Rumored Kevin Holland vs Gunnar Nelson set for UFC London on March 22

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Nice.. Wasn't expecting this. I looked Gunnar and her kinda fell off the map after the ponzi loss.
Good shit
 
Gunny gonna turn Holland into a pretzel. Easy W in my opinion. Too strong for Holland.
 
No disrespect to Gunnar Nelson but I didn't know he was still fighting. So he fought once in 2023 and once in 2022. Lost to Gilbert and Leon in 2019. Not the most active guy.

Holland should be the favorite in this fight. Rooting for Gunnar tho
 
Unheralded Truth said:
Gunnar is such an enigma, man. Not a weight cutter and would probably thrive at LW - and yet he's just never fighting.

It's impossible to tell how he will do here, but yeah, I take Gunnar by sub I guess.
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Gunnar was one of the first prodigies/super prospects. Made his pro MMA debut at 18. At 16 he began BJJ, by 20 was a Renzo Gracie black belt and placed 4th at the ADCCs in Openweight beating Jeff Monson. Dude was a multiple time Karate champion in Iceland as well. He was like 10-0 and 24 when the UFC signed him, I thought he'd be a world champ back then, was talking about this kid back in 2010 hyping him up as one of the best talents nobody knew about.

Here's Gunnars deal though, he's a martial artist, not a fighter. He didn't like the idea of cutting weight, so he didn't do it. He hates traveling so he never really wanted to train far away from home thusly he stuck to his gym in Iceland and sometimes Straightblast in Ireland as it's closest. He's a guy who had a great mind, he learns insanely quick and is high intelligence but the competitive drive isn't there, if he had trained under top gyms with proper wrestling coaches and teammates who had such strengths, if he had a serious strength and conditioning coach and routine, if he went to Thailand on his time off and trained at Tiger and had a great boxing coach back home etc. If he was willing to cut the weight to make 155lbs...he coulda been that guy who beat Khabib, it sounds crazy but he had that kind of potential. Khabib was super talented but also had the insane drive and determination.

Gunnar is happy owning a gym, being financially stable and spending lots of time with his family. He's old now, just taking fights here and there.
 
Going back down to Welterweight, winnable for Holland but then again i thought Rdr and Dolidze were both favourable fights for him.
 
fortheo said:
glad to have Gunnar back for his one fight every 4 years. That said, I struggle to care about Kevin holland fights as he himself doesn't seem to care about them.
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No BS, I think Holland has a pathological personality disorder. I'm not professionally qualified to determine this, but it appears obvious from his public behavior.

Setting that aside, Gunnar isn't in position to match-up well with Holland in of itself. Holland would need to put on a 'bad show'

He might? so its hard to say. In a world where both guys perform at their best, Holland should win.
 
why Gunnar and why is it that Kevin has to face most of the time grapplers
 
Did not expect this but I think I like it. Kevin's back at WW huh... that's probably a good move
 
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