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A HW Gordon Ryan murders all confirmed.
Commentary team was hyping up the fact that the heavyweight champion of the world just figured out how to do rudimentary grappling. Whoa...he used a judo throw...eerr botched...but if you squint, it kinda looked like one! And, and, he...got up from bottom, whoa! Be impressed everyone! I'm supposed to be watching the upper echelon of the entire sport, like wth is this...
we're mere hours away from the "rewatched and Gane really won, what a robbery" threads that typically signal the second step of sher-grief. It's clinical.Lol. Francis can’t catch a break. He’s called one dimensional, then defends his belt with some new skills and fight IQ.
And people still whine.
That's typical sherdog.Commentary team was hyping up the fact that the heavyweight champion of the world just figured out how to do rudimentary grappling. Whoa...he used a judo throw...eerr botched...but if you squint, it kinda looked like one! And, and, he...got up from bottom, whoa! Be impressed everyone! I'm supposed to be watching the upper echelon of the entire sport, like wth is this...
Don't act like you think every fighter is well-rounded in every discipline - be realistic. If Wonderboy grapple-fucked someone for 5 rounds the same things should be and would be said. When Demian Maia boxes somebody up, these things are said. Smarten up, dude.Commentary team was hyping up the fact that the heavyweight champion of the world just figured out how to do rudimentary grappling. Whoa...he used a judo throw...eerr botched...but if you squint, it kinda looked like one! And, and, he...got up from bottom, whoa! Be impressed everyone! I'm supposed to be watching the upper echelon of the entire sport, like wth is this...
Gane's great movement caused Francis to miss every shot and forced him to panic wrestleNo more than everybody gushing over Gane basically because he bounces around, jabs and runs away..oh, I mean his great "movement"
Don't act like you think every fighter is well-rounded in every discipline - be realistic. If Wonderboy grapple-fucked someone for 5 rounds the same things should be and would be said. When Demian Maia boxes somebody up, these things are said. Smarten up, dude.
That's typical sherdog.
Scenario #1: Francis knocks a guy in 30sec
Sherdog reaction: The HW division is dead, it's full of one dimensional fighters with no cardio, Gane is a complete fighter, he's a phenom
Scenario #2: Francis shows a new and improved wrestling game with the cardio to go 5 rounds
Sherdog reaction: yeah but that should be the norm, and anyway DC wrestles better
You're a joke
I think the point is that Francis is known primarily as a one-trick pony with massive KO power in his hands, and the narrative going into this fight was that he would either KO Gane early or lose the fight. Nobody expected him to lose the first two rounds and then wrestlefuck Gane to a decision W by winning rounds 3-5. It was definitely surprising to see Francis utilize effective grappling and steal the fight in the later rounds. I and everyone I was watching with had a similar reaction to Rogan/DC- Surprised by and impressed with Francis' grappling.
Gane has been in the UFC less then 3 years and has made well over a million dollars. He made close to 800K last night. In his last fight I don't know what he made but it was over 500K. Add that in with his other fights and he's not hurting for money.They were joking about how hilarious it was that Ngannou could grapple.
The heavyweight division has the least roster depth and the oldest average age. We are shuffling around a combination of old farts and largely one dimensional fighters at heavyweight because the starting pay is 12k to get your head punched in.
You will not attract suitably young, gifted athletes of that size with how hilariously bad the UFC revenue split is. The literal LHW and HW champions of the world both spent time sitting out because the pay is atrocious, instead of fighting each other.
The UFC is bush league and the heavyweight division highlights it.
Pay these guys already.