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Originally Posted by STA654
Man, takedowns alone winning fights encourages behavior that makes MMA so boring sometimes.
Take the 'control' part out of the judging criteria and just go by who did the most damage to their opponent(as judged by the judges).
control is important. You can't completely ignore it. I agree that many fighters try to exploit it, but just ignoring it completely isn't the answer. Just better judging.
For instance, I thought Mousasi easily won round 2 of his fight. Mo did enough to win the other rounds, when Mousasi was pretty gassed and didn't have so much activity from the bottom, but Mousasi clearly won round 2.
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Originally Posted by LurchySoprano
Shields made himself a lot of UFC money tonight.
I really hope so. He looked dynamite tonight. Henderson looked old. For a large majority of the time he spent on his back, he wasn't even attempting to get out or escape, he was just waiting and surviving. Also, can we finally put to rest the idea of Henderson being a great MMA-wrestler? He's not. He's never been. He's average at best for whatever reason in MMA. Rampage, who was a JUCO wrestler or something, took him down several times, as have many other fighters.
Also, the reffing was terrible tonight. Yamasaki was terrible during melendez/aoki with his indecision. Big John telling Shields 'you have to work, you have to work!' while Shields is in full mount. ****ing ridiculous.