like out of Rampage’s performance.

1) I did not like Rampages demeanor. From when he walked into the cage, he was flat footed, and laid back and honestly he did not come to fight. I think he highly underestimated Forrest and to me it llooked like he felt he did not need to be active and that he couuld just stand there, flat footed wait for an opening and Crack Forrest with a big shot and win the fight. iT was a very lazy effort by Rampage.

2) WTF was upp with Rampages game plan? Like we all knew, Forrest has no POWER what so ever and he could not hurt Rampage with any of his punches. Only damage he could do were the leg kicks. With that said, why did Rampage just sit in the pocket and wait for a counter punch? i dont get it! When u have all the KO power and you know that your opponent cant hurt you, your game plan should be ATTACK! If rampage would have kept attacking, Forrest would have kept retreating and wouldnt even be able to throw any leg kicks. When u are lucky enough to fight someone that you know cant hurt you, u have to bully him, keep attacking and backing him up, not sit in the pocket and look for a big counterpunch to end the fight. it was very lazy!

3) I am starting to think that Rampage performs much better in a 3 round fight then he does in a 5 round fight. In his fights vs. Hendo and Forrest, I feel that Rampage worried too much about saving energy for the 4th and 5th rounds that he did not open up enough and come to Finish the fight in the early rounds. In a 3 round fight, I feel Rampage will be more comfortable and push the pace looking for the big finish.

4) I think some X-factor worked against Quinton last night! He cleary under estimated Forrest. He showed Forrest No respect what so ever because he didnt fight. He stood completly still, let Forrest attack anytime he wanted, feeling that he could finish the fight whenever he felt like itwith a big counter punch. I dont know if it was under estimating Forrest or that the 9 month lay off hurt him, but as a HUGE Rampage fan, I feel really jipped out of a BIG FIGHT because he did not come to fight. Regardless weather Forrest deserved to win this or not, NO EXCUSES because Rampage did not fight even closely to his best fight and anyone who will argue with that is dillusional. He was not hurt and out of shape like Shogun was, he just didnt fight. AS a champion thats headlining a pay per view in a fight that we waited half a year for, he has to fight his best fight, and that was not close to fighhting up to his capabilities! I am disspointed in the decision because I feel like it was a BS one, but I am more dissapointed in Rampage because as a defending Champion, youo have to bring it and fight to the best of yoour capabilities and he clearly did not do that last nighht!

regardless of the outcome, I am not to mad about the decision. After all, Forrest brought his A game, Rampage did not….therefore I cant really defend Rampage regardless if I feel he deserved to wake up today with out the title or not! Much props to Forrest for Bringing it! at least 1 guy came to fight!

 
Comment by PhilQNY
2008-07-07 10:51:12

John: I basically had the same score card for the main event. I felt Page was too slow. He didn’t have that explosiveness. Your 188% right in regards that he should of bullied Forrest. Cut off the angles. Press him up against the cage. nullify his reach and leg kicks. I don’t think I blink once from RD1 to RD5.. the whole I’m like this is Bull shit. I think Forrest won the fight. I only saw it once. my blood pressure was too high to watch it again during the weekend. Like you said, Forrest came to fight..Page didn’t..and still it was a close fight. Page made that fight so mmuch harder for himself. What’s up with Juanito..where’s the game..where’s Rampages metamorphisis that he spoke about in the countdown. I didn’t see in ‘86.

 
Comment by PhilQNY
2008-07-07 10:55:45

Yo Stinky : Our friendly bet expires after today. Just please don’t sleep on Gonzaga again.

 
Comment by Stagger-Lee
2008-07-07 11:07:43

john, That is pretty much the same reason I was so pissed with the fight aswell..If Rampage showed up it would have been what I expected to see..

I wanted Rampage to win(and thought he would), but I am a big fan of Forrest so I can’t complain too much..

Like you said, when it came down to it’ “Rampage didn’t show up to fight, and Forrest did..

