Kyle Maynard Loses Unanimous Decision

Cool. Now let’s never speak of that night again.

to be fair, they said that fry didn’t want to beat up kyle maynard and just settled for a decision.

Anyone see the Jermaine Taylor fight last night?

Thank you guys for coming out and supporting this.. This was one of my biggest dreams, and I fell short tonight.

“I didn’t win tonight,” Maynard said. "I have to get back on the horse and perfect things. This has given me a taste. I want to get back in there and do it again. I’m only 23 years old. I’ve got a lot of time left athletically.

I’m glad he lost the way he did. This was a joke.

just so we don’t spoil a fight that I’d like people to watch

Not too many people get to be in the main event in their first amateur fight. It’s a pretty exclusive club. Just me and my man Maynard as far as I know (though, I am sure there are others).

CagePotato.

It was the opposite of most MMA crowds. These fans wanted the fight to go to the ground rather badly…at least during the main event…

Cageside!

Fry — whose mother cares for mentally and physically handicapped patients and whose son suffers from sickle cell anemia — claimed he accepted the fight with Maynard in good faith to help the Georgian show others afflicted with disability that dreams are reachable.

"It was important for me to come down here," said Fry, who won for the first time in three amateur appearances. "If my son sees this guy get in the ring, it lets him know."

From Sherdog

It was exactly what you imagined in your wildest opium dreams. Kyle chasing after this kid on all fours and occasionally eating a right hand. I had was backstage before the fight with Kyle and his team. Lots of (hopefully) great anecdotes to come when I can get the story finished.

From the very first UFC, the point has always been to test fighting techniques against each other to determine which is superior. We now know that a quadruple congenital amputee can compete but cannot win a fight under current MMA rules. His ability not to be finished is a sign of his accomplishment, but there is no reason to ever repeat this experiment, as we now know the limitations of Kyle’s technique.

The setting was far from ideal. Partially enclosed by a steel skeleton, the "arena" came complete with a dirt floor peppered with straw, a wooden press box and bleachers, a hot dog stand, a row of portable toilets and a live band. Sexual enhancement fliers were passed out to the crowd before the first fist flew, and cigarette smoke choked the air, as Maynard and Fry — the ninth and final bout on the card — competed in a square cage of black chain-link.

From MMA Mania’s write-up.

How this fight was ever a good idea is beyond me…

Honestly I hoped he could fight but…People complained about the cyborg vs akano fight saying it’s bad matchmaking that it should have never happened in the first place, which is true. But tell me how this dude can ever have a fair fight? Look at this pic, this guy stands on his arms and cannot defend himself from incoming jab, dangerous shit.

Also, I wasn’t trying to be overly-PC or didactic in my post above, but this isn’t your average topic of MMA discussion.
I appreciate the decorum shown in the discussion thus far, even by the dissenters.

Sherdog:

According to David Oblas — the man who promoted the Auburn Fight Night show in which Maynard competed on Saturday at the Auburn Covered Arena in Auburn, Ala. — the congenital amputee’s main event bout with Bryan Fry drew roughly 100 buys at $14.95 apiece at www.KyleMaynardFight.com.