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The lack of elbows forced posturing up to get power for gnp. This in turn, opened up the possibilities of submissions or sweeps.

In his defense, Weidman was never very fast. He just had really good timing and pretty high accuracy which let him land on quicker fighters.

I can’t remember if it was Randleman or Coleman that said trying to take down Mirko was like running full speed into a brick wall.

Nate has great OFFENSIVE boxing. His defense is not so great. The think the best boxer in the UFC right now is Kattar.

David Terrell - he tore threw some people, got a rude awakening against Tanner, had a few injuries, won one more controversial fight and then retired.

Got his nuts beat by Kongo if I remember right.

Hghes in his prime didn’t lay and pray anyone. He took them down yes, but then he smashed them or subbed them.

Or you could look at that metric another way, Hendricks sucks at holding people down and Condit with his superior grappling was able to get up almost every time he was taken down.

Technically Chael came the closest to beat Jones. Had he lasted 27 more seconds he would have been champ because Jones’toe injury would have been an injury TKO. Sad way to win but it *technically* would have given the title to Sonnen.

I went to school with Charles Rosa’s older brother and Charles is childhood friends with a close friend of mine.

I was waiting for someone to mention Marquand. Dude was a high tier striker and very good everywhere else.

Not for nothing, Crocop was like 70 fights deep between mma and kickboxing when he came to the UFC. Also, Gonzaga was primarily a grappler, who knew he could throw a nasty headkick before that fight?

Bader’s grappling is far and away better the Lewis. As much as I enjoy Swangin’ and Bangin’, Bader could take Lewis out more often than not.

by a nobody in the UFC, do you mean leaving as a top 5 lhw? Im not a fanboy of his at all but he was pretty damn good (not the cream of the crop but good) when he was in the UFC.

So he’d potentially be top five then. Pretty good in my book.

He also landed a nice helicopter sweep against Machida if I remember right.

I haven’t liked Rothwell since he was juiced up and showed cardio he never had before in the fight with Vera. Vera won rnds 1 + 2, the Rothwell comes out like a spring chicken in rnd 3 showing a gas tank unlike anything he ever showed before to stop Vera. The epitome of tomfoolery.

and how many of those split decisions could have gone his way with a little more output?

That “oldman with alot of mileage.that man was a mw too” was Dan Henderson. Who had one of the greatest careers in MMA history. Since when is there shame in losing to him? On any given night, Hendo had the potential to beat anyone.

Only thing I have to correct you on is Hendo’s punch. It was a weird angle but Hendo put his whole lower body into that uppercut and it was a punch Fedor never saw coming. If you watch it Hendo drives with his legs when he throws it. Very few people could have taken that shot without at least...