Why are people saying Chael didn't have any power?

[KONE]

Pretty much a perfect scenario and he barely rang his bell. That's the defining of a guy with no power.

See:

Anderson had one of the best chins of all time and got the shit wobbled out of him by Chael

He clearly has power of some sort ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[FadeLess]

imo Chael wasnt great at anything ... that said he also wasnt as bad as people think he was... he had very good skills
but Jones did broke his toe while trying to pound on Chael ... but that might have been Chael´s gangsta tactic to win the fight

 

[MidgardSerpent]

Rashad took a tremendous amount of damage vs Sonnen.

 

[ChucksGlassJaw]

See:

You don't understand the difference between getting your bell rung and a good chin. Anybody will get put on queer street if they walk into a straight left they didn't see. That has nothing to do with chin. The fact that Silva was barely wobbled shows the guy has no power.

Go watch some fighters with real heavy hands. Their opponents with grimace even when they're blocking the punches.

 

[DorianGray]

This is a stupid fucking thread....Go to bed chael

 

[ortizgnp]

Don't forget Wand's career took a shit after he and his thugs jumped ol' Sonny.

That is true.

 

[FadeLess]

Anderson had one of the best chins of all time btw

i wouldnt say Anderson had a GOAT chin from this punch alone, but thats a pretty fkin great timing and deflection by Chael , probably his best highlight at it. Still Chael didnt commit on his left , and he couldnt follow up with the right hand nor with a throw, that would have been elite level

 

[The Best JG]

You're saying he let Chael beat up for 5 rounds just for the lolz?

No im saying chael punched anderson in the face 300 times and anderson still had enough wits about him to tap chael out

 

[KONE]

You don't understand the difference between getting your bell rung and a good chin. Anybody will get put on queer street if they walk into a straight left they didn't see. That has nothing to do with chin. The fact that Silva was barely wobbled shows the guy has no power.

Go watch some fighters with real heavy hands. Their opponents with grimace even when they're blocking the punches.

Anderson took two murderous strikes from Henderson in his prime he didn't see coming and didn't budge. Chael hit him with a left straight and wobbled him.

Chael objectively has power of some sort.

legit lol'd at "barely wobbled" though. He got wobbled. Chael hit him in the face and it wobbled him. Because he had some kind of power. Pretty straightforward stuff here.

 

[Bend NvR Break]

Wand almost got permanently banned from the sport just by being scheduled to fight Chael

 

[nostradumbass]

Chael himself says he doesn't have any power. On his podcast with Nate Quarry and the other old team quest guy, they were all laughing about how Chael couldn't break eggs with his punches. Anderson stumbling backwards a little and being fully recovered 2 seconds later was about the biggest punch I've seen him land.

 

[Redhawks100]

Sonnen doesn't have power because he couldn't finish with ground and pound!

*GSP didn't record a single finish during his title reign with ground and pound*

GSP is soooo good! He's active too!

 

[ortizgnp]

Chael himself says he doesn't have any power. On his podcast with Nate Quarry and the other old team quest guy, they were all laughing about how Chael couldn't break eggs with his punches. Anderson stumbling backwards a little and being fully recovered 2 seconds later was about the biggest punch I've seen him land.

That's a man being humble to his entourage.

 

[prikoke]

Jon Jones lost his toe, got in serious trouble with the law and stripped of his title after getting locked inside the cage with Chael.

Chael's punches from the bottom were so hard, they broke Jones' toe on the other end of his body.

 

[Breaking]

Anderson had one of the best chins of all time btw

How do you come up with that? In which fights did he demonstrate this amazing chin. I think that it was more like he didn't take that many shots.

Sometimes he took them on purpose, but all that proves is that some fighter (say, Lutter, for example) posed no threat to him. It doesn't prove that he had some ungodly chin.

Also, if Chael had good power, we'd have seen more examples of it than just this.

 

[ortizgnp]

Chael's punches from the bottom were so hard, they broke Jones' toe on the other end of his body.

No one should be surprised.

 

[Breaking]

This shot would have KO'd most guys in UFC MW division. Silva certainly had a good chin in his prime.

Then why doesn't Chael have more KOs. It's not like Anderson is the only person that Chael ever GNP'd.

 

[ortizgnp]

Then why doesn't Chael have more KOs. It's not like Anderson is the only person that Chael ever GNP'd.

Explained in the OP.

 

[prikoke]

No one should be surprised.

You know, Chael's arm looks pretty big only because it's white. If you mentally color it in a darker tone, it would look like a below-average penis.

 

[Deffid]

Never had great pucnhing power, but he was still pretty strong in general.