Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171124173742/@comment-32783267-20171128073125

@CanadianOracle

Conor might be really delusional or just overconfident to say he is well-rounded lol. Though if you started out as a striker, most of the time, no matter how good your wrestling/grappling gets, you will revert back to your preexisting arsenal of striking when you are in deep waters (unless you are GSP, he's that amazing). Or vice versa in case of wrestlers (Aldo was a grappler). Though sometimes this could went horribly right with Hughes and Faber forgetting they were wrestlers. Maia said in one interview that he learnt BJJ with the intent of using it in Vale Tudo fights, which might explain why his brand of BJJ cuts through his opponents like a butter on the ground. So, I think intent is a really important aspect that most people overlooked. If you learn a particular style with the intention of incorporating in your MMA game, it would make things easier imo.

Yeah, that quitter mentality erks me a lot. If you look on Youtube for 100-men Kumite, you will see the contestant slowly turned into a zombie as the fight progressed but you can feel their indomitable spirit as they push themselves through it. Even when Cruz got gameplanned and getting ragdolled around (ok, I exaggerated a little) by Cody in r3 and 4, he is still fighting back and quiting or RESETTING (like Conor's fans would defend) was not an option in his mind.

@GBL1111

Gastelum is amazing fighter of course, but he has two glaring problems. Firstly, he is clearly an overweight WW who is having trouble making weight in MW (is he Hendricks 2.0?) He is training with Bravo and Ferguson so instead of smoking pots and got busted with Bravo, he should take weight-cutting advices from Ferguson lol. Secondly, his resume in MW is filled mostly with over the hills MW guys. So, he can't really say he has the greatest win of his career in this event really imo. If Till can cut down to WW to murk a LW Cowboy, why can't GUTstelum do so?

Fun Fact: With the success of spinning wheel kicks in Octagon, Eddie Bravo is making his students learn them at TKD dojangs, and apparantly even Gastelum is working on them.. so we might be seeing spinning shits from him :D