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I know some find him annoying but the guy has character at least. He got a huge crowd pop for his entrance, knocked out his opponent in brutal fashion, made the fans go wild and then showed a ton of charisma in his post-fight interview. Now, last night Tim Kennedy came off like a star.
Watch that documentary about the 20 years of UFC (fantastic stuff btw) and they outright say the reason they grew so much was stars like Tito and Chuck and Hughes, etc.
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ROOSTER!~! The big issue here to me though is this – there’s been a ton of talk online recently about the dropping PPV buyrates and TV ratings for the UFC and one ridiculous notion seems to be that they DON’T MAKE STARS and they don’t WANT to make stars and the only star they want is Dana White. Can’t forget Kennedy’s BADASS entrance theme either.
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Really fun main event in the end, thankfully. I had a worrying feeling about this one going in if I’m honest because I thought Sapo could stifle Kennedy enough to last five rounds, and make for a pretty shitty fight, but in the end I guess Kennedy’s blood lust was up due to the crowd he was fighting in front of and he ended up turning Sapo’s lights out with a lunging left hook reminiscent of Gray Maynard’s lone highlight reel KO on Joe Veres back in 2007. But yeah, the card was low on star power but high on excitement for the most part. Basically the only guys who got dicked over in the whole deal were Michael Bisping and Mark Munoz, and hey, I’m sure they’ll bounce back. Machida/Kennedy probably would’ve been a tentative type thing with Lyoto winning which wouldn’t have pleased anyone really. Machida because we got Kennedy winning in exciting fashion in front of tons of soldiers who love him, which made for a really memorable ending to the show. I mean, sure the main event was weaksauce but in a way doing Kennedy vs. I thought last night’s show was solid enough for a FFTT card. Ellenberger when Diego was beating the shit out of him in the third round. Secondly I freely admit I’m super-biased towards certain fighters (hi Diego!) and so often without the time to let stuff sink in I might make hyperbolic statements like when I swore that the ref should’ve stopped Diego vs. Don’t hate me, hate the body clock, dude. So sometimes – particularly in those seemingly common fights where the judging is a bit controversial – I may well seem a little confused and my memory might be foggy unless I’ve had a chance to rewatch. As a Brit these shows are on waaay late at night and so it’s crazy difficult to stay awake throughout them even if I abuse various substances. Just read this instead, ha!Ĭouple of things you probably need to know before we get going. I’ll still do the longer recaps because I know some people like reading them, so fuck it, if you don’t like it don’t read. In this case, it’s UFN 31 AKA Fight For The Troops 3. So hey, I figured I’d change it up and do some shorter stuff, kinda like Scott’s ‘Quick and Dirty’ recaps (and hey, I ripped my whole style off Scott anyway so it’s all good!) looking at the UFC show from the night before. I know there were a few guys on the BoD who didn’t like my other MMA-related stuff namely because the shows are a few months (or in the case of the PRIDE stuff, years) old and they didn’t like so much play-by-play. Alright, so you can’t accuse me of being a guy who doesn’t listen to feedback.