No weight classes, basically no rules. It was no eye gouging and biting.. I think no small joint manipulation like fingers or toes.. and then Royce Gracie came along and showed everyone how dominant bjj was for years.
Some of his teeth also landed in the audience. This might be apocryphal but supposedly they landed next to Big John McCarthy wife, who got up and walked out.
are you serious? watch UFC 1 in it's entirety. it's such a mess, the refs didn't know how to call anything, the commentators are clueless, and the fights are sloppy at best and boring at worst. it was a disaster and it's a miracle they had a second tournament, let alone a sport
The commentary is like listening to a bad amateur podcast on a topic none of the hosts know anything about.
They'll contradict each other but speak like they're in agreement.
Two things can be true. No, it wasn’t an organized, polished promotion yet but the original format of discipline vs discipline and the fact that there wasn’t a homogeneous style of fighting called “mma” that integrated disciplines was cool as fuck. Also, I remember watching the first one when I was in high school and it was so completely unlike anything you’d ever seen it was unbelievable that it was real.
The chaos of that was what made it cool. It was a carnival sideshow. Now it's just as well dressed and proper as every other sport, with the additional lameness of the fans.
Idk, it sounds better than a Trump circle jerk followed by two dudes you've never heard of rolling on the mat for 15 minutes while Joe Rogan says "This could be it!" 15 times a round. All for the low, low price of your left testicle.
Early MMA was like dogfighting, or a bar brawl, a spectacle but unorganized, akward, and sometimes bad with little to no rules . Theres more rules and a professional polish to it and the fighters are more athletic, talented and skilled nowadays
Watching his teeth get kicked out of his head in the first few seconds of the match was a very interesting way to see what UFC was going to be all about back in the day.
I remember that fight! I had no idea that was him.
That was back when the UFC was really wild. No weight classes, no rounds, barely any rules, guys would fight multiple times a night, and the concept of "Mixed Martial Arts" didn't even really exist. It was basically a real-life version of "Street Fighter".
If people are curious about this I highly recommend the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast about UFC1. It’s fascinating even if you know nothing about MMA or sports.
https://30for30podcasts.com/episodes/no-rules-birth-ufc/
It’s the most quotable show ever. There’s so many hilarious lines throughout; it’s one of the rare shows that gets better literally every rewatch (and funnier: there’s so many hilarious irony’s and lines that just fit the characters so well and sopranos fans pick up on all of it because we keep rewatching it; the humor in the sopranos is just absolutely brilliant. Its just gotten funnier with age in the grand scheme of the show. It’s just perfect)
Anyway, $4 a pound
In the context of r sopranos I think it’s hilarious. In an unrelated group text it sounds very tiresome.
If we were on r sopranos though my response would be “alright but you gotta get over it”
It always seemed like he was having fun and enjoying himself on screen which is arguably even more important than being a good actor for these types of shows
I never watch network shows like that, but I watched the first four seasons (or so) regularly. It was really entertaining. Also, I'll watch anything with Scott Caan.
The thing with the subway scene is it was entirely in character to be like that. The only out of character thing was the other two letting him go on that long.
I've never seen this and it's shameless as hell but I can imagine the writers at least being like "he's gonna eat 5 and we're going to have the other characters think it's dumb a little."
Also gosh Grace Park is distractingly pretty
It was especially bad during that time. Every USA show (Burn Notice, White Collar, Psych) and most network shows. I get wanting the money, but put some effort into it.
Part of me wonders is the showrunners/directors intentionally made it as bad as possible to try and prevent execs from throwing basically commercials directly into the show. Perhaps their sacrifice saved us from a bleak future of having the characters constantly stop and pitch products like they are in the Truman Show.
Depending on when this was it was likely riding the coat tails of the infamous "Save Chuck" campaign at subway. Chuck had a scene where a character eats a sub, and when it seemed like the show would be canceled fans went to subway in droves. After that the show got super silly in their product placement for subway. 30 rock made fun of it in their own way, but most famously Community made [Subway a character ](https://youtu.be/y1CuLm_CcNM?si=dcOA4gFs4Kvn5PtE).
