*About DC and Stipe: Who has the better chin, who hits harder and who has better cardio?*

[MuayThaiBX]

Chin - close but edge to DC because his chin seems harder to find because his defense of punches to his head is better.

Power- about even. Stipe tends to concentrate more on accuracy and boxing technique so he probably throws less punches with fight ending intentions. DC has quicker, shorter punches that are hard to see coming. Stipe has straighter longer, more accurate punches.

Cardio - Stipe. DC's extra weight starts to weigh on him as fights get into later rounds.

 

[kellenn]

At HW, power and chin are close to being toss-ups for me depending on what one wants to prioritize on any given day. Cardio goes to Stipe IMO.

People ITT seem content to oversell him getting rocked by Struve, DC, or Reem while ignoring the bombs he ate from the hardest power punchers in the sport like Francis and Hunt. Why is that? It's almost like chin isn't a consistent game stat and has variables that play into it moment-to-moment. Shocker.



Don't trivialize the term "slept" by applying it to the Struve TKO (not KO). His knees had barely even touched the canvas by the time the fight was waved off. Nice try, though.

And trying to say DC has better cardio when he visibly gassed out and badly in their last fight is laughable. Stipe paces himself very well in most of his fights. He keeps a nice, steady output.

Stipe gassed bad against JDS and Ngannou

DC got hurt with body shots, not a cardio problem

 

[Safton]

Stipe gassed bad against JDS and Ngannou

DC got hurt with body shots, not a cardio problem

In his first JDS fight (which was a landmark in his development as a fighter) sure, after which he made adjustments. And by Heavyweight standards he didn't gas that badly. What? The Ngannou example is just weird. Of the two men in the cage during that doubt, the one who was about to pass out and die of exhaustion wasn't Stipe...

The body shots and cardio are not mutually exclusive. DC punched himself early in the fight during the second bout and a lot of people speculate that his conditioning didn't hold up to the wrestling he was doing at Heavyweight, either.