Tom has excellent skills but Pav fight instinct is hard to quantify other than he gets the job done. Pav seems stronger . Could go either way since both good , about even , lean towards Pav based on his deeper experience.
I think that's just initial viewing feelings. My issue is with the narrative people use with that feeling as if Blaydes was dominating or was going to win, but like you said, nothing would have said how the fight would have played out.
And if you look at the action again under a microscope, this here is the FULL fight.
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-Straight right lands under the chin to neck/chest area, followup hook to the armpit pushes Tom off.
-Hard leg kick, but mostly picked up.
-Two 1-2's both miss.
-Counter right is just off center, it either misses or grazes the side of Tom's head.
-The follow up jab maybe lands well or was maybe more just a push just as Tom is stepping down and getting injured.
So basically, like one leg kick and one jab landed, and the one kick was blocked about as much as it could be and the jab was same time as the injury, so it could have caused it or partly been because of it.
I'm not taking Curtis' W away, but this is like the most non-consequential action to ever happen in a victory we've ever seen, so the large contingent of "Blaydes was clearly going to win" people boggle the fuck out of me.
"Look at me, look at me, give me attention"Aspinall was getting styled on by blaydes before the injury.
I guess he means any MMA fighter besides Poatan, Cro Cop, Mark Hunt, Semmy Schilt, Wonderboy, Israel Adesanya...
Which is fair because they were all high level professional strikers first before becoming full time MMA fighters
Past prime JDS destroyed himMMA it's Different you have to worry against the Grappling, Lewis it's Good for MMA but any Elite Kickboxer eat him alive look Hunt made him looks Average.
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It's like you don't have eyes or somethingAspinall got wrecked standing up by Curtis Blaydes
Haha what a bullshit statement
Aspinall got wrecked standing up by Curtis Blaydes
Pavlovich will maul him. He better tries his best to take him down as fast as possible or he will be sleeping quickly
Hmm like Conor vs Aldo...Jorge vs Asken...your logic says those fights never really started...am I doing this right?I don't understand how anyone that watched that fight can think this, the fight essentially never really got started., it's like one person says something about the fight and then everyone repeats that narrative.
Thank you man. Blaydes deserves much more respect. Dude fights everyone and people still shit on him.JDS Too K1 Curtis it's Badass.
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It's like you don't have eyes or something
Aspinall was getting styled on by blaydes before the injury.
We ARE discussing after the fight. You said Aspinall got wrecked standing against Blaydes and I'm telling you that's poppycock of the highest.Lets discuss after the fight
I am telling you, if he choose to stand he will sleep in the 1st round
Timestamped (Rico Verhoeven also speaks about Alistair Overeem’s retirement, right after the Tom Aspinall talk):
https://youtu.be/yrkomVQyDZw?si=lrM6xiHsDizIyRHJ&t=21m17s
Aspinall was getting styled on by blaydes before the injury.