fanoftna33: Okami is to good for the ufc to let go, he has been overwhelmed in 1 fight for the ufc out of 8 total fights thats not bad.
Before Bader gets a fight against someone like Ortiz he needs to address his lack of conditioning. He clearly lost the second round against Schafer and looked a little like Coleman does after the first round of his fight. Schafer has been finished off by guys like Bisping and Bonner so a very lackluster decision win against him does not earn anybody the right to fight someone like Ortiz, maybe Cantwell, but nobody near the top 20.

The main problem with Bader… is how often he thrown those bombs. He rarely does anything to set the big shots up. And literally just threw huge bombs all the time. That would fatigue most fighters out quickly… He needed to pace himself abit in that fight, and throw a variety of strikes rather than BIG bombs lol. Because i really think against higher competition.. those punches will be far to easy to telegraph.. and then counter. Or… as we saw in his fight against Schafer, let him tire himself out lol. He was just throwing everything into those shots haha. I couldnt believe how Schafer survived those big shots though… wow… just wow… lol. He took some HUGE shots. And some how recovered!! Couldnt believe it lol. He is tough as nails that guy.

Bader needs to learn to throw more combinations in order to set up those KO punches. Because against a better striker… he is going to get caught.

However, i think Bader is a bright prospect for the LHW division. He should do very well in the next few years. Well im predicting he will. A few fights and wins against some higher fighters in the LHW division will propel him right into the top contender picture. But he is going to have hard work getting there lol.

deals: Wow, The comments made about Mazagatti are really crazy in this article. I think people are so upset about Shogun losing that comments are just flying crazy like bats out of hell. He warned Rothwell that if you don’t start intelligently defending yourself, then he’s gonna stop the fight. Ben looked him in the eye and acknowledged that he understood. So if you ask me, the ref did his job. Everyone scores differently in fights. I think you’re nuts to score 50-45. I know we’re all upset here but lets not get too crazy. The actual score was 46-45 i believe (may be wrong) which is a just score. Except it should have been in Shogun’s favor. Just my opinion.

You’ll prolly get flamed for it but i gotta agree with you on the last part. 50-45 wouldve been a terrible score IMO. However it wouldve done justice to the fight in that the right fighter would have won.

The thing about Mazzagati is that he warned and warned, but he didnt pay attention. Ben Rothwell was sliding himself against the fence for a chance to get up. He was doing fine gettting his knees together and waiting to stand up. Although he was taking some hard shots while he was doing it he was on his way up when the fight was stopped. There is just no excuse for that. When your a referee you have to treat everyone fair but know every fighter individually in the same breath. Has Mazzagatti not seen Rothwell fight before? Did he not see the freakish amount of punishment he was able to take against Arlovski?

However you look at it its still a bad stoppage. And it is no where near the first for Mazzagatti.

He warned Rothwell that if you don’t start intelligently defending yourself, then he’s gonna stop the fight. Ben looked him in the eye and acknowledged that he understood. So if you ask me, the ref did his job.

Everyone scores differently in fights. I think you’re nuts to score 50-45. I know we’re all upset here but lets not get too crazy. The actual score was 46-45 i believe (may be wrong) which is a just score. Except it should have been in Shogun’s favor.

Just my opinion.

2. Bader has some seriously scary power.. I mean, WOW! That running right hand in the 1st round blew my mind.. With that said, Red Schafer’s chin is GODLY.. How he survived all those bombs, I may never know..

3. The only thing Cain Velasquez got robbed of was a definitive knockout victory.. In the opening moments I thought Rothwell actually looked pretty good (I figured he would have a rough Octagon debut). His striking was crisp. But Cain changed all that very quickly.. Cain’s a small guy compared to some of these other HW’s, but his power is certainly on par.. He wore Big Ben down, and NEVER stopped for a second.. He was constantly punching and transitioning.. He’s moving up the ladder, we’ll so how he does against the Heavyweight elite..

Also, it’s nice to see Joe Daddy back to his old ways.. He hit a rough patch there for a while, but now he’s been reinvented at the Jackson camp, and he’s back to that brutal, controlling wrestling of his.. It’ll be nice to see where he goes from here..

Oh, and Anthony Johnson is still a scary, scary man..

fanoftna33: He clearly lost the second round against Schafer and looked a little like Coleman does after the first round of his fight. Schafer has been finished off by guys like Bisping and Bonner so a very lackluster decision win against him does not earn anybody the right to fight someone like Ortiz

This.

Id agree with what Xspur said in give him Soszynski.

MMA points system is flawed and we could probably get a computer to give more accurate results.

I agree completely with the need to rapidly change the judges who score these fights. How about getting some guys who have actually been fighters in the past or experienced trainers who really know what they’re seeing in the cage to judge the fights. Traditional boxing judges have proven they have little understanding of how to effectively judge an MMA bout. Viva Revolucion!!!

That quote is priceless!!!!