Probably because nobody gave a shit at that point, everyone was mind numbingly bored. They probably thought it was insulting to bore them even more with the scores, fuck it, just announce the "winner".
Maybe they gave it to Maia, and they were just like " fiuck this, this would look terrible" and just said Anderson won...::
I like it. I used to play a lot when I was younger, I was a good striker. I don't love watching it, but I always watch the Euro's and World Cup.
His most active rd which is the first is also comprised mostly of showboating , waiting then punches , from then on it became worse. Im a big silva fan , but there was a time in there when i wish that maia would miraculously take him down and make him work , bec he's basically doing nothing( i actually got afraid there for silva in the fifth rd when maia was connecting some of his haymakers) In the fifthwhen he got tagged , i thought that he would get mad and actually attack , but he ran. Dana was noticeably absent on the ring after the fight.
No, I think he's happy they gave Edgar the decision. Makes it so the division doesn't have a dominant champion.
garbage card, Penn-Edgar was pure garbage, and it was a tough act for Silva to folow. But Silva showed once again why he's p4p#1 and managed to make it looked like Castillo-Corales.
I don't know how anyone couldn't have expected the 25 minute borefest from Anderson and Maia. Anderson can put anyone away but doesn't.
It's not like a controversial decision somehow ends Penn's career. They have a lot of options with him still. In fact it makes his upcoming fights more interesting.
as for the Edgar-Penn decision, I could see Edgar winning the last 3 rounds, but a shutout is insane.
No way. In a sport where the event build-up typically has more excitement than the action in the cage, an Edgar win is great for business. Now they have Edgar/Penn II that they can hype for months as an important rematch. They're going to sell a bunch of PPV.
Ibn the penn vs edgarb fight , i actually thought that it could be a draw , with edgar being the more active fighter and penn connecting with the more solid punches. props to egars chin, it actually got tagged plenty of times in that fight.
When a long reigning, dominant champion loses... it's always good for business. This morning, there were no really big fights for Penn at lightweight. Now Penn/Edgar II is a big fight.
It's good for Dana White but this shits on BJ's legacy. He had no excuse for losing to this guy. If he had problems with Diego Sanchez, then I could see it but this is a big let down.
I agree in that way, but I'm talking in the sense that if Edgar fights anyone save BJ Penn, I think the ppv bomb. If Edgar-Penn II happens next and Edgar wins the same type of decision again, the UFC would be furious. Imo, they have too much to lose in the long term to be happy for a potential short term gain.
For example, Penn-Sanchez wasn't a good fight on paper yet it was reported to have sold in the 700 000. Imagine how bad Edgar-Sanchez would sell
But you have to build new attractions at some point. Guys like Penn aren't going to be around forever. Some new guys need to start carrying the division in terms of sales and exposure.
I don't think penn is much more older than a guy like Edgar EDIT: just looked it up and he's about 3 years older
Penn has been around forever though. At some point, you need to start building towards the future. The current guard won't be around forever.
thank god I didn't watched the Hughes-Gracie snoozefest as, 3 snoozefests in a row may have killed my love for MMA
What a disgrace Silva is. Regardless of whether the fight was boring or not, he is still a classless idiot for the taunting and showboating. What's even more embarrassing is he couldn't even finish a guy that didn't belong in the ring with him, he lost the last two rounds in my opinion, and he was openly scolded by the ref for running like a sissy. The card was horrific. Munoz and Grove was a good scrap, but beyond that, it looked like the UFC was trying to cure insomnia in the middle east.
