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Who would you like to have a pint with?

  • 13-04-2012 9:19pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭


    If you had the opportunity to sit down for a few hours and have a couple of pints with any fighter, past or present, who would it be and why?
    It doesn't even actually have to be a fighter. It could be anyone involved in the sport, such as Dana White, if you want.


    For me, I think I'd pick Bas Rutten.
    He's been around the sport since the early days and he's done it all and seen it all and I'd say he has some brilliant stories. He's been involved in a lot of the major organisations in one way or another and he has incredible experience in the mma game. He also seems like a nice guy and he's not full of shít. He tells it as he sees it. Plus he's a funny bastard!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    Can we be jealous and pick more than one? :p

    JDS: Seems to be a genuinely nice, down to earth guy.

    Urijah Faber: Above.

    To get drunk with, it has to be Roy Nelson :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Chuck Liddell, after reading "Iceman" I just got the impression that a session with him would be bat-shít crazy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,959 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    I've been pretty lucky to have a few beers wit quite a few UFC fighters, when i go to an event i just book into the same hotel as the fighters.

    For UFC 72 in Belfast we stayed at The Hilton, was class, after the fight in the bar there was so many people from the MMA world, had a chat wit Randy, and a few beers with Brandon Vera who was wasted!! Everyone was cool apart from Dampage who acted as though he was much better than anybody else, walkin round wit his LHW belt on. Forrest Griffin was a man with 2 personalities that weekend, before the fight he was soo moody, didn't talk to nobody but after he was ace, even bought us a beer :D:D

    The best one was by far though was at The Hilton in Newcastle for UFC 80, had a drink wit Stitch and he was top, the guy should write a book (Oh yeah, he has), Rogan was a good laugh as always, next morning we went down for breakfast, sat down, 2 mins later Fabricio Werdum, his mrs and baby sat at our table, such a nice couple.

    So if yer ever goin to an event, do your best to book a room in the same hotel as the fighters, well worth the extra few quid if your a big fan.

    I'll post up pics of my signed programmes at some point


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    I'd pick Hendo. He really won me over on that series of TUF with Michael Bisping.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,959 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Remmy wrote: »
    I'd pick Hendo. He really won me over on that series of TUF with Michael Bisping.

    Dunno about you but it was the KO that did it for me ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭John Ferguson


    Simple :D

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Dunno about you but it was the KO that did it for me ;)


    16k6jk5.gif

    Yep that helped too!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭winston82


    I'd love to go for a Coors light with Brock. Yeah, that's right, a Coors Light because Bud light won't pay me nuthin'. Then when I get home, hell, I may even get on top of my wife.

    See y'all later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭p to the e


    Was only thinking a few weeks back that I'd love to go out on the tear with Don 'The mans man' Frye. I've seen him in a few interviews and he's hilarious plus I'd say he would have a few stories to tell. Mostly involving the growing and grooming of a spectacular moustache. I love this story about Wanderlai Silva.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,455 ✭✭✭weemcd


    in this order
    1) Bas Rutten, man is a personal hero on mine, because of what he has done in and outside the ring. Love the old Pride videos where him and a sidekick would do a couple of skits, one had him and I think Quadros drinking shots with the Pride ring girls, they did look genuinely steaming drunk by the end of it. Talented guy with a great personality, replied to me on twitter a few times (hope it is him replying)
    2) Wanderlei Silva, probably my favourite all time fighter, seems like a great guy who loves his fans, language might pose a barrier but a few pints should help, if need be ill use my phone to translate
    3) Herb Dean, I'd just let him tell me fight stories


    Aside from that Jon Jones and Mike Bisping
    aye fúckin right:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Niall0




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    EDIT: Should've looked at forum title...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    For me it would be Ronda Rousey.

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    Why because God dammit she's hot and I'm a red blooded male.. And I think she'd fall for my Irish charms - or she could kill me by triangle choke all day.

    And we both have a judo background.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭themandan6611


    Simple :D

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    who's your man with John ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,122 ✭✭✭✭Jimmy Bottlehead


    Simple :D

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    who's your man with John ?

    That actor from The Expendables.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Plastikman_eire


    That actor from The Expendables.

    Jaysus, the years haven't been kind to Jet Li have they?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,900 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    I met Cain Velasquez, Chad Mendes and Mike Pyle at a bar here in Sydney before the UFC on FX event. Wasn't a session or anything, but had a bit of a chat with them. Cain spoke a bit about the Mir fight (don't think it was officially announced at that stage).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Tank abbot would have to be a bit of craic!

    Butterbean would too I'd say, but if I had 1 choice it would probably be chuck Liddell.

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭PerrinV2


    JDS,Wanderli and Dana have already been mentioned....I'll say Pat Barry.Seems like he'd be a bit of craic to me



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭Be like Nutella


    Chael and the Nogs ... see how it unfolds : )


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭SuperWoody101


    I have had a drink with Dana and the guy is just A1 drunk & sober. Jens Pulver is very funny when pissed. But I would love to have a drink and a chat with Baz.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 colon


    Baroni and I, tearing it up, from town to town, for a month


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 545 ✭✭✭CageWager


    Met Chael in Vegas and he was bang on, if I could sit down for a chat with anyone id probably go for John Danaher just to pick his brain about BJJ.. He seems like a really interesting guy in any of his rare interviews..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭wingnut4


    For purely seducing purposes it would be GSP, (although hes so boring), Thiago Alves, Amir Sadollah,

    But for a laugh it would have to be, Bas Rutten,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    wingnut4 wrote: »
    For purely seducing purposes it would be GSP,


    Didn't want top be called a sexist but as seen as you started!!
    Gina Carano would be cool!!

