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Old 07-03-2016, 03:12   #138
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Re: Boxing/MMA

With McGregor and Rousey, a lot of people are newcomers to the sport and this also applies to boxing. When you've been watching for years now, you just know if someone is having it easy and will eventually get a tough match or even be exposed. Rousey brought in a lot of new fans whom didn't quite grasp the fact she was the leader of a new and naturally poor quality division (It'll be years before there's completely solid fighters in that division)

Before Holm, Rousey had never really taken combos, never really had to defend against power punches and very rarely found herself countered. She made a horrible mistake of trying to trade with a boxer and was quickly exposed as having a horrible defence and the inability to switch it up and recover. Long story short, she's really not as good as made out to be.

McGregor on the other hand is exactly what he says he is, this guy can bang. His problem is what I dub Amir Khan syndrome, he gets such a lead he starts being an absolute arrogant @ and for whatever reason just completely dropped his hands and starting edging his face towards Diaz asking him to punch him and quickly ends up tapped. Anderson Silva, Amir Khan. If you take the eye of the ball to showboat then you deserve everything that comes back. He can have no complaints about it. Defeat will only make him better and more ruthless next time out. People can laugh and act like he got a tough fight but in reality, McGregor beat McGregor. A quick humbling is what he needs, he'll only get more dangerous now. You don't just fade away after one defeat, this is the same guy that ruined 10 years of Aldo with a single counter punch.

Lastly, speaking of substances, if Cyborg cuts to 135 then that entire division is in for a rude awakening.
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