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LostProvidence said:
Wow...first fight I've seen from this Patrick Barry character. For some reason, I'm liking his style a lot.
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Saw his last two fights, violent striker with huge holes in his ground game. Word is he's been working on it, but Antoni Hardonk isn't exactly a real test of that. If he can develop solid takedown defense and ground work, he may be able to do work. In a division full of gigantic wrestling apemen though, it'll need to be some kind of takedown defense lol.

Managed to find a working links to the fights, except the Stevenson fight. I think I see what the judges THOUGHT they saw in the Shogun fight (they were still dead wrong) in that he never managed to put any real combos together, while Machida had combinations of knees in the first, an attack against the cage in the 4th, etc. But short spurts of work without causing significant damage should not in any way beat out an entire fights worth of consistent, punishing kicks to the body and legs. Makes me think certain aspects are being over/undervalued by judges in the scoring system.
 
Its like this.

Shogun fought the better fight. Michita didn't win the fight.

HOWEVER

MICHITA didnt LOSE the BELT. Nor did SHOGUN EARN THE BELT!!

Clearly Shogun won...but I believe the MMA Elites decided that he didn't do enough to take the Belt away, nor did Michita seem like he was overpowered that he should of lost.

Politics.
 
i feel sorry for shogun lol. At the end of the 5th his face looks like he thought he'd won, he gets told he's winning - then when they announce lyoto's name you can just see how pissed he is lol.
 
Come on now, Cecil Peoples was one of the judges. You just had to know that some sort of screwy decision was gonna come out. I believe truly that Shogun won that fight but I also believe that he should have tried to do something more in the last minute of Round 5. To be the champ you have to thouroughly and convincingly BEAT the champ. All well, rematch is already being pushed by Dana so we should see them fight again around April I would imagine.
 
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