UFC 194 (Knock Out)

[Tenacity]

Surprised to log in and nobody is talking about this on here. What do you guys think about that Conor McGregor knockout? I was out at a local Dave & Busters with a chick watching it on Saturday, and I swear I called the fight by saying somebody will get knocked out in the first round. Nobody else believed this, but it happened.

But I'm wondering if UFC is starting to get pre-determined like WWE was/is? A lot of the old WWF promotional tactics are being used by the UFC and obviously they have taken a significant amount of the WWF's old audience. I'm wondering if this is starting to become pre-determined?

 

[Bible_Belt]

I just watched it on youtube. Neither guy had his hands up at all. Aldo lunged forward face-first; McGregor didn't have to hit him hard to knock him out.

I've had friends fight on UFC undercards, and the untelevised fights are a lot more crooked than the ones you see. When the UFC comes to town, they usually find a local promoter and let him do the undercard matchmaking. So he'll match all of his guys against chumps in order to make his own gym look good. The chumps are told that they are getting their big shot as a UFC fighter...and sadly, that is true, after maybe two times of this happening, they're never going back to the UFC after starting 0-2. If you know any fighters, any of them will get in an octagon with anybody, just to have a puncher's chance at a UFC win. But that doesn't make it good matchmaking.

A guy I know, who fought a few times for the mma promotion I worked for, got railroaded into an 0-2 UFC record, and they fired him, of course. That was about five years ago. Today he is a Glory Kickboxing champion, and I'm sure waving a big middle finger at Dana White.

 

[esev8]

I think that this particular fight was legit that aldo got knocked out well. It sucked that it lasted few seconds I wanted to see more of a fight...