Todd Duffee is 29 years old and cannot be written off

TS, these HW's that were 38 are former champs and were always top HW's in their prime and youth as fighters. Todd Duffee never hit that mark, not even close. Frankly, the guy is just not that good.
 
He's a good athlete with pop in his punches, but he's one dimensional, has poor fight IQ, and his chin will always be a question. Doesn't mean he can't improve though. But he's a somewhat dangerous low tier fighter for now
 
VAfan said:
was thinking the same thing, he looked far better against russow, his striking was much crisper.
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Russow wasn't throwing much back until late in the fight of course so it was much easier for the Duffman to pick him apart with less pressure. He knew vs Mir that his defence wouldn't stand up to a long match, it was either KO or be KOed early and being that aggressive will entail being sloppy.

He'll probably have a spot in the UFC as long as he wants one given how entertaining he is and his ability to destroy lower level opponents quickly to rebuild his hype. For his long term health though he might be better sticking to only fighting lesser names elsewhere, he's lucky that big exciting HW's can make good money headlining shows outside the big leagues.
 
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Yeah well, gonna need to borrow some DVDs from somebody and work on that fight IQ.
 
jonJpatrick said:
I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise but I am pretty perplexed by all of the silliness I'm reading about Todd Duffee.

The guy is 29 years old. The Heavyweight champion turns 38 in two weeks time. Arlovski, his probable challenger, is 36. Frank Mir is 36.

Duffee has suffered a hard loss like ALL of the above have in their career, but make no mistake about it - he is young and will have learned from this experience. If you add up his minutes fought in a competitive environment ESPECIALLY over the last 4 years it is ridiculously low. He's still raw and working out holes in his approach and these can only be fixed with time and experience.

For all of the talk about chin - you show me a Heavyweight that would have eaten that shot and not gone to sleep. It doesn't happen. Duffee's approach/defense is flawed but it's iladvised and lazy to label him a glass chin. Mir tagged him and it had little to no effect. Hamilton tagged him and it had no effect. De Fries even landed a number of punches against the cage.

It was a very strong possibility that Duffee didn't handle the occasion and the spotlight well enough and as a result strayed from what his coaches would have told him to do. Providing he hasn't walked away with any injuries the absolute best thing for him would be to get another fight in ASAP. There are too many gaps in his career and that is the reason for his patchy approach in a competitive environment.

I would just like to post this to put it on record for the future. I believe in Todd Duffee and a loss to Frank Mir won't change that.
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I agree with you. He's taken 3 bad KOs but how many has Mir taken? How many has Overeem taken? Arlovski? The point is he's only 29 and just has 3 losses. He could have easily finished Mir yesterday and we'd be having a different conversation, he cracked him with some good ones.
 
mjmj said:
If you bothered to read the replies you got back then, most of them were saying “No shit”. It wasn’t ground breaking perspective back then, not sure why you’d bump a 5 year old thread, other than a strange need for attention.
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Don't be confused by what people post. Silence speaks volumes here and Duff had loads of hype when I started that thread. I started that thread a week before the Overeem fight and he was getting plenty of hype.
 
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JKS said:
TS, these HW's that were 38 are former champs and were always top HW's in their prime and youth as fighters. Todd Duffee never hit that mark, not even close. Frankly, the guy is just not that good.
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True enough but just because he hasn't hit that level doesn't mean he can't. Some guys are slow developers. He wrecks the lower level guys, I still think he can turn it around. Do I think it's likely? No. I also didn't think it was likely that Arlovski would be in line for a title shot. I thought Mark Hunt turning his career around was unlikely (although he's close to done imo, too much damage).
 
Too early to write him off imo, he will likely destroy whoever he gets matched up with next.
 
I wrote him off 5 years ago bruh, don't tell me what to do.
 
I think a more accurate assessment would read, "Todd Duffee is written off and cannot be 29 years old."
 
I agree with those saying he actually looks worse and less technical than he did back in the day. His striking looked crisp against Russow. If only he had mixed it up with some kicks and body shots he wouldve finished that fight and his career wouldve turned out different. Instead he suffered maybe the most humiliating defeat in MMA history. That shit gotta affect you
 
HHJ said:
he actually looks like he regressed. Yes he had a hard time to put away russow but i thought his strikes looked good. He just didnt have the experience yet. In his last fight he just bum rush the guy like he is Mike Kyle. Mir is the guy youd think that would work against and he couldnt get the job done there either.UFC HW needs some damn new blood,but this guy is NOT it,unfortunatley
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I agree. He has regressed. He actually looked good against Russow before Russow caught him. He had a good jab and good movement in that fight. Just no chin and that obviously hasn't and won't get any better.
 
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JDS would have eaten that shot AND not thrown punches like a wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tubeman.
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That shot would've dropped dos santos at the very least. Duffee ran into a clean power punch at full force.

I say that punch Knocks out 95% of the division. Duffee just has horrible defense/technique
 
He should fight the winner of Daniel Omielanczuk v. Chris de la Rocha. Timing wise it makes sense and it's a big step down which I think he needs right now.
 
Also looked like he didn't understand how to fight a southpaw. He hit Mir with some big shots too though... the way they were slugging either one could have gotten KOed.

He's young and athletic enough that he can still get into the upper echelon if he gets his technique and mind right. It is surprising that his technique and fight IQ seem so poor considering he trains at a pretty good camp (ATT).

The HW division is very thin so of all the divisions it is one where he could move up quickly.
 
He relies 100% on this athletic ability and he has the worst chin in the division. He makes Arlovski and Overeem look like Mark Hunt.
 
Roop Holstry said:
That shot would've dropped dos santos at the very least. Duffee ran into a clean power punch at full force.

I say that punch Knocks out 95% of the division. Duffee just has horrible defense/technique
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hard punch but everytime he gets hit he looks like he died. Out cold before he hits the ground.
 
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