My Review and Judging of Condit vs. Diaz (Personal Opinion)

Ok, so I thought I’d re-watch Condit vs. Diaz and try to dissect the fight since there was so much controversy in the decision.  Before I go round by round here are the striking stats from the fight as taken from Fight Metric:

Overall strikes:
Condit: 159 
Diaz: 117
Significant strikes:
Condit: 151
Diaz: 105
Round 1: Condit 30 (28 significant strikes), Diaz 28 (23)
Round 2: Condit 29 (29), Diaz 35 (32)
Round 3: Condit 33 (32), Diaz 24 (22)
Round 4: Condit 37 (36), Diaz 11 (11) 
Round 5: Condit 30 (25), Diaz 19 (17) 

Fight Metric overall score: Condit 306, Diaz 274

And here is what the judges will judge in each round:

Effect Striking

Effective Grappling

Aggressiveness

Octagon Control

Damage

So I’m going to rewatch the fight and state MY OPINION and see how I would score each round.  I will report each round as I watch it and not watch the whole fight at once, ok so here we go…

Round 1:

Striking: for all the striking scoring I am going to refer to the statistics.  Also the argument can be made that a head shot is valued more than a leg kick; however, there is no official ruling stating this point so I am going to count any strike (leg, body head) of equal value. Condit (30, with 28 significant strikes) Diaz (28 with 23 significant strikes) Condit wins striking.

Grappling: There was none in this round so N/A

Aggressiveness: No here is where my opinion comes into play.  Diaz continuously walked forward to engage in the round; however Condit threw more strikes.  In my opinion I feel that someone who is trying to punch and kick you is a greater sign of aggression than if someone is walking towards you, So for this and the other rounds my points for aggression will go towards the person that throws the most strikes and Condit threw 30 strikes compared to Diaz’s 28, very close but advantage Condit.

Octagon Control: Diaz continuously was walking Condit back forcing him to the fence where his strength is; however he never pinned Condit against the cage, but also Condit never escaped from a bad position, which I remember he does in the fight so advantage Diaz for implementing the control.

Damage: No fighter appeared hurt or marked up so little to no damage was implemented by each fighter so N/A is this category, each will say they hurt the other more; however as an observer there is no distinguishing way to tell who received more damage.

Close round with Condit winning 2/3 of the three judging criteria (Grappling N/A Damage N/A)) I score it Condit 10-9

Round 2:

Striking: again going with the stats with a particular strike to a particular area not having more significant value than another, Condit (29, with 29 significant) Diaz (35 with 32 significant) Striking goes to Diaz.

Grappling: N/A

Aggression: as said before IMO I’m basing aggression on who throws more, not who walks forward, in this case Diaz threw more, aggression goes to Diaz.

Octagon Control: In this round Diaz pinned Condit against the cage; however, Condit circled out took the centre and re engaged, it was evident at this point this was Condit’s strategy to have the fight in middle and not against the cage and that is where the majority of the round took place, advantage in Octagon control, Condit.

Damage: again no visible signs of damage seen and no fighter show’d they were ever hurt, no wincing when hit. Damage N/A

So for this round Diaz takes 2/3 judging criteria that were visible, Round 2 Diaz 10-9

Round 3:

Striking: Condit (33 with 32 significant) Diaz (24 with 22 signifact) striking goes to Condit.

Grappling: N/A

Aggression: Condit threw more therefore IMO Condit wins aggression

Octagon Control: Diaz continues to push forward and when Condit is against the cage he circles out and takes the centre and re-engages.  It is now solidified at this point this is Condit’s game plan to control where the fight takes place and it is working for him, Diaz’s attempts to push Condit against the cage and hold him there are not working. Octagon control goes to Condit.

Damage: First time there is visible swelling under Diaz’s right eye which requires cold compress, slight damage, but damage none the less, so if I had to award damage in this round, it would go to Condit

Condit wins 4/4 judging criteria that were visible, but by very slight margins, round 3 Condit 10-9

Round 4:

Striking: Condit (37 with 36 significant strikes) Diaz (11 with 11 significant) It was very easy to see this round was more decisively in favour of Condit than the previous 3. Striking goes to Condit.

Grappling: First time in the fight a real grappling encounter occurred.  There were 2 takedown attempts by Diaz that Condit appeared to easily stuff and he was able to disengage, Condit’s defense was stronger than Diaz’s offence, advantage goes to Condit in the grappling.

Aggression: Condit threw a significant amount more strikes than Diaz did in this round.

Octagon Control: Condit continues to work his stick and move game plan, avoiding being push against the cage by Diaz and retaking the centre and immediately re-engaging. Octagon control goes to Condit.