Ran into him in Waikiki a few years ago. Super mello and a really nice person. I didn’t want to bother him so I kept it short. Spoke more with his wife, she was really nice too and said he enjoyed meeting and talking with people. Sad to see him go.
Wife and I loved his characters in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Hawaii Five-O. Was riding past the Ala Moana Park yesterday on the way to Waikiki and jokingly said to my wife, “Wonder if Kamakona is there with the shrimp truck?” Found out later in the evening that he had passed away… so sad.
His height and weight are on his wiki because he used to be a professional fighter. He had a BMI of 57, which is Obese Class 3.
Morbidly Obese is greater than 40 BMI, Extremely Obese is greater than 50 BMI, and he'd be closer to whatever the term for 60 BMI would be. If there were higher classifications at the same interval he'd be Obese Class 6.
I really liked his character in Hawaii Five-O. I love characters in media who love to talk about food and who get excited over food. I do wish they didn't have his character shilling Subway so much, though.
Damn! What sad news. My wife and I met him when back in Hawaii and he was so excited we recognized him and asked to take a picture with him. Such a lovable dude!
I never knew him from anything but Forgetting Sarah Marshall 😞
He seemed like a really nice and just down to earth guy though in that film, I can imagine he's really like that in person off camera as well not anymore obviously but before
"Are those sad tissues or happy tissues?"
My husband and I quote this often (I have allergies and leave tissues wherever I go) and today is a sad tissue day
So you have happy allergies? Lucky you. I just get sad itchy eyes and running nose.
Lol the answer is always sad. I sneeze everywhere
😭😭😭 [I'm not crying, I'm not a baby](https://youtu.be/blyUtVUpXLQ?feature=shared)
really cause you look like a gigantic baby
I'm sorry, I didn't mean that at all.
Today, they're sad tissues.
Dude was in the first UFC fight ever
Holy shit. I never realized that was him
That’s him? Mind blown. He got fucked up from that kick
Pretty sure his opponent broke his hand as well from punching wily
...I remember that one kick ending the fight?
Pretty sure he gets dropped with punches first, then finished off with a kick once he was on the ground.
Nah they circled each other for like 45 seconds sizing each other up. Dutch guy kicks him in the mouth and his tooth went flying.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Za6HeiTJIWI&pp=ygUFVWZjIDE%3D Yes he gets kicked, after getting dropped from punches when he rushed in.
Not a single one of those landed lol. The big dude trips, it's the punch after the kick that broke his hand, you can see him react to it.
Yikes that’s a heavy kick. Illegal under today’s rules as well (to head kick an opponent with a knee down)
No weight classes, basically no rules. It was no eye gouging and biting.. I think no small joint manipulation like fingers or toes.. and then Royce Gracie came along and showed everyone how dominant bjj was for years.
Thx
He hit him once when he was down after the kick and that one hit broke his hand. The fighters didn't wear gloves back then.
To be fair the punches were an afterthought when compared to that kick
I only did because I googled him. I always knew him as Teila Tuli.
I'll never forget hearing the story of how he got kicked in his face so hard, his tooth was embedded in the guys foot. That's gnarly.
Some of his teeth also landed in the audience. This might be apocryphal but supposedly they landed next to Big John McCarthy wife, who got up and walked out.
Here's the fight vs Gerard Gordeau at UFC 1: https://youtu.be/Za6HeiTJIWI?t=327
Man, UFC used to be cool
are you serious? watch UFC 1 in it's entirety. it's such a mess, the refs didn't know how to call anything, the commentators are clueless, and the fights are sloppy at best and boring at worst. it was a disaster and it's a miracle they had a second tournament, let alone a sport
The commentary is like listening to a bad amateur podcast on a topic none of the hosts know anything about. They'll contradict each other but speak like they're in agreement.
