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The MMA Wrap-Up was gone for a minute, but now it’s back just in time to break down Georges St. Pierre‘s win at UFC 129 and ask the question, how did we get from ‘Don’t blink’ to ‘I’m sorry for the fans’? As usual, there’s an answer that only leads to more questions.
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The MMA Wrap-Up was gone for a minute, but now it’s back just in time to break down Georges St. Pierre‘s win at UFC 129 and ask the question, how did we get from ‘Don’t blink’ to ‘I’m sorry for the fans’? As usual, there’s an answer that only leads to more questions.
Filed under: UFC, StrikeforceJason “Mayhem” Miller knew that his employers were unhappy with him, but nobody told him the extent of it. Strikeforce had him under contract, and yet the organization refused to offer him a chance to fight, and without eve…
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Jason “Mayhem” Miller knew that his employers were unhappy with him, but nobody told him the extent of it. Strikeforce had him under contract, and yet the organization refused to offer him a chance to fight, and without ever explaining why, he said.
“All I knew is that I sat on the bench for a year,” the Bully Beatdown host told MMA Fighting. “That’s all I knew.”
Only once his Strikeforce contract expired and he signed with the UFC did Miller finally learn why he’d spent the past year of his life waiting for a fight offer that never came. According to UFC president Dana White, he’d been banned from Showtime and CBS – Strikeforce’s TV partners – for his role in the post-fight melee that erupted live on CBS in Nashville, Tenn. last April.
Few fighters can claim to be as familiar as Jon Fitch is with the criticism UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre is getting these days. Like GSP, Fitch is a dominant 170-pounder who’s known for winning decisions. Also like GSP, he’s taken heat …
Few fighters can claim to be as familiar as Jon Fitch is with the criticism UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre is getting these days. Like GSP, Fitch is a dominant 170-pounder who’s known for winning decisions. Also like GSP, he’s taken heat for it from fans and media.
But if you’re expecting Fitch to be especially sympathetic to St. Pierre’s cause after UFC 129 ended in the fourth straight decision win for the champ, you might be surprised by what he told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour.
“A little bit,” Fitch replied, when asked whether the criticism of St. Pierre is warranted. “I think, you know, I deserve some of that criticism too. But when he’s dominating somebody that well, I think it’s up to the champ to put a little more pressure on somebody in the fourth and fifth round. When you’ve secured a pretty solid lead on the scorecards after three rounds, I think a little bit more pressure, because he never really opened up more than a couple jabs and an overhand right. I mean, double up on the right, something.”
Filed under: UFCFor those of us who tuned in all the way from the Facebook prelims to the Spike prelims to the pay-per-view card, UFC 129 made for a long and sometimes repetitive night.
There’s not necessarily anything wrong with that. A good knockout…
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For those of us who tuned in all the way from the Facebook prelims to the Spike prelims to the pay-per-view card, UFC 129 made for a long and sometimes repetitive night.
There’s not necessarily anything wrong with that. A good knockout is still a good knockout the second (and third) time you see it, just like ‘UFC Central’ is still an ‘MMA Live’ rip-off whether you’re watching on a laptop or a TV. But am I alone in feeling just a tad overwhelmed by it all?
When you attend a live UFC event, it’s a full evening’s worth of entertainment to begin with. But when you sit through it all from home and still end up rewatching several of those fights again later in the night, at some point they all blur together in the mind. Granted, the UFC can’t assume that its entire audience is hardcore enough to tune in early, but at a certain point it becomes difficult to keep straight who did what to who, and when. Or maybe I’m just easily confused.
Now that we’ve all had a while to digest and decompress Saturday night’s action, let’s look at the big winners, losers, and everything in between after UFC 129.
Filed under: UFCGeorges St. Pierre won the decision over Jake Shields at UFC 129 in Toronto, but he also injured his eye and got showered with boos in his home country. Was it a Pyrrhic victory for the UFC welterweight champ, or just a sign that fans a…
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Georges St. Pierre won the decision over Jake Shields at UFC 129 in Toronto, but he also injured his eye and got showered with boos in his home country. Was it a Pyrrhic victory for the UFC welterweight champ, or just a sign that fans are too hard on the dominant St. Pierre? The answer depends on how you look at it.
I. GSP vs. Nick Diaz is now the biggest (only?) welterweight title fight the UFC can make. It’s not that he’s run out of credible challengers. Carlos Condit, for instance, could still be an interesting challenger. It’s just that, after yet another disappointing decision, convincing fans to pay for the next GSP fight will be a challenge. A superfight with Anderson Silva would probably do it, but that’s a ways off, if it happens at all. The champion-versus-champion nature of a GSP-Diaz is the only thing at 170 pounds that would sufficiently energize the mainstream fan base. With Diaz’s style – not to mention his penchant for crazy talk before, during and after a fight – it’s a fight that practically sells itself.
Filed under: UFCThe last time Jason “Mayhem” Miller and I squared off in a fight prediction contest, we came to an unsatisfying tie over UFC 121. I knew from that moment that we would one day meet again to settle our beef, but I didn’t know when.
But …
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The last time Jason “Mayhem” Miller and I squared off in a fight prediction contest, we came to an unsatisfying tie over UFC 121. I knew from that moment that we would one day meet again to settle our beef, but I didn’t know when.
But looking at the main event for UFC 129 it occurred to me, there may be no one in the world who is more qualified to break this fight down than Miller, who fought both Jake Shields and Georges St. Pierre.
“It’s true,” Miller sighed when I approached him with the idea. “I guess I am uniquely qualified, since I have been decisioned by both gentlemen.”
And just like that, it was on. Let there be no ties this time around…