Close, disputed decisions have always been of the fight game. There's no way around them and really no way to fix the system. Tight decisions often produce passion on both sides and that's just fine with me, as long as we get to see the fighters to duke it out again sometime in the future.
A draw was all Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard could walk away with, after battling tooth and nail for 25 minutes last night at UFC 125. "Kissing your sister" always elicits a strong response from fight observers. This Cagewriter scored the fight for Maynard (47-46), but a draw was understandable.
MMA writer Gareth A. Davies and Las Vegas Review-Journal Ed Graney weren't quite as open to a tie fight.
After being bombarded on Twitter for the use of the word "robbery," Davies said the term may have been too harsh and backed off. Graney did no such thing.
It was the UFC's turn at offering a major head-scratcher on Saturday night, when Gray Maynard should have departed the octagon at the MGM Grand Garden wearing a shiny new belt instead of a disgusted look.
That the main event at UFC 125 between lightweight champion Frankie Edgar and Maynard was scored in a way to produce a draw was just a tad more laughable than the thought of Floyd Mayweather Jr. going finger-to-finger with Paul Blart the Mall Cop.
Edgar got crushed in the first round, losing 10-8 on all three scorecards. He was in a hole. Graney suggested there was no way Edgar climbed out of it by winning the final four rounds.
But to say Edgar then won Rounds 2 through 5 -- which is how judge Marcos Rosales foolishly scored the fight -- is to say Mayweather has been basking in good press of late. [...] Adam Hill, the mixed martial arts beat writer for the Review-Journal, also had it 48-46 for the Las Vegas challenger. Adam knows his stuff. He's no Marcos Rosales.
Graney's take was strong and he even found a way to squeeze in two JWoww mentions. Jenni Farley, the breasty "Jersey Shore" bimbo, was seated cageside backing Edgar, the New Jersey-native.
There rest of Graney's column focused on the fact that at least MMA fans get to see the fights they yearn for, unlike boxing. Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather may never happen while we've been waiting for Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez III since March of 2008.
Shortly after the draw was announced, Dana White decided that Anthony Pettis would have to wait for his shot at the winner until a real winner emerges. Early this morning, he confirmed his attentions to make Edgar-Maynard III as soon as possible.
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