In case you missed it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_83
http://en.wikipedia.org/

UFC 83 - Saturday, April 19th, 2008 - MONTREAL.

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I wonder where Franklin will go if he wins.

Anderson Silva is out of the question.

That's a very good question. It's almost like he's biding his time. Anderson's still fairly young: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Silva - he's only 32. I don't see him going anywhere anytime soon ... unless he decides to jump ship, or has contractual issues with the UFC over the long run and is displeased with how he's being treated.

'Cuz really ... even if someone were to come in and beat him (Silva) ... that dude could probably whoop Franklin's as ass well ... considering Silva easily handled Richie F' both times :cool:
 
<img src=http://www.eastsideboxing.com/mma/fotos/Ufc62poster.jpg>

UFC 62: In NSV format

Chuck Lidell vs Babalu repost; nice picture quality

http://www.sendspace.com/file/h82kna

Jamie Varner vs Hermes Franca
http://www.sendspace.com/file/x8llck

Cheick Kongo vs Christian Wellisch
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nj1c1o

Nick Diaz vs Josh Neer
http://www.sendspace.com/file/htmcrg

great fight
http://up-file.com/download/4ddc7b8...r-vs-Forrest-Griffin---J3nova-NOKAUT.nsv.html

Shit, I thought Chuck Lidell was in a porn with that brazilian chick Babalu...I was about to download that shit with the quickness. I need to go to bed! :lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
^^^^^

H-Funk,you wild with those posts :lol::lol:

props Don Corleone
strikeforceatthedome669.jpg

Strikeforce FC - At The Dome
2008-02-23 07:00:00

Maurice Smith vs. Rick Roufus
Eddie Ellis vs. Mike Pierce
Bob Sapp vs. Jan Nortje
Jorge Masvidal vs. Ryan Healy
Steve Berger vs. Eddy Ellis
Lyle Beerbohm vs. Ray Perales
Joe Riggs vs. Cory Devela
Andrew Pedersen vs. Mychal Clark
Zach Skinner vs. Scott Shaffer
Nathan Coy vs. Chris Davis

NSV - fights + intros + replays
either WINAMP or KMPlayer

Zach Skinner vs Scott Shaffer (no intros)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5fjcis

Mike Hayes vs Matt Kovacs
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jxr3xx

Lyle Beerbohm vs Ray Perales
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tmdqk7

Andrew Pedersen vs. Mychal Clark
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2ljbvl

Jorge Masvidal vs. Ryan Healy
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lmnhn1

Steve Berger vs. Eddy Ellis (no last replays and comments)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0l80kc

Maurice Smith vs. Rick Roufus
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fqo9n0

Joe Riggs vs. Cory Devela
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y5nqow

Bob Sapp vs. Jan Nortje
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PUU169NU

Problemans wiht winamp download it: http://rapidshare.com/files/88770811/Winamp_x264_codec.rar

Any probleman with SENDSPACE, just get in to http://www.proxyget.com/ , rolls the page until the end. Copy and paste the sendspace file in the empty space, remove all the V, and press GO.
 
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Props to MMA Miracle
ELITE XC: FEBRUARY 16, 2008 ON SHOWTIME
venue: Bank United Center in Miami, Fla.

Main Card Bouts:
-Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson vs. David "Tank" Abbott
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T4ND9HO0

-Antonio Silva vs. Ricco Rodriguez
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R9JDX0DG

-Yves Edwards vs. Edson Berto
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ESM0KFTJ

-James Thompson vs. Brett Rogers
http://www.mediafire.com/?6c2jdcamfy0

-Kyle Noke vs. Scott Smith
http://www.mediafire.com/?84rybuydfmf
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=38XOLEX2


Props to BULLET on the following ELITE XC / CBS information --------->

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dm-elitecbs022808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/
http://sports.yahoo.com

This is why it's going to be the premiere fighting sport and why boxing lost its fan base. Nobody sees a good boxing match without dropping 60 bucks on PPV.

Elite XC deal could change MMA

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The entire landscape of mixed martial arts changed today. Maybe.

The announcement that CBS will broadcast live Elite XC shows on Saturday nights in prime time is potentially the biggest deal in the history of the sport in North America.

But no matter what is said about a multi-year commitment and four shows per year, when it comes to television, like everything, it will live and die by the ratings.

