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Fuuuuuuck. I liked laureano
He's a horrible fighter to bet on at present, since he improves SO much from bout to bout. Like most of the forum, I was heavily on Hector Aldana to beat Staropoli for his UFC debut. Staropoli looked horrendous on the tape! Bad striking, even worse grappling.
So then he comes out and solidly beats Aldana, looking like a respectable, borderline UFC talent and showing a seismic level of improvement compared to the last tape of him less than a year and a half prior.
Against Alves, much of the forum was on Thiago, somehow ignoring what had happened with Aldanan. I avoided the trap, and sure enough, Staropoli shows even more improvement.
Now Kunchenko, uninspiring debut against the aforementioned Alves aside, is a much tougher foe than Alves, and has now acclimated himself to fighting 3 rounds instead of the 5 he was used to. Fighters don't improve indefinitely, either. So yet again, it would have been a fight to avoid, even if you really like Starapoli.
Burns vs. Kunchenko is a much better fight, since we're looking at two largely finished products.