Wish him the best, not the opponent and length of time to get it over with I would have preferred. Protect your eyes and knees from Scumby the Sociopath.
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Nope
Love Stipe, but he’s washed and hasn’t won a fight in over four years.
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No but it would be totally awesome if he was able to knock out Jones and sail off into the sunset
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I would watch it as long as they’re not naked!
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lol. It’s really hard to call a guy that got flatlined by Stefan Struve the greatest anything.
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Wasn’t like that 3 fights into his UFC career? I guess Anderson is out of the conversation as well then.
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It wasn’t Stipes third fight ever though. He looked like he was going to be a top five gatekeeper at the time, not a HW GOAT, especially since the division was a bunch of monsters then after they absorbed Strikeforce.
When Silva got to the UFC nobody could even touch him. (I’m still convinced that loss to Chonan in Pride was a fix but have no evidence).
Stipe was 9-0 when he fought Struve. I didn’t say it was his third fight, I said third fight in the UFC. If you fight Struve in your third pro fight, he’s gonna destroy you.
Anderson was 14-2 with a wealth of experience including a very successful PRIDE run. He lost and then went on his legendary run.
Stipe lost to Struve and then went on go 9-1 over the next 6 years, with 6 KO’s. The only thing your response proves is that losses don’t matter as much as what happens after them.
Hell, Dillashaw lost to Dodson early on, Max lost to Bermudez. Even Oliveira had a loss to Jim Miller. I don’t think I need to go on.
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That’s a solid argument.
Stipes story is a long slog to the top, not the next coming of Jesus. I personally believe the GOAT talk is unfounded.
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I’m looking forward to it hope he ko’s Jones
Stipe was a blue chip prospect from the rip. Velasquez was the only guy that could match his skill set when he was coming up.
Do you memba, bj penn fighting 3 years too long and looking like he was in slo mo? I memba.
No
I just hope that during his long layoff, he learned about throat lozenges.
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i hope he shoots him self full of cortizone and gives jon hell. i’m not mad at stipe at all for waiting for this or taking it.
I don’t know how I feel about the best heavyweight in UFC history, but he certainly has an argument based on his resume and title defenses.
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I’m more excited to see jones-stipe than I am to see a 58 year old Tyson get butt fucked by some utube faggot.
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My advice to Stipe is to get interviewed by Steven A Smith and to call Jon Jones a nigger.
That’ll sell some tickets.
If it actually pisses Jones off, that would be to his advantage as well.
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Would that excite you?
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Stipe is weird. When the UFC had the big four, he was losing to guys like Struve on Fuel TV. JDS was coming off of 3 absolute wars with two of them being major losses where we took tons of damage, so he was massively on the way down, not on the peak, and still beat Stipe.
Stipe is a guy whose skill set always leaves him as a fighter who’s going to trade wins and losses at the top. He got a huge rise because the division all beat the shit out of themselves and fell off, and he came up at the right time. His win over JDS in the second right shows that, Werdum fought very weirdly against him, and it was after the UFC banned him from doing the walkout he wanted. His win over Maldonado was an early stoppage.
He beat an Arlovski that was a decade past his having won the belt, an Overeem on the way back down, and even his wins over DC we’re after he got old and fell off, after getting KO’d by him in the first place.
If he were in Pride, he would have been a Sergei Kharitonov level guy.