Let's Talk About Paulo Costa's Overrated Power...Again!!!

[Mayonnaiseandjelly]

What? Till dropped Wonderboy and stopped Cerrone by strikes

Pettis kod wonderboy dead. Thompson simply doesn’t have a prime chin and his style lends him to get dropped by punches he doesn’t see. Till has extremely limited power

 

[Masturbin]

his mix of power and output in unmatched tho

 

[Sure Dawg]

he definitely has power, maybe not as much as you'd expect given his size, but thats how power is, God given in part. the fact that hes a volume striker though is absolutely demented for the amount of size and power he has.

 

[pick999]

Lmao are you serious? Costa has the most power at MW, he could knock out some LHWs. He dropped and hurt Yoel several times.

Who has Cannoier knocked out?

lol at Brunson and Adesanya

The mw goat in 1 round

 

[Contra-dictator]

He knocked Yoel Romero down. He's certainly not a pillow fist.

THIS!

 

[Contra-dictator]

Costa also goes to the body in a way that must make Cormier wince.

 

[Bruce Lee666]

Pettis kod wonderboy dead. Thompson simply doesn’t have a prime chin and his style lends him to get dropped by punches he doesn’t see. Till has extremely limited power

Wonderboy was KO 1 time in his life at mma, and he has no chin.

you are a noob ? any fighter can be knocked out by a stroke of luck, it can happen.

Struve KO Miocic, so Stipe doesn't have a chin?

 

[JinKazama]

lol

 

[Osiris3657]

He's got a lot of power. He just doesn't have a bunch of 1 punch KOs on his record because he doesn't headhunt, he goes to the body. Oh, and he's only fought 13 times professionally. Bring it up again when he's at twice that number

 

[Brit_Brawler]

Not being a one punch knockout artist hardly diminishes his abilities.
He hits hard enough, hurts people.
11 tko stoppages out of 13 wins speaks for itself really. Actually the guy has only gone to a decision with romero where he was putting a beating on him at times.

 

[Portland8242]

I don't understand how Sherdog doesn't know the difference between accuracy and power.

Costa has loads of power, he's just not an accurate puncher. He hits a lot of gloves and forearm. I reckon if you talk to anyone who fought him, they'd say he hits like a truck.

 

[Miiiiiiighty]

Paulo is a weak pillow fisted puncher with no power, there is no way a guy of his size can generate a KO blow

Looks like he took some Açaï from Vitor's personal supply

 

[Harlekin]

He has good power, but his punches often are very wide like haymakers and telegraphed. That's why his opponents see them mostly in the last milisecond which prevents something like a lights out knockout, walk off knockout ...

 

[McSpikes]

Total can. Id ko him stiff in the club in under 30 seconds

 

[YungSithLxrd]

Dudes like 230lbs he deff has power, he just doesn't land too clean, the first clean strike he landed on Uriah hall was a lead hook and Uriah shelled up and dropped like 5 seconds later. Hendricks looked straight up terrified after the first round. When he landed that flush hook on romero, it was basically a flash KO romoero wole up on the way down

 

[Turdbucket]

His not a snappy puncher. His got power and if you stand and take it you will feel it.
In boxing people would laugh at him. But mma is more complex. When you roll slow powerful peoples punches you tend to get hubris after a while. And then it only takes one to put you in trouble.. But I don't think Adesanya is that guy. But I sure as hell was once..

 

[WarFan90]

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Looking at his record.. he has 2 impressive wins(his last 2) and 3 solid wins(the previous 3 before) outside of that he hasnt fought anyone. That being said those are better than a lot of guys who are ranked. Not so sure its deserving of a ts though, especially with how close that romero fight actually was. I did score it for costa but that was not anywhere near a dominant victory.

 

[Nobru]

He's got a lot of power. He just doesn't have a bunch of 1 punch KOs on his record because he doesn't headhunt, he goes to the body. Oh, and he's only fought 13 times professionally. Bring it up again when he's at twice that number

This
Body shots are unlikely to result in KOs, but rather TKOs.
And by the way, he droped Romero just swinging his left. It wasnt even a full punch
I can only imagine what a full right in someones jaw will look like

 

[Kryptt]

Looking at his record.. he has 2 impressive wins(his last 2) and 3 solid wins(the previous 3 before) outside of that he hasnt fought anyone. That being said those are better than a lot of guys who are ranked. Not so sure its deserving of a ts though, especially with how close that romero fight actually was. I did score it for costa but that was not anywhere near a dominant victory.

It was a very close fight, and an amazing back and forth. I think Costa edged it out but would have been satisfied either way.

 

[WarFan90]

It was a very close fight, and an amazing back and forth. I think Costa edged it out but would have been satisfied either way.

Ehh I thought 1 was definitely costa, two was closer but still costa, and 3 was close but romero edged. So if scoring was done in an actually reasonable way. Clear victory for costa, but based on scoring as is, he won a relatively clear 29-28.