Shark Fights 17 on HDNet

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Show is tomorrow:


Matchups:

Matt Horwich vs. Jake Rosholt
Ricco Rodriguez vs. Karl Knothe
Emanuel Newton vs. Ilir Latifi
Erik Perez vs. Douglas Frey
Daniel Almeida vs. Doug Williams
Quaint Kempf vs. Victor Hernandez
Alan Jouban vs. Andrew Goldthwaite
Jay Flores vs. Matt Hober
Brad Cox vs. Russell Brewer

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Knother came in 24 lbs over the agreed upon weight of 230. Doug Williams (5-12) will now face Ricco Rodriguez.

Looks like Ricco is winning his 12th in a row. ProElite should sign him.

[Liquidrob]

What's 24 lbs between friends?

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That undercard is garbo, but the main event is awesome. And I like watching Ricco Suave.

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I'm interested in seeing Rosholt/Horwich.

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Erik Perez walked out in a luchadore mask. I'm sold on him already.

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Perez/Frey was a really fun scrap.

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Horwich is such a bizarre individual.

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Ilir Latifi isn't even trying. He's been backpedaling the whole fight.

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Latifi turned it on in the third, but it still wasn't enough after coasting through the first two.

WOW. What an absolutely joke of a decision. Lafiti somehow got the decision. The crowd is going nuts in protest.

And now the commissioner comes through and reverses the decision. Apparently, the announcer read the scores wrong.

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How was this fight even allowed in the first place? Last minute replacement I know, but Williams was 5-12 coming into this fight. Ricco cruised, as someone who was 46-11 should.

Someone give Ricco a chance in a major organization just so we can see him against someone that's not a can.

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What a boring main event. If Rosholt is trying to get back in the UFC with his performances, he's not doing himself any favors. He's looked blah.

Eddie Bravo's theory on simply jumping guard and making something happen in MMA sounds good in theory, but incredibly difficult to execute no matter how good your guard is. Paul Sass, Shinya Aoki and Demian Maia are the only ones I've seen able to do it on a somewhat regular basis, but Sass hasn't fought any top level guys and the latter two have gone away from that strategy and struggled to pull it off against the top guys who train for it.