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Maia Prayer Vigil

mixmaster staph said:
I'm presuming you know or train with Jake so I can understand your reaction to this, but seriously, while the fight overall was close, if you take round-by-round scoring into account you could almost call it a robbery.
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Well I'm a licensed judge......... So no way I get it right! :)


I will go back and try and watch it from an unbiased eye, but watching it live I remember thinking after the 3rd "damn Jake could be up 3-0 or 2-1". Gonna research tonight.
 
Ishaq said:
By 5xJiu Jitsu World Champion, Demian Maia? Yes.
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How is he a 5x world champ? He was never a BB world champ. Plus it's MMA. In a submission grappling match I'd say Maia would win, but MMA grappling has a much different flow. It's very hard to submit a guy like Shields in MMA. I really can't believe people thought it was going to happen. Maia couldn't sub Fitch, Jorge Santiago, or even Kendall Grove in MMA, who are all lesser submission grapplers than Shields.
 
SuperSuperRambo said:
I scored it a draw. No way it was a robbery. Only 2 rounds were clearly Maia's.

Can't believe all the hate Jake's getting.
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It's not hate, I don't dislike anyone in MMA :eek: I'm not one of those guys. As I said it was an extremely close fight, I was just shocked when they raised Jake's hand because it looked like a fairly obvious win for Maia to me.
 
SuperSuperRambo said:
How is he a 5x world champ? He was never a BB world champ. Plus it's MMA. In a submission grappling match I'd say Maia would win, but MMA grappling has a much different flow. It's very hard to submit a guy like Shields in MMA. I really can't believe people thought it was going to happen. Maia couldn't sub Fitch, Jorge Santiago, or even Kendall Grove in MMA, who are all lesser submission grapplers than Shields.
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CBJJO Copa Del Mundo

 
I was rooting for Maia but I think it could have really gone either way, so no robbery in my opinion.
 
Ishaq said:
CBJJO Copa Del Mundo

•2002 Black belt Meio Pesado: 1st place

•2003 Black belt Absolute: 1st place

•2005 Black belt Meio Pesado: 1st place

•ADCC champion(which is the ultimate nogi event) in 2007

And he won CBJJ World championships at purple belt.

Majority of the fight took place on the ground. I expected Maia to finish if it went to the ground.
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My bad. I personally had never considered CBJJO the real world championships. But you're right.

That said, I had no illusions that there would be a submission in this fight.
 
the sad thing is, the reason he lost was trying to take jake's back. Twice he rolled over to guard and then jake pitter patted on top for the rest of the round.
 
Poet of Gore said:
the sad thing is, the reason he lost was trying to take jake's back. Twice he rolled over to guard and then jake pitter patted on top for the rest of the round.
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Yeah, the back take and dominance from that position seems to be Maia's go to. Jake was well prepared for it and a couple times defended very well. Once with the hoola-hoop standing and another time rolling in to get top position.

I was a Suprised and and nervous each time Jake rolled away giving up the back take attempts, but he was more than confident in his ground game!

Who woulda thought that Jake would seek the ground and dominate from there!!!!
 
Title Fight Productions said:
I had Shields winning, he was coming foreword the whole fight, pressing the grappling, on top the whole time, much more volume striking, etc.

Good close fight!
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I had Shields winning to, and full credit to him. I just feel that MMA, with its round by round scoring, needs to incentivice risk taking on the ground more. Maia arguably lost two rounds by going for the back, and Shields took them back by being conservative in the guard. Now, especially the way Shields spun from the back take in the 3rd was pretty great, and I certainly don't blame him for playing to win, but fights like this make me wish the rules of the game was different.
 
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No idea how anyone could call this a robbery or say that Maia clearly won. Shields definitely took rounds 2 and 3 and Maia definitely took the 4th. I actually had Shields winning round 1 as he had control throughout more of the round, and then I gave Maia the 5th. In my eyes, Maia needed a finish after the 3rd round and his corner needed to tell him that. He fought with no sense of urgency whatsoever.
 
Oblivian said:
No idea how anyone could call this a robbery or say that Maia clearly won. Shields definitely took rounds 2 and 3 and Maia definitely took the 4th. I actually had Shields winning round 1 as he had control throughout more of the round, and then I gave Maia the 5th. In my eyes, Maia needed a finish after the 3rd round and his corner needed to tell him that. He fought with no sense of urgency whatsoever.
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Agreed. The way he was fighting in the last round and a half or so, it was like he thought he had already locked up the decision.
 
Shields beat Maia fair and square. It may have been close, but not controversial.

But let's not dwell on that setback. Instead, pray for the awesome one to unleash his backtaking fury upon the new breed heathen that is Rory. I know I will.
 
I dislike Rory and like Maia. I hope he puts on a jiu jitsu clinic on Rory ending with a submission.
 
I can't believe that this is Maia's 18th fight in the UFC. I was so excited about him when he won his first 5 UFC fights by submission. However, I tended to always think of him as a "prospect". The time for that thinking has clearly passed. If Maia doesn't get past Rory it puts a major damper on the idea of him ever being a title contender again.

That being said, I hope he puts it on Rory in devastating fashion. This is a better match up for him than Shields, I think.
 
Im praying to Saint Steven Patrick Morrissey for Maia's with Via Sub..
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lit both my candles and praying my favorite morrissey prayer when i need something..
Please, Please, Please, let me get what I want this time...
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