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Jeremy Stephens: "I have better leg kicks than Jose. We can go leg kick for leg kick like Van Damme"

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Arm Barbarian said:
Well seeing how Aldo doesn't even throw them anymore, he may be right.

Why Jose stopped using his leg attacks is a mystery I've never figured out. It was his best weapon.
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Kept hurting his foot, then got labeled a pull out merchant, then he keeps his foot healthy, and people want his kicks back.

The cycle of life.
 
Is it just me, or do his answers seem a little bit...unfocused?
 
Aldo might lost some of his touch or body performance to stop doing leg kicks like he used to. Jeremy looks only to have started doing them in a severe significant way, so Jeremy might be right to be so confident.
 
Would love to see them go kick for kick, then have it end like in Bloodsport...
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Arm Barbarian said:
Well seeing how Aldo doesn't even throw them anymore, he may be right.

Why Jose stopped using his leg attacks is a mystery I've never figured out. It was his best weapon.
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I'm guessing a hip injury, a lower back injury, or a knee injury. Or 2 of them, or all of them.

Aldo has been fighting a long time. The body wears after all those training camps and fights.

Power in your kicks comes from those 3 parts of the body and also your feet. You need to be able to move your body in a very specific way to deliver the kind of power that guys a prime Jose Aldo or Edson Barboza or prime Mirko CroCop or Luke Rockhold or even Joe Rogan puts into their kicks. Your body needs to move completely correctly to deliver the full amount of torque that's required to generate that kind of power. You also need a lot of flexibility to have kicks like those guys.

Once you get an injury in one of those 4 spots, your kicks will become significantly less of a threat. Your kicks will still be good, but because you can't execute perfect technique like you were able to with a healthy body you won't have that same devastating power that is able to change the course of a fight with just a few kicks.
 
Rygu said:
No shit eh? 3-4 good ones from Aldo and anybody at 145 is having their mobility altered.
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Not anymore. He hit Max Holloway with a few of them in the 2nd fight and it had seemingly no effect on him.

He's not able to throw them like he used to for whatever reason.
 
Chain Saw said:
Not anymore. He hit Max Holloway with a few of them in the 2nd fight and it had seemingly no effect on him.

He's not able to throw them like he used to for whatever reason.
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Yeah I dunno either what his deal is. I'm sure we both remember what he did to Faber. Mind you he landed a lot more than a few on him.
 
europe1 said:
Also, he injured his leg when KZ checked one he threw.
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He injured his foot. He's thrown kicks since then but I think the notion that his residual damage and that motorcycle did him in, were accurate.
 
ImNotSurpisedDonks! said:
The one reason I fear for Aldo in this fight is that he has seem to grow mentally weak and guys have figured out that if you bully him, he gets scared and unravels. The bad news is, Stephens is maybe the biggest bully at 145 now, and he is going to try and shake and break Aldo. And let's hope .stephens does not finish him, as his finishes are some of the most brutal and ferocious in MMA.
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You think Aldo fought scared against Max either time? The pressure and pace caused him to lose. He didn't back down once in those losses and paid for it. Maybe being tactical and approaching the fight with a nuanced offensive and defensive perspective would've helped him. I thoroughly disagree with your point about him unravelling mentally or being afraid in either Holloway fight.
 
ImmigrantMentality said:
Aldo does not get scared when you bully him. He can get emotional and Mcgregor is great at exposing that, so Aldo lost his composure. Against Holloway, Aldo just gassed but he fought his heart out to the very end. Aldo's all fast twitch, that's always been a problem with him
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Great post. You're right. He fought balls to the wall in both fights. In the second one he took a whopping in the pocket. In the first fight he stood his ground as well. Aldo would've been better off with a more diverse gamepla in the rematch. Against Conor he fought emotionally and paid dearly, but he's never fought scared.
 
Stephens does NOT have better leg kicks by any stretch of the imagination.
 
Substance Abuse said:
You think Aldo fought scared against Max either time? The pressure and pace caused him to lose. He didn't back down once in those losses and paid for it. Maybe being tactical and approaching the fight with a nuanced offensive and defensive perspective would've helped him. I thoroughly disagree with your point about him unravelling mentally or being afraid in either Holloway fight.
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I don't think he was scared at the beginning, but when he threw the kitchen sink at Max and he started coming forward and Stockton slapping him, Aldo mentally seemed to change. He has never had anyone treat or talk to him like that, and that may be why Conor got in his head, and he was always the bully, and it's like it turned him in to a lamb from a lion.

The same thing happened to Conor at 196 too, where he never had someone bully him, slap him and walk him down. That fucks the alpha male mind up. If Nate was just being all sportman like, I just don't see Conor freaking out like that and panic wrestling as quickly. The same look Conor had, Aldo def had in the first Holloway fight, and that is normal, as they are bully dominant alpha fighters like Rumble, not a guy like Ortega, who does not need to control and dominate the fight to find success.
 
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