****SPOILER**** Ruthless vs Ninja

**Donkey_Fizzle** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 1:10am

That was a fantastic fight in my mind. Looks like Ninja was not only wrong about Lawlers conditioning. But he seemed to gas half way through round two. Lawler put on a boxing clinic but I'd hate to be his legs tomorrow. Rua really nailed him with leg kicks. But all in all it seems playing opossum and working heavy combos won the day. Lawler for the win round three.

**PizDoff** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 1:17am

Oh yeah, there were a few mid-level orgs with events this weekend. I forgot to post about them.

Michelle Waterson was fighting at ROF I think as well.

**Donkey_Fizzle** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 3:53am

Gina Cerrano got her first win by submission as well. BJ's BJJ trainer got TKOed, Diaz won a so so split. But the Lawler fight was definetly the fight of the night.

**the yellow dart** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 11:16am

Originally Posted by tabwyo

Gina Cerrano got her first win by submission as well. BJ's BJJ trainer got TKOed, Diaz won a so so split. But the Lawler fight was definetly the fight of the night.

It also showed why Yamazaki should never be allowed to referee a fight ever again. Ninja was just getting pounded.

**kwoww** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 11:47am

Originally Posted by PizDoff

Oh yeah, there were a few mid-level orgs with events this weekend. I forgot to post about them.

Michelle Waterson was fighting at ROF I think as well.

Pardon my blatant retardation but which orgs were they?

**HANKtheTANK** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 12:31pm

EliteXC sets a good standard for mma show production.

i'm tempted to start planning trips to attend their shows soon

**Thaiboxerken** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 12:59pm

Ninja did throw many leg kicks, but I wonder why he didn't throw any hard ones. He merely tapped Ruthless's leg with them.

**HANKtheTANK** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 1:05pm

probably being cautious not to get tagged by them cement knuckles robbie has

oh btw, Nick Diaz has lost his mind....from the CRAZY interview he rambled on for about 40 min non-stop on the beatdown, to his microphone whoring during the post fight interviews.
that guy is hilarious!

and, goldberg has no place in mma

**meataxe** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 1:31pm

Goldberg does seem a *little* out of his league.

All in all, I thought it was a good show, but two split decisions in one night??!!

I think I've seen one Elite XC event before and I wasn't very impressed (I think it was with Phil Baroni). Things are looking up.

Weren't they owned by Pride / DSE before? If so, I wonder what the situation is now.

**HANKtheTANK** · Posted On: 9/16/2007 1:43pm

Elite has nothing to do with Pride
started in the US, with Gary Shaw

they've slowly but surely acquired a lot of smaller companies like, KOTC, Icon, Cage Rage....to name some of the more well known ones

add Mark Cuban to the mix and hopefully theUFC will soon be forced to live up to the standards that others set in pay scale, treatment of fighters, contracts, etc...