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As I said in the thread ranking the fight night, I thought the entire night was a disappointment. To start off, they show Franca vs. Fisher. Fisher looked sloppy most of the fight, Franca was throwing some wild punches. He was able to finish Fisher, but he didn't have enough power (Even behind those crazy swings) to drop him. That was quite disappointing - If you've got a guy on the ropes, you better be able to put him down. Franca can beg all he wants, but does he really think he can step in with guys like Penn, Gomi, or Sherk? Ha... Yeah, that dye must've seeped into your brain.
Then we have Heath Herring vs. O'Brien. Not only was that fight boring, but adding salt to the wounds was the fact that they had hyped it up so much. You've got Herring holding his hands like he's trying to rat tail O'Brien and O'Brien not able to finish off any subs. Terrible fight in my opinion.
You had an extremely short moment of excitement with Ed Herman's arm bar, but the way his opponent reacted seemed like he was expecting to lose. This line of thinking is backed by the fact that the dude was way overweight for the fight.
Finally was Rashad vs. Sean "Fish Kick" Salmon. What...the...hell... was with that kick at the beginning of the fight? Not only that, but did you see Salmon throwing kicks to warm up? The guy looked like a total amateur. He did better than I thought he would as we got deep into the first round, but it was so evident that this guy was extremely green. He had a gut, he was gassed (From what??) early, and he didn't cause any damage. What were they trying to prove? Am I supposed to be impressed with Rashad? "Yay Rashad! Go you! You knocked out a human punching bag!"
Honestly, me and my roomates watched that fight night and all left extremely disappointed. C'mon, you're going to follow a fight night with Karo, Koscheck, and Diego with a night of boring fights? Totally unimpressed. Not only that, but they basically got a guy hurt knowing full well he didn't belong there. Salmon got effed up, and for what? To give Rashad a highlight reel to hype up his title shot. That's bullshit.
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