Personally I hope Rory kicks the shit out of the lil wannabe gangster.
Rory is an animal, you'll all realize this on the 27th.
TBidness
Peckerwood - Personally I hope Rory kicks the shit out of the lil wannabe gangster.
You mad homie?
Definitely gonna go with Rory by KO on this one! :) Good luck, Rory!
great fight
BZLJJ - Definitely gonna go with Rory by KO on this one! :) Good luck, Rory!
Care for a screenname bet? I promise not to do anything nasty :)
Anyone who's read a fighter's heart knows cardio shouldn't be an issue for Rory
I'm taking Rory by KO or dec.
Rory's def. got the power but Nate's slick as fuck on the ground. Hopefully he gets the fight there and subs Rory.
Why the fuck is Nate moving up in weight btw? He's pretty weak at lightweight even...
I also find it shitty that Brown/Almeida is on the undercard.
Whatever.
Good fight, and good test for Nate at 170. Maybe too good a test.
Maybe Nate will have more power in his hands at 170, but I've never been impressed with Nate's boxing. He has reach, but he doesn't box with the technique that he needs to if he wants to utilize that reach. And he'll face someone with heavier hands and more reach than he's used to.
Nate could be bigger and stronger at 170, but can he get away with those hip throws against bigger men, especially someone Markham's size?
Nate always has fun fights, but I will be impressed and surprised if he can pull this off.
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Why the fuck is Nate moving up in weight btw? He's pretty weak at lightweight even...
That's the whole point. He's filling out and the cut is getting harder. He will be stronger at 170 because he doesn't have to worry so much about staying skinny.
TBidness - Rory is an animal, you'll all realize this on the 27th.This can only end poorly for Nate. Rory is an animal. He fought Hardy on one lung for pete's sake!
he got KO'ed in 1 minute. that fight doesn't prove anything.
HexRei - he got KO'ed in 1 minute. that fight doesn't prove anything.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be doing ANYTHING on one lung much less walking to the cage and fighting even for a min.
cough
http://www.watchkalibrun.com/2009/2/26/772805/rory-markham-fought-with-a
I bet you think Tito fought with a giant crack in his skull too, lol
That article clearly states that it doesn't know what it was that was wrong with Markham. They have suspicions but they are only putting forward a theory. Hence the use of the words "most likely" and It indicates." These guys are making up their own theories.
Markham fought on a collapsed lung, that makes him pretty damn tough in my book.
No, that article points out that the layman's term "collapsed lung" can mean a lot of things, ranging from fairly minor to extremely serious. We do have only his word on that since the fight was in the UK at UFC95 and I can't find any medical suspension information to corroborate (I doubt there was any official suspensions, although if someone can find them I'd like to see them), but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. However, I have a tough time believing he simply "felt lousy" if he had one lung fully collapsed. That's not like having a cold. But let's move on.
Either way, I still don't see how it makes the hardy fight look admirable. Much less accomplished fighters have lasted a lot longer against Hardy, some nobodies in fact. I can't understand why you would cite that fight instead of his real dominating performances like Blackburn, Wisniewski, or Pyle. Just seemed like a weird fight to cite because it really didn't demonstrate anything but that he may or may not have come into a fight with an injury that may or may not have been very severe, and he lost quickly and brutally.
He said he had a collapsed lung. I can't see this being a good thing for his ability to fight.
all humans are animals, science is cool
Look, I didn't want to have to get into this right away but I heard from a guy who knows a guy who works at dairy queen who is dating this girl who saw Rory dive into a volcano because Mother Theresa dropped the keys to the orphanage bus and they were going to miss dinner if they didn't get home soon and Rory didn't want them to starve, so he swam to the bottom of the lava and got the keys.
That's how tough he is.
I saw that lava dive. It was sick.
Styles make fights and this should be a fun one to watch.