Where Was The Sportsmanship In Regards To UFC 99?
by Kelvin Hunt on Jun 15, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
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PrintBasically I'm speaking on two instances, one involving Marcus Davis and the other involving Mirko Cro Cop.
When the final bell sounded at the end of the Marcus Davis/Dan Hardy fight, they briefly touched gloves or made some sort of goodwill gesture towards one another from what I could tell. However, when the decision was read in favor of Dan Hardy, Marcus Davis refused to shake his hand and wouldn't even look Hardy in the eye. I applaud Dan Hardy for being very classy in his post-fight interview. It was clear that Hardy was able to really get under the skin of Marcus Davis with all the pre-fight trash talking. Was the fight really close? Indeed. However, why Davis refused to acknowledge that Dan Hardy gave him all he could handle and more is beyond me. What he did was bush-league in my honest opinion.
The other instance involves Mirko Cro Cop talking about Al-Turk when he got back home to Croatia. A reporter asked Mirko about his knee in a video and this was the translated response:
[How was the knee?]
"Good. Good. He was going for that leg. Kicked me a few times in my operated knee. It's not very sportsman like."
What? First of all, isn't it smart to attack a weak point on the body of your opponent? I mean, if I'm fighting you and I give you a mean cut over your eyelid from some devastating GnP, you best believe I'm going to keep hitting you RIGHT IN THE SAME SPOT to make it worse. How can that be bad sportsmanship?
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thanks to a thunderstorm, I didn’t get to see any of this :(
by Charles Walker on Jun 15, 2009 12:02 PM EDT reply actions
I think Cro Cop is dead wrong in this case. Does he expect fighters not to throw leg kicks as a courtesy? Ridiculous.
Also, he didn’t stop punching when it was obvious he had poked Al-Turk in the eye. He was well within his rights to keep going but if Al Turk kicking his operated knee is unsportsmanlike surely Cro Cop battering a half blind opponent is just as bad by his logic?
I was disappointed by those comments tbh
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CC is the pot calling the kettle black. he won with an eye poke! he probably would have won anyway, but still. davis, yes, that was bad sportsmanship, but if it where nick diaz (and he’s done ALOT worse after losses) his fanboys would just say “that’s how dey rollz in da mean streets of stockton”. lol. double standard! :-)
Marcus takes himself too seriously. Hardy did what he needed to. He hyped the fight up so well in my opinion. This was just his 3rd fight inside the UFC and yet there was such a buzz surrounding this fight. Hardy also backed up his talk with a very good performance. He rocked Marcus twice and could have finished the fight if it wasn’t for Marcus’ repeated takedowns. Marcus came across as a tool after fight.
As for Cro Cop, why shouldn’t Al Turk go for leg kicks? Thats just bullshit. What next? Razak Al-Hassans gonna tell his next opponent not to armbar him because of what Cantwell did to him?
Anyway, Wanderlei and Franklin made up the lack of sportsmanship shown. Those two were so classy and respectful of each other. Just made me admire them even more.
by cauliflower_ears on Jun 15, 2009 1:24 PM EDT reply actions
well said, hardy made davis fight his fight. i thought he was geting to davis, pre-fight, thats a big reason why i picked hardy. and once again cro-cop has no business talking sportsmanship with the way he lied to his fans and THE GREAT BIG EYE POKE!
sportmanship is dead
dan hardy said it best man “the guy marcus davis is fake man, all around a fake irish man and a plastic patty”. he was telling the truth. when davis wins he runs around the cage like a mad man hugging and shaking hands, but when he got beat he can’t even look at the man in the eye or shake his hand. and cro cop is a politician first then a fighter remember that. fake all around. i told yall that hardy will win not cause he’s better but cause he will get in davis’s head. classic school yard stuff man
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For the most part I agree…however, as someone mentioned earlier…Silva and Franklin were all class…I think Saunders and Swick acknowledged one another after their fight as well…even though they were talking smack during the fight.
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I think you guys already have this in the bag. Cro Cop not wanting to get kicked in a bum leg is like Jonathon Goulet not wanting to get hit in the face. Sure he’s got a glass jaw, but that’s what MAKES it a target!
As for Davis, I don’t really blame him. Just because Hardy apologized afterwards doesn’t take away what he said. It’s pretty clear that Davis takes this Irish bit pretty seriously, and even if he didn’t Hardy was being pretty prickish about it.
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Davis said he was going to run through Hardy though….and he gave Davis a hell of a fight. He could at least acknowledge the kid has the skills to hang with him…
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by Kelvin Hunt on Jun 15, 2009 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s a phenomenon that’s limited to MMA though, in my eyes. If I say that I’m going to smash someone’s face and they out-point me, I might give them props for beating me, or I might be mad that I didn’t get it done. I’m a little bitter at times, so to me this idea of comradery post-fight just doesn’t make sense at times.
Davis didn’t say anything post-fight, and he didn’t really need to. It might have been a good face for the show if he had patted Hardy on the back afterwards, but if it were me, I would have done the same thing. Hardy really pissed off Davis, so chilling with the kid post-fight (to me) would have been out of the question.
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It’s all subjective I suppose…I mean if I had talk shit and lose in whatever it is…and believe you me…I HATE LOSING more than anything….I still feel like I should acknowledge it…’that’s just me
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