UFC Fight Night 85: Hunt vs. Mir

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #1 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 11:03 pm

http://mmajunkie.com/events/ufc-fight-night-84

March 19, 2016 | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
MAIN CARD

FOX Sports 1, 10 p.m. ET
Mark Hunt vs. Frank Mir
Hector Lombard vs. Neil Magny
Johnny Case vs. Jake Matthews
Antonio Carlos Junior vs. Daniel Kelly
Steve Bosse vs. James Te Huna
Seo Hee Ham vs. Bec Rawlings

PRELIMINARY CARD
FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET
Alan Jouban vs. Brendan O'Reilly
Mark Eddiva vs. Dan Hooker
Rin Nakai vs. Leslie Smith
Viscardi Andrade vs. Richard Walsh

PRELIMINARY CARD
UFC Fight Pass, 7 p.m. ET
Chad Laprise vs. Ross Pearson
Damien Brown vs. Alan Patrick

And discuss!

AirCanadaMouse · Post #2 » by **AirCanadaMouse** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:28 am

I'm surprised Magny didn't get the win at the end of the second round there,

that should've been a stoppage in my book. Great fight though.

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #3 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:29 am

Wow! Huge upset for Magny! That was super exciting to watch! Nice!

Jasen777 · Post #4 » by **Jasen777** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:34 am

AirCanadaMouse wrote:I'm surprised Magny didn't get the win at the end of the second round there,

Certianly didn't look like "intelligently defending". Glad Lombard lost.

Susan · Post #5 » by **Susan** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:42 am

Why is Mir going out first? He's the former champion.

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #6 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:51 am

I got Hunt.

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #7 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:54 am

WOWOWOWOWOO THAT WAS RIDIC! HOLY MOLY! Dang!

RalphWiggum · Post #8 » by **RalphWiggum** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:07 am

You gotta respect Hunt. He had the professional courtesy to allow the ref to see just how done Mir was when a lot of other fighters would have dropped a hammer fist or two when the ref didn't jump in immediately. I know it's a combat sport and your opponent in most cases wouldn't show you the same mercy but that showed just how classy a guy Hunt is. The sport needs more guys like him.

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High 5 · Post #9 » by **High 5** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:13 am

It was weird going from Lombard eating a million unanswered shots without a stoppage to the ref stepping in as soon as Mir's butt hit the mat. Not that it was a bad stoppage. Mir sent no complaints from whatever planet he was on.

Post #10 » by **lilfishi22** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:47 pm

The reffing was weird AF in the main and co-main events.

Neil was getting wrecked out there by Lombard but for the most part, he was intelligently defending himself and was moving but I've seen earlier stoppages. Good on Magny for (show)weathering the storm. I'm Ok with the no-stoppage there but had they stopped the fight I would've understood as well.

As for Lombard not defending himself and flattened out, I don't get how it wasn't called off at that point. I get that sometimes very late in the rounds refs would let the fight get saved by the bell so I looked at the clock and there was a solid 30+seconds left and I thought for sure they would call it if Lombard didn't improve his position or at least defend himself. Nope. Somehow the ref let that GnP go on and I was as shocked as Magny was at the ref for not stopping it.

Then in the main event, I kinda thought it was a maybe called off a little early. Goddard is one of the best refs out there and he obviously at a much clearer view of the condition Mir was in so it was probably a good stoppage. But I definitely thought Mir was rocked but still in the fight. I thought his eyes were on Hunt and was ready to go Zombie Mir. Props to Hunt not going for the hammerfist finish.

Overall, I thought this was a decent card. Matthews/Case was certainly one of the highlights for me.

Post #11 » by **lilfishi22** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:47 pm

Susan wrote:Why is Mir going out first? He's the former champion.

This is Hunt's "home town"

Post #12 » by **Headliner** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:22 pm

Two classy KO walk offs by Hunt and the Canadian guy. Much respect to that.

Lombard should have been stopped no doubt, that was insane.

Nemesis21 · Post #13 » by **Nemesis21** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:48 pm

Neil Magny!!!!! Huge win for Neil!

REDDzone · Post #14 » by **REDDzone** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:34 pm

Magny is putting together a nice little resume here: Lombard, Gastelum, Erick Silva, Lim, and Tim Means off the top of my head.

Honestly though, as much credit as I give Magny, it still just makes Demian Maia that much more impressive to me. He put such a clinic on Magny that Magny LITERALLY signed up for a Demian Maia seminar afterward. lol. Still an amazing story.

Post #15 » by **CPT** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:11 am

Not stopping the Magny/Lombard fight in the second was ridiculous. How many unanswered shots to the head without any sort of defense? 30?

The walk off KO is interesting. On one hand, it's a sportsmanlike move, not inflicting any further damage on a beaten opponent. On the other, it puts a lot of pressure on the ref to stop the fight, and you might get a stoppage when you really shouldn't. No complaints from Mir, so it seemed like in this case it was good.

Susan · Post #16 » by **Susan** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:18 am

Mir loses a few years off of his life if Hunto smashes his skull in even further. Hunt knows what happens when he connects like that, let that man walk off. It's best for all involved.

cowboyronnie · Post #17 » by **cowboyronnie** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:00 pm

What a comeback by Magny! Awesome.

Lombard is a cheater and an asshool, eff him.

Jasen777 · Post #18 » by **Jasen777** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 12:10 am

No judge gave a 10-8 for either round in Magny-Lombard.

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #19 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 12:13 am

Jasen777 wrote:No judge gave a 10-8 for either round in Magny-Lombard.

Er, wait wut? O_o Srsly? Wooooooow! Lolz!