Babalu calls it quits and retires.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/bellator-96-results-king-mo-043359666--mma.html


16 years as a fighter is a good stint. Good luck on future things. My guess is that he will probably stay active on the grappling circuit still.

I disagreed with the stoppage. They were both winded as fuck anyone who landed in the last couple, could have won it IMO. Babalu was wobbled but no where near out. He had a decent run, I always thought he had the talent to do a little more in the UFC than what he did. Just couldn't seem to put the pieces together quite right.

Yeah it seemed like a bit of a premature stoppage.  The only thing I can say is I think it was mentioned that it appeared to the ref that Babalu was looking for a way out.  I guess the ref saw something in his face that we couldn't see...some desparation I suppose.

I thought it was slightly premature, but I think the ref stopped it because he sort of wobbled and put his back to Noe. Always liked Babalu ,but I agree with Chrom he was a guy with a lot of talent and skills that wasn't able to package it together.

I've always liked Babalu.  He was on the card at the first live MMA event I went to.
http://www.sherdog.com/events/WEF-8-Goin-Platinum-306

A bunch of us in college roadtripped from Wisconsin to Georgia since a guy that coached us a lot of BJJ was on the card.  We didn't even know who else was on this card, but a lot of awesome fights.

In the main event, Phil Johns (who my best friend fought later that year for the Extreme Challenge belt) got KO'd by Jens Pulver.

Pat Militech got wrecked by Pele (Jose Landi-Jones).  So awesome since we all hated Militech's LnP style which was not as common in 2000.  Pele had none of it an pretty much chased him around the ring and beat the shit out of him for 8 minutes befoe the corner threw in the towell.  I remember loving Pele after that fight.  He was very exciting to watch, but could never string enough wins together before getting subbed by a good bjj guy.  He did KO Matt Hughes in 2001.

Jeremy Horn got screwed out a decision against Big Nog.

Bobby Hoffman hit some guy in the face about 12 times full power before the ref decided to pull him off.

Babalu fought Brad Kohler (who was a heavy favorite coming off a brutal UFC KO victory about a year earlier).  Babalu (not really known at the time) messed him up bad and put him on a stretcher.  Babalu got a sweet takedown.  Then Kohler pretty much gave up his back as he was eating punches in full mount.  Kohler kind of turtled up expecting Babalu to take his back, but instead Babalu stood up and then ran at him with a devestating soccer kick like he was kicking a field goal.  Kohler went on to lose 9 more fights in a row after that.

Matt Hughes TKO'd some guy (doctor stoppage) after too much blood from GnP.  It took a lot to stop a fight from too much blood back then.

Aaron Riley was even on the card.

Those were the good ol days.  You never see a stacked card like that anymore, much less pay like 8 bucks a ticket for the cheap seats and then just move your way up pretty close to ringside after the first couple fights.

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Damn that did sound like a pretty sweet card to see live.

Yeah it sucks we don't get to see cards like that anymore

I always liked the Sobral-Kohler fight, Kohler was huge and the announcers were talking about how strong he was. Babalu who's never looked particularly cut just held him there landed knees and then kicked his head off.

I also saw Kohler's fight against Jason Allar at the fkn Brat Stop in Kenosha, WI later that year.  Talk about a fall from grace.  Guy looked like he had not been doing anything for 3 months except eating grilled cheese popsicles and horse hormones.  His pupils were about the size of pin heads and pretty sure he snorted about 5 line of coke before he went into the ring. 
He pretty much blew his wad in the first 11 seconds and then could barely throw another punch.  He eventually went unconcious after taking about 12 knees on the ground after a shot was stuffed.

By buddy got screwed out a split decision against Jeff Curan on the same card.  Sean Sherk was one of the judge which was a little biased considering they were training together and acting like best buds the entire night.