UFC 129 Results: Next Day Thoughts
by Bloody Elbow on May 1, 2011 6:02 PM EDT
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This is a guest post from Donna of Gal's Guide to MMA.
It's the day after what was arguably one of the most exciting fight cards in UFC history, and it's taken me about this long to digest what I watched last night. I can't remember the last time there were so many contenders for KO of the night, though seeing as how this is BE, I'm guessing a few of you will be able to fill me in. John Makdessi took outKyle Watson with the spinning back fist, Ivan Menjivar not only KO'd Charlie Valencia but broke his nose in the process, Jake Ellenberger KO'd Sean Pierson in round 1 and Vladimir Matyushenko wiped up the floor (sorry) withJason Brilz with a knock out 20 seconds into round 1. Oh, but how dejected they must have all been when Lyoto Machida finished Randy Couture with a crane kick straight out of The Karate Kid. As soon as that fight was stopped, there was no question in my mind who would be walking away with the KO of the night bonus, and somewhere in the world Ralph Macchio got a tear in his eye.
There's always a point when you realize that the fighter everyone seems to think may just be invincible is actually human, and I think that point hit last night for Jose Aldo. Mark Hominick absolutely refused to hand Aldo that fight, despite one of the worst (best?) hematomas that I've ever seen. Excellent work by John McCarthy and the fight doctor for not ending that fight prematurely. A less experienced ref would've called the fight, and there were many points in round 5 that a perfectly placed punch by Hominick could've ended Aldo's reign as champ. Aldo and Hominick absolutely earned fight of the night honors.
Then it was time for the final fight of the night, and it was anything like the rest of the card, we were in for a treat.Georges St. Pierre said it himself; Jake Shields was the toughest opponent that he'd faced in a long time, and while I had GSP winning this fight, the possibility absolutely existed that Shields could have taken the belt from GSP. Shields looked near vomiting while they were announcing the fight, and GSP was focused as always. Into the second round, two things became clear to me: 1) GSP was going to win this fight and 2) this was going to be another underwhelming GSP victory. Now, I'm sure I'll take some crap for saying GSP is boring, and I absolutely recognize that he's one of the top p4p fighters in the world. But he's so incredibly safe when he fights, and after the night of fights we had just witnessed, this was as underwhelming a main event as I've ever seen. Is being a safe fighter bad? Not if it gets you the win. However it's been a very long time since we've seen GSP finish a fight, and by the 4th round even the Canadians were boo-ing. The Canadian audience began to turn on their prodigal son, and one can only hope that GSP and Greg Jackson noticed.
More UFC 129 Results and Analysis from Bloody Elbow.
- Jose Aldo Continues Fight for Mainstream Recognition - David St. Martin
- Georges St. Pierre vs. Anderson Silva Loses Steam - Brent Brookhouse
- Great Judging Should Be Applauded Sometimes - Tim Burke
- UFC Hits Home Run With UFC 129 Live Experience - Matt Bishop
- Zuffa and the UFC Finally Hit It Big - Matthew Roth
- Hours After, GSP Still Can't See With His Left Eye - Anton Tabuena
- UFC 129 Play by Play and Live Commentary - Brent Brookhouse
- Is Steven Seagal Secretly a Martial Arts Genius? - Jonathan Snowden
- Georges St. Pierre Holds Back UFC's Canadian Coming Out Party at UFC 129 - Jonathan Snowden
- UFC 129 Post-Fight Press Conference Video
- Georges St. Pierre Slips Past Jake Shields
- Jose Aldo Holds Off Mark Hominick
- Lyoto Machida Clouts Randy Couture
- Vladimir Matyushenko Mops the Floor With Jason Brilz
- Ben Henderson Whips Up On Mark Bocek
- Rory MacDonald Ragdolls Nate Diaz
- Jake Ellenberger Brutalizes Sean Pierson
- Claude Patrick Edges Daniel Roberts
- Pablo Garza Submits Yves Jabouin
- John Makdessi KO's Kyle Watson With Spinning Back Fist
- Jason MacDonald Triangles Ryan Jensen
- Ivan Menjivar Clocks Charlie Valencia
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How does he know
they were Canadians booing? It doesn’t take many Americains to drown out the cheers with boos. They are so proficient at it and known worldwide for it.
By that logic
How do we know it’s not Canadian boos drowning out the American crowd in Atlantic City or Vegas?
I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
by tito (eight and oh) on May 1, 2011 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Damn Canadians, always drowning out our American cheers
Turning Bat Shit into BatMan for 27 yrs
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/04/ufc-middleweight-champion-silva-like-water.html
Ya damn us Canadian’s, our hockey, our moral believes, easy chicks and our strong beer!
Damn, us, damn us, damn us!!!!!
by devious1 on May 1, 2011 8:13 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
um....
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on May 1, 2011 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
this beer thing has got to end
America has plenty of great, strong beers
by Shaun32887 on May 2, 2011 12:20 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
and whores
we have plenty of whores.
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on May 2, 2011 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Man, I completely forgot about our whores
Then I took a road trip to Austin Texas right before school started up.
Oh god yes.
