You deserve an award for your commitment to your excuses; bravo. Maybe Minotauro Nogueira will give you a black belt.
It's painfully obvious that you have not seen these fights or at minimum haven't seen them since they aired because you keep relying on these unreliable stats (virtually anything is a "significant" strike lol) to try to defend Khamzat when ANYONE with eyes can see that he had noticeably faded in both of his fights that went 3 rounds.
He was much more gassed than a near 40 year old fighting above his weight class who had no training camp and had gotten smashed in a 10-8 first round... in what world did that give Khamzat's cardio an ounce of credibility??
"He has well known immune system issues" oh and those are suddenly cured now?? Or do they only exist when he doesn't dominate a fight?? You know Tra Telligman only has 1 pec which is really sad but it doesn't mean "2 Pec Telligman" is suddenly the HW GOAT lol this perfect version doesn't exist so whatever explanation you want to cling to, Khamzat's cardio is still poor and there has been zero proven evidence that it won't be exposed again if this fight goes into the later rounds.
That's not even to say that he's an overrated fighter and that he can't win this fight... he absolutely can and might... but your desperation to not acknowledge ANY sort of flaw in his performances is childish and sad. He's a human just like anyone else and he's fighting the proven best fighter in the division... you don't need to cry over people picking against him in a pick em fight lol. He could lose... get over it.
Thank you for the award, sir.
I'm mostly pushing back against the baseless narrative that he CAN'T win if it goes past round 1.
I mean, there's a reason that he's still undefeated.
I think the narrative exists because people want it to be true, and because people prefer to think in black/white terms, no nuance allowed.
I only spend time on this because I'm right, and I'm interested in how people react when they argue something that's provenly false.
Sometimes the reaction is anger, sometimes mockery, sometimes denial or deflection.
If someone can keep up a high output (vs Burns round 3, winning the round), still get takedowns (vs Usman round 3), and has never been finished, it's just insane to argue that he's doomed if it goes past round 1, yet everyone repeats it like NPCs.
I think it's the case of him in general being very dominant, so his detractors will latch onto anything to convince themselves, that this time, or under these circumstances, he will definitely lose.
Tldr; he goes from dominating, to being competitive. That's the jist of it.
Past round 1, of course Dricus chances increase, but not to the ridiculous point people like to believe.
Regarding his health issues; He said before Whittaker that he no longer overtrains, has a new doctor, etc, and that he was 100% healthy in the weeks leading up to that fight.
Usman was 36, not really "near 40".