“The sport of MMA airing on CBS is the single biggest thing to happen to the sport,” saidElite XC promoter Gary Shaw. That sounds like a promoter over hyping his latest announcement, but if the show is successful, that’s exactly what it will be.

But it’s going to take a huge promotional effort by the network and the company to build the event and make it fly.



Even the most-watched Ultimate Fighting Championship event in history, the Sept. 8 show headlined by Quinton Jackson vs. Dan Henderson in a UFC-Pride light heavyweight championship unification match, drew 4.7 million viewers. While those are great numbers for cable television, they don’t come close to what would be a desirable audience number for CBS, even on a Saturday night.

Within the Male 18-34 age group, the big show UFC numbers would be successful on a network level, but MMA at this point has proven to have a narrow reach. It doesn’t do well with older people. It doesn’t do badly with women within the 18-34 group, but for network prime time success, you need to draw strongly in more than one age group.

Boxing’s much-lauded “Contender” series failed on the network level. World Wrestling Entertainment programming, far more popular on cable television than MMA, was successful on NBC in the 80s, but drew poor numbers the past two years in a similar prime time slot with the revival of Saturday Night’s Main Event.

The first Elite XC show, which is tentatively scheduled for April 26th and likely headlined by Kimbo Slice, will either be the most watched MMA event ever in the United States, or it will be a failure. One could make a strong argument that above and beyond UFC’s first live television special in 2005, where Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar became instant stars by having almost the perfect match at the perfect moment for the sport, this is the most important night, going forward, in the sport’s U.S. history.

If the shows get poor ratings, the entire sport will be stigmatized with the idea that it has its cult popularity and is simply cable TV fare. It will be a huge negative perception blow for a sport which, with its phenomenal growth over the past few years, has been written up as the next NASCAR. Conversely, successful numbers, particularly if they maintain, will entrench MMA as a major sport in this country.

“Mixed martial arts is one of the fastest growing sports in the country and a wildly popular entertainment vehicle for upscale, young adult audiences,” said Kelly Kahl, Senior Executive Vice President of CBS Primetime. “It’s original programming for Saturday night; it’s live, creating an event-atmosphere; and it’s something that hasn’t been seen on network television, until now.”

It’s not a surprise that CBS made a deal for MMA. Both CBS and NBC negotiated for MMA programming for months. CBS’ interest in UFC predated the writers’ strike, while NBC’s interest picked up with the idea of looking for new live programming during the strike. That CBS went with Elite XC over the established UFC is a surprise, and is believed to have happened because Dana White wouldn’t compromise on giving the network control of the broadcast.

White noted earlier this week, before the deal was announced, that he wasn’t going to sign a bad deal for the company, even with a network station. The control issue also likely cost UFC a deal with HBO last year. UFC’s strategy of playing hardball and trying to get the deal on its terms simply wasn’t going to work with a network, but the gamble was that a big player wouldn’t take the chance with an organization that has nowhere near the name recognition and level of mainstream stars.

Because Showtime, part owner of Elite XC, is part of the Viacom family, which owns CBS, they fell into a deal that as a fledgling group, gives them a level of exposure they couldn’t afford to turn down.

“I don’t know why they didn’t get it,” said Gary Shaw, promoter of Elite XC. “If I had to guess, I’d say that it was Dana White. I don’t know that. I don’t worry about the UFC. If the prom queen wants to go out with me, I don’t ask why she isn’t dating the quarterback. I just show up at 8 p.m. at her door. I’ve said all along I think the UFC is great.

“I like the Fertittas and Marc Ratner (UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs) is like a brother to me. But the problem is no fighter can be bigger than Dana White or the UFC. For us, the fighters will always be the biggest stars.”

Shaw’s most successful MMA event was the Feb. 16 show in Miami, which drew a 1.9 rating on Showtime. It was the highest rating for a non-UFC MMA event in history, largely due to the unique Kimbo Slice vs. Tank Abbott main event. But that’s only 522,000 viewers, and they’ll need ten times that audience number, if not more, to do competitive numbers on CBS.

The show also sold out the 6,187-seat BankUnited Center in Miami, which benefited from Slice being a hometown star. For CBS events, Shaw said they are looking at running 15,000-seat arenas with the new Prudential Center in Newark being among the venues under consideration for the debut show.

