Stipe is an extremely skilled striker, it's why he's out striking other skilled strikers. your statement is falselmao yeah right cause stipe is a hw sugar ray robinson. If you are a hw it all comes down to your cardio, how hard you hit and how good your chin is.
So basically a bigger version of himself
extremly skilled?Stipe is an extremely skilled striker, it's why he's out striking other skilled strikers. your statement is false
yes. clearly. the way he outstrikes everyone, including supposedly 'legendary' strikers, demonstrates it. hes a much superior striker to anyone ive seen in the heavyweight division of mma. his footwork alone puts him way out ahead of a lot of good heavyweight strikers.extremly skilled?
Crumble is the best technical striker in his division.

My honest assessment after hearing one of his post fight interviews is he seems to have a major concern of long term brain injury if he continued this sport and he basically went in and tried to get a quick KO and realized again that Cormier has a granite chin and wasn't gonna go out easy and basically took the path of the least amount of damage to get out of the fight . He also said in the interview that he has never been about this life (fighting) and the only reason he did it was because it paid well and was naturally good at it.I still can't figure out WTF Johnson was doing against Cormier the second time..