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He had a drinking problem earlier in life and he is over 36 and doesnt have many years left at the top.

The funny thing is Mir always gives people a chance to tap but he only gives them one chance and if they don't take it he's going to snap it.

Might not even need another win after Belal, Shavkat should obviously be next.

Does he though? After Belal, Shavkat would be the obvious next in line.

Yeah, but Izzy was almost entirely ignoring the body which made Strickland's gameplan a lot easier to execute since he only had to worry about low kicks, straight punches and rarely high kicks.

Both are high volume guys the term from boxing is swarmer. Strickland has better boxing and better defense overall and Costa has more varied strikes and goes to the body more. I would give the advantage in power to Costa but he doesn't land clean a lot to the head.

He can negate them somewhat but Izzy mostly kicks to the legs Costa kicks to the body a lot and goes to the Head more he also throws a lot more body shots with his hands he's also a much higher volume guy. Izzy is a better overall fighter than Costa but Strickland matches up better with him than...

These threads about chin or power where only half of the equation is looked at is so weird to me. Most of those people he couldn't KO are really hard to KO and the Rockhold fight was at elevation where everyone was gassing out.

O'malley and TJ popped too.

Gane's TDD doesn't look that good when he doesn't have a big speed advantage both Ngannou and Jones are faster than most HWs but slower than Aspinall. Spivak is slow and needs to get to the clinch for the takedown so Gane used his superior speed and footwork to avoid the clinch making the fight...

I think they go into the armpit often for shoulder surgeries.

Could be they did an orthoscopic surgery, they often don't go in at the site of the repair. I had an FAI surgery which is a surgery where they shave off a piece of the top of the femur bone that sits in the hip socket but they made 3 incision in my leg to get there.

It's not a coin flip though. If one fighter hits the other more and harder for 3 rounds and the other doesn't have any effective grappling in those rounds the judging criteria says he loses those rounds. Jones didn't have any 10-8 rounds so he can't win unless you're giving him a handicap or...

There's no controversy, one guy hit the other more the first 3 rounds and harder while the other guy had no effective grappling to offset losing the striking... You literally said you judge championship fights differently than normal fights, what you describe is called a handicap, you're trying...

Unless Texas invented their own rules in 2017 then I am not misunderstanding anything. The old rules that every commission used to use never had judges consider aggression or octagon control unless effective striking/grappling was even, those two criteria have always been used as tie breakers...

That's irrelevant, even the old rules didn't factor in aggression and octagon control unless effective striking/grappling were even, that part didn't change. You're quoting a summary of the rules, you need to read them in their entirety

So you handicap fights? Why would you judge a title fight any different than any other fight? That never made sense to me. This isn't amateur bowling/golf.

You need to re-read the judging criteria cause you are factoring in things like aggression and octagon control when the criteria clearly states those are only considered when the striking/grappling is even. Rounds 1-3 the striking was in Reyes' favor both in terms of shots landed and the impact...

I mean they are still paying Arlovski pretty big money, Mousasi has more left than him and is better relative to his division than he is too. I'm not sure if they would pay him what he's asking for but not sure if ONE, KSW, Karate Kombat or any of the other orgs would either. I think he could...

I expect Islam to win but Dustin's a live dog, his defensive grappling is pretty strong and he's the best boxer at 155. If Islam tries to prove a point with his striking he could wake up regretting it.