Media RDA sweeping Colby and Kamaru with a kimura

HNIC215 said:
RDA the fuckin legend.

Would have loved to see him put a beating on Conor.
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Absolutely, RDA is easily a top 7 all time LW and has some great wins at WW too. I think he was the first person in a long time to win rounds against Colby and Usman at the time as well. Very underrated fighter and I think he would have been a terrible match up for Conor and would have submitted him after beating up his legs.
 
NoBiasJustMMA said:
Absolutely, RDA is easily a top 7 all time LW and has some great wins at WW too. I think he was the first person in a long time to win rounds against Colby and Usman at the time as well. Very underrated fighter and I think he would have been a terrible match up for Conor and would have submitted him after beating up his legs.
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RDA deserved that payday. It's a shame he got hurt. His strength of schedule is ridiculous.
 
Substance Abuse said:
RDA deserved that payday. It's a shame he got hurt. His strength of schedule is ridiculous.
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Yeah at LW I don't think anyone has him equaled or beaten in terms of strength of schedule. He's like his buddy Werdum at HW both in there fighting styles after training at Kings MMA and in there strength of schedule.
 
Izzysexboyfriend said:
He wouldn’t have beat Conor
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I disagree, Conor has a much harder time landing his left hands on fellow southpaws and his wide stance left him open to low kicks. I think RDA would have landed low kicks on him and would close the distance to the clinch and repeat until he took Conor down and would eventually submit or TKO him on the ground in a 5 round fight.
 
FlyingDeathKick said:
I think current day RDA beats current Conor despite getting up there in age but 2015/2016 Conor starches RDA.
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The Conor that got finished by Diaz and nearly lost a decision to him?

I seriously doubt that.

He had one a good outing against Eddie but being 1-3 at LW it seems doubtful he would have had anything for peak RDA.
 
NoBiasJustMMA said:
I disagree, Conor has a much harder time landing his left hands on fellow southpaws and his wide stance left him open to low kicks. I think RDA would have landed low kicks on him and would close the distance to the clinch and repeat until he took Conor down and would eventually submit or TKO him on the ground in a 5 round fight.
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Nah that was prime Conor and he was in his head
 
matrixremaster said:
The Conor that got finished by Diaz and nearly lost a decision to him?

I seriously doubt that.

He had one a good outing against Eddie but being 1-3 at LW it seems doubtful he would have had anything for peak RDA.
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The RDA that got finished by Eddie (who had absolutely nothing for Conor)? Nate was a last minute opponent change (because RDA pulled out) and even tho Nate is not the best fighter he is underrated and typically only loses to fighters that implement a certain style (wrestling and leg kicks).

RDA had the perfect style to beat Nate but Conor did not. Aside from when Thomson caught him with a head kick and the Masvidal fight (he was starting to come on but they stopped it because of a cut) nobody else has beaten him in a standup fight.

Conor is a striker who imo has underrated tdd, Khabib got him down but Khabib is Khabib. I think Conor would have lit RDA up, it's a matter of whether or not RDA could weather the storm.
 
FlyingDeathKick said:
The RDA that got finished by Eddie (who had absolutely nothing for Conor)? Nate was a last minute opponent change (because RDA pulled out) and even tho Nate is not the best fighter he is underrated and typically only loses to fighters that implement a certain style (wrestling and leg kicks).

RDA had the perfect style to beat Nate but Conor did not. Aside from when Thomson caught him with a head kick and the Masvidal fight (he was starting to come on but they stopped it because of a cut) nobody else has beaten him in a standup fight.

Conor is a striker who imo has underrated tdd, Khabib got him down but Khabib is Khabib. I think Conor would have lit RDA up, it's a matter of whether or not RDA could weather the storm.
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Again... that was one fight.

You can't MMA math your way into Conor being a threat to top LW's like RDA when he went 1-3 in division and got bettered by Nathan Diaz.

RDA kicked Nates ass and Conor lost to him, I don't see you using that MMA math.

Nick Thompson beat Eddie as well. Does this mean he can beat RDA?
 
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FlyingDeathKick said:
The RDA that got finished by Eddie (who had absolutely nothing for Conor)? Nate was a last minute opponent change (because RDA pulled out) and even tho Nate is not the best fighter he is underrated and typically only loses to fighters that implement a certain style (wrestling and leg kicks).

RDA had the perfect style to beat Nate but Conor did not. Aside from when Thomson caught him with a head kick and the Masvidal fight (he was starting to come on but they stopped it because of a cut) nobody else has beaten him in a standup fight.

Conor is a striker who imo has underrated tdd, Khabib got him down but Khabib is Khabib. I think Conor would have lit RDA up, it's a matter of whether or not RDA could weather the storm.
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I think you're totally ignoring how the stances of the fighters changes this match up and RDA's kicks, cardio, great chin and wrestling/BJJ factors in.

Eddie being an orthodox fighter and being an aggressive brawler who doesn't mix in takedowns, kicks or the clinch much made Conor a bad match up for him. RDA is the opposite of that, he's a southpaw that pretty much every fight mixes up low kicks, takedowns, clinch fighting.
 
NoBiasJustMMA said:
I think you're totally ignoring how the stances of the fighters changes this match up and RDA's kicks, cardio, great chin and wrestling/BJJ factors in.
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Objectively conors not the easiest matchup for rda either.

the first round he would have rda on the back foot where rda doesn’t excel.
Hes a accurate puncher and could catch rda in the mid range in the first couple rounds.

rdas chin is good but not diaz good, look at rdas record against heavy handed guys thats a large chunk of his loses is from big punchers.

The southpaw stance isn’t a huge factor that left hand was finding a home on dustin in all three fights.
And dustin is a much better boxer than rda especially off the back foot, rda has the leg kicks and wrestling but when conors fresh and pushing him back those kicks wont be easy to get off.

slightly favor rda but its not great matchup for him either objectively
 
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