Fedor talks arlovski fight (by MMA Cartoons)
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terça-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2009
domingo, 25 de janeiro de 2009
Fedor vs. Arlovski review by Eduardo Graca
Fedor vs. Arlovski review
by Eduardo Graça
First of all we must congratulate Affliction for such an exciting and professional event, regarding the only subject taken seriously on this blog, which is MMA.
Great performances by Belfort, Babalu, Barnett, Minotouro, Buentello, Yvel and Arlovski.
Now, to our points:
Arlovski was doing great with his boxing skills: his speed and head movement earned him the best spot at the openning couple of exchanges before their clinch. After the restart, arlovski scored two consecutives 1-2s(though only the straight rights of each combination really connected)and a solid front kick to Fedor's guts right before the flying knee attempt. Arlovski's aerial strike was interrupted by a brutal mid-air overhand right that would drop him face-first to the mat to put an end to the bout.
Yes, Andrei was winning the round. But he hadn't inflicted enough damage to his opponent to define any fight-ending momentums (which was actually proven by fedor's answer to arlovski's fight-ending flying knee attempt).
Arlovski was prevailing in one dimension of the game during the first 3 minutes of a 5 five-minutes rounds fight.
Yvel was also standing decently in his bout's early stand up exchganges, but once the fight reached the ground, one winner could clearly been portrayed in Barnett's easy mounting and violent pounding.
Fedor and Arlovski couldnt get to the ground in their fight, only because Fedor - who was clearly trying to catch Andrei's punch timing (while being hit a couple of times)- managed to figure out a way to prevail against Arlovski right in the same game dimension the belarussian was having the edge.The stand up.
Fedor needed one mistep(off the floor) from Andrei, and one punch to finish the fight.
Call it luck, but this fight was ended by Fedor's most notable characteristic.
Efficiency, ladies and gents.
by Eduardo Graça
First of all we must congratulate Affliction for such an exciting and professional event, regarding the only subject taken seriously on this blog, which is MMA.
Great performances by Belfort, Babalu, Barnett, Minotouro, Buentello, Yvel and Arlovski.
Now, to our points:
Arlovski was doing great with his boxing skills: his speed and head movement earned him the best spot at the openning couple of exchanges before their clinch. After the restart, arlovski scored two consecutives 1-2s(though only the straight rights of each combination really connected)and a solid front kick to Fedor's guts right before the flying knee attempt. Arlovski's aerial strike was interrupted by a brutal mid-air overhand right that would drop him face-first to the mat to put an end to the bout.
Yes, Andrei was winning the round. But he hadn't inflicted enough damage to his opponent to define any fight-ending momentums (which was actually proven by fedor's answer to arlovski's fight-ending flying knee attempt).
Arlovski was prevailing in one dimension of the game during the first 3 minutes of a 5 five-minutes rounds fight.
Yvel was also standing decently in his bout's early stand up exchganges, but once the fight reached the ground, one winner could clearly been portrayed in Barnett's easy mounting and violent pounding.
Fedor and Arlovski couldnt get to the ground in their fight, only because Fedor - who was clearly trying to catch Andrei's punch timing (while being hit a couple of times)- managed to figure out a way to prevail against Arlovski right in the same game dimension the belarussian was having the edge.The stand up.
Fedor needed one mistep(off the floor) from Andrei, and one punch to finish the fight.
Call it luck, but this fight was ended by Fedor's most notable characteristic.
Efficiency, ladies and gents.
sexta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2009
Marco Ruas and his importance to MMA
Marco Ruas and his importance to MMA
by Eduardo Graça
To most of the american audiences Marco Ruas' winning the UFC 7 is his career's highest accomplishment, specially for the dominant fashion he displayed in the event.
His performance in the 1995 tournament edition highlighted the top of cardio capacity and variety of dimensions ever displayed by a one-night-tournament fighter.
Marco Ruas first torn Larry Cureton apart with leg and body kicks, punch combinations and violent clinch game to finish the fight via heel hook at 9:23 minutes of fight.
He then engaged the judo black belt goliath Ramco Pardoeu, who early in the fight caught Ruas' back in a clinch through which both would remain attached for a good slice of their 12:27 minutes bout. The much bigger and heavier Pardoeu couldn't put Ruas down and suffered an intense and unusual feet-stomping torture which would culminate in a wrestling workshop by Ruas.Once the brazilian bare-knucle veteran full mounted his enourmous exhausted opponent, the fight was over by a freakish desperate tapout.
