Worst main event ever? Bradley v Neer

[GNP45]

Worst fight and worst card ever. Bellator giving us UFC cards is terrible. If we can't trust Bellator to give us stacked cards, there's no hope for mma. Cause you know the UFC is gonna keep throwing garbage at us.

 

[JonSnitchPhones]

Maybe worst main event and main card ever on paper.

Maybe top 5 worst of each as it played out. There have probably been worse, but it was up there. Santos-Prindle, never forget.

 

[JonSnitchPhones]

It was atrocious match-making. I don't know what was going through their heads when they came up with that one, let alone to place it as the main event.

Why would you sign Josh Neer, an exciting fighter who has repeatedly shown he's susceptible to being LnP'd, at all if you were just going to put him in there with a wrestler like Bradley? You couldn't have found a worse match-up for Neer's Bellator debut if you tried.

It's Viacom. There is nothing going thru their heads outside making a dollar more today. No kind of thought process about how a card which is embarrassing in perception among the hardcores and reality among everybody impacts their viewership in the long run.

 

[ChangeIsComing]

A lot of these shitty wrestler on top fights are due to a shitty ref being present, I know BJM gets a lot of respect but he rarely stand up fights...even with his knowledge of MMA he seems to be ignorant to the fact that its easier for a wrestler to control position and do nothing but score baby tap punches than it is to attempt an advance or finish...thus giving the person on bottom a shot at a sub or reversal.

I am honestly surprised that after watching 20 years of MMA that some refs still let the wrestler lay on top...holding position to win a fight...which is exactly what bradley did last night.

 

[emperor]

It's Viacom. There is nothing going thru their heads outside making a dollar more today. No kind of thought process about how a card which is embarrassing in perception among the hardcores and reality among everybody impacts their viewership in the long run.

I'm glad someone else gets it. Viacom knows NOTHING about MMA. Nor do they care to find more. They do, however, care a whole lot about their stock price.

 

[SneakyArab]

Mir vs Cro Cop was the worst for me, never watched Severn vs shamrock fight

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

A lot of these shitty wrestler on top fights are due to a shitty ref being present, I know BJM gets a lot of respect but he rarely stand up fights...even with his knowledge of MMA he seems to be ignorant to the fact that its easier for a wrestler to control position and do nothing but score baby tap punches than it is to attempt an advance or finish...thus giving the person on bottom a shot at a sub or reversal.

I am honestly surprised that after watching 20 years of MMA that some refs still let the wrestler lay on top...holding position to win a fight...which is exactly what bradley did last night.

BJM doesn't intervene in fights if he doesn't have to. It's not the ref's job to worry about ratings, or entertaining the fans, or standing up stallers. His job is to protect the fighters and enforce the rules. He's a purist. Stand-ups can change the outcome of fights, which is the opposite of the ref's purpose. As boring as it can be, BJM is doing the right thing and by reffing that way he prohibits himself from (subconsciously) showing favoritism.

 

[Baba Ghanoush]

Very very true.

Shields/Hendo was pretty bad too.

God damn you, I had completely blocked this from my memory. The way Hendo gassed so hard was ridiculously embarrassing for an organization who paid out the ass to bring him over.

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

Mir vs Cro Cop was the worst for me, never watched Severn vs shamrock fight

It was pretty much 30 minutes of them circling each other

I put the event on for some friends one night, that was the only time they've ever asked me to fast forward through a fight before. Some of them fell asleep.

 

[runnpray]

I'd enjoyed the fight, was disappointed in Neer's whining the whole fight though. He face belied his comments of "his isn't doing anything". He could have dropped 50-60 elbows and made it a total bloodbath but he seemed like he was still fighting his buddy and took it easy on Neer.

 

[melvinj0]

Looking at the next Bellator cards though it definitely seems like they are stepping their game up.

Makes sense why Neer/Bradley was such a shallow card considering how many of their bigger names they are using on their next cards.

 

[Kinger85]

I would watch that fight 100 times before watching Shamrock/Severn 2 again.

 

[qw3rty]

It was pretty much 30 minutes of them circling each other

I put the event on for some friends one night, that was the only time they've ever asked me to fast forward through a fight before. Some of them fell asleep.

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Its hard when you wanna to show "what mma is" to a friend and shitty fights like that happens

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

Josh Neer is the most unlikable person in MMA.