Inside WAND's locker room @ UFC 79

Huge fan here and I find myself becoming even more of a fan everytime I see him.

wand is da man!!!

Man, I would love to know what Joe Silva and Dana have planned for wandy next, whatever it is, it should be great

Well with Silva's rumored training that he's going to be doing, he should be coming back at his very best, hopefully he does get all the training that he wants to.

"One thing that was kind of weird was how Wand said the guys in the UFC are "so big". He weighed 226 to fight Crocop, for christ's sake! Crocop was 220, Fujita was 240, Hunt was 280, Arona's as big as anyone, Alistair is probably the biggest LHW in the sport -- how is he surprised at the size of UFC guys?"

wand was NOT, i repeat NOT 226 when he fought crocop. where do you get this info from? jesus christ

"From: Killer Rob

Dana shoulda made that fight for the interim title"

WTF are you talking about man?

Rampage is the champ and he is fighting Griffin why would they need an interm title?

"wand was NOT, i repeat NOT 226 when he fought crocop. where do you get this info from? jesus christ"

http://tinyurl.com/2rw5zf

By the way, I just re-watched Silva/Crocop from the GP and Crocop was a COMPLETELY different fighter than he has been in the UFC. Right from the start he was fast and aggressive as hell. He wasn't a counterpuncher, he didn't plod around the ring following Silva like he's been doing with all his opponents in the UFC. He would dart in, use angles, and throw fast hand combinations and fast, hard body kicks. I don't know why now he just robotically marches around, totally flat-flooted, throwing nothing but the left high kick and the left straight.

If he can get back that eye of the tiger or whatever it was, he will resume smashing guys.

ttt

F'ing love Wandy

Wand Vs. Tito should be next. That would sell a fuckin million PPV's.
Fuck I'd buy one for every T.V. in my house! And still go to the bar to
watch it!!

Tito is going to run into Machida next, if he loses then... His contract is over, it'll be interesting to see if the UFC brings him back

I hope so, these match ups are getting awesome. Wand is a fucking BAD
ASS! WAR WAND! chuck looked pretty good too. These guys are still
killers. All day long.

very cool of dana. awesome fight. wanderlei was my favorite fighter for a long time and ill always be a fan no matter how many times he loses.

Papi,

"wand was NOT, i repeat NOT 226 when he fought crocop. where do you get this info from? jesus christ"

Hmmm... you're right; he fought at 225.1


The following are results from the official weigh-ins for the PRIDE Final Conflict Absolute 2006 show late tonight in Japan, featuring the final rounds of the open weight grand prix tournament.

Vanderlei Silva (225.1 lbs.) vs. Mirko CroCop (220.9 lbs.)
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (242 lbs.) vs. Josh Barnett (255.2 lbs.)
Sergei Kharitonov (244.2 lbs.) vs. Aleksander Emelianenko (259.6 lbs.)
Ricardo Arona (204.4 lbs.) vs. Alistair Overeem (208.9 lbs.)
Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (203.9 lbs.) vs. Cyrille Diabate (201.7 lbs.)
Kazuhiro Nakamura (223.3 lbs.) vs. Yoshihiro Nakao (224.4 lbs.)
Yosuke Nishijima (202 lbs.) vs. Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos (203.5 lbs.)
Ricardo Morais (277.2 lbs.) vs. Lee Tae Hyun (294.8 lbs.)

"WTF are you talking about man?

Rampage is the champ and he is fighting Griffin why would they need an interm title?"

LoL! What I said doesn't make any sense because it was a JOKE!
(albeit a shitty one!)

I was joking because that would've been the only way to make this a 5 rounder. Dana seems to be making these interim fights more often to extend the length of certain fights. oh well

on a side note, it was nice to see GSP take that interim title and throw it on the ground because MATT SERRA is the real WW champ.

ttt

can anyone translate what vanderlei and anderson said to eachother?

When Wand says that the guys in the UFC are so much bigger he means that most of these guys are natural HW's that cut down to LHW. Wandy himself is more of a natural 185er so there are obvious differences in height / reach / power. Chuck is a big body. Tito is a big body. Even Rampage is a big body. And each of these guys is at least 6ft2 when Wand is 5'11 at best. Makes a huge difference in contact sports. All that being said I hope he's got another 3 yrs of great fights in him. Love watching him and I had the goose bumps as well during the weigh ins w/ Wand and Chuck. It was truly a rock star event. CLASH OF THE TITANS IMHO.

edited for spelling