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Re: UFC 78, TUF 6 Finale, UFC 79
i had no idea whether alexander had a competitive ground game or not coming into this fight, but the tremendous ease and quickness with which he got mounted once the fight went to the ground says a lot i think
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Re: UFC 78, TUF 6 Finale, UFC 79
This was a dulllll show. That being said, I just watched all the undercard fights which, without exception, are way more entertaining than the main card.
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Re: UFC 78, TUF 6 Finale, UFC 79
I've been finally satisfied with the ridiculous hype surrounding Houston Alexander. People were talking about how he`s the toughest SOB around this and that.`I never believed it once .... god his ground game looked worse than Nobuhiko Takadad at PRIDE 1. Overall pretty boooooooooooring whole card.
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Re: UFC 78, TUF 6 Finale, UFC 79
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Well, the Alexander fight was pretty much exactly like how I posted. The clinch was inevitable and then once it went to the ground there was no real resistance on Houston's part. Thiago Silva is a great grappler and his top control is quite good. Expecting Houston to stop him with the short amount of training time he's had with BJJ was just a little unrealistic. Anyways, we can all definitely agree that from a fan's perspective, the event was very poor. Least entertaining card since the early UFCs, IMO. [/ QUOTE ] Props. That is all. |
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I've been finally satisfied with the ridiculous hype surrounding Houston Alexander. [/ QUOTE ] One of the more obnoxious aspects of MMA is that a large portion of its fans are bandwagon jumpers who think anyone who won their last two fights by KO is a god and anyone who lost their last fight is a scrub. Some people just don't understand variance and place way too much emphasis on the short term. The best team in baseball in any given year usually wins about 60% of their games, but for whatever reason people expect perfection from fighters. |
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[ QUOTE ] I've been finally satisfied with the ridiculous hype surrounding Houston Alexander. [/ QUOTE ] One of the more obnoxious aspects of MMA is that a large portion of its fans are bandwagon jumpers who think anyone who won their last two fights by KO is a god and anyone who lost their last fight is a scrub. Some people just don't understand variance and place way too much emphasis on the short term. The best team in baseball in any given year usually wins about 60% of their games, but for whatever reason people expect perfection from fighters. [/ QUOTE ] QFT x10. |
#77
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Re: UFC 78, TUF 6 Finale, UFC 79
Analysis of my analysis....
[ QUOTE ] Bisping +246 .25u to win .61u Bisping wins by 3 round decision: +609 .25u to win 1.52u [/ QUOTE ]Bisping nearly pulled it off. Fight was much closer than +246 or +609 for a decision. I'm happy with the bet, even though it lost. [ QUOTE ] Alexander -166 1.66u to win 1u [/ QUOTE ]Bad. Just, bad. I bought the hype. I paid the price. [ QUOTE ] Edgar -121 1.5u to win 1.25 Edgar/Fisher goes > 2:30 into 2nd: -230 2.3u to win 1u [/ QUOTE ]3 round decision, exactly as planned. [ QUOTE ] Doerksen +135 .33u to win .44u [/ QUOTE ]Herman got saved by the bell in the 2nd. I'm happy with the bet, but sometimes, them's the breaks. [ QUOTE ] Chonan +306 .5u to win 1.5u Karo/Ryo goes > 2:30 into 2nd: -245 2.45u to win 1u (Just watched some Chonan fights... seems takedown defence is something that happens to other people. Wow.) [/ QUOTE ]Reduced my bet after seeing the film on Chonan. Thank God. Karo gassed as predicted, but Chonan couldn't do anything with it. Given Chonan's lack of any real fight-ending skills, and Karo being, well, Karo.... the over bet was a good decision. [ QUOTE ] Reinhardt +441 .5u to win 2.2u [/ QUOTE ]It was a flyer to begin with. But apparently not the right one. The real odds on that fight should have been more like 7:1. Bad call on my part, but not a big one. [ QUOTE ] And just for fun.... Gono -191 .5u to win .25u [/ QUOTE ]Haven't seen the fight to make any analysis. But I didn't really cap this fight. I just put a lil on Gono cause he's fun. Good calls: Bisping Bisping by dec. Edgar Edgar/Fisher Over Doerkson Karo/Chonan Over Bad calls: Alexander Chonan Alexander Reinhardt Alexander Final result: Damn near exactly breakeven. (Luckily I doubled my over bets on Edgar and Chonan at fighttime, so I got something out of it, even if my record don't reflect.) Any word on the wig prop? LOL |
#78
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Re: UFC 78, TUF 6 Finale, UFC 79
To be fair, losing in MMA is just different than losing in any other combat sport. Most of us (I know I was) were raised on boxing. It's pretty rare that you see a boxing match end in as thorough a whooping as some MMA fights, like Chuck/Rampage for example. Even if it's a pretty one-sided beatdown, the other boxer usually has his moments and even if he's never really in the fight, he at least lands some stuff and executes his gameplan a little bit.
It's different watching someone get totally and thoroughly walked through like that and the common thought for the general public isn't "well that was going to happen 15% of the time", it's more like "goddamn, that was a whooping. I guess either ______ is god, or ______ just flat out sucks because that fight wasn't even close!" I guess what I'm trying to say is that due to how foreign and new MMA is to a lot of people, the constant deification/discarding cycle is just something we kind of have to expect from the casual fan. It can be profitable though. I'm already eagerly anticipating the Machida/Sokoudjou line for UFC79 for this very reason. |
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Yeah, the Machida/Sokoudjou is a very interesting fight, and I think will be very profitable if Machida is at -150ish or better.
svj, Definitely check out the Gono fight. Pretty good ending. |
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Yeah, the Machida/Sokoudjou is a very interesting fight, and I think will be very profitable if Machida is at -150ish or better. svj, Definitely check out the Gono fight. Pretty good ending. [/ QUOTE ] A machida win means we'll prob see sokou vs houston and machida vs rampage. That would be awesome. |
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