Anyone else think he might have won that match against Hackney if the gate didn't bust open? If he pinned him up against the cage, he could have been able to work his signature Smother submission on him.

Totally agree - the cage saved Keith

and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYoF3F3nbBY still looks like a ridge hand to me!

I saw the UFC match EY had against Hackney, and the Pride fight EY had against Daiju Takase. Man EY had no stamina, and hackney pounded the **** out of EY. I did see his appearance on Conan O'Brien years ago. Funny stuff. he mentioned he does amatuer sumo because there are no weight classes, so he can go against guys much smaller than he is. Smart move...

i watched the pride fight this morning. simultaneously horrendous, and boring, and hilarious. ugh.

commentary was great, though. a tad mean...

"Swim Takase! SWIM!!"

Wait a minute. Watching that video, I can see that that mutherfucker behind the cage opened it. Man, that idiot probably robbed us of Yarborough vs. Shamrock ( And if you were a decent person, you would have been rooting for Yarborough).

looks like a ridge hand to me!

The announcers called it a wild right. Hackney called it a Tiger Strike ( Not joking).

I met Keith at Chicago airport in 2005 - he was a really nice guy. Not very tall, but very stocky.

Maybe I should have asked him in retrospect......

As I recall his experience is actually in sumoo and judoo.

(at least according to the UFC 3 color-commentator)
I'm glad that someone else has this hilarious slipup/ignorance burned into his skull. Though I always visualized it spelled "sumu and judu"

I'm glad that someone else has this hilarious slipup/ignorance burned into his skull. Though I always visualized it spelled "sumu and judu"

Well, considering that he is FAT AS **** sumoo and judoo would make sense. Calling him a cow. Cows are fat. Which means they are big.

I'm glad that someone else has this hilarious slipup/ignorance burned into his skull. Though I always visualized it spelled "sumu and judu"

Not to mention " That was Ultimate Sumu!"

It is interesting that Yarborough did exactly what his art trains him to do in tht Hackney fight.

lose?

I like sumo. Go ahead, flame away. I'm astounded that people that big can do anything and I know there's more to it than 2 fat guys slapping each other.

Its a bit of Japanese culture I enjoy.

However, what these guys do to their bodies is something I can't understand.

As far as EY is concerned, I think I saw him on some televised amateur sumo. All they billed him as was the heaviest sumo wrestler in the world.

He sucks at that too - he suffers Konishki syndrome...great if he is direct on, but terrible if the other sumotori step off line. He has no way to readjust

He sucks at that too - he suffers Konishki syndrome...great if he is direct on, but terrible if the other sumotori step off line. He has no way to readjust

Truthfully, I didn't watch much of the amateur sumo.

It didn't have the same feel as Japanese sumo. It looked like a bunch of fat people in mawashi on wrestling mats.

And TY, well, I just couldn't look at that for very long. I only remember one thing about his bout (other than he won). His opponent had the most freakishly out of proportion thighs I've ever seen.

Mark