Post subject: Re: Strikeforce Challengers: Feb 26 2010 [SPOILER FREE RATING]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:27 pm
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Fights were okay, if occasionally not that competitive. Promotionally, though, I thought this was really poor for a Strikeforce event - lack of knowledge on the rules, renaming of the women's weight divisions, commentators complaining about the lack of fireworks/knockouts/risk-taking, patchy matchmaking, dry ice from the smoke machines so much that it was in the cage for a while during a couple of early fights, and loads of blatant advertising for Showtime during commentary and introductions.
Worth a download and a watch, but not a classic event for sure.
Post subject: Re: Strikeforce Challengers: Feb 26 2010 [SPOILER FREE RATING]
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:56 pm
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I enjoyed the even even though it felt a little long and dragged out for a "challenger" event. Surprisingly the camerwork was better then their last big event, but Im no expert on that so..
I enjoyed some of the fights a lot and I defenitely think that you should watch the event, if not for anything else to see what fighters look like future contenders.
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Post subject: Re: Strikeforce Challengers: Feb 26 2010 [SPOILER FREE RATING]
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:10 am
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Dent wrote:
I enjoyed the even even though it felt a little long and dragged out for a "challenger" event. Surprisingly the camerwork was better then their last big event, but Im no expert on that so..
I enjoyed some of the fights a lot and I defenitely think that you should watch the event, if not for anything else to see what fighters look like future contenders.
Still the camerawork was shoddy. They need to fix that!
Post subject: Re: Strikeforce Challengers: Feb 26 2010 [SPOILER FREE RATING]
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:12 am
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I went with a 3. In reality, it could have been a 2 or 4 easily. The refs on this card were astoundingly bad. Almost insultingly bad. The fights weren't nearly as good as the last Challengers card, but I'm a mark for title fights, so Kaufman-Hashi entertained me. If we're going spoiler-free, two fighters in particular really impressed me and shouldn't be on Challenger cards anymore.
I would have given last Challengers a 4, so this one is a comfortable 3.
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Post subject: Re: Strikeforce Challengers: Feb 26 2010 [SPOILER FREE RATING]
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:11 am
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Not good but not bad. As a newcomer I need to say that after seeing a few SF events now that I have no idea what their format is. Last time they had a nice feature with stats, now they didn't as example.
Guess being a challengers tournament you can compare it to TUF fights apart from the finals, so in that case it is ok to watch but not the matches you would buy a ticket for. Then again it remains a fighting event that has fighters wanting to prove themselves and a few did show they have potential.
And one thing we can't blame SF for, they do not own the referees or select them so I think it is not fair to blame them for bad referees.
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