Media The one man Jon Jones could not get the better of

jeff7b9 said:
Seems like a lot of highly accomplished fighters have a "coming up short" experience to drive them.


Ronda: Bronze
Jones: 3rd place
DC: Olympics no medal
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John's supreme talent is his super ulta hyper response to roids, he just becomes another man and gleans 4 times the gains in terms of capabilities and mindset and performance another fighter would get, he also gets less side effects.
 
otis604 said:
Not a fighter but Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team during his sophomore year and he also seemed to recover from that setback.
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now if only he could beat larry bird in playoffs
 
jeff7b9 said:
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RonDante said:
Reyes landed more and better in the third, and it doesn’t look good that the guy jones lost to gets put out cold by everyone else he fights
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Reyes was a machine before the jon fight.it would be different if he had those losses before the jon fight
 
Richard Fannin said:
Mirko Filipovic also "came up short" in his kickboxing career, never being able to win the early K1 GP he took part in, since he could never beat his boogeyman, Ernesto Hoost... Must have sucked to have a prime "Mr Perfect" as your rival/objective as a young promising kickboxer.

Anyway, it fueled him to compensate by being more successful in his MMA career, even going as far as claiming that he would retire if he didn't win the PRIDE 2006 GP.


I realize that newer fans might no realize it, but Cro Cop has been a top 3 HW for many, many years, and for a long time he would have been the betting favorite against anyone in the world in MMA, aside from Fedor of course.

In MMA, he won the PRIDE 2006 OWGP,


and the RIZIN 2016 OWGP

In kickboxing, he finally got his wish and won the 2012 K1 GP.


As a lifelong Cro Cop fan, It felt really good watching him win that last one in particular, when you knew his complicated history with K1 GPs...
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You are good people, sir.
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Captain_Dammitt said:
Because Matt Lindland did so well against southpaws.
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jeff7b9 said:
The Law was nowhere to be found in the UFC when Anderson took over. It was a lawless wasteland.

There were quite a few posters on here that were convinced that Lindland would beat Anderson back in those days.
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Yes, Sherbros, I'm well aware. There was a whole cult of personality around Lindland for a little while, even a documentary film IIRC made about how Dana kept Lindland away from the UFC even though Lindland was supposedly "The #1 MW on the planet".

I do think it's interesting how Fedor did against the Team Quest:
- lost to Hendo in a slobber-knocker
- beat Chael
- beat Lindland but grabbed the rope to stop a takedown IIRC.

It's a shame we never got to see Fedor fight the main Team Quest guy, Captain America.
 
Matt Riddle is unbeaten since 2012
Jones lost to Reyes and his fight against Santos is very questionable
 
Greatest Combat fighter of all time triple Champ Henry Cejudo also lost to a guy trained by a Matt
 
What is it with Matts and the GOATs?

Matt Riddle
Matt Hammill
Matt Hughes
Matt Serra
 
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