THE Front Kick made ESPN's Top 10.
At number nine. Apparently 3 dunks, a goal on an unguarded hockey goal and other commonplace sports plays are better.
How does ESPN rank these plays, seriously?
Posted Feb 6, 2011, 7:09 AM UTC
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ESPN pulled the same bullshit when they made Anthony Pettis' Matrix kick number 2. Number one? Some lame-ass Blake Griffin dunk.
NINJA EDIT: I just remember that the Pettis kick made the Top 10 of 2010, so ESPN got it right there.
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I have never seen a lame ass blake griffen dunk
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Yea, but you've seen COUNTLESS Blake Griffin dunks, how often have you seen the Matrix kick?
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Oh I would def rank a petis kick number one. Just saying Blake griffen dunks are always pretty awesome.
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Basically mainstream sports get the top spots, and even the most amazing thing from sports like mma wont get any higher than seven. Silva could've saved thirty people from a burning building and still probably gotten 9th.
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Haha in what sport is Silva a firefighter?
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MMA, except he puts people out instead of fires.
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This deserves more than the one upvote I have.
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I got your back.
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That's to be expected from ESPN. It's not a big deal though since you don't see many boxing or K-1 highlights making top 10 and it doesn't mean those moves/finishes weren't worthy. It's just very few casual sports fan will talk about or want to see fighting.
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Top 10 lists outside of football season suck ass. There should be an MMA highlight in the top 5 after every major event.
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It's ESPN. Combat sports isn't their focus, so I wouldn't have expected anything different.
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If they don't want to rank the plays actually according to significance I'd rather they leave MMA off all together. Not having this or the Pettis kick as number one on their respective days is akin to leaving a waitress a one penny tip. Sure you left SOMETHING but the fact that you did was more of an insult than anything else.
edit: Me use poor grammar.
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what number was it?
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Number 9.
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You're gonna see a kick identical to this a dozen times tonight, everytime Green Bay punts!
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Fuck green bay. It should have been bears v jets.
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did you want to fall asleep watching the superbowl??
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I fucking hate steelers and green bay fans. Those are the only two groups of fans besides perhaps rampage and Diaz fans that I truly hate.
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I'm a Bears fan myself, which is why I took the jab at Green Bay.
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is there a video?
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ESPN is horrible now.
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ESPN MMA coverage is worthless. It's like they chose some random intern to head up that department.
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Looks like the kick made it to number three on ESPN's plays of the weekend. Weird how that works.
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I like how you guys hated silva before the fight and now pretend to be his best friend. That's some serious fan loyalty right thur!
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The what have you done for me lately aspect of MMA fandom is something I hate
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I had silva winning by TKO rd 1
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I don't pick rounds but also had silva winning by KO/TKO. Hard to pick against a guy with 13 straight wins and 10 straight title defenses if you are picking based on rational and logic.
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Especially since we dont know if the "old Vitor" is showing up.
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I just figured Silva is a countering genius and would find an opening before Vitor did..
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I know. It pisses me off when people diss fighters like big nog and bj Penn because they haven't done anything spectacular in the last 5 minutes.
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Yea, both are clearly legends (and BJ is one of the top 5 fighters ever and Nog is the 2nd best heavyweight ever IMO) even if they are not clearly at the top of their games these days.
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You do realize some people like him, and some people don't, and they don't all speak at the same time?
I personally hate him, but he continually wins, so... good for him.
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I actually recognized 2 or 3 of his most irrational critics praising his performance and wanting to see more but whatever.
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Examples?
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So if I don't like Silva I can't be impressed by the kick? Interesting... I'll have to let my personal feelings get more in the way of how I view fights from now on.
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but i always liked him so it's okay right?
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Combat sports have ruined "normal" sports for me. I went to a basketball game a few days ago and was bored to tears.
Anderson's kick should've been #1... And Jon Jones's leapfrog over Bader to take his back should've been #2.
I actually enjoyed the cerrone fight alot more. Recovering from a sucker punch and to leave your opponent bleeding and humiliated is impressive.