So GRIFFIN BEAT RAMPAGE? REALLY THOUGH?!?!

Nominate me for MMA forum moderator!

 

I will, if I can figure it out :tired

 

This isn't boxing.....

 

Forrest showed a more diversified attack throughout the fight.
He showed a good jab, threw some damaging kicks and a wide
variety of kicks both to the inside and outside of Rampage's legs,
kept his distance well and when on the ground showed better
jiu-jitsu going for and securing triangles when on his back and
a decent ground and pound while in the mount position. He also
tried to isolate Rampage's arm on a couple occasions. Forrest
was the better ring general throughout the fight while Rampage
kept looking for the big K.O. punch. Forrest won a good back and
forth fight.

 

Its not the content we don't like, its the multipule threads about the same fight. Maybe if you started a thread asking to explain the scoring system /rules it would have been better recieved. Timing is also important, we got invaded like never before and overwhelmed with idiosy that us regs aparrently just didn't like.

 

Because of the amount of overall domination, which included both standing (extreme leg damage) and on the ground. Unlike boxing, the knockdown in the first round wouldn't net Rampage a 10-8. In fact, he was likely losing up until that point and it was all that turned the round in his favor, IMO.

 

Because in the 1st it was pretty even up until the last half minute or so when Rampage caught Griffin and he went down and got pounded.

Meanwhile in the 2nd Forrest not only hurt Rampage with the leg kicks which would have got him points but he had a dominant position on Rampage on the ground for the majority of the round and was striking and attempting submissions on Rampage without reply. Rampage didn't throw a meaningful punch, hence 10-8.

 

Forrest dominated the whole of that round 2. He hurt Rampage with
vicious leg kicks, got him down and just totally controlled him for
the remainder of the round. I wouldn't have given him a 10-8,
but it's not too out of line. I gave Rampage round 1 because
he hurt Forrest but he kept his distance well and gained confidence
that he could stand up to Rampage's huge punches.

 

Best explanation is you're used to boxing and simply scoring the boxing.

In reality the majority of that fight was not boxing, so the boxing aspect isn't scored as highly. Rampage would get kicked, circle out, get kicked, land some punches, get kneed, get jabbed, and then land some more punches.

You're brain is adapted to just looking at the punches so it seems like rampage is just landing the better punches.

Even in round 4, Rampage was in a very bad position with the triangle.

 

Well it looked like Rampages knee got screwed up from 1 of the kicks, the 50 after that are going to be pretty damaging.