Props to Forrest..But I still think Rampage should have got the nod…But who know’s?..

I do know that even if they gave Rampage the win?, I can gaurantee I would have still been disapointed with the fight, because Rampage simply did not show up, Quinton did…

That fight was supossed to be great, and dont get me wrong I was still entertained, but it would have been better if they didn’t do the TV show..

I give Forrest MAD RESPECT! and am not hating on him, but even with Rampage’s lackluster performence I still think he won 4 of the 5 rounds…

I am glad that it was a fight were I am a big fan of both fighters..

 
Comment by b.w
2008-07-07 11:48:58

STAGGER LEE. keep your day (or night) job, because your scoring of 48-46 for rampage is as laughable as adalade byrd’s soring the fight 49-46 for forrest….. scroll down and read my comments to PW. thats you!

 
Comment by Stagger-Lee
2008-07-07 12:14:23

b.w, i responded to your childish rants for the last time..scroll down kiddo!

Your the same dude that jumped on my back over the GSP/Serra fight, with your false accusations..All you want is for someone to say your always right.
You can look in the mirror and tell yourself your always right because you aint hearing it from me.

 
Comment by b.w
2008-07-07 13:34:08

im not always right, but i am on this one. be mad at me all you want,it will not bother me at all.. you remembering the gsp/serra post from 2 months ago is a riot! lol!

 
Comment by Stagger-Lee
2008-07-07 13:47:21

Your silly antic’s are the riot bro!

I aint mad.lol.
You were the one who came at me dude..I never followed your posts saying “oh your wrong”, and then type a bunch of shit you never even said.

I simply posted my opinion.

You posted your opinion 1000 times, and then another 1000 times over other people’s post that disagreed with yours..

GET OVER IT.

 
Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 15:20:39

yeah, did you see round 2…….. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

 
Comment by b.w.
2008-07-08 15:43:08

STAGGER LEE. so you did log on to this site this weekend but didnt post until monday? you must have read every opinion i posted to know the things you say. VM. good point i did say that alittle too much, but where were you when i said it sat night. JOHN was on all weekend and dindnt back down from any one, we had quite a few war of words ,but we never got all personal about it.

 
Comment by Gord
2008-07-09 00:49:07

John, Cote and Almeida are apparently well rounded enough to not get submitted or KTFO by EXPERTS opposite to their strengths. It no surprise that Cote is a great striker and he DIDN’T get subbed by (as YOU put it) one of the sickset submissionist ever, so how can he not be well rounded. Believe me, Cote is well rounded enough to pose a threat to ANYONE in the MW division. When has a striker-grappler match been super exiting? It was a chess match, take it for what it was. You just seem sore because you lost money on these fights. You can’t win them all.

 
 
Comment by Arnold
2008-07-07 06:35:37

Ignorance… give the man his dues. His leg kicks alone would do the same thing to old chuck as they did to Rampage.

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Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 08:54:23

Phil, I too was surprised that the crowd was booing Forrest. I couldn’t believe it. I thought that Forrest was the crowd and fanboy/TUFster favorite? I did not understand what that was all about.

Also, I wonder why Forrest was making it a point to swear at every opporunity during the post fight interview. He usually lets a couple of them out, but he made sure to swear at least once in each sentence.

I like hearing the “swear words” but it seemed forced while he was saying it.

Of course, not a big deal, just mentioning.

Also, how freaking stupid is Goldy? He made so many dumb and incocrect comments. Every single time someone gets a cut above thier eye, it says “Wow, that’s just as bad as the cut Marvin Eastman had” and Joe always has to quickly correct him and say that he is way off. Literally, this happened the last 3 events.

During the Kos fight, Goldy mentions his loss to Fickett, than after the fight he says that Kos was undefeated going into the fight with GSP. I can’t remember too many more of his mess ups right now, but they were plentiful this weekend.

