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I'm very happy that he got the W. And I know im just a lame white belt. But was I the only one screaming at the TV for him to pull his arm out of dead orchard? Dude was giving me an anxiety attack. Lol.
Tough fight for our boy. Happy he pulled it off. Even cooler that he won the 3rd from the guard. That was badass.
Wondering if the gloves were making it to hard to get out? To me looked like tried a few times but then he had to loosen it to get his left hand out and then when he did in that final minute it resulted in him losing it.
Think everyone in the area could hear Eddie telling him to 'attack the right arm' so I'm sure he wanted to, just couldn't get his left out due to the glove IMO.
I'm extremely interested to hear some senior ranking members here explain their thoughts on why he didn't finish the dead orchard. I was screaming at the TV too.
Nobody knows but him. Like Tim said, could be the glove. He also could have just preferred to continue controlling him and strike from the position.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Bushby
Poor Eddie was losing his voice. But hey his RG still looked good and got him the W, glad to see it.
I'm assuming Ben wasn't confident in finishing the armbar with his one arm via Muddy Waters style and his legs are almost too long where he couldn't completely lock both shoulders. Also, both guys were extremely sweaty and there was the risk of Robertson's right arm slipping out, which would have forced Ben to settle for the Omoplata.
Kinnnndda like this, except Ben had hand trapped on the mat.
https://youtu.be/b6gMkha37XA?t=49m47s
Instead of risking the loss of position, Ben decided to Drop Bows on 'Em
I'll tell you one thing, Ben looked like a giant compared to Kenny
I think I'm gonna do a break down
That would be awesome!!
Tim, I think the glove was an issue too. Took him a while to pull it out. I watched it again and it looked like he lost position shortly after he pulled his arm out. Maybe the trapped arm was helping keep everything tight.
If we're lucky enough to get an Eddie breakdown, we'll know for sure.
anyone have a link to the match? I missed it last night.
My thoughts exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eddie Bravo
I think Saunders was just really tired, and not from lack of cardio (I think his cardio is good), but from getting rocked a few times. Robertson can fucking swat man, and he caught Saunders a few times and gave him tweetie bird syndrome. Once Saunders had him in rubber guard, I think he felt very safe with the control, and didn't want to fuck up and end up with Robertson posturing up in his guard and dropping bombs. Even just a few of Robertson's bombs getting thru could be enough to put Saunders out. He zombie'd several times, but just didn't seem comfortable transitioning away from that control...felt very comfortable slicing up Robertson while Robertson was basically defenseless. That's what I took from it anyway.
Wow, what a fight. And the ease with which Saunders got into dead orchard, amazing. I think that this works even better as a proof of concept of rubber guard in mma than his omoplata submission, because it showed that if you want to just f*ck the other guy up, it will present him to you fully open AND keeping you safe at the same time.
yeah, well put.
Bump for the breakdown in case you missed it
http://youtu.be/UK0ugN33GpU