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Showtime Kick his face off plz
Pettis has never in his life avoided wrestlers or anyone really. He just choked one out recently. He went down because he was on a losing streak.
Lol he was avoiding fighting irrelevant fights out of the top10. If anything he's chasing contenders, no matter the division. You got to be complete moron if you think Pettis ever ducked anyone because of a skillset. Pettis went down a division after losing to Barboza, not a smothering wrestler. I honestly have no clue what your talking about. Eddie Alvarez looked like complete shit trying employ a wrestle heavy gameplan. He got the decision, but it was probably the worst fight of Eddies career and he should be embarrassed by that performance.So then he avoided 155ers in general...
To be fair he wasn't really avoiding wrestling as much as he was avoiding the smothering pressure game a lot of his opponents used to win. And that style happened to work well for some fighters' rassling games. Especially if they have considerable weight and/or strength over him.
Lol he was avoiding fighting irrelevant fights out of the top10. If anything he's chasing contenders, no matter the division. You got to be complete moron if you think Pettis ever ducked anyone because of a skillset. Pettis went down a division after losing to Barboza, not a smothering wrestler. I honestly have no clue what your talking about. Eddie Alvarez looked like complete shit trying employ a wrestle heavy gameplan. He got the decision, but it was probably the worst fight of Eddies career and he should be embarrassed by that performance.
Im not sure how that relates to your claim of ducking wrestlers in his division. He said he'd become to worried with defending takedowns, he didn't say he didn't want to fight wrestlers @ lw. You're reaching hard. He literally just submitted a giant pressure wrestler. He went to fw because it was the quickest way back to a title shot at the time and he was a fight away from getting one. After his loss to Barboza it wouldve put him further down the line for a title a shot LW.Bud, even Pettis said he would never become a wrestler after winng his last fight but still had deadly stand up an jitz. Refering to his struggle with that aspect of the game, despite obviously having tried to work on his weakness.
LW always has contenders in bunches, don't have to look in another division for that.
And just because he went down after losing to Barboza doesn't mean that the bitter taste of defeat from the other loses didn't help make the decision to go down.
It's no shame though. He tried it, but eventually learned it wasn't the answer and now he is back.
Kevin Lee by grapple fuck, he's an awful match up for Pettis
Yeah moving weight classes is a common strategy to try to break a losing streak. He looked like ass at 145 though. I'd like to see him put on a bit more muscle and just stay at lw. There are a lot of winnable matchups for him there if he keeps improving. Even during his slump he was mostly losing splits that could have went either way.So then he avoided 155ers in general...
To be fair he wasn't really avoiding wrestling as much as he was avoiding the smothering pressure game a lot of his opponents used to win. And that style happened to work well for some fighters' rassling games. Especially if they have considerable weight and/or strength over him.
Smart move, not going to get anyone higher ranked so he's going to take a big name easy match up to get a win streak going and stay active.
Going to ride the Pettis 2.0 hype train and say he wins by second round triangle.
Tbf Stephens never changed much at all he just got great stylistic match ups and Aldo was never close to as bad as people made out.I'm done with 2.0 version with fighters lol Jeremy 2.0 lost to soul taken,shin weakened Aldo so I don't by Pettis 2.0 yet.