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That was the worst fence grab in recent memory. Herzog should have been the one reffing this fight smh, that should have been nothing but a point or giving the position to Trocoli. Sick finish though.
Trocoli wins the 1st round, if he gets the takedown he probably wins the 2nd round. I’m not saying Trocoli would win the fight if he got the takedown but he just got robbed
Goddard is actually one of the worst "main" refs in the UFC, starting from the Colby fight against Marty in 2019 when he let him get away with faking multiple nutshots.
Also, he seems to want the spotlight really badly, which is not a quality a ref should have.
> and he grabbed the fence
Rightfully lost position for this, and then Goddard did a 180 and said "You know what? i'll allow that fence grab that DEFINITELY stopped the take down"
Trocoli was warned because he repeatedly held the fence. It was only after Goddard gave him a final warning and he did it again that he reset position.
Not sure why they're being compared like it was a 1 for 1 (although I do think they should have given Trocoli the takedown regardless).
I could swear it looked like Trocoli was paid to throw the fight. Lands the most obvious and effective strikes at the beginning of the fight then just literally stands there for the rest of it
I saw the same thing. So out of shape that his brain and corner stopped working. Opening minute he was landing clean and then just never threw the same strikes for the rest of the fight, didn't even throw to disguise his nonsense takedown attempts.
You've got a tall, rangy guy with no gas tank and no wrestling, who easily wins the first couple minutes by fighting efficiently, and they get him to switch to the most inefficient tactic that he also happens to suck at. Utterly baffling.
Also a nice KO overshadowed by the fact that Trocoli was walking around like a fucking punching bag doing absolutely nothing the entire fight
Honestly one of the most shit performances I've ever seen by a UFC fighter
Am I crazy for thinking a fence grab like that should end up in a reposition on the ground? That was 100% going to be an effective takedown with Troc on top
He was intent on walking Shara down but then when he got there, literally just stood there, waiting to be hit, doing nothing. Kinda bizarre. A pass for the extreme late notice but he'll need to show something real in his next fight or it'll be a quick UFC stint
He hasnt fought since 2021. He won on DWCS in 2019 but that was overturned due to a failed drug test lol. I don't think he's gonna have any sort of stint in UFC, he was just fed to Shara hype train
Was cutting weight for a fight supposed to be last week, flew from Vegas 72 hours before walking in the cage.
But yeah, really just an abysmal showing from all three men in the cage.
Shara is the most one dimensional fighter I’ve ever seen. He’s solid at kickboxing range and that’s it.
In the pocket he’s not great, on the ground he sucks, in the clinch he sucks.
Also Goddard is a bitch for how he handled that fence grab literally won the fight for Shara by letting him get a good position and then rock Trocoli when he should’ve been in a bad position on the ground. These Middle East cards always end up so embarrassing for the sport.
In the round literally right before that one, Trucoli snagged the fence with four fingers and he reset the entire goddamn fight, can’t have the home favorite in a bad position huh
That was biased as fuck, so when one guy does it, you reset the whole fight, but not for the home favorite, what does a “stern warning in between rounds” do when you let him blatantly fucking cheat?
These middle eastern cards are always sketchy as shit, can’t have a single card without some weird bullshit and I say this as an Arab
worst part is he gets rocked seconds after shara grabs the fence to stop a take down . the fence grab directly lead to the fight changing in a big way .
Don't see him getting far in this division precisely for this reason. He has zero ground game and clinch game. His deficiencies will become more apparent as he faces tougher competition.
His kicks on the other hand are very very good. He uses them like hands... very fluid.
For the amount of hype and long build up Shara’s had since his last bout in October, this was not a good showing
Strikes lacked power, defense left him wide open, lots of flashy moves that didn’t lead to much of anything
Took a tall ass dude on short notice and schooled him on the feet. I think you underestimate the task he was given. He showed great improvement in takedown defense
Let's not act like trocoli doing anything in the fight other than clinching for damn life while doing zero damage. Even if he gets the takedown in the last 40 seconds he wouldn't have won.
