Bad day for the UFC

Bad day for the UFC

Bad day for favorites. A bad day for their fans. Bad day for the UFC. So-so day for those who bet on Chagaev and had associated with it far-reaching plans. At first everything seemed that Boxing show in Grozny will be like the wild ritual of one team in the North American hockey League, where ice throw octopus, and then carry back and forth. So in the early fights looked rivals local boxers such as dead or too scared almost to death octopus. But the further the show went, so it gets more interesting in the ring. Because there is no such thing, which may confuse the boxer and decided to win and knows how to do it. The fighting became fiercer. Guests started to win where it's not wanted to the organizers – former world champion Ali Funeka it's about this boxer, the fight with which Viskhan Murzabekov had to grow up, to raise your level, but it turned out that he while to the South African long-armed to reach, and not only because of the difference in height and arm length. Understanding of Boxing and technical training were still inadequate, and to compensate for this gross bulk and aggressiveness can, of course, but not with this opponent. It was one of the most exciting fights of the evening, but to overshadow the main, he could not by definition.

Lucas brown came to win. This all said, including himself and Chagaev. That's exactly the case when it is about underestimation of the opponent simply can not be and speeches. Because if you think that the opponent doesn't want to take from you the title, fame and money is in your head, perhaps some octopus.

Brown started this fight, slowly, as he loves and used to methodically working the jab, moved in the direction from the left hand of Chagaev, occasionally the right sort of pain here. Ruslan seems to be functionally was prepared perfectly, but a certain amount of excess weight on it and besides, conceding to the opponent in the length of the arms, he was forced to conduct very high energy fight, all the while trying to get closer, to break into the distance and explode with a series of punches. Interrupt number, usually a bad idea, but at first it didn't seem like, and what else could make Chagaev, who has never been known for particularly terrible blow. It's no worse than other heavyweights. To include feet? He did it in the sixth round, several times pulled the opponent, taught brown that all the blows he breaks, then waved his hand forward, hiding behind this movement step forward – and hit a wide and hard hook with his left. Brown stood up, staggered, and then, when Chagaev had struck again, and his feet danced. And the audience in ringside danced, screamed, stomped – down the hall was spreading this hysteria, and all this noise somehow unnoticed was the fact that the sixth round had lasted 10 seconds longer than the required three minutes.

But here brown has endured, survived. And Chagaev spent force and began to become more predictable for the applicant. And when in the 10th round, once again he decided to pounce on the opponent with a short series of shots, brown got up, well rested and in the interval between the right and left shot is inserted right through the head of Chagaev counter right hook, after which Chagaev stood in the ring flooring, but it storms a lot stronger than a few rounds before his opponent. And energy to rest, and to be overlapped otbivatsya was gone. Brown finished off Chagaev on the TV, the wife Ruslana shouted to the operator, removing her reaction to what is happening, and somewhere in Australia with the bells started to empty bottles and mugs – Lucas Browne became the first continent to world champion in a super heavyweight.

Bad day for the UFC

On the same night in the USA interim WBA champion Luis Ortiz knocked out with ease by calling Tony Thompson in a non-title fight, and now the heavyweight champion again more questions than answers. Whether it will be in the next battle to fight with Lucas Browne? What will the new IBF champion, the winner of the fight between Martin and Joshua? Where and when will the fight Povetkin-WBC Wilder? Will be there at all, the Klitschko's rematch with Tyson fury?

In the morning in Moscow nightmarish night for the Champions continued in the UFC. Holly Holm, who created the main sensation of the year, knocking Rhonda Rosie, was strangled misoi Tate and Conor McGregor lost to Nate Diaz, who was replaced in battle suddenly retired due to injury Rafael DOS Años. Another machine for making money failed. The idea that anyone can win the champion, of course, inspiring, but Diaz does not become after this victory, the star of level McGregor, he will not sell as many tickets and PPV and will not attract as much advertising money. And, quite possibly, will lose his next fight, as did Holm. McGregor and Ronda needs the UFC, and they certainly will soon return to the throne, but sometimes there are defeats, after which the fighter is unable to recover and will never be the same. Conor, smothered by larger and more experienced Diaz will most likely be fine. Departed Lee Rhonda Rosie from the knockout. And, of course, interesting, cope with this shot in Grozny, because if there is no big Boxing show where we shall see no more. And sorry, starts it all extremely interesting. More fighting and less octopus.