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.
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