1-1 with Tom Aspinall 3-2 in his last 5

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The conspiracy theory is that the UFC think Blaydes will demolish Kuniev in an attempt to make Ngannou's last win and the PFL look bad.

I doubt they're trying to put Blaydes out to pasture as he's young enough and an actual heavyweight.
 
I think it's more that he's been at the top of the division for a long time and there are no fresh match ups for him aside from Gane, Tybura and Spivac. So who do you have him fight at this point? Spivac who just lost to Almeida who Blaydes just beat? Tybura who Spivac just beat? makes no sense to make those right now and then theres Gane and we all know he's the protected french poster boy so that fight won't happen until after Gane gets yet another TS..
 
ejazahmednit said:
Problem with Blaydes is that he loses almost all of the important fights he is put in
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The label has kind of stuck there as well to the degree I think it would be hard to push him as a world beater now even though he is towards the top of the division.

I would not be shocked if the UFC is hoping he loses, basically putting him in poor risk/reward fights in the hope he gets upset and the new name can be hyped.
 
Problem with Blaydes is that he loses almost all of the important fights he is put in
moreorless87 said:
The label has kind of stuck there as well to the degree I think it would be hard to push him as a world beater now even though he is towards the top of the division.

I would not be shocked if the UFC is hoping he loses, basically putting him in poor risk/reward fights in the hope he gets upset and the new name can be hyped.
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Yepp, he will a high level gatekeeper
If you can beat blaydes, TS might be around the corner
 
He should be thankful he still has a job.

Blaydes and Rozenstruik are pretty much cut from the same cloth. Journeymen ranked in the top 10 by virtue of such a shallow pool of fighters. Another loss by Blaydes and he'll be knocking on PFL's door.
 
Ehhhhh. I mean it's technically correct, but saying he's 1-1 with Aspinall is a bit of a misnomer. Even Blaydes said he hates when fans tell him he beat Aspinall because he doesn't consider it to be a real victory.

As for the fight with Kuniev, the entire division is dogshit and they are actively cutting top 15 guys so its slim pickings with regards to opponents. Gane won't fight him and is injured anyway and besides that there's just rematches.
 
BEATDOWNS said:
Now he's fighting a UFC rookie Rizvan Kuniev from the Cantender series.

They doing my boy Curtis Razor Blaydes dirty!

https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2025...blaydes-vs-rizvan-kuniev-shifted-from-seattle

The guy has a very solid strength of schedule lots of big names on here. This seems like a pretty massive step down. Are they trying to faze him out our throw him a softball?
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On the opposite I think. They are building Curtis back up.

I think Blaydes is championship level (maybe not with Aspinall around) but dude shat the bed a couple of times. Since he smashes everybody out of the top contenders they can give him 3-4 easy fights and put him in a title eliminator.

Also Curtis has fought pretty much everyone at this point other than Gane who I think ducked him.
 
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I'm not sure how much credit I'd give him Aspinall. He won via a horrific injury ten seconds into the fight. Then the record was set straight in a convincing manner next time out.
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It's crazy that some people were saying they didn't need a rematch because Blaydes already won.
 
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I'm not sure how much credit I'd give him Aspinall. He won via a horrific injury ten seconds into the fight. Then the record was set straight in a convincing manner next time out.
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I'm not so sure Aspinall's "injury" was really what it seems. If you watch the fight you see that Blaydes was picking him apart, and I think Tom's inexperience at the time caused him to panic and take the injury, because he didn't know what else to do, he was shocked that this supposed wrestler was lightning him up where he thought he would have the striking advantage.

We saw Aljo do something similar with Yan (though that was more of a veteran calculated version), it's part of the game. Props to Tom for coming back stronger in the rematch and winning fair and square, but it does make you wonder if he would resort to something similar again if he was in trouble and facing adversity against someone like Jones.
 
Blowing your knee out in 10 seconds into the fight, then absolutely destroying the dude in the rematch. It's 1 - 0 (1 no contest)
 
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I think they want new contenders for tom so they are trying to rush kuniev to a title shot and hope he beats blaydes
 
Blaydes is that guy who's good enough to be champ when the division gets weaker.

Kinda like how Glover got the belt at LHW
 
AndrewGolota48 said:
I'm not so sure Aspinall's "injury" was really what it seems. If you watch the fight you see that Blaydes was picking him apart, and I think Tom's inexperience at the time caused him to panic and take the injury, because he didn't know what else to do, he was shocked that this supposed wrestler was lightning him up where he thought he would have the striking advantage.

We saw Aljo do something similar with Yan (though that was more of a veteran calculated version), it's part of the game. Props to Tom for coming back stronger in the rematch and winning fair and square, but it does make you wonder if he would resort to something similar again if he was in trouble and facing adversity against someone like Jones.
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What the hell...
This has to be the worst take on these fights I have ever seen.

The fight was 15 secs, no one landed any real strikes and as Tom stepped back and his knee buckled as he was pushed back by the strike that diodn't even hurt him.
There wasn't even a chance to see who was better and we have seen Curtis look great on the feet, before getting destroyed by a clean shot, 3x.

Aljo vs Yan, was Aljo throwing too much offence in the first round. Not being able to recover and then Yan shitting the bed by throwing the illegal knee. It still was a massive shot that landed to his face. He over acted it, but he was still hurt by about as clean a knee as you can take. I am sure he was KO'd legitimately, he did end up with another neck surgery out of it and recurrent concussion issues.
 
Agreed that Aspinall and Blaydes wins are equal.

Curtis kicked that leg.

It could be that it was coincidental but it just seems more likely that the kick is what did that leg in.

That said, I think Curtis vs Lewis II would've been a better option and Blaydes is only a couple, a few tops, wins away from a TS.

Kuniev doesn't have name value and his 1st fight in the UFC shouldn't be a top contender. That said, the scenario is a win-win for Kuniev.
 
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Yes, his 1-1 record with Aspinall is kind of like Jones being 0-1 with Hamill.
 
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