UFC on FX 4, June 22nd

[zY|]

Guida shouldn't have won, he should be cut.

[MMA_scientist]

Watched the fight. Someone should kill Greg Jackson for telling Guida that he is effective with that spazzing. Agree, Maynard won.

[zY|]

Also, I thought Spencer Fisher won all 3 rounds. Landed the cleaner strikes standing and Stout did nothing with his takedowns.

[Svino]

I do have to say that I thought what Guida did was impressive. This was a fight that most people (including myself) gave him fairly little chance to win. Instead, he used a creative gameplan that enabled to come within a hair's breadth of victory. One judge gave him the win, and a lot of fans also thought won it. If round 3 had gone just a little more in his favor, he certainly would have.

But the fight was boring to watch, so people will reach for any excuse to say Guida had a bad gameplan even though from a sporting perspective, it clearly wasn't one. If he had stood in front of Maynard and had that brawl we were hoping for, Maynard would have smashed his face in.

[zY|]

I guess. His plan lacked offense though . I didn't give him a single round.

[Svino]

Well, he was landing more than Maynard was in the first two. (At this point, Guida became a heavy favorite in the live odds.) I give him those unless you'd want to go to a system where rounds like that are 10-10.

Having checked FM though, I was confusing rounds 3 and 4 in my last post. Round 4 was probably the one the judges were split on, not 3.

[SPX]

Let me watch the fight and I'll settle this.

From what I have heard though, it was a good--if unexciting--gameplan from Guida. He wasn't going to outbox Gray or outwrestle him, so I knew his only chance to win was either to grab a sub in a scramble or do some hit-and-run kind of shit. It sounds like he went for the hit-and-run kind of shit.