Chris has some power in his hands, I hope he knocks him out. Dude kod Silva
The problem is, if he uses wrestling.. he will gas after the secound round.He sure does, the Munoz elbow is among my favorites ever, but I expect him to come in wrestling and use his size, Gastelum should have faster hands though.
The problem is, if he uses wrestling.. he will gas after the secound round.
If it would be a 3 round fight than I would be sure that Weidman wins a decision but its a 5 round fight.
That's why I think the play is to LB Gastelum after the first depending on how it goes.
For me it goes:
Weidman wrestles and gets the finish within ten minutes, or
Gastelum outboxes him for a late stoppage.
If he doesn't wrestle he gets punished standing, if he wrestles he will gas.
I tend to agree, but I could also easily see Kelvin not being able to put him away and winning by decision. I mean after the beating Rockhold put on Chris in the third he still survived well into the fourth.
Or, and I think this is much less likely, Chris could win the first two rounds and steal one of the last three.
Weidman is a solid fighter but to be fair he has looked horrendous in his last 3 fights. He gassed against rockhold and got beat up badly. Once again he started well against romero then gassed and got knocked out. Then he wins the first against mousasi gasses and gets picked apart on the feet. The silva wins are impressive no doubt but I think that's more of how good Anderson WAS his regression started with the first Weidman fight. With this being a 5 round fight and him needing to wrestle to win (which is the sole reason he gasses so soon) I really cant see him winning this. Gastelum has never been knocked out.
He was beating rockhold
He was beating Romero
He was beating mousasi
He found ways to lose (sort of in last one) but to say "he has looked horrendous" is nonsense
Weidman is a solid fighter but to be fair he has looked horrendous in his last 3 fights. He gassed against rockhold and got beat up badly. Once again he started well against romero then gassed and got knocked out. Then he wins the first against mousasi gasses and gets picked apart on the feet. The silva wins are impressive no doubt but I think that's more of how good Anderson WAS his regression started with the first Weidman fight. With this being a 5 round fight and him needing to wrestle to win (which is the sole reason he gasses so soon) I really cant see him winning this. Gastelum has never been knocked out.
He was beating rockhold
He was beating Romero
He was beating mousasi
He found ways to lose (sort of in last one) but to say "he has looked horrendous" is nonsense
He was beating rockhold
He was beating Romero
He was beating mousasi
He found ways to lose (sort of in last one) but to say "he has looked horrendous" is nonsense
I'm a huge Weidman fan but I struggle to see how he wins here. He can use his wrestling and size to win the early rounds but its a 5 round fight and we've seen him gas a lot recently. I don't think he has looked horrible in his last 3 fights but also don't think its fair to say he was winning them either.
vs Rockhold he was down on the scorecards but had the momentum before the wheel kick.
vs Romero it was 1-1 going into the third.
vs Mousasi he won the first round but looked noticeably tired in the 2nd and was getting out struck.
In my opinion this will look like Kennedy/Gastelum. Weidman will have early success taking Gastelum down and/or controlling him. As the fight goes on he will get more tired and Gastelum will get his boxing going. For Weidman to win he either needs a finish in the first two rounds as many here have already said or win the first three rounds and not get blown out in the last two (for this to happen his cardio needs to improve).
Kelvin's cardio has always seemed pretty good to me, although I'm not sure how good his TDD/get ups are. I remember him losing to Magny because he got taken down in the first three or so rounds but came back strong by dropping Magny twice in the fourth round. Against Kennedy he got controlled for the majority of round one but it was mainly Kennedy grinding him against the cage and kneeing his thighs/butt. At the end of the first Gastelum started to tee off on Kennedy who at that point was already gassed.
All in all I think Gastelum wins this with Weidman looking good early but eventually getting tired and getting picked apart on the feet. I might be overly pessimistic as a Weidman fan though.
not to nitpick, but weidman won rd 1 in all 3 fights, that's what "he was winning" meant
i agree 5 rounds is bad for him here
I also thought that Weidman won the first round vs Rockhold but 2 out of 3 judges gave that round to Rockhold.
What do Gastelum's last 5 opponents all have in common?
They're either old and/or not very good anymore and not top 15 fighters (I don't care about rankings).
Can only beat whats in front of you. A similar argument can be made against Weidman, his last 3 wins are against Belfort, Machida and Anderson.