LOL...so Mercer didn't try or gave up, or threw the fight?
Mercer got his a$$ kicked in this fight, simple as that...all the excuses you and Kid Dip$hit McCoy won't change that.
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The New Jersey State Athletic Control Board don't believe this was a legitimate contest... why do you?
There are two reasons for exhibitions in MMA. One is TUF as under state regulations the UFC would otherwise have to release the results of the fight pretty much immediately after the occurred. Thus the exhibition classification and thus not appearing on a fighter's legitimate record. No-one disputes that or questions the fights themselves.
The 2nd is when a fight is pre-determined or it is clear that one/both fighters have no intention of winning. This is so people betting on a bout aren't deceived into thinking it was a real contest and thus are conned out of their money. Every other fight fought under professional rules on the card was regulated as a legitimate bout, the results of which can be found here:
CFFC 5 Two Worlds, One Cage Results, Fight Card, News, Videos, Pictures, and more
You will note that the card contained such notable fighters as IFL and WEC vet Deividas Taurosevicius, WEC vet Anthony "Cheesesteak" Morrison, current UFC fighters John "Doomsday" Howard, Nick "The Jersey Devil" Catone and Jim Miller, IFL vet Dante Rivera and UFC veteran Nick Serra. All of their fights are listed on the results... conspicuous by their absence are a certain Kevin Ferguson and Ray Mercer.
MMA has a long history of exhibition bouts put on for the audience's enjoyment and nothing more. Mark Coleman and Kevin Randleman headlined an early UFC with a wrestling exhibition after Coleman's opponents pulled out, Rickson Gracie put on a BJJ demonstration is front of 10s of thousands in Japan. The most notable recent exhibition to occur was a match between Fedor and Aoki which also doesn't appear on either fighters record:
YouTube - Fedor vs Aoki Exibition Match
Now, what other reasons are there for this bout to be an exhibition... and to always be an exhibition rather than say a contest that was intended to be a legitimate bout but was refused sanctioning?
It always amuses me when people bring up this bout and Art Jimmerson as some sort of one-two trump card in these debates. One bout is already classed as being no different to the contest between The Big Show and Kurt Angle from WWE No Mercy 2004 and the other has Big John himself (as well as the definitive work on the early UFCs) say it was a thrown fight. Of all the evidence both logically and empirically available to show that when a competitor (especially a long past their prime competitor) changes to a different rule set (even one with similarities) they generally don't do well against those long versed in the rules? Of course MMA is somewhat of an exception to that: fighters have long come into MMA with little to no grounding in the sport and immediately crushed veterans in a way that hasn't occurred in any other large-scale sport I can think of, but the point remains. It is entirely possible to construct a coherent, logical argument as to why an MMA fighter will nearly always crush a boxer just coming into the sport... but Kimbo/Mercer and Jimmerson/Royce are not the way to do it.
