If you want to see every fight finished, go play Mortal Kombat.
The glorious game of my teen years, Mortal Kombat stood a beaten opponent in front of you, wobbling back and forth, offering visual and auditory encouragement to “Finish Him!”
If you knew the right controller combinations, your merciless martial artist could end the beating in impressive fashion. If you were like me, you tried to do something cool and ended up just punching the guy in the face, a move that should have been accompanied by the sound of Pacman dying to add to your embarrassment.
As much as some fans think of mixed martial arts as the closest we’re ever going to legally come to witnessing Mortal Kombat in real life, the cries of “finish him” that rain down during every fight can’t be satisfied with a button-mashing chain of commands.
Last weekend at UFC 118, both Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard came away with victories, setting up a rematch between the two for Edgar’s lightweight belt. The fact that both bouts ended in the hands of the judges just didn’t sit well with some fans. In fact, any fight that ends with a reading of the scorecards seems to be slammed by a portion of the population that calls themselves MMA fans, and it makes no sense to me.
“The only problem I have with Edgar / Maynard is that both of them have a tendency to not finish fights, both go to decision.”
That was the commentary I got from a friend on Facebook following the debut event in Boston, and it became the impetus for this effort.
If you picked up the phone and called either of those fighters, they would tell you instantly that they too would have liked to finish their respective fights. The next thing they will say, presumably, is that it’s easier said than done.
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