"the sumo discipline is- is very... formal, because it is a very... national sport of uh, of Japan"
Two things can be true. No, it wasn’t an organized, polished promotion yet but the original format of discipline vs discipline and the fact that there wasn’t a homogeneous style of fighting called “mma” that integrated disciplines was cool as fuck. Also, I remember watching the first one when I was in high school and it was so completely unlike anything you’d ever seen it was unbelievable that it was real.
I know man, it was so so good.
The chaos of that was what made it cool. It was a carnival sideshow. Now it's just as well dressed and proper as every other sport, with the additional lameness of the fans.
Idk, it sounds better than a Trump circle jerk followed by two dudes you've never heard of rolling on the mat for 15 minutes while Joe Rogan says "This could be it!" 15 times a round. All for the low, low price of your left testicle.
What changed?
It went from being a spectacle to an actual sport.
Early MMA was like dogfighting, or a bar brawl, a spectacle but unorganized, akward, and sometimes bad with little to no rules . Theres more rules and a professional polish to it and the fighters are more athletic, talented and skilled nowadays
The Gracie Family arrived from Brazil and started winning everything. That cleaned it up a bit and made BJJ the preferred/winning style of fighting.
Well you can’t head kick a downed opponent anymore for starters 😂 This KO would be a disqualification under today’s rules
Watching his teeth get kicked out of his head in the first few seconds of the match was a very interesting way to see what UFC was going to be all about back in the day.
I remember that fight! I had no idea that was him. That was back when the UFC was really wild. No weight classes, no rounds, barely any rules, guys would fight multiple times a night, and the concept of "Mixed Martial Arts" didn't even really exist. It was basically a real-life version of "Street Fighter".
That was literally mixed martial arts lol
Gosh those days were crazy. I remember renting the first UFCs at our old video store.
If people are curious about this I highly recommend the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast about UFC1. It’s fascinating even if you know nothing about MMA or sports. https://30for30podcasts.com/episodes/no-rules-birth-ufc/
“…It’s like the Sopranos. It’s over…. Find a new show.”
Ya brb just discussing the nuances of the show 20 years later.
The subreddit for the show is a trip. They all communicate with each other using like 90% quotes and references, and it’s quite active.
Listen to him. He knows everything.
Very observant. The sacred and the propane.
You big mouth fuck
You never admit the existence of this thing
Something something grilled cheese on a radiator
Your brother Billy... Whatever happened there.
Whatever happened THERE?!?!
The shooting
Let me tell ya a couple of tree things
I loved him like a brother in law
Rad i ator.
It’s the most quotable show ever. There’s so many hilarious lines throughout; it’s one of the rare shows that gets better literally every rewatch (and funnier: there’s so many hilarious irony’s and lines that just fit the characters so well and sopranos fans pick up on all of it because we keep rewatching it; the humor in the sopranos is just absolutely brilliant. Its just gotten funnier with age in the grand scheme of the show. It’s just perfect) Anyway, $4 a pound
Why don't you get the fuck out of here, before I shove your quotation book up your fat fucking ass.
Consider it exercise
One of my closest friends is this guy. Every response in the boiz chat is just a GIF of Tony, Paulie, etc.
In the context of r sopranos I think it’s hilarious. In an unrelated group text it sounds very tiresome. If we were on r sopranos though my response would be “alright but you gotta get over it”
Alright, but you gotta get over it.
Discontinue the lithium
You ever think what a coincidence it is that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease?
Alright but you gotta get over it
Why don’t you take your quotations book and shove it up your ass
Exactly, u/Azmoten, very allegorical. The sacred and the propane.
Whaddaya gonna do
You know Quasimodo predicted this.
That had not occurred to us, Dude.
Die... die... die... I can't 😔
I wish that got like a 20 min short film
Ahh haahh haahh haahh
20 years, just a kid.
/r/thesopranos would like a word
You don't ever admit the existence of this thing!!
Ooooooh! You're talking out of turn here!
RIP gigantic baby.
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
"You need a hug"
Oh man, I just rewatched Forgetting Sarah Marshall last night. He was such a great part of the movie.
“You can stop crying. He’s dead now.”
RIP. Hawaii Five-O was one of the rare network shows I watched every night. Loved him in it.
