UFC 71, Jackson's my pick.

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J. M. - Baptist - Ontario, Canada - Feileadh Mor

"Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering."
The Brothers Karamazov

I'm rooting for Jackson but I wouldn't count Chuck out. I used to promote an MMA event in Texas called "The Xtreme Shootout". I had Tito Ortiz & Mikey Burnett come down & even had Kazuyuki Fujita fight for me in Killeen. I was there when Chuck got choked out by Horn (right ON the octagon). I never thought Chuck was any good maybe a grade B fighter but he's come a LONG way. Still don't like him so I hope Rampage KO's him. Tito Ortiz is a personal friend of mine. He came down to ref 2 shows for me & even had a fighter fight at my shows. Great guy.

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Frank O Fuentes
Church of THE King
McAllen, Texas
Student at Edinburg Theological Seminary

I was hoping this thread would be about Eric Liddell.

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T W Hopper
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church
Currently between churches since PRC closed here - attending Crossroads Christian Church.
Canberra, Australia.

Yeah, me too....and Stonewall Jackson.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor
Maranatha Baptist Church
Poplar Grove, Illinois USA
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Husband to Nancy
Father to Sherril, Sarah, Kathryn
Grandfather to Phillip
Faith is the refusal to panic. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Jackson won.

THE SOUTH WON?!?!

Sorry! Couldn't resist.

Knockout? Submission? Decision?

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Dan McPherson
Creekside, PA
Faith OPC - Indiana, PA

“The ultimate destiny of every individual is decided by the will of God, and blessed it is that such be the case. If it were left to our wills, the ultimate destination of us all would be the lake of fire.” -- A. W. Pink

KO!!! in the first two minutes. He caught Liddell with a shot knocking him down then knocked him out with a blow while he was on the ground. Interestingly enough, Jackson hit him again and knocked him awake. By the third blow, Liddell tried to block it but the ref stopped it.

CT

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Hermonta Godwin
Christ The King PCA
Raleigh, NC

I watched the fight. As I recall, it was a right hook, but I might be mistaken. It only took two minutes, if that.

Rampage got Chuck out of his game (my opinion); two times in the first minute or so, when Chuck was doing his usual crabwalk, waiting to counterpunch, Rampage kinda threw his hands up in the air in a "Come on man, fight" kinda way.

Chuck started being more aggressive, went for a really sloppy body shot, and got clocked good and proper. He fell down, Page jumped on top of him and gave him two or three punches/hammerfists (I forget), and after the second or third one Chuck's body stiffened up and the fight was stopped.

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Joshua Wiseman
Riverview PCA
Charleston, WV

"Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings."
- Psalm 17:8

Have you guys seen the first fight between these two? Jackson won then as well. Chuck is a great fighter but not that good of a boxer, his hands are too low and his punches are loopy. If you're a wrestler his style works perfectly, he'll stuff your shots and drop bombs. It was Jackson's style that won.

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I want to see a rematch between Fedor and Cro Cop.

CT

I posted a few links to youtube with Fedor highlights...it might have been me.

CroCop can't beat Fedor.

Cro Cop couldn't beat a mid-card UFC guy! He was knocked out by his own move!

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"Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all"

Isn't he the one who left his wife for a pornstar?

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Caleb
Trinity Baptist Church
Spokane, WA

A fantastic example of why I don't want to train MMA and exchange blood with random people.

Well

There are a lot of reasons that people lose. You can be a superior fighter and lose pretty easily. Anyone can get caught, if that happens that is pretty much it. There are also variations in rules and different strategies to use in different rings.

Also in comparison to boxing, upsets will always happen more in MMA. For one, once you are knocked down, you get no recovering time. Your opponent just pounces on you and if you are slightly disoriented, you are in a bad way very quickly.

Cro cop has lost before and he has also avenged himself before. When this happened, was he just horrible and learned a lot in the intervening time?

CT

MMA isn't boxing, anything can happen in MMA and it often does. This year started off with upsets and it looks like they'll continue. I think the Octagon had a lot to do with CroCop getting ko'ed, the elbows didn't help either. In Pride they use a ring and are not allowed to elbow, CroCop was pull on his back against a fence and elbowed for a couple of min. That had to have something to do with it.

“He that honors Me, I will honor.”

Eric Liddell

Jackson Scholz

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"On land, at sea, at home, abroad, / I smoke my pipe and worship God." -- J.S. Bach

Cro Cop refused top train in a cage, kind of prideful if you ask me, or at least stupid.

Cro Cop just fought way to defensively. Counter puncher during that fight. Reminded of Pedro Rizzo. Someone with TOO much firepower & they don't even use it. What a shame.
As for Tito yep, he's the one that's going out with Jenna Jameson. I brought Tito & his then fiancee (his ex wife) down & we went to the beach & hung out. They seemed so happy & everything. I guess becoming a big name & a Millionaire chenged everything for him.

That's a shame.