Good work by Big John in not stopping the fight, but terrible job in letting Hominick grab the cage a ton in the first 3 rounds
I also found it incredibly frustrating that as Aldo slipped punch after punch with amazing head movement, Joe Rogan just continued to praise Hominicks head movement. Not that Hominick wasnt doing a decent job avoiding punches, but Aldo was showing some insane reflexes and speed for the majority of the fight.
I've never seen anything like that hematoma before
Makes me literally cringe just thinking of it.
"You need to get real!"
by MJ5 on May 1, 2011 7:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah that was one of the worst ive seen in MMA, up there with John Howard and Marcus Davis.
I honestly would have been fine with that fight being stoppoed, I mean Hominick was fine, but if an elbow caught that thing wrong, we would all be ranting about the horrible job done by the Ontario Athletic Comission’s doctor.
by Pride Never Cry on May 1, 2011 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Ahh yes JLB's was pretty crazy as well.
And it was an amazing fight too, Le Banner showed great perserverance. The K-1 Grand Prix always delivers, its probably my favorite event of the year. Hopefully they will find a way to continue it.
by Pride Never Cry on May 1, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Who reads French here?
Really curious to what that headline says
Les bleus in the eye
Les Bleus is a French sporting term I believe.
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by Bloodsport on May 1, 2011 10:42 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Les blues=The blues ones. (French national teams wear blue shirts).
And Edith Piaff had a song called “Le blue dans les yeux”: (blue in the eyes).
".He still has a ground game that seems heavily dependent on lying still and hoping that his opponent won't notice his very kimura-able arm..."
by dancingChicken on May 2, 2011 7:06 AM EDT up reply actions
haha exactly what i was thinking of..
"Blow it out your ass."
by IGotBallsOfSteel on May 2, 2011 4:29 AM EDT up reply actions
Just want to say..
I told you so.. and you know who you are!
All the GSP nuthuggers telling me it was “probability” that he was going to finish Shields.
I told you. Decision. Always fights the safe route.
It was a good thing the other main card fights were eventful because that main event was a snoozefest.
not like he couldnt see for three rounds or anything.
Jules: Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
I am honestly sick and tired of Georges' excuses of why he couldn't after every fight.
Jake Shields is fucking abysmal on the feet and Georges threw 900 overhand rights as if he stole Josh Koscheck’s soul and let it fight for him Saturday night. And listening to his crybaby shit was so unbearable after watching Mark Hominick continue to fight with Conjoined Twin Myslexia.
"Every time I talk on the phone with someone who doesn’t know me, they call me "ma’am"." - Scott C. Broussard
by Earl Montclair on May 1, 2011 8:03 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
nothing about the first two rounds really showed you anything different did it?
by Soul.T.Nuts on May 1, 2011 8:03 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The Canadian audience began to turn on their prodigal son, and one can only hope that GSP and Greg Jackson noticed.
Yeah… not really. People were definitely celebrating the win.
Aldo was ill!
Just for the record, José Aldo was ill before the fight and during the fight! After the dispute he argued with his coach – in portuguese – that he should have taken some antibiotics before the fight. His other coach said to him at the same time while putting the shirt on him, that he is the champion and champions do not need antibiotics. All this happened before the interview with Joe Rogan.
fafefifofo
by fafefifofo on May 1, 2011 7:58 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
That explains a lot if true
seriously, he seemed to gas pretty early. But he originally said he had a pretty tough weight cut
GSP cant see and got bloodied by Shields, I'm good with that
I know people were speculating he had a bad weight cut
and Aldo himself said he put on extra muscle during his offtime. He also felt lightheaded during the champions photoshoot or whatever it was the day before.
He looked horrible for the 2nd and part of the 3rd….but turned it on pretty good.
This makes sense.
A hard weight cut plus illness and coming off an injury showed, as his cardio was much worse than the Faber fight which also went five rounds
I reckon Aldo should get a pass, and the weight cutting and illness is believable.
He looked gassed during the second round, despite this his head movement and evasiveness was still pretty on point.
He will be back dismantling opponents in no time.
Aldo was not himself. He seemed a lot slower in his strikes and over all speed.
This makes sense
by devious1 on May 1, 2011 8:19 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I really think gsp wanted the finish but that
overhand a right was never gonna do it. it seems like he needed a plan B but didn’t have one.
by Tally Johnny on May 1, 2011 8:07 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
At first I thought GSP was throwing it because Jake was an inch or two taller then him, but GSP IMHO has way faster hands then Jake. So his jab should have been just as effective as it has been with all his other opponents.
by devious1 on May 1, 2011 8:16 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Aldo proved his #1 P4P status ( IMO ) to me yesterday. This dude had a ton of ring rust, a bad weight cut, was sick according to above, and gassed early , and still was very comfortable, and dominating a very game high level striker in Mark Hominick. That’s just scary.
