Why did Clay Guida run away from LW?

[barillas]

I wish he'd run from the UFC completely. He's the most annoying fighter in history. He bounces around in and out looking really busy and active but he's not actually doing anything other than bouncing around like a twat!!! He literally hugs his way to victory and the only entertaining fights he has are the ones he loses!!!

Love when Mini Mendes koed him, although it was an early stoppage, he deserved to be uncounscious

 

[barillas]

LOL. Guida contender at lw, not even top ten at FW. Frankie Edgar champion at lw, just contender at FW. Pearson drops to fw and gets knocked the fuck out, goes back to lw and goes on a streak. Siver way more successful at lw than fw. Lots of UFC lw's dropped down to FW after it was added but none of them have seen the kind of success fighters who drop down usually achieve. There's no Maia's or Boetsch's or Cormier who came down and ran through half the division. Still FW champ Aldo. Contenders like Mendes, Lamas, Holloway, McGregor. Swanson. All came up FWs. All tore through any UFC lw put in front of them.

Featherweight is way tougher that lightweight is. Aldo could have taken the belt of Edgar any time. Same thing with Pettis and most likely Bendo and RDA as well.

Very good post, I've never stopped to think about it, really good evidence against that notion that LW was more stacked than FW, perhaps it's because LW has been here a little longer. Thanks

 

[tenniswhiz]

LOL. Guida contender at lw, not even top ten at FW. Frankie Edgar champion at lw, just contender at FW. Pearson drops to fw and gets knocked the fuck out, goes back to lw and goes on a streak. Siver way more successful at lw than fw. Lots of UFC lw's dropped down to FW after it was added but none of them have seen the kind of success fighters who drop down usually achieve. There's no Maia's or Boetsch's or Cormier who came down and ran through half the division. Still FW champ Aldo. Contenders like Mendes, Lamas, Holloway, McGregor. Swanson. All came up FWs. All tore through any UFC lw put in front of them.

Featherweight is way tougher that lightweight is. Aldo could have taken the belt of Edgar any time. Same thing with Pettis and most likely Bendo and RDA as well.

All true.
Also, Poirier has mowed through his first two LW opponents, stopping both of them with strikes in under 3 minutes apiece.

 

[Chramelated]

Jesus some of you people are truly stupid.

TS clearly trolling

 

[Agnawedbone]

All true.
Also, Poirier has mowed through his first two LW opponents, stopping both of them with strikes in under 3 minutes apiece.

Yeah but I think in his particular case it's more about the quality of competition he's facing. Poirier looked just as good at FW until he started getting top ten opponents where he lost to every contender he fought. We'll have to see if he can maintain his momentum like Grant did after he dropped down from WW and unlike any lw has been able to do at fw.

 

[El Hombre]

Perhaps because he still has nightmares about Gray Maynard.

He'd put Gray to sleep if he gave him a free hit like that now.

 

[El Hombre]

LOL. Guida contender at lw, not even top ten at FW. Frankie Edgar champion at lw, just contender at FW. Pearson drops to fw and gets knocked the fuck out, goes back to lw and goes on a streak. Siver way more successful at lw than fw. Lots of UFC lw's dropped down to FW after it was added but none of them have seen the kind of success fighters who drop down usually achieve. There's no Maia's or Boetsch's or Cormier who came down and ran through half the division. Still FW champ Aldo. Contenders like Mendes, Lamas, Holloway, McGregor. Swanson. All came up FWs. All tore through any UFC lw put in front of them.

Featherweight is way tougher that lightweight is. Aldo could have taken the belt of Edgar any time. Same thing with Pettis and most likely Bendo and RDA as well.

All good apart from: McGregor 'coming up'.

 

[capnlarge]

Guida has to be near the top of the list for strikes absorbed. The downturn in his success is probably more about him being shopworn

 

[Agnawedbone]

All good apart from: McGregor 'coming up'.

Lots of fighters drop a weight class when they hit the big leagues, I personally don't count any of his little league lightweight fights against cans. Since joining the UFC Conor has had six fights, all at featherweight. Sure, everyone else his size fights at lightweight and sure, he cuts 30 pounds and would have a reach advantage over all but three top fifteen lightweights, but I'd still say it's accurate enough to say he came up as a featherweight since that's where he's spent his entire UFC career.

 

[h0lydiver]

yall are crazy, guida has had one helluva career (the gray fight was strange but you can see he is following some kind of jackson game plan in there, and it's about the only way he could beat someone that's that better a wrestler) but did seem to do better at 155