He was right that Cain was exposed on some very important points—he took two flash knockouts (and Rogan gave him credit for his chin) and ultimately “rode” his way to victory throwing weak pitty-pat punches. And yes, Carwin would have finished that if he were in the save position. I think you’re right Cain needs one more fight, cause even he knows that it was not the impressive victory that would put him into instant title contention.

There are huge differences between the Brock fight with Herring and this. Although, they are similar, they are also very very different. Brock didn’t get his jaw jacked at the beginning of every round…he controlled the clinch action standing up and took little to no damage through the whole fight. Brock had also just lost his first fight in the UFC and had reason to make sure he won and take no chances, Cain has been destroying people. And who cares about the commentary…I was pulling for Kongo after round one and I hate him. I felt bad because if he had the capability to keep it on the feet, he would have finished Cain in the first round, easy.

Cain looked great.

I agree that Cain looked great. He looked outclassed standing, but he’s fighting a guy who’s gotta be one of the top few strikers in the UFC HW division. Rogan and others want to degrade Cain’s performance because he couldn’t finish. Well, if you listened to his corner, they were clearly instructing him to maintain dominant position. In addition, the kid had something like 7 minutes of ring time in 5 fights. I’m not going to go as far as saying that Cain refrained from finishing Kongo to get some ring time, but it was pretty clear to me that finishing the fight wasn’t his camp’s number one priority.

Also, Cain needs a bunch more fights before he gets a title shot. I’d like to see him fight 5 or 6 more times, personally. Might not be plausible with the state of the division, though.

Don’t know what happened to the story I first posted because it was a lot longer than this. Oh well, too lazy to update it. :P