Which Fight Was More Underwhelming?

[datfnguy]

Stylebender/Romero

OR

Woodley/Wonderboy II

Upon completion of last night’s main event, it struck me that I would never go out of my way to watch that fight again. Was it intriguing while it was live? Sure, but no fucking way would I watch that again. Then it struck me - It kinda felt like Woodley/Wonderboy, particularly their second fight. During each respective fight, there was an air of ‘Either man could land something big and alter this fight, at any moment’. However, when that ‘something big’ doesn’t come, you get a true snoozer.

The counter striker, with many kicks and pinpoint accuracy, who has to consider the threat of the takedown

Vs

The credentialed wrestler, with power to finish the fight in the blink of an eye, who also has to think about the pace of the fight.

For me, there are a lot of parallels between the two fights. For you, which fight was more underwhelming?

For me, Woodley/Wonderboy was probably the worse fight; however, last night may have been more disappointing, as it had the potential to be so, so good.

What do we think, gents?

@Arkridge any chance of a poll?

Woodley was able to rock Wonderbread in both thier fights so the Izzy/ Romero fight was worse. Now if you throw in say a Woodley/ Maia or Kimbo/ Alexander they you have a competition. My vote is on the latter as we were looking at two ko spelists simple circling the cage

 

[Jake the Muss]

Not sure that's true, when Yoel turned it up in the 5th, he won the round, and he also had a few other moments where when he was blitzing Izzy he was scoring and landing. If he'd have simply doubled what he did, which was not much, he would've won that fight.

Yoel is a 42 year old MMA veteran. He isn't going to be cranking out the numbers like a young fighter would. If Israel would've engaged more with Yoel, we would've seen more output. Every time they engaged, Yoel won, and scared Israel away. FACTS.

That's why fans can't point to Israel's most memorable moment in the fight. He didn't have one; except for maybe the eye poke.

 

[daltonames]

Yoel is a 42 year old MMA veteran. He isn't going to be cranking out the numbers like a young fighter would. If Israel would've engaged more with Yoel, we would've seen more output. Every time they engaged, Yoel won, and scared Israel away. FACTS.

That's why fans can't point to Israel's most memorable moment in the fight. He didn't have one; except for maybe the eye poke.

Sure but you can't win a title fight by 24 minutes of nothing and 60 seconds of action spread across 5 rounds. He was obviously trying to draw Izzy in, and Izzy wasn't biting on the bait. He stayed outside and threw jabs and leg kicks. It was smart. It was boring as fuck and sucked, but it was smart. When Yoel did explode, he had success. 1 more explosion per round would've won him the fight cleanly. There was just no way, no matter what he said, that Izzy was gonna stand and trade with Yoel.

 

[Lawrence]

Holm - Pennington 2
Blahowicz - Jacare
Till - Gastelum
Ngannou - Lewis
Till - Wonderboy
Woodley - Wonderboy 2
Silva - Maia
Silva - Cote
etc.

...were all worse than Adesanya - Romero IMO

Solid list....

But I would put Yoel v Izzy & Anderson v Maia at #1 & 2 for worst title fights of all time.

My opinions are totally based on my personal reactions to those terrible fights... so there is that.

I still feel like Anderson owes me $58 for Aubu Dhabi

 

[Russie]

Woodley/Wonderboy 2