UFC 312

He's on a pretty good win streak, judges just robbed him of his title.

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Nah he lost that fight. It was a close fight but I thought dricus won. Robbery shouldn’t be used in the context of this fight it was extremely close.

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Dricus was gifted that fight. He took Strickland down a few times and got zero damage while holding him down. Strickland turned Dricus' face into minced meat. Strickland outstruck and outdamaged him 4/5 rounds. I mean, Strickland wasn't even damaged at all. That was a complete robbing.

Strickland has gone off about the judging because of that fight. I have no idea who's going to win that fight.

Very close fight, thought Strickland won, but definitely not a robbery.

I think this overall card looks great. Bunch of younger or less known fighters.

Shitty card but I’m not off for many PPVs so I’ll be buying this bad boy.

I watched the first fight for the first time yesterday. It was really, really, really close and I’d hate to be those judges. The only obvious rounds were DDP winning round 4 and Strickland winning round 5. DDP did the most damage of the fight between either fighter in round 4. On one hand Strickland out struck him on the cards but 90% of it were jabs. DDP scored a few takedowns and pushed the pace. But, I’m under the impression that to win a decision over the champ it’s got to be obvious and that wasn’t obvious enough. Strickland probably should have kept the belt. The most impressive thing I took away from the fight other than both fighters cardio was Stricklands ability to check kicks. He pretty much checked every single one of DDPs kicks. He’s got to be more agressive though. His last 2 fights have been death by jab and he hasn’t landed a big shot since Izzy.

I watched the countdown today and Strickland has a ton of respect for DDP he knows he’s a tough dude and hard to put away, he even said before the first fight that it would probably go the distance. Hopefully he gets more agressive this go around.

Zhang looks like she’s been doing a lot of weight lifting to prepare for Tatiana’s wrestling. I initially thought Tatiana could bully her on the ground but Zhang looks fricking jacked in the countdown episode so now I’m not so sure. Should be an interesting fight. Everything else on the card is tomato cans. Seems like they could have got 1 more ranked fight for the main card

Hard to say the best cards. Some of these cards seem great but are not as good as you hope and then others are packed with surprises, drama, great performances. I have a real fondness for the days with SpikeTV, when PPV's weren't as often. Gave you a lot of time to learn about the fighters and styles before the events.
One of the craziest fights ever

Agree that it isn't the most attractive card based solely off of names but sometimes the bigger name fights don't end up being that great. I can think of a few times I had friends over to watch the big fight which turned out to be a dud. Sometimes the lesser name guys who you don't even know can be entertaining.

Jones vs Gane for example. In 60 seconds he had him against the fence and in about 45 more seconds later it was over. The true fight fans probably still enjoyed it but the casual fan, not so much.