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05.14.2011 | 12:33 AM ET
"A true champion, face to face with his darkest hour, will do whatever it takes to rise above. A man fights, and fights, and then fights some more. Because surrender is death, and death is for *******"
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- wolfmanhowl
05.14.2011 | 12:39 AM ET
05.14.2011 | 12:43 AM ET
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
05.14.2011 | 12:43 AM ET
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05.14.2011 | 12:46 AM ET
If Carwin does in fact start losing the stand up battle which I don't see either of them dominating one or the other on their feet. He should take JDS down with his wrestling and control him and tire him out as much as possible.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
05.14.2011 | 12:47 AM ET
"A true champion, face to face with his darkest hour, will do whatever it takes to rise above. A man fights, and fights, and then fights some more. Because surrender is death, and death is for *******"
05.14.2011 | 12:53 AM ET
05.14.2011 | 12:54 AM ET
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
05.14.2011 | 12:55 AM ET
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
05.14.2011 | 12:55 AM ET
"I live, I die, I live again."
05.14.2011 | 12:57 AM ET
I know Carwin totally blew his wad against Lesnar in the first 3 minutes, but lets remember one thing. It's the only time he's been out of round 1 in his entire career. Lack of activity and speed will lead to Carwins first ever TKO loss.
05.14.2011 | 12:59 AM ET
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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- wolfmanhowl
05.14.2011 | 1:02 AM ET
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- wolfmanhowl
05.14.2011 | 1:04 AM ET
05.14.2011 | 1:04 AM ET
He's 36 and past his athletic prime, and simply too massive with too much muscle mass to feed in order to have good endurance. He said he didn't know what happened with his cardio against Lesnar, but the fact is he had never even been to the 2nd round of a fight before. The longest he had ever gone before that was 3:48 with Mir. Most of his fights were 90 seconds long.
In Lesnar vs Carwin we didn't see a cardio aberration... we saw his cardio exposed.
In Gonzaga vs Carwin we saw his striking exposed as he was completely lit up and immobile to try and avoid the punches. Gonzaga blew that fight.
I come off like some kind of Carwin hater, which I'm really not. I just don't like this matchup for him at all. In fact, there's probably only 3 guys I'd pick to beat JDS...
Alistair Overeem
Cain Velasquez
Jon Jones
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05.14.2011 | 1:07 AM ET
and... nothing hurts worse than changing your mind and then being wrong about it.
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05.14.2011 | 1:18 AM ET
Well said about Carwins cardio - i also like that Frank Mir has realized that size does matter, but it doesn't mean you have to weight 280 to compete. If Carwin would lose enough mass to walk around at 250 i think it'd help him substantially. But as @gregory said, he's just too far along in his age, not his career, to make these types of changes to his body and improve his cardio.
If i had to predict JDSs strategy to success, its going to be his usual complete standup game with a few more body shots thrown to wear Carwin down that much faster. The more i think about it, the more i convince myself Carwin will be TKO'd. He'll be a top 5 HW for as long as he competes, but he'll never be the UFC champion.
05.14.2011 | 1:21 AM ET
I like JDS and if he wins I'll be just as happy. It'll be hard to see Carwin lose but these two deserve whatever the outcome is, and it'll be a great fight.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
05.14.2011 | 1:23 AM ET
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
05.14.2011 | 1:23 AM ET
"A true champion, face to face with his darkest hour, will do whatever it takes to rise above. A man fights, and fights, and then fights some more. Because surrender is death, and death is for *******"
05.14.2011 | 1:24 AM ET
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."