He’s got a point it’s foolish.I was watching an interview with DC, Chael, and Brett Okamoto and DC kept harping on how it will be a foolish choice for Jones to fight Aspinal or Pavlovich due to their age. Apparently, despite being in their early 30s, Pav and Aspinal are "young dogs" but Jones is old?
I did not get it.
30’s can easily be PRIME years, if you haven’t had your cranium cracked yet
Depends on the mileageI was watching an interview with DC, Chael, and Brett Okamoto and DC kept harping on how it will be a foolish choice for Jones to fight Aspinal or Pavlovich due to their age. Apparently, despite being in their early 30s, Pav and Aspinal are "young dogs" but Jones is old?
I did not get it.
They've also got stem cells, peptides, testosterone, perfect diets, all types of therapies.Yes. In the 34-36 range life hits you like a ton of bricks.
Take note of when every UFC fighter falls out of title contention/starts losing skids. It's almost exclusively after the age of 34, and certainly 35, 36, etc., with very very very few exceptions.
I'm 36 now. At 32-33 I scoffed at competing in the master's division of BJJ tournaments or my age bracket of MT tournaments, when applicable.
Now I get a headache just thinking about competing with a 22 year old fresh out of college wrestling in a tournament who will heal from me heel hooking him in 6 hours and be back on the mats, but if he gets top side control on me my ribs will hurt for a month.
nah. dudes during the TRT therapy era were lighting motherfuckers up in their 40s. Randy with good wrestling control and spinach was winning LHW and HW belts well into his career. with USADA gone I think we will see a resurgence of some fighters. think vitor. the shelf life of fighters will improve.
100% and well put. the physicality comes back, i think there is even more power, concentration, and all of that added experience? it's a win-win. i think we are going to see many great matchups again, fire power, and legends ride off in a blast. i can't wait. seeing hendo, vitor, randy have those kinds of resurgences and relevancy was super exciting to watch.TRT is basically the fountain of youth. It's like having the benefit of age in terms of experience, with the physicality of a 20 something year old
Yes. In the 34-36 range life hits you like a ton of bricks.
Take note of when every UFC fighter falls out of title contention/starts losing skids. It's almost exclusively after the age of 34, and certainly 35, 36, etc., with very very very few exceptions.
I'm 36 now. At 32-33 I scoffed at competing in the master's division of BJJ tournaments or my age bracket of MT tournaments, when applicable.
Now I get a headache just thinking about competing with a 22 year old fresh out of college wrestling in a tournament who will heal from me heel hooking him in 6 hours and be back on the mats, but if he gets top side control on me my ribs will hurt for a month.
100% and well put. the physicality comes back, i think there is even more power, concentration, and all of that added experience? it's a win-win. i think we are going to see many great matchups again, fire power, and legends ride off in a blast. i can't wait. seeing hendo, vitor, randy have those kinds of resurgences and relevancy was super exciting to watch.
100% and LOL on weidman going on a rampage. who knows though? Vitor went on a fucking rampage and some. And then I knew when he showed up looking visibly deflated for the weidman title fight, that this was going to go really really bad. i am all for it as well. lets see what fighters have great resurgences again. let's see some epic come backs, the skills, the power, the unbelievableness of it all. it is going to be awesome, i think this is one of the best things UFC has done in a long time.100%, I'm all for it. It does suck for the guys that'll choose not to use it for whatever reason (ie, long term health implications), but i think that'll be an issue only for a couple years until it becomes the new normal.
I was going to make a thread earlier asking who the guys might be thatll emerge as benefiting from a relaxing of testing the most, but it's really pretty hard to call. Super interested to see what the landscape looks like in 18 months. Maybe Weidman will go on a fucking rampage lol
Wow even DC making excuses for Jones. This mentality just sounds so diva to me. UFC fighters never used to worry about stuff like that. Imagine thinking “no I can’t fight him, he’s too young for me”. WTF.I was watching an interview with DC, Chael, and Brett Okamoto and DC kept harping on how it will be a foolish choice for Jones to fight Aspinal or Pavlovich due to their age. Apparently, despite being in their early 30s, Pav and Aspinal are "young dogs" but Jones is old?
I did not get it.