sharp01 - clays a stud like i said b4 its not clays fualt fighters cant figure out how to stop him from laying on them and controlling them.Clay was trying to finish the fight but its hard to strike a guy like diego with his sub skills .Never the less clay kept coming never stopped would ve like to have seen another rnd it was a great fight buy both
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Grasping at straws I see.
no not grasping at straws so your telling me that becuase people cant figure out how to stop clay from keeping you down controling you and pounding on you its his fualt . Ill remember that next time i fight and a guy has me were i cant do piss all but i know thats his game and i should ve trained for that. THat i should go he buddy could you please stop that your beating me with your style and its making for a boring fight becuase i cant figure out how to stop you from doing this lol i forgot i guess you should never train to be able to stop your oppentants strengths.they should just let you win. Did you think when everyone was winning buy subs in the begging it was boring?
People bashing Guida have never been in a fight. Sometimes life and moreover fighting is ugly. It's not always about technique, although Guida is one of the best scramblers in MMA. His takedowns are damn good too. His striking isn't great and his gnp/submission game is also a bit lacking, but he's great at what he does, is a fierce competitor, and probably has the best cardio in mma. He obviously belongs in the UFC.
Guida wasn't as active as I'm used to seeing him from top position tonight, but that may have something to do with the fact that Diego knocked him silly several times in the first round. Then Clay gets top position in round 2 and starts taking 2 full power elbows to the dome a second. Clay was probably somewhat dazed for a large portion of the fight. He may have been trying to take a minute and recover, but Diego didn't let up.
i can say that the hate is probably the result of anxiety about how judges score MMA fights
guida showed nothing but heart in this fight (meaning no offense) but since Judges give so much wieght to the lay and pray in scoring it was scored a lot closer than it should have.
This kind of makes people angry and so they take it out on guida. but the lay and pray scoring issues has been around for years now.
I love EVERY Guida fight. The guy always surprises me with his unique game. People look at his grappling style as blanket grappling, but this isn't ultimate kickboxing. Guida has a very tough positional sub grappling game. Look at the guy... that isn't a guy that can just throw around armbars and triangles - he's too stumpy.
Last night's fight was exciting. Get over yourselves.
Any fighter without a style that can finish peers in the sport will be boring. It's not even there in potential, so you're never on the edge of your seat thinking Clay might submit or KO his opponent.
He's tough, scrappy, and good. But you can't force people to enjoy his fights. Most people enjoyed watching Mike Tyson more than Larry Holmes for a reason.