Paulo Costa *kills* Khamzat Chimaev

[Shilajit]

Sorry you wrote so much, because I stopped reading after the first line.

You totally ignored the fact that Khamzat is stupid, he is also short-winded, and his skillset in punching isn't there.

I literally described how Khamzat threw "hammer-fists" in the trenches with Burns, losing all professional technique.

Truly good strikers don't lose their technique in the trenches.

Keeping one's technique in the trenches is literally what separates the professionals from the pretenders.

Making stupid decisions, being short-winded, and losing technique deep in a firefight (against a smaller guy) = disaster when Khamzat faces elite competition against a big guy.

Say what you want after this, make no difference to me.

Judging someone's talent and potential in such an absolute way based on a few mistakes made during a single fight, whilst still being relatively inexperienced is just silly.

At this stage, every few months represents a massive leap in development.

I think it's smarter to focus on the positive take aways, rather than holding someone to their mistakes as if it will define their career forever at that stage.

Fighting a more calculated, measured, technical fight vs deciding to brawl is a very fixable thing. The most important thing is the baseline skillset. Which he very much has.

 

[fjodor]

I don't see Khamzat holding down Costa. It's a bad matchup for him.

 

[DrTrouble]

The good news is we can discuss the real possibility of this fight happening. I hope this fight is a 5 rds main event.

They should fight in Sweden. Why is Kham even calling out Jiri for Sweden? Jiri is still injured and a LHW.

 

[Willek]

Weren’t Sherdoggers going on about how awesome Paulo was when he mocked Yoel’s salute? Then he lost to Izzy and got the “never any good” “never a fan” treatment.

 

[nonoob]

Why is Kham calling out Jiri for Sweden?

So he can call mommy local after Jiri doles out a serious ass-whoopin'.

 

[Adamant]

But will it be at sea level?