Disappointed with sushiman Figgie

[Ballsaque]

OMG we have a tough dude, here!!!

Go to press your pimples, son.
Imagine being such a moron as to defending the idea that fighting with your hands at your waist is "not the worst plan" LOL
Get the fuck out of here, fool, go to a gym, lace some gloves and see how your plan works. LMAO
Shit, Sherdog never cease to surprise me.

Pretty sure the guy doing exactly that is a UFC champion, and you're squawking on a Mongolian basketweaving forum. Christ.

 

[LoneStalker]

I’ve only seen him fight 3 times. But ts. Is correct. Those benavidez fights he did the same.

I think he just has no respect for 125ers power and by confidence or arrogance he does those things.

Yes, I remember in particular the first fight. He won, so all seemed fine.
I feel that is in part lack of respect for 125ers power, mixed with over confidence in his own power. But Moreno, a wrestler, rocked him really badly in the stand up.

 

[Street Bishop]

Well, you seems to know a whole lot about birth defects... like proper personal knowledge.
Fuck off, son, time for your 14th fap of the evening. Have a nice day!

Some pretty specific wordage there. Sounds like you're projecting with reaction formation.
Let me know when you're done cleaning your smegma you basement dwelling bum.

 

[Ideanudge]

Ah yes, the ol "*insert athletic fighter with massive success* is bad because just look how bad his technique is!"

 

[Ideanudge]

His technique of fighting without a defense is just ridiculous. In the videos before the fight I saw him saying he wanted Brandon Moreno to propose the stand up fight, and then he went to fight with his hands around his waist. He was trying to avoid Moreno's jabs moving the torso backwards WTF!!!!!
That was ridiculous. Haven´t seen such a bad defense in a long time, much the less in a champ.
He may have been trying to call Moreno to a trap, but he was tagged time and time again without a response.
Very, very lame.

You're clueless. Maybe try to judge his teakwondo and kungfu skills too? Looking at Deivison's past performances, he didn't get beat up or go to wars to get the victory, he didn't suffer significant damage. So why this judgment now? Understand that his style is based on his durability and athletic prowess for the division. More often than not, he can ignore what flyweights throw at him to deliver the game changing shot. Moreno is an excellent fighter, but what was surprising here is not his success, but that he survived Figgy and had the heart and cardio to immediately fire back.

 

[LoneStalker]

You're clueless. Maybe try to judge his teakwondo and kungfu skills too? Looking at Deivison's past performances, he didn't get beat up or go to wars to get the victory, he didn't suffer significant damage. So why this judgment now? Understand that his style is based on his durability and athletic prowess for the division. More often than not, he can ignore what flyweights throw at him to deliver the game changing shot. Moreno is an excellent fighter, but what was surprising here is not his success, but that he survived Figgy and had the heart and cardio to immediately fire back.

Thanks for your input. But why would I "try to judge his tae kwon do and kung fu skills"? That makes no sense, at all.
I said time and time again that I like Figueiredo, he has the skills to become one the goats in the division, but it seems that noting a flaw in his defense is like touching an exposed nerve.
It seems to me that he is overconfident in his own power, and try to call his opponents to a trap to finish them with his KO power, but Moreno -who is a much better fighter than Sherdog seems to admit- didn´t need his wrestling as he almost finished Figueiredo in the standup.
IMO Figueiredo won that fight, it wasn´t really a draw, but in fact Moreno was much closer to finish the fight than Figgie, the only of the two that at some point of the fight was wobbly and backpedalling to punches and kicks. And that was because of his technique of going into the pocket with your hands at waist level. He did exactly the same thing in the first fight against Benavidez and also against Formiga, that i can remember. Clearly is his style, and something is working because he is the champ, and he managed to achieve that fighting with his hands at waist level.
I don´t know your background, but i know that mine is boxing. When you lace your gloves and walk into the ring there are two basic no-nos: 1) don´t avoid punched moving your torso backwards, because you end losing balance to counter, and 2) don´t change your stance, learn how to fight in one stance and stay on it, as there is ONE stance in which your body is more efficient (which is a rule that most mma seems to ignore, for some reason, I suppose is related to the low kicks to the lead leg).
Against Benavídez and Moreno, Figueiredo was both swapping stances and trying to avoid jabs moving the torso backwards.
And still he defeated Benavidez and Moreno, which maybe speaks of how good he is. But nothing changes the fact that a wrestler almost put him out in the standup.
You also mention that he can ignore what flyweighters throw at him, and that makes me think that he is a BIG flyweight, and wonder how his technique of guard at waist level would work at bantam.
We will have to wait and see, I guess.