every top 10 mw will smoke the entire lhw roster

[Polish Punisher]

Adesanya looks great fighting shorter guys with shorter reaches, isn't going to be the same with Gus. Jones is a more well rounded version of Adesanya and he struggled with Gus.

He has also lost twice to Alex Periera in Kickboxing who is also 6'4. Israel like Jones style is based on being able to move in space outside their opponent's range and are masters of doing it. However in the rare occasion they have to fight a similar build of opponent, they are forced to fight in their opponent's range which throws them off balance.

 

[Metallicalabran]

MW
1 Yoel Romero

2 Luke Rockhold

3 Chris Weidman

4 Kelvin Gastelum

5 Jacare Souza

6 Derek Brunson

7 David Branch

8 Paulo Costa

9 Israel Adesanya

10 Brad Tavares


LHW
1 Alexander Gustafsson

2 Volkan Oezdemir

3 Glover Teixeira

4 Ilir Latifi

5 Jan Blachowicz

6 Jimi Manuwa

7 Ovince Saint Preux

8 Mauricio Rua

9 Corey Anderson

10 Misha Cirkunov

11 Dominick Reyes

12 Patrick Cummins

13 Tyson Pedro

14 Gadzhimurad Antigulov

15 Sam Alvey

Don't think so

 

[Ivancho]

Would Whitaker beat Jones and DC also? Or why do you think they had so hard time to beat Gus? Is it a match up thing?

jon jones is a proved cheater, if he return we dont know how will be after a long time

 

[rob mafia]

i mean... are we considering dc a lhw for the sake of this discussion?

regardless, lhw and hw are weak as fuck. the bellator grandpa tournament is starting to look deeper than the ufc's roster.

 

[Kumason]

You made 3 threads in a row today about this in the last hour,one isn't good enough?

Oh this one was funny

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/shogun-is-going-to-kill-smith.3796933/

 

[Sapp]

If only he could, you know, actually make it to a fight without getting injured.

Yeah, that's the big proviso. Gus is criminally inactive.

 

[Ivancho]

You made 3 threads in a row today about this in the last hour,one isn't good enough?

Sorry Im angry for current state of lhw div

 

[Kumason]

It's sad,but it'll be exciting again at some point.That's just how it is.

 

[J0N0]

It'll be good to get Krylov back. Also I thought Rakic looked fantastic on the prelims, he looks like one to keep an eye on. If I were the UFC I'd try and get Jiri Prochazka away from Rizin too.

I think the UFC fucked up letting guys like Bader & Davies go before the next generation of fighters came through. It's maybe the only division where you could put together 10 fighters outside the UFC who might be as good as the top 10 in the UFC.

 

[MichiganMMA1978]

What a shitty division lhw is right now
every top 10 mw >guys like volkan, shogun, smith larifi,anderson, osp

Drugs are bad mi amigo....

 

[thenatural43]

gus is overrated for god sake!

lol a guy who you could argue beat the best fighter of all time, and gave the current champ champ all he could handle is overrated? Okay buddy keep dreaming. He smokes any lhw or mw not named Jones or DC "for God's sake" ! Oh and on your comment about Whittaker beating him LOLZ. Whittaker is tough love his style gus would maul him.


Oh and Whittaker is not a one strike knockout puncher, who has he ever stiffed with one shot?

 

[p4pgoat]

well rockhold is moving to lhw right now yoel maybe too

Weiman v. Rockhold 2 @ UFC 230
Yoel v. Costa @ UFC 230

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