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I disagree.
Don't disagree with me.
I disagree.
Woodley and Colby are better wrestlers than usman. I'm not convinced Usman would win at all. Colby was Maia's third top five fight in 6 months. Maia looked warn the fuck out in that fight and I wouldn't use it as a measuring stick for Maia's abilities.
Can't blame them. Who wants to be in a boring fight and likely lose. Better losses are out there to be had.
Don't disagree with me.
All he has to do is stuff Colby's takedowns and he has nothing for him. I would argue that Usman has better striking than Colby, he is stronger (as you said, subjective though), and has a good reach advantage. Again, with Maia, all he has to do is stuff the takedowns. Of course Maia can catch him with something, I just don't like his chances.
That's all anyone has to do against maia, though, and far more often than not,they fail. Maia has far more experience than Usman, and Maia has traded strikes with far better strikers than Usman.
I like Maia's experience to find a way in that fight. Maybe he shields him, or chokes him out like story and sonnen.
The Fight won't happen though.
Usman is clearly the number 2 guy in the division. Just hasn't had the opportunity to show it.
I want to see him wreck Colby. If he keeps ducking, feed him Wonderboy.
Maybe. The way I see it, Usman basically beats him how Colby did, but much, much worse.
I still don't understand why they didn't make Usman vs the eye poke guy and Meek vs Perry instead of the matchups they did go with. I think both fights would've been much closer if they had chosen those.He's basically called out everyone, but the thing is he shouldn't have to. Pretty sure he got matched with Meek because no one else wanted the fight.
Maybe, but he's more likely to get Maia's leftovers in gunni, masvidal, or Magny, though. That is assuming fighters accept fights.
I still don't understand why they didn't make Usman vs the eye poke guy and Meek vs Perry instead of the matchups they did go with. I think both fights would've been much closer if they had chosen those.
Yeah maybe Magny.
not Court McGee, the guy Perry actually fought ... forcing me to google him now hahaMaybe, who knows? I don't think eye poke mcgee wants anything to do with Usman tho tbh.
He'd been campaigning to get the eyepoke loss overturned, but he did try to get on the UFC Dublin card and was injured in camp. He was then hoping to get Till at UFC London but Till was still holding out for the Liverpool event.Gunnar would put up a better fight against Usman in my opinion. Where is Gunnar anyways? He only fights like once every ten months.
He moved up the rankings after beating both Moraes and Meek, neither of whom were ranked (top 15) at that time.Even guys like Till have no interest in fighting him. Dude literally can't move up in the rankings because everyone is declining to fight him.
Why's that?