I will comment on what no one else has about the the Arlovski and cabbage fight. NO one mentions that Cabbage had no idea who he was going to fight... It could have been sylvia it could have been Arlovski and in more likelihood than not it would have been neither..
I mean, how do you adequatly prepare for an upcoming fight when you are the sub/back up fighter? You've got to prepare for Tim Sylvia who's 6'10" and a complete and utter beast, or you've got to try and prepare for Arlovski.. and all the while the greatest probability is that you will fight neither...
I think Cabbage did rather well going into the 2nd round. You could tell from the start of the first fight cabbage was going to lose.. whenever arlovski attacked cabbaged just backed away and tried to cover up.. He'd take a couple of hard hits (give one of his own) and then arlovski would back up for a moment and then it would repeat.. I know that Cabbage has an iron jaw, but there's no way your going to take that kind of punishment from Arlovski and keep on your feet.
All in al though, I thought cabbage fought a pretty good fight given all the circumstances.
Tito should never.. I mean Never have tried to box with Chuck (everyone's a great monday morning quarterback
) But even if he had gone for the take downs and took chuck to the matt I still think CHuck would have beat him.. Like I said in my other post, I wanted to see ortiz win but I just don't believe that he's as good a fighter as chuck.. and CHuck proved that... And don't get me wrong.. I like Chuck, always have, It used to irritate the piss out of me that tito wouldn't give him a shot at the title unless the money was right.. My thought is Tito has known all along that he couldn't beat Chuck. That is why he always wanted a huge payday in order for that fight to happen.. it takes care of his future..
Anyway, I was pretty satisfied with the overall ppv..