Originally Posted by Pants:
I agree with Joe Rogan on this, though. If you don't like losing by getting taken down and controlled the whole round, learn how to defend takedowns.
Doesn't make for exciting fights, but it shows that one guy is clearly better at one of the most important disciplines in fighting.
Sucks for us that it's so boring.
Pettis definitely has problems with his ground game, no doubt, but Alvarez was not trying to finish or hurt Pettis at all. I don't mind fights that are dominated by grappling if they are trying to get into position to hurt or finish their opponent. [Reply]
Originally Posted by alnorth:
Pettis definitely has problems with his ground game, no doubt, but Alvarez was not trying to finish or hurt Pettis at all. I don't mind fights that are dominated by grappling if they are trying to get into position to hurt or finish their opponent.
I agree with you 100% on this, man. Unfortunately for us, the judges score takedowns even if they don't lead to anything but control, which fucking blows. However, it also means that if you're one of the most dynamic kickers in the game, you need to fucking learn how to defend TDs because people are going to resort to that against you. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pants:
I agree with Joe Rogan on this, though. If you don't like losing by getting taken down and controlled the whole round, learn how to defend takedowns.
Doesn't make for exciting fights, but it shows that one guy is clearly better at one of the most important disciplines in fighting.
Sucks for us that it's so boring.
Pettis was barely taken down. It was just holding/stalling on the cage while not threatening at all. meh [Reply]
Even if I didn't have any rooting interest going into this fight, Cruz coming out to Nate Dogg's "Nobody Does it Better" then Cypress Hill's "How I Could Just Kill a Man" immediately followed up by Dillashaw coming out to some garbage RHCP would firmly put me in Cruz' corner.
As it stands, I'm rooting for Cruz anyways. [Reply]
