Fine, Vancouver is not exactly the wilderness, but they are eschewing the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts in exchange for a more PRIDE-style set of guidelines.
The Edmonton Combative Sports Director – Pat Reid has proposed some of the following rules be in place for 2010 in Edmonton:
• Knee strikes to the head of a downed/grounded opponent are legal.
• Gi and shoes can be worn during a bout.
• Two rounds will be utilized, the first being ten minutes and the second round lasting five minutes.
• Bouts will be judged on their entirety, no ten-point must system will be used
• Kicks to the head of a downed/grounded opponent are legal when both fighters are down/grounded.
There is a reason that some of these things were deemed illegal. If someone is really going to get hurt, it’s going to be from a knee or kick while downed. Also, while I don’t completely trust the ten-point must system, I don’t think that going back to the old PRIDE system is a better alternative.
Here’s my main beef: We are really going to start letting people wear Gis? What is this 1995? I have enough of a problem with Shinya Aoki’s stupid pants, and now people are wearing Gis again?
Adam “Pac-Man” Jones has been out of the limelight since he was not re-signed by the Dallas Cowboys awhile back. Well, seeing how ESPN hasn’t mentioned him in a while, they decided that now was a good time to release some amateur video of that fateful night in Vegas.
Listen, This story has been told to death, and I’m certainly not trying to make light of whatever happened. However, it’s not like this is video of the actual crime taking place. If this could be used in court, then that would another story. Instead, we get to see how absurd Pac-Man’s existence is.
First, he’s got a 40,000 dollars in 100s. Then, he changed it 40,000 dollars in singles. That’s 40,000 individual dollar bills. Include a little bit of Nelly and Jermaine Dupree being a disgusting human being, and you have an entertaining video of absolutely no consequence.
Continuing our theme of fighter predictions from earlier in the day, MMAWeekly has some quotes from Georges St. Pierre that suggest his help is going to put Kenny Florian over the top at UFC 101 in Philly:
“I’ve trained with him two times and he looked really sharp. I put my money on him against B.J. Penn,” St. Pierre stated.
The Canadian has put together some of the most legendary camps to prepare for his title fights, so his physical and mental strategy could be a key edge that Florian will carry into the fight in August.
St. Pierre complemented Florian for the work they did together while in Montreal, and he’s confident that Penn will have no answer for what Florian will bring into the title fight.
“Kenny Florian is a great training partner, and is going to be a great champion, and he’s also a greater person and human being (than B.J. Penn),” said St. Pierre.
Much like his own strategy and gameplan, he wouldn’t let anything out of the bag as to what Florian will do to beat Penn, but he is boastful that it will happen.
“A lot of things, but they are part of his gameplan so I can’t talk too much about it,” St. Pierre commented about what Florian will bring into the fight against Penn. “It basically consists of using his strength and putting it against his opponent’s weaknesses.”
First off, GSP needs to worry about Thiago Alves first. Second of all, this is the best news that I have heard in weeks. It seems like Georges has a legit dislike for B.J. Penn, and since I have an extreme dislike for B.J.’s number one fan, it’s good to hear that my favorite fighter is helping Kenny Florian win. I’ve stood by Florian all along, and I can’t help but think that the stars may be aligning for a title change in Philly.
January 24, 2010, at 3:55 pm
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