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The Ludwig von Mises reference was a nice touch. Hilarious within the context of the Brazilian meathead delivery.

His prime version would be +2000 against either

Quite the opposite. Strickland is currently the second most kayfabed MMA fighter behind Colby. If anyone would do it, it's him. Also, as Whittaker said, the punches looked like Flair vs. Hogan. You have to override your muscle memory to throw like that if you are a pro fighter. If he was...

The kid looks to have lost his edge... hopefully they give him some guys with weak grappling to get his confidence back.

He sold himself out for that new contract. Looked different, like he had no intention of winning. I was already going to load up on Topuria at dog odds, but now I'm just praying for the dog odds.

It wasn't done very well in my opinion. It seemed too much like a forced random attack and should have been opened with something non-jarring, maybe something making fun of KC BBQ, as a segue. Endeavor needs to put their new writing staff to work on these MMA prospects.

He never had good boxing or TDs... you need at least one to make it at the highest level.

It's a question of mentality and fighting style. If Da Silva had some flowing boxing, he could stalk guys and finish them when he has them hurt. But instead he goes balls to the wall and gasses.

He doesn't even really counter... his entire gameplan is to break you down with the jab until he can start teeing off.

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Good point... Condit then

Colby, Burns, Stickland, Masdvidal, Edwards are significantly better than Hendricks, Lawler, Hughes, Condit (who almost Edwards'd him), and Dan Hardy

I mean, the guy was beating Johnny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler (who were, sadly, his strongest opponents), then bailed from the sport once it started to evolve past him... Usman has beaten far better far easier.

I mean, of course... every division is far more stacked today. MMA was very unevolved during that era. These threads only make sense if you argue in terms of entertainment value.

I mean, I don't think the chin is his only problem. He got his nose caved in by a kick because Vera perfectly predicted what he was going to do. There is a lot of truth to what Vera is saying here, especially the stuff about Cruz's style being good because it works well with mixing takedowns...

Southpaw counterstriking with a lot of check hooks... we've never seen this from Nunes before. I don't see why everyone is hating on Shev... it's clearly in good fun and a good observation for a tweet.

I'd hate to inject some non-biased info into this thread, but I'm a fairly serious hobbyist who trained at SBG while Conor was training for the Aldo fight, and while I don't like Kavanagh (he takes himself way too seriously for my liking), he is a very good coach when it comes to get-ups, wall...

OP is right... the game has evolved and the level of fighters is far better these days. The only thing going for Anderson's competition is that he faced an all-out wrestler in Sonnen, whereas these days there's too many good sprawl and brawlers (Strickland, Whittaker, Cannonier, Costa) for a...

Yeah, I think the KO was more due to Strickland getting lulled into a false sense of security from pitter-patter kicks coming at him, hence why he was in terminator mode walking forward with little concern for punch counters.

Yeah, true, I think the mental side is the primary difference.