https://x.com/LiamPicksFights/status/1919836434728448023
Sounds like he agrees that RDR was too much too soon. Let’s see what happens next.
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“now I know I need to get better”
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Good on him for admitting he wasn’t ready and needs to improve.
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He also didn’t try to make excuses. Just basically said RDR was too good. We’ll see what happens.
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Yeah I watched about 15 minutes and he sounded very reasonable
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I think the fight could have been a lot closer if Bo’s gameplan was semi-intelligent.
Not sure if that’s to blame on the fighter, the coaches or both..
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I don’t think he could do anything but react because RDR pressed him so aggressively and I really don’t think Bo knew what to do.
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While I agree RDR’s aggression was the perfect gameplan against a guy with little experience.
I also feel like Bo could have not been so cautious from the get-go and pushed for the first takedown early.
I havent seen the fight since it happened live and I don’t really remember how long before he took his 1st shot.
I know he was successful on his only attempt. But a Takedown, some patient GnP. Let him up and do it again would have done wonders for Bo. It would have slowed down the pace and his opponent.
RDR was always going to get the win, I won money on my underdog (WTF) bet.
If I was Bo’s coach I would have been pushing for top position within the guard and ground and pound. I would have trusted his submission defense from guard because he grappled with Gordon Ryan and didn’t get tapped.
I just feel like the current coaches kind of just hoped he’d win by another 1 punch KO.
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I don’t think the critiques of Bo at that depth are warranted yet.
Gordon Ramsay would say if Bo’s skill…
At the end of the day, Bo has a lot of tactical and technical improvements to make. The big lesson he should take away from this is he can’t jerk off and beat up his friends at ATT Happy Valley and think he is going to just waltz into the top 10.
He needs to throw himself at the feet of world class coaches who have him spar world class people and then tell him what he fucked up. He needs to focus on getting better at MMA and stop doing podcasts. He needs to be spending exhausting clinch rounds getting beaten up by guys his size and his skill or better.
He’s not a few minor adjustments away from being top 10 but his contract is such that top 15 and up is all he’s going to get. He needs to change his perspective from “I’m such an incredible talent I just need to make a few adjustments to be a UFC champion” to “if I work really fucking hard for the next four years, I might be a UFC champion.”
If he does that he can absolutely be a champion or contender. Christ if DDP can anyone can lol.
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Sorry I got typing and the hate consumed me.
I mean it though.
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I’ve obviously never been close to that level, but even in my limited experience I noticed that wrestlers always seemed to overperform in the gym compared to in the cage.
I got dropped on my head in sparring a couple times where I thought “if I could just throw wild knees up the middle and elbow the fuck out of this guy once they grab me, he never would’ve gotten me down that easy.”
RDR had a textbook strategy against a wrestler. Bo looked shook when he ate that first knee. I doubt he’s ever had a coach who’s allowed his training partners to throw that shit at full speed.
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Honestly I think it’s worse. I don’t think he has any training partners that could knee him if they wanted to.
People seem confused and think he’s at ATT. He’s not. He opened his own ATT by Penn State and he’s the best guy in the room every day. He’s not working with any high level coaches at all, no high level strikers, no high level no gi guys…
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I never looked in to it but I always thought the majority of his training was just in the Penn State wrestling room.
Makes sense that he bulldogs dudes in the gym every day given that performance. Almost like he was frozen in place in that upright clinch.
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Exactly this
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What?? I thought he was training at the actual ATT in Florida.
Which is why I was surprised how the fight unfolded. I thought dudes would be beating his ass in sparring out there and he would be used to those exchanges.
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Nah
Brown corners him which is even worse.
Can you fucking imagine asking someone you haven’t even been training with to corner you? Or imagine cornering someone who hasn’t been training with you?
I think he goes down for very short trips occasionally but no, he’s on the wrestling mats at Penn State and only doing other stuff at this wish dot com ATT.
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Supergym status lol.
Their coach is someone even my nerd ass has never seen fight and their only fighter is Bo
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