News Tai Tuivasa vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik set for UFC 305 on Aug 18th

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Tai by submission. Didn't Rozenstruik get submitted in under 3 minutes by Jailton?
 
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Tai is just a sloppy fat can at this point who need to lay off the Dominos and actually work on trying to develop somewhat of a ground game

Should just stick to food eating contests instead of MMA
 
mangokush said:
Tai is just a sloppy fat can at this point who need to lay off the Dominos and actually work on trying to develop somewhat of a ground game

Should just stick to food eating contests instead of MMA
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Yeah i think a lot of people thought he's fat cause he's Samoan but that's clearly not the case. He's just woefully undisciplined. If he was serious he'd have dropped some weight by now, he's barely hanging on in the top-15 and is losing to everybody.
 
Rozenstruik by TKO round 2 or 3. Tuivasa is just too sloppy, he is a sloppy mess, never been impressed with him personally. Rozenstruik is much more technical and accurate and has a lot of striking experience

Tuivasa saying he is happy its not a wrestler, but honestly he gets dropped like every fight in the striking, he's been beaten up in the striking a lot in UFC, and its not hard to drop him.

I thought we might get Rozenstruik vs Lewis next.
 
Portland8242 said:
Yeah i think a lot of people thought he's fat cause he's Samoan but that's clearly not the case. He's just woefully undisciplined. If he was serious he'd have dropped some weight by now, he's barely hanging on in the top-15 and is losing to everybody.
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i mean he is fat because he's Samoan, but he's sloppy and out of shape because he's a slob. you can be fat and still be in shape. Cain, Fedor, Mark Hunt, they were all pudgy or fat but when they were in shape they were in shape. i don't think i've ever seen Tai in shape. that beer drinking out of the shoe shit isn't just a gimmick, that's how that dude lives his life.

i mean look at his "evolution". he's probably worse now than when he first came to UFC. now he literally just punches, at least before he threw kicks and flying knees. now he just throws punches and has never improved his ground game. he's like a UFC 1 fighter level of skill.
 
I'll pick Rozenstruik by TKO. Tai's chin seems cracked and his lifetime as a defensive liability is catching up to him. These last few fights he always seems a step behind and even a bit checked out at times. His reckless brawling and relentless forward pressure is asking for trouble against a counter-striker like Jairzinho, who is very comfortable playing the sniper and picking out his kill shots off the back foot. Both men have more than enough power to hurt each other with a single clean shot, but Jairzinho has way better timing and shot selection.

I wouldn't put it past Tai to manage to crash the pocket and land something big that swings the momentum in his favor. He's done it before. We've also seen Rozenstruik get swarmed and clipped in fast-paced striking exchanges by the likes of Ngannou and Volkov. However, beyond this eventuality I think Bam Bam eats a check hook or something while lunging in and tastes the canvas early.

justmark said:
Tai by submission. Didn't Rozenstruik get submitted in under 3 minutes by Jailton?
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Not really sure where you're going with this. Tai got subbed in under a round by Tybura his last time out. Before that he got subbed by Volkov with a meme choke in the second... and Volkov mind you is largely known as a purist kickboxer in the division. The former was Marcin's first sub in nearly ten years, since before he started competing in the UFC. The latter was Volkov's first sub in almost eight years... with his last once again predating his time in the promotion.

It took nearly 4 minutes for Jailton Almeida to finish Rozenstruik, who actually managed to successfully stuff the Brazilian's first TD and stay alive on the mat longer than many of Almeida's previous victims by fighting hands and minding his position. It's the only time he's ever been subbed and it was by the division's best all-around grappler.

Tai has precisely zero wins via submission on his record. He has never attempted any subs in the UFC. He has also attempted a grand total of three takedowns in 15 UFC fights spanning almost seven years (none of which were successful).
 
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