Call me crazy but I think Bader would be top 3 in UFC HW division

We haven’t seen him against any hard hitters that aren’t geriatric. We seen him against King Mo, a guy well into his 40’s that was a favorable matchup and 2 guys that are pushing 50 and a Russian wrestler (a good prospect) who isn’t that big and that isn’t really a finishing threat or KO artist.

It’s not like we have anything of substance to go on. Bader gets so overrated. He had like 2 LHW fights in 3 years…….. he had the same exact match he had in the UFC against Phil Davis and defended once against Linton Vassell and we had people claiming he would be UFC champ.

He went on to fight a bunch of 40 year olds (deep into their 40’s) in a tournament. Whose he fighting next Roy Nelson? I still think Minakov would KO him, even on a bad night.
 
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Paironj56 said:
Dude has cardio for days and is much faster than any HW fighter in the ufc. Combine that with his wrestling and I believe he would be top 3 if ufc sign him up.
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I don't think you're crazy at all, he certainly could be. Struggles with Gane/Aspinall/Jones/Pavlovich but most likely beats the rest, he'd be up there that's for sure.
 
Apect15 said:
He beats Tai Sergei losses to Blaydes,Jones, Gane top 5 I would say
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He improved a lot more than Jones in the last years. Gane has no ground game and lacks the power to keep him off.
Blaydes is a problem, but he is to nearly everybody.
 
No arguments from me. UFC HW is beyond dreadful. He would beat a lot of them. Jones and Blaydes would be difficult for him.
 
Schoolboy Q said:
C’mon man, IF Ngannou signs with bellator you know Bader isn’t going to accept that fight.
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Maybe, but its not about Ngannou, the thread is about being top 3 in UFC HW. I can see it, he is fast and a really good athlete and power and has really good wrestling and cardio. UFC HW is so bad. I can see him beating most of them, Jones and Blaydes would be hard for him though. The others he can beat, Volkov, Black Beast, Spivak, Tybura, Rozenstruik, Tuivasa and the rest of the UFC HW top 10 he could beat I think
 
Harlekin said:
He improved a lot more than Jones in the last years. Gane has no ground game and lacks the power to keep him off.
Blaydes is a problem, but he is to nearly everybody.
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Gane has no ground game dur hur bur. Dude had 4 submissions attempts on ngannou. Nobody else had any submission attempt on ngannou Also Gane has 3 submission wins and one against a BBJ black belt. Gane has actually much better ground game than bader.
 
HI SCOTT NEWMAN said:
Maybe, but its not about Ngannou, the thread is about being top 3 in UFC HW. I can see it, he is fast and a really good athlete and power and has really good wrestling and cardio. UFC HW is so bad. I can see him beating most of them, Jones and Blaydes would be hard for him though. The others he can beat, Volkov, Black Beast, Spivak, Tybura, Rozenstruik, Tuivasa and the rest of the UFC HW top 10 he could beat I think
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He isn’t accepting a rematch with Jones either, Jones could’ve got off his coke binge and beat Bader and Fedor back to back tonight.
 
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