Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-2A00:23C0:764A:A700:D8CC:D2E9:8792:CB9A-20180317230055/@comment-32783267-20180326130819

GBL1111 wrote: Well, I like long-ass posts anyway.

The main issue I take with all this is how much value Till got for beating one undersized journeyman WW. It's truly amazing. One good result with caveats and he's suddenly the next McGregor. Crazy. We'll see just how good he is now, at least.

And don't worry, RDA will murk Colby. Just look at Colby's striking last outting against Maia. Sloppy, wide, winging punches. RDA should batter him on the feet and neutralize his wrestling to a large extent. I remembered being bewildered when UFC posted a vid (I might be wrong) of Till smashing Cerrone with the title.. 'The Future'.. and I was like.. what the hell! I was originally mad because I wanted Cowboy to make a turnaround after losing the Lawler fight and then after the initial salt-phase, I digged further into the roots of Till's hype and one of them is the completely unverifiable 'undefeated' Muay Thai record.. Yeah, Wonderboy also got that 'undefeated' Kickboxing record too, but he had established himself as a top dog by beating up whatever UFC threw at him, including Whittaker.. while Till is just sitting out and taking shots at top WWs for not having the galls to fight him when the only big win on his resume is Cowboy.. who had already fought after that beatdown.

I winced hard when I was listening to JRE MMA Show with Vinny Shoreman and Liam Harrison during the part when they are basically shilling their protege Till like a world beater. I can buy into that with them being legit guys.. but it's hard to take his skills seriously when he's fighting smaller guys not to mention that such drastic weightcutting isn't sustainable or very good for your health in a long run. Conor arguably fought smaller guys too but you didn't see him going around and bragging about it like.. "I'm a fookin Welltaweigh fightin Feathaweighs!" That's my issue with Till. Don't tarnish you win like that seriously. (Or it might be just me being jealous of his gifts and talents.. given that I don't have the luxury of being trained by a world class trainer lol.)

As far as I have seen, Colby is a smush-wrestler who will use his skills to grind it out.. while we have seen RDA got grinded into a decision by Khabib (another hypetrain, no offense) in the past. BUT like you said RDA's striking can be a veriable answer towards Colby's offense, especially with the form of RDA is WW Hydrated RDA. Note that Maia looked good in his past fights before Colby and many said Maia blew his load in the 1st round.. I would say age has finally caught up to him just like that, similar to Bisping (he looked sluggish as hell in GSP fight), so the odds are in favor of dos Anjos. Though we must keep in our mind that everything can happen in a MMA fight.. so the worst case scenario would be Colby beating RDA by decision in Brazil and calling out the filthty animals again just for the lulz...

P.S: How and where the hell these MMA strikers got their 'unbeaten' records or 'elite' striking credentials (Kampmann being a Danish MT champ)? I'm not bashing their accomplishments but if I were to believe their records.. damn that's a lot of nobodies they had fought to pad their record.. and those poor guys are probably the ones who only fights to feed themselves or their family...