God seeing Fitch fight like that makes me sick. I'm not even a GSP fan, and I hope he gets to fight GSP, so I can see GSP wipe the floor with this guy.
I saw fitch winning 2 rounds. Penn got his back in the second round but fitch rolled over and was on top for the last 2 minutes of the round, how can you give that round to penn?
I think Fitch should have won that, but I will give Penn credit where it is due.
He really improved in a couple areas he has traditionally been weak in. His conditioning was good, and more importantly, he had an excellent gameplan. Penn has given some fights away in the past because he had a poor gameplan or was unable to adjust to his opponent, but he had a great one tonight. He clearly surprised Fitch, and really gave himself a chance to win a fight I thought he had no chance in, so props to him. Lucky for him there were no more rounds though, he look beaten at the end, he gets crushed in a five round fight.
He really improved in a couple areas he has traditionally been weak in. His conditioning was good, and more importantly, he had an excellent gameplan. Penn has given some fights away in the past because he had a poor gameplan or was unable to adjust to his opponent, but he had a great one tonight.
Yup, that's for sure. I was expecting Penn to use his speed & boxing as usual but instead he went for the clinch and manage to get Fitch down a couple times. What surprised me was how much trouble Fitch had trying to get himself off the fence to reverse or break the clinch and how well BJ was able to maintain his position there.
I'm not too sure about BJ conditioning though, when Fitch got him down in the 3rd round he wasn't able to explode and pop back to his feet the way he did in the first 2 rounds. A couple minutes into the 3rd round and he was looking pretty tired, he was just holding on and trying to defend himself instead of working to get Fitch off him. In the 2nd half of the round it was starting to look a lot like the one-sided beating that GSP dished out on him a couple years ago.
Hilarious post fight. As much as I've crapped on Baby Jay, it's impossible not to be a fan now.
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