Gegard Mousasi vs. Alexander Shlemenko & Neiman Gracie vs. Zak Bucia RBR

I got Shlemenko winning.

 

Mousasi can be such a frustrating fighter to watch, he's capable of beating any MW in the world but sometimes he looks like he's just going through the motions and will struggle with lesser opponents e.g. king mo, Jardine, Hall, Shlemenko etc.

 

I think the most appropriate decision would be a draw. Mousasi 1st, Shlemenko 3rd and 2nd was a drawn, because Shlemenko won the first four minutes in stand-up, and then Mousasi got takedown. Fight was certainly close and if judging by damage or the spectacularity of fighters I would give Shlemenko a victory

 

With wins over Jacare, Henderson, Belfort, Weidman he has a great resume and he's beaten every MW he's faced in the last decade apart from the obviously great Machida.

But he is prone to these no shows, maybe it's to do with how active he is as a fighter I don't know. But Lawal even at LHW shouldn't have been an issue, Jardine is good but shouldn't be competitive with a prime Moose really, Hall again was a poor show.

The early losses you can understand because most strikers struggle with the initial transition to MMA particularly with the ground game but still there's 6 people now who have beaten him and you could argue on paper Jacare is the only who should have emerged victorious.

Why was this bout so close, with so many poor shows it makes you wonder if actually the great wins are the blip and not the other way round.

 

Maybe Shlemenko is better than originally thought or Mousasi has gotten old after being in so many tough fights over the years,or a combination of the two.

 

Musashi didn't use a very good strategy. He better as a wrestler than Shlemenko and and he was definitely heavier, he could avoid fighting in the stand up and constantly try to get takedown where instead of taking back and trying to get the choke he could keep Shlemenko on the ground and beat him

 

Murika screws over another Russian fighter with their bigoted, corrupt, State athletic commission judges. If Shlemenko had won by KO they would have just falsified his drug test like they did when he KO'd Manhoef.

Pandemic corruption against EE fighters makes me ****ing sick.

 

Just finished watching Moussasi was very lucky that last round must have been close to a 10-8 round also for Sclemenko

 

I had the fight for shlemenko tbh

 

Yea rnd2 was the rnd that swung it really wasn't it, so close