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@RyanAWagMMA @austen_enjoyer All hail the Fortune Five Hundred CEO, Completest of Human Beings, Her Excellency, Valentina "Right Hook Renee" Shevchenko
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@austen_enjoyer This doesn't work as bait because it's actually true
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Just how good is Shevchenko that she beat prime touch of death Nunes
🌴ᴛʜᴇᴀʀᴛᴏꜰᴡᴀʀ🌴@TheArtOfWar6
Just randomly remembered this and now I have to share it
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@EvilGregJackson @ThisIsNotDSP Oh, certainly, though I do think Yan's McGhee fight prior to Merab was a reasonably good look for consistency's sake. I think he'll look fine enough going forward. It has a fair amount to do with me not trusting Umar much to fight the right way.
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@ThisIsNotDSP @N0331Hello a historically slightly inconsistent fighter who is loved by nerds having their greatest and most coherent performance and then promptly falling straight off a cliff is also a thing that has happened (Leon)
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He's a very good fighter, maybe even a great one, but his recent performances suggest to me that he doesn't do too well against Yan over 5 rounds. Merab could be winnable in a rematch just via being way younger, though.
Still, I just can't envision him with the title.
AlAudhli 𝕏 العوذلي@alaudhli
Umar Nurmagomedov is a future UFC champion
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@CarapaceCarrier This...is actually quite apt. He's still better at dictating than Gamrot, but the broad shape fits. Fascinating take.
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@N0331Hello Umar seems to becoming a more skilled Gamrot where the way they approach fights actually makes it significantly harder for them to win at the higher levels.
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@ThisIsNotDSP I'd be much more worried for Yan with age against some gigantic striker like Talbott. Wrestlers, I think his skillset is built to eat alive at a base level.
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@ThisIsNotDSP Yeah. That, and he isn't much of a finisher at the elite level. Sterling very much was, and Yan still took over the end of that rematch. Over 5 rounds, I don't expect Umar to be reliably getting there after round 2. Especially against such a deft clinch threat/body hitter.
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@ThisIsNotDSP Basically, I don't expect the Merab fight to be his baseline either, but I don't think it actually needs to be. Bears reminding that he still hasn't actually lost convincingly outside of the first Merab fight. He has the depth to maintain with age, I think.
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@ThisIsNotDSP For Umar specifically, I don't think he actually has the top game to reliably hold Yan down given the Bautista fight, and that assumes he even has the chain wrestling to get there reliably, which I'm skeptical of. Yan is getting older, but I still trust him in that kinda fight.
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@N0331Hello @BoxingBusch Vivisection up - he's caught lacking son.
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Less that O'Malley isn't as good as he used to be, and more that he shouldn't have won the first fight at all, and Yan is, Aljo aside, a historically terrifying rematch fighter. Plus, five rounds favors Yan massively.
CobiMMA@TheRealCobiMMA
Am I the only one that thinks that the rematch won't be close?🤔 Lately I feel like Sean is not as good as he used to be
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@presidentacuba @Tony2Studs3 Aljo being competitive early on is why I'd call it so impressive from Yan. He more or less weaponized Aljo's own pace against him, and beat him absolutely everywhere after round 2 (and really, by the end of that round). Dominance isn't the only metric. The whole fight matters
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@Tony2Studs3 @N0331Hello feel like people conveniently forget it was a very competitive fight instead of fighting tiktok clips and concluding it was a 10-8 for yan every round
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It really is a shame that he fouled Aljo the first time, because that was kind of an ATG performance. Pretty ridiculous to bitch Sterling in the grappling the way he did.
MrTestoestrogen@MrTestoestrogen
Nobody talks about how CRAZY good Petr Yan’s takedowns are 🤯
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@Tony2Studs3 Certainly competitive, but that's why it was so impressive. Sterling came in well prepared, and foul aside, got taken apart for it past about 8 minutes.
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@Tony2Studs3 Aljo absolutely didn't win the first round. The point is that Sterling, an extremely good, at points P4P talent, came at him intending to overload him with pace and aggression, and Yan systematically turned it against him, completely taking over by the end of the second round
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@food_inquisitor @lookatmyopinion Ah, yes, perhaps. It was fairly close as is
But a pistol also would help
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