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For being the heavyweight division, its been historically thin. I thought is was turning into the golden age when Lesnar arrived, Carwin emerged, you had Cain and JDS just showing up and Overreem coming over. A few years later, its just Cain and JDS who really is no longer a viable option.
yeah, that was how I felt too. Diego did hurt Gil for a bit in the third but only briefly, and the rest of that round looked like 1 & 2 with Melendez in control. Would have been fine with either 30-27 or 29-28 Melendez.
Cain has the gas tank this division hasn't seen before. Saying a lot with Randy, but Cain definitely already belongs in the conversation as greatest HWY ever.
Heavyweight division will never be deep in comparison to the lower divisions.
Jesus H., does Minuwa practice black magic or something??? Hasn't every one of his opponents had a crazy injury in their fight? Jimmo dropped like he was shot by an invisible bullet, i remember Cyril Diabate tore his calf or something, and didn't his first fight end weird. I see it occuring twice being a weird coincidence, but 3 times just being some serious black magic or something
i like the post fight interview. they bleeped the first minute. Funny stuff.
I don't think Pearson was doing anything wrong, but I think "down" should be defined the way it is in the NFL. If you don't want to get kneed in the face, you should have to sacrifice positioning to do it. And it wasn't like the knees were blatant or anything. He was going for the knee at the same time Pearson was trying to put his hand on the ground.
yeah, i don't disagree. it was setting up to be a good fight.
Yup. We have a new contender coming at 185 I think. And yeah, props to Machida on not leveling Munoz when he was down, that was one of those shots that would have caused some damage
Yes, Dan Lauzon.
it's gotten much worse for Mayhem. A few arrests here and there, but his latest over the weekend has to be close to his last:I agree. The guy's a joke. I can't stand the screwing around in the ring. It takes away from the seriousness of the fight and makes it look like a joke.I hate the Diaz brothers, but at least they back up their antics with good fighting.Had no clue who this Mayhem guy was during Ultimate Fighter. He #### the bed against Bisping in an embarrassing main event performance.
Glad he's gone.
I tried it a few times... not a fan. I don't think the salaries and lineups and points translates well to MMA.
How does this make sense? Up-and-comers there get no legitimacy by beating has-beens like this. So a younger, harder kid can KTFO a fat Rampage. So what?
Well, they kind of do. Look at Emanuel Newton, who nobody knew a thing about and now he is something of a name for beating King Mo. But beating Rampage isn't much of a bump though.
on this Bellator show. I think the whole past week was a response to the abysmal ticket sales and preliminary numbers saying no one would buy this show. I have heard various people talk about it, but the truth is if Bellator wanted to run a PPV, it would have perfect sense to have King Mo bump up to the main event against Rampage, and then have Newton against Atillah Hun (the actual fight which should be occurring for that belt anyway).Many top contenders & future champions have went through similar has beens to get future title shots.
Could be to the majority of folks.
Sure, I mean, even Jon Jones needed to "go through" Rampage at one point. But did that 'legitimize' Jones though?
Beating veteran fighters helps legitimize a fighter. A win over Rampage/Tito is far better for your career than beating some random guy who may have wins over a few guys in small shows. Right or wrong, name recognition is a big thing in MMA.Could be to the majority of folks.
Just not in my eyes. Beating other "up-and-comers" legitimizes them to me.
yeah, not happy about it though. only 2 plays:Bobcat10 said:
