How would a prime Jon Fitch fare vs the current WW top 5?

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Usman: Marty rag dolls fitch worse than Maia did imo. 50-43 marty wins

Woodley: woodleys superior athleticism lands him a KO win over Fitch. Fitch would be a live dog once if they fight gets out of round 1.

Colby: Colby’s pace and striking overwhelms Fitch. 50-45 Colby in a mostly kickboxing match.

Masvidal: Fitch wins a boring decision or gets KTFO by mas

Edwards:50-45 Edwards

Fitch seems a bit too one dimensional to hang with the well rounded skill sets in the current top 5. Discuss
 
Probably good considering people think born again Rory is top 5 and fitch handled him
 
Usman: Marty rag dolls fitch worse than Maia did imo. 50-43 marty wins

Woodley: woodleys superior athleticism lands him a KO win over Fitch. Fitch would be a live dog once if they fight gets out of round 1.

Colby: Colby’s pace and striking overwhelms Fitch. 50-45 Colby in a mostly kickboxing match.

Masvidal: Fitch wins a boring decision or gets KTFO by mas

Edwards:50-45 Edwards

Fitch seems a bit too one dimensional to hang with the well rounded skill sets in the current top 5. Discuss
Lol this is the most one dimensional the top of WW has been in like 20 years lol
 
He would get destroyed by all of them ala Hendricks
 
Lol this is the most one dimensional the top of WW has been in like 20 years lol
It's why I love him as a fighter (douche outside of fights though). He's like a cosmic experiment of how far you can get in mma by just really, really wanting to win, seeing as he's mostly just tough, a poor athlete and actually a worse wrestler than most people would think.

But yes, at this point, he'd be top 10 for sure and potentially top 5 with the right match ups.
 
He just drew with Rory who is better than most of those guys
 
Woodley is the WW GOAT
 
Maia smothers him again and he doesnt even crack top 5
 
We need that Fitch vs BJ rematch. We have been waiting 8 years for that shite big bald goof, hurry the fuck up you red egg.
 
Usman: Marty rag dolls fitch worse than Maia did imo. 50-43 marty wins

Woodley: woodleys superior athleticism lands him a KO win over Fitch. Fitch would be a live dog once if they fight gets out of round 1.

Colby: Colby’s pace and striking overwhelms Fitch. 50-45 Colby in a mostly kickboxing match.

Masvidal: Fitch wins a boring decision or gets KTFO by mas

Edwards:50-45 Edwards

Fitch seems a bit too one dimensional to hang with the well rounded skill sets in the current top 5. Discuss

I take issue with the Masvidal and Woodley picks. If we're talking prime Fitch as you laid out in the hypothetical, well, nobody KTFOed him in those days. Solid standup technique (even if his hand and foot speed were never elite), fantastic chin. Woodley and Masvidal are both really dangerous strikers, but not especially more so than Thiago Alves was at the time they fought.

I'm definitely intrigued by the Colby matchup. In Fitch's prime, the only one who ever outwrestled him was GSP, and GSP used it to keep things on the feet for the most part, and bust him up with the jab all night.
 
Now that I see it in writing, Fitch seems like a poor man’s Colby. One of the first to employ that boring cage grinding style but all the guys at the top are better at it now.
 
Mma has evolved since Fitch been around
 
Jon Fitch had an iron chin, great wrestling and pretty insane cardio

He would do well
 
It's why I love him as a fighter (douche outside of fights though). He's like a cosmic experiment of how far you can get in mma by just really, really wanting to win, seeing as he's mostly just tough, a poor athlete and actually a worse wrestler than most people would think.

whaaaaaaaaaaat?
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You talk about John Fitch?
Fitch is a fantastic athlete with a grinder fight style and superb smothering wrestling. He has absolute elite skills that make for a very boring style but have nothing to do with being "mostly tough" Thats so far of its laughable.

He has one of the best fight records in WW history against beasts no one lasts even 30seconds with just being tough.

Only conclusion we can make is you dont know at all what wrestling, submission defense, clinch fighting is.
 
top 5, maybe even top 3 with the right match ups. Pretty much the same position in the division he had back when he was in his prime.
 
Fitch destroyes them all, except Colby.
 

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