Pay per view fights tend to be a joke, yet morons like myself occasionally purchase these fights, and yet some these bouts can still be worth the money.
The feature and title match between yesterdays UFC fight between Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm was not worth the $60.00 for the match, but it was still not a rip off. Rousey clearly got whooped in the fight, Knockout in the second of a three round fight, but it was a real fight, unlike the third fixed heavy weight bout between Mark Hunt of the U.S. and the Brazilian, Bigfoot Silva, the Dutch diver (fighter).
The heavy weight fight between Silva and Hunt was a joke, Hollywood at it's worst. Hunt threw a punch that a thin glass jaw entity such as myself could have taken, and Silva went down like a high paid puppy. It was main event mafia style boxing that clearly illustrates the timeless and obvious fixes throughout the boxing world.
All major sports are fixed in my mind, but boxing is so blatant about it. Is every pro fighting, hockey, football, baseball and football match fixed? Certainly not, but the games that are, wow, just review the 2001 AFC playoff game between the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots.
For sure, the Patriots are the only NFL team to lose a playoff game and win the Superbowl in the same year. The Pats got the win handed to them by the referees in 2001 by a made up balderdash tuck rule that is now obsolete, and the Raiders should have faced the over rated Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship and not the Pats who went on to win it all. I'm regressing, yet telling it like it is, but none the less off track from topic.
Rousey was out matched in Saturday's fight. Holm was clearly the better and more educated fighter yesterday.
"Rousey is a brawler, Holm is a surgeon, a precise striker. She (Holm) has so many weapons and so many more options and we saw those options utilized tonight to perfection," one of the broadcasters said after the fight.
The second fight of the preliminaries for the Rousey and Holm fight was a solid fun watch. I'm not a fan of the UFC for any particular reason, I just prefer what I was raised on, football, baseball and basketball. The men's middleweight fight between Jamaican born and now New Yorker, Uriah Hall and Australian Robert Whittaker was an entertaining brawl. Any fights with either of these two involved would be worth a watch for any sports fan. I'm very pleased I got to watch this fight, especially seeing how versatile and how Hall used his marital arts skills despite losing while going the distance.
With all said and done, I'd pay for the next Rousey fight. She's still 12-1.
