Let's appreciate Mousasi's longevity

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Last week, it was 9 years ago that a 23-year old Gegard Mousasi fought Mark Hunt. According to his wiki page, he started boxing at age 15 before transitioning to kickboxing and later MMA.

All combined, he's been in 73 full contact fights in his 17 year career, for an average of over 4 fights a year. He's now fought in (almost) all major MMA organisations, including Rings, M-1, DEEP, PRIDE, Dream, Strikeforce, UFC and Bellator, as well as K-1.

Most guys would be burned out after a few years, but Mousasi has been at it seriously in major orgs for 12 years now. Just to compare, Anderson Silva went from losing to Ryo Chonan to ruling the MW division to losing to Weidman twice in 9 years.

Even if you're not a fan of Moose, you have to admire his longevity in sports that are that unforgiving on a human body.
 
Hagelslag2 said:
Last week, it was 9 years ago that a 23-year old Gegard Mousasi fought Mark Hunt. According to his wiki page, he started boxing at age 15 before transitioning to kickboxing and later MMA.

All combined, he's been in 73 full contact fights in his 17 year career, for an average of over 4 fights a year. He's now fought in (almost) all major MMA organisations, including Rings, M-1, DEEP, PRIDE, Dream, Strikeforce, UFC and Bellator, as well as K-1.

Most guys would be burned out after a few years, but Mousasi has been at it seriously in major orgs for 12 years now. Just to compare, Anderson Silva went from losing to Ryo Chonan to ruling the MW division to losing to Weidman twice in 9 years.

Even if you're not a fan of Moose, you have to admire his longevity in sports that are that unforgiving on a human body.
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....and in his prime now- scary. We're seeing the best Mousasi now.Already one of the best ever , it'll be interesting if or when he fights another 5-6 years and see the labels he gets after.
Had a very successful run in UFC - leaving after a 5 fight stoppage streak.
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Mousasi has nothing on Dan Henderson
 
Hagelslag2 said:
Last week, it was 9 years ago that a 23-year old Gegard Mousasi fought Mark Hunt. According to his wiki page, he started boxing at age 15 before transitioning to kickboxing and later MMA.

All combined, he's been in 73 full contact fights in his 17 year career, for an average of over 4 fights a year. He's now fought in (almost) all major MMA organisations, including Rings, M-1, DEEP, PRIDE, Dream, Strikeforce, UFC and Bellator, as well as K-1.

Most guys would be burned out after a few years, but Mousasi has been at it seriously in major orgs for 12 years now. Just to compare, Anderson Silva went from losing to Ryo Chonan to ruling the MW division to losing to Weidman twice in 9 years.

Even if you're not a fan of Moose, you have to admire his longevity in sports that are that unforgiving on a human body.
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He started young, will retire not old.

That's wise career choice, and the correct way to stay relevant.
 
manboy<3 said:
Mousasi has nothing on Dan Henderson
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Dan Henderson is an absolute legend but he had years of PED use to carry him through his late 30s into his early 40s. He was an absolute TRT guzzler who was known in Pride FC as "Decision Dan" and then started taking TRT at 37 years old and all of a sudden started sleeping motherfuckers left and right. Hendo was juiced up reel guud.
 
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Back to the topic, Mousasi's longevity has been remarkable. As reliable as they come. I dont think he's ever pulled out of any fights.
 
Mixfight said:
Dan Henderson is an absolute legend but he had years of PED use to carry him through his late 30s into his early 40s. He was an absolute TRT guzzler who was known in Pride FC as "Decision Dan" and then started taking TRT at 37 years old and sleeping motherfuckers left and right. Hendo was juiced up reel guud.
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True

When I think about the guys who have very long resumes and who have been at the top for a long time they all end up being PED users

Henderson
Belfort
Overeem
CYBORG (The longest at the top for a woman, undefeated in a decade)
Jake Shields (Possibly best WW resume, fought and won everywhere)
etc

Basically very concrete proof that PEDS make legendary careers

Mousasi's career has been pretty good for a clean athlete
 
AimedWithV said:
He said regardless...
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I am sure you misunderstood something . He was miserable about his debut and had such thoughts but he came back succesfully and will keep fighting . I follow him in media and can assure you he will keep making money in MMA .
 
ViktorArm said:
I am sure you misunderstood something . He was miserable about his debut and had such thoughts but he came back succesfully and will keep fighting . I follow him in media and can assure you he will keep making money in MMA .
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I'm not talking about the after Shlemenko fight.

There were numerous interviews where he said that he intends to retire relatively young - definitely before 40 - and get money from some investment projects that he has on the side (real estate I think)
 
AimedWithV said:
There were numerous interviews where he said that he intends to retire relatively young - definitely before 40 - and get money from some investment projects that he has on the side (real estate I think)
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A fighter isn't retired until they've retired, and even then they're probably not retired.
 
AimedWithV said:
That's true until it's not true :)
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FYI:

MMA Careers.
Hendo - 7052 days / 32-15 / 47 fights
Gegard - 5513 days / 44-6-2 / 52 Fights

Gegard would need to fight till August 17, 2022 to match Hendo's MMA longevity, which isn't out of the question. That'd take him till 36yo.
 
I'll take prime Mousasi (now) over prime Hendo anyday.Even if prime Hendo tried to pregnate gegard, don't think he'd be able to keep today's Mousasi down.
Gegard went from maybe a tad overrated (pre king mo) to the most underrated fighter in mma,
USA today rankings have him at #4 ...next month he'll be #3 As Gsp should be forced out of 185.
 
AimedWithV said:
He intends to retire pretty soon IIRC
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He's 32 and will finish out Bellator deal (4 more fights) and said he might just retire after that " but it depends, if I'm not losing fights- we'll see".Those were the words he pretty much chose.
 
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