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Khabib and Lee are at the top of the food chain when it comes to wrestling / grappling.
People say "Barboza can´t fight mma if he can´t wrestle". But imo noone in the division would be able to stop them. Maybe Tony can pull out a submission again, but we don´t know how he´s gonna come fack after the injury. And I´m not confident Alvarez has good enough wrestling to stop either guy.
People also say "At least he should train more bjj". Listen, all these guys are training their asses off, including bjj specially to fight these two, but they´re all getting beat up and dominated anyway. And I´ll be honest with you, I don´t even know if a guy like Maia would be able to stop getting wrestlefucked or finish these 2. (yes, even being a WW, I´m not sure Maia would be able to finish either guy, and I´m a huge Maia fan. And I don´t think the Jon Fitch fight serves as example anymore)
I´m not sure that more than 1 or 2 fighters besides Tony and Alvarez can stop getting wrestlefucked by Khabib or Lee. But since Barboza was the only one who had the balls to take on (back to back) the 2 best wrestlers / grapplers in the LW division, people are being too quick to criticize him.
(on a different note, we´ve already seen that backpedalling doesn´t work for Barboza, so at least once I´d really like to see him being the aggressor and throwing all those nasty kicks. If you notice, he´s never getting taken down or tagged while he´s throwing his kicks, but instead when he´s backpedalling and getting stuck against the cage)
Just my 2 cents.
People say "Barboza can´t fight mma if he can´t wrestle". But imo noone in the division would be able to stop them. Maybe Tony can pull out a submission again, but we don´t know how he´s gonna come fack after the injury. And I´m not confident Alvarez has good enough wrestling to stop either guy.
People also say "At least he should train more bjj". Listen, all these guys are training their asses off, including bjj specially to fight these two, but they´re all getting beat up and dominated anyway. And I´ll be honest with you, I don´t even know if a guy like Maia would be able to stop getting wrestlefucked or finish these 2. (yes, even being a WW, I´m not sure Maia would be able to finish either guy, and I´m a huge Maia fan. And I don´t think the Jon Fitch fight serves as example anymore)
I´m not sure that more than 1 or 2 fighters besides Tony and Alvarez can stop getting wrestlefucked by Khabib or Lee. But since Barboza was the only one who had the balls to take on (back to back) the 2 best wrestlers / grapplers in the LW division, people are being too quick to criticize him.
(on a different note, we´ve already seen that backpedalling doesn´t work for Barboza, so at least once I´d really like to see him being the aggressor and throwing all those nasty kicks. If you notice, he´s never getting taken down or tagged while he´s throwing his kicks, but instead when he´s backpedalling and getting stuck against the cage)
Just my 2 cents.