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I heard early in his career like his first 10 fights or so his training was basically watching youtube vids and shadow boxing.
Now compare him to small HW's who dont cut weight and guys who move up in weight class, and who dont dwarf all their opponents.Is unparalleled. A couple years before becoming the youngest UFC champion, he was partying and getting in fights throwing people out windows according to his roommate. Zero formal martial arts training, then UFC champ a few years later.
Compare him to Rory Macdonald or Sage Northcutt who have picture perfect upbringings to fight, but just don't have the natural raw fighting ability.
Discuss.
I heard early in his career like his first 10 fights or so his training was basically watching youtube vids and shadow boxing.
It would literally be a much bigger upset than that. It would be totally ludicrous.That would literally be right up there with Bisping / Rockhold 2 for me.
He wins that shit, and I'mma STFU for a LONG ass time.
He is an absolutely freakish talent. Insane fight IQ, physically gifted and an incredible competitive will.I think he works as hard as anyone else, but if he had zero MMA training I still think he could dominate the amateur circuit strictly on god given talent.
Jones had over half a decade of wrestling training. If you watch his amateur wrestling, his style even then was tailor made for mma. By the time he fought Shogun in 2011 he'd been training in mma for 3 years; he started training at Jackson's in 2009. I think 8+ years of martial arts training, including 2 at the best gym in the game is enough to get about as good as you're ever going to get.
Nah, you don't have to. You can do whatever the flippety flippety you wanna do. Drop several thousand on the one who SHOULD win this fight aYou aren't alone. I've talked shit about Conor McGregor for the last 3 years and now that he is fighting Floyd I have to pull for him on behalf of MMA, and god help me if he beats Floyd, I'll be forced to accept that he's a gdamn ninja.
LIke you say, if he wins this one, I'll never doubt him again, even if he fights Stipe or Cain.It would literally be a much bigger upset than that. It would be totally ludicrous.
he seemed pretty aggressive against DC both times.
It would be up there with the greatest upsets in sports history man. Any sport......
Floyd is 49-0 and went undefeated for an astounding 19 years. That's almost as long as the UFC has existed. It would be like a guy winning a belt at UFC 13 and still champion today, never having lost. So for McGregor to overcome that would implode 3rd world nations.
His career isnt over either he will be bellator champ for sure and wouldnt be surprised of ufc wabts him back afterYou can't really make that claim about Rory...he's a great fighter who's had an outstanding career.
One thing about Jones is, if he could throw the jab more effectively, it's going to make it so much harder to get on the inside - and even when fighters do, he man handles them.
He seems to have that freakish strength which must feel like a vice grip when he clinches up with someone. Every fighter could work on something better; I think the jab, holding his guard up better and personally I'd like to see him more aggressive like earlier in his UFC career, but when he's in the top tier getting paid, he has a lot to lose.
I think Gufstason was the closest to putting him down not Machida. I always liked that picture of Jones and Gufstason at the hospital after the fight Jones is in a bed with IVs hooked up Gufstason is standing there in a jacket with his arm around him, ready to go home. If not for judges anyone that saw that picture would say Gufstason won that fight. Can't wait to see what happens in the rematch if there is one.The thing about Jones is that he has every possible advantage necessary and even with his personal life in shambles he can still whip ass like no one before. If he had no chin / defense, he would have lost by now. If he had no heart, no ability to dig deep and refuse to be beaten, he would have lost by now. If he had a bad coach instead of one of the most successful gyms in MMA, I think he would have lost already too. If he had no fight IQ, he definitely would have lost already.
Instead he's got everything, the physical tools, the psycho instinct. Fuck, Lyoto came the closest to putting him down just for a brief moment and Jones responded by almost killing him.
Is unparalleled. A couple years before becoming the youngest UFC champion, he was partying and getting in fights throwing people out windows according to his roommate. Zero formal martial arts training, then UFC champ a few years later.
Compare him to Rory Macdonald or Sage Northcutt who have picture perfect upbringings to fight, but just don't have the natural raw fighting ability.
Discuss.