Elsalvajeloco
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It's crazy that if you had to rank the big three bantamweight prospects (Almeida, Sterling, and Garbrandt) when they were all undefeated inside the UFC, Garbrandt would have been considered a distant third. He made the small changes that allowed him to be consistent at the highest level. -
Garbrandt fought a really smart fight. I did say don't underestimate him. He has shown he can fight at multiple speeds. He doesn't have to win by knockout all the time. I think that's what people missed in the leadup to the fight. He fights with great composure. The fight with Almeida showed that. This just reinforced it.
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Anything other than 30-26 Dillashaw is a weird scorecard.
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Maybe it was DHK's pressure and strength, but I thought Saffiedine just kinda fought on autopilot for most of the fight. He just hasn't found himself since Strikeforce folded into the UFC. At one point, he was very accurate, busy, and could just chop people down with kicks. Now, it only seems like he fights in hard sparring mode.
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Any tired & nonsensical arguments are getting deleted. Have fun tonight, folks (Just not too much).
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He's not getting cut. They're going to move him to 185.
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Borg looks more polished in his first fight as a JacksonWink fighter. He is all over Smolka.
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If Cara do Sapato had a bit more strength, he would actually be someone scary to deal with at 185. I think the problem now (and I saw this earlier w/ Thatch against Price) is that the tradeoff for being such a big but slender fighter in your division is you're going to struggle to either keep fighters down or keep more energetic fighters from keeping you down. Vettori is an average size middleweight, but he was able to avoid being on the ground for long periods of time. The only upside I saw in this fight for Cara do Sapato is not having adequate wrestling ability has faced him to be a bit more creative. He got Vettori down with two takedowns that only worked because he just drove from angles that Vettori wasn't expecting. To be more successful, he is going to have to do more of that.
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Man, Pyle got caught right on the button while throwing a low kick with no hands around his face. Mike Pyle has been fighting in MMA since Clinton was president, and he made a big rookie mistake.
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Yeah, that may be the end of Brandon Thatch in the UFC.
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I would like to think those illegal knees were karma for Cowboy Oliveira jumping bad after he beat Brooks back in October.
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I wouldn't underestimate Garbrandt. I think Dominick Cruz is a fantastic fighter, but Garbrandt isn't 2016 Urijah Faber. I think Cody can make it competitive especially if he can catch Dominick early on. If he allows himself to become frustrated, I think that's when Dominick's big fight experience takes over. I'm picking Cruz to win, but I wouldn't be surprised if this looked like a repeat of Dillashaw vs. Cruz and got some wild interpretations of who won which rounds on the scorecards.
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Yeah, I don't see this going well.
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FWIW John Morgan did say he was told that the PPV is tracking pretty high. That would go against all the concern people had for Ronda not doing media in addition to it being a Friday PPV.
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I mean he probably beats some middleweights still. If this was maybe 2 or 3 years ago, I would see him beating a top 15-20 middleweight. The division is very top heavy. At the same time, he was at the top of the WW division so there was no need to. After this run of performances, I can only see him beating guys kinda stuck opening up UFC cards. He can beat Sam Alvey and Garreth McLellan. I'd pick him over Trevor Smith. There is a glut of fighters (maybe like 6 or 7 fighters) whose best attribute is being tall at middleweight. I would be more scared of him fighting someone like Thiago Marreta who would sleep him unless Hendricks got to him first. I can also see someone like Anthony Smith upsetting him by simply outworking Hendricks and possibly finishing him somewhere between late round 2 and midway through the final round. He doesn't have the youth that people like Gastelum and Whittaker have on their side when it comes to fighting above 170. Hendricks at best is a top 20 middleweight, which sounds awful on paper. However, that's the best possible outlook that I have for him unless he melts Magny and gets his weight under control by the grace of God. Nunes can't stop at just the mask. Nunes should be allowed to go full Sharif Bogere tomorrow.
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What was he was trying to get at Belk that he wasn't able to get with the gift card? If my mom had a $450 Belk card, she would come back with a carload full of shit from Belk.
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Are you going suggest Chip Kelly return to coaching the Eagles?
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The game in Dallas was pretty damn close and went to OT.
