Least Favorite Fighter

[tmatwig]

Originally Posted by Nate_Deezy

All you people talkin about the Gracies have no respect at all. We wouldn't be watching the sport we all love today if it wasn't for that family, so to say it was great to see him get pounded on so brutally by Hughes is a slap in the face and a complete hypocritical statement seeing as how you hate the man who created the sport you love. I may be biased seeing as how I'm a Gracie Barra Jiu Jitsu student, but still...Royce is a pioneer and should be regarded as such.

calm down everybody is allowed to dislike fighters, gracie's didnt start mma either, and it was great seeing old ass royce getting his head beaten with those brutal punches, that was a terrible main event

[BigBanda]

Tim Sylvia and you guessed it... Tito Ortiz haha. I really dont dislike many fighters because I give a lot of respect for what they do.

[Ubermensch]

Originally Posted by Dan0

Dirty Sanchez

Hey Ubermensch, Splane your sig to me please

(I like pussy Gracie's but I don't think they're pussy's)

Lost a bet...haha

[Palma]

I hate everyone, but not as much as I hate Frank Trigg.

[Nate_Deezy]

Originally Posted by tmatwig

calm down everybody is allowed to dislike fighters, gracie's didnt start mma either, and it was great seeing old ass royce getting his head beaten with those brutal punches, that was a terrible main event

I realize people are allowed to dislike fighters, but at least respect them. Royce is an influential part of the sport we see today. If it wasn't for him showing up we would be forced to watch Keith Hackney vs. Emmanuel Yarbrough fights even today. It would be Karate kids vs. Tae Kwon Do "champions." It would be a real life version of Tekken. I realize the Gracies didn't start or invent MMA, but they popularized it without a doubt in the U.S. They helped contribute their style of Jiu Jitsu to make the fights we watch today possible. They are true legends in this sport.

[jesusatemyhotdog]

Originally Posted by Nate_Deezy

I realize people are allowed to dislike fighters, but at least respect them. Royce is an influential part of the sport we see today. If it wasn't for him showing up we would be forced to watch Keith Hackney vs. Emmanuel Yarbrough fights even today. It would be Karate kids vs. Tae Kwon Do "champions." It would be a real life version of Tekken. I realize the Gracies didn't start or invent MMA, but they popularized it without a doubt in the U.S. They helped contribute their style of Jiu Jitsu to make the fights we watch today possible. They are true legends in this sport.

Actually, they did invent the sport, kind of. It was due to the emergence of BJJ and the Gracies' claim that it was the best martial art that Vale Tudo emerged and began being televised on Brasilian television in the 60s - often with Gracie students fighting other Martial Artists.
Shoot wrestling also began to emerge all over other parts of the world, mainly in Japan in the aftermath of the Inoki - Ali fight.
In the US, the UFC was the first MMA promotion and one of the owners at the time was Rorion Gracie.

[tmatwig]

i respect the guys but it was awesome seeing him get pounded, jiu jitsu has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years, they didnt invent it, the sport would have evolved just fine without them, lets get real it would not be like tekken

[Nate_Deezy]

Rorion...thank you. I kept trying to think of what his name was. I kept thinking it was Royler but I knew that wasn't right.

[mmafightfan]

Tito, Rashad, Sylvia, Serra, Bonnar.

Respect them all, except for Rashad.

[Palma]

Originally Posted by mmafightfan

Tito, Rashad, Sylvia, Wand, Serra, Bonnar.

What is there to hate about Wandy other then his command for the English language?