A five round fight if both guys want it? I’m sorry, but if I think I’ve won, am I less of a fighter for not giving the guy an extra non-negotiated chance to beat me? Or am I retarded if I do give him the chance? Do I get more money? More credit in the standings? How about am I guaranteed more time to recover if I injure myself during these extra round? I simply can’t imagine anything other than a draw precipitating that kind of agreement.

That’s what they ought to do, to modify your idea: if the fight is a draw, you have a ‘sudden victory’ round to break it. Tito would’ve lost to Rashad (in my opinion), Forrest-Rampage might’ve gone to a sixth (!)… of course, you’d have to have super-competent judges all the time that know when to score a round 10-8 and when to score it 10-10. But the two fighters, one or both being told by their corner ’you’re winning this fight’, shaking hands on it in the middle of the ring? I doubt it.

I still think the UFC should move for regulatory changes that would allow for 5 round main events if both guys want it.

How hard would it be for them to do that? I have no knowledge about regulations and all dem tingz so I’m hoping to be enlightened.

Hey, this is the UFC, where fights like Bonnar vs. Griffin are still lauded as timeless classics. Some people just think sloppy fights and exciting fights are the same thing. If Hendo and Franklin wanted that bonus dough, they should have held their hands below their waists while going toe to toe instead of all this footwork/head movement crap.

Had it lasted longer, I think Franklin would have stopped Hendo, who was tiring rapidly by the end. What would decide a fight lasting longer than 3 rounds, though? Title fights are obvious exceptions – they are for the best in the division, so they should have as much time as possible to fight. But what about Jardine/Liddell? Should that have been 5 rounds? What about Evans/Bisping? Sanchez/Stevenson? There are many fights that would have been interesting to see for ten more minutes (Penn/GSP I – though any closure to that would have been nice), but they know the rules: do what you can in 15 minutes.

But barely. If this had been a five round fight, I have no doubt that Franklin would have won. I’m with you, Rome. The Shogun/Coleman fight was brutal. It was sloppy and amateurish. It looked like oldschool UFC, back before Zuffa owned it. Just brutal. Shogun did himself no favors with that fight. In fact, I think he looked worse than he did against Griffin. As a Shogun fan, I was definitely disappointed. I wonder if Shogun/Coleman was awarded fight of the night in an attempt to help boost Shogun’s profile for when he fights Chuck?

Just curious. How did you score it per round that made you see it as a draw?

FYI, I had it 29-28 Franklin, but thought it easily could have gone either way.

I can understand where Coleman vs Shogun could get the crowd going but I thought that “Fight of the Night” was for the best fight not the one that the crowd got behind. Franklin vs Henderson was the better fight.

I don’t neccessarily agree with 5 rounds though, that is one of the things that makes title fights special and Franklin vs Henderson wasn’t even for number one contender.

Franklin vs Henderson merited another two rounds. So frustrating to see a fight like that be inconclusive.

i was really disappointed too.. Had it gone another round, or had there been no eye poke, franklin would’ve won by KO..

The only damage that hendo did was the headbutt and the eye poke. He scored with takedowns but did nothing with it.

scoring rounds draws if I can help it personally…as such I gave the fight to Franklin 29-28 mainly because of Hendo not really doing anything with the takedown in the second as far as doing any significant damage. Very close fight though and I’d have liked to see it go 2 more rounds.