the entire Usman/Covington card everyone got what they were expecting. Khamzat was an easy win. Everyone expected Usman to win. Rose was the favorite. This card was wild with exchanges, and the Nunes fight went into bizarro world. The only one I could say was a letdown was Gardbrants career dying in front of our eyes.
I don't know this if this controversial take but seeing No-Chin Garbrandt getting knocked out is always great to see.
Irony is he's probably responsible for the same thing happening to Thomas Almeida. Almeida was 21-0 before fighting Gardbrant, got cut from the UFC at 22-5. I know people have hate boner for Gardbrandt, but he's 12=5 now. He was 11-0 after the Cruz fight. But it's not like watching a career walk off into twilight years, it's like it's at it's prime. Gardbarndt is only 30. Almeida was only 30. These aren't people "too old to do it", these are world class contenders reduced to the bottom over night.
He's gone the way of Renan Barao. TJ took his soul. Barao did rack up 7 losses before they cut him though. Maybe now that he's shot they will feed him to O'Malley for a jump up the rankings before booting him out.
Yeah, Pena is fucked if Nunes makes the correct adjustments. Nunes was winning the wrestling and she was constantly landing the calf kick, it was until Nunes decided to go full Cody Garbandt mode was when the tides shifted. Although, there are a lot of fighters that mentally break after they lose like costa and cody
I'm not sure she will make the correct adjustments though, as stupid as this claim may seem. Against Shevchenko, she gassed in their first fight by going ham, so when they rematched, her answer to make sure she didn't gas was to do crappy, boring kickboxing from range where basically nothing happened. If that was her adjustment there, I imagine it would be something similar here, of which she then just gets out volumed by constant shitty arm punching.
She used "Retard pressure" with 0 respect for her opponent.
Speaking of footwork. Is it me or has Garbrandt's footwork gotten worse under Mark Henry? He's like a mirror image of lightweight Barboza, scooting around the ring with his back to the fence, hands down, and like Barboza, almost immediately dying the instant his back is to the fence.
Nunes does have a toddler to look after. I wouldn't be surprised if she retired soon too, to spend more time with her wife and daughter.
The theories on her gassing so quickly range from a bad case of Corona (or more than likely, doing the idiotic thing of training while sick), to not bothering to train properly, to constantly fluctuating in weight between 135 and 145 (remember, she was all 145 for the entirety of last year and early this year, then had to shed weight to make 135).
So what you are saying is, he's less Edson Barboza and more Tyron Woodley. Back to the fence, tentative to throw, when he does throw and land it's a banger of a punch, has the same career trajectory post title loss. Sad to see.
O'Malley sparks Garbrandt out in under 3 minutes.