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Originally Posted by Albertan
Imagine rugby with helmets and forward passing and stops in play every 15 seconds so that roided up 300+ pounders can play.
Vale Tudo is what started MMA. If you don't like Vale Tudo you don't belong on this board. TUF noobs who are going to come in and bitch need to stfu and find a new sport because this is the father of MMA.
I find Vale Tudo to be even more of a chess match and a slower game because you cannot aford to get hit. The half guard game is extremely closed and transitions have to set up perfectly or you pay big time. There is no guarantee you can take any punch without taking a fight ending cut or injury. Also throwing punches you have to be accurate and make them count the only reason guys started wearing fingerless glove was because they kept breaking their hands.
Also most top fighters of this era (not so much the younger ones) came up through Vale tudo there is no hiding behind rules like in the UFC (no knees to the head or Pride no elbows) and no excuses when you lose.
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you can say its the father of mma, but they are two different sports now, and there is nothing wrong with accepting the legitimate, sanctioned rules of mma, but disliking or not accepting the raw nature of vale tudo.
The couple of RioHeroes events i have seen have been unessecarily violent. Referee's are not protecting fighters, and the emphasis is on violence. I saw a referee urge a fighter to throw a stomp to an already out of it fighter. That simply isn't acceptable, and it give old-style vale tudo a bad name!
This event is dangerous, there aren't the necessary fighter safety precautions, and its more violence for violence sake than anything else. If you want to watch it, thats fine, but you'll understand that others do not have to accept this as MMA.
Finfight is the best modern vale tudo event about.
