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  1. 08-20-2015, 04:39 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by CriticalHit View Post
    I think I had the Bader/Davis fight a 30-29 Bader. Really an uninteresting marginal fight.
    Very much so. It was honestly so uneventful, I didn't even care who the judges picked. I would have been fine with a majority draw, even. I can count on one hand the amount of meaningful strikes in that fight. Round 3 was the only round worth paying attention to, since they landed 16 and 11 strikes in the first two rounds combined. When you have two guys landing less than 2 strikes a minute through ten minutes, with no successful takedowns, then something is seriously amiss.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludo View Post
    Very much so. It was honestly so uneventful, I didn't even care who the judges picked.
    It's always interesting when people say things like this. "The fight bored me so the winner didn't deserve to win."
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    Quote Originally Posted by SPX View Post
    It's always interesting when people say things like this. "The fight bored me so the winner didn't deserve to win."
    I didn't say it bored me. I said it was uneventful. It was like watching a sparring session. Who gives a shit who wins when it looks like neither one of them is even trying to win?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludo View Post
    Who gives a shit who wins when it looks like neither one of them is even trying to win?
    When we're talking about a professional athletic contest you have to judge it as such. Both guys were probably just overly cautious. I'm sure it wasn't a situation where they literally didn't give a shit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SPX View Post
    When we're talking about a professional athletic contest you have to judge it as such. Both guys were probably just overly cautious. I'm sure it wasn't a situation where they literally didn't give a shit.
    Could have fooled me. Honestly. It looked like neither guy was motivated by anything other than not getting knocked the fuck out. Like two Machida's post Shogun, or two Bispings right after the H-bomb incident fighting each other. Neither guy was going after anything other than busy work. There were no takedowns in the first two rounds, and they landed 12 and 16 strikes in those two rounds. Not each, combined. Bader has 12 strikes, Davis had 16 landed with 0 successful takedowns through 10 minutes.

    If they were treating it like a professional contest they sure as fuck didn't do a very good job showing people that.
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    By the way, I'm still kind of upset that Bader isn't getting a title shot instead of Gus. He was literally the only guy in the top 10 with any kind of winning streak, and he got passed up for a guy who lost two of his last three, an who's only win was against an unproven prospect as a rebound fight.
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