“Only in MMA, can you have your wife on top of you as a champ.”
Fabricio Werdum vs. Mike Kyle
Werdum’s submission adds to the fight rating.
My Fight Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Gilbert Melendez vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida
Overall, a domination from Gilbert Melendez.
He dished out the punishment, won the striking exchanges, sprawled against Ishida’s takedown attempts, used knees especially in clinch and when Ishida was pinned against the cage. Throughout the fight, Melendez was the one always pressuring Ishida (where the Japanese was usually pressed against the cage). A very strong showing from Gilbert Melendez.
My Fight Rating: 3 ½ stars out of 5
Renato Sobral vs. Gegard Mousasi
What a victory by Mousasi!
And it’s a big, big win for Mousasi considering he’s now the champ.
I don’t think many expect the fight to end in the way it did.
Mousasi brought down Babalu quickly to the ground when they were in the clinch, then Mousasi immediately got into side control. When Babalu tried to escape, Mousasi just pinned Babalu towards the cage and just GNP’ed the Brazilian.
All within the first round, and it was a superb showing from Gegard Mousasi.
Mousasi’s dominant display adds to the fight rating, and I believe that now the Anderson Silva vs. Gegard Mousasi debate is going to be heated up even more.
My Fight Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Gina Carano vs. Cris ‘Cyborg’ Santos
I thought this was a great fight, very nervy and edgy, on your seat sort of stuff.
Sure, they both (looked like) they were gassed halfway through until the end but still that was quite a packed 1st round battle, with Cyborg dishing majority of the punishment.
Cyborg winning (almost) right at the death of the first round added to the excitement rating.
The question that arises is why did Carano like twice gave up full mount advantage?
Apart from that she was surviving from Cyborg’s constant pounding but towards the end she seemed like she couldn’t fight back anymore.
I suppose one note to point about Cyborg was that the times she tried to take down Carano the American ended up in an advantageous mount position.
Another question to raise form this fight is that what could have happened had the fight gone into the second round? Maybe Carano was losing the fight in the first round but had the fight gone into the second I’m not even sure if Cyborg would even have plenty of gas left in the tank to go on, as stated earlier both looked gassed out halfway through the fight.
But, that’s how the fight went, and I’m giving it a rating of 4 stars out of five.
My Fight Rating: 4 stars out of 5
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