I'm very surprised by the amount of people that think Bisping is a better striker than Belfort and think he can beat him by keeping him at range like he did to Stann. Bisping barely out struck Stann, first round was very even, second was clearly Bisping, and the third was much closer than most people think. I re watched that round in slow motion and Bisping missed more punches than it looked like watching it live and Stann landed some solid punches that I didn't see live. Stann throws a lot of short crosses, Vitor gets a lot more extension on his punches with a bit more speed and equal power.
Bisping's striking is overrated to begin with if you look at his history against good strikers. He was getting tagged by Rivera and resorted to constantly taking him down and gassing him out, he got dropped by Kang and resorted to taking Kang down to beat him, everyone knows what happened against Hendo and the striking with a washed up and short reached loopy swinging Wandy was very even and he barely out struck Chael at best. His most impressive striking performance was probably against Stann, and as I said before, he didn't out strike him by as much as people think and it's easier to stand at range and out strike someone with jabs like Stann who throws short punches.
I don't see Vitor's TDD being any worse than Stann's, Anthony Johnson, who has a good wrestling background and was a huge and very strong MW, struggled to take Vitor down. Vitor also has much better BJJ than Stann. I don't see Vitor's cardio being any worse than Stann's either, Stann started to looked gassed in the second round from Bisping's grappling. So let's assume at worst Vitor does equally as well as Stann did in the grappling and cardio department, unless he's aged terribly in the last year Vitor should without a doubt do significantly better in the stand up than Stann did.
Bisping's striking is overrated to begin with if you look at his history against good strikers. He was getting tagged by Rivera and resorted to constantly taking him down and gassing him out, he got dropped by Kang and resorted to taking Kang down to beat him, everyone knows what happened against Hendo and the striking with a washed up and short reached loopy swinging Wandy was very even and he barely out struck Chael at best. His most impressive striking performance was probably against Stann, and as I said before, he didn't out strike him by as much as people think and it's easier to stand at range and out strike someone with jabs like Stann who throws short punches.
I don't see Vitor's TDD being any worse than Stann's, Anthony Johnson, who has a good wrestling background and was a huge and very strong MW, struggled to take Vitor down. Vitor also has much better BJJ than Stann. I don't see Vitor's cardio being any worse than Stann's either, Stann started to looked gassed in the second round from Bisping's grappling. So let's assume at worst Vitor does equally as well as Stann did in the grappling and cardio department, unless he's aged terribly in the last year Vitor should without a doubt do significantly better in the stand up than Stann did.