Jose Aldo is by far the scariest fighter in the game as of today IMO…
Anderson has a major weakness. And I think Aldo’s wrestling is way superior to Silvas, and I also think that Aldo’s JJ is much more fluid, although not as great of a gap as the wrestling…
And really, I don’t think the striking is all that huge… Aldo’s striking is disgusting. But yes, I still give Silva the clear nod…
The gap in Aldo and Silva’s JJ is the same as the gap in their striking, Aldo gets the nod for the JJ, and Silva the nod for the striking. The wrestling makes Aldo the better fighter in a washout of superior wrestling..
You’re talking a bit out of your ass, because you don’t know that much about Aldo’s wrestling to say that it’s superior to Silva’s, and since Aldo didn’t use his BJJ in MMA much it’s even more out of an ass to say that’s it’s fluid.
But then again, the “p4p” is a bit out of an ass concept, so all of the above is not important.
".He still has a ground game that seems heavily dependent on lying still and hoping that his opponent won't notice his very kimura-able arm..."
by dancingChicken on May 2, 2011 7:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Im guessing Jake won rounds 3 and 5 on two judges scorecards? I think he came very very close to winning by split decision, if GSP had not hit the snap kick to the head which knocked Jake down in the 4th, I probably would of given that round to Jake since he was alot more aggresive to start the round
No it seems that Rounds 4 and 5 were the closest according to Fight Metric…I had a hard time judging this fight round by round, much the same as Penn/Edgar 1… I felt that overall Penn/GSP were winning, although couldn’t tell you the round count for some odd reason… Both fights were pretty damn close…
I scored rounds 3 and for Shields, im not sure what rounds the two judges who scored the fight 48-47 chose to award to which fighter, and as you say Shields could of taken round 4 if he didnt get knocked down, he came out super agressive that round which would of scored in the judges eyes.
Aldo/hominick RD’s 2,3,4 were like that to tought to pick a winner
"I absolutely recognize that he's one of the top p4p fighters in the world..."
I’ll agree he might be one of the top p4p in terms of skills, but in terms of fighting? No way. The guy doesn’t come to fight, he comes to score points with the judges. The days of him being a fighter are in the past. The crowd reaction to Randy’s finale shows how much fight fans appreciate a guy who’s willing to lay it on the line. If GSP said his next fight was his last I’d have a hard time pretending to care.
realy el diablo gsp took shields down every rd , he stagger him every rd , it was only the 5 th rd when ashields through more punchs only slightly but again gsp connected with more power punchs. only one judge had the right score 50-45 . the other judges obviuosly were not able to actually see , what was going on , something like the lenard garcia wins because he walks forward pretendionghe is not getti gfhit he is winning. thats probably what might of swayed those judges when shields was doing his diaz impersonation and gsp was snapping his head back. come on gsp was obviously blind in one eye from an eye poke from shieelds at the beginning of the 3rd rd . if you looked closely you could see thelittle slice inside his eyelid this comes from finger nails not a knuckle, yes in the 2rd shields did connect with 1 punxch to gsp eye . but that wasn’t when the damage was done . i couldn’t believe macgarthy missedthe eye poke , ther was actualy 2 eye pokes 1@ 120-130 and another@220 , both in the 3rd rd. gsp actually steps back hesitates paws at his eye , from them on his over hand right is way off , . in his corner between the 3and 4th rds gsp states he can’t see out of his eye. in the 4th rd its getting wordse but he stil connects with a beautiful head kicjk that floors shields. in the fifth its almostshut completely no wonder shields is finally able to almost out labnd gsp, but gsp still out landed him and was still totally in control and won all rds.
by robbyedRobby Edwards on May 1, 2011 10:33 PM EDT reply actions
You don’t think anybody will actually read this do you?
Let's get naked and see who's stronger.
by OwMyArm on May 2, 2011 2:39 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Aw, come on. The man clearly knows his facts:
pretendionghe is not getti gfhit he is winning. thats probably what might of swayed those judges
by babyoilbadboy on May 2, 2011 5:54 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That post decoded.
Really, el_diablo? GSP took Shields down every round and staggered him every round.
It was only in the 5th round where Shields threw a few more punches but again GSP connected with more power punches. Only one judge had the right score – 50-45. The other judges obviously were not able to see what was actually going on – like how Garcia by walking forward pretending he’s not getting hit. That’s probably what might have swayed those judges – when Shields was doing his Diaz impersonation and GSP was snapping his head back.
Come on, GSP was obviously blind in one eye from an eye poke from Shields at the beginning of round 3. If you looked closely you could see the little slice inside his eyelid which came from fingernails, not a knuckle. Yes, in the 2nd Shields did connect with one punch to GSP’s eye, but that wasn’t when the damage was done. I couldn’t believe Big John missed the eye poke; there were actualy two eye pokes – one at 1:20-1:30 and another at 2:20, both in the 3rd round. GSP actually steps back, hesitates and paws at his eye.
From then on, his overhand right is way off. In his corner between the 3rd and 4th rounds, GSP states that he can’t see out of his eye. In the 4th round its getting worse but he still connects with a beautiful head kick that floors Shields. By the 5th round it’s almost shut completely – No wonder Shields is finally almost able to outland GSP, but GSP still outlanded him and was still totally in control and won all of the rounds.
no he didn't
gsp has a TD in rounds 3 & 4 only.
by Tally Johnny on May 2, 2011 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
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