Right at the start of the fight, Pablo Garze came right in with a punch and a leg kick. He wasted no time in letting Yves Jabouin know he meant business.
I thought that Pablo Garza was just being a show off, but it turns out, he was just timing things to his leisure. This turned out to be a really good thing. During the fight Yves Jabouin figured out a little of the puzzle. He gave a good kick to Pablo, and could tell that he had hurt him. From that moment on, Yves knew his opponent’s weakness. Kicks. However, like the start of the fight, Pablo the scarecrow Garza knew his timing. At the right time, he got Jabouin in the triangle choke. And that was all that it took for Jabouin. He hadn’t won this round.

I do have to give credit to both men. To me, it looked like they both knew how to block very well. Both knew just what to do to try to keep the other person away. However, Pablo really knew how to time things.

At the beginning of the first round they were both kind of reserved, which made sense considering both of these fighters are pretty big guys with a pretty impressive record. Also from the beginning we knew that Fedor was really going to have to fight smart because Antonio weighed 34 pounds more than him and Antonios arms were 7″ longer than Fedor’s.

Personally I haven’t followed MMA very much so I could not tell you any patterns in their fighting styles that caused problems or anything like that. But I did notice that Fedor spent more time with his hands a little lower and an extra step away, as if playing defense, which would make sense if his goal is to play smart against his bigger opponent. On the other hand Antonio Silva definitely made more of the offensive effort, which also makes sense considering is longer jabs and heavier build.

In the first round we see Antonio putting Fedor up against the cage putting his weight against Fedor. This was very useful because he was using minimal energy on his part while causing Fedor to be struggling and pushing to try and escape. You could tell Fedor was really getting exhausted because his efforts to escape holds and pins slowly just turned into defensive maneuvers and less active attempts to switch things around. Antonio’s long arms really helped a lot, especially with the connections he made as Fedor would escape a hold and back away from the wall. It almost seemed that Fedor forgot the extra 7″ Antonio had because Fedor, on a number of occasions, didn’t back up far enough to escape Antonio’s reach. And Antonio would clip his chin, jaw or nose.

I feel like the simple jabs were bringing Fedor’s moral down and that on top of the immense exhaustion from grappling with Antonio all led to a key moment in the Second round where Antonio Silva was able to take advantage of a single moment and land a solid mount on top of Fedor and then he just starts giving Fedor the old fashioned ground and pound. Fedor trying multiple times to get out of this mount but doing so only exhausted him more.

They traded a couple of holds but they both toughed it out until the end of the second round where the doctor noticed Fedor’s right eye had swollen completely shut and he could not see anything out of it. This was undoubtedly due to the ground and pound beating he took. The doctor threw in the towel and Antonio Silva won with a Technical KO.

Maybe if Fedor played a little more aggressively with strikes and kicks it might have caused Antonio to slow up and think more and it may have been a longer fight with some better action on both sides. I just think that Fedor didn’t really give Antonio much reason to hold back or hesitate. Although Antonio was definitely getting exhausted because he was extremely excited to find out there wouldn’t be a third round.

p.s. Sorry about submitting a whole freaking essay. i just started typing and thinking about the fight. My bad! haha

I have seen this fight before, but now i recognized what each fighter was doing right and what they were doing wrong.

Both fighters are obviously very advanced with their striking skills. this usually calls for a very short fight, which it was. I believe that the fight came down to how well the fighters were defending themselves. Henderson and Fedor were both exchanging very well until Fedor got hit with a big bunch and turned his back and dropped his head. This is when Henderson threw a quick, low uppercut and hit Fedor right on the chin. Game over.

Daniel – there are a lot of great places to train and several approaches. This type of question is similar to asking, “Where should I go to college and what should I major in?”.

The most important thing is to just get started. If there is a boxing gym near by – go there. If you can join a college wrestling club, do that. If you can take a university MMA class or there is a MMA gym you can afford, check it out.

Almost any gym will let you take a few classes for free to see if you like it. After a few months if you need to make an adjustment to a different style or better suited gym, go ahead.

There are a lot of pieces to the MMA puzzle and they’ll be plenty of time time to sort them out.

If I had to name names, Bernales, Fusion BJJ, Horns Elite, Pit Elevated, Institute of Muay Thai, Sorenson center boxing, Kingdom club wrestling, etc etc etc.

Also feel free to come up to the University of Utah and check us out.

From the very beginning of the fight, Barry was far more aggressive, which ended up being a major factor in his undoing. Kongo was more calculating with his attacks and seemed to look for openings in Barry’s defenses before striking instead of hoping his attacks landed. Kongo learned that Barry would react to fake attacks through a few fake kicks, and used this to his advantage later in the fight.

Barry’s right hand eventually connected with Kongo’s temple because Kongo did not return his hands up to protect his head after throwing a jab at Barry. Barry did a good job following through to try and finish off Kongo by following him to the ground, but then stands back up to keep striking Kongo’s head. By standing back up and not regaining the proper stance, Kongo was able to take Barry’s legs to try and bring him to the ground. Barry reacted appropriately by leaning over Kongo to retain a dominant position, but by doing so Kongo was able to regain his feet. Barry did an excellent job in taking advantage this by taking another open shot to Kongo’s temple. When trying to regain his feet, Kongo feigned another dive at Barry’s legs, so Barry took a step back to avoid it, which allowed Kongo to stand back up unmolested. Barry continued his high aggression and ran after Kongo. Barry did a decent job protecting his head from Kongo’s first punch, but allowed Kongo to sneak a straight in past his defenses and connect with his jaw. This knocked Barry sprawling, and he tried to retaliate by grabbing Kongo’s neck with his right hand in an attempt to grapple. However, this left an opening for Kongo to sneak in an uppercut to Barry’s jaw, knocking him unconscious.

Kongo’s less aggressive, but more calculating strikes and use of fake attacks won him this fight.

My name is Daniel Kennedy and I am interested in MMA in SLC. I don’t have any prior training and would appreciate any advice you could offer on getting started.

Based on the high quality of your site you obviously know what is going on with the sport.

Any guidance you could offer with respect to places to train or people to speak with would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-DK