Usman sucked the joy out of a great event

For 6 days we had a glimmer of hope in these dark times that Masvidal could rouse us from our quarantined stupors and give us something to celebrate once again.

Usman killed it all with his stall and wall.

Ultimate Holding Champion congrats on the point victory.

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No, Masvidal sucked the joy out of the event. There was moments in the champ rounds where both fighters were standing and Mas did less than Usman did on the feet.

Cry more noobs. Usman's fight prior to this one was more exciting than any of GSP's fights after 2006.5. One of the most exciting WW fights in history. He gets a pass.

6 days notice, Usman did his best against a formible opponent. Landed power shots all night to the body.

Usman is a phenominal fuckin MMA fighter, who actually has power and can finish people.

Great fuckin fight!

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Yep. All the main card fights were great and then Marty comes out kills the whole fucking show.

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I would like to see him engage on his feet more but hes there to win plain and simple. He executed his game plan correctly and won every round save maybe the first and thats debatable. 

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Nytron -

No, Masvidal sucked the joy out of the event. There was moments in the champ rounds where both fighters were standing and Mas did less than Usman did on the feet.

Cry more noobs. Usman's fight prior to this one was more exciting than any of GSP's fights after 2006.5. One of the most exciting WW fights in history. He gets a pass.

6 days notice, Usman did his best against a formible opponent. Landed power shots all night to the body.

Usman is a phenominal fuckin MMA fighter, who actually has power and can finish people.

Great fuckin fight!

Nytron. Nobody said GSP was one of the most exciting fighters. That's a straw man argument. Most of his fights were boring as fuck after Serra cloberred him.

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Nytron -

No, Masvidal sucked the joy out of the event. There was moments in the champ rounds where both fighters were standing and Mas did less than Usman did on the feet.

Cry more noobs. Usman's fight prior to this one was more exciting than any of GSP's fights after 2006.5. One of the most exciting WW fights in history. He gets a pass.

6 days notice, Usman did his best against a formible opponent. Landed power shots all night to the body.

Usman is a phenominal fuckin MMA fighter, who actually has power and can finish people.

Great fuckin fight!

None of Usman’s fights have ever been more exciting than a GSP fight with the exception of Usman vs Colby. GSP at least passed guard. He landed elbows and punches. He was/is a martial artist and showed a complete game. 

Also come up with something other than “cry more noobs”

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Jeeze, some haters here. Usman stood with him more then expected and then wrestled later in the fight. I thought he did a great job and even beat Jorge on the feet. Kudos to him for a great fight and his willingness to stand with Jorge. 

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Nytron -

No, Masvidal sucked the joy out of the event. There was moments in the champ rounds where both fighters were standing and Mas did less than Usman did on the feet.

Cry more noobs. Usman's fight prior to this one was more exciting than any of GSP's fights after 2006.5. One of the most exciting WW fights in history. He gets a pass.

6 days notice, Usman did his best against a formible opponent. Landed power shots all night to the body.

Usman is a phenominal fuckin MMA fighter, who actually has power and can finish people.

Great fuckin fight!

Nytron. Nobody said GSP was one of the most exciting fighters. That's a straw man argument. Most of his fights were boring as fuck after Serra cloberred him.

That's a fair point.

Many people don't like GSP.

Those same people will never like Kamaru either then I suppose. No use in trying to convince them otherwise. This sport has far too many toxic fans as it is, no incentive to convert them.

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Nytron -

No, Masvidal sucked the joy out of the event. There was moments in the champ rounds where both fighters were standing and Mas did less than Usman did on the feet.

Cry more noobs. Usman's fight prior to this one was more exciting than any of GSP's fights after 2006.5. One of the most exciting WW fights in history. He gets a pass.

6 days notice, Usman did his best against a formible opponent. Landed power shots all night to the body.

Usman is a phenominal fuckin MMA fighter, who actually has power and can finish people.

Great fuckin fight!

None of Usman’s fights have ever been more exciting than a GSP fight with the exception of Usman vs Colby. GSP at least passed guard. He landed elbows and punches. He was/is a martial artist and showed a complete game. 

Also come up with something other than “cry more noobs”

Right, and that "exception", which was more exciting that GSP's entire prime from 2006.5 til now, was Usman's last fight prior to fighting Mas.

That fight was fuckin fireworks, one of the best WW fights in history.

And Usman's fight against Woodley was one of the most dominant title fights in any weight in UFC history.

maybe if Masvidal brought more than a hook and a prayer to the fight you could blame it on Usman

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Nytron -

No, Masvidal sucked the joy out of the event. There was moments in the champ rounds where both fighters were standing and Mas did less than Usman did on the feet.

Cry more noobs. Usman's fight prior to this one was more exciting than any of GSP's fights after 2006.5. One of the most exciting WW fights in history. He gets a pass.

6 days notice, Usman did his best against a formible opponent. Landed power shots all night to the body.

Usman is a phenominal fuckin MMA fighter, who actually has power and can finish people.

Great fuckin fight!

Fuck you. Can you troll any harder?

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Fucking lame, didn't do shit the whole fight 

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I would like to see foot stomps banned. Gives Wall and stall guys a way to prevent the fight being restarted.

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He won me money so I love him for that. I can’t imagine anyone picking against him 

That's the wrestling mind frame 

an that's why ANY wrestling heavy fighters don't deserve the big dollars 

Nytron -

No, Masvidal sucked the joy out of the event. There was moments in the champ rounds where both fighters were standing and Mas did less than Usman did on the feet.

Cry more noobs. Usman's fight prior to this one was more exciting than any of GSP's fights after 2006.5. One of the most exciting WW fights in history. He gets a pass.

6 days notice, Usman did his best against a formible opponent. Landed power shots all night to the body.

Usman is a phenominal fuckin MMA fighter, who actually has power and can finish people.

Great fuckin fight!

Does he choose just not to finish people then? 

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It pains me to say this, but the issues is more with the ruleset than it is with Usman. 

The rules, allow for a "fighter" to negate the fight aspects of a fight, if they are good enough to clinch, hold them in the clinch, and/or take them down and hold them down. 

That is within the rules, but do we fight fans consider that fighting, or stalling? 

It's delaying the fight.  There will be times when you clinch up, whether standing or on the ground, but those moments of no activity should not last long.  There will be battles of position, but 1 of 2 things needs to happen.

Position needs to be established.  If not, referee's should at the very least, be more vocal in warning fighters he's about to separate.  If a fighter has underhooks and isn't doing anything, that fighter will more than likely have incentive to use his underhooks to move to a better position. 

If you get position, then start mounting an offense. If you are in side control, your mission is no longer to keep him there, your mission is to fight.  Strike, and/or go for the submission.  Holding someone down, while that might be effective, it's more holding than it is fighting. 

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Usman was training for a title fight and only has one game plan for any fighter. Jorge was at the club doing lines off strippers when he got six day notice to fight.

Usman is a great Dan Severn 2.0

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I read the title as Usman sucked the toy. Way to disappoint, OP.

Usman is a great fighter. He fought smart and was never threatened.

But yeah. That was boring.