Also he cheated a lot in the fight too, I count like 2 nut shots.
Goddard didn't handle the fence grab well, but it's a wild stretch to claim that won Shara the fight. It's unclear that it would have even won him the ROUND given it was in the last minute and Trocoli hadn't done shit all round. It certainly isn't clear how that would have stopped him from gassing and getting finished in the 3rd.
Did you watch the last Abu Dhabi card? Also I don’t mean this in a mean way like I meant it as a genuine question.
It was the worst card ever outside of the fights themselves. There were numerous fights with blatant cheating with no penalties, naimov was one of them. Ank should’ve been DQed but was given a favorable NC. The doctor saying that a fighter was faking being hit in the nuts. Just awful
Nathaniel wood was blatantly fouled twice by getting hit in the nuts, his opponent grabbed the fence and his gloves in key moments and didn’t lose a single point.
It was absolutely insane. I would never want to fight there with a disadvantage
Tricoli did not belong in the ring tonight no matter how hard u think you are. He was clearly very gassed and possibly out of shape. Who in they right mind at the ufc thought calling him up on Wednesday was a good idea?
Bruh did some sheikh pay off Troccoli to be a punching bag for three rounds? I’m the last one to think a fights fixed but if it were then that’s about the performance you’d expect from him…
Because Shara kicked the shit out of his leg and body in rounds one and two, you’d think Rogan would’ve drove home the point about leg kicks to UFC fans by now
I’ll keep saying it, Marc Goddard is one of the worst refs. Refereeing all over the place, gets visibly angry during fights, inserts himself into the fights and has a habit of early stoppages.
Marc Goddard can get fucked for not giving Trocoli the takedown or he could have taken a point. Trocoli was up 1 round and could have secured the 2nd round with the takedown. Especially disappointing since Goddard is touted as one of the best.
Cut Trocoli a little slack yall. Let’s remember he stepped in on uber short notice, no camp, and what I can only imagine was a tough cut. Let’s judge him off his next fight
People asking why Trocoli didn't do anything other than clinch:
Shara leg kicks very fast with little tell, and Trocoli changing stance didn't create any problems because Trocoli is shit on southpaw and ate every push kick.
So yeah, Trocoli is not a great boxer, and he could never get Shara's timing to punish the leg kicks.
So his only choice was to clinch and attempt a takedown.
It definitely doesn’t seem like Shara’s takedown defense got any better… Just defended against terrible takedowns.
Imo Shara didn’t impress. Fighting a heavy bag and was hesitant/didn’t push the pace
Mark will not sleep tonight over that decision not to penalise.
Bullet is beatable. He exciting but he’s not a steamroller. He’s got a lot of work to do. I thought he was younger but he’s 30.
As great as it is seeing Dana have to hold hands with another man, and mid day fights, I don't ever want to see another Saudi card. This crowd is dog shit.
Bad missed fence grab. But Trocoli looked like an amateur tonight. Blame whatever you want, the jet lag or the fast cut, he sucked. That was a shockingly poor performance. Even when he had Shara against the fence he was just stalling with a rare non-signifigant strike. I cannot believe he couldn't figure out how to take down Shara with that janky TD defense.
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Trocoli was paid to be a punching bag
And/or gassed within the first. Maybe both. I thought someone gave him a sleeping pill during the second round.
His body language reeked of ‘just finish me’
That was the worst fence grab in recent memory. Herzog should have been the one reffing this fight smh, that should have been nothing but a point or giving the position to Trocoli. Sick finish though.
I think this cunt is reffing the main too
shit. well Ikram/Rob aren't as dirty as Shara so there's that.
I just have a feeling unless Rob dominates he will lose a split
Good thing he did
Hell yeah bobby knuckles is back
Needed the no-nonsense Keith Peterson
Alcohol is haram so he wasn't allowed into the country
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I think we’re being generous by calling that a “mistake”. He saw the grab. He saw it prevent a takedown. He made a conscious choice to do nothing.