ALSO, did anyone else get pissed off when they said that they were shoing Gurgel/Miller for free on UFC.com then one second later they show the end of the fight as sub of the night? WTF. Nothing like spoiling a gift.

 
Comment by Stagger-Lee
2008-07-07 09:04:18

Yeah i was also mad that they spoiled the out-come..

I did go check out the fight, and imo- I thought it was the fight of the night…

 
Comment by PhilQNY
2008-07-07 09:05:00

Goldy..is a bird.

 
Comment by BobC
2008-07-07 12:30:46

Did I hear correctly that Rogan referred to Eastman’s cut as a goat vagina??

 
 
 
Comment by Kahaluu Caz!!!!!!
2008-07-07 00:08:42

I second that, he was handed that title because the UFC has to give it to him because they have to have some all American guy they can market. So who better than THE poster boy who was living on a Rory Singers couch with one chance to be a star by wining the tuf show. He not only won the tuf show but was part of all the newbe MMA fans in this country with the Bonner fight. It sure smells fishy when we the hard core fans know you have to win decisevly to win by decision.
and he could even finish Rampage in mount when Rampage’s ground game is very limited. Joe “bias ass” Rogan was swinging fans over to Forest like he always does. Its fishy when the comentaters are talking up one fighter. This is to who evers got the fight on record, watch it again and tell me Joe is not talking up Forest while he gets punched.

 
Comment by kevin
2008-07-07 05:10:44

MONDAY MORNING CONVERSATION WITH KEVIN:
I’m reading a bunch of guys that lost money on the event, and in the next sentence say the event sucked. I’m a huge Patriots fan, the last half of the year (when they didn’t cover like 10 straight spreads) cost me somewhere around 20,000. I never once said I hated a game or made excuses. I’ve won 100’s of thousands of dollars in the 15+ years I’ve been gamblin, and won more. I gamble EVERYDAY and my family isn’t starving. John, I believe you turned 200 into 10k, but to use a non interest bearing “account” as a savings is stupid. Take a couple thousand out a treat yourself to something nice. We all lose man!

.
The best quote I heard was “The UFC will never put on a stacked a card as affliction.” Can I let you guys in on a little secret…affliction has NEVER put on a card yet, and when they do, big names don’t necessarily make big fights. So I called my buddy doc Brown, and we hopped in his delorian to go to the affliction card. Surprise surprise:
Arlovski wins
Babalu wins
Barnett wins
linland wins
We had to leave just before Fedor/Silvia, so you guys have one fight that I won’t spoil for you. So here’s todays challenge. Besides saying “because it’s fedor” give me one good reason to buy this event. 2-3 years ago, the mystique that is fedor would have sold it to me, but not this time. By the way, aleks emelianeko isn’t that great guys. He’s always out of shape, and is almost Russia’s version of Kimbo, but white and will actually fight top guys. Have a good day!

Comment by kory klinger
2008-07-07 08:15:36

Kevin,

As someone who didn’t bet I thought it was really boring…Kos’ fight was very boring like usual and he should always be on the undercard. Cote’s fight was boring and neither of them were impressive. Stevenson’s fight alright then got good with the submission and then we had a pretty good main event. Overall I paid 44 bucks to watch two fights. We didn’t even get any of the prelim fights b/c of the first two boring decisions. It’s sad when I probably would have enjoyed watching all the prelim fights the most and not any of the main events (besides forrest/rampage).

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Comment by Arnold
2008-07-07 09:30:34

Kory what would have made the Kos fight more Entertaining? Blood splattered on the camera, Chris was throwing haymakers till the last minute, Kos got rocked and kept comming back; I thought it was a great fight (and I didn’t bet on it) I am a Kos fan, but even if he’d got caught at the end it just would have made for an even better fight.

A side note:
I’m tired of hearing about gamblers who base their blogs about how great they are at gambling.

