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This is why you see him now, with a huge cope smile on his face, looking like he didn't even try to make the weight (as opposed to someone that truly tried, like Travis Lutter, for example).
Yes fighters get dropped or even knocked out cold in their careers and are often able to come back stronger. But there was something so different about the way he went down here. It is absolutely the most effeminate, emasculated position I have EVER seen a fighter put into in MMA or boxing history, and to a man half his size, after having built himself in his head to match the media hype of thinking he was an invincible wrecking machine. It was extremely uncomfortable and disturbing to watch in real time.
He has had a complete mental breakdown from the admittedly huge pressure of needing to live up to the image the media have thrust upon him, and more importantly the pressure he put on himself to live up to that, forcing him to confront fighters like Paolo Costa of which he has zero intention of fighting (as evidenced by his desperate ducking answer when asked by a reporter).
He is having a complete meltdown and having to come in grossly overweight because he needs the massive size advantage for the confidence to fight the bloated 37 year old LW 155er that has looked like a punching bag for years now. Heck, his punishment from the UFC should be a forced move to MW to fight Costa, it would be like the scene in Jurassic Park where they drop the goat into the T-Rex cage.
Yes fighters get dropped or even knocked out cold in their careers and are often able to come back stronger. But there was something so different about the way he went down here. It is absolutely the most effeminate, emasculated position I have EVER seen a fighter put into in MMA or boxing history, and to a man half his size, after having built himself in his head to match the media hype of thinking he was an invincible wrecking machine. It was extremely uncomfortable and disturbing to watch in real time.
He has had a complete mental breakdown from the admittedly huge pressure of needing to live up to the image the media have thrust upon him, and more importantly the pressure he put on himself to live up to that, forcing him to confront fighters like Paolo Costa of which he has zero intention of fighting (as evidenced by his desperate ducking answer when asked by a reporter).
He is having a complete meltdown and having to come in grossly overweight because he needs the massive size advantage for the confidence to fight the bloated 37 year old LW 155er that has looked like a punching bag for years now. Heck, his punishment from the UFC should be a forced move to MW to fight Costa, it would be like the scene in Jurassic Park where they drop the goat into the T-Rex cage.
