Filed under: Strikeforce
Usually when I’m watching MMA fights on TV, I don’t want to risk a bathroom break in the middle of a fight for fear of missing something important. But with last night’s Strikeforce 135-pound women’s tournament and its three-minute rounds, I felt like I was always just one especially long sneeze away from missing the entire fight.
Not that I don’t understand the thinking behind the abbreviated tournament bouts. If you have to fight twice in the span of an hour, maybe you appreciate an outing that’s more appetizer than entrée.
That is, unless you lose a decision because you got taken down twice and there wasn’t much time to do anything else that might negate that. Then you probably feel like you got screwed, and you also probably feel like you need to hit the treadmill afterwards just so you can get a full workout in.