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the 5th was a major disappointment if you were rooting for Cormier. Everyone wants to see their guy go out on his shield and he did absolutely NOTHING.
That remains to be seen.
GSP arguably fought as stiff if not stiffer competition than Jones, incuding bigger, or rangier fighters. Jones fought ONE fight of similar size and we all know it was his closest fight by far.
The " Jones has better striking " is very subjective too.
Jones didn't choke Machida because he is a great BJJ artist but because his frame allows him things that are unorthodox, or even sometimes freaky.
The fact that Jones is better at BJJ based on the choke means nothing.
That's like saying Weidman is a better overall striker because he knocked Anderson out once and that outstruck him and TKOed him by shin fracture.
To use your semantic " Weidman has oustruck and knocked out better strikers, he is the better striker ".
This doesn't work this way. Weidman in my opinion has better boxing like I mentionned, well served by a great chin, great sense of distance (maii), power and good reaction time.
JBJ is better at kicks, elbows, knees, and way more versatile and flashy.
Overall I'd say JBJ is the better striker but Weidman still has better boxing and BJJ in my opinion.
Also Weidman is still greener, let him develop a little more and then we could see them superfighting in the near future.
As for GSP being a better athlete, I used the classic sherdog definition meaning GSP is more explosive, faster, stronger, more flexible, and has at least similar cardio, all taking the bodyweight ratio in consideration.
Jones's most impressive physical feature is his frame, and he is deceiptively strong for his size but clearly can't match GSP in the power/strength/speed to BW ratio
"GSP arguably fought as stiff if not stiffer competition than Jones"
Nah.
"Jones fought ONE fight of similar size and we all know it was his closest fight by far."[/I]
Gus is easily better than every other LHW and HW right now apart from possibly Jones, that is why it was a close fight.
Um. How is GSP more explosive, faster, stronger or more flexible?
...taken down wrestlers with wreslting credentials FAR superior to anyone GSP has faced.
People find it really hard to accept that Jones is the best fighter in the world and the reason that Cormier didn't do better was because he couldn't.
I must say I expected him to come out more aggressively , especially in the first round. I am pretty sure that Jones makes it very difficult, but after all the talk I really believed that DC would be just mauling him.
I found him to be a bit hesitant, even in the earlier rounds and pacing himself a bit too much.
The way Cain went after JDS and bigfoot was more the style I was expecting, especially since jones doesn't have any KO power. I honestly believe it might have turned differently, had he gone down that route.
Ah well, Gus is the only hope now.
The way Cain went after JDS and bigfoot was more the style I was expecting.
Lets switch DC's age and MMA experience with JJ's. I bet the fight is very different.
it was a good close fight, the better fighter dragged DC to deep waters and beat him.
Why not switch their skillset and looks, now we're at it.
DC arguably won two rounds.
In real life he didn't. It's fair you think he did, but he didn't.