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Edson Berto (l) and KJ Noons (r) before the fight. Photo courtesy SHOWTIME.

Last night’s ShoXC & EliteXC present King of the Cage has past and it’s time to see how the fans reacted to the event. As always, we have a bit of stats breakdown in terms of MMAPredictions users on the detailed results page. Here are a couple of the details of how things unravelled on MMAPredictions:

• The best predictor on ShoXC & EliteXC present King of the Cage was bradNsa, getting 80% of the card correct!
• 55 folks predicted on this card. As seems to be the trend, the second largest origin of predictors was Sweden!
• The average user’s score was 43.1% of the card correct! That’s probably due to the card having fighters who are less well known than in other organizations. Congrats to everyone who participated, even though you may not have felt as comfortable as normally!

Here are some quotes from the fighters:

• San Diego fighter KJ Noons said, ““This is definitely a different feeling than I had the first time I fought on SHOWTIME, but it solidified what I have been saying, that my last MMA fight was a fluke,” said Noons, who followed the knockdown with a right hand and right elbow to the face before the referee stepped in and stopped the proceedings 45 seconds in the third round. “This win reestablishes my status in MMA. I don’t want to say that a loss would have been devastating but now I am right back where I need to be.”
• His opponent Edson Berto, now 10-4-1, said “I was really dehydrated and very fatigued,” said Berto, who had an eight-fight unbeaten streak end. “It just didn’t allow me to be myself out there.”
• Jaime Jara had this to say about his encounter with Jeremiah Metcalf: “I think it tells a lot about a guy like me who can win a fight like this on two days’ notice. I had to cut a bunch of weight so that is why I was a little slow. Winning my fourth belt in my fourth different weight class (heavyweight, light heavy, middleweight and welterweight) is quite an accomplishment that I am proud of. I am a warrior. I get calls all the time. I am always ready to fight.’’
• Metcalf had this to say about the ref’s decision to end the fight: “I had him where I wanted him,’’ he said. “The punch flashed me, but it wasn’t a knockout. I was fine. They called it too early.”

Congrats again to all who participated!

- Caleb

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