rakic s one decent win is the ghost of smith

[ferrisjso]

i agreed dat rakic had grate performance that night but volkan won

Disagree. Thought he lost both of his close decisions. Either way those sort of close 2-1 decisions are based on a degree of luck and he got 1 and he lost 1. But both decisions also increased Volkans stock in my eyes(and I think in the eyes of most) given he was seen as overrated after DC and Smith fights. In the case of the former that's part of why most think he beat Reyes cause Reyes was favored and Volkan exceeded expectations. I don't think he'll be champ but there's not a large gap between him and the best in the world, he's right there talent wise. I just think Rakic and Jiri are going to be standing in his way and he'll lose at least against them(jurys out on Ankalaev who hasn't fought anyone yet rematched some guy outside the top 20 or something). Reyes might still be better hard to say right now we'll see how he bounces back. Volkan is one of many LHW's in the UFC and Bellator I'd favor over the current champ(he won't get the shot but I'd favor him).

He got thrown into the fight with DC too early cause there was no one else at LHW to give to DC at the time. There was too big a jump in competition there.

 

[ferrisjso]

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Rakic got more Sig strikes in the first 2 rounds at a higher clip and I thought he narrowly won the second despite Volkan defending the Takdowns(the stats are closer than it looked though IMO). Reyes also landed a takedown in round one. Anyway all 3 judges agreed on round 1 and 3, I think round 3 was closer than round 1 like gangganggang said 2 media members went 30-27 for Rakic. Rakic needed 2 judges to give him 1 more round to win the fight after 1. He needed 2 out of 6 that could go either way and he only got 1 of 6 and lost. Media(and btw think biased commentary aside watching from tv minus dound would make judges see the fights better than live) overwhelmingly scored it for Rakic. According to MMA fighting.com only one guy did it for Volkan at MMA fighting.

But both are arguable and while I think he lost both this and the Reyes fight these really are based on an element of whose judging, their criteria of what "octagon control means aka whatever they want it to mean" and when they happen to be looking somewhere else.

 

[alex21cms]

Rakic got more Sig strikes in the first 2 rounds at a higher clip and I thought he narrowly won the second despite Volkan defending the Takdowns(the stats are closer than it looked though IMO). Reyes also landed a takedown in round one. Anyway all 3 judges agreed on round 1 and 3, I think round 3 was closer than round 1 like gangganggang said 2 media members went 30-27 for Rakic. Rakic needed 2 judges to give him 1 more round to win the fight after 1. He needed 2 out of 6 that could go either way and he only got 1 of 6 and lost. Media(and btw think biased commentary aside watching from tv minus dound would make judges see the fights better than live) overwhelmingly scored it for Rakic. According to MMA fighting.com only one guy did it for Volkan at MMA fighting.

But both are arguable and while I think he lost both this and the Reyes fight these really are based on an element of whose judging, their criteria of what "octagon control means aka whatever they want it to mean" and when they happen to be looking somewhere else.

rakic landed 1 take down but volkan defened 9 the fact Volkan landed more and you can t say Rakic landed the most clear damaging shots because at no point he had Volkan hurt or even wobble or in trouble