You comparing Barao and what he did pre UFC and comparing mousasi SAYS IT FUCKING ALL.
WHAT THE FUCK ??
I HAVE TO PINCH MYSELF.
YEAH- YOU KNOW YOUR STUFF.
I gotta stop....all this dumb is going to give me a heart attack. ( it's a good thing stipe, RDA, rockhold , twood didnt stop after EARLY SETBACKS as they became champs).Elite fighters evolve and get better. Mousasi hasnt lost a fight in 5 plus years ( outside fluke tko which he validated very quick and easy)
I'm out-peace.
That guy, and plenty others, bring up what Moose did back in Pride like it somehow tells you where he stands now. You can look at his UFC run to see where he stood in the UFC.
Yeah, he hasn't lost in 5 years, and that's awesome. Who'd he fight in those 5 years again? Old man Hendo, Costa who retired after the fight, Leites who couldn't win two fights back to back after that and is now retired, Hall who has won 2 out of his last 6, washed up Vitor, Santos (this one wasn't bad) and Journeyman Hall, then Weidman who was on a 2 fight losing streak.
Yeah, fighters evolve and get better. If Moose was gonna do that, he would've evolved and started beating the top tier fighters in his division. He never did that once in the UFC. He always whined because no one wanted to fight him and when he got his big chances it turned out he wasn't good enough. Machida danced around him and UD him with ease, and Jacare made him his son on the feet and on the mat before subbing him.
Maybe he has evolved greatly since then, but the Moose I saw fighting Schlemenko didn't impress, and Rory was a fattened up WW who also couldn't hang with the top of his division in the UFC.
Like, what has Moose done to convince you lot that he would beat Luke, Rob, Izzy, Kelvin, Jacare or Romero at this point, when his best performance against elite competition is making it to the final bell against Machida?