Aelia_of_Nemedia

@kievan_of_haloga:

Screams and howls echoed through the Cimmarian village. The clanging of steel filled the sky as massive barbarians hammered axe against blade. Smoke filled Aelia's nostrils as she darted over blood soaked mud and slipped between broad shouldered defenders. It was time to depart; the five foot two thief had no no intentions of facing off with any barbarian of any stripe.

Rounding the corner of the last hut she saw what she was looking for: a horse. Not just any horse, a great war-horse, a beast whose eyes dripped with aggression and whose long, powerful legs could devour the miles between Aelia and civilization. The thief wasted no time- a few gentle words, some apples from her traveling sack and before long she was leading her escape quietly away from the battlefield.

The almost inaudible chink of mail caught her ear and her head whipped about like a cat. Barbarians rarely wore mail; this was something else. Someone else. A giant of a man, towering almost two feat above the thief and clad in the panoply of war. But it was not his size or armaments that sent her scalp to prickling. It was something about his eyes, dull yellow like a wolves, unnatural, quietly ghastly, they seemed at war with this universe.. and they were winning.

Aelia was pretty sure she was stealing his horse. "Crap."

Lady Liberty vs Brahma Bull was one of my favorite battles ever.

Shield is better than Arrow this time around.. who would have thought it lol.

My PM box is going crazy.

Its kinda true lol.

That was a particularly vapid article. I'm surprised.

@azure_son: Yeah, Hunt isn't really a grappler. Which he gets away with because he's like three hundred and twenty something pounds with KO power.. and in the HW division. Werdum might punish this gap in his skills pretty shortly lol.

JDS is really a fantastic striker but he's one of those guys that looks best out-striking other good strikers. I know he's lost to Cain twice but I think he could take a forth fight. It would also help if the ref didn't allow Cain to land nine hundred 'accidental' headbutts too.

Oh yeah. But height seems to be one of the hardest attributes to learn to use at the high levels. Duke never uses her frame right either. It seems JJ is one of the only really tall ones that has mastered the art.

@azure_son: I don't know, I think Hunt is deceptively skilled and I think he has improved over the years. I think his counter left is especially lethal. Roy did abandon his ground skills though.

Well its Aldo's knees and long uppercuts that does most of the work shutting down wrestlers. However his uppercuts make him vulnerable to a cross, which he has been tagged with quite a few times before. The whole 'level change and overhand' thing doesn't really work on him very often but 'level change and cross' works out quite a bit. I think he'll look a whole lot weaker against a dedicated striker.

Haha, yeah that's true, his submissions have been extremely effective. But that was also the perfect submission for him, considering the difference in height between them. Even in grappling JJ knows exactly how to use his body, one of his core deep skills.

This guy really is a traitor and he needs to be executed.

@azure_son: Oddly enough I think Tyson would have been a better fighter without his power. He really was very skilled and if he had been forced to gut it out and learn confidence in his boxing skills he may have developed the mindset that a champion needs. Perhaps he could have sustained his earlier levels of skill and even improved on them if his formative experiences as a boxer had been different.

All of those would probably win but I think Jose Aldo would knock Cain out too. Honestly I think Jose Aldo is the worst match in the UFC for Cain, assuming they were the same size. Aldo is probably the best alive at shutting down wrestlers and everything Cain does plays into Jose's game. On top of that Cain is one of the few heavyweights that doesn't really have KO power.. and imagine the kind of power Jose would have at HW. He'd crush Cain in one round.

Part of why I'm so interested in JJ vs DC is to hopefully see what JJ really has off his back. I wouldn't be surprised if he turns out to have some kind of uber-lethal submission guardgame that is completely unorthodox like nothing we've ever seen before.. but I also wouldn't be surprised to find out he's neglected that part of his training lol.