I’m so sad we never got rumble vs potan

[Lee Danger]

Rumble was overrated af.

 

[biscuitsbrah]

non - elite record? i didnt know challenging for a UFC title twice means youre non elite. thats news to me.

Rumble was NEVER KO'd stiff. or TKO/KO'd at all! funny how that works.

you are a fanboy and have your biases, so thats that. and stop with the multi colored fonts, this isnt your MySpace profile.

Rumble had an excellent chin but when the going got tough he shot, got sprawled on and rnc’d. Kind of hard to get tko’d when you’re getting choked out even faster

 

[blaseblase]

Rumble was on his deathbed at the time Pereira became a UFC middleweight contender. This fight never had the possibility of happening. Weird thread.

 

[Tweak896]

Rumble is so good we'll be missing so many matchups in the future with him as well.

 

[Deleted member 609094]

I'm sad that you are sad

I'm sad, that you are sad, that he is sad.

 

[Blastbeat]

I'm sad, that you are sad, that he is sad.

im sad for you that youre sad for them who is sad for someone else

layers of sadness resembling an onion, Joe

 

[Edward Henry Greb]

non - elite record? i didnt know challenging for a UFC title twice means youre non elite. thats news to me.

Challenging (FAILING) to win ANY title = SUB-elite (read, Non-elite), you ignorant, simpleton fuck.

Rumble was NEVER KO'd stiff. or TKO/KO'd at all! funny how that works.

Funny, Rumble was not good enough EVER to achieve ANY form of greatness ... NOT ONE TITLE ... always wallowing in the "contender" status ... NEVER being able to beat an actual Champion ...

you are a fanboy and have your biases, so thats that. and stop with the multi colored fonts, this isnt your MySpace profile.

You are a punk-bitch fanboy, clutching the ankles of a NON-CHAMPION ... a FAILURE EVER TO BECOME Champion ...

And you are trying to compare him to a TWO-DIVISION **WORLD CHAMPION** ... across TWO DIFFERENT PLATFORMS ...

Wake-up and smell the coffee

You are the fukking fanboy, who can't recognize "your hero" never achieved ANYTHING great, not once.

ZERO tiles in ANY division ...

Let alone TWO titles, in TWO weight classes ... across TWO different elite-combat platforms.

Sit down and shaddap.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Poatan isn’t a wrestler with a good RnC. Rumble was built different. I used to watch him peel rounds off of Tyron Spong at the Blackzilians back in the day. That was with 16oz gloves in a sparring setting… Rumble with MMA gloves on can finish anyone at anytime. I’m not saying he would beat Poatan but he matches up EXTREMELY well against him and that fight would be the embodiment of violence!

At the end of his career.. Rumble was knocked down and hurt badly by a can in Bellator.

I don't think there was a time when both Rumble and Poatan were near their prime to compete in MMA. They were not in the same timeline despite Alex being only 3 years younger.

 

[Safton]

I've never understood why people felt Poatan matched up well against Prime Rumble. On paper he is a challenging stylistic hurdle. The dude never got finished by strikes (other than eye pokes) across his entire UFC career and never even got knocked down despite having something like 20 UFC bouts. Once he got his weight dialed in, his chin was very solid.

He had arguably the most terrifying touch-of-death LHW has ever seen and was a crazy explosive puncher early in fights. Not to mention he was fast as fuck. I think even a striking dynamo like Pereira would be forced to give him a modicum of respect on the feet. When you add in Rumble's underrated kicking game along with a very real takedown threat (people seem to forget that AJ wasn't afraid to shoot on dudes and make fights boring on a whim)... I think he holds more cards than Alex does, comparatively.

Pereira is a fantastic fighter who has greatly exceeded my expectations, but he is not some untouchable defensive mastermind. Guys have survived three rounds with him and landed good shots of their own. He's been hurt, put on the back foot, and even KO'd at times. He also concedes at least one takedown plus some control time per fight to those who make an attempt to actively ground him (though to his credit he is quite defensively savvy on the mat).

I think Poatan has a path to victory in a five-rounder if he could survive the early storm of Rumble's striking & wrestling to drag him into deep waters before working the big man's body & legs to win a Decision or late stoppage. But I think Anthony just has more paths to victory, more weapons, and arguably greater finishing potential in the early part of the bout. I'd favor AJ like 60% of the time.

Rountree had about the same power as Rumble and a more well-rounded skillset

No, Rountree doesn't have the same power as Rumble did in his prime... nor is his skillset more well-rounded. For one, Rumble actually grappled offensively.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

Rumble vs Jon also.

