Khamzat is 1 inch taller. What do you expect? Khamzat is a solid 6'2" and Dricus is around 6'1".
Dricus is cutting weight. If he looked big, that would signal a big problem. He needs to cut 35 lbs of weight in total. He is already around probably 200 - 205 lbs or so. He is not going to look big at this stage. He said it himself he is tracking the weight according to the recommendations of the PI and it should be around 205 lbs, if he is tracking his weight well. Does Khamzat look like around 205 lbs to you? You should really be questioning, with only 3 days more to go before they weigh in, does Khamzat look like he is getting close to 185 lbs? If gave you that, he is looking 'HUGE' at this stage, that is a problem because he should not be looking huge as it is just a few days before he needs to weigh 185 lbs. He has never made 185 lbs in the past so this is his first time. It is also not friendly territory like UAE either.
1 inch taller is not 'that much taller'. Rest is optical illusion that you learn in grade school. Looking now at the internet everywhere, this looks like an orchestrated trick to catch Dricus from a bad angle with a camera man following Khamzat behind so that Khamzat looks way bigger and Dricus. I see the celebrations as if Khamzat has won the fight already since Dricus looks so small.
That is to get everyone talking about how Dricus looks way smaller and most of the MMA followers are dumb and stupid enough to not know the basic science around light and optics to know how camera angles distort reality. Like I said above, in grade school we learned how one walks to one corner and looks huge in a small room and then walks to the other side and looks tiny. It is because of the depth of the room is different in each side.
Look at both of them with 207 lbs Whittaker with roughly similar camera angle. Does that look like a huge height difference to you? Dricus is standing with former heavyweight MMA fighter Goddard who is 6'2" and used to weigh 230 - 240 lbs for his fights.
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