Did Chris Weidman completely underestimate rockhold ?

[ultramanhyata]

he was giggling because rockhold kept talking shit when they did staredowns.

something was up with weidman's cardio, that's for sure.

Absorbed body shots were up with it. He was"gassed" just like Mendes was "gassed" against Conor.

 

[Mood Swings]

No
He threw a spinning kick at the wrong time and outside of his wheel house of moves. This led to some brutal ground and pound with well over 40 strikes unanswered/defended.

You don't recover from that very fast! And time between rounds is not even close enough time to recover from it.

Rock might have been sick going into the fight and have a bad foot, but he was patient and waited for an opportunity.

 

[kflo]

Can we agree it was the catalyst?

it led to luke getting him on the ground. it was luke's performance from there that was the catalyst.

there are lots of moments in a fight that lead to positional advantages. luke used his skills to dominate from there. on the ground. where the chris is strong.

 

[JollyRants]

you guys need to listen to the stuff weidman was saying up to build up he was saying stuff like hes gonna finish rockhold in the third that he after ufc 194 come back and listen to the stuff rockhold was saying because he was gonna regret it in his mind this was an easy fight you can tell just from his grin he expected to run through rockhold rockhold was grinning more in a responds to weidman's grin rockhold didn't say much in the staredown it was weidman saying you gonna find out and rockhold responds will see while nodding his head the spinning wheel kick had something to do with it but you need to understand when you expect to dominate a man and he gets you it hard to recover because you didn't prepare for adversity before hand

 

[DontWaitUp]

it led to luke getting him on the ground. it was luke's performance from there that was the catalyst.

there are lots of moments in a fight that lead to positional advantages. luke used his skills to dominate from there. on the ground. where the chris is strong.

That's a good point.

 

[JollyRants]

I don't think so. They were both smiling a bit leading up the fight, likely because they both knew how dangerous the other guy was.

rockhold grin was more in response to weidmans

 

[TallGHunter]

Whenever you think you will beat someone and they beat you, you've estimated wrong. Over, under, sideways... who knows, thing is you got it wrong on that occasion.
They both laugh because they like each other. Not best buds, they don't spend much time together, but they're very friendly. I'll give rockhold his due he was better than I thought.

 

[MarkyMcFly]

I believe most of the MMA fans underestimated Rockhold, maybe Weidman did too...but it was mostly the fans.

 

[DrHouse]

Not completely, but maybe a little bit. He was walking around like a WW the week of the fight, that probably means he wasn't anticipating how strong Luke would be. I don't think Luke even realized how strong he was in comparison, which is why I don't think a rematch would go down much differently except for the spinning wheel kick from Weidman.

 

[rurouni]

I don't think it matters. It was a good fight and the better man won

 

[Mammothman]

If you watch the promo videos you can see Rockhold was on Weidman's head

 

[nevernamed]

Maybe a little of that, perhaps with a mix of being over-rated in...

 

[Magooglie]

I don't think he expected Luke to be as good on the ground as he was.

 

[Leinster Rugby]

I think a lotta people underestimated Rockhold. not sure if Chris was one of them.

 

[Toco]

well, weidman was doing a fucking pre celebratory dinner the night before the fight, so theres that

 

[Siberian Goku]

I think they both walked into the fight with strong Alpha Male mindsets but in the end the better fighter won that night.

People say that Weidman acted out of character by throwing spinning kicks but that was likely premeditated (since Vitor KO'd Rockhold in the same fashion) and Weidman is naturally very spontaneous (took Maia down, threw down with Anderson Silva, threw hey-makers when Silva caught him in a Muay Thai plum instead of preventing knees, etc.)

 

[RockyLockridge]

Personally, I think he did.

 

[JollyRants]

Maybe a little of that, perhaps with a mix of being over-rated in...

you don't beat anderson twice lyoto and vitor by being overrated i'm in no way discrediting weidman or making excuses the better man won there's just factors on why

 

[Kelman]

Nope.

He trained harder and better than ever before for what he knew would be the toughest test of his career.

And he got savagely pounded into dust by a superior mixed martial artist.

That is the truth of the matter.

 

[tbulls123]

The only thing he underestimated was his spinning heel kick that missed. LOL. But his cardio was horrible for that pace that he was trying to set in round one.