Strickland is 11-1 in his last 12 fights over a 4 year span...(Only loss to Alex, an obvious weight bully at MW and now the LHW champ)

[Dick]

And @Dick

Paper champ DDP loses in his first defense and history will remember him as a paper champion who barely scraped by with a split decision. Strickland can at least say he dominated the 2nd greatest MW of all time to win the belt.

 

[Ares Black]

Oh snap.

Sorry @Ares Black, that's a senior citizen spitting nonsense

Woo!

Fixed that for you

 

[Ares Black]

Paper champ DDP loses in his first defense and history will remember him as a paper champion who barely scraped by with a split decision. Strickland can at least say he dominated the 2nd greatest MW of all time to win the belt.

Says you. I disagree.

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Paper champ DDP loses in his first defense and history will remember him as a paper champion who barely scraped by with a split decision. Strickland can at least say he dominated the 2nd greatest MW of all time to win the belt.

Fact.

I think a questionable fight should go to the champion that dominated a former champion to win the belt, especially when the champion he dominated is the 2nd greatest MW of all time.

Strickland deserved the benefit of doubt, not DDP.

 

[Ares Black]

Fact.

I think a questionable fight should go to the champion that dominated a former champion to win the belt, especially when the champion he dominated is the 2nd greatest MW of all time.

Strickland deserved the benefit of doubt, not DDP.

*Opinion


A lot of you guys can't tell the difference between fact and opinion. That's an issue.

 

[Question]

Pereira's a huge guy, but never missed weight. Dude has made middleweight multiple times in MMA and countless times in KB, he's not a weight bully.
That term gets thrown around way too much.

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Pereira's a huge guy, but never missed weight. Dude has made middleweight multiple times in MMA and countless times in KB, he's not a weight bully.
That term gets thrown around way too much.

Come on, man.

Alex is a behemoth and may fight at HW one day.

There's a reason he moved up.

That cut compromised his chin.

 

[CanCrusher77]

You're disingenuous to say he lost to Cannonier.

Why lie?

There's not even an argument Cannonier won.

Other than the fact the he has the victory?

 

[StonedLemur]

Debatable

No

You don't "score" points at all, and maybe if you understood that you would realize why Strickland lost those rights.

He was point fighting. His opponents were actually fighting.

Not sure why you have such a mancrush on Strickland. He's one-dimensional and deeply mediocre with one great performance.

But hey, whatever floats your boat. There are so many better fighters out there though. Wait til you discover some of the ones who are actually good!

So when Izzy was point fighting or Volk....thats cool?

Im not sure I'm following you on this one sir.

 

[Ares Black]

So when Izzy was point fighting or Volk....thats cool?

Im not sure I'm following you on this one sir.

They are winning rounds with their striking. Strickland is scoring points but losing rounds.

 

[Question]

Come on, man.

Alex is a behemoth and may fight at HW one day.

There's a reason he moved up.

That cut compromised his chin.

And that's what balances it out, there's always a price for cutting that much weight.
While he be might the bigger, stronger and more powerful guy at middleweight, his cardio and durability will most likely be impacted by how big of a cut it is. There's pros and cons to that approach.

If he missed weight then I'd be fine with the weight bully claims, but Alex has always been a professional and made weight every single time he's had to step on the scale.

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

@ComfortablyNumb55 speaks the truth and brings up a great point. the media is low iq, the judges are low iq, etc, etc.

 

[Ares Black]

@ComfortablyNumb55 speaks the truth and brings up a great point. the media is low iq, the judges are low iq, etc, etc.

So you really think @ComfortablyNumb55 understands MMA better than Demetrious Johnson and Alexander Volkanovski.

Weird flex, but ok.

 

[StonedLemur]

They are winning rounds with their striking. Strickland is scoring points but losing rounds.

So you gelt it was a unanimous decision for a guy that got punched almost 80 times more in the head?

So you thought Kattar lost against Emmett?

Just because you throw harder punches doesn't mean you're winning the fight boss man.

 

[StonedLemur]

So you really think @ComfortablyNumb55 understands MMA better than Demetrious Johnson and Alexander Volkanovski.

Weird flex, but ok.

So you think those guys can't get it wrong?
Even Magnus Carlson has lost in chess sir.

 

[Ares Black]

So you gelt it was a unanimous decision for a guy that got punched almost 80 times more in the head?

So you thought Kattar lost against Emmett?

Just because you throw harder punches doesn't mean you're winning the fight boss man.

Whatever dude. I watched the fight.

Strickland was running away the whole time throwing baby jabs. Du Plessis was landing power punches and huge kicks, and he had six takedowns.

I would appreciate it if you didn't condescend to me, sir.

 

[Ares Black]

So you think those guys can't get it wrong?
Even Magnus Carlson has lost in chess sir.

They didn't get it wrong. You did.

 

[StonedLemur]

Whatever dude. I watched the fight.

Strickland was running away the whole time throwing baby jabs. Du Plessis was landing power punches and huge kicks, and he had six takedowns.

I would appreciate it if you didn't condescend to me, sir.

After being condescending to everyone in this thread including me.. that's rich.

Whatever works for you sir.

 

[Dick]

They didn't get it wrong. You did.

How come you're so defensive? Why can't you just acknowledge it was a close fight in which DDP was VERY lucky to get the judges nod?

 

[StonedLemur]

They didn't get it wrong. You did.

Its too easy with you.