I personally won a million ba-gillion dollars on the Forest fight but you don’t hear me bragging about the fact that I am great at winning a million ba-gillion dollars and that I started with a hay-penny two years ago only betting on UFC fights and dancing with stars finals and now look how great I am because I say so…

 
Comment by kory klinger
2008-07-07 10:13:21

sorry but one big cut doesn’t make a fight interesting. Blood splattered all over might be entertaining a bit, but does not make a good fight. As a fight it was boring. Kos could not even finish Chris after he bleed him out for 3 rounds. The only highlight for Chris was at the end of the 3rd when he was throwing those haymakers. The problem was he could barely stand and was sloppy as hell and Kos could still not even finish him. Kos is boring and can’t finish and i’d rather not waste 15 min of a pay per view watching him. Also what in the world would make him think anyone in their right mind would actually like to see him fight BJ at 155.. Out of all the great matchups they can do with BJ why waste his time on Kos.. Put Kos VS Sherk and then we can see who can lay on eachother the most…

 
Comment by Arnold
2008-07-07 11:58:02

I see your point; I think I was overly impressed with Chris’s ability to keep fighting. It did look like one solid punch would have ended it, however I still don’t think Kos is only an undercard fighter. He improves with every fight

 
Comment by kory klinger
2008-07-07 13:10:54

You’re right i’m not taking anything away from his fighting. He can beat the majority of the people in the division. The problem is he isn’t exciting and will most likely go to a decision everytime. And he can’t beat GSP so it’s hard to figure out what to do with him. Chris is amazing at not getting finished, but he again proved he isn’t going to beat a top fighter.

 
 
Comment by john
2008-07-07 13:38:06

Kevin: I was thinking the same thing about my account, but this is an action packed summer. When the summer is over, I will round my account off to the nearest 5,000 or 10,000, or hopefully 15,000 k by then and take out the extra money and do something with it.

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Comment by Robert
2008-07-07 07:39:20

think about this guys… Forrest has an oppurtunity to become a MMA legend by beating Shogun, Rampage and Chuck this NYE… Wow never so that coming. NYE could be sick with Chuck vs Forrest, Wandy vs ?, and GSP VS Penn. Although I think Rashad has a good, good chance of beating chuck. I hope not, it would ruin plans of some great fights. Besides the main event none of the other fights excited me. Your thoughts?

Comment by Haze
2008-07-07 08:01:53

Wandy vs Rampage would be a good adition to that card.

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Comment by santiago69us
2008-07-07 10:41:05

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:46:45

Chan Rivers Forrest

With the board reading , Forrest Griffin check-called a 1,000 bet from Johnny Chan. Chan turned over , his kings up counterfeiting the two pair Griffin flopped with . ‘You have the best hand, Forrest–until the river,” said Chan as he raked in the pot.

 
Comment by TrueMMa
2008-07-07 13:58:48

He won 1-4, 2-3 were clearly Forrest,5 was really close but Rampage just wasnt active enough.

 
 
Comment by JV
2008-07-06 22:33:52

Thats a nice chunk of change!!! I wonder how they get taxed???

Comment by TheNegation
2008-07-07 00:33:18

The IRS dude…We’d better choke ‘em. F*ck the system!

Comment by JV
2008-07-07 08:54:28

I meant how would they tax the fight of the night bonus & and his regular pay?

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Comment by b.w
2008-07-06 22:36:01

funny story. everyone should click on to the link.

 
Comment by "Mr. NC-17"
2008-07-06 22:36:31

Good stuff. I would love to see his poker face.

Comment by TheNegation
2008-07-06 22:54:25

That is his poker face!

 
 
Comment by THORAZINE
2008-07-06 22:43:10

Griffin can fight but he sure is a fish in poker.. lost a ton of tournament chips in the WSOP on a J6 against Chan’s AK… with a board of K828J. lol..

