Comments on: UFC 84: BJ Penn vs. Sean Sherk Video Clip

By: gay man

gay man — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:34:49 +0000

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By: Serge

Serge — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:37:11 +0000

Sherk fought very lightly all the way through the match and Penn destroyed him enough to get him so tired and beat his ass up to win with 10 seconds left. Amezinggg

By: Gino

Gino — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:40:45 +0000

When me and my buddy ordered this, he was expecting to see BJ take the beating of his life, and as someone said, Sherk rushed way to much, yeah his punches were fast, but they hardly landed, i knew from the start BJ would beat him, but i figured it would be a submission, not a knockout, im not underestimating BJ but he DOES NOT have the kind of power Sherk has, and im a big Penn fan, and i totally didnt see that knee commin either

By: Ivan Bueno

Ivan Bueno — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:06:25 +0000

I said Sherk couldn’t finish a fight because his last 3 fights ended in decision (against Hermes Franca, Kenny Florian, and Nick Diaz). Maybe with B-list fighters, he can end the fight, but not with A-list fighters.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:48:42 +0000

What’s more…

of his last 17 fights… 13 of the fights were stopped by either submission or KO. Two of those, being losses by KO.

It’s hard to make any kind of case that Sherk’s fights always go to the judges table.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:44:15 +0000

I take issue with several comments here. Sean Sherk lost that fight, but to state that he can not finish a fight is simply incorrect.

Of Sean Sherk’s 32 - 3 - 1 (Win - Loss - Draw)

He has 8 KO’s, and 13 submissions that’s 21 of 32 fights he’s won that he stopped.

Sherk is a ground and pound fighter, he always has been. He did not execute the type of gameplan that played into his strengths. Instead, Sherk played into Penn’s strengths. Penn’s superior reach was a major factor in the fight, and it was something that Sherk was never able to counter. Watching the discpline of sherk’s strikes was impressive, but he was always about 3 inchs off in real space. His punchs looked hardler, more compact and more powerful than Pnn’s, but Penns jabs continually found their mark and kept Sherk at bay.

If Sherk had closed the distance, pushed Pen against the fence and cut off the ring form him, he would likely have given BJ a beating in my opinion, but obviously, that’s just conjecture at this point and something to let people chew over.

Penn on the other hand did exactly what he had to, to win the fight. He recognized that Sherk wasn’t trying to take him down and was content landing those jabbing punchs. Why change something that is WORKING? Much like Ortiz, you could feel it in the crowd how frustrated Sherk seemed to get after a while, and the more of BJ’s jabs that landed the worse things got.

By: Ivan Bueno

Ivan Bueno — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:21:29 +0000

Sherk can’t finish a fight. It always goes to judges’ decision.

By: mma h8ter

mma h8ter — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:04:01 +0000

this fight was boring no offense to penn hes good and all but this fight was boring sherk sucks period why you think he took steriods to begin with penn is a natural fighter who said penn cant strike his strikes were 80% on target then again fight was still boring

By: Ivan Bueno

Ivan Bueno — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:55:40 +0000

Angela, I agree. Both fighters were too cautious. It could have been a lot more exciting, if only they have the “kill or be killed” attitude of the lower ranking fighters in the card.

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:15:01 +0000

Bj was great but I would have liked to seen more insane ji jitsu!
…some of that crazy dexterity he’s known for.

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