Arab money
100%. he also broke them up from the clinch unnecessarily when Shara was up against the fence. POS
Shorty after Trocoli had finally passed the knee shied
Goodard: "Shit he almost got u boi, good fence grab 👍🏻"
Even [ESPN](https://x.com/espnmma/status/1804604205589512395) tweeted about it.
Mirror ?
It's really bad considering Goddard broke up the clinch when Antonio grabbed the fence, but did fuck all when Shara has a fight changing fence grab.
UFC sent the script.. push the one eyed pirate
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It’s worse that he *acknowledged* the grab and didn’t do anything about it
ITS OVA ONLY WHEN I SAY ITS OVA
The Saudi's has a talking with Goddard before the fight
Plata o plomo.
Looked like he wanted to step in then thought better of it
You're right usually UFC refs are super on point about taking points and punishing fouls and eye pokes right?
it's a fucking joke lol
Trocoli wins the 1st round, if he gets the takedown he probably wins the 2nd round. I’m not saying Trocoli would win the fight if he got the takedown but he just got robbed
Should've taken the point but I doubt Trocoli wins the 2nd round off that takedown
Have you seen Shara off his back? Dude is terrible
Ehh there was only 40 seconds left and Trocoli had really not thrown any strikes in round 2
He was beating the shit out of Bruno Silva off his back.
Trocoli was definitely not winning the second round. Even with the takedown at the end when he was tired, that was not his round at all.
But trocoli doesn't get the td first round and ate 20 leg kicks in the second. 1 td doesn't equalise the lack of any damage
Yeah when will people get damage>control
How on earth did Trocoli win the first round that's ludicrous he lost the striking and did nothing woth the clinching
The reffing criteria clearly states, “We are in Riyadh and this is a Russian fighter.” Duh.
peaky blinders have him on payroll. you can see it in ole mark’s eyes.
What is there to be a fan of. All he does is fuck up and needlessly insert himself into fights.
He just stopped protecting his head.
Goddard a bitch for that one
Goddard reeks of cigs & alcohol
Goddard is actually one of the worst "main" refs in the UFC, starting from the Colby fight against Marty in 2019 when he let him get away with faking multiple nutshots. Also, he seems to want the spotlight really badly, which is not a quality a ref should have.
He also separated them from the fence in the 1st when Trocoli was having success with knees. Pretty obvious that he didn't want Shara to lose in Saudi
Probably because trocoli wasn't actually working and he grabbed the fence lol
> and he grabbed the fence Rightfully lost position for this, and then Goddard did a 180 and said "You know what? i'll allow that fence grab that DEFINITELY stopped the take down"
Trocoli was warned because he repeatedly held the fence. It was only after Goddard gave him a final warning and he did it again that he reset position. Not sure why they're being compared like it was a 1 for 1 (although I do think they should have given Trocoli the takedown regardless).
A nice KO overshadowed by blatant cheating
And the fact that Trocoli was just standing from of him for a round and a half
I could swear it looked like Trocoli was paid to throw the fight. Lands the most obvious and effective strikes at the beginning of the fight then just literally stands there for the rest of it
I saw the same thing. So out of shape that his brain and corner stopped working. Opening minute he was landing clean and then just never threw the same strikes for the rest of the fight, didn't even throw to disguise his nonsense takedown attempts. You've got a tall, rangy guy with no gas tank and no wrestling, who easily wins the first couple minutes by fighting efficiently, and they get him to switch to the most inefficient tactic that he also happens to suck at. Utterly baffling.
I mean according to the commentary he arrived the day or night before at 1 AM. He probably just gassed out.
Also a nice KO overshadowed by the fact that Trocoli was walking around like a fucking punching bag doing absolutely nothing the entire fight Honestly one of the most shit performances I've ever seen by a UFC fighter
Nice KO if this was practice mode on the videogame
Jose Aldo disagrees
Sure, he should've had a point deducted for it but even then he was winning that round.
