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Are you kidding me? A fighter doesn't have to have one punch KO power to be dangerous standing. Fergy has fast hands and nasty elbows that are more dangerous than someone with KO power.
Tony does not beat people with his stand-up. Period. He does not intimidate or damage anyone decent he fights on the feet. At all. Ever. Not with one punch and not with 50. Not with his hands and not with his elbows.
He is a busy fighter with excellent cardio, great scrambles, and is very opportunistic with his subs. He wins by getting submissions and by grinding out decisions based not just on his high activity, but by maintaining that high activity level for the entire fight. That's rare. There is nothing wrong with that. But sorry, Tony does not have particularly good stand-up. He just doesn't.
Go back and watch his fights. If you finding him piecing someone up, it is almost always in the deep water and his opponents are fucking exhausted. That's not dangerous stand-up. That's dangerous cardio. Maybe only 4-5 people in UFC history have had the kind of cardio Tony has.
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