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On sherdog i'm always reading that Romero has bad cardio and many of those people base it on the fight against Jacare. They don't take in consideration that he had the flu. On top of that he went on a barrage for a big part of the first round trying to finish Jacare by going all out with the ground and pound in Jacare's highly dangerous full guard and punch himself out. Note that Jacare hasn't been hurt that bad for a long long time.
Most fighters would be gassed so bad they couldn't even move the next rounds but Romero still did well.
For example almost the same thing happend during the Magny vs Lombard fight and Lombard punched himself out so badly trying to finish Magny he couldn't even move in the next rounds resulting in him getting finished by Magny.
On top of that people neglect the fact that most of Romero's finishes are in the third round meaning he doesn't have a cardio problem when he doesn't have the flu and paces himself well. An good example for this is the Machida fight where he paced himself very well for three rounds and almost murdered Machida in the third with his brutal ground and pound while still moving fresh and not tired.
Here is a finish in the third against Brunson who is having an impressive win streak since that loss:
Impressive takedown in the third:
Romero doesn't have bad cardio normally and it was an incident in the Jacare fight. He actually did very well cardio wise if you take the flu and barrage on Jacare in consideration. Yoel is a very impressive fighter who came into the sport late in his career and had to learn a lot of things which other fighters have learned from since they were young but has dominated on this level nonetheless.
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Most fighters would be gassed so bad they couldn't even move the next rounds but Romero still did well.
For example almost the same thing happend during the Magny vs Lombard fight and Lombard punched himself out so badly trying to finish Magny he couldn't even move in the next rounds resulting in him getting finished by Magny.
On top of that people neglect the fact that most of Romero's finishes are in the third round meaning he doesn't have a cardio problem when he doesn't have the flu and paces himself well. An good example for this is the Machida fight where he paced himself very well for three rounds and almost murdered Machida in the third with his brutal ground and pound while still moving fresh and not tired.
Here is a finish in the third against Brunson who is having an impressive win streak since that loss:
Impressive takedown in the third:
Romero doesn't have bad cardio normally and it was an incident in the Jacare fight. He actually did very well cardio wise if you take the flu and barrage on Jacare in consideration. Yoel is a very impressive fighter who came into the sport late in his career and had to learn a lot of things which other fighters have learned from since they were young but has dominated on this level nonetheless.
War gay Jezus.
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