Damage: Diaz now appears to have a red steak down his lower right cheek, not very significant but new from the previous round, if an advantage should be given for damage inflicted in this round it would be Condit, however, it appears to be very minimal and more of a sign of mat rash, so I won’t award points for damage done.

Condit takes 4/4 Judging criteria that were judged, with the damage that was inflicted being very insignificant.

Round 4 goes to Condit 10-9

Round 5:

Striking Condit (30 with 25 significant) Diaz (19 with 17 significant) advantage Condit

Grappling: VERY SIGNIFICANT moment in grappling, Diaz gets Condit on the ground with back control.  This is the first time either fighter has been in a real dangerous position of possibly being submitted. Diaz tried to get the choke but never locked an arm under the chin and when he switched to the armbar Condit immediately slipped out never having his arm trapped.  A very significant moment in the round, but due to no submission being locked in requiring an escape, and a total time of 1:20 being spent on the ground I don’t believe and again IMO, that this ground exchange warrants rewarding an entire round to Diaz; however Diaz definitely wins the grappling category in round 5.

Aggression: Condit again threw more strikes while the fight was standing (total of 3:40) while Diaz was the aggressor on the ground for (1:20) so for aggression since Condit was more aggressive for a longer period of time, Condit wins aggression

Octagon Control: I will reward Diaz with control in this round.  While I previously stated Condit was implementing his game plan on his feet for (3:40) Diaz gained the only advantageous position of the fight and a very dangerous one at that.

Damage: Not a lot of damage is really visible on any fighter; however, we see the first sign of weakening in a fighter.  Condit lands a leg kick that slightly buckles Diaz’s leg, not incredibly significant; however it is a new sign of damage that had not been seen before in the fight, so I would reward Condit with inflicting more damage.

Condit takes 3/5 judging criteria therefore awarding him the round 10-9.

Condit wins the fight 49-46 with Diaz only winning round 2 with a score of 10-9.

So there you have it, my interpretation of the fight and how I would score it after re-watching it.  I tried to be unbiased in my scoring, and tried to explain my definitions of aggression and Octagon control.  Again, I personally feel that if someone is throwing strikes at you, that is a greater sign of aggression than someone walking towards you.  And my definition of Octagon control is based on who decided where the fight took place, not necessarily the person walking forward or backward.  Hope you enjoyed the postr and feel free to send feedback, either on here or on twitter (@mikeyhol) Thanks for reading!

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DeathSquad Dance Off!

Who's the best dancer, click on each picture to see their moves

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Bert Kreischer

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No Interest in December

So, here is a quick explanation on what I'm trying to pull off.  If you are like me and disgusted about this whole economical collapse and bailout of corporations and banks and hard working people who cannot find work and are losing their homes, check this out.  I'm proposing for the month of December, the whole world refuses to pay interest fees on all outstanding credit/banking fees.  The reason being is because these people that collect the money simply don't need it.  We have the power to choose where our money goes and why not give it to someone in need.  For me personally I spend about $300 a month simply in interest charges.  Lets use that money to help the people out who are in the worst situation.  With the holiday season approaching there is no reason why someone who gets a million dollar bonus a year needs your money.  Lets use the money to fill hungry bellies and put smiles on kids faces.  Lets put this money into food and shelter and toys for innocent children who (and there are THOUSANDS) may not receive a gift for Christmas, and how heartbreaking is that?  I encourage you to join my campaign on twitter with the hashtag #nointerestinDecember and pass along the message and hopefully people will get on board.  Even if you don't want to take this step, short change your credit card bill by $5 and put that into a Salvation Army kettle, every little bit can help!  No one will hassle you for $5...and if so, it's just an angry phone call..who cares.  I totally understand if you can't get on board with the idea, but if you can, I encourage you to do so.  So pass the message along and hopefully at least one person in need can benefit from this!  And I leave you with these parting words from the powerful Rage Against the Machine TAKE THE POWER BACK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qfKornBBGg

Conspiracy Theories: KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)

Alright, so about time I got back on here and threw down.  It's taken me a while to come up with an idea of what to talk about, what to say and honestly who really gives a fuck what I have to say?  So late last night I was in the midst of one of those youtube black holes where you just keep clicking on related videos (chances are if you are a pot smoker you've been there done that, many times) and I came across a rare home video of the airplane hitting the second tower on 9/11.  So I posted it to my twitter account just to share with people because it's a wild view:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUT7yup-YIg

