[bzrkr]

for those of you who only like finished fights:

Originally Posted by bzrkr

I've been thinking about the "finishing fights" behavior and the "more dominant in fights" behavior. Both are good. But for the longest time I thought that people who finished fights were better. Let's look at some people who finished fights:
Matt Serra destroyed GSP
Vitor Belfort KO'ed Wand Silva
Rampage KO's Chuck (2nd time)
I don't consider those to be dominant wins, yet these people have finished fights with lucky shots.
Just because someone is dominant doesn't mean that they must finish a fight. To add more pressure on the dominant person, while they are dominating, they could get KO'ed or subbed out of nowhere. Look what happened to Tim Sylvia against Big Nog...and before that, Crocop's beating on Big Nog, but Big Nog submitted him too on a spur-of-the-moment chance.
Chael Sonnen vs Paulo Filho.
Any more examples I need to bring up? I'm not saying these people won easily because they were lucky, but they reached a dominant position without holding it throughout the entire fight...and they had their dominant position for about 5% of the whole fight. Understand me? That is one way to win. To submit or KO the other guy. The other way to win is to out-point, dominate someone else.
If a certain fighter can't catch Machida with quality hits, it's their fault, because he's hitting back more often successfully and gaining points from that.