Muscular fighters with great cardio

[TheLastEmperorReurns]

Was EPO always illegal? Or only under USADA?

it was always illegal but only recently they got good at catching it- and even that's only partly true because it's possible for fighters to dose in camp and play the roulette on not getting randomly drug tested for a short amount of time.

 

[The Fat Mexican]

GSP comes to mind.

And Usman


In old school MMA: Randleman

 

[xyzxyz94]

Me

 

[ejazahmednit]

Thiago Santos and Paulo Costa , Jon Jones' upper half

 

[xMaxPower]

You know they still drug test when fighters go to other countries, right?

.... how do you know?

Sending a dude across the world to get some pee from and blood from someone.
They only care about money dude, they dont actually care about the sport.

 

[Te Huna Matata]

Sean Sherk

 

[SG123]

I'm surprised no one said Paulo Costa -- he looked relatively good in my opinion for 3 rounds against Romero in a very high output fight.

He was struggling big time after the first round, completely gassed by the third, that’s probably why nobody has mentioned him

 

[William Huggins]

I'm 6'7'' 300 pounds shredded and i can bang for days.

But 10's with the rounded elbows like the 275 look, you need to shred a bit more...........

 

[campbecc]

GSP is probably the best example. I can't really remember him getting tired

 

[LeVagabond]

He’s still doing aerobic work. Look at a wrestler like Romero and the techniques he uses.
Physiologically Humans have fast and slow twitch muscle fibres. People have a majority of one or the other. That’s why we have sprinters and long distance athletes.
Romero explodes-rests-explodes whereas Usman goes at 70% the whole time. Look at the body types Usman is ripped but almost like a swimmer.

To get really simplistic while they could probably do both they’d run the risk of injury/cramp etc. Usman would probably fatigue a lot worse if he exploded like Romero does.

Interesting fight to look at is Rashad Evans vs Phil Davis.
Evans the explosive fighter wore Davis the endurance fighter out by using explosive techniques and transitions due to Davis countering with Explosive techniques.

romero is inactive 60 per cent of the time in a 5 rounds fight, and usman is active 90 per cent of the fight, trying to takedown the fighter with the best takedown defense in the ufc ... such a bad comparaison ... Usman's cardio is absurd, he is the most ripped welterweight and has the best cardio in the entire UFC and doesn't run ... This is so much suspect ...

 

[LeVagabond]

View attachment 651697 Very good cardio and no Paulo Costa-physique, but still muscular.

nah he aint that muscular, he has a large thoracic cage but other than that he aint "jacked", in his category conor looked more muscular than him, same for kevin lee, islam, felder, alvarez, ramos etc ...

 

[LeVagabond]

this motherfucker has the best cardio in the entire UFC ...

 

[aichokyu]

I highly suspect he was taking EPO, the dude was dodging fight offers like crazy since TJ Dillashaw was caught. I mean he practically left to Africa/Morroco which to me seems like hes avoiding any drug tests till hes clean again.

the guy has a few hours stopover in morocco on his flight back from UFC 242 in Abu Dhabi and you transform it into the guy fleing to africa and morocco.
the guy would go take a dump and you would say he disapeared in a mysterious lake in the jungle lol

 

[sampuncher]

Woodley

 

[AWilder]

 

[Reaper_mma_MKII]

I highly suspect he was taking EPO, the dude was dodging fight offers like crazy since TJ Dillashaw was caught. I mean he practically left to Africa/Morroco which to me seems like hes avoiding any drug tests till hes clean again.

Possibly, I also suspect he is on something. On the JRE podcast he claimed his knees are so shot that he can't even run or anything like that yet just styled on Woodley for 5 full rounds. The way he describes it, dude shouldn't even be getting out of bed. It's either bs or an accidental dry admission.

 

[Oldman1]

All the 80s and 90s heavyweight boxers....

 

[Sarge3000]

The ones on the horse meat diet are.

 

[Draxton]

.... how do you know?

Sending a dude across the world to get some pee from and blood from someone.
They only care about money dude, they dont actually care about the sport.

Because they don’t just fly people around the world collecting blood and piss. they contract collectors globally and have it tested at Approved labs.

 

[PeacePipe]

I'm surprised no one said Paulo Costa -- he looked relatively good in my opinion for 3 rounds against Romero in a very high output fight.

LOL are you serious? They had two extra breaks, that's what made the fight so great, everytime they were about to gas they got a break. Romero is very crafty, he always plays for an extra break, watch his groin kick, he knows what he is doing

But it made the fight awesome