(From The Telegraph via MMA Scraps)
The Telegraph was in Mark Coleman‘s dressing room following his tough loss to Mauricio Rua on Saturday, and videotaped him experiencing all five Stages of Grief. Watch as the Hammer goes from shocked and despondent to furious at his corner ("I couldn’t hear how much time’s left! Scream it!") to blaming himself for not staying on his feet ("It’s my own fault…it’s my own goddamned [expletives]") to spitting blood into a bucket, which could possibly be interpreted as "acceptance." Of course, his post-fight vent-session doesn’t compare to the level of rage he had after taking his first loss to Fedor Emelianenko at PRIDE Total Elimination 2004. In case you haven’t seen it before, video of that incident is after the jump; audio NSFW.
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commentsReading over the comments here were very predictable.
People who are constantly posting comments about steroids need to have a hypodermic needle shoved up their fucking ASS!
Why are so few people blasting Rua for his godawful performance?
I was dreading this fight right up until Coleman came into the ring...and then I got kind of excited. Maybe it would be the Coleman of old? But yeah...it was hard to watch after the first round.
He's way passed his prime, and age and other things have caught up to him, but Rua was verry reluctant to even get a piece of the guy.
Shogun should have finished him easy, except Coleman is like a cornered animal...you're pretty sure he's done, but you're not gonna get close enough to find out.
15 seconds or no 15 seconds...that uppercut closed the book on that horrendous fight.
"FUCK IT! WE'LL DO IT LIVE, WE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCK'N THING SUCKS."
Damage from punches, and roids, and more punches has made Coleman the joke we saw in the ring.
Betty Page said it best " I don't want anyone to ever take a picture of me when I am old, that is NOT how I want to be remembered."
While Coleman will never be confused for Betty page, at least SHE had enough sense to disappear when she got to old.
What is it with old has-beens? Why must the try to prove something they never can? it always ends up with some poor old slub getting schooled by the young bull, and this causes dumbass Brock lesner fans to suck his cock cause he beat an old used up has been randy....it's shit like that , that is the reason Brock JOKner is a paper champ.
"Pride rules shogun would've finished him in the first" I am sure what you meant to say was a juiced up Shogun would have finished him in the first. Lets be real Shogun is only 27 years old and looked like a gassed out old man out there. Chuck is going to take his flippin head off if he stands there and trades punches with his hands at his side again.
Thanks for the thoughts. I've never been a fan of Coleman or Hammerhouse. In fact, I was asking myself for a long time how one can be in this game without evolving at all throughout the years. But you certainly can't question his heart and spirit. Give respect where respect is due.
That was a joke right? Rua strikes were sloppy at best, and there has to be a difference between having the courage(or mental retardation) to stand there and take punch after punch and stand there and take 20 punches in the face because you have no idea where you were after the first punch.
Coleman was gassed literally 20 seconds into the fight, and to say he was taking Rua down is very generous, to say Coleman was falling down and just fell on Rua on the way down is far more realistic.
Sure Coleman is a legend, but that fight was horrible to watch, its like watching a 25 year old grandson beat the snot out of his grandfather for giving him a crappy Christmas present.
Coleman was thrown to the wolves just as Alan Belcher was, just Alan had age on his side, Dana must be tearing his scalp out.
I wouldn't call it a "hard-on", per se, I'd call it more of an "appreciation" or "respect". I can see why a guy of your caliber might confuse the two though. Next time I'll be more clear.
But I'm 39 now and I have to say that was amazing what he did. simply amazing. Maybe he gassed. I think that's part of it. But part of it was also that he was eating brutal strikes from Shogun in between taking him down. I don't think the man was fully conscious for half the fight. But his heart, his competitiveness...
He showed Courage and determination worthy of a Samurai. You all are entitled to hate him if you want but of all the fight's I've seen in the UFC this one most demonstrated what it means to be a true warrior and a real man. If all you can see is failure in Coleman's performance then that's truly sad. I'm glad the UFC saw differently and rewarded him with fight of the night.
Truly Coleman deserves his place in the hall of fame.
He should be the most feared man in all MMA.
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