Saw this card was really good, so I followed along on twitter lol. Really shows where I'm at with MMA at the moment.
I'd have picked wrong in at least the last 4 fights lol.
The one guy in MMA Thompson can't clearly outpoint on the feet is Woodley I guess. Weird. Thompson's flaws were very clear in the Woodley fights and I'd have expected Masvidal to be able to capitalise on them. I guess he couldn't.
Pretty sure I mentioned on here before how I thought Namajunas had the best chance of finishing Jedrzejczyk, and that's how a SW was going to beat her. I thought Jedrzejczyk would definitely win but Namajunas is an extremely dangerous finisher early on in fights whether it be by punching, kicking or grabbing a submission. Huge upset but if someone was to do it it'd be Namajunas.
I'd have picked Garbrandt but I wasn't too sure. Hits harder than Dillashaw and Dillashaw's high volume attack would put him in positions to get hit a lot by that huge power. Only seen a few highlights from the fight but a big takeaway is that Cruz has a ridiculous chin. Dillashaw and Garbrandt were hurting each other badly. Cruz took flush high kicks from Dillashaw and was barely fazed. He got dropped a bunch of times by Garbrandt but survived the full 25 minutes. Really don't like Garbrandt so glad he lost. If Dillashaw fights Cruz again he should be able to win comfortably as long as he fights smart. Low kicks and middle kicks instead of spamming high kicks and he'd have won the first fight with Cruz easily.
GSP returns after years and wins the title up a weight class. I didn't expect that. He looked like he was losing a fair bit of his amazing athleticism in his last couple of WW defences. Bisping's never really been reliant on athleticism like GSP, so I thought this fight favoured Bisping a lot at this stage of their careers. Last two title reigns at MW have been weird. I didn't want to see GSP come back because he went out basically on top, or as close as you can, and his losing time/being abducted by aliens stories sounds more like brain issues from fighting than anything else. He came back and seemingly did much better than I expected. That's great.
I'd have picked wrong in at least the last 4 fights lol.
The one guy in MMA Thompson can't clearly outpoint on the feet is Woodley I guess. Weird. Thompson's flaws were very clear in the Woodley fights and I'd have expected Masvidal to be able to capitalise on them. I guess he couldn't.
Pretty sure I mentioned on here before how I thought Namajunas had the best chance of finishing Jedrzejczyk, and that's how a SW was going to beat her. I thought Jedrzejczyk would definitely win but Namajunas is an extremely dangerous finisher early on in fights whether it be by punching, kicking or grabbing a submission. Huge upset but if someone was to do it it'd be Namajunas.
I'd have picked Garbrandt but I wasn't too sure. Hits harder than Dillashaw and Dillashaw's high volume attack would put him in positions to get hit a lot by that huge power. Only seen a few highlights from the fight but a big takeaway is that Cruz has a ridiculous chin. Dillashaw and Garbrandt were hurting each other badly. Cruz took flush high kicks from Dillashaw and was barely fazed. He got dropped a bunch of times by Garbrandt but survived the full 25 minutes. Really don't like Garbrandt so glad he lost. If Dillashaw fights Cruz again he should be able to win comfortably as long as he fights smart. Low kicks and middle kicks instead of spamming high kicks and he'd have won the first fight with Cruz easily.
GSP returns after years and wins the title up a weight class. I didn't expect that. He looked like he was losing a fair bit of his amazing athleticism in his last couple of WW defences. Bisping's never really been reliant on athleticism like GSP, so I thought this fight favoured Bisping a lot at this stage of their careers. Last two title reigns at MW have been weird. I didn't want to see GSP come back because he went out basically on top, or as close as you can, and his losing time/being abducted by aliens stories sounds more like brain issues from fighting than anything else. He came back and seemingly did much better than I expected. That's great.
