Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit come together in celebration after a phenomenal battle during their UFC 195 fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday, January 2, 2016.
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It was more than that, too, because Robbie Lawler – the incredibly regenerated welterweight champion – and Carlos Condit put on a fifth-round stanza that will go down as one of the best final five minutes in championship history. “I’m over them. Someone else should get to fight Lawler and Condit can win one and get right back in there”.
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“Let’s do it again!” he exclaimed as the crowd erupted again. Lawler’s fifth-round TKO victory was the consensus Fight of the Year and had many calling for a trilogy meeting with MacDonald.
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The crowd, which was on its feet in a full-throated roar for most of the final two minutes, left having seen one of the best fights they could possibly have hoped to see. A weigh-in scuffle? When it comes the pay-per-view showdown between welterweight champion Robbie Lawler (26-10 MMA, 11-4 UFC) and challenger Carlos Condit (30-8 MMA, 7-4 UFC), fans don’t need the usual bag of tricks to get amped.
Condit looked to be the aggressor for most of the fight, with nearly double the amount of strikes compared to Lawler (176 vs 92). “He was everything everyone said he was”. Condit appeared to be down and out, but managed to keep getting away.
“I think that he’s definitely, I mean probably the most unsafe guy that I’ve ever faced”, Condit told FOX Sports on the UFC 195 media conference call this past Monday. I wouldn’t mind a fight with Junior dos Santos, or the loser of Barnett vs. Rothwell.
Beyond just the scoring of the third round on Saturday, the result of the UFC 195 main event – and a couple other fights on the card – highlights the larger issue of using a system adopted from boxing years ago as a means of determining the outcome of an entirely different kind of fight. The 33-year-old cracked Arlovski with a right hand behind the ear early that wobbled him badly, and followed up with a relentless attack to finish him off.
“I’m not going to play that game”, Lawler said.
As a matter of fact, Condit enjoys the role of the underdog because it gives him opportunity after opportunity to prove those who don’t believe in him wrong.
In the end, Rogan still praised the fights, and Lawler’s ability to handle adversity. Per Marrocco, he said: “I think so”.
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Condit was disappointed, but not surprised, after losing for the fourth time in six fights despite landing 198 strikes to 78 for the champion. [Then] I got caught up against the cage. There were those that felt Lorenz Larkin had done enough to pip Albert Tumenov, but the Russian secured the win via a split-verdict as well.
