Did... did that happen?
Cody Garbrant is literally the Arlvoski of the smaller weights, insane hand speed and power but that chin is glass. Also like Arlvoski looked insane until he won the title and now has lost or been KOed like 5 out of 6 fights. Hopefully for his health/sake he either retires or has a decent career resurgence like AA did, I'm not sure I have ever seen a fall like this in the UFC from a relatively youngish guy.
Yeap he put a clinic on probably the GOAT of the division (maybe Petr Yan can overtake him), and he had TJ badly hurt in the first fight where the bell saved TJ and than it all went away,Man, I thought he was next big thing level when he beat Cruz. Then Dillashaw broke him.
I was seriously about to turn that one off a minute into the 5th round. Thought the writing was on the wall for Edwards.
What do you mean? When I say mismatch I mean in terms of size Tony and Nate are both 155ers who moved up (170) and Khamzat and Holland are both 185ers who cut down to 170 and DRod and the Leech are both roughly similar 170's (granted D-Rod came in 10 pounds heavier).You must be disregarding the prelims to make a statement like that but, even so... Chimaev at -550 over Holland isn't a mismatch?
I mean that, on the prelim card, there are three other fights where one fighter is a -400 or larger betting favorite against their opponent, which happens to qualify as a mismatch to me. I didn't realize that you were narrowing your use of "mismatch" to physical size. I didn't even consider the possibility that, in a sport that has weight classes, someone would even find such a definition to be useful.What do you mean?
I think he cracked in the moment rather than not knowing what to do, huge pressure facing the GOAT and he wilted. Reminded me a lot of when McGregor came back to fight Donald Cerrone (to be fair Donald was way past his prime unline Gane) and Donald literally just let Conor beat him up in the opening minutes.Gane was exposed badly on the ground. A UFC fighter should not be able to get choked out in that position.
The thing is when the refs do stop the fight )e.g Pavlovich vs Lewis or Volkov vs Rozenstruik_early while the fighter is badly hurt the MMA community go ballistic (let him go out like a warrior and crap like that), because of that most refs now back off and let a fighter get the crap kicked out of them. UFC 290 was a amazing card DDP smashing Rob Whitaker was not something I predicted.Man I swear the refs are so beyond awful.. They let fighters who are already defeated stand there n take all sorts of unecessary punishment or else the fans dont feel they get their moneys worth...
I'll never complain about the refs in basketball cuz of the stuff that goes on in MMA and boxing(dont even get me started on how crooked the scoring is, especially on the undercards when its some random vs someone the promoters got under his thumb)..
Some guy will be knocked out on his feet and the refs wait for the other guy to come in and throw 5 more punches to finish him off n let the body hit the floor for the fans.. Its still the same after all these years..
UFC would be so much better if they stopped the fights when the competitive portion of the contest was decided, not like 30 seconds aftrer that fact, I see some of this stuff n think "well at least the fans got what they wanted, blood"