You guys remember when Demian Maia pieced up Colby?

usernamee said:
Colby vs Maia ended like this

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If that fight was five rounds Colby would've finished Maia.


Colby fought Maia BEFORE Usman did by the way who fought Maia right after this in a five rounder and never came close to stopping him.

In fact, Maia took Usman's back in the 1st round and was saved by the referee who stupidly separated them in one of the worst ref calls ever.

Maia even rocked Usman on the feet once, there used to be a GIF for it but I can't find it now.
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Honestly forget about. 5 rounds Colby needed no more than 30 seconds
 
Maia’s welter run was solid af. Dude was 10-3 / 7-1 in his last 8 only losing a title fight going into that. He was the #1 contender @40. Dude still went on a 3 fight win streak in his 40’s. One of the better fighters in terms of longevity / consistency. That’s not to defend Colby that’s to defend Demian. He last few fights were against the best guys well over 40. Dude retired with honor.

He lost to the best at the time. Shields (questionable), Rory, Tyron, Colby, Usman, Burns and Belal. He took no bad losses even old only the best guys at the time he faced them.
 
Dude got extremely overrated based on a sloppy kickboxing fight with another wrestler.

Good to see the world catched up to how mid he is.
 
Maia was amazing. And its funny that for all the backpack jokes and holding the record of like 5 strikes thrown by either fighter across 2-3 fights (complete asspull on numbers, but the concept happened) he is one of the two (other was Wandy vs Rampage thru the ropes KO dangle) fighters I have ever thought killed an opponent in a MMA fight when he strangled Rick Story and blood squirted out…

Mir holding his BJJ in so high regard he essentially (or was it literally?) said Maia could rape him on the ground.

Some absolute classics - subbing Sonnen, the Nelson and Askren ones, the threesome (hehe) with him, Shields and Fitch, etc. Maia was the man, man of class and style.

I miss having him around. But healthy exit to other things is also awesome. Always will appreciate what he brought to the world of martial arts, and still does.
 
TheBulge said:
Title makes it sound like Maia did a Sweet Pea on Colby. But it it's just him loading up on long overextended and also telegraphed overhand lefts over and over. And landing them, which makes it hilarious
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He does that specifically because he has absolutely no fear of anything Colby would possibly throw back at him. Colby is notorious for having no power in his hands. You have a BJJ specialist feeling like straight-up boxing Colby is not a risk at all to him.
 
RockyLockridge said:
One of the reasons I CANNOT STAND watching this guy fight, watching him desperately, halfheartedly shoot for sloppy take downs with ZERO conviction is just sad to watch. Not even admirable.

He went 0-21 on woodley (5 rounds)
He went 0-13 on colby (3 rounds)
He went 0-15 on Usman (3 rounds)

Maia's sad sad 1 round cardio with 0 Wrestling or take down threat is a lot of the reason why Usman and Woodleys takedown defense stat is so incredibly padded
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He was very good against non-wrestlers, can't expect him to catch up to guys who have been wrestling all their lives. Maia started training wrestling later in life and used it to great success against everyone not in the top 5. But no one was taking down Woodley or Usman when they were in their primes (Colby got taken down a few times but not in any meaningful sense).
 
RockyLockridge said:
you mean the 1 min of a 15 min fight where maia landed maybe 3 good shots before being obliterated for the other 14 mins.

Lmao what a fucking cope. Maia did not win that round. colby won that fight 30-26.

There are lots of things to diss colby about but this gotta be one of the stupidest things
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One judge gave Maia the first round and over 50% of people on MMA Decisions gave Maia the first round and majority of media scores were 29-28 or 29-27 Covington.

So doesn't seem to be "cope" in any way, just an objective assessment of who was doing more damage in the first. Maia outlanded Colby to the head in power shots while Colby had a lot of weak leg kicks throughout.

It was overall a pretty close round from what I remember, but if we were objectively considering who landed the best strikes of the round it was clearly Maia's straight lefts that repeatedly tagged Colby.

I mean Colby crushed him in rounds 2 and 3 so not sure why you feel the need to defend his first round where it was objectively close and easy to see how Maia could get it.
 
TheMMAnalyst said:
One judge gave Maia the first round and over 50% of people on MMA Decisions gave Maia the first round and majority of media scores were 29-28 or 29-27 Covington.

So doesn't seem to be "cope" in any way, just an objective assessment of who was doing more damage in the first. Maia outlanded Colby to the head in power shots while Colby had a lot of weak leg kicks throughout.

It was overall a pretty close round from what I remember, but if we were objectively considering who landed the best strikes of the round it was clearly Maia's straight lefts that repeatedly tagged Colby.

I mean Colby crushed him in rounds 2 and 3 so not sure why you feel the need to defend his first round where it was objectively close and easy to see how Maia could get it.
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Yeah he COULD but it's a reach the complexion of the round at the end is Colby is winning. I just think its a sad and pathetic reach people use like Maia was beating Colby when in reality Colby did Maia far better than Woodley or Usman did.

Just another small example of Colby being held to a higher standard than his contemporaries.
 
Call the Cops still looks like the same asshole back then. Except now he's slower, dumber and pretty much a loser
 
MMAProfessional said:
If you look through Colby's career you'll realize he's not that great. Riding on the close fights with Usman but even his wins he had fairly close fights. The Lawler win was good as was the Masvidal after Masvidal became washed.
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No the Lawler win was another out of prime win. He beat RDA for a primish win vs a top guy. Everyone else close to 40 and not contending. He did good vs Usman. He avoided young contenders mostly and went for title fights.
 
It's kinda funny seeing Colby detractors ITT praise damain for 3 punches, yet see them in other threads calling him an over the hill can that Colby dominated because he knew he was washed...

You literally can not make this shit up
 
Sadly Maia had a shit cardio so it played on Colby's favor
 
RockyLockridge said:
Yeah he COULD but it's a reach the complexion of the round at the end is Colby is winning. I just think its a sad and pathetic reach people use like Maia was beating Colby when in reality Colby did Maia far better than Woodley or Usman did.

Just another small example of Colby being held to a higher standard than his contemporaries.
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I’m not comparing their performances vs other fighters - the point is the first round was close enough to where one judge gave it to Maia and the majority of fans and media did as well.

Yet you call it “fucking cope” and claim Maia won only 1 minute of the fight and landed 3 good shots when he landed 20+ head shots in the first round, clearly out landing Colby to the head and winning the round to the majority of people who watched the fight.

I mean if anything it sounds like you can’t cope with the fact that Colby got out-struck for most of a round by a 40 year old BJJ fighter that didn’t train striking until his mid thirties lol.
 
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