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he's not that good, his fans must move on
If one goes into full defensive mode it's pretty much impossible to get subbed. It's not like he had many opportunities and failed. His opponent give up fighting to defend himself.
Lets be honest.
Either he subs a guy quickly, or just out positions them for a full fight.
that's how he wins.
He also is not in the title picture, he beat a random guy, and couldn't finish him with like 10 minutes of mount.
yeah, not a strong win for him. i assume the opponent is pretty tough to survive mount as long as he did, but he's a relative unknown so it's not much of a feather in maia's cap.
he got pretty dominated by rory and hasn't looked good in a while. and he's not a young fighter.
No he didn't. Rory clearly won two rounds but that was no way a domination.
Lol @ maia being anywhere near a title
Maia's striking and overall fight IQ is too mediocre for him to ever become a champion. I really hope he breaks that wall one day but he's 36 and time is running out. Maia can beast anybody in the UFC the ground on a good day but even at his best he's always looked subpar on the feet and transitioning from striking to grappling.
Maia should be cut in my opinion. He is boring as hell, expensive and nowhere near to top 8.
well he was thoroughly spent after one round and couldn't do anything thereafter. not a strong fight at all. made me wonder when he's going to retire.
Wins against dong Kim, rick story, and john Fitch in a row, razor close loss to Jake shields and a fairly competitive fight with Rory McDonald (slightly better conditioning being the difference) and you're telling me he's not close to top 8? He's top 10. So are you a troll or an idiot?
My reaction when reading the thread title:
If Rory McDonald looks like that against a person who should retire then I want to know why we aren't talking about Rory being ranked too high and being a horrible fighter.