Rod Hardwood Wrote:spoilerz
okay, so edgar won that fight by decision. i don't know what the judges were watching, im going to check fightmetric as soon as they do stats on the match, but from what i saw penn dominated by a slight but clear margin. kinda upset about that.
the silva-maia fight went as i expected. anderson did a lot of showboating, which really surprised me, but whatever. they did a lot of circling. i mean, there was more waling around in that fight than any other title fight i've seen in five years. but, i don't blame them. both fighters are good in all aspects, and that's fighting at the highest level. they don't gamble on wild swings or take high-risk chances. they just take the opportunities that come, and use them as best as they can. neither of them were really making mistakes, and while anderson had a clear advantage there was no opening to finish the fight. it really speaks volumes of maia that even anderson couldn't stop him. also, i think anderson gassed in the third round, maybe he had a little trouble cutting weight.
I saw something completely different. While I'm quite happy that Frankie Edgar de-throned BJ, I saw him win the fight. Frankie used his speed well and got the take-down a couple of times and dominated the latter rounds. The judges agreed with me.
Silva-Maia fight, I disagree completely. Silva could've finished that fight whenever he wanted, Damian is nowhere near where Silva is in striking. There was absolutely no chance for him to win the fight unless he could've taken Silva down and submitted him. As we've all seen in the Thales Leites fight, Silva just does what he does against Maia against any other jiu-jitsu ace. Damian made a lot of mistakes in that fight, but I don't understand why Silva didn't finish him. In the post-fight he said that he just wanted to punish him because of somethings Damian said in the pre-fight interview. Maia is just nowhere near Silva's league, and I think the only legit challenger at this point of Silva's career would be GSP or Lyoto Machida, maybe Nate Mardquardt.
"there was no opening to finish the fight. it really speaks volumes of maia that even anderson couldn't stop him." I lol'd at this. While I do agree that Maia had a nice flurry towards the end of the fight, Silva absolutely dominated him. Silva could've finished the fight in the second minute of the fight if he tried to, when he knocked down Maia with that right cross. He chose not to for some reason. There were just too many holes in Maia's striking that Anderson Silva could've capitalized on, but he didn't. I do give Maia props though, he has heart, a lot of people would've asked for the towel if they had their nose broken and left eye swollen shut.
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