Never understood the BSD hype

You can have good finishes over weaker competition but still have the holes in your game be glaringly obvious. Still laugh how many people were taking him to beat Poirier.
 
HuskySamoan said:
The beating he took vs Elizeu and then the KTFO by Poirier and then this beating...he's a finished fighter. That's too much damage sustained over a short period of time. He's physically gifted and very aggressive, large for the weight and kinda dangerous everywhere but he started MMA very late..his cardio is lacking, his striking technique is very lacking and he has no defense. Super raw guy who made it into the rankings off forward momentum and talent but it turns out he's not really a top 20 caliber guy once push came to shove. This happens often, rankings are not comprehensive.
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I tend to agree with this…life changing punishment x 3….JDS was never even close to the same after those brutal beatings from Cain…
 
Pechan said:
Got rushed, IIRC his best win before getting the DP fight was fucking Fravola.

Moneycaino has been fighting top guys for years.
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DP? F*cking? ….Dude you watch too much porn…


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DiazSlap said:
This dude was touted as the next big thing…a highly trained, Parisian special forces commando with skills.

Dude just took a life changing beating and now has lost two in a row, badly.


Can he rebound? Or is it…..

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He is way better than the guys you make threads about.
 
He has got some time to rebound but his fight style needs some serious rewiring if he wants to have a longer/better career.
 
DiazSlap said:
I tend to agree with this…life changing punishment x 3….JDS was never even close to the same after those brutal beatings from Cain…
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It's a bit different than JDS, JDS made it to the top of the mountain and in the dudes prime I think there's a reasonable argument he was better than your Ganes, Aspinalls, Ngannous and Stipes...but he took career altering beatings, peak Cane was something else. For BSD it's only half the beatings, the other half is he lacks fundamentals standing still and began MMA from a middling Judo background at 23, I don't think fans realize how serious it is when a guy who breaches the top 15 visibly lacks any real defense standing and really can't throw off his lead side at all, on top of that he has a tendency to fatigue. Even if he wasn't getting mamed badly these are huge red flags and things that take YEARS to fix and typically when you're 28 and fighting guys in the top end of the division it's hard and nearly impossible to correct such things at that point.
 
I still believe in BSD. Time off and work, work, work on the weaknesses. It all might've been too much too soon but with time off to improve and heal, I think he can come back. Have him fight Sherdog's darling Kevin Lee.
 
He always had mediocre skills but was hyped up because he's a soldier. He always looked like a guy that started MMA training late and you can see his movements are not fluid.
 
The guy is just not good enough to be fighting top guys. He just looked clueless on the ground.
 
filthybliss said:
He has got some time to rebound but his fight style needs some serious rewiring if he wants to have a longer/better career.
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He has virtually no time. Lmao 28 "has some time" this is wild. There's a reason you see guys these days who went like 12-2 amateur starting at 15 and are 10-1 pro at 23. Because it takes a lot of time to develop a fighter and when issues in their game and weak points come up actually address them early and figure things out. At 28 with only 5 years MMA experience and 7 concussions later I'd say BSD is mostly out of time realistically.
 
Joshua Judd said:
Dudes got a ton of heart but has always been overhyped. I did think Poirier was going to walk through him and was pretty surprised how close BSD came to winning.
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That was more Poirier's fault. He didn't fight very smart and could have won way easier.
 
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