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Originally Posted by Zerocrew1984
I'm not sure I would call that "quite a few" sub attempts considering it was a 5 round fight and he was in a dominant position for most of it. We will see though.
How was the church crowd?
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Not too bad. I am a very quick grocery shopper. We get the same shit every week, but I just hate running into the families that have one cart + a race car cart for the kids. I'm very impatient.
One last thing about the Shields fight. Again, I can't fault him for fighting the way he did. I've never been a big Shields fan, and as I said, I was actually rooting for Miller (although I picked Shields to win). Miller is a tough guy to submit, and his standup is a lot better than Shields. As Barut said, Shields isn't the hardest hitter. So what do you do if you are him? Get a dominant position and hope Miller makes a mistake. Miller never made that mistake. His game plan may have been conservative, but his grappling was impeccable for most of the fight (minus the rear naked by Miller). I don't think it's fair to criticize him so much from this fight. Prior to this fight, his last 7 wins were all finished (6 by submission and 1 by TKO). Miller is one tough son of a bitch, and that has to be factored in.
Edit: One last point. 5 submission attempts is typically plenty for Shields to submit someone else.
