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Happy Birthday Donald!
Donald has been one of the most active guys in the history of the UFC. He has fought 34 times between his WEC and his UFC fights. He has averaged 3.4 fights per year for 10 years and that is just his WEC/UFC career. Donald also went 7-0 before he got to the WEC, giving him a total of 41 MMA fights. Donald actually started with kickboxing and went 13-0 in amateur fights, before going pro at about age 18. He then went 28-0-1 in professional kickboxing. That is 42 more full contact fights. He also had 1 boxing fight where he was TKO'd. Donald has fought 64 times professionally and 77 times if you include his amateur kickboxing fights. His career began at about 16 and he is now 34. 18 years of fighting pretty consistently. That is a fuck ton of mileage. Think about the thousands of hours of sparring, drilling, and just wear and tear on the body.
Donald has looked very impressive as of late. He was great at 155 but he just cut that weight for so long and it became a detriment. He was so close to a title shot at 170 until the Masvidal fight. He looked pretty decent in that fight until the boxing became too much, which is one of his weaknesses. That KO was definitely damaging. I have never seen him so out of it, and on top of it he really got KO'd twice in one fight. Hopefully he takes at least six months off and takes a tuner fight. All of this begs the question. How many times will we see him fight ever again? Most 155 and 170 fighters are physically done by the time they are 36.
Donald has been one of the most active guys in the history of the UFC. He has fought 34 times between his WEC and his UFC fights. He has averaged 3.4 fights per year for 10 years and that is just his WEC/UFC career. Donald also went 7-0 before he got to the WEC, giving him a total of 41 MMA fights. Donald actually started with kickboxing and went 13-0 in amateur fights, before going pro at about age 18. He then went 28-0-1 in professional kickboxing. That is 42 more full contact fights. He also had 1 boxing fight where he was TKO'd. Donald has fought 64 times professionally and 77 times if you include his amateur kickboxing fights. His career began at about 16 and he is now 34. 18 years of fighting pretty consistently. That is a fuck ton of mileage. Think about the thousands of hours of sparring, drilling, and just wear and tear on the body.
Donald has looked very impressive as of late. He was great at 155 but he just cut that weight for so long and it became a detriment. He was so close to a title shot at 170 until the Masvidal fight. He looked pretty decent in that fight until the boxing became too much, which is one of his weaknesses. That KO was definitely damaging. I have never seen him so out of it, and on top of it he really got KO'd twice in one fight. Hopefully he takes at least six months off and takes a tuner fight. All of this begs the question. How many times will we see him fight ever again? Most 155 and 170 fighters are physically done by the time they are 36.