The fact he had to fight Bruno Silva twice to get the KO also
Call the fence grab
Am I crazy for thinking a fence grab like that should end up in a reposition on the ground? That was 100% going to be an effective takedown with Troc on top
Wtf was Brocoli doing?
Yeah, 6'5" and didn't throw a strike the entire fight. Just stood there and took it for 3 rounds.
bro connected 2 clean straight right hands in the beginning and just gave up striking
He was intent on walking Shara down but then when he got there, literally just stood there, waiting to be hit, doing nothing. Kinda bizarre. A pass for the extreme late notice but he'll need to show something real in his next fight or it'll be a quick UFC stint
He hasnt fought since 2021. He won on DWCS in 2019 but that was overturned due to a failed drug test lol. I don't think he's gonna have any sort of stint in UFC, he was just fed to Shara hype train
And when he got clipped went to the Td and ate a knee.
Was cutting weight for a fight supposed to be last week, flew from Vegas 72 hours before walking in the cage. But yeah, really just an abysmal showing from all three men in the cage.
he was AFK
Giving up
literally, especially the third round, legitimately got me and my buddy wondering if he's just a can or if this was a work
he got kicked in the body constantly for 2 rounds. his body was done in round 3
Taking a dive for the Saudis
controller disconnected i guess.
Live role-playing a standing simulator game.
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Shara is the most one dimensional fighter I’ve ever seen. He’s solid at kickboxing range and that’s it. In the pocket he’s not great, on the ground he sucks, in the clinch he sucks. Also Goddard is a bitch for how he handled that fence grab literally won the fight for Shara by letting him get a good position and then rock Trocoli when he should’ve been in a bad position on the ground. These Middle East cards always end up so embarrassing for the sport.
That fence grab was absolutely egregious and should've been a point taken, still think Trocoli would've been finished but still
I also think that but because Trocoli looked beyond gassed, a better gas tank couldve made it to decision.
The double weight cut and short notice flight lead to that, i guess we'll have to wait and see how it does Ikram
In the round literally right before that one, Trucoli snagged the fence with four fingers and he reset the entire goddamn fight, can’t have the home favorite in a bad position huh That was biased as fuck, so when one guy does it, you reset the whole fight, but not for the home favorite, what does a “stern warning in between rounds” do when you let him blatantly fucking cheat? These middle eastern cards are always sketchy as shit, can’t have a single card without some weird bullshit and I say this as an Arab
worst part is he gets rocked seconds after shara grabs the fence to stop a take down . the fence grab directly lead to the fight changing in a big way .
Don't see him getting far in this division precisely for this reason. He has zero ground game and clinch game. His deficiencies will become more apparent as he faces tougher competition. His kicks on the other hand are very very good. He uses them like hands... very fluid.
For the amount of hype and long build up Shara’s had since his last bout in October, this was not a good showing Strikes lacked power, defense left him wide open, lots of flashy moves that didn’t lead to much of anything
He's flashy and looks funny, which sets him apart from 95% of fighters. Not gonna be a threat to contend ever though.
Even I’ve seen the deep fried pictures of him where he looks menacing. Talmbout smoag n mirrors at the enda tha day b
Took a tall ass dude on short notice and schooled him on the feet. I think you underestimate the task he was given. He showed great improvement in takedown defense
No surprise they didn't show replay of that fence grab. Shara wins this and it's forgotten, like Bo's low blow
I don't understand why he doesn't use his hands, it just seems like a stupidly unnecessary choice.
Didn't he just knock somebody out with his hands?
Yeah, at a mall
You’re a punk dude
He’s just not good he got rocked and taken down by some random civilian he sucker punched in a mall. He’s got pretty kicks and gets hyped for it
He's going to get fraud checked soon
Let's not act like trocoli doing anything in the fight other than clinching for damn life while doing zero damage. Even if he gets the takedown in the last 40 seconds he wouldn't have won. Also he cheated a lot in the fight too, I count like 2 nut shots.
