Yeah.. pretty much a awful event.Yeah - way too many disqualifications/odd finishes in this event. It was garbage all around. Sergei came out bigger and way fatter than usual. Fedor is fat, but at least his arms are pure muscle - Sergei is now relying on fat tissue to save his arse (and his chin - sadly, Fedor lost his a while back).
Dunno if I'll have much interest in watching a rematch, Sergei is unmotivated and is way out of shape -
<{chips}>how in gods name do you low blow from north south..
It got past the first round, so with a unintentional eye poke stopping the fight they went to the scorecards, and Sergei won the 1st. Right decision, i guess.So wait....sergei got eye poked and couldn't continue, so they made a judges technical decision and gave it to Sergei?
Hell yeah, war Sergei!Sergei is 12-2 since 2010. He may be fat and unmotivated but he still has it. Would love a "motivated" Sergei to start making some noise again. He's always a threat.
Stop being a dickhead, let us dream.
After his amateur performance against Barnett he hasn't fought anyone. And recently barely beat Joey Beltran. He certainly doesn't have "it" anymore at all. Give it up.
Fuck!
His eye looks nasty. He didn't say anything about it but I'm wondering if he will fight May 30. It's just around the corner! Knowing him I'm sure he wants too but that's probably not wise.
his opponent is a good BR striker, he has like 90% of his wins by KO and 5 of his 6 loses were by submission, 1 being by DQ..
if Storm keeps on the feet, what is more likely to happen, should be a good one
competitive.. Sergei got taken down by Anton, who advanced to Sergei's back and stayed there for a bit, and with a sweep Sergei got top position and made some work at Anton's body, scoring some points.. on the feet, Sergei was getting outstruck because of Anton's speed advantage.. fuck i can't believe this ending..
Probably, Storm only's been knocked out once, dude has a granite chin and can fucking bang, probably gets a KO win there.Ya, on paper it looks good and even a dangerous fight for Storm. But I still think Storm is just too much for Bruno. But it must be a good brawl anyways.
Dude Anton took 1 solid punch and it was the last one, other than that they were trading jabs and weak shots, there were no really big punches in the 40 seconds that lasted the 2nd round, and tbh Anton connected more R2, yeah Kharitonov was walking forward but getting countered as well..As the eyepoke happened things clearly seemed to be shifting towards Sergei for me, Anton was getting backed up and was taking some big punchs which honestly makes me wonder how accidental it was..
Dude Anton took 1 solid punch and it was the last one, other than that they were trading jabs and weak shots, there were no really big punches in the 40 seconds that lasted the 2nd round, and tbh Anton connected more R2, yeah Kharitonov was walking forward but getting countered as well..
I don't think that 2nd round was going in anyone's way to be honest, very competitive and didn't lasted enough to make such analysis, Anton was a bit tired because of the body shots R1 and that's all, not nervous, and considering Kharitonov last fight who knows for how much he could have kept walking forward with his guard up, he gasses quickly nowadays.Sergei was eating a few shots coming forward but I'd say the fight was clearly going the way he'd want to it, the way he's fought for years now, back opponents up and depend on superior power on the inside, I think you could see Anton was getting a little nervy about it.
Honestly I wasn't that impressed with Anton, I mean yeah he looks decent but against an old/slow Sergei who's now very hittable and depends on his chin. As with so many HW eastern European prospects I just think there isn't the raw materials here that we saw with Fedor, Sergei, Aleks or Arlovski back in the day.
I don't think that 2nd round was going in anyone's way to be honest, very competitive and didn't lasted enough to make such analysis, Anton was a bit tired because of the body shots R1 and that's all, not nervous, and considering Kharitonov last fight who knows for how much he could have kept walking forward with his guard up, he gasses quickly nowadays.
Yeah i'm not impressed with Anton either, he's pretty much what i expected and saw in his other fights, but he's a fresh prospcet and good to go, there's a lot of room to improve.
Now if you are talking down the Eastern European HW prospects, stop it. Pavlovich could be a top 3 heavyweight on the planet and we don't know yet. He's a hell of a prospect, same for Aliakbari and Goltsov. These guys would give problems to ANYONE. Hell, i would bet at them against someone like Hunt or Derrick Lewis without thinking a lot about it, and i'm not really a betting guy.
PS: Vyazigin is not a top prospect in Europe, he's a decent one, but not someone i would have in my top 10 most promising, let's say.
Heh, i didn't felt like that at all, maybe that's just a bit of wishful thinking of your part? Maybe we aren't seeing the same things, who knows.It wasn't clear Sergei domination or anything like that but as I said I was thinking right before the eye poke that the fight was starting to move in Sergei's favour and half expecting him to land a fight ending punch quite soon.
Yeah I'd agree Pavlovich looks like the best HW prospect in the world right now, the only one I'v seen who seems to really have explosive speed on the level of the older names mentioned, perhaps lacking somewhat in refined boxing but its easier to see him advancing. Whilst declining standards at HW are definitely an issue(Sergei in Pride form would be up there with Stipe fighting for the #1 spot IMHO) there is definitely an issue with the UFC monopolising rankings, big names staying ranked higher because their fighting each other.
In the higher weightclasses generally I always felt Vadim Nemkov looked like he had the best potential, lost some fighting to guys with less potential due to tactical issues.
Heh, i didn't felt like that at all, maybe that's just a bit of wishful thinking of your part? Maybe we aren't seeing the same things, who knows.
You don't think Goltsov and Aliakbari are great prospects? Really? If you don't mind, i assume you haven't seen their last performances? They looked like world beaters there. And sure, the competition has to be considered, but they are facing *some* tough vets who aren't that easy to look good against.
About Vadim, i like him, but being real i always struggle to see why people think so highly of him to a point where he's appointed as a top LHW, ahead of his brother.. i mean, Vadim is 25 years old while Viktor is 31, and therefore Vadim ceiling is probably MUCH higher, but do you think Vadim would beat Viktor?
When i watch their fights, i always feels like in the grappling department they're at very different levels, Viktor also being bigger than Vadim, probably having less of a gas tank and speed. Striking wise, they are a bit different and i don't know who i would give the edge.
Actually, doing some MMA math here, Viktor > Edilov > Jiri > Vadim.
People talk about how weak LHW is, but that's pretty much only the UFC (and isn't that weak, many prospects there), because if you look to worldwide MMA, you have all these guys who are promising and exciting, and Yusupov, Ibragimov, Puetz (idk where he's at nowadays), Albrektsson etc.