new guy
by riley
2009-07-17 20:09:50 PDT
so i was getting changed at the gym yesterday talking to a dude i know and another dude i didn't know, seemed like a pretty nice guy at first, maybe 40lbs overweight. anyways, we were talking about the last ufc and as the guy i know left, the hefty dude started talking to me about it a bit more, talking about the classlessness of lesnar, how good st pierre is, all pretty agreeable things until he started talking about the things st pierre should have done to finish the fight (submissions, ground and pound etc). i didn't really want to debate with the guy but i basically said alves was good enough to not really be in a position for that shit to happen; his defense against strikes on the bottom was very solid, and there's very few submissions from the top position if you're in a guard or half-guard and they're very easy to defend against if you're not a total tuf n00b (which alves isn't). the guy got sort of "look i'm just saying what i would have done in there" about it and i was like, "oh, right okay cool man." and left it at that because you can't really tell a guy about how if you or i were in there we would've been k'd the fuck o by the first strike either of those guys threw, and neither of us would be able to take alves down, and if we tore our abductor ligament we would be crying helplessly and tapping a goddamned hole through the mat. but let's say for the sake of argument that alves spots us a fucking top position-- you think he's just going to roll over and give up his arm like "i've never seen an armbar before so do whatever," or that you're just going to send lefts and rights straight down the middle and cruise by easy like a day off ? do you think st pierre just forgot about the submission game, or isn't good at it, and also wasn't trying to pound alves' head into dust ?
but then, a minute later as i'm eating a protein bar, this joker has the audacity to comment on the fat content of it with a "i mean do what you want but i wouldn't be caught dead eating one of those" attitude and smug look on his face and i'm going "fuckin... really ? motherfucker ?" do you really need to be that much of a know-it-all that your fat ass is going to jiggle out a lecture for me about the fat contents of my food while you walk around with your belly rippling like a wading pool ? fuckiiiin... duuude.
but i just politely thanked him for the advice and left.
Fiona
Oh, St. Pierre totally forgot about submission. I mean, if there's one thing about St. Pierre, it's that his focus is pretty vague. Also, he's lazy. If it was me in there-- and I think we all know it could have been-- I would have simply knocked Alves out immediately. Why didn't St. Pierre just DO that?
And if there's one thing about you, Riley, it's that you're pretty careless with your nutritional choices. I've been meaning to mention it to you, tubby-- okay okay, I can't keep a straight face anymore, even online. That fuckface is pretty lucky you didn't put him in a proteinbar. I admire you for conducting yourself with more grace than I would have.
19 July 2009 - 11:00:43 (PST)