UFC 208: Holm vs De Randamie Info and Prediction Thread

[bbc.reporter]

How did Anderson Silva win that fight? There is no way he did. Sometimes I think the UFC gives more favor to the more marketable fighter. The UFC is first a business and a giver of entertainment second. As a player in the entertainment business of course they want to have the fighters that the people want to watch. The new owners are from the world of show business always remember that.

[tokeweed]

I think Anderson won , a lot of people say he didnt. I gave him rd 1 and 3.

I watched the fight again.  You're right.  But still very close.  Leaning more towards a Silva win tho.  I guess I was expecting more from him, being a legend and all.  He's a bit slower now and I think his deterioration will come faster and faster as he approaches his mid 40's.  Maybe some future bets against him might be good.

[thejaytiesto]

Yeep, the referrer was so stupid and out of his mind. He should have stopped the fight at the second time De Randamie punched Holm out of time, or at least deduct a god damn point, that was uncalled for.

Im glad I didn't took any bets. Both wins a total gamble, very diffuse wins.

The referee was really inexperienced to feature in a title match and the commission has to be blamed as it could have being a draw have they deducted the points for hitting twice which is not acceptable under any circumstances ,i lost a big parlay because of this loss and UFC 208 was an predictable event and all of the fighters i wagged won the match.

The ref did pretty good as far as I know, I think the rules are kind of different when woman are fighting in the ring.

The second cheap shot that Germaine de Randamie did after the round looked accidental.


I am not sure if anyone realized but even though Holly Holm lost that fight she was really professional with her fighting style.

The imbalance of the two fighters was kind of in plain site in my opinion, it was like Professional vs Intermediate (the after the round punches is another discussion, I won't get into that lol).

Example shown in this video:

0:27-0:33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oCd-Cd8uQc




Anderson Silva and Derek Brunson showed who was more professional when it comes down to fighting. Even though Derek Brunson seemed to get more hits in, he didn't have enough to intimidate his opponent. Silva was pretty much chilling. I thought that he lost the match but since UFC changed their scoring system Anderson Silva won.

I feel like Anderson Silva might retire soon though...

The referrer was a disaster, this guy was out of his mind to not stop the damn fight after she punched Holms two times, the points should have been deducted from the match!

This guy should be fired. Rules are the same for men and women: don't hit each other after the damn bell, it doesn't take rocket science to know this.

[Immakillya]

How did Anderson Silva win that fight? There is no way he did. Sometimes I think the UFC gives more favor to the more marketable fighter. The UFC is first a business and a giver of entertainment second. As a player in the entertainment business of course they want to have the fighters that the people want to watch. The new owners are from the world of show business always remember that.

You know, its more on business for them. They're really obvious. The way of commentors talk. They talk only about Silva. Now i know how dirty ufc is. Not only on Silva and Brunson. But also on Holms and De Randamie. This fight is really controversial fight. The referee is not good.

[krach]

haha

mostly when people lose the go to the dirty it must be fixed narrative.


AS won 2 rounds, deal with it
winning doesnt have to look good

Ref in last fight was horrible for not taking a point away

UFC is not connected to the refs or judges


If you want to speculate about dirty and fixed fights watch KSK or Bellator main events.
The polish KSK makes the judges on this card look like the top MMA experts
Bellator Shamrock vs Kimbo , wtf was Shamrock doing, Shamrock vs Gracie, was that a kick in the balls?
Kimbo vs DADA , did the realy need to fight that many rounds?
We saw the last main event in Bellator, not as bad as the ones above but still does look a little strange.

[Marma Kalari]

How did Anderson Silva win that fight? There is no way he did. Sometimes I think the UFC gives more favor to the more marketable fighter. The UFC is first a business and a giver of entertainment second. As a player in the entertainment business of course they want to have the fighters that the people want to watch. The new owners are from the world of show business always remember that.

If you are telling that the UFC fixed the match then you are wrong because if any promoter try to fix a match then he will land in jail and he will never have the opportunity to run the business,so UFC cannot determine who the winner is,the commission places the judges and they are the one who scores the fight and for me Anderson Silva won the fight even though it was a close fight.

[eaLiTy]

AS won 2 rounds, deal with it
winning doesnt have to look good

Ref in last fight was horrible for not taking a point away
UFC is not connected to the refs or judges

If you want to speculate about dirty and fixed fights watch KSK or Bellator main events.
The polish KSK makes the judges on this card look like the top MMA experts
Bellator Shamrock vs Kimbo , wtf was Shamrock doing, Shamrock vs Gracie, was that a kick in the balls?
Kimbo vs DADA , did the realy need to fight that many rounds?
We saw the last main event in Bellator, not as bad as the ones above but still does look a little strange.

The problem with Bellator is that they are booking old fighters and they are looking at the entertainment side of fighting as well as so is the reason we are seeing Kimbo v Dada who i think was one of the worst matches in the past ten year,i have seen worst fights in Pride and even recently Risin comes up with these sort of fights. If a promoter fixes the fight then it is end of their career as they will be getting a life long ban for that and will end in legal trouble .