Ruas moved on to fight the hulking kickboxer Paul Valerans, and the two striking specialists went on to a 13:17 stand up war highlighted by the elusiveness of a nasty leg kicker Ruas that would finish the fight after Valeran's collapsing to his knees with a straight-hook KO combo.
Long before Marco Ruas stepped in the UFC octagon, the visionary fighter played a dramatic role in the legendary Luta Livre-Jiu Jitsu Rio de Janeiro's rivalry famed by Rickson Gracie's beach-beating-to-coma of luta livre champion Hugo Duarte and as well as by the event-descrution during a Eugene Tadeu vs. Renzo Gracie fight.
During the 80's the Luta Livre instructor and Vale-tudo champion Marco Ruas understood the need of learning jiu-jitsu to be a complete fighter. While as a JJ blue belt, both the Gracie team and nemesis hugo duarte's LL academy wanted Ruas to compete under their flags. It's no surpise Ruas would come up with his own fighting system: Ruas Vale-tudo,responsible for early ufc's stars Pedro Rizzo, Babalu Sobral amongst other notable fighters.
Marco Ruas's a black belt in judo, jiu-jitsu, luta livre e tae kwond do as well as a muay thai, boxing and vale-tudo champion. His first recorded-to-broadcast fight dates 1984 when he was introduced as the urban legend "the king of the streets".
He's been respectfully and personally defied at his own gym by Rickson Gracie himself.
Marco Ruas may not have the Mithological status of Rickson Gracie's perfect 400 fight record but it's clear that, in a time when it took a black belt in any single martial art to get a shot at Vale-Tudo, this man understood that the most effective fighter can be found in a blue belt in two or three different disciplines.
Marco Ruas was a MMA fighter before MMA existed as a sport.
by Eduardo Graça
To most of the american audiences Marco Ruas' winning the UFC 7 is his career's highest accomplishment, specially for the dominant fashion he displayed in the event.
His performance in the 1995 tournament edition highlighted the top of cardio capacity and variety of dimensions ever displayed by a one-night-tournament fighter.
Marco Ruas first torn Larry Cureton apart with leg and body kicks, punch combinations and violent clinch game to finish the fight via heel hook at 9:23 minutes of fight.
He then engaged the judo black belt goliath Ramco Pardoeu, who early in the fight caught Ruas' back in a clinch through which both would remain attached for a good slice of their 12:27 minutes bout. The much bigger and heavier Pardoeu couldn't put Ruas down and suffered an intense and unusual feet-stomping torture which would culminate in a wrestling workshop by Ruas.Once the brazilian bare-knucle veteran full mounted his enourmous exhausted opponent, the fight was over by a freakish desperate tapout.
Ruas moved on to fight the hulking kickboxer Paul Valerans, and the two striking specialists went on to a 13:17 stand up war highlighted by the elusiveness of a nasty leg kicker Ruas that would finish the fight after Valeran's collapsing to his knees with a straight-hook KO combo.
Long before Marco Ruas stepped in the UFC octagon, the visionary fighter played a dramatic role in the legendary Luta Livre-Jiu Jitsu Rio de Janeiro's rivalry famed by Rickson Gracie's beach-beating-to-coma of luta livre champion Hugo Duarte and as well as by the event-descrution during a Eugene Tadeu vs. Renzo Gracie fight.
During the 80's the Luta Livre instructor and Vale-tudo champion Marco Ruas understood the need of learning jiu-jitsu to be a complete fighter. While as a JJ blue belt, both the Gracie team and nemesis hugo duarte's LL academy wanted Ruas to compete under their flags. It's no surpise Ruas would come up with his own fighting system: Ruas Vale-tudo,responsible for early ufc's stars Pedro Rizzo, Babalu Sobral amongst other notable fighters.
Marco Ruas's a black belt in judo, jiu-jitsu, luta livre e tae kwond do as well as a muay thai, boxing and vale-tudo champion. His first recorded-to-broadcast fight dates 1984 when he was introduced as the urban legend "the king of the streets".
He's been respectfully and personally defied at his own gym by Rickson Gracie himself.
Marco Ruas may not have the Mithological status of Rickson Gracie's perfect 400 fight record but it's clear that, in a time when it took a black belt in any single martial art to get a shot at Vale-Tudo, this man understood that the most effective fighter can be found in a blue belt in two or three different disciplines.
Marco Ruas was a MMA fighter before MMA existed as a sport.
terça-feira, 13 de janeiro de 2009
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