U know knowone, I like both Forrest and Rampage, no bias here. I thought Rampage won it. It looked like he won all but round 2. and 3,4,5 were squeakers but it looked like he pulled it out. Most everyone on this site agrees that Forrest won… so I’m questioning what I saw. I like to hear some stats on kicks, punches, power punches connected in each round of the fight. Anyone know if that’s avaliable somewhere?

Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 08:58:50

Strikeforce events on HDnet has CompuStrike numbers inbetween rounds that shows the number of stikes attempted, the number that landed, the percentage, the number of takedowns, the number of submission attempts, and something else too I believe.

It is VERY cool

Comment by THORAZINE
2008-07-07 20:48:51

Thanks VM, I’m really hoping someone independent would have the stats on that Griffin vs Jackson fight and post it up somewhere… that would probably eleviate a lot of the questions for some of us about how the judges came up with the score they did.

I wish the UFC would have a CompuStrike (thanks for jogging my memory I forgot what it was called) and show points for other areas like octogon control and takedowns etc.

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Comment by thegreat
2008-07-07 16:35:50

fight metrics has it, shown as a 47-47 draw.

Comment by THORAZINE
2008-07-07 20:49:46

Thanks ‘thegreat’ I’ll search for it, I’d really like to see those numbers.

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Comment by DrPepper
2008-07-06 22:49:15

We can all debate who won the fight. But one thing we can all agree upon is that Rampage did not bring his A game Saturday night. Rampage did not looked as ripped and emotionally hyped as usual. He did not take Forrest seriously and he got caught. Forrest put his heart and soul into preparing for that fight and capitalized on an incredible opportunity. Personally, I am looking forward to seeing Forrest fight top light-heavyweights like Liddel and Vanderlei Silva. It is an exciting change for the division. Forrest might just continue to surprise everyone.

Comment by the_mexicutioner
2008-07-06 23:07:50

I think Rampage would have been more focused if he didn’t stop to say ‘What up’ to Fez before he got to the ring. F*cking Fez!

Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 09:00:54

I was MAD when that happened and joking said out loud, “He just transformed into Rampage and has his ‘I’m ready to kill someone’ look on his face, doesn’t aknowledge the crowd once, but has to hug Wilder Valderama before he steps into the octagon. That’s it, now I’m rooting for Forrest.”

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Comment by halljam2
2008-07-06 23:10:50

Rampage admitted to getting his butt whooped last night. Sorry don’t see everyone here complaining and a reason for it.

 
Comment by BobC
2008-07-07 08:32:26

I think a fair bit of blame has to go on Juanito (sp?). I think he underestimated Forrest much more than Rampage did. The whole “if he wins, I’ll retire” stuff was pointless and silly. Has he not watched any MMA in the last two years? Anyone can win on any given night.

Forrest publicly announced his strategy beforehand (stay outside, continuously move, pick his spots, lots of kicks), yet Jackson’s fighting didn’t seem to reflect a real attempt to counter Forrest. The only real tactic I saw was use of the uppercuts when Forrest reverted to his “lean forward and swing wildly strategy” (see: Griffin v. Jardine), which nearly finished the fight in the first.

After the fight, when Juanito was telling Rampage that he won, he was just doing a little CYA and repeating his mistake of underestimating Forrest.

Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 09:03:07

EXCELLENT post and I believe that you are 100% correct.

And looking at it from Forrest’s point of view, he knew that he was fighting his toughest opponent ever, it was a 5 round fight, it was for the championship, main event…. It was the biggest fight of Forrest life by far, and he knew it, and trained like it!

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Comment by Chadx23
2008-07-07 09:36:12

I agree 100% with here….alot of blame should go to Jaunito, he was a little over confident on this one

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Comment by john
2008-07-07 13:39:27

yeah, i think u guys may be right!

 
 
 
 
Comment by jdb
2008-07-06 23:06:48

how is forest making that kind of money and the best fighter in the world, anderson silva, is not making close to that? i guess anderson isn’t one of dana’s boyfriends.

