Media Wonderboy training like a beast

Felya said:
I like wonderboy but he has one semi-relevant win in like five years. If he were to beat Khamzat it would do more for his career than any other fight he won. Winner of Khamzat/Edwards arguably gets a title shot. Winner of Wonderboy/Neal gets to open the card for that event.
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He was robbed vs twood 2x
 
DidYouJustGetHere said:
To be fair Zabit has done quite a lot of ducking himself. And Khamzat is not ducking anyone, that's absolutely ridiculous.
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There are a bunch of names in the top 10 calli g him out, but he's choosing to avoid fighting to sit out and wait for Leon.

The entire appeal of Khamzat is his crazy activity of fight anyone anytime, but once he starts fighting actual contenders his tone changes real quick.

Let's not forget, so far CM Punk has faced tougher match up's than Khamzat has.
 
I thought he retired like for real.
 
Neal with another tko finish, now that he's gone full-time
 
Straatblaffer said:
Not being interested in fighting an unranked talent as a legend, is not ducking. Ducking is what Khamzat does with Magny, or Yair with Zabit. Ducking is when you can get a fight that makes sense, but come up with excuses multiple times.
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Khamzat is literally fighting a guy much better than Magny lol. How is he ducking?
 
JoshR86 said:
There are a bunch of names in the top 10 calli g him out, but he's choosing to avoid fighting to sit out and wait for Leon.

The entire appeal of Khamzat is his crazy activity of fight anyone anytime, but once he starts fighting actual contenders his tone changes real quick.

Let's not forget, so far CM Punk has faced tougher match up's than Khamzat has.
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How do you know it's not the UFC telling him to stand by? UFC is looking at this from a business perspective, they know he's their new cash cow. Why book him in a fight that wouldn't mean anything and risk him losing? They will give him a title shot right away if he wins against Leon. As good as Usman is, he's not exactly the most exciting fighter in and out the cage. It's pretty obvious they want him replaced, why do you think they changed Leon's ranking?

A fighter with no wikipedia page and Mickey Gall are tougher matchups? You can't be serious. Also it's not all about matchups anyways, the fashion in which he proceeded to destroy his competition in his last three UFC fights (and all the previous ones) speaks volume. Yes he is untested against top ranked guys but so was Jones when he first started in the UFC. People were saying the same thing about him and thought that Shogun was gonna destroy him...
 
DidYouJustGetHere said:
How do you know it's not the UFC telling him to stand by? UFC is looking at this from a business perspective, they know he's their new cash cow. Why book him in a fight that wouldn't mean anything and risk him losing? They will give him a title shot right away if he wins against Leon. As good as Usman is, he's not exactly the most exciting fighter in and out the cage. It's pretty obvious they want him replaced, why do you think they changed Leon's ranking?

A fighter with no wikipedia page and Mickey Gall are tougher matchups? You can't be serious. Also it's not all about matchups anyways, the fashion in which he proceeded to destroy his competition in his last three UFC fights (and all the previous ones) speaks volume. Yes he is untested against top ranked guys but so was Jones when he first started in the UFC. People were saying the same thing about him and thought that Shogun was gonna destroy him...
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Mickey Gall who CM Punk first fought is better than anyone Khamzat fought in the UFC, it's not even debatable.

I like how defensive you get.

1. My entire point is that Khamzat is marketed as someone who will fight every month against anyone if he could, and that once he's fighting *legit* contenders, that goes out the window, he's not that guy that they are selling him to be.

2.We don't know what goes on behind the scenes, we are concluding it from his social media, where he shows no interest in fighting anyone but Leon, and is *happily* sitting out to wait for him.

3. I agree Khamzat has become a gimmick that the UFC can sell, and they want to protect that gimmick to gullible fans like yourself. In reality Khamzat is just like every other fighter, who picks the best fights for himself and then shelves himself until he gets it.
 
JoshR86 said:
Mickey Gall who CM Punk first fought is better than anyone Khamzat fought in the UFC, it's not even debatable.
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Wrong. When Mickey Gall fought CM punk he was 2-0 against nobodies. Also there are other fight organisations outside the UFC and Khamzat happened to beat a world sambo champion pretty convincingly (he knocked him out).

JoshR86 said:
1. My entire point is that Khamzat is marketed as someone who will fight every month against anyone if he could, and that once he's fighting *legit* contenders, that goes out the window, he's not that guy that they are selling him to be.
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Please read again what you said; "he's choosing to avoid fights and sit out". To which I replied the UFC might be forcing him to stand by.

JoshR86 said:
2.We don't know what goes on behind the scenes, we are concluding it from his social media, where he shows no interest in fighting anyone but Leon, and is *happily* sitting out to wait for him.
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Again, the UFC might be behind this. How do you know that he's happy about the situation? Because he's smiling a lot in his pictures?

JoshR86 said:
3. I agree Khamzat has become a gimmick that the UFC can sell, and they want to protect that gimmick to gullible fans like yourself. In reality Khamzat is just like every other fighter, who picks the best fights for himself and then shelves himself until he gets it.
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I'm anything but gullible...I've been a MMA fan for a very long time and I know an outstanding fighter when I see one. Sadly many people don't. There is also no reason for me (so far) to believe that Khamzat is not a anyplace/anytime type of fighter. UFC has a lot of say in this. I guess we'll find out for sure as time goes by.
 
Felya said:
I like wonderboy but he has one semi-relevant win in like five years.
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huh?

Masvidal, Rory and Hendricks semi relevant wins? He also drew with prime Woodley. Most media and fans thought he should have gotten that decision vs Till. Hendricks was still good at the time and was coming of a win over Matt Brown. Rory was coming of a title fight loss and Masvidal got outclassed.
 
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