I thought for sure it was seeing the homey die the ring, but I believe now it could be the money thing too. Have to wait and see.
Holy shyt, just saw that the guy who killed Carvalho in the ring was Charlie "The Hospital" Ward.
This is why I don't get how people shyt on boxing. UFC got these overhyped superstars who catch major Ls so it makes you wonder how good these guys actually are. It happens way too much for me to buy into their stars.
The issue is that there's too many facets to the game. The best striker isn't necessarily going to be the best ground-and-pound isn't going to be the best at submissions. There are too many different variables, and someone who is dominant in several aspects of the game can still be caught out by someone whose style fits into their weakness.
Serena is incredible, but she gets caught all the time. Tiger was the greatest golfer ever at his peak, but he still won no more than half his matches even in his prime. It's only the extremely simple sports, like running or swimming or boxing, where you literally expect the same guys to win every single time. (And even then, the best runners/swimmers in the world don't win every race, because THEY don't get to dodge opponents who aren't good for them.)
Yet, that dodging. The way MMA is controlled so much from up top, the best fighters in a weight class usually fight each other. In boxing each fighter has a lot more power, so they can dodge losses a lot more. That's why Floyd doesn't fight Manny until he's 36, didn't take Cotto when Cotto was at his prime, and why he ducked Winky Wright. If Floyd kept getting matched up against the best fighter available, he was going to take a loss sooner or later.
And that's in a sport where you can ONLY use your hands that are covered in gloves, ONLY fight standing up, can ONLY hit above the waist, and have judges that are...um...suspect at best. In a sport where you can use hands, elbows, feet, knees, hit, grab, throw, tackle, fight from your feet or your knees or your back or the fence, choke someone out or dislocate their elbow or knock them unconscious...there's going to be a hell of a lot more variability.
It's really just the nature of the game, everyone gets caught at some point
Because UFC doesn't protect their fighters and pad their records like boxing does.
Styles make fights in the UFC and losing doesn't make you a bum like the average casual dikkhead would think, it usually reflects a hole in their game exploited by a bad matchup. Werdum is a good example seeing as it took damn near a decade for his striking to come around, now he's one of the most complete fighters in the UFC
Yep.
