UFC Fight Night Events Thread - Spoilers Within

Funky's ufc career is not looking so hot at the moment. A "controversial" win against Robbie, then goes down in history as the fastest guy to get knocked out in ufc history and now choked unconscious by DM.

Really enjoyed that fight and delighted for Maia

Why did Askren call Maia out? Dreadful matchup for him.

Pighead wrote: »

I don't know about that. I thought he was winning the fight up to the point he got choked out. He was a minute away from getting the W.

It was a 5 round fight.

That was a fairly even fight. I thought Maia was the more tired fighter but then it was Askren! Askren showed he is too easily hit and just tries to blunder his way to being on top. That doesn't work against higher level guys.

Then when he was on top, Maia was brilliant with sweeps so Askren couldn't get his usual game going.

Good fight to end a poor card in my view anyway

dulux99 wrote: »

Wha? They were only in the third round. Maia was up 2 rounds. Every time they grappled Maia was getting the better of him

Ah thought I read somewhere that it was only a three rounder. Was wondering why a main eventer wasn't five rounds!

I thought Maia was winning the first but I gave it to Askren when he got the takedown and had control for the final minute. Thought the second round was clearly Askrens and thought he was winning the third as well up until Maia got his back. Hard to see where Ben goes from here.

dulux99 wrote: »

Why did Askren call Maia out? Dreadful matchup for him.

I agree. Was excited to see it but hated the matchup for Ben.

dulux99 wrote: »

Wha? They were only in the third round. Maia was up 2 rounds. Every time they grappled Maia was getting the better of him

I gave Ben both rounds.

I see the judges gave Maia round 1 and Askren round 2.

xckjoo wrote: »

Askren looked strangely lost when Maia had top position. He let him take that full mount without a fight. Think he did it in one of the earlier rounds too.

Askren's game is based predominantly around top control. Wrestlers aren't known for working off their back.

Regarding giving up mount without a fight, Maia's transitions are not only on a different planet, they're on a different astral plane. His transition from omoplata to top mount was beautiful.

His bottom butterfly sweep off of Askren's single Leo, into a heel hook attack that allowed him to sit up into mount, just fantastic.

I don't think that Askren was prepared for somebody to have the transitional sweep ability that Maia has

cletus wrote: »

Askren's game is based predominantly around top control. Wrestlers aren't known for working off their back.

Regarding giving up mount without a fight, Maia's transitions are not only on a different planet, they're on a different astral plane. His transition from omoplata to top mount was beautiful.

His bottom butterfly sweep off of Askren's single Leo, into a heel hook attack that allowed him to sit up into mount, just fantastic.

I don't think that Askren was prepared for somebody to have the transitional sweep ability that Maia has

Ya the sweeps were great and the use of submission threats to get the sweeps were a master class (definitely stealing some ideas from that for myself), but I'm more talking about when Maia was moving into full mount. Askren didn't seem to make any attempt to stop him, trap legs, or regain guard. I know he's a wrestler, but it's not like he hasn't trained and studied BJJ. It seemed like he was happy to give up full mount. Would need to watch the fight again, but I seem to remember it happening a few times. Maybe there was a plan there that didn't work out, or maybe he was just tired by then and got sloppy.

Mellor wrote: »

I’d say it was more a case of Maia making it look like Ben was doing nothing.
The choke at the end was very strange. Very odd grip. Was surprised Ben tapped, let alone went out.

That second hand isn't needed to finish the choke if you've got the first one in right. Guess that's obvious from this fight though

I saw an image yesterday showing Askren 2 seconds after the fight had been stopped, that side of his neck and front of chest was still totally white from the pressure of that choke.

We need a UFC244 thread .

Looking forward to Zabit at the weekend. Main card starting at 7pm Irish time too!

This has been pretty poor so far. First 3 fights all gone the distance and the action has been low in volume in each of them.

Russian fighters have gone 0-4 so far but now its a fight between 2 Russians!

Wow what a KO by Roberts

Is Mc Gregor there? If not why not?