Comment by JV
2008-07-06 23:19:32

Why does it have to go into boyfriend stuff? Maybe Anderson needs to finish his contract. Anderson with out a doubt will make the money. I also think the Spider needs to learn english.

 
Comment by randy murders
2008-07-06 23:44:36

it might be the whole “6 figure contract” he got for winning TUF, and he’s easily the UFC’s best personality and consistantly exciting performer

 
Comment by c-war
2008-07-07 07:33:03

generally you make more money in the higher weight classes.

Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 15:25:40

HUH? That is not true at all. The HW division probably has the least number of $100k fighters.

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Comment by Dub Nub
2008-07-07 09:29:06

One word - Marketability

Forrest is the everyman, nerd, funny man, etc. rolled into one.

Anderson Silva is the best fighter in the world but he doesn’t have the charisma to be a UFC “star”…which is what they want.

Comment by PW
2008-07-07 10:50:42

You think Silva isn’t getting tons under the table as unrecorded bonuses? He’s doing just fine and probably living like royalty in Brazil.

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Comment by Robert
2008-07-07 11:49:10

No one knows who Anderson Sliva is….Non English hurts him bad and he has a very dull personality. Forrest is loved by the fans and has a huge fan base. Not taking anything away from the Spider he is a sick fighter!!!!!!!!

 
 
Comment by dirtydarkin
2008-07-06 23:22:51

i hate the fighters who cant talk english, but are speaking to an english speaking crowd. especially when they talk through the reply, so unorganised. congrats to forrest. maybe not unanimous though split, forrest still won either way.

2008-07-07 00:05:49

I agree with you dirty

 
Comment by Arnold
2008-07-07 06:39:55

I hate bloggers who can’t spell or complete a competent sentence.

 
Comment by UKmmaBOY
2008-07-07 08:24:02

Why does it matter if they can speak English or not? Is that part of their contract? As long as the can FIGHT and put on a good show I don’t care which language is their native tongue.

 
Comment by Spider Rulz
2008-07-07 11:12:21

“I hate the fighters that can’t talk English”??? Looks like you’re the one that cant “talk” English. LMAO Its SPEAK English!

 
 
2008-07-07 00:04:27

Oh yeah, go Koscheck

Comment by Arnold
2008-07-07 06:45:11

right on… I thought Koscheck really showed up and the fight should have been stopped at the end of the second.

 
 
Comment by bubba
2008-07-07 02:31:27

unlike some here i don’t hate people or fighters based on what language they speak.

 
Comment by Unbiased Opinion
2008-07-07 03:46:09

Just like what happened with GSP and Matt Serra, we all know Rampage is better and will come back and beat the crap out of Griffin.

Comment by GSP4Prez
2008-07-07 05:14:25

Nah this was nothing like Serra vs GSP. That was one punch. I’ll agree Rampage is the more skilled fighters but I picked Forrest to win this fight for a reason he is one of the biggest competitors I’ve ever seen in any sport and he will bring it vs anyone and he is also one of the hardest workers who gets better with every fight. Plus he’s working with Couture who is a genious at putting together a good fight plan. I think it would be a toss up again if they had a rematch but saying it was the same as Serra vs GSP is rediculous. Serra would beat GSP probably 1 outa 20 times Forrest vs Rampage would probably be pretty even not because Rampage isn’t stronger and more technical but I know its a cliche but Forest really has more heart than anyone else in the fight game and just brings everything he has when he fights.

Comment by c-war
2008-07-07 07:35:21

agreed. You cant bet against heart. Thats why I picked him to win as well.

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Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 10:34:39

In that case, I hope you bet against Khalib Starnes and GSP everytime!

GSP’s new nickname = Tin Man

 
Comment by john
2008-07-07 17:23:53

THats a good one Mike! lol the Tin man…..Forrest would be the scare crow…big dummy! and Rampage looked like the cowardly lion Saturday night

 
Comment by ViolentMike
2008-07-07 18:00:46

And Jorge Gurgel as Dorothy!!!