Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171124173742/@comment-32783267-20171129154028

@CanadianOracle and @GBL1111

I just watched The Weasle's breakdown of Whittaker vs. Romero on Youtube and I was really surprised with Yoel's fight IQ against a striker like Bobby Knuckles. He builded a style crafted around his explosiveness and wrestling. But his gas tank just gave out (probably due to age) and why didn't he kept SIDEKICKING Whittaker's injured knee is beyond my thoughts. I think Yoel is how innately explosive wrestlers should develop their style imo.

On wrestling/grappling base to be a successful fighter, I totally agree with that, though I really wanted to see a guy like Cro Cop emerges and murk people with fine-tuned striking one day.

Yeah, while I might be too early to say that, I would say Cody got quite lucky if you think of it. All of his fight before the title shot were very short affairs where he KTFO of his opponents with explosive hooks, so Cruz really had very little data to study him and that really got him off-guard obviously. Combine with that with all the TAM's data of Cruz, you got a perfect fighter to pull off a win against Cruz. Someone who is patient enough to draw Cruz in and sharp enough to counter Cruz's wild punches, and that someone is Cody of course. So when Cody fought against TJ, he tried a similar tactic like he did against Cruz. But fundamentally, Cruz's style resembles a SHIELD while TJ's style is a SWORD... and we all now how it turned out.

Judging from the Embedded Series, Overeem looks like he was in Ubereem days. So, whether will Ubereem make a comeback or Econoreem prevail is something I am pumped to see. If he turned his back and ran around resets his position whenever he got close in by Ngannou, he might pull of a win. Either way, it is an important match for both of them.

I agree with you too. I don't think Max really has Aldo's number like most would say. Apparently, in my view, Aldo was trying to make a statement to Conor in his fight against Holloway, and hence very little kicks and all punches (I think that leg injury excuse is BS btw, Aldo would have pulled out if he were injured just like he did in the past). Aldo should not let Holloway gain momentum in this rematch. Max is a momentum based striker who will spam 1-2s and overwhelm his opponent. And that's my two cents though... I think newer fighters should prevail against old timers, but it would be nice to see old timers proving that they still got it.

Sorry for long comment. :)