Comments on: UFC 88: Pondering Rich Franklin’s future at light heavyweight and other post-show thoughts

By: Batman

Batman — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:53:42 +0000

Great fight, yes Hamill lost but he didn’t look bad, franklin looked bad.

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By: ko ko b ware

ko ko b ware — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:44:25 +0000

I’ll admit Kim looked a lot worse than I thought, but to say Matt Brown won that fight just goes to show how poor North Americans read the game these days and only understand how to score a punch. I used to think Caplan knew his stuff, but man, for him to say Brown got robbed, come on brother, I thought you understood that MMA is more than just being an aggresive striker who barely connects. You’ve been brain washed Sam.

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By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:08:31 +0000

No way in hell Matt Brown won that fight.

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By: Voridor

Voridor — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:29:46 +0000

Grape Knee High: Are you kidding about the Cecil round one? Where did you read that he gave him round one? Cecil Peoples needs to be stopped people. This should be sufficient for MMA and the UFC to push Cecil Peoples out of judging and into the history books as a madman. Let me remind everyone that he gave Hughes round one. I don’t even like Penn, but anyone could see that Penn dominated round one.

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By: Kung Foo

Kung Foo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:34:04 +0000

Keep the face smothering move. Would hardly consider it, unsportsmanlike to use it. This is a fight we are talking about after all. Got plenty of rules as it is, and its not too hard to defend against this.

As to Kim/Brown,I gave Kim 1 & 3, and Brown 2. Was a good fight though, and like Grape Knee High said, how in the world Cecil gave Brown Rd 1 is beyond me, I can see maybe 3 but not 1. Cecil definitely needs another line of work.

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By: Crazycanuck

Crazycanuck — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:30:33 +0000

Totally disagree with the Matt Brown comment in the article – kim won that fight hands down.

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By: platypus

platypus — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:24:22 +0000

wrong dong, the dongbar is done by dong sik yoon, ex pride fighter that got KOd by saku but subbed melvin manhoef. the ufc’s dong hyun kim never had an armbar win in mma and is more a gnper, mostly goes for wins by tko.

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By: Grape Knee High

Grape Knee High — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:18:38 +0000

Sam, are you sure you think Cecil Peoples got it right in the Kim/Brown fight?

Because Peoples got his 29-28 score in favor of Brown, amazingly, by giving Brown the first round.

All three judges gave Brown the second round and Kim the third round.

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By: RustyNailz

RustyNailz — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:18:42 +0000

I don’t see how you can say Matt Brown was robbed. I think the fight could have gone either way, but it wasn’t clear cut, therefore no one was robbed.

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By: Syd O

Syd O — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:47:42 +0000

I would say I’m not completely thrilled with Rich at 205 but I think he’d do alright when he got his weight in line. I still would rather see a franklin/hendo or franklin/marquardt bout. Unfortunately if franklin won either of those it’d be bad for the ufc and if he lost it’d tarnish his still decent rep as one of the best ‘85′ers of all time.

I think Franklin’s got his eyes on the future. Take the money matches at 205 where he has a bail out excuse if he loses. Then try to pawn that owen wilson nose off onto the big screen.

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