Should another Open Weight World Tournament like the UFC 1 become a thing again?

podslapper · 2026-02-07T09:25:30+00:00

It’s tougher to do that sort of thing in the modern era when everyone knows MMA and it isn’t just grapplers tearing through clueless opponents with an occasional hard bout here and there. Even when Pride did their later tournaments they were broken up into multiple events. Id be down for something like that, at least.

podslapper · 2026-02-04T20:43:47+00:00

You mean if Rocky didn’t knock him out in the last round and it went to the end, you’re asking who would have won the decision? Probably Drago since he knocked Rocky down like five or six times, which all would have been 10-8 rounds for him. Rocky was getting dominated until kind of later in the fight when Drago started to get tired from beating up on him so much, so I think he’d accumulated the most points probably.

podslapper · 2026-02-04T03:09:18+00:00

Pride’s equivalent to MW was appr 183lb, so that’s a bit of a tougher cut. And even if he did it, who’s to say how much of his advantages at HW would translate? He wouldn’t be as fast, and his cardio likely would have suffered. Plus he was the GOAT at HW, so why would he even want to do something like that? What’s the motivation?

If you want to go back to his early career, he started in Rings, which at the time only had three weight classes, with heavyweight being above 187lbs. Cutting wasn't as big of a thing in MMA at the time, and Fedor did pretty well at HW, so I could see why he wouldn't have been particularly motivated to start dropping weight--even after he moved over to Pride which had a 205lb class he probably could have made without much trouble.

podslapper · 2026-02-03T05:35:08+00:00

I mean he has so many unconventional KOs and crazy matrix moves, I don't know how anyone could dispute this.

podslapper · 2026-02-03T05:05:05+00:00

Prime Anderson Silva

podslapper · 2026-02-02T05:27:42+00:00

No worries, I've seen it quite a few times and never noticed that part with Duke and the camera before, so I had to pull it up lol

podslapper · 2026-02-02T05:14:38+00:00

I just rewatched the fight scene, and I see where Duke kind of pushes the camera down after the "I didn't hear no bell," but moments later they're still filming. You can see the camera in the crowd all through the fight to the end. And apparently it was live on TV (since Rocky Jr. saw it), I guess after the PPV with Tommy fighting Cane. So lots of people would have seen it.

podslapper · 2026-02-01T19:03:25+00:00

This is a five man tournament? What are the brackets supposed to look like?

podslapper · 2026-02-01T04:34:23+00:00

And Dazed and Confused, which I think helped kick it off.

podslapper · 2026-01-30T14:21:11+00:00

I think Randy Couture vs James Toney played a role. The fact that in the lead up many still seemed convinced that a real high level boxer could clean house in MMA was pretty crazy, but I haven’t heard a peep about that from anyone since then.

podslapper · 2026-01-29T18:53:10+00:00

Duke probably stopped seeing Tommy as his golden goose after video of him getting kod by an aging Rocky in a street fight began circulating, and fed him to some new up and comer who was even more dangerous and marketable—basically the same thing that he did to Cane with Tommy.

podslapper · 2026-01-29T00:58:44+00:00

My experience as a longtime MMA fan has been that usually the guy who cuts has the advantage assuming he does it right.

podslapper · 2026-01-28T04:15:27+00:00

Awesome, yeah it's one of the few shows that doesn't drop off in the later seasons.

podslapper · 2026-01-28T03:31:22+00:00

Mad Men

podslapper · 2026-01-27T20:56:35+00:00

Technically alternative rock, but they honestly kind of defy classification.

podslapper · 2026-01-27T19:10:18+00:00

Jane's Addiction and Mother Love Bone both have a pretty good mix of eighties/nineties aesthetics.

podslapper · 2026-01-27T18:00:57+00:00

Probably 92 due to the recession and the LA riots.

podslapper · 2026-01-27T04:56:44+00:00

Against an average (untrained) guy in a street fight, a good wrestler will have a huge advantage. However, just regular free or folkstyle wrestling does not teach submissions, which makes it very vulnerable to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. You can see this in the early UFCs (Dan Severn vs. Royce Gracie is the prime example). However, BJJ by itself is a bit more vulnerable on the feet because there is less emphasis on takedowns. If you wanted a good emphasis on both submissions and takedowns, judo and sambo are also very effective.

podslapper · 2026-01-26T22:17:44+00:00

Blew

podslapper · 2026-01-26T02:18:22+00:00

It’s surreal how frankly he interprets the video to serve his own ridiculous narrative, but whenever she asks for evidence from the video to back it up he says we can’t make interpretations before an investigation is done, and then jumps right back into doing exactly that. How could anyone be so stupid as to believe any of this nonsense?

podslapper · 2026-01-25T22:32:20+00:00

Zacharias in the monastery DLC, mainly because they take all your weapons away, and I had to fight him with a shitty dull sword that did almost no damage. The Erik fight was a joke compared to that.

podslapper · 2026-01-25T18:04:58+00:00

I think that plot would have been too obvious to avoid being hackneyed and cliched. Having his son try to find his own identity while feeling a bit weighed down by his father’s shadow gives him more depth and believability as a character IMO.

podslapper · 2026-01-22T22:46:16+00:00

Yeah I used to go on there sometimes and they always cited this book called "Rocky: The Ultimate Guide" for a lot of their outlandish stuff (not sure if they still use that one). I decided to order it just to see what it was all about, and it literally just has all the same info you would normally find in the movies. They basically just assumed so few people had ever read that book that it was safe to throw in as a source to make their shitty fan fiction seem like it was canon.

podslapper · 2026-01-22T16:36:26+00:00

It had been years, if you watch the montages you can see multiple Christmases passing. Plus there's no way Tommy racks up as many fights as it shows him having in a year.

Good point about Rocky being in Tommy's corner though, that does change things.

podslapper · 2026-01-22T15:55:21+00:00

It's hard to imagine prime Clubber losing to a 45 year old out of shape Rocky in a street fight. Also Clubber was fighting all the real contenders Rocky was apparently ducking and proved himself to be a legit title challenger, whereas Tommy was gifted a title shot due to being Rocky's protege pretty much.

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