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Rich Clementi def. Ross Pointon via Submission (rear naked choke) in Round 2.
Din Thomas def. Clay Guida via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) after 3 Rounds.
Ed Herman def. Chris Price via Submission (armbar) in Round 1.
Josh Burkman def. Chad Reiner via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27) after 3 Rounds.
Nathan Marquardt def. Dean Lister via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-25, 30-25) after 3 Rounds.
Franca vs Fisher was fun, but a tad disappointing. Nice to see Franca get a good win(Even though I picked Fisher). Franca sporting the CRAZY HAIR~! He gets on his knee's, and wins over the crowd. Franca rules.
Heath Herring smokes pole in his UFC debut. Man, what happened, Heath? Send O'Brien to Greg Jackson's camp.
Herman beats Price. Yep.
Rashad is becoming quite awesome. That high kick was really great, and he has shown that he will be a force. Awesome KO. Good post-fight promo by Rashad as well.
Fun(Albeit disappointing) show. We didn't get to see either Lister vs Marquardt or Guida vs Thomas, so that sucked. Rashad was awesome, and Franca's post-fight promo ruled.
I liked the Rashad fight...but as an EMT I was actually really concerned for Salmon LONG term after he did not regain consciousness. Pretty much your chances of having seizures and long term problems go soaring after your brain takes that much damage.(mma might be safe right now, but in 30 years it might not be near as safe as it is being portrayed.
In other news I still love mma and that was the worst card(energy wise from the crowd) I have ever seen! Almost makes you miss the booing morons from ppvs!(maybe not) >>>
I can't say I'm not disappointed about Franca's win and Fisher's loss, as fun as it was while it lasted. Franca won me over at the end, he just seems like such a nice guy. Franca vs. Sherk should be interesting when it happens.
Heath Herring is a bum. I've never yelled at my tv that much before. What a disappointment. Then he complains about the guy taking him to the ground. Jake O'Brien beat that ass, plain and simple.
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.
In Salmon's defense, he hung there with Rashad. Despite not being better conditioned and definitely outmatched on his feet, Salmon got a couple of solid takedown on Rashad, who is known as being a great wrestler. He put up a fight, I don't think it was "bullsh*t" that they gave him to Rashad. Remember, he was the one that asked for the fight. He said it himself.
I think Salmon will be back. I'm glad he was okay, that was a brutal knockout.
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