Fighter removed: Patchy Mix

[mkt]

I don't want to hear the Worldwide crowd saying "It's 5 years too late...prime Patchy would've run through the division!"

Patch and Bautista are both 31 with around the same number of fights. No excuses.

 

[Ozze]

He looked stiff as fuck. When he was hit he would move back as a whole like he's some stone statue, very weird

 

[aogiri]

Yeah it was pretty clear after round 1 he has jack shit for the top 5. Imagine Yan or Omalley striking against him.

Negative head movement

 

[SamuraiBro]

Incoming

Patchy: No excuses, but here’s my list of excuses …

 

[Typrune Goatley]

Really really good grappler. Unfortunately, Mario was the superior striker and was lighting Patchy up early. Those body shots and head shots just from round 1 took away all Patchy's explosiveness. Patchy started to find some moments late but it was too late and Mario was able to recover each time.

Would love to see Patchy improve his striking. More feints, more angles, more footwork, more jabs, more of everything. In this fight he should have been the one backing Mario up with jabs and teeps and try to cut the cage off and trap Mario against the fence. Unfortunately, he didn't come forward and give Mario anything to respect in the 1st round. Mario was dancing in and out and all around him, tagging him with everything. Great chin, great heart, great grappler...would love to see Patchy come back in 6 months leveled up as a striker and be able to use his strikes for takedown entries. He obviously does have some striking power. Just needs to put in the work now and take the next step

 

[560ti]

Looked really bad. Barely shot for takedowns and then was flat footed with zero jab or head movement.

One of the worst debut performances I've ever seen.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Apparently, 10 mins before the betting lines closed there was an enormous money dump on Bautista. Mix was snorting his right nostril the entire fight. Presume someone knew something the rest of us don't

 

[ThaiSexPills]

he looked like 150 pounds of birdshit. I am really let down from that, I thought he’d look good and ne a contender

 

[jeskola]

Mix was snorting his right nostril the entire fight.

Was Conor in his locker room?

 

[SamuraiBro]

Man I was so hyped to see his debut. What the fuck was that. I know Bautista is legit, but damn …

 

[Poirierfan]

Is he always this bad? All that hype this week...fraud check! It's incredible how bad this guy's head movement was/is. The only plausible explanation is that he's got some kind of injury/broken hand/foot/knee that we don't know about yet...

He regressed imo.

 

[KazDibiase]

 

[MikeSTL]

At one point I thought he was crying mid-fight.
I think he would have rather been elsewhere. barely a fight.

 

[FEDORFAN44]

I said it in the ufc 316 underdog thread.he looked bad in his last fight and has a hard weight cut on top of taking the fight on short notice.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Yeah I don't get why this guy was so hyped. Bautista looked great, but Mix just looked... bad. Good chin, but that's all the nice things I have to say about this one. Is he normally a human punching bag? UFC in desperate need of stars lol.

if you didn't get the hype you didn't watch him destroy Raufeon Stots, submit Sergio Pettis and beat Horiguchi. he looked like shit tonight, but you can't say he got fraud checked when he beat legitimate fighters and finished them.

 

[BangBang]

Is he always this bad? All that hype this week...fraud check! It's incredible how bad this guy's head movement was/is. The only plausible explanation is that he's got some kind of injury/broken hand/foot/knee that we don't know about yet...

Yeah, I thought he was injured. How could he not even attempt to grapple and go for a takedown/submission?? And like you said his movement was so baaad. He looked scared.

 

[Mike]

if you didn't get the hype you didn't watch him destroy Raufeon Stots, submit Sergio Pettis and beat Horiguchi. he looked like shit tonight, but you can't say he got fraud checked when he beat legitimate fighters and finished them.

Oh he beat Sergio Pettis? This changes everything.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

it does. you think Sergio Pettis sucks or something?

 

[usernamee]

Every time someone is a champ or doing extremely well outside of the UFC

"He's the best in the world right now !! He'll beat the UFC champ and the entire top 5!!"

 

[stevetherican]

Although patchy admittedly looked rough, way too soon to call him a fraud imo