Hot Take Paddy looked AWFUL and completely outclassed

[Ashslog]

In theory he coud be a tank with that chin. Sadly he has no near beer minimum the skills to be in top 5. The dude is a tank with zero firing power

 

[Boomb]

He was only popular because of his ridiculous haircut and personality. Isn't he supposed to be some grappling wizard? Why didn't he try to grapple, then?

 

[rightfight777]

Conditioning looked terrible. REAL bad. That's the worst I've ever seen his conditioning look. He looked slow. He still can't learn to keep his chin down. He needs a tennis ball under his chin. His striking was even sloppier than it's normal sloppiness (didn't even think that was even possible). Terrible fight IQ too. When it was apparent he couldn't match his standup, he should've went for more level changes but still chose to stand.

yeah this is what happens when guys are fighting below their true weight class he was drained from the cut or possibly from trt he faded and Justin just kept going like the eveready bunny

 

[Glove]

He was overhyped by the UFC. Its what they do to try and force superstar status

 

[Gamboal]

Justin was there for the taking. An extremely battle worn 38 yr old with one foot out the door yet he beat the shit out of Pimblett, who's never taken a beat down like that in his life.

Cos Pimbletta's ego is so big he took the shots and didn't give up but man did he looks pathetic blocking all those shots with his face.

 

[omawho402]

On the contrary: that was the best performance of Paddy's career. He showed he's a top-10 fighter for the first time. Barely, but he's closer to a title shot now than he should have been before this fight.

This is a super reasonable take. To me his stock went up. Also, it cleared the air that he's not ready for a real title shot. I hope he gets better, he needs to make some moves.

 

[WT3]

It was bad some of his punches look like slaps. Early on I though something might have been wrong with his hand it was so bad.

 

[DougieJones]

Paddys going to crash this site if he ever gets his hands on a belt. So much hate it's crazy. Can't remember a guy catching this much shit.

AND he's one of us!!!!


there are a lot of people here who are just miserable fucks and try to spread their disease everywhere they can... like an AIDS-infected homeless man jerking off on a bus

 

[josh345]

Time to sacrifice that Jimmy to the cross while Ralph Fiennes dances to Iron Maiden

Blatant satanism in movies now. I think that movie and its predecessor sucked. But most people loved it. So what do I know.

 

[Steve Fox]

AND he's one of us!!!!


there are a lot of people here who are just miserable fucks and try to spread their disease everywhere they can... like an AIDS-infected homeless man jerking off on a bus

Sherbos are high on Monster and Cheetos. That's some vile combination post event.

 

[xhaydenx]

I mean, fight could have went either way tbh.. rds 3 and 5 Paddy, 2 and 4 Gaethje and in rd 1 Paddy landed more but Gaethje got the KD. I think Gaethje winning was the right call but just barely, Paddy getting rd 1 would not be out of the question.

How the hell could Paddy have gotten round 1 when he got knocked down, battered, and lost a whole minute of control time?

 

[seanb1979]

he really should be focusing on offensive wrestling more

 

[jnes]

Paddys going to crash this site if he ever gets his hands on a belt. So much hate it's crazy. Can't remember a guy catching this much shit.

Cause he's an industry plant and didn't deserve this fight at all.

 

[jnes]

Also Justin looked like pure shit. Ilia will kill him in the first 2 minutes.

 

[Dirty Frank]

This is no hot take, Shermano .

 

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

I’m sayin man.. everyone wanna talk about Paddy heart and chin an I respect that. But he wasn’t the underdog. He’s 31, he should be better. He should’ve cleaned up his boxing and the fact he’s throwing slap punches means he has trouble dropping bad habits

Get off his nuts. The kid lost

 

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

He's garbage, we told you.

Nah bro his chin tho. losing is fine as long as you don’t get knocked out

 

[FlyingDeathKick]

How the hell could Paddy have gotten round 1 when he got knocked down, battered, and lost a whole minute of control time?

Control time doesn't matter, Paddy landed more shots and the more damaging shots aside from the knockdown but I think Gaethje getting rd 1 was the right call.

 

[MigitAs]

His conditioning is fine.

Dude can't strike and his grappling is not high level.

People just talked up his grappling because he used it to dominate washed up cans in a row like Green, Tony, and Chandler lol. He got outgrappled completely by Gordon who is not even a top 15 level fighter.

He's nowhere near an elite fighter in the UFC.

Well this is bad for us fans; because the UFC really tries to pull the wool over our eyes with this kid and that’s just gonna be the norm from now on.

 

[Petarito]

He's garbage, we told you.

He is not garbage. He is a solid top 10 fighter