Media Out of all opps, why was old man Brunson the most entertaining back & forth fight DDP had in UFC?

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It's a pattern. He looks like a world beater in round 1 and then drops right off. Usman, Gilbert it happened in both. Whittaker was definitely an improvement and credit to him for it, but he still looked like a beast in one round.

Rewatch that first round with Usman and compare it to that round I mentioned with Weili. Khamzat is throwing arm punches all round,Usman stays on all 4s and doesn't even have to defend them except for 1 20 sec bit where he has him face down. He was given a 10-8 because he did it to Usman. We see rounds like that every week on every card scored 10-9s.

Listen to Mighty Mouses recent Podcast with DDP. He isn't gassed. He is literally out there trying to finish his opponent. He doesn't point fight, he wants to finish his opponent and is constantly trying to do that when he fights. He doesn't hold back in rounds that's why he is breathing so heavy. He backs himself to still win when he is fatigued due to the training he does whilst tired.

Holland doesn't cut to make 185, he just goes into camp and drops from about 190. Khamzat has said he is over 200lbs previously and that's in camp. He was saying he was 217lbs when he was booked for Costa and he had a 4 month camp to get down to 185 before fighting Usman. His walk around at WW was apparently 195.

Khamzat faked a glove touch vs Holland. He outwrestled him every day, but Holland made him work for that pretty hard. It would have been good to see a second round there. If Holland had made it through somehow, we might have seen how that gas tank holds up before the Usman fight.

I did listen to DDP on Mighty mouse podcast, I get what you're saying.
He still did (understandably) slow down a lot in round 2 vs Till (took a lot of damage, lost the round), after he was very close to finishing him in round 1. He then came back strong and finished him in round 3.

That fight was about as recent as Khamzat vs Burns, I'd like to think that both of them have made improvements since then.

Khamzat looked better and won round 3 vs Burns (increaing his output), after taking a beating in round 2 for the first time in his career. That alone should be proof enough that his cardio can't be as bad as the general consensus here on sherdog says. It also showed that he can handle adversity, he doesn't fold or give up just because he's tired and not as lethal as in round 1.

You don't have to dominate and win every round to be the best fighter in your weight-class, which Dricus also is proof of.

And that fight was almost 3 years ago. Since then he has changed his team and does his camps at high altitude in Russia with Olympic wrestling coaches. Impossible that his cardio won't improve from that. He has also addressed his previous issues with overtraining and is monitored closely by a doctor during camp.

I see a lot of similarities in how Dricus and Khamzat fights when it comes to the pressure they put on their opponents and the intensity they fight at, but I only see one of them get credit for it. If Khamzat could keep up his round 1 onslaught for 3-5 rounds, nobody would stand a chance. Even as it is now, where he has always either finished, dominated, or won 10-9 in the 1st round, and remain competitive later on, it's absolutely not "easy" to beat him by just surviving round 1 and then turning it on later.

Usman was still taken down and controlled in parts of rounds 2 and 3, so if Holland would had survived round 1 I'd assume he would get taken down again in rounds 2 and 3.

Dricus was also said to have bad cardio before due to the optics of his mouth breathing and clumsy style, people ignored his actual output and how tired his opponent got as well.

I much prefer fighters like that than low-output strikers who get lauded for their cardio when they expend 50% of the energy.

Regarding Weili vs Suarez, I remember that there were some very dominating rounds there from Weili and wouldn't have minded her getting a 10-8. Just using my phone now since I'm at the beach so a bit lazy to rewatch it.

Regarding the "fake glove touch", it looked like his usual feint a punch before diving in for a takedown that he has used in a number of fights.

 

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I did listen to DDP on Mighty mouse podcast, I get what you're saying.
He still did (understandably) slow down a lot in round 2 vs Till (took a lot of damage, lost the round), after he was very close to finishing him in round 1. He then came back strong and finished him in round 3.

That fight was about as recent as Khamzat vs Burns, I'd like to think that both of them have made improvements since then.

Khamzat looked better and won round 3 vs Burns (increaing his output), after taking a beating in round 2 for the first time in his career. That alone should be proof enough that his cardio can't be as bad as the general consensus here on sherdog says. It also showed that he can handle adversity, he doesn't fold or give up just because he's tired and not as lethal as in round 1.

You don't have to dominate and win every round to be the best fighter in your weight-class, which Dricus also is proof of.

And that fight was almost 3 years ago. Since then he has changed his team and does his camps at high altitude in Russia with Olympic wrestling coaches. Impossible that his cardio won't improve from that. He has also addressed his previous issues with overtraining and is monitored closely by a doctor during camp.

I see a lot of similarities in how Dricus and Khamzat fights when it comes to the pressure they put on their opponents and the intensity they fight at, but I only see one of them get credit for it. If Khamzat could keep up his round 1 onslaught for 3-5 rounds, nobody would stand a chance. Even as it is now, where he has always either finished, dominated, or won 10-9 in the 1st round, and remain competitive later on, it's absolutely not "easy" to beat him by just surviving round 1 and then turning it on later.

Usman was still taken down and controlled in parts of rounds 2 and 3, so if Holland would had survived round 1 I'd assume he would get taken down again in rounds 2 and 3.

Dricus was also said to have bad cardio before due to the optics of his mouth breathing and clumsy style, people ignored his actual output and how tired his opponent got as well.

I much prefer fighters like that than low-output strikers who get lauded for their cardio when they expend 50% of the energy.

Regarding Weili vs Suarez, I remember that there were some very dominating rounds there from Weili and wouldn't have minded her getting a 10-8. Just using my phone now since I'm at the beach so a bit lazy to rewatch it.

Regarding the "fake glove touch", it looked like his usual feint a punch before diving in for a takedown that he has used in a number of fights.

It seems you ultimately agree with my initial post to you. Khamzat has a great round 1, drops the second and then has been on the right side of 2 third rounds in his decision wins against ranked guys. The Whittaker fight was a return to him dominating guys in the first round and doesn't;t tell us to much though it shows he can do it against elite guys with decent wrestling.

In both fights he went to decision he was the more fatigued fighter and finished them getting backed up to the bell. Both Burns and Usman were tagging him late as he retreated. I just think that's not good for a guy who will be fighting 5 rounders if he wins the belt. Both times he went to decision he has made it to the bell and had a weak last period of the 3rd round.

I was hoping we would get to see it in the Whittaker fight as I thought he would atleast survive round 1.

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Drinkers Du Pleskin 200IQ'ed everyone into thinking that he is average at best. So his opponents brainlessly accepting fights vs. him thinking its gonna be easy, and so do matchmakers blindly feeding him more valuable athletes without a second thought

We should have a trash can for this!

 

[jitzmonkey]

if I remember right, he had a bit of a wonky style that was hard to time in the beginning.
Add less experience for his opponent, and…