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Hypnotizing...thxSure Bro...
Hypnotizing...thxSure Bro...
You forgot prime Chuck which he KO'd recently.
Wins over
Mezger
Wandy
Tanner
Ken
Matyushenko
Belfort
Griifin
Bader
Sonnen
not bad at all.
Why choose when you can have both.With all the ass-focused dudes. I think we are a dying breed...
His best years were over 15 years ago. After that, he beat Vitor and split a couple with Forrest. And during his best years, he didn't beat anyone of Chuck's skill level, and when he did, he lost.So really, how good is Titos record and resume?
How is Tito a hw? Didn't miss weight weight ever, never fought hw.I mean, the guy is basically a heavyweight who fought smaller guys at lhw and even middleweight. You can see how huge he is next to Fedor. He was an expert weight cutter which is his success. Doubt he would have been a top 10 guy fighting his actual weight class.
So beat up smaller guys except still got spanked by 5"9 Frank Shamrock and 40 yr old Couture.
Then loved to beat up the shell of Ken but still apparently refused to fight him at hw even well past his prime.
Tapped against Chael but pulled a fast one.
Then beat up geriatric Chuck in his usual pattern.
Also got son'ed by Mitrione in a real life argument, the guy is his size and age afterall - something he never faced before.
Also there is no way in any reality that any version of Tito beats this dude in his prime at open weight.
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So really, how good is Titos record and resume?
Tito is not one of the greatest anymore.
However, aside from the obvious players on the business end. Tito is pretty much responsible for you watching this sport on cable television.
The Bad Boy, but just good enough that normal people are willing to give it a watch, and also he, along with a few others pretty much set the blueprint for success in the cage.
He may not have been Wayne Gretzky or Jordan, but he was a pretty good standard bearer in retrospect.
Also, he was on the cover of MMA Video games WAY WAAAY before that shit was mainstream.
Underrated commentHe was the best light heavyweight of the night on many cards.
He smooshed Wanderlei before he went on his pride run. Before we get into a young Wanderlei or not. I don't think results would change if they fought in Japan barring some jenky standup by the ref. It's just the striker vs wrestler matchup. Wanderlei doesn't wrestle and he would just run out of time.
They could fight now in Bellator but I think the size difference is more pronounced now since one guy is obviously off the sauce and the other person is in "shape"
Ya, there's something to that. Rumor has it they basically invented 205 for Tito. And he was one of if not THE first to take weight cuts seriously in this sport. Guys like Evan Tanner couldn't drop down yet.No one is denying he was the face of the sport in the dark ages, arguably inheriting that title in a mainstream way from Ken.
But his record is what is questioned. The guy walked around in the 230-240's and had a knack of picking on smaller guys and later much older and beatup guys during his career which is what bothers me.
When he fought guys his own size, he lost.
Nonetheless his contribution as marquee face for a few years is clear but the quality of his resume is a different issue.