Battling my recent stint of insomnia, I found myself enthralled in the recent bout between MMA stars Urijah Faber and Mike Brown. This was the second time they've met in the Octagon - the first of which Faber lost my knockout.
Despite being thought of as an overrated golden boy from California by many, Faber put up a huge effort to keep this second fight close. He had a strong first round, opening up Brown's left eye. But halfway through the first five minutes, Faber landed a punch that broke his right hand, an obvious disadvantage for the rest of the night. He adapted his game by throwing elbows, but was unable to defend Brown's ground game. Perhaps a more aggressive ground attack of his own would have been a better option than the elbows, but it's easy to judge when I'm knock getting my head punched in.
The match went to a judges decision that ended in favor of Brown - an obvious victory. However, I have to take my hat off to the California kid for fighting for 25 minutes with a crushed hand. When he took off his gloves at the end of the match, his hand was the size of an orange. And if I know anything about fighting, Brown was glad that he won, but disappointed that he couldn't fight a 100% Faber.
It was a spectacular fight, but many will look at it as being largely incomplete.
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