While a number of guys mentioned have put on alot of entertaining fights lately, I should mention again that I'm considering whole careers. To elaborate:
- Jens gets left out on account of some incredibly average mid-career fights.
- Anyone who thought Fedor would be one of the world's most entertaining fighters prior to the Heath fight is a liar.
- Wanna' know why no one gave a shit about Gomi and even the UFC didn't want him prior to the Mishima bout? Watch his first 10 fights or so.
- Hansen seems to get his incredible stamina and relentlessness in exchange for sleeping on every 4th opponent or so.
- I hate on Shogun's flying epilepsy kicks. Yeah, I admit it.
If we're talking about the highest ratio of entertaining matches:
Franklin, Mamoru, Olaf, Minotauro, H. Sakurai, T. Muarahama, Doerksen, and more when I think of them.
I was slightly tempted to take the sarcasm to another level, but fuck it: no, I don't think Chuck would KO Quinton in 12 seconds, though I do think he would stop him within 2 rounds.
Yvel was basically the only fighter who combined size, aggressiveness with some good striking skills that Schilt ever faced in MMA. The other guys were either much too small, couldn't strike for crap or let Semmy dictate the pace. Though not MMA, I think Semmy's 2H2H bout against Ignashov was indictive that Semmy still didn't couldn't handle a more torrid pace to a striking exhchange at that point.
Nein. Don't confuse Schilt's later successes in K-1 with his MMA striking abilities. Someone as relentless and reasonably big like Yvel could've given him hell at any point of his MMA career, though would would easily be KO'ed by the lanky fuck in his current K-1 campaign.
The thing is, neither guy can be robbed in a close fight like that. 29-28 for either guy could be argued; it's the 30-27 thrown in there that absolutely ruins the scoring (29-27 doesn't help, either).
Also, the middle round was kind of weak action wise, though good drama with Tito falling to pieces in more ways than one and Forrest coming back.
He did, but there's not set criteria in MMA for a 10-8 round (except for SHOOTO), so no one's going to agree on this decision for a long time.
meanwhile, Diaz & Sherk have a slow paced but highly technical (at least grappling wise) battle that I score a draw.
Tito claims bulging disk and a partially torn ACL, of which the knee injury may be legit, as it could account for poor cardio training, his weak balance and the tape.
Though, everyone always has an excuse when they perform poorly.