Poatan is not big enough for 205.

[Leon Edwards]

Potan is tall and lean but he does not have a massive frame and he is not thick. He has skinny legs.

He will be out muscled by guys at 205.

 

[Steve Fox]

You do know he walks around at 230 lb, right?

 

[AmonTobin]

"Too big for 185", "too small for 205". Which is it?

 

[Poatan Power]

Potan is tall and lean but he does not have a massive frame and he is not thick. He has skinny legs.

He will be out muscled by guys at 205.

??? Skinny legs is a very big advantage. If I want to weigh a lot for my weight class (like 225-230 for weighing in at 205) I want explosive power and speed from my lower body, not tons of tissue to slow me down and have huge oxygen demand. Legs become an albatross when you aren't sprinting or have to fight for 25 minutes.

 

[chinarice]

Anderson Silva did not look outsized against Forrest and Bonnar at 205 and he's smaller than Pereira.

He's gonna look like he is a 205'er when the time comes

 

[humdizzle]

you do know that every thought in your brain doesn't need to be a new post right?

 

[Oregonmma]

Potan is tall and lean but he does not have a massive frame and he is not thick. He has skinny legs.

He will be out muscled by guys at 205.

Jon's legs are very skinny and he happens to be the greatest of all time lol

 

[arcadeperfect]

"Too big for 185", "too small for 205". Which is it?

Franklinweight.

 

[Quietus]

It's true to some extent, here's the thing, he's huge for 185 but he's not going to proportionately gain 20lbs of lean muscle and cut the same amount of water to make 205, he's going to gain a small amount of real weight and just cut less water to make 205, he won't be much bigger than he was in the cage at MW. He won't tower over guys like he did at 185.

The performance gain might come from him not having to dehydrate as much, maybe he can eat a clean shot without getting rocked like in the last two fights. Then again guys will hit harder at 205 so that might negate having a better chin. Bottom line, UFC pushed him to make this move so that Adesanya doesn't have to fight him again, that's all there is to it, it wasn't even his choice or idea, they probably gave him a nice juicy contract with promise of a quick title shot if he went up to 205.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

Potan is tall and lean but he does not have a massive frame and he is not thick. He has skinny legs.

He will be out muscled by guys at 205.

Of course he's big enough for 205. Here he is with an average Sherdogger @BoxerMaurits , and they are about the same size. If anything, Poatan is about 6'6'' and 255 pounds of muscle, per the usual Sherdogger standard

 

[AmonTobin]

Franklinweight.

I'm all for catchweights. If it facilitates more excellent matchmaking.

 

[Fatback96]

Last I checked the current LHW champ got submitted by Paul Craig. He should be fine.

 

[SuperNerd]

 

[gentel]

"Too big for 185", "too small for 205". Which is it?

God tier size for 185, decent but nothing special size for 205

 

[AmonTobin]

God tier size for 185, decent but nothing special size for 205

That's a pretty common scenario for fighters who can make weight for a lower weight class.

 

[KOPPE]

he was murking the best 209ers on Glory with relative ease. this is his natural weight

 

[TempleoftheDog]

What a horrible troll thread.

 

[ExitLUPin]

Here he is with Jailton whos a ranked HW

Johnny Walker a hooge 205

Reyes

Try again babyboi

 

[Steve Fox]

Here he is with Jailton whos a ranked HW

Johnny Walker a hooge 205

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Reyes

Try again babyboi

Lmfao, he is huge.

 

[Luthien]