The honor & PRIDE of Quentin "Rampage" Jackson

[ken chang]

If you watched UFC123 last Saturday, you know what I'm talkin' about. Yes, Lyoto was robbed, but it was the look on Rampage's face that stuck to my mind.

What honor! He knew he should have lost! He said as much(perhaps a little too much).

I needed to see that to restore some of my faith in MAN again. Way too many men without honor these days! The backstabbers, the liars, the pvssy-worshipers(By the way, you guys are the worst. You know who you are and I have ZERO respect for you).

Rampage said before the match that he would bring back the Rampage of his PRIDE days, and as far as I'm concerned, HE DID! Honor-wise, anyway. He even played the PRIDE theme for his entrance music! Man, I got goosebumps from that! What a rush!

Can't wait for the rematch.

 

[ken chang]

Eh, I didn't get the feel of the Rampage from Pride.

Fight-wise, definitely not. But the honor was there.

IMO, I felt like Rampage won the bout.

Really? Even he didn't think so.

What had me laughing was Rampages face after he was announced the winner.

Haha! Yeah! That was classic.

BTW did you know that Lyoto Machida drinks his own urine?



http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/05/...her-talks-urine-drinking-then-does-it-himsel/

Good god, no.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Machida spent most of the fight running away from Rampage, which is why Rampage won the decision.

 

[j0n24]

Actually thats how he fights.....not everyone is stupid and rushes forward the entire time.

machida actually did alot more damage then rampage ever did and personally I think he did get robbed.

1st round machida drops him at the end of the round
2nd gets a takedown
3rd gets full mount

I have actually no idea where rampage got the win nor the round...yeah he got some uppercuts but it didnt even stun machida at all and was able to hug rampage.

I have no idea how a person can win by just walking forward the entire fight and not do any damage while the other guy deals more damage and loses.

 

[Bible_Belt]

I have no idea how a person can win by just walking forward the entire fight and not do any damage while the other guy deals more damage and loses.

A judge would call that "demonstrating control of the octagon."

Damage-based scoring is a different issue. I do think damage should be the basis for scoring, but unfortunately it is a political issue. If judges acknowledged that they awarded points for hurting the other guy, then that would hurt the reputation of mma, which is striving to overcome the image of being a bloodsport.

All of this is contrary to the point of an actual fight, which is of course to hurt the other guy. I can only offer the perspective of a low-level amateur fighter, but I lost two judges' decisions to opponents who were obviously move fvcked up than me. One had a purple leg and the other had purple ribs; I did not envy either guy at all. mma scoring is unfortunately not very predictive of which fighter would have won a real fight. It is a shortcoming of the sport.