Strikeforce: Fejiao/Hendo thoughts

OK card. Enjoyed the title fights. i give it a 6.

Competitive main event and great KO finish. It seems like it's been forever since Hendo used his wrestling base so much. It worked better for him against Cavalcante than it worked for Lawal...which is somewhat suprising, but Hendo is also bigger and more experienced than Mo. It was even until the KO but Fejiao looked far too timid the entire fight. You can tell he was worried about the one punch and i think it affected his approach. Good reason as well because once Hendo landed clean he went down..too much power. More credit to Jake Shields chin for surviving that. A little disappointed with Fejiao on the mat. Soares and others are always raving about his BJJ being as dangerous as his striking but all he did was stall when he got to the mat. I understood when Hendo was on top of him because he didnt want to give Hendo a chance to posture up and throw a punch, but when he was in Hendo's guard i expected him to try to pass. I know he cuts a lot of weight, and he might of been tired already..i don't know why he didnt try to take advantage of being on top of Henderson. Hendo looks in much better shape at 205 than he did at 185, i'm really starting to believe he was having injury problems for that Shields fight, which might have been a pretty big aberration. Hendo is beastly right now. Winner of Mousasi-Kyle next i suppose.

Pretty interesting chick fight. Nice comeback finish by Coenen. Liz was much stronger and had a good idea what to do on the mat but once Coenen got that underhook that was it. I think Miesha Tate will be probably wrestle Coenen to a decision though. I like Marloes though, so i hope she wins.

No suprise with Kennedy-Manhoef. It's a shame Manhoef is so inept on the mat. It would be nice if somebody with his level of striking was not an automatic out as soon as he hit the mat.

Masvidal-Evangalista sucked. I thought this one could turn out being a barnburner but Masvidal was content sitting back jabbing and controlling the clinch work against the cage...which is a shame because Evangalista obviously posed zero threat to him. Masvidal could have easily gone for a finish i think. Masvidal is a good fighter, I think fighting Healy, JZ, or JT is the next fight for him. Evangalista just simply never impressed me. He was not impressive vs. Aina, Gurgel, and not really with Spiritwolf. I don't think he has much future past favorable fights on the Challengers series. He should fight Beerbohm or Shaolin next.

Pretty much what i expected looking at the card on paper. It didnt look like it could turn out great, but the main event was good and it a sick card is in the making for their april 9th card.

Your AV is GREAT.

I just love how Hendo pounded the shit out of him when he finally got him where he wanted him. That boy doesn't hold anything back.

Yeah I thought the card was entertaining. The Masvidal fight was terrible but the card definitely got better. Im not big on chick fights but that one last night was pretty good. Hendo winning the title was cool also but overall I would say it was a 6.

You guys would only give it a 6? It was a competitive main event that resulted in a legend winning the title. The woman's champion was losing before she pulled off a great triangle. Sure Kennedy did what we thought he would but Melvin's fight are always entertaining until they hit the ground.
I thought it was a solid night of fights.

OU wrote:

You guys would only give it a 6? It was a competitive main event that resulted in a legend winning the title. The woman's champion was losing before she pulled off a great triangle. Sure Kennedy did what we thought he would but Melvin's fight are always entertaining until they hit the ground.
I thought it was a solid night of fights.

Im pretty hard as a judge on any event to be honest so 6 isnt terrible it was just alittle above average to me.

timthebim wrote:

OU wrote:

You guys would only give it a 6? It was a competitive main event that resulted in a legend winning the title. The woman's champion was losing before she pulled off a great triangle. Sure Kennedy did what we thought he would but Melvin's fight are always entertaining until they hit the ground.
I thought it was a solid night of fights.

Im pretty hard as a judge on any event to be honest so 6 isnt terrible it was just alittle above average to me.

What grade did you give UFC on VS?

Basically the main event was the only thing that mattered, but in reality neither are really in the running for best in the world at 205. I like kennedy and think he's a borderline top 10 185er, but really his fight wasn't a good match up. Any kind of wrestler vs Manhof is a boring match up.

OU wrote:

timthebim wrote:

OU wrote:

You guys would only give it a 6? It was a competitive main event that resulted in a legend winning the title. The woman's champion was losing before she pulled off a great triangle. Sure Kennedy did what we thought he would but Melvin's fight are always entertaining until they hit the ground.
I thought it was a solid night of fights.

Im pretty hard as a judge on any event to be honest so 6 isnt terrible it was just alittle above average to me.

What grade did you give UFC on VS?

7.5 or so.

Farmer1906 wrote:

Basically the main event was the only thing that mattered, but in reality neither are really in the running for best in the world at 205. I like kennedy and think he's a borderline top 10 185er, but really his fight wasn't a good match up. Any kind of wrestler vs Manhof is a boring match up.

Yeah it was interesting for about a minute and a half.

Did Gurgel win last night?

timthebim wrote:

Did Gurgel win last night?

Jorge Gurgel defeated Billy Vaughan by submission (guillotine choke) at :44 of round one.

OU wrote:

timthebim wrote:

Did Gurgel win last night?

Jorge Gurgel defeated Billy Vaughan by submission (guillotine choke) at :44 of round one.

Cool i hadnt heard about it yet.

Only fight I saw live was the main event. Props to Hendo, the big overhand right again carries the day. Agree with Kings in that Feijao was timid, and I will point out that Hendo's Greco gave cavalcante problems, all the takedowns were out of the clinch, where as Feijao was better able to stave off mo's freestye. Hendo's greco was also able to nullify feijao's clinch game which usuallys features plenty of knees.


I knew Kennedy won the fight b4 I saw it, couple that with a Melvin loss via submission, and it was awful anticlimatic.

Haven't watched the other fights yet.

But I was a bit torn on girl rilla vs Coenen. Thought Girl rilla might be able to muscle and energy Coenen up. Which apparently she was able to do. But went with Coenen cause I figured her experience and sub's would eventually catch the still green rilla. which also apparently happened.

I give it a 8. Main event was awesome. Womens fight was dramatic, Melvin.... Kennedy gets the nod before Mayhem, they will push him publicity, Masvidal that fought last night looked like he would jack Melendez up. All in all a entertaining card, like usual. Was a good week.

GDPofDRC wrote:

I give it a 8. Main event was awesome. Womens fight was dramatic, Melvin.... Kennedy gets the nod before Mayhem, they will push him publicity, Masvidal that fought last night looked like he would jack Melendez up. All in all a entertaining card, like usual. Was a good week.

It definitely was a good weak of fights.

http://mmajunkie.com/news/22759/strikeforce-feijao-vs-henderson-videos-bowling-thornburg-gurgel-vaughan.mma

for some reason I can't get the videos to show up on here.