That was the only fighter Jon missed.

 

[Streeter]

In striking Pereria is better everywhere speed , power at least equal, technical Pereria is le els better also much better kicks. Rumble had a ground game Alex doesn't.

 

[Last Falconry]

Rountree had about the same power as Rumble and a more well-rounded skillset

 

[RichardHarrow]

If Jones can fight the corpse of Stipe, I guess Poatan can fight the (literal) corpse of Rumble

No dude.

 

[Mickey Mick]

Pereira would avenge the 13 second KO loss of his Sensei, Glover.

 

[Scheme]

In my opinion, people overrate Rumble's power. He definitely had quite a punch, but he had plenty of losses (i.e., where he couldn't use his power to finish opponents) and decision victories (i.e., he couldn't KO them). He had less than a 75% finish rate in his victories, which is actually not that great (for instance, other big guys like Jiri have 97%, Pereira 83%, Ngannou 94%, Aspinall 100%, Pavlovich 83%, Lewis 85%, Tuivasa 93%, etc.). He couldn't finish Arlovski who had been notoriously chinny at HW, his KOs were usually a result of a barrage of punches rather than one shot KOs (apart from Glover, but if a lot of guys threw the uppercut and landed on Glover like that he would probably have gotten KO'd) and a lot of his KOs have actually been via head kick rather than from his hands.

That's not to say he didn't have amazing power, but a lot of guys in the UFC have amazing power with more finishes to show for it.

 

[Cameron]

I don't think this is a great fight, I don't see Rumble being polished enough to give any real threat

 

[StewDogg11]

A whole bunch of revisionist history here with people MASSIVELY overrating Rumble. He spent a large portion of his career fighting at Welterweight because he was terrified of fighting someone his own size.

He blew off his weight cut against Yoshiyuki Yoshida and probably had 60 pounds on him when they both got in the cage.

 

[TheBulge]

A whole bunch of revisionist history here with people MASSIVELY overrating Rumble. He spent a large portion of his career fighting at Welterweight because he was terrified of fighting someone his own size.

He blew off his weight cut against Yoshiyuki Yoshida and probably had 60 pounds on him when they both got in the cage.

To be fair, he had a pretty high peak after all of the weigght cutting BS where he had wins over Arlovski, Davis, KO-Glover, KO-Gus, almost finished DC untill that fight went very bad for him and he lost his mojo.

 

[StewDogg11]

To be fair, he had a pretty high peak after all of the weigght cutting BS where he had wins over Arlovski, Davis, KO-Glover, KO-Gus, almost finished DC untill that fight went very bad for him and he lost his mojo.

Yeah I guess he finally faced his fears. How many other fighters do you know that are literally fighting 35 pounds above where they should be?

By the way his KO of Gustafsson was a headbutt that wasn’t called. Most people don’t remember that.

 

[Blastbeat]

Challenging (FAILING) to win ANY title = SUB-elite (read, Non-elite), you ignorant, simpleton fuck.



Funny, Rumble was not good enough EVER to achieve ANY form of greatness ... NOT ONE TITLE ... always wallowing in the "contender" status ... NEVER being able to beat an actual Champion ...



You are a punk-bitch fanboy, clutching the ankles of a NON-CHAMPION ... a FAILURE EVER TO BECOME Champion ...

And you are trying to compare him to a TWO-DIVISION **WORLD CHAMPION** ... across TWO DIFFERENT PLATFORMS ...

Wake-up and smell the coffee View attachment 1074527

You are the fukking fanboy, who can't recognize "your hero" never achieved ANYTHING great, not once.

ZERO tiles in ANY division ...

Let alone TWO titles, in TWO weight classes ... across TWO different elite-combat platforms.

Sit down and shaddap.

wah wah wah waaaaahhhh

you cant take criticism of your favorite fighter and it shows in your overly emotional juvenile tirade.

im a fan of both Poatan AND Rumble. get that through your dense noggin. i just think if they ever fought, Rumble has the better chance of KOing Poatan than vise versa. regardless of accomplishments. a fight is a fight, and we've seen time and time again that lesser fighters on paper beat better fighters on paper. i dont give a fuck about belts or championships or whatever when it comes to PURELY watching a fight. i watch for entertainment first. and both Poatan and Rumble are/were very entertaining exciting fighters.

the fact that you cant deal with another reasonably stated opinion belies your true nature. your ride is here, go ahead and get in ----->