Upsets, Hype and the Truth

VanZant vs Numajanuas

I don’t know what fights that you have been watching but Paige had a lot of holes in her game from the beginning.  Paige for the first time was kept on the outside with someone who had superior striking.  Paige has always engaged in the clinch.  She strikes from there and that’s how she gets her takedowns.  However Rose has superior grappling she submitted everyone in the TUF house.  Rose has shown more skill in her fights and Paige has shown that she can dominate lesser opponents.  Paige = Hype

 Rose = Truth

Elias Theodorou vs Thiago Santos

For some reason I thought that Elias was this massive middleweight.  I was really mistaken.  If I would have seen the weigh-ins and could have judged his size.  I would have changed my picks.  We saw that once Elias couldn’t get Thiago down, he could not handle Thiago’s stand up.  Based on Thiago’s fights it was hard to predict his takedown defense, since his only grappling loss, due to a guillotine choke, occurred two years ago.  Thiago has takedown defense dully noted.  Elias = Hype.

Yoel Romero vs Ronaldo Souza

My whole rationale for not understanding for why Jacare was supposed to be favorite was due to his strength being grappling.  While guess what? Yoel has a silver medal in the Olympics for wrestling.  That was my whole argument for Yoel in this fight.  Jacare can’t implement his game without taking Yoel down.  That being said Yoel has suspect cardio.  Drop some of that mass dude. Yoel = Upset

Luke Rockhold vs Chris Wiedman

I just got say I picked Rockhold.  I just gotta go with the longer ranger fighter.  Rockhold is just the better fighter.  Herb Dean should have stopped that damn fight at the end 3^rd.  I can easily see a rematch going the other direction.  Bring on Yoel!

Conor McGregor vs Jose Aldo

I never thought that Conor was hype and after the Mendes fight I just thought we found his weakness.  Conor was always great at judging the distance and his using his range effectively to strike and counter-striker.  He is not just good great at those things he is the best!!  Then he talks a lot of shit, gets its his opponent  upset, which in turn makes them overly aggressive. Than Bam!!.  I was hoping that Aldo would shoot but he did the opposite.  I thought Aldo had the speed and power advantage. However, Conor Mcgregor proved that”Precision beats power, and timing beats speed.” Conor = Truth