It’s hard to believe that a fight like this was so low on the card!
Round one: Sherk immediately shoots for the takedown and Franca reacts with a big knee that Sherk takes solidly on the face but he gets Franca down only to land in a guillotine choke from Franca.
Sherk escapes the choke and makes it on top of the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt’s full guard and landing a few good punches from above. Sherk has full mount then wrestles Franca with some great movement on the mat to side control then back on top. Franca is being very cautious and Sherk’s working tirelessly to find a weak spot to exploit a submission from. Sherk is back on top and hitting a few elbows home but nothing truly effective due to Franca’s great defence. Sherk gets the mount again and Franca reverses but Sherk soon bucks him off and turns it around. A great display of power and wrestling form Sherk and good defence from Franca but Sherk won that round.
Round two: Leg kick from Franca, Sherk shoots for the takedown and Hermes hits AGAIN with the same knee reaction from the first round. Just like in round one, Sherk takes that knee like it was nothing but lands in Franca’s guillotine choke only to escape again. Sherk in full mount again and Franca reverses only for Sherk to get control of the fight again in a head to toe position then quickly into Franca’s half guard and landing a big elbow. Sherk gets side control and is looking again for that position to submit Franca. Franca shakes off Sherk only for Sherk to take it back to him in the dominant position having side control only for Franca to reverse it and get the guillotine again. Sherk needs to pull the tiny amount of his neck that he has to stop this repeated guillotine attempt from Franca. Saved by the bell.
Round three: Sherk shoots and grabs Franca and slams him to the mat and then takes the top position and drops some nice blows from above but none of the punch again are truly effective. Franca is defending only for Sherk to land a good elbow which forces him to get out of that position. Sherk makes it back on top and then works the fight from the side. Sherk takes Franca’s back and gets some nice hooked punches to the face of Franca. Sherk’s known for his work rate and stamina but this fights definitely slowed down which is shown by Sherks draped all over Franca on a not so magical blanket ride and Franca wriggles away but Sherk gets back on top and tries to take Franca’s arm off with an Americana - collegiate wrestling 101 kids.
Round four: Sherk’s always going to try totake this fight to the mat and Franca knows it, he also knows when and throw a perfectly timed knee into Sherk’s face AGAIN. LEARN SHERK, LEARN!!!
He doesn’t seem phased but it anonys me that he let’s Franca do that. He gets on top only for Franca to get the fight back onto their feet. From here Franca can knock people out… but Sherk takes him down again only for Franca to bring it back up allowing Sherk to SLAM him down again and gain the control of Franca’s side and get some good punches while looking for a way to submit him. In the meantime he throws a couple of good knee strikes to the body. Franca takes the fight back to their feet and Sherk tries to takedown and takes another knee but takes his back and that’s the end of round four.
Round five: I look to my buddy and say “Holy crap, is this the fith round already?!” What a fight, this is a great fight, I hate the people booing, I kinda wanna let Sherk and Franca loose on them to kcik the crap out of them.
Sherk doesn’t take a knee to the face on the takedown this time which I am relieved to see. He does however slam Franca down and pass to his half guard and drop some tightly packed elbows and immediately looks for a way to get some way of ending this fight. Franca hits Sherk on his seemingly unbreakable jaw with an up kick from his back. Sherk is unphased.
Sherk takes Franca down again and get’s some dangerous looking punches in and then takes Franca’s back. They stand up and Sherk is hopping away from the single leg that Franca has and escapes a knee bar attempt. Sherk is on top and it’s definitely his fight as the haters boo and the bell rings.
PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BEING A-HOLES AND STOP THAT BOOING CRAP!
Sherk’s arm is lifted and he rightfully defends his title with a unanimous decision. That was a great technical fight, and not a lot of hard hitting but it was a great fight.
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(3 votes, average: 1.33 out of 5)
Good fight.. Sherk the much stronger fighter totally mat handled Hermes.
Hermes did more damage by knees and almost choked out sherk a couple of times. Hermes did a good job overall.
Sherk fought a great fight but hermes was never endangered. Sherk did what a excellent wrestler would do take downs and hold your guy down.
Sherk won power and control.
Hermes did more damage and attempted more submissions when he had the chance.
Sherk couldnt finish the fight in 5 rounds. wasupp with that.
Bj Penns turn… time to spank sherk back to the ocean.
Sherk would eat Penn up.
Bj penn has the best defense against wrestlers specially the single leg. Bj penn has better game on the ground.
Bj penn is a natural 170lb like sherk,
Bj penn disabled matt hughes wrestling skill until he got injured in the end of the 2nd.
As long as penn stays at 155 his gas tank is much better.
Bj pennn did well against gsp even though he lost, BJ sent gsp to the hospital.
Bj penn has heavy hands.. all the tools to beat sherk,
I see Bj penn doing more damage.
I wouldnt say sherk would eat up Penn.
Sherk is strong has a high extreme long gas tank.
good a take downs.
Sherk couldnt finish the the fight against hermes.
Hermes is a 145 lb er.
Sherk would eat penn up WTF b.j has KO power is really quick and has sick BJJ and is a great wrestler b.j by submission round 2.