DC's Style Back At Heavyweight?

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I don't want to go back and watch all his fights there, nor do I remember exactly. But was he very wrestle heavy with his approach, or did he mostly box but mix in takedowns and clinches?

I'm asking this, because I am questioning whether he will be able to clinch and wrestle with a strong heavyweight for 25 straight minutes. And if he can't, that means he has to box with Stipe for a good amount of the fight. Which I do not think he can do for 25 minutes without getting knocked out.

Can anybody educate me on this?
 
He was his usual wrestle-box cage clinch style from the fights I saw and remember. Barnett, Bigfoot, mir, Nelson.

Obviously the Bigfoot fight his hands looked impressive as hell, AND that’s when Bigfoot still had TRT and a chin left too. Mir and Nelson fight he kept on the feet and against the cage for the most part I think.
 
Njmma209 said:
He was his usual wrestle-box cage clinch style from the fights I saw and remember. Barnett, Bigfoot, mir, Nelson.

Obviously the Bigfoot fight his hands looked impressive as hell, AND that’s when Bigfoot still had TRT and a chin left too.
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Yeah that's when Bigfoot was still a beast.
 
Could you be any lazier? Lmao.
 
He was just a god-tier wrestler coming into MMA from that base raw and building his game up.

His overall fighting skills and striking coordination was always a work in progress. Even today I don't think we can expect him to be in there light on his feet bouncing around like Machida.

His entire game is to get in close and smother his opponent.
 
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Dude picked up Josh and legit slammed him like a guy the size of Mighty Mouse... The discussion will lose their minds if he can do that to Stipe.
 
Best way to sum it up is that during Strikeforce, they called him The Black Fedor for a reason. A very similar style of being an undersized out-of-shape-looking guy that has retard strength. He would pick odd times to catch his opponents off-guard and play to their strengths. At that time, other than kickboxers, you didn't have many explosive heavyweights. So to see DC move that fast with that frame was odd.
 
dc would run rough shot over 98 percent of the HW div.
A. not many head kickers in HW.
B. shorter guys are faster and DCs speed helps him alot at HW. hell his hand speed is pretty fast for lhw.
C.his grinding style will gas HW over 5 rounds.

BUT

Stipe wins because dc will walk into a right hand at some point...
Stipe will have many opportunites through out the course of the fight to land that short right. plus DC is getting long in the tooth and may have slowed slightly which dosent help
 
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