UFC 164: A New Champion and a Drunken referee
Anthony Pettis won the Lightweight belt in fine style with
an upset arm bar in round 1 and for the second time in his career it was Benson
Henderson whom he took the gold from. I take my hat to Pettis 100%, like I said
he was the underdog and he did really well to win with an arm bar against a
newly promoted BJJ black belt (more on that later) but what the heck is Dana
White with his post-fight comments?
For those who haven’t seen his ‘Post fight scrum’ he
basically said since Henderson is now 0-2 against Pettis and as it was such a
one sided title fight then Henderson won’t be getting another shot at
Pettis….HOLD THE BOOK, HOLD THE COURT MY HONOR! What fight was he watching?
Henderson looked the more aggressive to me and with the exception of those
rather nice but nasty looking kicks to the body there was nothing between them.
Henderson has held that belt for 2 years, made 4 defences, before the fight you
saw it fitting to flash up on screen he was #6 Pound for Pound in the world and
now all of a sudden he is not good enough for a shot at the gold?
Mir doesn't find Henderson's comments that funny in the highlight moment of the post fight press conference
And what about the other comments how Pettis is a whole
different level to Henderson, really Dana? To me there is a lot more to this,
there has to be some sort of personal beef between Dana and Henderson. Is he
annoyed he pushed him so much as an elite fighter only to see him lose? Does he
hate how religious he is? Is he still bummed his Silva v Jones super fight
isn’t happening and is taking it out on everyone?
And here’s another thing-Can UFC stop getting a boner for all
things BJJ? It’s getting silly how much they are marks for BJJ black belts.
Before the fight they announce Henderson as a BJJ black belt and Pettis as a
Taekwondo black belt. All true nothing wrong with that except Henderson is also
a Taekwondo Black belt-HE’S HALF KOREAN FFS! HE HAS KOREAN WRITING TATOOED ON
HIM! HIS MOTHER HAS A KOREAN FLAG WITH HER EVERY FIGHT! I felt this wasn’t so
much disrespectful to Taekwondo as it was proof how bias they are towards all
things BJJ. But despite this annoyance it’s quite funny to see a Taekwondo guy
beat one of their ‘untouchable’ BJJ guys.
The forgotten Black belt
Things could even get more embarrassing for the UFC if
Henderson goes on another win streak and 18 months down the line he is the only
man that looks likely to challenge for the title and they will have to back
down, a scenario I can see happening. Bottom line it was it was an absurd
comment to make.
From absurd comments to absurd calls…
GO HOME REFEREE YOU’RE DRUNK!
What in the blue Jesus is that referee on? What kind of call
was that in the Barnett/ Mir fight? Ref jumps in and says it over, the second
he does Mir bounces up like a Jack in the Box wondering the same as the rest of
us; What the heck? Mir was still in the fight, sure it was one sided but Mir
wasn’t exactly taking a Brock Lesnar style mauling and it looked like the fight
was going to go to ground where Mir is at his strongest.
It was a great pity since it was a fun fight and we never
got to see it go to ground, in the count down show it was said by Mir (I think)
he hopes they grapple and not just trade blows and unfortunately that is what
happened. A rematch has to be on the cards in the near future, it could easily
headline a fight night on Fox.
Looking ahead for Josh Barnett, he is a strange one. He is
from a different era (quite literally) he represents everything UFC used to be.
He made a comment about all he see’s are athletes in UFC today and not any real
fighters. Whether this is true or not is irrelevant when UFC at the moment are
really trying to push they are athletes as much as fighters (although I don’t
think anyone bought Dana Whites line about how the UFC is made up of ‘middle
class people’). You can really envision Barnet winning the title belt because,
well because he is a bloody hard Bastard but is he the sort of guy UFC want as
the face of their Heavyweight Division? But if they decide to not give him a
title shot (which based on pre-fight comments could very well be his deal) then
what does he do? Just keep chopping down possible contenders? Josh Barnet as
the gatekeeper of the heavyweight Division? Now there’s a scary thought!
Was anybody else surprised Ronda Rousey and Meisha Tate
didn’t have a bigger involvement Saturday night? Now I watch on BT Sports and
they like to chuck in advert breaks when they feel like it so perhaps I may
have missed some promotion but I’m very surprised we didn’t see some sort of in
ring encounter to really hype up the premiere episode this week.
My face also Ronda...
Keep Kicking, Save the Trees and I will see you next time
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