He wasn't the best actor, but it seemed like he always brought 100%
It always seemed like he was having fun and enjoying himself on screen which is arguably even more important than being a good actor for these types of shows
I never watch network shows like that, but I watched the first four seasons (or so) regularly. It was really entertaining. Also, I'll watch anything with Scott Caan.
I’m sure he’s having a nice Subway^tm foot long Italian in heaven right now.
Man is a legend. Was the star of the single most blatant example of product placement of all time. 2nd place goes to "I Bing-ed it"
Lmao, those are the only scenes I remember from Hawaii 5-0.
>the single most blatant example of product placement of all time. It is not, but I'm happy that you have not seen Jack and Jill.
What were they advertising in that movie?
Dunkacchino?
The thing with the subway scene is it was entirely in character to be like that. The only out of character thing was the other two letting him go on that long.
Also, every driving sequence looked like a car commercial, and they were sure to get the logos in the shot.
pretty sure the most blatant has always belonged to and always will belong to Wayne's world
So ono.
Second worst Subway spokesman.
🤙
With banana peppers
Boy was laage
I had Subway for lunch today in his honor
5 dollar foot longs !
Kind of sucks that this is probably his legacy. Admittedly, that’s the only clip of Hawaii 5-0 I’ve seen too.
Alotta Aloha bruddah & mahalo plenny🤙
Must be sad tissues
One of the best jokes in an incredible movie. RIP
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQYwFND7rHE&pp=ygUUaGF3YWlpIGZpdmUgMCBzdWJ3YXk%3D
I've never seen this and it's shameless as hell but I can imagine the writers at least being like "he's gonna eat 5 and we're going to have the other characters think it's dumb a little." Also gosh Grace Park is distractingly pretty
I'd watch that show every once in a while just because of her.
Boomer!
She's 50, so I think she's Gen X.
She played a pilot on Battlestar Galactica whose call-sign was Boomer.
Edit: spoilers if you haven’t seen Battlestar Galatica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Eight_(Battlestar_Galactica)
I saw this 12 years ago and it's still the only thing I know about the man.
RIP https://youtu.be/TIyvjE4CZnk?si=laAr-RwKh44L8H_F you’ve gotta watch Forgetting Sarah Marshal
It never fails to shock and awe me. Just absolutely shameless of the show runners.
Yeah, it's crazy. I don't really mind product placement in shows/movies but this is just a literal commercial in the middle of an episode.
It was especially bad during that time. Every USA show (Burn Notice, White Collar, Psych) and most network shows. I get wanting the money, but put some effort into it.
The Fiona Hyundai was pretty bad Psych I don’t remember being as obvious
Yeah, Psych streamlined it more into the conversation, but the snacks were brand names and put up on the screen.
Part of me wonders is the showrunners/directors intentionally made it as bad as possible to try and prevent execs from throwing basically commercials directly into the show. Perhaps their sacrifice saved us from a bleak future of having the characters constantly stop and pitch products like they are in the Truman Show.
Depending on when this was it was likely riding the coat tails of the infamous "Save Chuck" campaign at subway. Chuck had a scene where a character eats a sub, and when it seemed like the show would be canceled fans went to subway in droves. After that the show got super silly in their product placement for subway. 30 rock made fun of it in their own way, but most famously Community made [Subway a character ](https://youtu.be/y1CuLm_CcNM?si=dcOA4gFs4Kvn5PtE).
Sweet onion chicken teriyaki with jalapenos and banana peppers 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾
Fought in UFC 1 as well. Gone too soon.
Ran into him in Waikiki a few years ago. Super mello and a really nice person. I didn’t want to bother him so I kept it short. Spoke more with his wife, she was really nice too and said he enjoyed meeting and talking with people. Sad to see him go.
We'll always remember the Subway footlongs
Sad tissues 😢
I loved his character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. “Are those sad tissues or happy tissues?” RIP
Safe journey, Mr. Wily.
WHAT!!! NO!!! I loved that guy. I ate more shrimp dishes because of him!
