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@aberdeen: Yeah but tbh I didn't care for either guy, until that press conference where DDP hit him with that savage trash talk about getting his ass beat and everyone started crying about how he took it too far. Against anybody but Strickland, I could agree. But with a guy who's made his whole career off of saying things like "if my son turns out gay, I've failed as a man" and "nobody wants to see women fight," or any other incendiary thing he can think of, and being unapologetic about it, you don't get to take the moral high ground no matter what the other guy says to you. It's all fair. And it was so effortless and charming the way he delivered it.

Also, on principle, I hate how Strickland always talks like he's such a savage in the octagon, but he's one of the most static and boring decision machines ever, who waits until there's like 10 seconds left in the last round and then he acts like he was coming for the other guy's head the whole time.

But I was almost certain Strickland would walk-pressure him into exhaustion and just jab-cross his way to a decision like he does with almost everybody else. His low-energy style seemed like it would be a good counter to DDP, who bounces around in and out of range a lot, expending a lot of energy for often very little or no payoff and getting tired as early as round 1 at times and who'd never gone 5 rounds before.

Hard fight to score. I had it for DDP, but he surprised me to be honest.

+7000

ATT Colby probably would've put up at least a better performance. MMA Masters Colby has amateurish striking but his grappling seems to have also taken a hit. Unsurprising, if the reports I've read are true (about him being upset when some of the amateur/lower tier fighters at ATT would give him any kind of problem at all).

If you go to a gym where you're not the "best guy" there but you're (legitimately) #1 in the world, good. If you're the best guy in the gym but you're not the champ or #1, you may be in trouble, and it may be time to go somewhere else. But just about the worst thing you can do is have an ego about you when it comes to you staying/training at a gym.

Saturday was, for one, a masterclass in footwork from Leon Edwards. His angles and stance-switching made it hard for Colby to find the range he wanted for his takedowns. ATT Colby would've probably been able to find those better; MMA Masters Colby looked like shit. Absolutely clueless.

Leon also has superb striking and criminally underrated grappling. I think because of the way most of the fight played out, and the spectacular finish, it's gone underappreciated that he actually managed to take Usman down when they fought the first time (Usman's first time ever being taken down in MMA). The big difference there was Usman's limitless cardio, and Edwards not having that benefit; but even while exhausted, he managed some nice scrambles and sweeps a few times throughout the fight. And the second fight was...yeah. I think his grappling is underrated. Even now. Saturday, everybody at the party I was at (including me) were like "what the fork are you doing" when he first went for takedowns/extended grappling exchanges with Colby, but I think he was proving a point. But for most folks, what they've taken away from it is that "Colby has deteriorated." Which is partly true. But Leon's been solid department for a while, and seems to be getting better.

I kinda look at it the same as when folks would say Francis was just a big puncher with no skill; but if you look at how he set up his wins against guys like JDS and Overeem with a critical eye (and real knowledge) it's easily apparent how those were set up from the beginning with the low kicks and check hooks (along with physical attributes and such).

Lo siento.

@_the_force_: @elliot_knox: No need. Seems you got auto-nuked by CV's spam-detector, so the system was preventing users from even linking to the profile. Like it never existed, unless you have permissions and find workarounds.

Meanwhile I still have to come in every day and manually prune these spambots that are just copy/pasting reddit threads over and over and and dropping suspicious links in random posts.

@tha_mercenary: And it's stuff like that (but actually also way worse) that killed activity. I can say this with confidence and certainty, because I was here.

Could you tag/link the profile? It's not in my list.