Most of the details of the deal have not been made official. CBS will be paying Elite XC a fee per show. They haven’t agreed to a time slot, although with affiliate news commitments, it would have to be either 8-10 p.m. or 9-11 p.m. The broadcast team hasn’t been agreed to, but both sides will have input into the decision. Shaw said that once the date and the venue are finalized, they would begin finalizing the matches.

Shaw said he expected the shows to be similar to the Elite XC events on Showtime.

“It’s the same type of show,” he said. “I think we do a very good production with competitive fights.”

Another key is that, with so many people watching the first show and presumably so much hype, that if someone makes a good showing, they can become an instant star, similar, to what happened to Griffin stemming from the first Ultimate Fighter finals. The impact of a great match will be multiplied tenfold.

An unknown fighter who does a sensational finish will almost instantly become one of the best known fighters in the country. A genuine match of the year could end up being the most talked about fight in history. Similarly, the affects of a poor show will be magnified like never before.

But it also adds to an over-saturation problem. UFC is producing roughly two shows per month. Elite is now adding four CBS dates to the 16 or so Showtime dates they had planned for this year. That’s a lot of events in a sport with a finite number of stars, and in which the stars can only fight a few times per year.

Even with the deal giving his company the largest television exposure in a business where television exposure is the life blood, Shaw doesn’t feel Elite XC is on the verge of leapfrogging UFC as the top promotion.

“No, I’m a realist,” he said. “UFC is No. 1. I am Pepsi to their Coke, Avis to their Hertz.”


http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dm-elitecbs022808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
 
Uppage. UFC 82 tomorrow evening. Johniz, myself, and others got ya'll covered with the linkage in the days following same, no doubt.
 
Either way tonight's card should be good. I gotta go with Silva, but Henderon is a tough man to ko.

Should be interesting.

peace

I'm impressed with the names on the undercard (fan of these cats). ARLOVSKY / KOSCHECK / SANCHEZ / CUMMO.

Nice to see names like FITCH / BISPING maincarding too. Should be a good night. I'm working a 7pm - 7am PST shift ... so I'll watch/download on Sunday AM when I get in :)
 
DAMN!
Where is Jamal, and Malik for that matter?

Wikipedia - "Illegal and going solo

Phillips' tenure with Illegal was short-lived; following the lukewarm response to 1993's The Untold Truth — the group's full-length debut — Phillps embarked on a solo career. He teamed up with Erick Sermon of the Def Squad to release 1995's Last Chance, No Breaks, his debut release.

The album (produced by Easy Mo Bee, Redman, Rockwilder and Sermon) peaked at #10 and #37 on Billboard magazine's Heatseekers and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts respectively. The album also spawned a pair of hit singles — "Fades Em All", which sampled The Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Ready To Die' and "Keep It Real", which sampled Stevie Wonder's 'Ribbon In The Sky'.

Smoke-A-Lot Records

In 2006, Jamal signed a deal with rapper Yukmouth to be apart of his Smoke-A-Lot Records label.[1]An as yet to be titled album is due out in 2007.

He is also a member of The Regime, a large collective of rappers including Yukmouth, Tech N9ne, BG Bulletwound, Tha Realest, Gonzoe,Dru Down and Grant Rice among others.

Other collaborations

In 1995 he performed on Conspiracy, the LP from Junior M.A.F.I.A. He has since gone on to collaborate with other renowned rappers; in 1996, he was featured on The Coming the LP from Busta Rhymes and Keith Murray's Enigma. The following year, he teamed up again with Busta Rhymes, performing on that rapper's 1997 LP, When Disaster Strikes. In 1998, he collaborated with the Def Squad on El Niño, their debut release.

He also had production duties on B.Coming, the 2005 release from Beanie Sigel.

Jamal appears on Illegal bandmate Malik's recent (2005) CD "Malik M.D. aka Hershey Locc Hefner: The Game Needs Me".

He has also appeared on songs with Shyheim, Heltah Skeltah, Coolio, MC Breed, Method Man, Busta Rhymes, Young Zee, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Treach, and others."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mally_G

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_(Rap_Group) - Damn. Dallas Austin hooked them up back in the day. Production from Lord Finesse, Diamond D, Erick Sermon ... pretty good for teenagers :cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance,_No_Breaks - Jamal's '95 solo opus features production from Redman, Rocwilder, Erick Sermon, and Easy Mo Bee.

http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=226800&page=2 - see the replies from Overkill2k6 & myself

http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=226800


Here ya go, fam (Friend of mine ripped this from the vinyl..)

