[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JANUARY 3, 2016, 10:45 AM] Following Saturday’s UFC 195 main event for the UFC Welterweight Championship between Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit, Joe Rogan took to social media to rant about the problems with the scoring system in MMA and how it may have cost “The Natural Born Killer” the 170-pound title this […]
Following Saturday’s UFC 195 main event for the UFC Welterweight Championship between Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit, Joe Rogan took to social media to rant about the problems with the scoring system in MMA and how it may have cost “The Natural Born Killer” the 170-pound title this weekend.
Rogan, who has been calling last night’s Lawler-Condit title fight one of the best in history since the horn sounded to end the crazy fifth round, explains why the current system in place for scoring fights in MMA is “inexcusable.”
With the old school 10-point must system still in place for MMA, Lawler went on to retain his title after five epic rounds of action with Condit, as a split decision went his way with official scores of 48-47, 47-48, 48-47. You can check out the complete results of last night’s pay-per-view here: UFC 195 Results – Lawler vs. Condit.
Additionally, the longtime UFC commentator tells fans what they can do to help facilitate change. Rogan posted the following:
MMA's scoring badly needs an upgrade. There's no way the 5th and 3rd rounds should generate the same score last night.
Following a string of unfortunate losses inside the Octagon, former UFC interim welterweight champ Carlos Condit openly considered retiring from the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA), stating that he wasn’t sure if he still had what it took to compete at the highest level. Condit and a number of other veteran fighters were recently
Following a string of unfortunate losses inside the Octagon, former UFC interim welterweight champ Carlos Condit openly considered retiring from the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA), stating that he wasn’t sure if he still had what it took to compete at the highest level.
Condit and a number of other veteran fighters were recently in Las Vegas to attend a Veteran Athlete Summit, where fighters were taught how to prepare for life after fighting. During this time ‘The Natural Born Killer’ spoke to The Las Vegas Review Journal, in which he stated he is currently undecided on whether or not he wishes to continue his fighting career:
“I’m not sure, I haven’t made a hard decision on that. But, regardless, I think all of us in our career we start putting things in place to set yourself up for success,” he said.
As for plans after fighting, Condit wants to help people lead healthier lifestyles by utilizing his passion for nutrition and fitness:
“I’m passionate about fitness, active lifestyle and nutrition,” Condit said. “I think that there’s a lot of different opportunities for that as people decide they don’t want to be unhealthy, and they want to live healthy lifestyles. So I think I’ll probably go into that field.”
Condit recently put on one of the most memorable welterweight title fights in UFC history with Robbie Lawler at UFC 195 in January, in their five round slugfest that saw the JacksonWink product see the losing end of a split decision. Now coming off a second loss to Demian Maia via first round submission back in August, it seems the talented fan-favorite truly is considering walking away from the Octagon.
‘The Natural Born Killer’ Carlos Condit is set to take center Octagon once again, when he meets Brazilian jiu-jitsu stud Demian Maia in the main event of UFC on FOX 21 on August 27th. Condit last saw Octagon action in his title bout with the now-former welterweight champion Robbie Lawler, in the pair’s main event […]
‘The Natural Born Killer’ Carlos Condit is set to take center Octagon once again, when he meets Brazilian jiu-jitsu stud Demian Maia in the main event of UFC on FOX 21 on August 27th.
Condit last saw Octagon action in his title bout with the now-former welterweight champion Robbie Lawler, in the pair’s main event collision at UFC 195 this past January. Condit suffered a split decision loss to ‘Ruthless’ after the five round war, and contemplated retirement shortly after as well.
Robbie Lawler took home a split decision win against Carlos Condit. UFC president Dana White and many pundits and fellow fighters felt Condit had clearly won the fight…
Now Condit is ready to return to the ultimate proving ground, and took to The MMA Hour, courtesy of MMA Fighting, to reveal the circumstances behind his decision to return:
“A number of reasons. First and foremost, I still got a little bit of time in the sport, I think. Still got some fights in me,” he confessed. “I love it. I love what I do.
This is a passion for me. Also, this is how I make a living. This is my job. I got bills to pay, I have kids to feed.”
“I was on the fence until…it could’ve gone either way,” he said. “If an opportunity presented itself and it sounded like it was something enticing, I think I had decided ‘Ok, I’ll take it.’
The fight with [Demian] Maia, it’s a tough fight. He’s a tough match-up for anybody, but that being said, it gets me back into title contention.