So anyways, I posted nothing on my beliefs of the matter and no opinion and out of the blue some guy who I don't follow replies and this is direct quote "9/11 was an inside job Bldg 7 is the smoking gun. Never hit by plane 47 Stry building collapses in own footprint !" Right away I was immediately pissed off for two reasons.  First, this asshole felt he just had to state his opinion, when really no one was asking for it and it wasn't even in a debating matter because I stated nothing about what I thought about the events, my post was: "craziest view of the 2nd plane hitting on 911 I've ever seen!"  So immediately I am turned off by what this jerk off has to say, another typical asshole who feels he needs to be heard when no one really asked to hear what he has to say (yes I realize the irony of writing a blog and what I just stated.)  Second reason I was pissed is why most people would be.  Thousands died that day, people suffered horrors no one could possibly imagine (check out videos of people jumping to their death rather than burning.) So now I invite you to come along with me while I systematically disprove and tear this knob a new asshole with simple knowledge and common sense, and not just some bullshit I read off an internet page or seen on a video that anyone could of written, shot or edited.


Alright, first off I AM NOT saying I am right.  I am not going be one of those asses that states he knows and everyone who is against it is wrong; however, I am going state my opinion here and just make common sense points that I feel make the most sense out of anything.  Ok, so building 7 seems to be the big "smoking gun" that everyone says proves it was a government set up.  Why did it collapse? Well the big theory is that it was a controlled demolition.  Why did it fall so perfect onto itself?  Why did it collapse almost 7 hours later than the twin towers?  Why can you hear explosions in building 7?  


Point 1: Alright, this is probably the most simple, the damn building collapsed because it was massively damaged by 2 of the biggest buildings in the world collapsing earlier that day within a block of it.  We've all seen the amount of debris that came down, some of those damn pieces were HUNDREDS of tons of burning steel that were falling close to terminal velocity.  That's a lot of god damn force and for you whiz kids out there Force = Mass x Acceleration. In simple terms heavy objects that are falling at an accelerating rate fuck shit up.  So there, I think that can start us off at a good point of solving this mystery, the debris from the falling twin towers initiated the destruction of tower 7


Point 2: SEISMIC ACTIVITY!  Don't ya think that having two towers each weighing approx 450,000,000 tons falling 1450 feet would shake the ground a little bit?  I'd think so, maybe enough that it could damage the structural integrity of the buildings within a block of it just a tiny bit?  I think it's pretty hard to ignore this fact and probably had something to do with shaking some things loose in other buildings (gas lines, electrical wires, etc)


Point 3: Why was there fire and explosions.  Same reasons why some cars explode when they crash.  You mix energy with a combustible fuel source and oxygen and there ya go fire!  Why were the fires only on certain levels, well there is a whole mix of reasons, it was, in lack of better terms, luck of the draw.  What hit what and what combustible source was on each floor, is unknown so the fires randomly happened where they happened.  As far as the explosions people think were planted explosives, well this can easily be explained.  Buildings are full of all sorts of stuff that can explode.  Maybe natural gas lines feeding the building finally gave into the stress and heat. Electrical transformers finally gave out from overheating, have you ever seen one of those explode in the summer during a brownout?  They go off like a motherfucker!  Any volatile chemicals, lets say cleaning closets full of organic compounds (carbon oxygen and hydrogen based) would go off like a rocket ship.  So there are a few possibilities why explosions were heard.


Point 4: So I am going to explain this point by what a civil engineer specializing in structural steel with over 30 years experience explained to me.  Buildings are actually designed to collapse onto themselves.  The outter steel shell of the building is actually the strongest and beefiest.  With the inner structural steel structure being less dense (not the steel itself but amount used.) This design technique is used in order for the building to collapse onto itself in case it's structural integrity is compromised by either vertical or horizontal forces.  


Point 5: This one is just gonna be based on common sense.  Why would they even bother to destroy building 7?  There's no way the collapsing of a building that doesn't even stand out in the New York skyline would have any kind of dramatic impact of what already happened earlier that day and wasn't that the whole point of the attacks? (no matter who you think planned them) There's no significance to building 7 in this regard, it wasn't a world renowned landmark.  Do you ever hear people, other than conspiracy theorists, talk about building 7? No! The only images and thoughts of that day in New York were the towers collapsing.  So really, what was the point?  Seems very insignificant for dramatic effect for a 47 story building to collapse 7 hours later.  Plus why 7 hours?  Why not 5 or 4 or 10?  This just doesn't seem to me that it came down on purpose or was targeted by anyone.  


Alright so there are some thoughts of mine on the matter.  Feel free write back and level me with some knowledge if you wish, but for myself, the common sense approach seems to be the best way to decipher this issue, in other words, keep it simple stupid!

