Do you feel Gabriel Bonfim cracks the top 10 at welterweight?

[markantony20]

Just watching his fight from today and was wondering what you guys thought of him and how far he will go?


There was a decent amount of hype on him being an undefeated LFA champion with good skills.

It seems that it was turned a bit on him when he suffered his first loss with some questioning his potential.

Do you think he can crack the top 10?

I think he’s obviously very skilled and athletic and I can see him being in the top 15 soon but as for the top 10 idk.

Welterweight is really on fire with prospect and veterans at the moment so if he was to climb the rankings he would have a murderers row to go through.

What do you guys think of him and how he matches up with the ranked fighters?

 

[xhaydenx]

Probably. He's not champ material though.

 

[markantony20]

Probably. He's not champ material though.

How would you favour him up against names like Brady

 

[The_Renaissance]

Nah, he struggled way more with Loosa than I expected and Loosa is a very average WW.

 

[xhaydenx]

How would you favour him up against names like Brady

He'd probably get wrestle-fucked and worn down.

 

[markantony20]

He'd probably get wrestle-fucked and worn down.

Possibly.

Gabriel is a grappler primarily no? I feel like he would be a threat on the ground.

 

[markantony20]

Nah, he struggled way more with Loosa than I expected and Loosa is a very average WW.

It wasn’t the most encouraging performance lol

 

[xhaydenx]

Possibly.

Gabriel is a grappler primarily no? I feel like he would be a threat on the ground.

Sure, he's a threat when it's against low level comp. Go look at his record. Lots of the guys he subbed are cans who have been subbed a lot easily.

He wasn't really a threat on the ground against Loosa, and Brady is a way better grappler than Loosa.

 

[SamuraiBro]

Not unless he improves his gas tank and output past 2 minutes

 

[markantony20]

Sure, he's a threat when it's against low level comp. Go look at his record. Lots of the guys he subbed are cans who have been subbed a lot easily.

He wasn't really a threat on the ground against Loosa, and Brady is a way better grappler than Loosa.

That’s a fair assessment.

I’m disappointed in his performance ngl.

 

[markantony20]

Not unless he improves his gas tank and output past 2 minutes

It’s odd because you would imagine he’d have gas for days given that he’s so shredded.

 

[Bubba Kid]

I think he is a front runner. I'm sure we will see him fold more when he faces adversity again.

 

[filthynumber1]

Needs to work on his TD defense. Although he does get back up rather easily but still gets taken down to much

 

[RockyLockridge]

top 10 at WW is full of squatters who either need to get out or their time will be up in 2 years or so.

so tentatively I will say yes. But guys like burns, magny, thompson, Usman, Colby, and Luque will be out of the top 15 in a year or so hopefully.

 

[HuskySamoan]

170lbs is a very shallow division and it's a very old top 10 with a serious lack of young rising prospects. It's possible Bonfim cracks it one day but to be honest? He's been pretty disappointing thus far, I expected more. Losing to Dalby was terrible and last night's performance vs Loosa was unimpressive tk say the least. We will see, Michael Morales is another guy to watch out for.

There's some really good 170lb talent out there if they UFC wants to sign it. They passed on Baki Chamsoudinov who was top tier, but there's Samandar Murodov, Cezary Oleksiejczuk, Michael Oliveira, Carlos Leal. Tons of Russians they fumbled to Bellator like Ramazan Kuramagomedov, Shamil Musaev, Magomed Umalatov etc. But they did just sign Saygid Izakhamaev to the pretender series, so hopefully we get a couple other good signees.

 

[Arne Rud]

yes he will

 

[HHJ]

He needs to learn how to close the show. Skills are there tho

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Jeez.. no.
Didn't he lost to Nicholas Dalby?

 

[EndlessCritic]

Nah, he struggled way more with Loosa than I expected and Loosa is a very average WW.

Jack Della Maddalena struggled with Loosa too though.

JDM/Loosa was arguably more competitive than Bonfim/Loosa.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Jeez.. no.
Didn't he lost to Nicholas Dalby?

LoL

Tbf Dalby fought like a fucking mad-man that night haha