Chris Weidman: He looked like he was starting to break and I threw him a gift-the spinning back kick

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Weidman looked gassed. His punches were slow and and weak in comparison to how he usually looks. Then he got cracked with some straight lefts. Rockhold was tired but had more energy. Lets say Weidman didnt throw that spinning kick. If at anytime Rockhold would have taken Weidman down (which he would have) he would have done the same thing.

Weidman was just not on Rockholds level that night. Gonna be a great rematch either way. One for the ages.
 
chris was all over him in the first round but looked really uncomfortable striking with luke and was inferior in grappling exchanges
 
Redhawks100 said:
Holy shit, is Weidman writing a new edition of the Big Book of Excuses? This is bad.

Why couldn't he defend against his back? Why did he look like an amateur trying to defend? Jeez Weidman, this isn't the way to get people to join the team.
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Maybe he's on team Brazil now?
 
We will see.. I also heard that he only had 2-3 sessions with Mark Henry before Luke and that half the camp he had a busted foot.. add to all this the lowest fighting weight he ever had (WW range).

Asked how Chris's striking is improving.. Mark Henry is working on a regular basis with him and said:

But yea we will find out if this was just bs or legit.. note Luke also had some issues hence the antibiotics.. hope for a good fight with both figters as close to 100% they can be and back to there around 210 lbs fighting weight.
 
Weidman only won and edged out one round,in which he barely did anything.
He'd be lucky to do any better this time against a more fit Rockhold.
 
What do you morons expect a confident fighter to say? They have to keep that belief in them in order to be ready next time. Some of you are beyond ignorant, even if something is 100% the truth you dummys look at it like an excuse. You would rather the fighters lie then speak what they really have on their minds. Some fighters do make ridiculous excuses but some fighters don't. Some of you just aren't smart enough to realize that.
 
I like Weidman but him saying he was fighting with a broken 5th metatarsal is bollocks, I'm week 2 into my broken 5th due to poor stair negotiation and I can barely put my foot on the floor never mind fight, and apparently he broke his in two places.
He wouldn't have made it to the octagon never mine throw spinning shit.
 
I'm pretty sure that kick was Weidman desperate to get a flash KO because HE was breaking.
 
Maybe this is just an attempt to sell a fight that nobody wants to see? This was the deal breaker on the whole idea of immediate rematches for me when I heard this fight announced.
 
Weidman is an unbearable crybaby but Rockhold legit looked like he was on the verge of death at the end of the fight for some reason. Weird because I didn't think he had to work too terribly hard.
 
He is treating this like a fluke. I wasn't one of the ones who called he Anderson victories flukey, but on the scale of 1 to flukey, the Anderson victories would be higher than this one. He can't have it both ways.
 
INoHespectChael said:
Weidman's a nutty guy...

Immediately after the fight he said he was happy to lose, Luke was the better fighter, and he was losing the fight before he even threw the kick.

Now he's saying was Rockhold was gassed, getting thrown around like a ragdoll, and getting beat up from the body kicks...


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He's just taking this loss so badly, it's actually becoming annoying.

People talk mad shit about Aldo, but damn - Weidman is arguably worse. Reason why, he's lying in his excuses. He's now saying that Luke was "breaking", I thought Luke was 2-0 up, I didn't see him breaking matey.

Luke smashed Chris, it was competitive for 2.5 rounds, but Luke was still doing very well. What about the excuses about him being on antibiotics?
 
KONE said:
Weidman is an unbearable crybaby but Rockhold legit looked like he was on the verge of death at the end of the fight for some reason. Weird because I didn't think he had to work too terribly hard.
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He said he had a staph infection or something.

Area809 said:
He is treating this like a fluke. I wasn't one of the ones who called he Anderson victories flukey, but on the scale of 1 to flukey, the Anderson victories would be higher than this one. He can't have it both ways.
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He actually said he was going to prove the 1st fight was a fluke. :D
 
Not to mention Chris got cocky big time and started getting away with this short camps that they train for a specific opponent like 5-6 weeks and having success with it.

Only other champion that we know that took even a more 'extreme' approach was Jon Jones with some reports of 3-4 weeks specific opponent training camps and had no losses well Gus is debatable for some and he did turn down Chael but there was a lot more to that story (Chael knew in advance, different style to face, UFC not treating him with respect and pressuring/cornering him to take the fight, he was the champ and every defense at that level and record setting pace is to be treated with consideration, coaches were against it.. 'sport killer' Dana called them etc.) well let's not derail it with that come to think of it.

Usually a UFC champ is taking shit serious.. its a lot on the line more then any normal fight.. cash wise, record wise, legacy wise, potential for 5 full rounds at the highest level of the sport cause its nr.1 facing nr.2 in theory, marketability etc etc.. so there training camps are hardcore and specific for there opponent and designed to peak at the right time and last around 8-9 to even 10 weeks before heading into traveling/fight week.

I hope Chris doesn't overtrain now and sets up a proper pace and peak moment cause this time he went full camp, 12 weeks camp training specific for Luke, double then last time and hope no injuries in it so gets the full effect.

Zarra said:
He is right.
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Agreed :D
 
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Weidman has been mentally flailing ever since Rockhold referred to him as his Anderson Silva.
 
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