Shogun was coming off a knee injury/surgery and had almost a year off from competition when he faced Jones.
kinda like gsp in his return fight against condit?
kinda like jones in his return fight against rampage?
kinda like evans in his return fight against davis?
shogun was healthy, just like gsp/jones/evans and countless others, the difference is shogun lost and it wasnt because he was "coming off an injury/surgery"
coming off injury/surgery means youre healthy, youve been cleared to fight, the doctors professional opinion is that you are healthy and ready to fight
Wrong. Shogun wasnt irrelevant when he faced Gustafsson, he was ranked top4 at the time of the fight.
rankings are misleading, subjective, used for marketing and not based on reality as evident by ronda being ranked #4 p4p
Wrong again. The division wasnt stacked at the time. Glover was the only option for the next challenger. The majority of the fans along with UFC would have wanted an immediate rematch. Jones and his fans were only ones against it.
the only point that is yours, perhaps 'stacked' was a bit hastily used
however, the champion should fight new challengers rather than give free rematches to people whom were already decisively beaten, irregardless if there is 10 challengers or only 1
Again wrong. Gus has been top3 ranked LHW for a long time now, which means he is an elite fighter of the division.
see previous statement about rankings
also, gus needs to win against a top lhw before i considered him elite
i just realized i have as many elite LHW wins as gus does
inb4 "b-b-but shogun!"
Wrong. There is nothing embarrasing about losing a fight. Basically in every fight the other fighter has to lose.
when two football teams play each other one team basically has to lose
that didnt stop the entire nation of brazil and the team to be embarrassed about losing 7-1 to germany
i know i would be embarrassed if i lost a fight, whined about a title shot for 2 years, finally get a chance to prove myself, in my home country in front of my biggest fans, just to get disgustingly outclassed in the first round and need the ref to save me from literally dying
to be fair its subjective whether or not something is embarrassing
Wrong. It has not even been 2 years since Jones vs Gus.
no sorry, its only been 1 year 10 months and 25 days
keep reaching and grasping at straws though
You are only cementing yourself as a biased hater incapable for an objective view by calling Cormier a "semi-legit win", if its Gustafsson who beats him. Not that it wasnt clear anyway.
Have a nice day.
why would decisioning old opponents of your "rival" give you any credibility over said rival?
if gus beats dc i bet jones will be looking at his tv going "i mean i already did that lmao who cares"
dont ever reply to me again, i can only be bothered to school you once