I beat Demian Maia, I’m the no. 1 contender, I feel. And I’m back in position to get the belt around my waist again.
While Condit acknowledges that a potential win over Maia could be the next stepping stone he needs on his quest back to title contention, he will not overlook the Brazilian as he has one of the most problematic styles in the UFC today:
“I like the idea of fighting him because he is one of the best in the world. He’s got a tricky style. It’s, without a doubt, a challenge.
It’s going to be a tough puzzle to solve, but I like challenging myself. That’s why I do this. One of the reasons to pit my skills and my abilities against other world-class fighters.
Demian Maia is, without a doubt, a world-class fighter.”
The two were originally set to meet on the main card of UFC 202 on August 20th, headlined by Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz II, but instead were moved to a headliner spot of their own on the UFC on FOX 21’s card from Vancouver just seven days later.
Condit admitted he preferred this move, and the new five round stipulation was enticing as well:
“I like the fact that with this new date it’ll be a five-round fight, main event. I feel like this fight should be a main event.
202 was a huge card, but we weren’t even co-main. We were third from the top. I didn’t necessarily like that.
“Then I had a week longer to train,” he said. “This fight was not super short notice, but it’s fairly short notice.
I had to get in camp and get to work right away. This gave me an extra week to work.”
Maia has a history of immediately taking his opponents’ backs in fights and either grinding out a decision win, or locking in a choke utilizing his wide BJJ skill set. Condit admitted this could be a possibility in their fight as well, but also stated that he “can end this fight quickly and violently” at any moment as well:
“It could be five more rounds of Demian Maia on my back, dominating me in a jiu-jitsu position. Could be,” he admitted.
“Here’s the thing, though. He’s underrated. Because he’s a phenomenal fighter, he should possibly, potentially be a no. 1 contender, but the thing is, his style’s not fan friendly.
He doesn’t fight. He goes in there and he grapples,” he said. “There’s been a few fights where he’s gone against Chris Weidman and he threw down a little bit then.
But in his recent fights, he just plays it super safe. I was cageside when he fought Gunnar Nelson and he had Gunnar Nelson beat. Gunnar was up against the fence, he was defeated.
Demian Maia had the opportunity, hey, let’s finish this out. Let’s throw some strikes. His strikes are very decent. He’s a good striker and yet, boom, shot in.
Shot in on him, laid on him, he could’ve at that point, that opportunity kinda made a statement like, ‘hey, I’m here. I’m not always the boring fighter’, but he plays it safe and he’s been playing it safe.
That’s why he’s not where he should be with regard to rankings or respect among welterweights.”
When pondered with the question of this possibly being his last fight, Condit stated that any fight could be his last, but he doesn’t believe this is it:
“Any of these fights could be our last fight,” he said. “This is dangerous. You saw Cyborg with that crazy head injury. Any of these fights could be our last, man.
This is a dangerous sport. I’ve been at this a long time. It is a possibility. Anything’s possible. I don’t think it’ll be my last fight, but s–t, who knows?”
Condit and Maia will meet in the main event of UFC on FOX 21, live from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on August 27, 2016.
There’s a superb streak of UFC events drawing ever closer, as the UFC 200 fight week featuring the Ultimate Fighter 23 finals and the UFC Fight Night 90 card is just over a week away. Following that crazy three day run of mixed martial arts action, we’ve got UFC 201 to look forward to, and
There’s a superb streak of UFC events drawing ever closer, as the UFC 200 fight week featuring the Ultimate Fighter 23 finals and the UFC Fight Night 90 card is just over a week away. Following that crazy three day run of mixed martial arts action, we’ve got UFC 201 to look forward to, and arguably the most exciting welterweight champion of all time will return on that card. Robbie Lawler takes on Tyron Woodley in the evening’s main event, topping off a stacked event from Atlanta, Georgia.
‘Ruthless’ is on a five fight streak and has been involved in two consecutive fights that could easily be called the greatest 170-pound title contests ever. A thrilling fight of the year against Rory MacDonald at UFC 189 was followed by a five round was against Carlos Condit at UFC 195, both fights are widely regarded as the most entertaining in the division’s history. But at UFC 201 Lawler faces a very different kind of fighter.
