
“You’re too nice.” That’s the message that Steven Seagal once told Anderson Silva, who will take on Stephan Bonnar in tonight’s UFC 153 main event. Seagal told Silva that he needed to stop fighting with emotion and instead fight with determination. That’s some sage advice from the undisputed master of the front kick.
And now it’s Silva’s wrestling coach, Eric Albarracin, who has some advice for Bonnar: “Don’t piss off Anderson. Don’t say anything about Brazil.” Intriguing. I’m not sure what bad stuff Bonnar could say about Brazil. Perhaps, “Gee, I hope I’m not kidnapped and held for ransom by drug cartel assassins while I’m here”, but that’s sort of common sense. I suppose the worst thing that Bonnar could say would be: “Brazilian women are ugly.” If he does say that, I’ll fight Bonnar myself.
So here we are, set to enjoy UFC 153, as Silva will surely put on one hell of a show for his fellow countrymen in Brazil tonight. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, too, as we have ESPN’s UFC guru Chuck Mindenhall stopping by to chat with us and provide analysis for one hell of a fight card.
Anderson Silva vs Stephan Bonnar
Rodrigo Nogueira vs Dave Herman
Glover Teixeira vs Fabio Maldonado
Jon Fitch vs Erick Silva
Phil Davis vs Wagner Prado
Demian Maia vs Rick Story
Rony Mariano Bezerra vs Sam Sicilia
Gleison Tibau vs Francisco Trinaldo
Diego Brandao vs Joey Gambino
Sergio Moraes vs Renee Forte
Luiz Cané vs Chris Camozzi
Cristiano Marcello vs Reza Madadi

So join in starting at 7 PM ET and talk some trash for your favorite fighters. Sadly, With Leather’s favorite fighter Cub Swanson isn’t competing tonight, but we’ll certainly pick some other favorites.
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Bonnar should have used his jim-jitsu
So I just finished watching it. Crazily entertaining. Wish I’d stuck around in here but damn I didn’t understand 90% of what you guys were saying. I missed wrestling jokes though! Ricardo WOULD have distracted the ref :(
That Fitch guy is pretty awesome. The one guy in the fight after was super impressive also due to not dying after being punched and elbowed in the face 100 times. Oh, and the bit where the other guy had his neck twisted and blood spurted out of his nose… kinda wish I hadn’t seen that… but still, glad I watched this thing. I’ll try and join in the live discussion for the next one.
Yay! Join in next time, even if you don’t know what’s going on, there are enough people here that will be glad to help explain things.
I want Nog Hugs
Fabio is not cut, yaaay!
Fitch of the Night!
there’s movement at the press conference!
rewatching it, maia’s sub reminded me a little of fedor pulling off fujita’s head.
now its time for some porn
And so concludes another thrilling Anderson Silva knockouzzzzzzzzz…
IT’S REPLAYING YAAAY!
I HOPE STEPHAN WINS THIS TIME!
as much fun as the raw threads are, i kind of like these mma ones, they’re more intimate i guess? don’t have to worry about missing two hundred comments if you go freshen a drink or maek poopiesz or whatever.
Ideally we’d like for these threads to be on par with the Raw ones. You’re right, though, a lot of quality here tonight, and less OMG WHAT 75 times since the last time you refreshed.
Yeah, I need to curtail my reactions and just do jokes on the open threads. Everyone just saw the rad thing, I don’t have to say “RAD!” when it happens.
post fight press conference, should be up in a while.
or, go here: www(dot)ufc(dot)com/media/153-post-pc
So when does kevin james fight?
I would buy a PPV where Kevin James just fought like 10 guys in a row, no matter how badly he’s been beaten up.
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Guys, thanks for having me on here with you. Let’s do it again soon.
Great card
That was one of the best all-around cards I’ve seen in quite some time. I can’t remember the last one that I enjoyed this much.
Thank you for leaving great MMA-centric comments at a super human level like always, LM!
Any and all the times, Brandon!
Burnsy – the night of UFC 139 + Bellator Whatever with Chandler/Alvarez was probably my most favorite night of fights.
@Chuck, thanks so much for hanging out tonight, you were terrific. You’re welcome back any time you want, best friend.
Seconded. So great having you around.
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Thanks guys. I’ll happily come back. Been great (and you cats are funny man…cracking me up all night).
Thirded and everything after that’ed. FUN TIMES GANG
I’ve been trying to be Burnsy’s best friend, yet I failed. I guess I need to fight you, Mr. Mendenhall.
Spider, you’re the best. GOAT!
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Yup. It’s hard to dispute 16-0 in the UFC.
“Peace and go home in one piece.” Yes, don’t get blown up.
UFC needs to give the Portuguese Rosetta Stone to Keith David for translation. Keith David is the best at having a cool voice.
Thanks again, guys and gals. Klingon out!
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Overall a damn good card. Bonnar gave it the old frosh try, but just outclassed.
my sads :(
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Silva is a bad man. Will it be GSP or Weidman next?
GSP hopefully.
Great pay-per-view, but I hated the way they booked the main event.
WHATAMANEUVER!!
that was like shlemenko killing mcdaniel, knee right to the heart.
Are you fucking kidding me? WE WITNESSED THREE DUDES LITERALLY GET MURDERED AND NOTHING WAS CALLED AND NOW THIS?
A knee to the body. Or a banana peel, if you will.
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I will. I certainly will.
I really expected Silva to win by dropping an Acme safe on him.
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I like the way you think, Burnsy.
STUPID TEDDY BEAR!
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Well, so much for that. Another crazy finish by Silva. Knee got it done. Bonnar doesn’t get finished (ever), so that hurt him.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
FUCK
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Premature stop.
nope :(
Nevermind.
noooooo
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Thing is, all this messing around…he might be losing this round.
work the body, steph
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Silva doing his Abu Dhabi bit?
C’mon Bonnar!
silva is a dick, but an entertaining one
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Silva starting to wig out a little bit.
Bonnar can do this!
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Couture-esque start for Bonnar. About what he needed to do early.
Man I usually avoid watching stuff at sports bars but damn if yelling out random stuff doesn’t make it that much bettger
Oh no, Silva can’t dance around for 4 minutes now!
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Brazilian and American fighters get their directive from the British third….and here we go.
Alright, guys, I got $100 on this.
marc goddard getting main event work not in england? ha!
lol, alex schonauer