Topic: Pettis vs. Meza
Pettis vs. Meza
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03.29.2014 | 3:05 AM ET
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03.29.2014 | 3:05 AM ET
Prediction: wrong Meza wrong Submission wrong Round 2
03.29.2014 | 7:25 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
03.29.2014 | 4:42 PM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
"The only thing predictable about MMA is that it is unpredictable."
03.29.2014 | 4:43 PM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis correct Decision
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03.30.2014 | 3:31 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
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03.30.2014 | 3:35 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
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03.30.2014 | 4:58 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 1
As for the good ground game, it ain't worth **** if your TDD sucks (which at 135 most likely always will), fighters are getting caught in triangles and armbars less and less, your average UFC fighter knows how to stay clear of a bottom submission and even if they do slip, more and more guys have learned how to defend them and subsequently survive them. Add that to the fact that MMA judges know jack **** about the ground game a rarely score damage or threat from the bottom and you've got no other option for Pettis. He needs to fight guys his size, not trimmed down 145ers and 155ers who'll muscle him down eventually and keep him there to score points.
If threatening for a submission (or almost having one) would score more than keeping top position maybe the "active guard" or "good off his back" reasoning would hold ground, but the reality is that because he has such an active guard it prevents guys from going for **** or changing posture thus giving him even less opportunity to catch them in something.
As long as MMA judging is so bad, the guard and off-back Jitz game is getting more and more obsolete, which is a shame because it's one of the most beautiful parts of MMA is you ask me.
* Edited at 03.30.2014, 4:59 AM ET *
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03.30.2014 | 6:13 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
I leave my hope in guys like Marcin Held and Benny Dairush, young guys with a lot of skill and great records. Palhares is amazing too, truly. My opinion is scoring should be fair enough as to where pulling guard is a real weapon in these fights. I'll tell you one more thing, maybe its me what do I know, just your neighborhood troll but there's a lot of blatant openings for triangles, armbars, d'arces and guillotines...**** .happened to omoplatas? They're great for escapes and taking the back....you see when.guys get that standing kimura against the cage and try to crank it on the feet? If they'd jump guard while cranking...they'd get the submission a lot more....these ************s aren't trying to submit nobody off their back, its almost no ones MO.
If.they.scored fairly and.guys.who were the more.effective fighter won even if on their back all night...youd see a more submissions and grappling exchanges...the ground would.take on a dynamic life of its own.
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03.30.2014 | 6:50 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 1
The judges need to be educated, but until then, no one can sell me and "active guard" or "good off his back" as an excuse for not having good TDD because it just doesn't cut it.
And I stand by my statement that way more fighters know how to defend a triangle/armbar from the bottom/any-sort-of-plata these days, so active guard just means that the top fighter will do less because even if he's a GnP stylist, he'll risk it less vs. a dude with an active guard and just hold position.
MMA judges need to be MMA specialists, not boxing moonlighters.
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
03.30.2014 | 7:14 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
You're right though, you gotta adapt to.the rules.but those submissions are.there these wrestlers dont have.this amazing defense where triangles and armbars aren't possible, its the unfair judging and pre conceived notion of it all. Id like to see judging be aware of this but Dana thinks. Gil vs Sanchez is all the fans.want. they're ruining the totality and purity. Whatever.
"If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying."
03.30.2014 | 7:18 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
"If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying."
03.30.2014 | 7:23 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 1
Just kidding, I agree, the first thing on the agenda should be pressuring commissions to have adequate judging in the sport. People put a lot on the line to get into those cages/rings and if they lose it should be within the sport's boundaries.
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
03.30.2014 | 7:28 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
"If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying."
03.30.2014 | 7:44 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 1
I think the bigger and more mainstream MMA gets, the more pull promotions like the UFC will have on the commissions, but as of now they're still in take it or leave it land.
That's just my guess anyways.
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
03.30.2014 | 9:44 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis correct Decision
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03.30.2014 | 9:55 AM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis correct Decision
Once NY is accomplished we may see bigger issues to us, like scoring criteria, scoring system, and refs/judges become higher up the priority list without them having to worry how each thing they pursue may affect NY. That's the impression I get, not that it's the answer we'd get.
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03.30.2014 | 2:50 PM ET
Prediction: wrong Meza wrong Submission wrong Round 2
03.30.2014 | 3:17 PM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 1
03.30.2014 | 3:31 PM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis wrong KO/TKO wrong Round 2
"If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying."
03.30.2014 | 3:40 PM ET
Prediction: correct Pettis correct Decision
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