People need to wake up and smell the napalm. Chris is a large middleweight so welterweight isnt even on the radar. Chris needs to stay at middleweight and start to have a heavy wrestling/ grappling gameplan and see where that takes him.The one thing that's still in his favor is that 185 isn't that deep.
Flip side of coin - Chris already took advantage of that small opening of window----and made the most of it. Chris made bank in Anderson fights and everything after that. I dont like to call fighters " done" ( unless they're in 40s and obvious at that) but Chris is hanging by a thread, imo. Rockhold is broken( jaw-head) - I feel for the guy......Chris is already in that path but not there just yet.
If I'm Luongo- Serra- what do you really say to guy like Chris who has that fighters ego and still believes. It's a delicate line but at some point- your support system around you , well, has to support and in a productive/ healthy way.
Especially weidman- and when they fought it was prime moose vs a weidman one fight removed from being champ ....and the way he beat him. He let the larger elite WRESTLER/BJJ Chris take him down in 1st round - what 4 times ?- gave him his back & neck and popped up within seconds. Chris, then for 1st time in career, was just totally outclassed on the feet in 2nd. Chris could not keep moose at the end of his punches ( his bread and butter) as gegard just backed him down while putting the hurt on him. Great win and what transpired after is still shocking to me.This is why I don't consider them better than gay guard. He has a very long career compared to these two with very short careers
Put him out of his misery lolJust make Weidman v Ngannou and be done with it already
Well- I say that in the sense that rockhold is in like chuck mode- theres no point and the last fight had the worst possible outcome- lights out( again) with a busted jaw to boot. We wont see Luke in mma ( unless its grappling event) unless its agsinst Chris, at 205 and after Chris loses by tko/ ko in his next ( and that scenario isnt likely- meaning if Chris loses by stoppage again , it probably will be end).
If you're digesting my post properly, I'm siding on caution and maybe Chris calling it a day. I'm just saying - if Chris is adamant, he can take another fight at middle and change things up ( he does have that background) and see what happens. The way Luke has been blown up has differed from Chris but in the end , my " hanging from a thread line" speaks volumes.
Your response is semantic like anyway cause Chris is looking for a fight and Luke is not.
I'm really not arguing with u , again. Rockhold s defense was never good but camouflaged it with all his other talents. Chris's defense was actually decent- he understood the science of keeping distance and holding opponents at the end of his punches UNTIL the real talent from SFORCE came over ( Luke being one of them). They both collapsed.... and quickly. Luke was getting blown up while Chris was getting stopped ( some brutal as well).I understand your point, and am not trying to argue semantics. But I just fee as if though Weidman has taken far more damage these last few years than rockhold. And if rockhold is considered done, I just don’t see how Weidman isn’t. Both have great ground games but neither want to implement it during the fights, both have terrible defense standing. I don’t see how you can favor one over the other.