August 21st, 2016 at 8:07 AM ^
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August 21st, 2016 at 2:28 PM ^
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August 21st, 2016 at 10:03 PM ^
Talk to Johny Hendricks about beating a guy to a pulp and dropping a decision. That GSP fight was BS.
August 21st, 2016 at 1:47 AM ^
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August 21st, 2016 at 1:05 PM ^
I used to be all about watching cards on the cheap, but $60 really isn't much if you can get a few friends to come over and split the cost. In the case of 202, you get 4 stoppage fights and one of the greatest fights ever.
August 21st, 2016 at 5:16 PM ^
I actually got out of the sport some because the best fights were up and comers in the free Fox fights and PPVs were weak.
Agree last nights main event was worth 60 bucks on its own, but hadn't been the case.
August 21st, 2016 at 7:19 PM ^
The variability is the downside of the sport. Sometimes you get a 13-second KO, other times you get a 5-round bombfest.
I do believe the quality of fights will pick up as the sport grows. There's an immense amount of pressure on superstar fighters like Conor and Nate to perform in these kinds of fights, if only because the UFC currently has select few stars to lean on. The hope is that a few more Conors come out of the woodwork with the rise in MMA's popularity.
August 21st, 2016 at 12:13 PM ^
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August 21st, 2016 at 1:03 PM ^
The funny thing is, Diaz would've won had this same exact fight taken place just a few months earlier. Scoring rules were recently changed so that ring control and forward pressure only count if total striking and grappling are dead even. In this case, Conor out-punched Nate in 3 of 5 rounds and took the decision.
Because of this, Conor was able to duck out time and time again in order to regain energy. Diaz was absolutely controlling the fight from the 2nd round on, but Conor won the game.
August 21st, 2016 at 9:00 PM ^
If they were really following those new rules they would have given Conor 10-8 in the first round. That was a big emphasis of the rule changes; actually awarding a 10-8 for dominating a round. I also don't think a fighter should be penalized for not wading straight forward throwing haymakers all fight.
And lets be real here... Nate controlled about 20-30 seconds of round 2. He got beat up quite badly the first 4 1/2 minutes. Even with Conor backing off and avoiding a street brawl he still out damaged Nate in the 4th round. Nobody controlled round 5 as it was essentially a stalemate until a takedown as the round ended. Nate controlled one round, the 3rd, and eeked out another, the 5th. This really was not a razor close fight.
August 21st, 2016 at 11:08 PM ^