although Rich was actually keeping his hands up.. he was huffin’ and puffin’ in the second round.. i mean, you can tell just by the way he finished it that he was worn out.. Lutter’s hands were down.. and Rich just stood there.. i mean, he threw a few punches but they weren’t too powerful.. a healthy/in-shape Rich could’ve knocked Lutter clean out.. idk.. for a guy who went five rounds with an athlete like Loiseau, gassing in the 2nd round is NOT A GOOD SIGN.. maybe it was just because he was spending the entire first round getting out of mount, keeping guard, and avoiding subs/takedowns.. as i was watching him.. it reminded me of how he looked in his fights with Silva.. you know, his head was real low, mouth open, and he had that kinda sad expression on his face..

idk..
now that he’s past Lutter.. that just opens the door to endless tough opponents for him in the future.. so.. he needs to keep the cardio up..

Also, the 3 hour blocks of porn on DirecTV — you can order those up until 30 minutes after the block has started.

I normally respect both competitors for just getting in the cage, but it’s like c’mon. You know this is the UFC and that fighting there is a chance that a lot of fighters dream of.

Overall no matter the reason or excuse I lost all respect for Lutter gassing out at the end of the 1st round. You have no excuse at all. Making weight, injury, personal problems. You lost the chance to be a champ because you gassed out, you lost the chance again because you gassed out. Freaking fight at 205 if it’s going to effect our cardio that bad. Honestly he called bs to Franklin. It’s just completely pathetic and I can’t respect that.

“DISAGREED.”

First off us my name when putting something I wrote in quotes.

You think that Serra was mounting a real offensive attack in that fight because he threw a few elbows (from the guard) and had a few armbar attempts that weren’t even close? He was just trying to survive that fight and if you think any different then you need to watch it again. He was overmatched and overwelhmed. While watching that fight never did I think to myself “Serra is really trying to win this thing”.

# 18 5percentbodyfat Says:
April 20th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
A couple of thoughts about last night:

- “I watched Hopkins vs. Cal and then flipped on over to UFC. The debate I am having is, in general which is better a really crappy fight with one knockdown vs. a real good ufc card with numerous fights ending in quick knockouts.”

Reading some of the posts here I can’t help but wonder if I saw an entirely different card. Numerous quick knockouts? Who? When? UFC 83 had no such thing. You had one guy just gas and pretty much quit (lutter), another who covered up and just quit at the end of the round (McCarthy) and finally one where the guy on his elbows and knees taking kidney shots before the Ref stopped it (serra). Other than the prelim fight shown after the main event, I saw no quick knockouts.

It wasn’t bad, but the effort put forth in ensuring Canadian fighters were featured hurt the event. Starnes gets on the main card after losing to Belcher, while Belcher is relegated to the undercard? I think this is the first time I can blame Joe Silva for doing a poor job. Maybe Joe doesn’t realize that a lot of Canadians watch the UFC and actually fly down to view the events? Many US events are actually closer for a lot of Canadians to attend than Americans traveling within their own country. But, whatever. The only Canadians I was actually interested in were GSP, Macdonald (just wondering if he’s actually improving his game or not), and Day (just because he beat Loiseau and I was wondering if he was the real deal — obviously his win over The Crow was no fluke). However, to Joe Silva’s defense, losing Patrick Cote was a huge blow to the potential on this card.

When the UFC comes back to Canada, I can only hope they put on a good card… instead of a largely Canadian card. Canadians know they don’t have a lot of talent in the UFC. It’s okay, we know. We have 10% of the US’ population and because our citizens are spread so thinly in many regions, we don’t have an attractive competitive combat sports scene with that 10% of potential (so chop that 10% to at least 5% or even less). I live 20 minutes from Edmonton, Alberta and our high school didn’t even have an art class, let alone a wrestling team (15 years ago, mind you). Also, and I know a lot of Americans have a problem realizing this, Canada is a truly “multicultural society”. That means we appreciate watching anybody fight anybody… while drinking beer… in between hockey games, of course.

I knew he was a punk before that fight and he just cemented that thought.

get a new career Kalib…..life is short and McDonalds needs fry cooks.

I wanted to see the clementi stout fight, anyone see it? was it any good? thought it had potential to stand out.

Do you think Starnes went in thinking he would retire after the fight? The song he came in to was “Bittersweet Symphony,” he was in his home country…I don’t know. Maybe he knew this was his farewell, because it definitely appeared that his heart wasn’t in the fight.

It’s very difficult to question a fighter’s motives; hell, just getting in the cage means you have more heart than 99% of the population. At the same time, Khalib has always appeared to fight because he thinks that he should, not because he wants or has to. Factor in that mindset with him not being able to get off early against Quarry, and maybe he just checked out, waiting for time to run out on the fight and his career.

Either way, I feel for him; that performance is what he’ll be remembered for, and I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.