Islam vs Porier was not a close fight

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Let me start off by saying I respect both guys and Porier really showed a lot of heart digging deep and showing all that he could only tapping when there was no way out (proof of him getting choked to sleep right after tapping).

However, the fight was not close and I personally had Islam winning every round. Islam was clearly winning everywhere the fight went outgrappling him and landing the more significant shots on the feet. Dustin had a few moments here and there but that doesn’t mean it was a close fight.

This is a common phenomenon I noticed whenever the underdog challenger who was expected to get ran through makes the fight competitive the surprise effect makes people tend to overestimate the underdogs performance. Think Shogun vs Machida I where people try pretending that Shogun completely dominated that fight meanwhile it was extremely close and plenty of justifications that Machida was the correct winner. But because Machida was such a favorite, the performance of the challenger was exaggerated.
 
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Was Islam vs Poirier the greatest title fight of all time?

For FLW, it's probably MM vs Cejudo 2. For BW...hm.....maybe Cruz vs TJ? For FW, it's Aldo vs Mendes 2. For LW, before this one, I'd say Conor vs Khabib or Volk vs Islam or Edgar vs Maynard 2. For WW, it's GSP vs Hendricks. (No Rory vs Robbie. Overated fight big time). I will always have a soft...
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By points Yes Islam is winning every round as he controls the fight. Poirier fights hard though. If he survives that 5th round without being submitted, Islam I think will still win by decision.
 
I just realized that ts just said Machida-Shogun 1 wasn't a complete robbery but Machida was a rightful winner as an example.

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Whether it was a close fight or not is debatable, what is not debatable is that fight was a million times closer than I or many people thought was going to be, and Dustin was in it to win it and brought everything that he had until a few minutes left in the title fight or even less left as a massive underdog going against undoubtedly at least second best p4p fighter in the world.

And man, I love me Machida, but that robbery to this day is one of the worst robberies of all time bruh.
 
When the time is 6:50, you could say it's close to 7. When it's 6:59, you could say it's really, really close to 7.

And then you could spend the next couple of hours of arguing if 6:50 is actually close to 7.
 
JustOnce said:
I just realized that ts just said Machida-Shogun 1 wasn't a complete robbery but Machida was a rightful winner as an example.

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Whether it was a close fight or not is debatable, what is not debatable is that fight was a million times closer than I or many people thought was going to be, and Dustin was in it to win it and brought everything that he had until a few minutes left in the title fight or even less left as a massive underdog going against undoubtedly at least second best p4p fighter in the world.

And man, I love me Machida, but that robbery to this day is one of the worst robberies of all time bruh.
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Seems like you don’t know how to score a fight if you consider Shogun vs Machida I one of the worst robberies of all time. What a ridiculous thing to say. A lot of people thought Machida won that fight, don’t pretend that wasn’t the case. It was a very close fight.
 
Istryker said:
True.

In the future people will exaggerate and claim volk won the first fight and Dustin was winning until the leg drag choke
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Yes! Islam vs Volk I is another great example of this phenomenon can’t believe I forgot to mention that one. Although that fight imo truly was close and I had it 3-2 Islam.
 
Anytime Islam has a competitive fight, fans come out weeks later saying it wasn"t close at all. Then a month later it was even less close. Then a year later and islam beat them with a shit weight cut, staph, one leg, and no eyes.

Of the four complete rounds we saw, two of then were difficult to score. It was a competitive fight.
 
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fortheo said:
Anytime Islam has a competitive fight, fans come out weeks later saying it wasnt close at all. Then a month later it wss even less close. Then a year later islan beat them with shit weight cut, staph, one leg, and no eyes.

Of the four complete rounds we saw, two of then were difficult to score. It was a competitive fight.
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It reminds me of all the "khabib was never rocked, he got punched and did the chicken dance because he felt the riddim" threads back in the day
 
fortheo said:
Anytime Islam has a competitive fight, fans come out weeks later saying it wasnt close at all. Then a month later it wss even less close. Then a year later islan beat them with shit weight cut, staph, one leg, and no eyes.

Of the four complete rounds we saw, two of then were difficult to score. It was a competitive fight.
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Thats a pretty common practice around those Dagi-Trolls who chose who they support by cultural background and not fight style or any other real reason connected to MMA.

They have an agenda and they push it, they lie to support their arguments, they make stuff up and they open threads like that, backed up by their buddies who immediately jump in to agree on those made up arguments, to try to convince cluless posters their made up stories are the truth.

Now they try to erradicate the fact (make it forgotten) that two judges scorecards showed that Dustin had won one round and on one he even had 2 rounds won and while they are at that they immediately throw in the 1st Volk fight to shape the oppinion that Islame also took that very easy.
 
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fortheo said:
Anytime Islam has a competitive fight, fans come out weeks later saying it wasnt close at all. Then a month later it wss even less close. Then a year later islan beat them with shit weight cut, staph, one leg, and no eyes.

Of the four complete rounds we saw, two of then were difficult to score. It was a competitive fight.
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balkanbomber85 said:
Thats a pretty common practice around those Dagi-Trolls who chose who they support by cultural background and not fight style or any other real reason connected to MMA.

They have a agenda and they push it, they lie to support their arguments, they make stuff up and they open threads like that, backed up by their buddies who immediately jump in to agree on those made up arguments to try to convince cluless posters their make up stories are the truth.

Now they try to erradicate the fact (make it forgotten) that two judges scorecards showed that Dustin had won one round and on one he even had 2 rounds won and while they are at that they immediately throw in the 1st Volk fight to shape the oppinion that Islame also took that very easy.
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It’s all about narratives and the bathtubbers love the false ones. We have seen this before. Everyone who exposes this 💩 or is not agreeing, will be labeled as a hater or xenophobe, even if the whole thing has nothing to do with that.
 
Conan the K-9 said:
It’s all about narratives and the bathtubbers love the false ones. We have seen this before. Everyone who exposes this 💩 or is not agreeing, will be labeled as a hater or xenophobe, even if the whole thing has nothing to do with that.
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Absolutely, they are at it again. Check out the megathread about the BS stoppage of Cannonier. One of the guys who claims that the Islame-Martins stoppage was way to early is now advocating that the Imavov-Cannonier stoppage is absolutely fine and justified... I mean you need to be a special kind of POS to claim something as controverial as that but hey, its the bathtub brigade and as you said they love false ones!
 
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