FADES 'EM ALL instrumental + FADES 'EM ALL (Pete Rock remix) instrumental:


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QH7RDLIH



And the Pete Rock Remix as a Bonus..


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5KQCWPWC



Enjoy.

JAMAL - "Keep it Real"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMWsZWdZito&feature=related

[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/tMWsZWdZito&feature=related[/FLASH]



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ILLEGAL - "Back in the Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh4BSK8JmAc&feature=related

[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/Eh4BSK8JmAc&feature=related[/FLASH]

"thewalls23 - yeah this is raw as hell for someone their age, what do you expect though? this track was 93 style. almost 90 percent of hip hop being released from 88-96 was dope as hell. today it's the exact opposite, where 90 percent of what is being released is wack as hell. "

bugstrut - "These kids had better lyrics than 50 and Cam'ron have now - and they're both in their 30s!"



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ILLEGAL - "We Getz Busy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYrCx7b89Yo&feature=related


[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/CYrCx7b89Yo&feature=related[/FLASH]
 
SATURDAY, MARCH 1st, 2008:

Silva-Henderson or Vasquez-Marquez

If it was main event vs main event, I would have to go with boxing because of the proven track record with these 2, though the Silva-Henderson clas has all the possibility of a great one.

peace
 
props to MMA MIracle

UFC 82: MARCH 1 IN COLUMBUS, OHIO
venue: Nationwide Arena

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Show intro
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZJUHM2ZB
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/96341256/ufc_2082_20intro_20-_20MIRACLE.asf


Main Card Bouts:
-Anderson Silva vs. Dan Henderson
http://rapidshare.com/files/96355866/ufc_2082_20fight_205_20hendo_20MIRACLE.asf

-Cheick Kongo vs. Heath Herring
http://rapidshare.com/files/96352896/ufc_2082_20fight_204_20herring_20vs_20kongo_20MIRACLE.asf

-Jon Fitch vs. Chris Wilson
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SHPWRV2M
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/96344142/ufc_2082_20fight_201fitch_20MIRACLE.asf

-Yushin Okami vs. Evan Tanner
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8YI3KUE3
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/96347081/ufc_2082_20fight_202_20tanner_20MIRACLE.asf

-Chris Leben vs. Alessio Sakara
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BIVPQULY
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/96348250/ufc_2082_20fight_203_20leben_20vs_20sakara_20MIRACLE.asf


Preliminary Bouts:
-Andrei Arlovski vs. Jake O'Brien
-Josh Koscheck vs. Dustin Hazelett
-Diego Sanchez vs. David Bielkheden
-Luke Cummo vs. Luigi Fioravanti
-Jorge Gurgel vs. John Halverson

go to the UFC Web site to view them free

USE VLC PLAYER TO VIEW FILES or the newest Windows Media Player with the latest codecs.

some mo'

props to Tokydu

NSV h264 either WINAMP or KMPlayer (luta/fights + replays + entradas/intros)

Chris Wilson vs Jon Fitch
http://www.sendspace.com/file/wcda2k

Evan Tanner vs Yushin Okami
http://www.sendspace.com/file/kc1k26

Alessio Sakara vs Chris Leben
http://www.sendspace.com/file/x0ww90

Cheick Kongo vs Heath Herring pre-comments / intros / fight / replays / interview
http://www.sendspace.com/file/omo4w4

Anderson Silva vs Dan Henderson pre-comments / intros / fight /replays / interview
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lxi4yv

Any probleman with SENDSPACE, just get in to http://www.proxyget.com/ , rolls the page until the end. Copy and paste the sendspace file in the empty space, remove all the V, and press GO.
 
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Big ups, brother JOHNIZ.

My apologies on not being around too much in the thread/on the boards the past week and change. I've been battling that Worm.Win32.Netsky worm/virus shit.
 
Johniz,

Props for the Kas'/Cat' ^

Sorry I've been hit/miss online the past # of weeks. I was battling that damn WORM.WIN32.NETSKY bullshit on my machine for the longest.
 
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