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A Brutally Honest Review UFC 319’s Main Event.

Yes, yes I can. This is sports entertainment and the rules need to be changed to ban point fighting of all kinds.

Boxing did it with dirty boxing. That's the most effective form of boxing strategy, and it's banned because this is prize fighting, and it's boring for fans to watch.

The rules need to be changed to ban what Khamzat did.
What do you propose, quick stand-ups? I know it was pitter patter, but he hit DDP 500 times. It's on DDP to get on his feet. The rules already favor the striker by standing them up every 5 minutes. If that was one round, DDP would have never gotten up once.
 
We can all agree that main event wasn't exciting. Boy, a lot on here just don't want to give Khamzat credit for what he did though. DDP was no slouch leading up to this, but Khamzat completely neutralized DDP's game.

Khamzat completely dominated DDP. Most fans on here thought Khamzat would run through DDP and he did. DDP was good enough to not get submitted and that was about it. Styles make match ups and maybe that is all we saw Saturday. Because besides this fight no one was saying Khamzat was a boring fighter.
 
I forgot people were saying this would be fight of the year before it happened. If it goes to decision it'll be fight of the year.

Lol. Good watch, but not a good one for super casuals or new fans, unless they really like Khamzat.

Yawn fest going forwards? Nah I don't think so. Khamzat will improve further, and hopefully not just with his wrestling but his finishing. And some of these contenders won't fair so well defensively when taken down.
 
Oh sure, his two title defenses was almost identical to Silva's ten.
Knocking out Brunson and Whittaker still counts towards a legacy. There’s more to life than just ‘title fights’.

Werdum was the first man to beat Fedor. It doesn’t somehow become less impressive because there was no belt on the line.
 
What do you propose, quick stand-ups? I know it was pitter patter, but he hit DDP 500 times. It's on DDP to get on his feet. The rules already favor the striker by standing them up every 5 minutes. If that was one round, DDP would have never gotten up once.
-mandatory 60 second standups without dominant position and/or significant damage
-warnings and point deductions for repeated efforts to "point fight" in any way/shape/form

The rules should be written that at all times you must be attempting to do damage (and risk being caught in an armbar/triangle), or passing to dominant position AND trying to finish the fight. If you just take someone's back and land rabbit punches, refusing to take a risk and possibly lose the position, then you are warned, and if you keep doing it then you lose a point.

Again, boxing had to deal with the most effective form of boxing, dirty boxing, and ban it due to being boring to watch. MMA is inevitably going to have to do the same. But these rule changes take time. Boxing took over 100 years to fully deal with dirty boxing, and you could argue that there's still work to do in some cases.
 
Im still a big fan of the Middleweight division but i dont have any particular interest in Khamzat title fights, it will either be an incredibly quick mauling or a 5 round drag, ill pass.
 
I forgot people were saying this would be fight of the year before it happened. If it goes to decision it'll be fight of the year.

Lol. Good watch, but not a good one for super casuals or new fans, unless they really like Khamzat.

Yawn fest going forwards? Nah I don't think so. Khamzat will improve further, and hopefully not just with his wrestling but his finishing. And some of these contenders won't fair so well defensively when taken down.

You don’t give up position for submission. If DDP tried any escapes and gave up a sub, I have no doubt Khamzat would have taken it.
 
Man ddp was terrible, he looked like a child in there and did nothing to make khamzat think i better do more.

I do wish khamzat pushed it abit more for the finish but jesus DDP looked as bad as people expect him to be.
 
Goddard is that you? lol

In all seriousness though, fighters need to learn how to stuff the TD and improve their groundwork. This isn't some new phenomenon or cheat code, Khamzat is too fast/strong/skilled for the others
 
but but but, he held him down! aren't you impressed? Please be impressed.
I can say the arena went from pro Khamzat to Dricus around the 3rd rd. Khamzata strength and skill at grasping cant be denied he may be better than Khabib .

How you get 5 crucified and no damage I have no idea . Khamzat is grappling monster with a pillow fisted gnp.

That said DDP fought like he never used grappling defense . He didnt make Khamzat work much he relied on his strength to get him out didnt even use a gaurd .

Khamzat obviously worked on cardio and looked levels better but Dricus never made him work with gaurd either.

If he fights every 6 months instead of once a year fine but if it's once a year this gonna suck if once a year to get this kind of fight
 
My takeaway of the main event was that almost all Sherdoggers and MMA fighters were wrong in their prediction that Khamzat would be dangerous in the first couple of rounds, and the longer the fight went, the better it was for DDP

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Measured Khamzat showed up. He was heavily pacing himself and you could tell he was just riding the clock out. He did not want to risk it by standing up or going too hard for a finish.
 
I can say the arena went from pro Khamzat to Dricus around the 3rd rd. Khamzata strength and skill at grasping cant be denied he may be better than Khabib .

How you get 5 crucified and no damage I have no idea . Khamzat is grappling monster with a pillow fisted gnp.

That said DDP fought like he never used grappling defense . He didnt make Khamzat work much he relied on his strength to get him out didnt even use a gaurd .

Khamzat obviously worked on cardio and looked levels better but Dricus never made him work with gaurd either.

If he fights every 6 months instead of once a year fine but if it's once a year this gonna suck if once a year to get this kind of fight
100% DDP fucked his career up massively with this fight.
 
That fight was the MMA equivalent of a 40 minute porno with no money shot.
Basically this. At the Arena it was like a Rocky 4 without the ending. Everyone was cheering for Khamzat at start then by 3rd everyone cheering against him n for Dricus due ti boredom.
 
If you should be upset at anyone, it's DDP, not Khamzat.

He's tough as nails and has consistently found a way to win - but there was nothing he could do against Khamzat. And neither could probably any other MW in UFC history.

I would be curious to see how a prime Yoel Romero might have done
When are we gonna stop singing this shit song? DDPs fault?

Who initiated the takedown? Khazmat
Once down, who didn't go for a finish? Khazmat
Who played paddy cake? Khazmat
Who hugged from behind to just throw knees to an ass cheek? Khazmat

DDP was willing to do it all, but hey, the rule set is the rule set, khazmat dictated where fight goes, so you cant give him credit for his control and ignore that it was all he had.

Khazmat learned he cant strike well after gilbert, so he stuck with his dull wrestling. Shit, the Robert fight showed me nothing but him grappling and a hail mary jaw break.

It was a cowardly way to win. TS and myself maybe assholes for saying it, but we all know wtf were talking about.
 
Yes, yes I can. This is sports entertainment and the rules need to be changed to ban point fighting of all kinds.

Boxing did it with dirty boxing. That's the most effective form of boxing strategy, and it's banned because this is prize fighting, and it's boring for fans to watch.

The rules need to be changed to ban what Khamzat did.
Point fighting is still around in boxing, what are you going on about? You want to ban wrestling? Go watch boxing then.


there you go, see ya!
 
The fight sucked from an entertainment perspective - Khamzat did nothing with the top position and DDP just laid there trying not to get finished

Both are to blame but DDP should have been better prepared IMO - he knew what he was in for

Also can anybody translate what DDPs corner were saying between rounds? It looked like a whole lot of nothing to say he was getting his ass beaten so badly
 
What do you propose, quick stand-ups? I know it was pitter patter, but he hit DDP 500 times. It's on DDP to get on his feet. The rules already favor the striker by standing them up every 5 minutes. If that was one round, DDP would have never gotten up once.
He did what he had to do to get the gold.
 
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