Banned

nah... he did well for the first round. just gassed. it happens. although i don't think he'll ever fight again.

franklin caught him too.. or so he will say.. he definitely didnt look prepared

He looked good until Franklin got out of that arm bar. Then he went to crap. It was pretty ugly. Combine that with the Starnes fight and I say this card that looked pretty good turned to crap pretty quick.

He really did look unprepared. As a pro fighter to gas after 1 round is really unacceptable. I don't know about banning him, but he doesn't belong in the UFC at this point. Make him work his way back up through the smaller shows. At this point he needs to prove that he can fix his cardio issues.

He needs to go away. After he didn't make weight, he seemed like he wanted a second chance real bad. But after tonight, he needs to just pack it in. He gives ALL jiu-jitsu guys a bad name. Every guy who is a legit black belt just seems to come in looking for the sub. Whenever someone defends their takedown and has a halfway decent standup, the jits guys gas. Thats sad, considering how hard a lot of people worked to make jits a force in the sport. If you aren't going to train some cardio or standup, you have no business getting in the cage with the best fighters in the world.

What amazes me about Lutter is that he thinks those same crappy takedown from three feet away are going to work. He has to have the WORST takedown setup in all of MMA. I think he should have spent more time worrying about his cardio, takedown setups, and "Ace;" before saying that he wanted another shot at Anderson Silva.

Idiot.

Well with his record and tonights loss..I think we have seen the last of Travis Lutter.
I doubt they will offer him another contract

I don't think sherdogging the guy on the net is uncalled for. He was in there with some tough guys and came up short.

Rich Franklin & Anderson Silva are elite level fighters, I dont think anyone on here would do any better against them.
In fact if Travis Lutter walked into anybodys gym here, my bet is that he would whoop a$$.
Calling a guy you don't know names for doing something you couldn't do better is a bit much IMO.

... I would have thought he would show up with a bit more cardio... good win for ace though and very nice ecsape...

i see y Lutter was on TUF 4: The Comeback. he has great jiu-jitsu, however thatz pretty much all he has. if he improved his wrestling, striking defense, and cardio. he would b a good contender.

yup he definitly needs to work on cardio. That's the thing that P's me off the most when watching a fight- when someone gets tired too early. I could understand if it was late in the second or third. But come on, he looked terrible tonight! He must have known he was not in good shape, and was hoping to come off with a quick submission. I must admit I was scared when he had Rich's back at the beginning. LOL at Franklin's "I was instilling a sense of false confidence" when he was almost armbarred :)

How many times has he not made weight? And then he talks crap about Silva again. Horrible man.

At least make weight if your attempt to back it up.

Wait? He didn't make weight today also, I thought he did...?

Well im pretty sure he had a number of fights left on his ufc contract winning TUF and all but he is not an entertaining fighter point blank. He looks to be a awesome grappler but every fight starts standing up.

Once.

As far as I know he has only missed his weight one time. He was supposed to come in at 185 and I think he came in at 187.

Rich Franklin took two beatings from Silva and is still talking about going and getting a rematch.

I have no problem with people criticizing someone's skills online. Lutter would whip me every day of the week and twice on Sunday, but I'm not getting paid to show people what I can do in the ring. He is. That's his choice, and when he made it he opened himself up for the criticism.