OKTAGON Prime 5

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Someone tell me how Kaik Brito lost his last fight by SD to Knize?  

1st Round:  He hurts him badly early on and almost looks like he could have put him away for a moment.  Knize shows great grit to keep going but Brito clearly dictates the fight and out strikes him including a spinning back fist that broke his nose to end the round.  A very convincing round that was as 10-9 as it gets without quite being a 10-8.

2nd round:  He smokes him with a leg kick to start the second round which puts Knize down (he gets right back up).  Knize then scrambles to get a nice take down.  However, from bottom position Brito fends off Knize from striking range and then lands some vicious elbow shots of his own (still from the bottom) that busts up Knize's face before finally reversing position to then take the top on Knize.  From the top position, Brito catches his breath (they both do really).  It's really sloppy work, Knize tries to do a weak kimura (doesn't do anything), and eventually they both get back up.  Now, I will admit this is poor fighter IQ from Brito.  As they get back up to the fence, Knize sneaks another take down.  For the next 30 seconds to a minute, nothing happens at all until they get back up and Brito actually nails an up kick.  Brito and Knize then start to trade but Brito is the only one landing until a little over 30 seconds left when Knize kicks Brito in the balls.  Finally, Knize has landed something of significance in the round:  an illegal **** kick.  Ref stops the action.  They get back to it and it's a nothing burger one leg clinch from Knize that goes nowhere fast.  This was more competitive but still this was Brito's round.  All of the damage was one way, save for the **** kick.  10-9 easily.

3rd Round:  Brito makes the mistake of resting on his laurels and Knize eventually gets him down and controls top position until they eventually get back up towards the end.  No damage is really going on and both are gassed.  Knize wins this round.

But, this is the problem if you are betting these Oktagon fights.  Whoever you bet needs to get a finish because if they don't, and I have watched a few of these events, these judges will burn you.  Buyer beware and see below:

* Edited at 03.23.2022, 9:12 AM ET *

Yeah, I can agree with that. If I should name the biggest problem of the Oktagon organization, that's gotta be refs. 
The freshest madness that comes to my mind is the championship fight the last event, that ended up with Keita winning the belt over Paradaiser and sure he won, but the fight was objectively 49-48 Keita. One referee scored that 49-43 Keita. 49-43!! What the actual ****? It's worth mentioning, these are professional referees we talk about. Professional and bribable? Who knows...

LOL... So a guy won a round and then had 3 rounds that went 8-10 against him?  Possibly a 10-7 mixed in there?  ***?

As far for refs and judges, they are trying, they brought german ones, they have had the same ones that judges ufc event week prior etc., it certainly got better, but this is a sport wide problem, there are Sal D'Amatos and early/late stoppages that you can't avoid. It is just a bad look, if it goes to local fighter. Brito - Knize ws one of the worst ones recently, especially as Pesta - Puetz followed that resulted in doctor stoppage due to nose injury apparently very similar to Knize's one.You can't really solve the judges problem. At least they weeded out the draws, nobody dared to score a round 10-10 since Tomczak - Salcak I think. Keita - Paradeiser as was mentioned was scored strangely but it was not in favor of a home fighter (Paradeiser is Slovak, for the sake of argument regardless of venue let's consider Czech and Slovaks as home talent) and it was one judge scoring the fight strangely without impact on result, that seems to be an excess not trend, we get bogus split decisions in UFC every (other) week. There seems to be bit of a fault of judges weighting pressure too heavily and some guys doing better in decisions that others (Juracek - Pukac would be a good case, poor non-burger fight, but Juracek won on decision again; on the other hand Jungwirth got 2 close decisions going against him already).


 What is also a problem is dirty tactics of some fighters and rare point deductions. Not eye pokes, thank god (maybe UFC gloves are really terrible after all), but cage grabbing galore. In recent middleweight title fight Kincl faced gloves holding whole rounds, shorts grabbing, cage grabbing and even after the round attack, that was really extreme, one point only deducted, but that fighter does it habitually all the time and Oktagon didn't weed out these trash fighters yet. Refs should be better, sometimes there are mistakes due to ineptude and in rare cases one can suspect an intenr even (Penaz got help in his last fight, as the ref broke out a clinch too quickly). Usually there are not that bad to single them out for something egregious,though.

But I came here to post this well edited video (turn on subtitles/captions as parts of it are in portugese) presenting Xavier's story (featuring Walker):

Happy for Brito after his **** robbery.