All performances are contextual. What you do at one time should not be affected by a pooer performer several years later. It does not diminish how great you where at one time.
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Honestly though bro, as a near psychotic BJ Penn fan...it hasn't changed it for me, i look at those 6 loses when i choose to believe they exist and say: well two were to large prime WWs in Nick and Rory...another was to Frankie who is just an awful match up for BJ and the other 3 came so long after his prime.
The Yair fight in particular was such poor handling of this legends career, BJ has always been cursed with 'yes' men all around him and they should have not let him fight that guy or rematch Frankie quite frankly.
BJs entire career in a sense, even the decision to leave the UFC, all of it is a lesson in how to so fucking poorly mismanage a hall of fame career. So I can look at those loses and others like his time outside the UFC and justify them as BJ being BJ.
It's funny this question didn't even come from myself, or the guys. It came from a longtime main page staffer, someone who has forgotten more about the sport than I knew about it. That's what made it doubly intriguing to ask.
Honestly though bro, as a near psychotic BJ Penn fan...it hasn't changed it for me, i look at those 6 loses when i choose to believe they exist and say: well two were to large prime WWs in Nick and Rory...another was to Frankie who is just an awful match up for BJ and the other 3 came so long after his prime.
The Yair fight in particular was such poor handling of this legends career, BJ has always been cursed with 'yes' men all around him and they should have not let him fight that guy or rematch Frankie quite frankly.
BJs entire career in a sense, even the decision to leave the UFC, all of it is a lesson in how to so fucking poorly mismanage a hall of fame career.
LHV title picture:
--> Reyes and esp Walker need time
--> Jones wants 4 fights this year?
Pull up Yoel Romero like Santos + Smith + Anders now are doing
That would be legiiiiittttttt
Plus Romero is tied up til after Whittaker + everything else gets figured out
Wonderboy vs Usman is really interesting. Since Usman is very aggressive but kind of rudimentary and that's exactly what Wonderboy's footwork is built to negate. Thompson's age is kind of an x-factor though
Honestly, Askren is a better chain-wrestler than Colby. Colby's advantages is his stand-up which will not be very relevant in a fight vs Usman. Askren is a bigger threat.
Woodley has trained himself into a corner. He stands against the cage and tries negating his opponent with takedowns/power-punches, it's his sole-strategy. If you do that, you'll eventually run into someone who can negate that one thing. Usman and Rory managed to do that, Usman with pressure and takedown-threats and Rory with jabs.
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