UFC 149: "BULLSHIT!" thoughts/rate it

I'll give the card a 2. Since the typical criteria for a 3 is UFC 97 and even that was better. This shit sucked. We had some finishes there but outside of a couple guys i can't remember who was doing the finishing because this card was really scrapping the bottom of the barell in the UFC.

Barao looked good but he was boring. He could have and should have done more to try and finish the fight. Faber looked old out there. Not as bad as Aldo made him look, but he was shut down completely. The fight was nothing special and will never be viewed by me again. Barao should get that belt though. I still think Faber can beat Cruz in a rematch. Matchups make fights and guys like Barao happen to be bad matchups for Faber. I think the fight would not have been booed if the rest of the card was better...but the crowd was prety angry and the fact that this fight was 25 minutes of the same thing with no change in tempo or any standout moments..the crowd just gave a fight that would not normally get booes(but no cheers either) shit

Lombard-Boetsch was a joke. It was a joke of a fight and a joke of a decsion. I would suggest a rematch because Boetsch didnt win that but thats a tough one to sell and i dont think Lombard really deserves the oppurtunity to make up for a bad decision. He came in with the hype and his shit performance caused the booes. That, along with "baby leg kicks" sways the judges even though he was better than Boetsch. Boetsch once again won a fight he had no business winning. It's the consensus pretty much that Lombard won, so Boetsch likely won't move forward..but it will look like a KO loss to FUCKIN TIM BOETSCH on Lombard's record. It was already bad enough that it looked like he was on his way to an unimpressive win vs. Boetsch..that was a loss on it's own..but actually taking the L against Boetsch. Lombard better come out to kill in his upcoming bouts.

Ebersole-Head was another lousy fight and another crap decision...and yeah..shame for Ebersole's impressive UFC winning streak to end in a shit fight, on a shit decision against a relatively mediocre opponent.

Kongo-Jordan was garbage.

Riddle-Clements was easily the best fight on the entire card...and a good fight it was. Nice submission by Riddle.

Jimmo 7 second KO. Didnt see that coming.

Nice KO by Rivera.

missed Court-Ring..but i heard the judges struck again in that one.

and yeah...this card sucked complete balls.

I'll give it a 3 because the prelims weren't actually that bad... I agree that hector got jipped, but he should have done a lot more.

I agree. 2/10. Worst UFC card ever.

Glad I watched the prelims and main event and didn't waste time with the rest

Hector Lombard...that's what happens when you don't fight anybody worth a fuck in years. Take that 15 minutes of looking for the home run shot back to Bellator, douche

Lols

Lombard still won that fight.

i agree with much of the op.

riddle/clements was a pretty good fight and fight of the night by default.

rivera outclassed delorme standing, he looked impressive.

lombard did so little himself against boetsch i'm struggling to see why i should give a shit about that decision. neither man should be anywhere near a title shot based on that showing.

the head/ebersole fight was interesting because it was so close. i don't agree that ebersole got robbed though.

i wasn't paying that much attention to the ring/mcgee fight but mcgee clearly won the 3rd round.

barao dominated faber but looked like he left plenty in the changing rooms. if he went for the finish i believe he probably would have got it.

i felt sorry for the crowd, i don't recall hearing so much sustained booing throughout a UFC event before.

cheekynffc wrote:

i felt sorry for the crowd, i don't recall hearing so much sustained booing throughout a UFC event before.

guess I'm glad I didn't go to a bar to watch this. Really glad I didn't shell out $$$ to buy the PPV(not that there was a chance in hell I was going to pay to see this card) but man, for the guys who shelled out $100 bucks or so, then bought some $8 beers, parking etc, I'd be pissed.

I kid you not I actually fell asleep, and I was watching this afternoon.

Probably the worst I've witnessed.

freakzilla wrote:

Lombard still won that fight.

Yeah what did The Barbarian actually do to win that fight ?

4, but closer to 4.5. There was some good stuff. But the last three fights killed it.

Barao did what I thought he would short of rock and hurt Faber and challenge for a finish. I think he has a style that could be effective in countering Cruz on the feet and in tdd.

Lombard was screwed plain and simple. I thought he had all the rounds. He didn't accomplish much but it was more and it was better then what Boetsch did throughout. Both of these guys kinda fizzled last night, cautious and defense heavy. Either needed to be more offensive. Each looks like a tough out though for the rest of the division. Lombard at WW is an interesting idea.

This was a bad night to let a fight go to the judges cards, some wird scores out there. The guys on the undercard were smart. Just finish.

Didn't pay $60 for UFC 149? Here it is, gif heavy.

It started good.






It kept on being good








Then it got bad.








You might even call it awkward.

Barao did pretty much what I thought he would minus dropping Faber and jumping down for a submission.

I don't believe Lombard won the fight to be honest. Other than a slam takedown that had Boetsch down for less than ten seconds what did he do in the third round? He did jack shit in the first round. I have to give Boetsch some credit as far as scoring for at least being active when Lombard spent 10 minutes of the fight just staring at him and moving like Hershell Walker.

Ebersole may be a victim here of short notice/short layoff since his last fight here. He looked small last night(which makes sense since he was trying to move to 155 as of last month), and I believe having to "peak" or trying to anyway in twice in less than a month hurt him. He looked terrible from the opening bell. On a normal day he probably wrestlefucks the shit out of James Head.

Riddle had a wierd gameplan last night where he would take Clements down, and then let him stand back up through the first round. At one point it looked like he even just stood up and let Clements stand up too. That standing lock up of the triangle choke was awesome though.

I was thoroughly unimpressed with Shawn Jordan's inability to do much of anything even from the clinch where he's had a lot of success, especially as the shorter, heavier, more physical fighter.

All in all I'll give it a 3 for the nice finishes on the undercard.

I agree that Lombard won the fight. When Joe was saying that Lombard might need to get the KO to win the fight I was thinking "What?". Then Lombard went on to win the rest of the round but Rogan didn't even acknowledge that. I had the first two rounds both for Hector. Can't remember if I gave him the 3rd but I thought he clearly had the fight. Bad commentating from Rogan in that one.

Also Jimmo's KO was awesome. They need to adjust the time. He was out after the 1st shot.

Quote :

"I dislocated my left and right shoulder and the right clavicle. It's painful. In training camp I had good partners, they pushed me a lot, even with my injuries. They were not nice. Sometimes you have to do things like this to become the best."

Kongo

Wow based on this thread I'm super glad I didn't talk myself into buying the ppv lol

MMAEYES wrote:

Wow based on this thread I'm super glad I didn't talk myself into buying the ppv lol

All the good shit was on the free portion of the card.