Its official, Romero damaged Whittaker beyond repair

[Regal Boy]

He also forgot you can grapple.

Grappling is being rendered obsolete by superior TDD.
In 5-10 years, fighters who are primarily grapplers and wrestlers wont be in the top 10 in any division.

 

[Bobbybackpack]

Writing is actually my specialty but nice try

It didn't show in your last comment

 

[Regal Boy]

Fundamentally what's happening is a superior striker with strong TDD is beating everyone, which should be expected.

 

[listrahtes]

Grappling is being rendered obsolete by superior TDD.
In 5-10 years, fighters who are primarily grapplers and wrestlers wont be in the top 10 in any division.

Until someone changes that momentum with superior skills again. Has happened many times in the past and will happen many times in the future. Nothing is written in stone.

 

[Mbowes]

He also said he never felt better

I kind of felt like he was going to lose when he kept repeating that line. TJ said the same thing and look at him

 

[Regal Boy]

Until someone changes that momentum with superior skills again. Has happened many times in the past and will happen many times in the future. Nothing is written in stone.

It's not cyclical. Ultimately, the set of possibilities in MMA is finite and the set of movements and effective fighting techniques is finite. TDD is simply too easy to learn and too effective. As MMA gets more popular and more natural athletes and natural strikers with power practice it, higher levels of wrestling defense are going to be more common and strikers will maximize the ability to stand and keep striking, which ultimately is physically superior to grappling as a martial art. Offensive grappling is inferior as a martial style compared to offensive striking with even just decent defensive wrestling and TDD.

Grapplers/wrestlers did well in the early days of MMA because strikers didn't know the gameplan. Now strikers are learning to defend takedowns and get up off the ground when taken there and from here, superior striking ability and natural power will overwhelm natural grappling ability and training, because heavy blows are superior weapons for putting down an opponent vs trying to take him down and trying to submit him.

Jose aldo, Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, Stipe, Holloway, McGregor, and many other men who are considered the GOATs of their division are primarily strikers who use wrestling defensively. This will only become more common and the overall meta of MMA will solidify, especially as natural hard hitters with real punching power begin to practice MMA over boxing as the sport of choice.

Deontay Wilder with 1 year of TDD sleeps every single MW, LHW and HW fighter in one round. Once MMA starts cutting boxing level checks, men like Wilder will begin to come to the UFC and MMA and dominate everyone.

 

[Final Say]

It didn't show in your last comment

It was an errant comma. Typo

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

It's not cyclical. Ultimately, the set of possibilities in MMA is finite and the set of movements and effective fighting techniques is finite. TDD is simply too easy to learn and too effective. As MMA gets more popular and more natural athletes and natural strikers with power practice it, higher levels of wrestling defense are going to be more common and strikers will maximize the ability to stand and keep striking, which ultimately is physically superior to grappling as a martial art. Offensive grappling is inferior as a martial style compared to offensive striking with even just decent defensive wrestling and TDD.

Grapplers/wrestlers did well in the early days of MMA because strikers didn't know the gameplan. Now strikers are learning to defend takedowns and get up off the ground when taken there and from here, superior striking ability and natural power will overwhelm natural grappling ability and training, because heavy blows are superior weapons for putting down an opponent vs trying to take him down and trying to submit him.

Jose aldo, Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, Stipe, Holloway, McGregor, and many other men who are considered the GOATs of their division are primarily strikers who use wrestling defensively. This will only become more common and the overall meta of MMA will solidify, especially as natural hard hitters with real punching power begin to practice MMA over boxing as the sport of choice.

Deontay Wilder with 1 year of TDD sleeps every single MW, LHW and HW fighter in one round. Once MMA starts cutting boxing level checks, men like Wilder will begin to come to the UFC and MMA and dominate everyone.

This will really bother ppl a lot... But I enjoyed reading it personally lol

 

[Hirashin]

Kenny agrees with TS

 

[Paynebringer]

I'm not gonna make that leap and just say Whittaker didn't fight the smartest of fights he used reckless pressure not to TD Izzy but to strike I thought he would use his striking to get inside and put his body on him and force Izzy to struggle & strain. Instead he thought he could outpower him and hurt him, stupid to think just because Izzy can't outpower you don't mean he can't hurt you...

 

[Paynebringer]

He did the same to Paulo, you will see, you can't fight Romero and not come out of it damaged for life.

That knee changed his face made one side of his face droop like melted cheese. I even heard after the fight he tried to open his cell using the facial recognition feature and is phone screen said "Who Da F*k Are You"..?