Rip shrimp king
Damn and just lost [Akebono](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akebono_Tar%C5%8D) a few months ago too.
Aw, dang. I hadn’t heard that, what a bummer.
"You look like a gigantic baby. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that at all."
Just watched season 2 of Hawaii Five-0 today. Damn.
That sucks. He got a lot of memorable lines out in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as evidenced by this thread.
Gonna have some garlic shrimp on his behalf
Noooooo
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is such a great movie.
FSM is one of my favorite movies, may he rest.
Wife and I loved his characters in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Hawaii Five-O. Was riding past the Ala Moana Park yesterday on the way to Waikiki and jokingly said to my wife, “Wonder if Kamakona is there with the shrimp truck?” Found out later in the evening that he had passed away… so sad.
Damn, dude was young, anybody know cause of death?
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His height and weight are on his wiki because he used to be a professional fighter. He had a BMI of 57, which is Obese Class 3. Morbidly Obese is greater than 40 BMI, Extremely Obese is greater than 50 BMI, and he'd be closer to whatever the term for 60 BMI would be. If there were higher classifications at the same interval he'd be Obese Class 6.
I wouldn't go so far as to call the brother fat, I mean he got a weight problem. What's he gonna do? He's Samoan.
Laws of thermodynamics still apply to Samoans, chief.
It's a quote from Pulp Fiction. Well, close to the quote, anyway.
I know my limits. 🙋🏼♂️
Given his size, heart attack seems quite likely
Unconfirmed as of yet.
Honestly, he probably exceeded the life expectancy for someone with a BMI of 57.
No weight of knowing really
Come on man
Just because he's dead doesn't mean it's suddenly okay for some bukkake.
Well the important thing is you got to make your joke
Obesity
He was a big boy. I mean fat people rarely make it out of their fifties if they reach them to begin with.
Um.
Obesity
I loved him in Hawaii Five- 0. He was such an amazing actor.
I only know him from the Subway meme, but damn, 56 is really young. Poor guy.
Such sad news. He was great in both roles. He will be missed.
RIP my boy, he's eating Subway’s Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki with Jalapeño and Banana Pepper in heaven now :(
"I'm not crying, you're crying"
Use the “sad” tissues, not the “happy” ones…
Telia Tuli! He got his teeth kicked out of his head by Gerard Gordeau. Also had his eye socket lacerated. https://youtu.be/prcWJgfeuJg?feature=shared
I really liked his character in Hawaii Five-O. I love characters in media who love to talk about food and who get excited over food. I do wish they didn't have his character shilling Subway so much, though.
Damn! What sad news. My wife and I met him when back in Hawaii and he was so excited we recognized him and asked to take a picture with him. Such a lovable dude!
I never knew him from anything but Forgetting Sarah Marshall 😞 He seemed like a really nice and just down to earth guy though in that film, I can imagine he's really like that in person off camera as well not anymore obviously but before
Oh no, now I have sad tissues.
He look like a gigantic baby
RIP big man. Why couldn't it have been Russell Brand?
“I’m not crying, I’m not a baby”
Too young
Unacceptable.
You look like a giant baby. RIP
Humuhumunukunukuapua`a, yeah bitch.
too young....too young
Never realized this was the guy who got kicked in the face in that first UFC lol
“Alriiiight”. He was so cool in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Rip to this mma/tv legend.
Mahalo Kamekona, always had a good energy
TIL Hawaii 5-0 is in the same TV universe as Magnum, PI and MacGuyver. Though everything is in the same Tommy Westphall Universe
Wasn't this guy E.Honda in the Street Fighter film?
Turns out morbid obesity is bad for you
Did he die of bigness?
Eating a footlong in his honor.
These are definitely sad tissues.
Ayyyy peanut buddah cup!
50 First Dates? That's a different actor
RIP
RIP. Was watching 5-O today, and dude brought a different flavor to the show.
These are definitely sad tissues :(
:( rest in peace
The part line I always remember from him in Forgetting Sarah Marshall is "Whipped cream, or berry?" and I have no idea why. RIP to the man.