Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan
I pretty much agree with Munky and Amat although at the time I scored it close for Hammil cause of the second. Bisping outworked him that round but I'm not sure he really landed much of anything. Might try to watch it again.

I haven't watched MMA for that long so I was wondering how much credit for a guy like Hammil get for taking Bisping down and then not doing anything? Just as a fan I think really who gives a S***, he didn't do anything with it, but I guess its considered scoring points.
Its pretty hard to take a fighter down... its leverage, technique, timing, balance and in some cases brute strength, as much as fighters train to take down they learn to defend it as well.

I think hamils lack of ground and pound as well as submissions made him a little weary to actually grapple with Bisping who is a better submission fighter. Albeit ground and pound looks like a middleschool fight it entails alot as well. You have to have steady position and balance to make sure you dont get to recrless and get armbarred or traingled and not to mentioned straight up reversed. Its all subtle skills and technique that gets overlooked by many and the sport gets denegrated as just a plain old street fight since the skill it takes gets overshadowed