Originally Posted by BlingDogg

This was a great article, and exactly what I've been thinking the whole time since the event.

Sure Huerta/Garcia was an exciting fight. Both of them kept throwing punches and attacking the whole time, they had alot of heart and didn't give up. But I honestly saw little technique involved, or at least not enough to award it as fight of the year or anything. To me it was just a good slugfest. This kind of fight is good to see every once in a while, but not what I'd want to see regularly in mma.

Huerta and Garcia had basically 0 defense, a gameplan based on "just keep hitting the other guy", and didn't show the strategy or skills that other better fights have shown. Koscheck/Diego might have been boring to some people (not at all to me), but here you got to see fighters fighting carefully and thinking about their every move. And the Edgar/Griffin showed more reversals, counter-attacks, and a variety of mma skills. The fight was more evenly matched, much unlike Huerta/Garcia.

This Huerta/Garcia fight will go down like another Bonnar/Griffin match, and may attract fans who just like slugfests, but to me it isn't what mma's about. I was impressed with their heart, but not really their skill.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a better fight than this by the end of the year. Already I'd put Couture/Sylvia higher up than Garcia/Huerta. Even though Couture dominated the fight and it was pretty one-sided, Couture showed what a smart mma fighter is all about.
I think some people have been over-reacting about the fights in UFC 69....