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Originally Posted by broe
The Brunson Silva fight was much more of a robbery
No it wasn't.
Are you scoring the fight round by round? You can make a case Silva won 2 rounds but I can't see a real case that Woodley won 2 rounds here.
Its not the biggest robbery of all time, and a draw is a perfectly fine scorecard but if anyone won it's the guy who won 3 rounds.
We all lost as fans with how disappointing the fight was
Baffling how Wonderboy basically had him figured, out, gave up a takedown, still had him figured out and then... just stopped engaging in round 5 and ran away. If he continued what he'd been doing the whole fight he'd have won round 5 and the fight
It is a bit ridiculous though that if you entirely erase Woodley's flurry in r5 and knockdown, the judges STILL would have given him a split decision.
@SuperMario I expected the fight to be a close grind up against the cage etc, I didn't expect Elkins to finish, I just thought it'd be a close and grinding fight, Elkins might get a takedown if Bektic makes decisions plus he has a chance of a random sub or tko and I mean he was +525 or whatever at close and +450 when I took him, that's just too long for a fighter as good as Elkins unless you're fighting someone with no weaknesses like say Edgar or Aldo who is just better at everything. Bektic was still untested against elite level opponents, he still has a higher ceiling than Elkins but Elkins shouldn't be +450 against almost anyone at FW other than Aldo and Edgar and maybe Holloway although his wrestling is less proven than the other two.
Feels pretty unlucky that I only had a breakevenish card rather than a huge one due to the judges (clearly the sportsbooks thought it was 3-1 Wonderboy after 4 rounds given the live odds) but I at least think my analysis was generally good for the Wonderboy, Overeem and Elkins fights. Vannata really needs to work on his cardio and discipline, he should go to Elevation and train with TJ/Bang/etc in Colorado. It's not like he's with a bad camp either so idk what's going on there.
Last edited by SwoopAE; 03-05-2017 at 08:51 AM.