KSW 17

fightireland

Anybody see KSW 17 last night? I thought it was pretty entertaining. If you missed it you missed THIS KO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-uyRzpNqs8

And James Thompson going nuts!

riffmongous

F****** hell!

Richy06

Jaysus. That could've been stopped a little earlier!

canonball5

The Pudzianowski v Thompson fight was one of the worse decisions EVER !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__WRy3pJIJw

Steven Duffus

canonball5 wrote: »

The Pudzianowski v Thompson fight was one of the worse decisions EVER !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__WRy3pJIJw

Couldn't agree more, one of the dangers of fighting in someones backyard.

Pudzianowski also brings in a lot of revenue for KSW I would imagine with his name, so him getting a W on the record against someone of Thompson's experience can only help KSW.

Not that hard too see why he got the decision.

canonball5

Steven Duffus wrote: »

Couldn't agree more, one of the dangers of fighting in someones backyard.

Pudzianowski also brings in a lot of revenue for KSW I would imagine with his name, so him getting a W on the record against someone of Thompson's experience can only help KSW.

Not that hard too see why he got the decision.

Agreed, the in-laws are Polish and this fight is on the national broadcast channel.

Ads running for weeks etc ! On the plus side Pudzianowski's cardio has got a lot better.

Plastikman_eire

The clip above is from Rumble of kings. KSW is a seperate event.

The Thompson decision wa disgusting, he dominated Pudz en-route to a decision loss lol.

Jame Zikic got screwed as well.

Plastikman_eire

canonball5 wrote: »

On the plus side Pudzianowski's cardio has got a lot better.

Now he can do a whole TWO rounds.

fightireland

Plastikman_eire wrote: »

The clip above is from Rumble of kings. KSW is a seperate event.

The Thompson decision wa disgusting, he dominated Pudz en-route to a decision loss lol.

Jame Zikic got screwed as well.

Well spotted my bad! Zikic was indeed screwed.

BlastedGlute

KSW is as introverted as some members of the polish "away team" tend to be sometimes (My missus of 3 years is polish and around 5ft away, just so you know). There is a desperation to display strength and power and their frantically searching for a national symbol of this strength. Their very clear investment in Pudz is typical of this idealogical approach that KSW has taken. Pudz in my opinion, is still not a valid MMA fighter and would barely make a prelim card in the UFC.

This "loss" Thompson suffered will taint the league in the eyes of the broader MMA community because it was such a blatant cop out of their own scoring system. At the very very least it needed the third round overtime which KSW uses when each fighter has taken a round each. Pudz would have gassed out badly in the last round and shown himself up yet again so I guess the decision was made to just end it there.

This isn't one of those "dont leave it in the hands of the judges" situations(I can hear dana white in my head haha) because I imagine those hands were already tied to vote for Pudz if there was any arguable way to give him the win. A terrible league that should pack it in but wont because poland will stay behind it as long as they have Pudz in there drawing a crowd.

That weight he lost is from a lack of gear cycles over the last 2 years and not his intense cardio. Fact.

Dathai

To be fair, his conditioning is a hell of a lot better than it was before. Regardless of what he was / is on, he's after putting in a lot more training hours than he did for his last few fights. He's still shíte though.

p to the e

Seems the heat they were getting was too much. Thompson - Pudzianowski changed to a No Contest.

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/11/28/mariusz-pudzianowski-vs-james-thompson-ii-result-changed-to-no/