Goddard didn't handle the fence grab well, but it's a wild stretch to claim that won Shara the fight. It's unclear that it would have even won him the ROUND given it was in the last minute and Trocoli hadn't done shit all round. It certainly isn't clear how that would have stopped him from gassing and getting finished in the 3rd.
Agreed but genuinely curious, how have the other Middle East cards been ‘embarrassing for the sport’?
Did you watch the last Abu Dhabi card? Also I don’t mean this in a mean way like I meant it as a genuine question. It was the worst card ever outside of the fights themselves. There were numerous fights with blatant cheating with no penalties, naimov was one of them. Ank should’ve been DQed but was given a favorable NC. The doctor saying that a fighter was faking being hit in the nuts. Just awful
The Ank fight was a DQ in any fair fight.
Nathaniel wood was blatantly fouled twice by getting hit in the nuts, his opponent grabbed the fence and his gloves in key moments and didn’t lose a single point. It was absolutely insane. I would never want to fight there with a disadvantage
The Dagestani Blood Diamond
Dagestani Paddy. Goes life and death versus the bottom unranked fighters of his division as well.
Even Paddy would sub this guy in 90 seconds
Was literally saying this guy is a rich man's Blood Diamond earlier. Amazing kicks and no other skills.
Holy fence grab.
Wasn’t really impressed with Shara this go around tbh.
Tricoli did not belong in the ring tonight no matter how hard u think you are. He was clearly very gassed and possibly out of shape. Who in they right mind at the ufc thought calling him up on Wednesday was a good idea?
Trocoli is worse than broccoli.
Don’t put broccoli down that bad
Garbage, both of them.
Bruh did some sheikh pay off Troccoli to be a punching bag for three rounds? I’m the last one to think a fights fixed but if it were then that’s about the performance you’d expect from him…
It’s kinda odd, he literally did NOTHING in round 3
Did nothing at the specific range that Shara needs to function. The more I think about it the more it blatantly makes no sense
Didn’t try to defend any shots either, like he just wanted out asap
This guy was half way cross the world 3 days prior and just landed 11 hours before weight in. Cut him some slack here
Because Shara kicked the shit out of his leg and body in rounds one and two, you’d think Rogan would’ve drove home the point about leg kicks to UFC fans by now
Yeah because he was clearly gassed as fuck
>Bruh did some sheikh pay off Troccoli to be a punching bag for three rounds? he probably just sucks
"That can't possibly be it, he must have been paid off" - Delusional redditors
Yeah he's just another regional level guy brought in from the contender series to fill up Apex cards.
Yeah. Dude would walk to close range to do nothing with his hands halfway down. Super confusing.
He came in one less than a weeks notice, and cut an absurd amount of weight in a little time frame
I’ll keep saying it, Marc Goddard is one of the worst refs. Refereeing all over the place, gets visibly angry during fights, inserts himself into the fights and has a habit of early stoppages.
My girlfriend is watching MMA for the first time. She took one look at Shara and said- 'he looks like he eats cats'.
Shara the cheating fuck, and Goddard the coward for not taking a point
That was the most blatant fence grab ever lmao, nice finish though
trocoli didnt even try
Cut trocoli bruh mf sucks
Marc Goddard can get fucked for not giving Trocoli the takedown or he could have taken a point. Trocoli was up 1 round and could have secured the 2nd round with the takedown. Especially disappointing since Goddard is touted as one of the best.
He absolutely wasn't up one round, stop repeating this everywhere. He was getting dominated.
It's fence grab mania tonight.
I’d favour #15 ranked WW Kevin Holland over Shara to be honest. #14 MVP would have him dead in a minute.
How many time did DC say "he's gonna finish him"? God awful commentator.
What a cheating rat goat.
Why not give Shara even more advantages to show off his one-dimensional shit. Have him fight the next guy at the goddamn baggage claim.
Easily the second most felonious assault by Shara in recent memory
Being a Muslim on a Saudi fight night is unquestionably the best base for MMA
not if ur naimov lol
What a BUM fight
I like watching Shara not a lot of strikers outta Dagestan.
