{"id":455643,"date":"2010-03-21T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-229250:1"},"modified":"2010-03-21T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:33:52","slug":"venue-of-zero-importance-marshall-lays-another-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/455643","title":{"rendered":"Venue of zero importance, Marshall lays another egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__18\/ept_sports_mma_experts-837310042-1269223578.jpg?ymaSG3CDRVfKLfeH\" \/>BROOMFIELD, Colo. &#8211; During Season 8 of &quot;The Ultimate Fighter&quot; Eliot Marshall appeared to have all the goods to become a solid UFC fighter in the light heavyweight division. But you walked away thinking is the guy aggressive enough to take advantage of a very solid skill set? Again tonight we got the answer, it doesn&#8217;t look like it. Marshall fighting 39-year-old Vladimir Matyushenko, never went on the attack and never attempted a takedown, allowing &quot;The Janitor&quot; to pull out a split decision victory, 30-27, 30-27 and 28-29. <\/p>\n<p>Marshall&#8217;s approach was shocking considering he was given the opportunity to fight close to his hometown of Boulder, Colo. Marshall even crowed about fighting less than a mile from his home and that this was going to be the best night of his life. Instead he allowed Matyushenko to stand flat-footed in front of him and walk straight forward for 15 minutes. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This was the second time Marshall produced a fight that infuriated the fans in attendance. He had a real stinker against fellow TUF 8 cast member Vinny Magalhaes at UFC 97.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROOMFIELD, Colo. &#8211; During Season 8 of &quot;The Ultimate Fighter&quot; Eliot Marshall appeared to have all the goods to become a solid UFC fighter in the light heavyweight division. But you walked away thinking is the guy aggressive enough to take advantage of a very solid skill set? Again tonight we got the answer, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}