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Taylor8766
In Full Mount
Career record: 157-88
Season: 44-26 (#954)
Location: Ontario, Canada
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IMO Hammill wasn't prepared to fight a fighter with the caliber of Rich Franklin they should of gave him, someone a little less experianced.
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Post #16 9/8/08 9:59:50AM
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Bumpy
MMA Regular
Career record: 131-105
Season: 36-34 (#3351)
Location: KY
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I think Hammil will keep getting better as a fighter, he looked good imo intill that leg kick.
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Post #17 9/8/08 9:23:53PM
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RNC
MMA Regular
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Career record: 132-73
Season: 48-22 (#628)
Location: New Jersey
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Matt seemed like he didn't want to be there. He just looked like he was standing there with no motivation at all. Maybe he was overwhelmed? Who knows. What we do know is after Franklin annihilated him in the first round, Hamill looked nothing but sloppy and tired. There's always something about him and I've noticed it before. It seems that if he gets overwhelmed on the feet he sort of just gives up. I just don't think he has the drive.
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Post #18 9/8/08 10:31:35PM
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bls1919
MMA Sensei
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Career record: 155-90
Season: 48-19 (#352)
Location: Clarendon, PENNSYLVANNIA
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Hammil needs a lot of expeirience to beat a guy like Rich. but he still put on a good fight. most likel;y the reasomn the fight was made in the first place. Try and get Rich into the LHW title picture as soon as possible. A fight between Rich Franklin and Forrest Griffen would be HUGE! Hammil seemd to be outclassed. Plus Rich's leg kicks took away the takedown before Hammil could use it effectively. Give Hammil another year. He will be at the top of 205. just a prediction but one i am eagerly making
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Post #19 9/8/08 10:45:05PM
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BIGKAT
MMA Regular
Career record: 156-102
Season: 26-21 (#4417)
Location: World Wide
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I agree... He doesn't have that champions desire that we see in others. In other words, he isn't "hungry" anymore...
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Post #20 9/9/08 12:11:22PM
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BIGKAT
MMA Regular
Career record: 156-102
Season: 26-21 (#4417)
Location: World Wide
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hit reply instead of quote...
Last edited 9/9/08 12:14PM by bigkat
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Post #21 9/9/08 12:12:17PM
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ziegler3334
MMA Regular
Career record: 44-15
Season: 44-15 (#1271)
Location: Ohio
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Hammill is clearly not even close to franklin's skill level. I'm surprised that they put these two against each other. Hammill seems like a very marketable fighter. He is talented, likable, and has proven people wrong. It'll be good that he was in a big fight like this, for some experience, but i really would have guessed that he get someone he could beat. Count on that for his next fight to get him back into winning. He'll be around for awhile. 
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Post #22 9/11/08 5:05:07PM
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fonduktoe
MMA Regular
Career record: 109-62
Season: 43-27 (#1754)
Location: Plovier, Serbia
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hammil needs a better camp
he was outclassed due to a horrible game plan
that fight was his to lose and he lost
i like rich but people need to ease off the idea of him being a force in the lhw division
if anything a. silva could just move up and knock him out again
he will make a better gatekeeper at lhw than at mw though
i see him as the chris lytle of the lhw division
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Post #23 9/12/08 3:24:48AM
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JasonSmolinski
Learning to Sprawl
Career record: 77-45
Season: 47-23 (#221)
Location: Lansing, Michigan
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Hammil got beat like a set of bongos. Only, he couldn't hear the beating of the bongos, cuz he's deaf. So he couldn't hear his beating... but he felt it! Felt the bongo beating.
Franklin gave a felt bongo beating that went unheard to Matt, unless you count the non-literal interpretation, in that he heard the presence of the beating, or perhaps even felt the vibrations from said bongo bashing.
Matt Hammil felt the bass of his beating.
If this post is in poor taste, I apologize. My mother was killed by a deaf-driver, so I hold grudges. Never deaf and drive, kids. That's a lesson to listen to, even if you are deaf.
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Post #24 9/12/08 6:07:32PM
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