He is a pretty unique matchup, which the top group of guys can use right now. Virtually everyone else vs Charles boils down to whether Charles gets beat up or can get the fight to the ground. Benny is one of the few who I could see giving Chuck a decent scrap everywhere, not necessarily being better anywhere but being good and awkward everywhere and most likely being grittier and more persistent. Even against someone like Gaethje, is it crazy to think BD might take him down and submit him? I don’t think so. He’s a fun matchup to have around as a result.
BD’s personality is a puzzle to me too.
First, the lord and savior stuff is just kinda weird IMO. He also started in on the damn “dad stuff” tonight too. What is it with the dad shit recently in this division? Cerrone, Poirier, Conor, Chandler, Dariush, Vick, etc. etc. etc. “I’m a dad. My opponent is a dad. We’re both dads. I was gonna give up and lose but I’m a dad now. I was gonna keep fighting but I’m a dad now. My opponent is a great dad. I hated him before but we are dads now. Robert Whittaker isn’t in my division or on my team but I’m gonna use my interview to remark on what a great dad he seems to be from the thirty second sound bites I heard on TV.” We get it. You had sex and didn’t pull out and a baby happened. Now you’ll help raise the kid so he can grow up to gush about being a dad too in an endless cycle of living vicariously through one’s offspring.
Second, he played an interesting angle tonight saying that he’s not gonna bother calling anyone out (after kinda sorta already mentioning people) cause he knows they want easy money low risk fights and that’s not him and he thinks that’s fine. Was he serious? Was that a passive aggressive dig? Who the hell knows.
Anyway, I’ll stop ranting now and just say that I hope he gets a big fight next.
