Would Jailton Almeida do better at light heavyweight?

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His original weight class. I think he would. He was crushing it until he ran into Blaydes. Even then he was able to outwrestle him in round one. Light heavyweight has a severe lack of wrestling talent. With the right matchup he could get a title shot.
 
Might be... dude was taking down Blaydes at will pretty much... I don't think there are many LHWs who can stop him.
 
Taking blades down with no threat to finish was a risky move. Look for him to get a quick finish tonight vs roma. LHW and HW are both pretty weak rn, maybe he dont wanna cut weight
 
He can’t strike to save his life.

At HW most dudes are slow fatties that can’t wrestle, Almeida is a freak athlete with highly questionable traps lol.

So he can just beat everyone not top 10 at HW because it’s a shallow pool of unskilled grapplers.

But at LHW there are a lot of freaks on the sauce across the division that are lightning fast and dangerous standing where he can’t just easily get in on body locks or tip them over with low singles. The consequences for bad entries goes up and the ability of most opponents to be able to counter goes up.

With his skill set he’s good enough to be top 10 in either but the odds of him being sparked standing go up incredibly at LHW.

Just watch how he fights, he has no confidence in his ability to strike or take damage.
 
No he just needs to work on striking as a backup plan, maybe like Jacare did, where the striking is more effective because your grappling threat. Then needs to work on keeping guys down and using more strikes while staying in control.
 
blaseblase said:
His original weight class. I think he would. He was crushing it until he ran into Blaydes. Even then he was able to outwrestle him in round one. Light heavyweight has a severe lack of wrestling talent. With the right matchup he could get a title shot.
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I know at first it was a puzzling decision, but he's been at HW so long now I don't really think of him as a bulked up LHW anymore.

There are so many heavyweights with no real grappling acumen that I think he's in the right division for now. Notice the UFC are reluctant to put him against the heavy hitters for fear he just takes them down and works them over - that's a positive sign if you ask me, he's soon going to run out of guys that can wrestle, there's only really Romanov/Tybura/Spivac that he hasn't faced outside the top 3, and I fancy him to beat all of those guys.
 
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I know at first it was a puzzling decision, but he's been at HW so long now I don't really think of him as a bulked up LHW anymore.

There are so many heavyweights with no real grappling acumen that I think he's in the right division for now. Notice the UFC are reluctant to put him against the heavy hitters for fear he just takes them down and works them over - that's a positive sign if you ask me, he's soon going to run out of guys that can wrestle, there's only really Romanov/Tybura/Spivac that he hasn't faced outside the top 3, and I fancy him to beat all of those guys.
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There are even less wrestlers at light heavyweight though. They don't have a Blaydes, an Aspinall, or even a Stipe.
 
The only fights I remember seeing of his was Lewis and Blaydes and the thing I noticed instantly is that he looks really afraid to get hit. He's able to take down big guys easily so far so I don't think it's a weight issue and I also don't think moving down in weight would necessarily help his fear of strikes if that's what the problem is. LHWs can still knock out HWs.
 
He'd beat the current champ pretty easily. Other than that, not sure.
 
Maybe, but it could be the other way around.

I actually think a lot of good 205ers could just stop cutting weight and do very well at HW.

Obviously they aren't getting past the likes of Blaydes, Pavlovich and Aspinall, the guys who are just as if not more skilled AND have upper end HW frames.

But they would most likely all get ranked. Nobody here really thinks any of the good 205ers would have any issue with the Josh Parisian's of the world right? They would mow right over the sloppy fat guys outside of the rankings.
 
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