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Return of a Legend: Chase Hooper vs. Jim Miller Added to UFC 314 in Miami

Old Man Miller shows this geeky zoomer how it's done
Jim is an international treasure in the history of MMA.
That longevity is ridiculous. Schedueling a 58th fight against another young fighter and he’s coming off a win at age 51! The man wrestled since age 4 all his life and had many amateur kickboxing fights. That’s not human!
 
Fuck yeah! This should be a great test of Chase's grit and will probably turn into a war. I kind of give Miller the edge everywhere except momentum. If Chase can somehow get Miller on his back foot or hurt him early he could definitely take this. Miller is such an experienced technical dog though. Chase will still have to work for it if he wins unless he continues the tear and somehow just clips Miller right out of the gate.
 
Shit take based on nothing.
Werdum had worse striking all his career and only after grandpa age (by athlete standards) he developed a threatening muay thai game. There are many other examples.

Chase just turned 25 ffs.

Yea ok you don’t know what you’re talking about. Werdum tkod Gonzaga before he was even in Pride and had a ko on his record as well right after that fight. He’s also a heavyweight which is a huge weight difference from Chase Hooper
 
You are welcome to that opinion. I think he has improved massively and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Charles was really improved in his boxing when he fought Frankie, no longer the guy who would flail at his opponents until he could clinch/shoot on them. But people commented that he was still clearly levels below, and that at the highest level, he was never gonna be elite on account of being a quitter.

Fast forward.

Even though he had a few submission finishes while nearly completely cleaning up LW, a lot of it was based on his striking being some of the most lethal of the division.

To be fair, Hooper has been in the UFC since 2018
Yeah, but wasn't that like 6 months ago?
 
Yea ok you don’t know what you’re talking about. Werdum tkod Gonzaga before he was even in Pride and had a ko on his record as well right after that fight. He’s also a heavyweight which is a huge weight difference from Chase Hooper
None of that disproves anything I said. Your only counter was “HWs hit hard”. Gonzaga and werdume were both new to MMA with long careers as pure grapplers, second guy was a 36 year old bum (respectable bum, yet still a bum). His stand up was shit in comparison to his run to the ufc title (in his 30s) and that is a known fact.

You randomly made up a “ceiling” for a 25 year old fighter.

DC started training MMA in his 30s and has great stand up.

LW Charlie Olives’s stand up is light years better than FW.

I’m not saying the kid is the GOAT, hell i dont believe he will ever win a belt either, nor do I like him. But you’re absolutely just sticking to a purely subjective groundless opinion. Lets just wait and see how the flower blossoms.
 
None of that disproves anything I said. Your only counter was “HWs hit hard”. Gonzaga and werdume were both new to MMA with long careers as pure grapplers, second guy was a 36 year old bum (respectable bum, yet still a bum). His stand up was shit in comparison to his run to the ufc title (in his 30s) and that is a known fact.

You randomly made up a “ceiling” for a 25 year old fighter.

DC started training MMA in his 30s and has great stand up.

LW Charlie Olives’s stand up is light years better than FW.

I’m not saying the kid is the GOAT, hell i dont believe he will ever win a belt either, nor do I like him. But you’re absolutely just sticking to a purely subjective groundless opinion. Lets just wait and see how the flower blossoms.

Chase hooper literally has some of the worst mma striking I’ve seen since Ben Askren, but sure you’re right I should give him a chance to blossom before writing him off in the standup
 
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