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UFC 125: Frankie Edgar vs. Lay Praynard 2

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industrian said:
The way he dropped the belt gave me the impression it was vacated.

If they can guarantee another fight like that then give us all a rematch this spring/summer.
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He dropped it cuz he was disappointed with the decision :lol A champ shouldnt be happy with a draw and he wasnt.
 
oneHeero said:
That's how I had it honestly :\ I didnt think Maynard had a convincing round after the first. Since Edgar is champ I see him edging out the other rounds like 3rd and 5th round. He had a chance to win the 5th but it couldve gone to Edgar as well.
Draw was a good call though
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There's no championship advantage in MMA like in boxing though.

You don't "give a 50/50 round to the champ". That's not in the rules.
 
Prince said:
I hope they just do Edgar vs Pettis next and then Maynard versus the winner.
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That makes a lot more sense than going to Frankie/Maynard 3, honestly. If you want to go by title lineage for unification purposes, this fight being a draw is basically like it never happened -- so Frankie would still go in as the linear UFC LW champ.
 
thefro said:
There's no championship advantage in MMA like in boxing though.

You don't "give a 50/50 round to the champ". That's not in the rules.
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I didnt see any 50/50 round, just stating I could see a judge giving the edge to the champ in a rd. But I'm pretty sure I've seen cases where the champ got the edge in points. There is no actual rule for it like you said, but like a figure of speech

That makes a lot more sense than going to Frankie/Maynard 3, honestly. If you want to go by title lineage for unification purposes, this fight being a draw is basically like it never happened -- so Frankie would still go in as the linear UFC LW champ.
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Yea, I hope Maynard gets winner of Pettis/Edgar
 
oneHeero said:
I didnt see any 50/50 round, just stating I could see a judge giving the edge to the champ in a rd. But I'm pretty sure I've seen cases where the champ got the edge in points. There is no actual rule for it like you said, but like a figure of speech
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Similar to Machida/Shogun I.
 
Godslay said:
Similar to Machida/Shogun I.
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God I'm glad you mentioned that fight, I couldnt think fast enough while typing but didnt wanna get shit on if I couldnt name a fight but that fight is a perfect example.
 
I thought Edgar won that fight 48-46.

10-8 for Maynard in the 1st round

10-9 Edgar for every other round.

Could see 47-47 though.

Don't see 48-46 Maynard. There's no way you can argue he won both the 3rd and 5th
 
Okay, scorecards.

Patricia Morse Jarman had rounds two through four for Edgar and a draw with a 10-8 first for Maynard. Glenn Trowbridge had one three and five for Maynard with a 10-8 first. Marcos Rosales had rounds two through five for Edgar after a 10-8 first.
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Wouldn't that work out to a split decision win for Gray (48-47, 48-46, 47-48)?
 
JakOfTheShadows said:
Edgar should take any rematch. He showed great take down defense, and in a rematch that should allow him to just out strike Maynard for 5 rounds.
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His camp needs to hire a sparring partner to just throw left hooks at Frankie all day long when training for the rematch. Really, the left hook was all Maynard had with any consistency. Edgar neutralized everything else.
 
Pristine_Condition said:
His camp needs to hire a sparring partner to just throw left hooks at Frankie all day long when training for the rematch. Really, the left hook was all Maynard had with any consistency.
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He was also circling left a lot. Usually his quickness allows him to do that at will but Gray kept timing it perfectly in round 1.
 
Man, can't believe Frankie even hung in there. My nerves are shot from that fight. Holy fuck. Frankie is like a real life rocky balboa.
 
JB1981 said:
Man, can't believe Frankie even hung in there. My nerves are shot from that fight. Holy fuck. Frankie is like a real life rocky balboa.
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Fucking this. I didn't think Frankie had a shot in hell going into this fight.
 
Robbery, I hated Maynard before this fight too. I can understand a 47-47, but whoever scored it 48-46 to Edgar is a moron.
 
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as soon as that fight ended i texted my brother that it was a draw. clearest way to score that fight was

rd1: PRAY 10-8
rd2: frankie 10-9
rd3: pray 10-9
rd4: frankie 10-9
rd5: frankie 10-9

honestly if we see a frankie/praynard 3, i think frankie takes that fight easily, maynard clipped him with a lucky shot in rd 1 and was not able to capitalize, major kudos to the ref for not stopping the fight prematurely.
 
yacobod said:
honestly if we see a frankie/praynard 3, i think frankie takes that fight easily, maynard clipped him with a lucky shot in rd 1 and was not able to capitalize, major kudos to the ref for not stopping the fight prematurely.
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I feel the same way. By the end of it he had him figured out.
 
Sounds like it's Pettis first, instead of a rematch. Makes sense to me. Unify the belts immediately so you don't have that thing lingering.
 
A question was just asked to Kim that was basically "After your fight you called out GSP, do you think you are next in line for that that fight?". The question gets translated to him and he turns and says into the mic and says in English "I can take him down" and then just nods. Too funny. After that he gave a longer response that got translated though.
 
JakOfTheShadows said:
A question was just asked to Kim that was basically "After your fight you called out GSP, do you think you are next in line for that that fight?". The question gets translated to him and he turns and says into the mic and says in English "I can take him down" and then just nods. Too funny. After that he gave a longer response that got translated though.
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Even though I doubt anyone takes him seriously, a GSP vs. Kim fight in Seoul would probably be the biggest UFC event ever. The Korean media would go absolutely crazy.
 
industrian said:
Even though I doubt anyone takes him seriously, a GSP vs. Kim fight in Seoul would probably be the biggest UFC event ever. The Korean media would go absolutely crazy.
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Bigger than GSP in Toronto? I guess it all depends on the venue cause if Toronto had a 100k stadium, it would be full
 
BigJonsson said:
Bigger than GSP in Toronto? I guess it all depends on the venue cause if Toronto had a 100k stadium, it would be full
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To say that Koreans are fanatical about supporting their athletes when they compete at the highest level is the understatement of the century. MMA is big in Korea, the media would pick up on the fact that Kim is fighting the world's best fighter and it would ignite the nation. If Kim somehow managed to win as well it'd be the most explosive shit in the world.
 
industrian said:
To say that Koreans are fanatical about supporting their athletes when they compete at the highest level is the understatement of the century. MMA is big in Korea, the media would pick up on the fact that Kim is fighting the world's best fighter and it would ignite the nation. If Kim somehow managed to win as well it'd be the most explosive shit in the world.
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Have you seen how Canada supports our top athletes? :p

The Olympics were in Canada, we won the most golds, and GSP is still the most popular athlete in the country :lol
 
Man what a crazy fucking card. I'm blown away by Frankie's heart and will to win, I mean there is a dude who was NOT giving up his damn belt no matter the fuck what.

Crazy awesome, I had it 47-47 like most of you, but I think Grey definitely deserves some credit here, Lay Praynard no more.
 
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