All Main Events Need To Be 5 ROUNDS!

Couture vs Nog is just another perfect example of a big time fight that should have been finished.

Just add that too Frankin Hendo, Franklin Silva, Hughes Serra, Condit Kampmann, etc

I agree with all the other fights, but Nog completely dominated Couture in a very sloppy fight. I was glad it was done in 3 rounds.

NoRegret wrote:

I agree with all the other fights, but Nog completely dominated Couture in a very sloppy fight. I was glad it was done in 3 rounds.

Sloppy? What are you talking about? Nog and Couture looked good trading and the feet and Nog looked as good as ever on the ground.

Their striking wasnt crisp, I dont know what you consider to be looking good standing up but I certainly dont call throwing wild punches and taking shots from your opponent the whole time looking good standing up.

Just my opinion but yeah.

They're voxing was solid. Good combos, good head movement, and good pace. You wanna see wild then look at the shot Silva hit Jardine with, go watch an old Wand, or Caveman-Diego.

I didn't think it was a sloppy fight. I thought it was a very entertaining fight and both Nog and Randy took some nice shots. I thought it was entertaining both on the feet and on the ground. Good fight IMO.

im not saying it wasnt a good or entertaining fight, I just didnt think the standup was as great as you guys are making it out to be.

I don't think the standup was great but I don't think it was that sloppy either.

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I don't see a great need for 5 round fights. Certainly Nog vs Randy didn't need to go 5. Nog won the first 3 pretty clearly, Randy was not coming back late in the fight. Why do we need to see Randy get KO'd?

Hughes vs Serra was a fight that couldn't have ended sooner.

Condit vs Kampman? Why would some middle of the pack fighters be featured in a 5 round fight?

Just because a fight is close, does not mean it should have gone longer.

captain organic wrote:

I don't see a great need for 5 round fights. Certainly Nog vs Randy didn't need to go 5. Nog won the first 3 pretty clearly, Randy was not coming back late in the fight. Why do we need to see Randy get KO'd?

Hughes vs Serra was a fight that couldn't have ended sooner.

Condit vs Kampman? Why would some middle of the pack fighters be featured in a 5 round fight?

Just because a fight is close, does not mean it should have gone longer.

It won FOTN for an obvious reason, why wouldn't you want to see 2 more rounds of it?

Condit Kampmann was the headliner for a fight night. It is easily a candidate for fight of the year.

Farmer1906 wrote:

captain organic wrote:

I don't see a great need for 5 round fights. Certainly Nog vs Randy didn't need to go 5. Nog won the first 3 pretty clearly, Randy was not coming back late in the fight. Why do we need to see Randy get KO'd?

Hughes vs Serra was a fight that couldn't have ended sooner.

Condit vs Kampman? Why would some middle of the pack fighters be featured in a 5 round fight?

Just because a fight is close, does not mean it should have gone longer.

It won FOTN for an obvious reason, why wouldn't you want to see 2 more rounds of it?

Condit Kampmann was the headliner for a fight night. It is easily a candidate for fight of the year.

It won fight of the night because there were two fights that had KO's within like 10 seconds of the start of the fight, Leben getting choked out, Thiago Silva dominating Keith Jardine and a snore-fest fight between Vera and the polish experiment...how wouldnt it win FOTN?

It would have taken a pretty damn good fight to knock it from FOTN status. There was some great exchanges, knockdowns, near knock outs, and even when it was on the ground there was very little breaks in the action and a couple of near submissions. For HW's, this was about as exciting and non-stop as you can expect.

NoRegret wrote:

Farmer1906 wrote:

captain organic wrote:

I don't see a great need for 5 round fights. Certainly Nog vs Randy didn't need to go 5. Nog won the first 3 pretty clearly, Randy was not coming back late in the fight. Why do we need to see Randy get KO'd?

Hughes vs Serra was a fight that couldn't have ended sooner.

Condit vs Kampman? Why would some middle of the pack fighters be featured in a 5 round fight?

Just because a fight is close, does not mean it should have gone longer.

It won FOTN for an obvious reason, why wouldn't you want to see 2 more rounds of it?

Condit Kampmann was the headliner for a fight night. It is easily a candidate for fight of the year.

It won fight of the night because there were two fights that had KO's within like 10 seconds of the start of the fight, Leben getting choked out, Thiago Silva dominating Keith Jardine and a snore-fest fight between Vera and the polish experiment...how wouldnt it win FOTN?

Last PPV Silva's quick finish of Forrest won FOTN. There were 7 other fights that night that could have all won.

Farmer- that is because UFC 101 was absolutely horrible. Worst PPV I ever witnessed. Only entertaining thing that night was the Silva KO

The Penn vs. Florian fight was boring all the way up until BJ finally stopped toying with Kflo and started to take him to school.

Pellegrino and Hendricks both put on good fights along with the 2 main events.

Have you enjoyed a single fight, NoRegret?

No regret is as brutal on good fights, fighters and logic as I am to idiocy, assbabble and nincompoops. The yin to my yang.

And the Randy Nog fight was great. That fight will be in the fight of the year discussions.

The fight of the year is going to be Ace vs Vitor. Talk about a slug fest that will be it.

Vitor, has he ever been in a fight of the year type battle? He doesn't get into back and fourth brawls, he wins fast or fades and fights tentatively.

Rich weathers Victor's huge storm in round one to make a comeback in round 2, but Vitor is saved by the bell. The both come out swinging round 3 and Franklin ends it!

Farmer1906 wrote:

Couture vs Nog is just another perfect example of a big time fight that should have been finished.

Just add that too Frankin Hendo, Franklin Silva, Hughes Serra, Condit Kampmann, etc

It's a good point but I disagree. 5 round for the title are what make those fights significant against non-title fights.

Where am I being negative about this fight? I said the fight was entertaining but the standup was not great. Sorry I'm a realist.

As for UFC 101, if you honestly believe that it was a solid PPV, you're outside your minds.

Honestly, I missed the first couple fights for that PPV though because BW3's was completely full and we had to wait for ppl to leave before we could get in.

Farmer1906 wrote:

captain organic wrote:

I don't see a great need for 5 round fights. Certainly Nog vs Randy didn't need to go 5. Nog won the first 3 pretty clearly, Randy was not coming back late in the fight. Why do we need to see Randy get KO'd?

Hughes vs Serra was a fight that couldn't have ended sooner.

Condit vs Kampman? Why would some middle of the pack fighters be featured in a 5 round fight?

Just because a fight is close, does not mean it should have gone longer.

It won FOTN for an obvious reason, why wouldn't you want to see 2 more rounds of it?

Condit Kampmann was the headliner for a fight night. It is easily a candidate for fight of the year.

Just because a fight is a good entertaining battle, does not mean it needs to go 5. Randy did a great job in surviving through some hairy situations, but I'm not sure how much longer he could have kept going if he kept getting hit like he was. But Im pretty sure he was not coming back to win that fight. So what is the purpose? Do we need to see what was a valiant effort by Randy beaten into a KO? Was a 3 round shot out by Nog not enough?

And again Condit vs Kampman? Sure good fight, but fight night's should not be included in the discussion. The Condit Kampman fight is as good as your typical 3rd or 4th fight on a UFC PPV card. Why would Condit vs Kampman be a 5 rounder when Silva vs Griffen was not? Your argument has more traction if you leave the fight night fights out of it.

Silva Griffin should have been too because it was a co main, but it ended too quickly to make an argument for it and to bring it up is kind of silly.