11 fights, 9 finishes, 5 of which were in the first round!
Two Wolverines, a Russian suplex machine, a TUF-winning US Marine* and Big Country takes home the green**.
* I know he's a Ranger, I just needed the rhyme.
** Y'know, "green", as in money. As a win bonus. Y'know?
Originally posted by: LighthouseKeeper Date: December 16, 2012 at 04:49 AM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/rate-the-event-tuf-16-finale.50216/
madictionary said:
In my opinion, it was the best event of the year. ps - Is that Cage smaller than the one they normally use?
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In small arenas they usually use a smaller cage.
C-Me-No-More said:
them prelims where off the chart you could make a solid case they where the best this year
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Yeah, it was sort of unbelievable as it was happening that every fight was gold. Even the three round ridiculous mismatch of Eliot/Papazian was fun for all 15 minutes.
madictionary said:
In my opinion, it was the best event of the year. ps -
Is that Cage smaller than the one they normally use?
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Spud said:
In small arenas they usually use a smaller cage.
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Nope, small "arena' has nothing to do with it.
The event in Seattle was at the Keys arena, a relatively small capacity arena at 17,000 and they had the regulation octagon. The event in Brazil at the HSBC arena used the regular octagon and it's capacity is even smaller at 15,000 give or take.
The reason for the smaller octagon, it's been the same for all TUFs and the Finales, is due to the tighter quarters of the TUF gym and the Palms "Casino" where TUF Finale events are held.
Fight Genome said:
Nope, small arena has nothing to do with it.
The event in Seattle was at the Keys arena, a relatively small capacity arena at 17,000 and they had the regulation octagon. The event in Brazil at the HSBC arena used the regular octagon and it's capacity is even smaller at 15,000 give or take.
The reason for the smaller octagon, it's been the same for all TUFs and the Finales, is due to the tighter quarters of the TUF gym and the Palms Casino where TUF Finale events are held.
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small has nothing to do with it..
tighter quarters is whats going on here, not smaller arenas.
BRF said:
small has nothing to do with it..
tighter quarters is whats going on here, not smaller arenas.
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D'oh
, that's exactly what MY post says, are you HIGH
BRF
?
I have to admit that I'm tremendously disappointed over the construction of this 'rate the event' poll over Bucho's last one.
The first 'rate the event' was out of 10 and this time we got ripped off. Last time we got eleven options with pithy remarks; this time, just seven.
We want moar humour!
And no recycling of pregnant jokes! Even if they're good...
Prelims on fuel were all great and I was like man hope this main card delivers...
Poirier and (refuse to tuck the chin) Brookings started the card right and fun never ended. Sick card!!!
Barry's "can you see me now baby!!" was funny as heck IMO. He always brings it win or lose.
I gave it a solid 4 out of 5.
The actual TUF final was a bit of a snoozer, as about 14 out of the 15 minutes of the fight were spent pressed up against the cage or on the mat.
Everything else was great though.
Fight Genome said:
Nope, small "arena' has nothing to do with it.
The event in Seattle was at the Keys arena, a relatively small capacity arena at 17,000 and they had the regulation octagon. The event in Brazil at the HSBC arena used the regular octagon and it's capacity is even smaller at 15,000 give or take.
The reason for the smaller octagon, it's been the same for all TUFs and the Finales, is due to the tighter quarters of the TUF gym and the Palms "Casino" where TUF Finale events are held.
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So what you're saying is that the Pearl at the Palms is a small arena, so they used a smaller cage.
The small arenas you mentioned are huge compared to the Palms.
Spud said:
So what you're saying is that the Pearl at the Palms is a small arena, so they used a smaller cage.
The small arenas you mentioned are huge compared to the Palms.
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Nope, I'm saying the Joint is a
"casino"
, not an
"arena"
. More over, it's considered a theater, a 4000 seat capacity one.
Fight Genome said:
Nope, I'm saying the Palms is a "casino", not an "arena".
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Okay, at smaller venues the UFC uses a smaller cage.
Happy now?
Spud said:
Okay, at smaller venues the UFC uses a smaller cage.
Happy now?
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Nope, they use the 26' cage at Casino's exclusively, for TUF/finales.
