Who do you usually want to win when your 2 favorite fighters fight?

Good thing my favorite fighter's is Wanderlei & Shogun. They will never fight, unless there's a puppy on the line.
 
Natman2939 said:
The one I like more.

There's this new anecdote going around about how if you can't decide between two things, flip a coin, and as soon as the coin is in the air, you'll find yourself hoping it lands on a certain side, and then you'll know that's the one you really want even before it lands.

Well for me it's been like that when two of my favorite fighters fight. At one point, maybe I didn't think I'd be able to choose between them, but the closer it got to the fight, (sometimes.. even DURING the fight) I realized which person I wanted to win.

A few examples:
Lesnar/Mir 2
Lesnar/Overeem

besides Fedor, those 3 guys were easily my favorite hw's, at the time of each fight Lesnar was #1 and Mir/Overeem were #2 on my personal favorite list of hw's.

but with Lesnar/Mir 2 in particular, I didn't really know who I wanted to win until very close to the fight when suddenly I was just like "it's brock... it's definitely brock. I love mir, but i want Brock to win"

Shogun/Henderson was also like that, leading all the way up to the fight, I was one of those "I don't want either of them to lose" types because I like them so evenly.. but then when the ref started the fight, I instantly knew I was pulling for Hendo

GSP/Hughes 3 was also a weird one because they were my favorite two ww's and two of my favorite fighters and though I had rooted for GSP in the 2nd fight, as soon as the fight started, I found myself rooting for Hughes (though after that GSP became my favorite fighter of any weight class)

Sometimes it's situational. Like.. I wanted Lesnar to beat Mir because even though i liked them evenly, I didn't want the Lesnar haters to get what they wanted and be able to say that Brock was "exposed as soon as he fought a real heavyweight"

and hendo/shogun, i knew shogun was young enough to come back, but I knew that this was hendo's last good chance at a run and would be such a beautful follow up to the Fedor win

GSP/Hughes 3 actually was very situational too because even though i actually sort of like GSP more, I didn't want people thinking Hughes was done. And I knew GSP could always come back cause he was so young.

Sonnen/Silva 1 and 2 also, as much as I love Anderson Silva and think he's by far the coolest highlite machine in mma history, the way that situation was set up, it just would've been so cool for Sonnen to back it up.

TLDR version:
-usually you like 1 more than the other
-the situation of each person's career and legacy can change how you feel (as in who really NEEDS the win more?)
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Good point. Who needs the win the most definitely plays a part. Guillard and Pettis are my 2 favorite LWs, but I'd probably root for Guillard because he needs the win more.
 
KingOfTheTrill said:
Root for the guy who has the most to lose.
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Without any real context, I would lean towards making this my default answer.

If the guy who had the most to lose was obviously on his way out, and the other guy was hitting his prime and obviously on his way up, I might cheer for the guy who could make something big out of that win in that case.
 
Only time this has happened for me was Philippou vs Boetsch. I expected Philippou to win, but wanted Boetsch to win. It went a little differently than I expected, of course.
 
Hope for a draw, no kidding.
 
If I were to go for someone I would pick the smaller guy or the underdog.
 
Has never happened. I can like both fighters, and I usually do, so I just enjoy the fight. Cain and JDS, for example. But truth is I only have two true favorites, Aldo and Anderson, and they won't be fighting.
 
I usually side with the underdog, be it an up and comer, or an oldie who won't just fade away!
 
I usually root for the striker in such occasions.

For example, I like Cain and JDS evenly. But I rooted for JDS each time
 
whenever 2 guys i like fight each other i just hope for a good fight where both do well
 
I also like both Sonnen and Jones, but Sonnen winning the belt would just be way too hilarious a circus to pass up. Sonnen does a good job turning the MMA community on it's head now, but if he had champion level mic time and exposure he would likely do some pretty disgusting things with them, in a good way.
 
I never like 2 fighters equally. I love Bisping and I love Cro Cop. If they fought I'd root for Bisping with no hesitation.
 
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