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭but1er


    jon jones hand down looks like a lad

    at ufc 93 i got lucky and was backstage hanging around with rogen was gas, ric franklin was deadly i walked with him during his interview for the pre show, shook rua hand didnt understand me of course

    the highlight was Dana White coming up saying hey man hows thing and i was like can i have a shot of guiter hero (time of the vlogs and all he was playing) he coudnt under stand the tick dublin accent of me, he sat me at the side of the weight ins, you could see me in his vlog of the weight ins

    then got lucky enough to run around the octagon :O fun times


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    but1er wrote: »
    jon jones hand down looks like a lad

    at ufc 93 i got lucky and was backstage hanging around with rogen was gas, ric franklin was deadly i walked with him during his interview for the pre show, shook rua hand didnt understand me of course

    the highlight was Dana White coming up saying hey man hows thing and i was like can i have a shot of guiter hero (time of the vlogs and all he was playing) he coudnt under stand the tick dublin accent of me, he sat me at the side of the weight ins, you could see me in his vlog of the weight ins

    then got lucky enough to run around the octagon :O fun times
    How did you get to go backstage and all that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Plastikman_eire


    Only getting around to reading "Got fight?" right now. Based on what I've read so far, I'd like to have a few with Forrest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭mirwillbeback


    cowzerp wrote: »
    Tank abbot would have to be a bit of craic!

    Butterbean would too I'd say, but if I had 1 choice it would probably be chuck Liddell.

    When we went to UFC 50 in Atlantic City, the weigh ins were in the casino, and only about 25 people there. Tank Abbott sitting there in one of the booths in the shadows, I so wanted to go and talk to him but figured he was in the dark for a reason, wanted to be left alone.

    Anyways, next night at the show, he comes in and is surrounded by people jostling him while he has a pint in his hand. We're about 4 steps down from him and my young lad who was 13 at the time is looking in awe. Tank reaches over the small mob and says " This kid looks like he wants a photo " and pretty much lifts up through the crowd. I get my pic and Tank heads off to his seat.

    Pretty cool for a bad ass.:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭but1er


    Dean09 wrote: »
    but1er wrote: »
    jon jones hand down looks like a lad

    at ufc 93 i got lucky and was backstage hanging around with rogen was gas, ric franklin was deadly i walked with him during his interview for the pre show, shook rua hand didnt understand me of course

    the highlight was Dana White coming up saying hey man hows thing and i was like can i have a shot of guiter hero (time of the vlogs and all he was playing) he coudnt under stand the tick dublin accent of me, he sat me at the side of the weight ins, you could see me in his vlog of the weight ins

    then got lucky enough to run around the octagon :O fun times
    How did you get to go backstage and all that?

    My family have a jewlers.
    Allcladdagh.ie day of the weigh ins the producer came in and my mother told him I was queuing. He said don't be silly what's his number and boom I'm around the back


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭Ian Whelan


    Most NOT like to have a pint with: Vyacheslav Datsik for me, guaranteed to end in a brawl.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    I'd love to get plastered with Roy Nelson. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,399 ✭✭✭sonic85


    loads. forrest amir sadollah pat barry mayhem faber the list is endless


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    I'd say Bisping would be good craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Xlami


    When I was in Chicago I got a taxi with Stitch to the event, he was a great lad with serious stories and covered the taxi.

    There's so many Pat Barry, Paul Daley, Siyar Bhadazara, King Mo and Jens Pulver all spring to mind. Not sure if anyone's seen this but very funny interview in which Marcus Brimage talks about getting white girl wasted.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    I change my mind and this is the 1 and only, Has to be Forest Griffin-He is 1 funny lad and makes me laugh. would be crazy night out

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    cowzerp wrote: »
    I change my mind and this is the 1 and only, Has to be Forest Griffin-He is 1 funny lad and makes me laugh. would be crazy night out
    Yeah that'd be a good one alright. I'd recommend his book, "Got Fight" if you haven't read it. It's hilarious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Yeah that'd be a good one alright. I'd recommend his book, "Got Fight" if you haven't read it. It's hilarious.

    I did, it is beyond funny..

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    cowzerp wrote: »
    I did, it is beyond funny..

    Like wise it would be Forrest, read the book but found that it got tired fairly quick........still picked up the second one though.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,342 ✭✭✭Bobby Baccala


    Chuck liddel or kimbo slice.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭jayteecork


    Trevor Prangley.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 th3 lunatik


    matt hughes !!!!! great guy, real legend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    Randy Couture. I wish he was my da (though my actual da is pretty sound too).

    Or for sexy purposes, Carlos Condit.. or Anthony Pettis .. or Jon Fitch.. swit swoo


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