Now that is what i call a fight. I wished it had 2 more rounds.
Agree with the opinion that "Guida was in way more trouble throughout the fight than Pettis was."
Nonetheless great fight from both fighters!
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Now that is what i call a fight. I wished it had 2 more rounds.
Agree with the opinion that "Guida was in way more trouble throughout the fight than Pettis was."
Nonetheless great fight from both fighters!
Pettis landed one sweep, maybe. He had room for butterfly a lot of the time on the ground.
And a final point. Guida outlanded Pettis:
http://blog.fightmetric.com/2011/06/...tatistics.html
Hey, you and me watched the same fight! Awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Daniels
Ideally the unified MMA rules would structure its point system to award the decision to whatever fighter would win in a real fight with no rounds, no time-limits & no points. Obviously we don't have those fights due to time constraints but that is what we all really want to know, isn't it?
I don't want to know who can come up with the best game-plan to win a game. I want to believe in the UFC's 'as-real-as-it-gets' hype. I want to know who can kick who's ass in the real world, that's it.
With the shit system in place now we find that elite wrestlers, like Guida, can hold the top positions for 3 rounds despite not having the skills to finish. Clearly Guida won more points on the mat & on his feet - but yet we all could smell that Guida was not going to submit or KO Pettis. I believe Pettis would eventually have won but who knows, maybe he would have gassed in round 7 & been overcome by the Labowski-juggernaut that is Clay Guida.
I don't like the system they have now because it results in a lot of bad calls but this wasn't one of them. Even though I think Pettis would have eventually won I can't think of a point system that could possibly award Pettis the victory. In Torres case last week he was robbed by the shitty point system. Active guard, more effective strikes, elbows from the bottom - he should have won & could have with a better rule system.
The sad thing is that there appears to be no real push to change the system - even though it gets bitched about thoroughly every 2-4 weeks after a card that ends in some really bad decisions.
It looked pretty one sided to me 30-27 is not a great fight
guys....I know I am a ground newb...but that fight was unwatcheable and I can't take it. This is the lay n pray point sparring and it makes me wanna throw up. I'm sorry. We had Clay on top HOLDING position making very little effort to try to win the fight. I know I know...Pettis should train to combat wrestlers, but this looked exactly like a Fitch fight. I never thought I would see this from clay. I love the ground...but let's have some work down there....
Guida did not intend to hold position; Pettis had wrist control most of the time.
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Originally Posted by James Davis
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Originally Posted by Steven Daniels
just because pettis had wrist control, doesn't mean guida would've tried to pass or do anything else anyways. in all his other matches, he's always content with holding people down in someones guard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Daniels