UFC Fight Night 142: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa

Have to go with JDS by decision. Tai struggled with Arlovski, who has developed into a good outside fighter. I think Junior employs the same, strategy and it will look a bit like his last fight.That, and although I generally always back my fellow Aussie, I'll never root against JDS.

* Edited at 08.30.2018, 8:21 PM ET *

Yea gotta agree, too much too soon. Ivanov showcased how sturdy JDS's chin is still. 

Hunt vs Willis... LOL wut? 

Kunchenko vs Okami added. Great match-up 

Tuivasa will never beat Blaydes, that's the problem. Not if his training partners are Pedro and hunt for all time, anyway. He has the potential to be an amazing heavyweight but he will be ruined by bad coaching and worse career advice if he doesn't start thinking about number one. I'd like to see him get in with Team Reaper TBH. Failing that any good US based American camp other than jackson Wink would do. AKA would be a perfect fit.

He needs to train wrestling. He needs to live, eat, breath and **** wrestling every week for years. And years. And years. If he had decent TD's, and learned how to maintain top controil position, he would be terrifying. He's basically a lump  with tree trunks for legs, no neck, and short arms that generate big power in small spaces. Know who else is built like that? Daniel Cormier. If he knew what he was doing on top, whoever was under him would likely never get out. Teach this kid to leg ride, drill the **** out of gillies and RNC's, and watch him turn people into hommus from the top and pop their heads off.

What's good about Tuivasa

a)He hits hard
b) he has very quick hands for a HW
c) He's a fellow koori and and no doubt has a 3 inch plate skull
d) pretty sure one of his legs weighs as much as I do
f) great physicality for TDD and low kicks, doesn't go here enough
g) He's very young and has a lot of room to grow
h) good at exploding
i)Throws combos and doesn't look for the home run run
j) he's patient and efficient with his strikes


What's bad about him

a) He's very, very brawley. Only classy strike I've seen him throw is  a short elbow. 
d) He's very liable to getting kept on the outside and countered/picked to pieces
c) His cardio sucks, and he doesn't take conditioning seriously (basically lives on KFC)
d) His boxing is not great, if he didn't have speed he would not have gotten this far
e) I suspect he is absolutely woeful off his back and has appallingly bad wrestling, and jits, in general
f) He's not a smart fighter, and is very one dimensional.
g) his reach sucks 
h) he has no plan B to 'I just wanna smash you in the face'
i) he can be overcautious.

As of right now, I think lewis, Cormier, Ngannou, Miocic, Bladyes all beat him. Badly. He may upset JDS, but he'll have to be lucky and JDS will have to forget his gameplan. Volkov would beat him also. He might get through Tybura but that would be a war, and I do think he would upset Olienek and Overeem.

The fight I'd like to see next for Tuivasa is baby albini. ******* great fight that would be a real test for both guys.

* Edited at 10.17.2018, 10:05 PM ET *

I was starting to think Duffy retired or something 

@beatdown LOL.

I love Shogun, but he's completely ****** here. I have no idea why the UFC hate him so much because he's going to get murdered again and this fight feels like punishment. Pedro is even more Dangerous than Smith, and if he and Smith fought tomorrow Tyson would totally roll over him effortlessly. Hated seeing smith smoke Rua, perfect picked it, and it's going to happen again in round 1.