Better Athletes please!

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I don't care what anyone says, it's an embarrassment to the sport to have top guys gassing out after 1 round. Maia was gassed after the first frame. You're talking about a guy who is suppose to be one of the top BJJ practitioners in MMA gassing after a round he completely dominated. Do you get that? He GASSED after a round that HE completely dominated. Not only that, he gassed after he completely dominated a round in a way that he prefers to fight (on the ground). It's really embarrassing. I was watching the fight with both casual and hardcore fans and both groups were thinking out loud "Is he tired already?" "But that was only the first round!"

I love MMA but my Lord do I hope the athleticism in this sport progresses over the next few years. Guys like Benson, GSP, Cain, Jones, Edgar, etc don't have gas tanks simply because they are the best, but because that's a prerequisite for competing successfully in any sport. It's called being an athlete. In any sport you see, Endurance is something that is shared by almost all competitors and the deciding factor tends to be skill and or other natural ability.

In MMA we see a great deal of fights being decided by a persons inability to fight with enough energy for more than one round. And it's not just the heavyweights. Guys are gassing after a round or two in almost all divisions. It's gotta get better if more people are to take the sport seriously.
 
Gassing happens sometimes to the best of the best, its just something that happens
 
Yeah it had nothing to do with the body shots he took
 
Maia gassed because he got body kicked a bunch of times and let his face be used for jab practice. There is a difference.
 
Yeah, Damian Maia, the accomplish BJJ champion got tired after four minutes of grappling and winning a brief striking exchange.

Couldn't have anything to do with getting body kicked a ton of times. Getting hit to the body takes the life out of you but if you recover youll get some of it back. He looked less tired in round 3 than the middle of round 2 when he was getting a beating.

Look at Penn/Diaz and Alvarez/Chandler 1. Those guys look exhausted while they were being hit to the body repeatedly. In the next round they look a lot fresher. That wouldn't be the case if they were just gassed. Chandler even got the finish in the next round.

Not to mention Maia is stiff when he throws and throws too much power into everything. His technique makes him use way more energy than he should. He's a good athlete.
 
How about you get hit with a bunch of body shots and see if you still have optimal cardio.
 
You aren't gonna get any A-level athletes until you start paying A-level salaries
 
did you miss the parts where he got hit hard in the body?

no matter how in shape you are body shots take your gas tank away
 
I understand people like Maia on sherdog. But he was visibly tired heading into the 2 round. Part of the reason he got kicked and jabbed was because he to tired to move or pressure Rory on the inside. He was moving in quick sand. But it's cool if you guys like watching average athletes fight. Sometimes it makes things fun.
 
I swear half this board is filled with mindless imbeciles. I'm sorry but the level of stupidity here is beyond surreal sometimes and I just can't take it anymore ARRGGGHHHH!!!

lol

He was beat up. Strikes to the head and body like that will hurt you. Do you guys understand?
 
Macalpinerules said:
I understand people like Maia on sherdog. But he was visibly tired heading into the 2 round. Part of the reason he got kicked and jabbed was because he to tired to move or pressure Rory on the inside. He was moving in quick sand. But it's cool if you guys like watching average athletes fight. Sometimes it makes things fun.
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It has nothing to do with liking Maia. He did not look tired going into round 2.

The reason he got kicked and jabbed is because he couldn't time a great takedown like he did in the first round.

Maia is good athlete he just isn't a good striker.
 
He went 5 rounds on the ground with Jake Shields and didn't gas.
 
i wouldn't attribute maia gassing to anything athlete related...
 
"Real athletes" from other sports would be in full zombie mode after less than two minutes of grappling.

It is SO much harder than every other sport. You're just disrespecting the fighters with your shitty opinion.
 
I would say make the fights shorter. People say its hard to fight 3 x 5 at high pace as beating will take away your energy. Make the fighters 2 rounds so less fighters gas
 
Gervinho said:
I would say make the fights shorter. People say its hard to fight 3 x 5 at high pace as beating will take away your energy. Make the fighters 2 rounds so less fighters gas
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That would be a serious punishment to the fighters who have good cardio though.

Would be incredibly unfair to guys like Cain and Diaz.
 
Horse Meat said:
"Real athletes" from other sports would be in full zombie mode after less than two minutes of grappling.

It is SO much harder than every other sport. You're just disrespecting the fighters with your shitty opinion.
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Did you ever think that it looks hard because the guys involved are not very good at it, and not very athletically gifted? Do you really think Damien Maia would be a BJJ champ if BJJ was as popular in Russia and the US, as it was in Brasil? Imagine all the great grapplers from those countries going into BJJ. Maia wouldn't even rank in the top 100.

Basketball looks hard too, when a 5 year old plays it. I think higher level athletes would certainly make it look easier. MMA has not even scratched the surface of talent from ANY country. Probably never will.
 
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