seriously I love Rory and if Ellenberger wanted to win he could have gone for those shots to end the round. But look at him..he gets a takedown and does NOTHING.
What a shit fight. Did Rory ever even attempt a hook or straight? All I saw were jabs and a few kicks. Ellenberger is at fault too for not fighting like his usual self. Too concerned about gassing out.
Ellenberger just crash landed in my book. Such a big mouth coming to this fight and found nothing and has the guts to raise his own hand by the end. Moron...
I scored it for Jake. Nothing really happened in the fight; he had the most damaging strikes in the first and got the takedown in the third. That jab really wasn't landing in the first. Neither guy did anything to really deserve a win though; a lot of standing around not taking risks.
Technicality is just a fancy word for boring and anti-finishing striking, the fight stunk and we didn't find out anything we didn't know already in the fight. Like how rory doesn't have amazing TDD and a bottom game which we already knew
Ellenberger should have talked more shit apparently :laugh:. That would have at least been entertaining. Wonder what he'll have to say about Rory after he was beaten by nothing other than his jab.
Rory didn't fight Jakes game, he didn't go for a finish Ellenberger was the one standing still waiting for the counterstrike.
It reminded me of the GDR/Kedzie fight, Kedzie had nothing for GDR striking/grappling/BJJ Kedzie had nothing to beat GDR but Kedzie fought and Ellenberger waited.
Ellenberger has no heart, no cardio and no chance at ever being a real top five UFC WW and fighting for a title.
Rory literally did nothing. I'm all for technical bouts, but all Rory did is prove that he isn't the big bad wolf people think he is. He walked around throwing jabs and that was it. He never went for a finish. Never tried to hurt jake. Just pitter patter his way to a decision.
Ellenberger looked awful.
He needs to work on his mental game badly or drop down to 155.
Rory really didn't look all that impressive. He fought someone who was scared to engage at all.
I don't have the slightest problem with Rory. He was literally fighting in the host basic way possible and winning easily. It's just shockingly pitiful how bad Ellenberger is.
"Oh my god his left hand is hitting me in the face! Why is he doing that you are only supposed to paw and poke people with that hand!"
I'm literally blown away by how god awful Ellenberger looked, especially after talking all that garbage over the twitter machine. Seriously that was horrifying to watch.
I told everyone here that Ellenberger is overrated. Rory didn't wow anyone, but it is easy to see Jake has very very average at best striking. He has power...cuz he throws hard...but vs. a technical fighter he has nothing. Jake KOs people so people tend to think he is better than he really is. His wrestling is very overrated as well. He isn't an elite wrester...he has wrestling like a Diego Sanchez has wrestling. Yea it is his background, but he isn't taking much of anyone with solid TDD down.
Elleberger is basically Ryan Bader. Maybe with less cardio and less wrestling.
You must be smart, the system won't let me up your rep until I spread it around some more.
Rory made Jake look like an amateur.
When you face a fighter whose weapons are decent wrestling and a one punch knock out, then the obvious answer is to jab your way to a victory (assuming you are talented as Rory.)
The answer to that is to be more well rounded .. which means the sport will evolve, rather than stagnate ... maybe what is needed is another organization where they outlaw the jab, wrestling, grappling, and walking backwards for the 'fans' who refuse to allow the sport to evolve.
For those who don't like reality, then I suggest they don't bother watching the GSP/Hendricks fight because you just saw the blueprint.
Rory's strategy didn't really surprise me. I'm more disappointed with Ellenburger. After all he said about Rory, I thought he would atleast try to take the fight to Rory earlier when things weren't going his way.
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