Unlike MacDonald and Condit, ‘The Chosen One’ has explosive one punch power, but also not akin to those two, Woodley has never seen a fifth round. Although he’s come under some criticism for not being conservative enough with his energy in the past, ‘T-Wood’ has certainly shown he can get the job done early on in the fight. Speaking recently with FOX Sports, the next contender to the welterweight strap says he has many ways to win the fight:
“Even after I signed the bout agreement, it just didn’t seem real because you know how our sport is — crazy things happen,” he continued. But then when I got to training camp and I started watching film, I started breaking him down, it just got real, man.”
“I can take it to the ground and grapple, I can wrestle, I can obviously strike with creative strikes and get there really quickly, but in addition to that, I just feel I can brawl and bang as well so there’s multiple different ways I feel comfortable winning the fight.”
Although it’s become a trademark of sorts for Lawler to become embroiled in gruelling battles of attrition, Woodley says he is not averse to testing his mettle in that respect at UFC 201:
“I feel that Robbie has one way to be successful — get me to stand in front of him and go with a ‘who got the bigger balls contest?,’ “
“And even in that situation, I’ve got a pretty good chance of knocking him out.”
A first round TKO over Dong Hyun Kim in 2014 was followed by a narrow split decision against Kelvin Gastelum in early 2015. Woodley has been out for nearly 18 months now and has averaged one fight per year since his unanimous decision loss to ‘Red King’ at UFC 174. Perhaps a contest of testicular fortitude against a war torn veteran like Lawler is not the wisest idea?
I know it is easy to remember the latest “big fight” that went down and give it all the credit in the world, but this January encounter over the UFC wel…
Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit.
I know it is easy to remember the latest “big fight” that went down and give it all the credit in the world, but this January encounter over the UFC welterweight title was one to remember.
Lawler came out on top, earning a split decision vs. the former interim titleholder and WEC champion.
The fight was so close that many, including UFC president Dana White, felt Condit would leave with the title. When it was not to be, an immediate rematch was also heavily talked about.
UFC 195 took place January 2 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with 10,300 people packing the stands. The card generated at total gate of $2,003,986, with 300,000 pay-per-view buys.
Several other fights were worthy of consideration including T.J. Dillashaw-Dominick Cruz for the bantamweight belt, Anderson Silva-Michael Bisping and Holly Holm-Miesha Tate for the female bantamweight championship.
It appears that welterweight champion Robbie Lawler will be headed for a title tilt with top contender Tyron Woodley in the main event of July 30’s UFC 201 pay-per-view (PPV) as was previously rumored. Updating a prior statement from UFC President Dana White that said Lawler would ‘probably’ defend his title against Woodley at either
It appears that welterweight champion Robbie Lawler will be headed for a title tilt with top contender Tyron Woodley in the main event of July 30’s UFC 201 pay-per-view (PPV) as was previously rumored.
Updating a prior statement from UFC President Dana White that said Lawler would ‘probably’ defend his title against Woodley at either UFC 201 or 202, who has been out of action since a closely-contested decision win over Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 183 in January 2015, word came on Wednesday’s (May 4, 2016) edition of UFC Tonight that “Ruthless” will potentially headline 201.
Fan favorite slugger Lawler has won five straight bouts in the UFC, including back-to-back “Fight of the Year” candidates against Rory MacDonald and Carlos Condit at UFC 189 and UFC 195, respectively, improving his record to an impressive 8-1 since he returned to the promotion in early 2013. Before moving down to welterweight, Lawler had lost five out of eight bouts fighting some of the top middleweight talent on the planet in Strikeforce.
Woodley, meanwhile, was supposed to face former champion and Lawler rival Johny Hendricks in the co-main event of UFC 192, but “Bigg Rigg” was forced out of the bout the day of weigh-ins due to complications with his highly-publicized and drastic weight cut. “The Chosen One” has won four out of his last five UFC matches, with the one defeat in that span an extremely lopsided decision loss to MacDonald at UFC 174.
White promised Woodley a title shot for the strange circumstances, and it looks like he’ll deliver on that promise if “Ruthess” vs. “The Chosen One” does indeed became UFC 201’s headliner.
The two were originally set to meet on the main card of UFC 202 on August 20th, headlined by Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz II, but instead were moved to a headliner spot of their own on the UFC on FOX 21’s card from Vancouver just seven days later.![Carlos-Condit[1]](http://cdn.lowkickmma.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Carlos-Condit1.jpg)
When pondered with the question of this possibly being his last fight, Condit stated that any fight could be his last, but he doesn’t believe this is it:![UFC-201[1]](http://cdn.lowkickmma.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/UFC-2011.jpg)
