KINGSBERRY VS MADONALDO

Wow both of those guys fought with one or both eyes blinded and even tried to finish the fight. I sure hope the doctors clear them of any substancial damage.

ha ha but for real loved the fight and the way both fighters gutted it out and didnt play it safe

i disagreed with that decision tho, any1 else?

Best fight of the night by far, and yes Killer I had Maldonaldo taking it, as did Junkie and BE from what I checked so far. Now Kingsbery fought well, great knees in the clinch, took the first, but I had the 2nd and 3rd going to Fabio.

Really like Maldonaldo BTW, liked him since I first saw him, but his striking reminds me of JDS's and he has a great chin.


Think he should either pack on more muscle or drop to MW.

he looks like he could make MW for sure, he has a boxing record of 22-0 and it showed. great hands throughout the fight, and those body shots did some damage

Good scrap. Think Madonaldo should drop to MW

kingsbury is fragile. See him back up and stop attacking as much once he lost vision in his eye? He is mentally weak.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

kingsbury is fragile. See him back up and stop attacking as much once he lost vision in his eye? He is mentally weak.

wolf nevermind loosing vision during the fight I am worried he will loose his eye, this is a very serious injury

I was surprised Madonaldo never threw the overhand right at the end of the 3rd, Kingsberry's eye was done, and he kept throwing the left and body shot like he was setting up the right KO, but it never came....

OU wrote:

I'm having a hard time with the Kingsbury vs Maldonado
fight. Kingsbury is the better athlete but Maldonado can turn his lights
out at any second.

Pretty much sums it up.

Early in the fight mostly, as it went on his athletism didn't play as much a factor. I'd say more the fact that Madonaldo should really be a MW hurt him more. But I had Fabio winning anyways, as did Junkie and BE, close fight though.

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/6/7/2211384/kyle-kingsbury-tells-sherdog-that-fabio-maldonado-gave-him-an-epic
Kyle Kingsbury tells Sherdog that Fabio Maldonado gave him an epic beating at the TUF 13 Finale, despite Kingsbury earning the decision win:

Quote :

"I was certainly in survival mode once he hit me in the eye," Kingsbury said. "I couldn’t even see out of it. It was terrible."

"We had done a number of things to try to strengthen my stomach going
into the fight, getting used to taking hits there," Kingsbury said.
"There’s just no way to really prepare for that kind of power and that
kind of technique when he’s unloading like that to the body. That’s why
you’d see I’d be in the clinch throwing knees and he’d bury one to the
body, and I’d just let go. I had a perfect plum set up, but there was no
way I was going to stay in there because I thought immediately, ‘Man, I
can’t let that guy go off like that again.’"

"I’m not kidding when I say this: Every punch that guy threw hurt. No
question at all," Kingsbury said. "Every one to the midsection, every
punch to the side of the head, all of them hurt. Honestly, only Cain
Velasquez hits me that hard, but he’s got on 18-ounce gloves when we’re
doing that This guy had little gloves, and he just hit like a Mack
truck. Everything was hurting."