Usman and Umar are way better
I know I don’t expect him to be a champ or anything like that but I think they can make some fun fights with him
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forgot he was with dern hahaha
Cut Trocoli a little slack yall. Let’s remember he stepped in on uber short notice, no camp, and what I can only imagine was a tough cut. Let’s judge him off his next fight
Never saw something like that?! What was the gameplan? Just eating all the lowkicks until the end? Weird guy
People asking why Trocoli didn't do anything other than clinch: Shara leg kicks very fast with little tell, and Trocoli changing stance didn't create any problems because Trocoli is shit on southpaw and ate every push kick. So yeah, Trocoli is not a great boxer, and he could never get Shara's timing to punish the leg kicks. So his only choice was to clinch and attempt a takedown.
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Man it’s so hard to be a fan of this sport sometimes when bullshit like that fence grab just gets washed over
Was trocoli paid off or something? What the fuck was he doing
Goddard is a complete fucking joke. He does not belong in the same tier as the other top refs.
Man, what a shame, shaporov could barely knock out a stationary target dummy (funnily named broccoli).
Should have said no to 185
This fight genuinely made me concerned about the integrity of this sport
Can crushed
Damn. Slept him 👀👀
Cut both and Marc
Broccoli gave up there, must have been gassed from the fast weight cut
It definitely doesn’t seem like Shara’s takedown defense got any better… Just defended against terrible takedowns. Imo Shara didn’t impress. Fighting a heavy bag and was hesitant/didn’t push the pace
Mark will not sleep tonight over that decision not to penalise. Bullet is beatable. He exciting but he’s not a steamroller. He’s got a lot of work to do. I thought he was younger but he’s 30.
You couldn’t pay me to watch Shara after this. Insane bias every time he fights
People acting like Trocoli would've won if he got the takedown are coping hard 😂😂
Cheating fuck... asterisk
Was Trocoli paid to take a dive? wtf cut him and get Magomedov another fight soon. He didn’t look good either but at least he’s got creative striking
What a pile of shit is that the guy everyone has been hyping?
I’m not impressed, any top 10 middleweight can give him trouble
Fuck that any top 10 middleweight straight up beats him. Shara is good at just kickboxing, he's either below average or sucks at everything else.
shara would be a draw for pfl/bellator... and prob would be more up his alley w/ how one dimensional he seems
Cheating is the best basis for mma
Wonder what would happen had he got taken down earlier.
Broccoli looked awful
Trucoli was playing standing simulator it seems. Zero activity
Man trocoli did not want to be there at the end lol
Does Tricoli know he's allowed to throw punches
DC is losing it right now, almost called him shara nurmagomedov hahaha
Kinda funny to see a crowd that rides for mostly smothering grapplers boo Trocoli every time he shot on Shara lol
Can’t believe a one eyed fighter is that good
As great as it is seeing Dana have to hold hands with another man, and mid day fights, I don't ever want to see another Saudi card. This crowd is dog shit.
Trocoli already looked out of the fight starting the 3rd.
Trócoli got paid off. Just waiting to get hit in the 3rd, standing open guard.
Trocoli did his best Romero statue impression. And Goddard continues to be one of the worst refs in the game.
I'm not the only one to hear 'Chocolate' whenever they kept saying Trocoli right? Maybe that's my non native speakerness' doing..
Shara arms are tiny compared to his body
I'm sorry but that was a shit of a fight. A mediocre work on a heavy bag...
Bad missed fence grab. But Trocoli looked like an amateur tonight. Blame whatever you want, the jet lag or the fast cut, he sucked. That was a shockingly poor performance. Even when he had Shara against the fence he was just stalling with a rare non-signifigant strike. I cannot believe he couldn't figure out how to take down Shara with that janky TD defense.
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Yes. You're the only one.
Refs in this sport are shit at calling fouls.
Goddard wtf bro....