The Ultimate Fighter 4/20-2011

So I’m sitting down getting ready to watch The Ultimate Fighter, one of my favourite shows.  Honestly there is no better way to spend a Wednesday night than watching two kids bash each others heads in for a shot to not have to fight for sandwiches in a barn in Tennessee anymore.  This shit gets me pumped!  People putting it all on the line for 15 minutes of fame.  God bless them!  Time for the show to start…here we go bitches!

            So the show starts out with the typical montage of training videos pasted together with a listing of 95% forgettable names who later in their career will be KOing the ‘Tim Sylvia’s’ of their time.   What’s the name of the song in the opening?  And why hasn’t it ever been changed, bah fuck it! Time to train!

            JDS opens with his wrestling coach bitchin about Lesnar’s team not working hard enough.  Typical work until your heart stops beating attitude of a wrestling coach.  I love it!

            Alright this Lesnar training session is boring as fuck until Lesnar starts bitchin out his team for not seizing the opportunity and blah nothing happens…move on.

            Jokester segment time!  Charlie and Chuck are brothers from different mothers apparently acting like a bunch of joking hugging homos in the house, so I’m ultra excited to see the possibility of them bashing each others heads in on a future episode.  Cut the crap fellas, you’re there to kill eachother! We don’t need another Fitch/Koscheck situation in the UFC.  Fight announcement time!

            JDS picks Ramsey (JDS) vs Charlie (Lesnar)  looks like it could be a good scrap! Commercial……

            So, time to focus on the dudes about to scrap.  Ramsey is apparently the jokester who is the gay member of the house and is using it to a psychological advantage.  A clever ploy, will it turn out to his advantage, I’m hooked to find out! GOD DAMN well written TV!

            The Lesnar team got to train with Matt Hughes, and Charlie looks to have taken a lot from it, kid looks respectable, hope he’s a good fighter, hope Matt hangs ‘em up sooner than later, #respect

Commercial…….

            I love how Brazilians say Ju-jeeeeeeeeeeeetsu, it’s just awesome!  Not a whole lot happening just showing training of both fighters, gotta say I’m gonna pick Charlie, kid looks sharp!

Another Commercial really? In review: not much really has happened in this episode, no drama, nothing, can someone pee on a mattress or something please, lets make this interesting!

            Side Note: I can now choke bitches out thanks to Jason ‘The Athlete” Macdonald, thanks bro! Good luck at 129!

            Weigh-in time.  Yes Charlie has a Jesus tattoo.  Love that shit, Jesus didn’t tap!  Yeah that’s because he couldn’t get his hands free for some reason!  Both square off.  Brock questions his fighter’s manhood by telling him, in lesser words, to not lose to a fagot.  (Brock said he can’t lose to a man who paints his toenails, but we know what he really meant)

            The dude who was stripping earlier in the episode just stated he acts the same way in front of his grandma.  Wow, odd Thanksgiving.  Both fighters come to the octagon, here we go bitches!

Commercial……refueled (happy holidays everyone)

            DING! Fight starts and so far a hug fest against the fence not much to note other than Ramsey has some Arabic tattoo on his back.  I can’t help to think that doesn’t help him get through airport security any easier.  BOOM groin shot from an inside knee, fighters break.  Hug fest again, Ramsey is gonna Couture this one out I think.  Man good technical fight, but boring as fuck Ramsay with a late takedown, 2^nd of the round and finishes the round on top of Charlie.  Round one done, Ramsey is up 1-0 I believe.

Commercial…Fuck, the stare down is some intense shit cool segments tonight on Sportsnet.

            Round 2 starts….Ramsey hugs, drags down Charlie, someone is bleeding, it may be Ramsey’s vagina, who knows.  Just as I wrote that last sentence fight is over, what happened!?

Oh rear naked choke, everyone thinks Charlie gave up, Brock Lesnar is throwing a fit, Dana White talks about what it takes to be a fighter.  Brock bitches out his team about being chicken shit and choking, I love how the camera zooms into the left side of the face as he says it and it clearly shows the scar Cain Velasquez gave him, god bless HD TV.

            Episode over, lesson learned: Paint your toenails bitches!

Some mediocre commercial leaves me with minimal suspense about next weeks episode leaves me wanting more, but not much more.

            Wow I gotta say I picked a shitty episode for my first Ultimate Fighter blog, pretty un-eventful, looked like it could of been a promising fight but Charlie couldn’t pull the trigger, oh well maybe next weeks episode will be better!  Time for hockey highlights, peace out!

PS: If my writing seems like nonsense at some points please note the date.

Mikeyhol