Thread: WEC champs: not that great?
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Old 03-05-2008, 01:11 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bbjd7 View Post
I'm biased on Almedia since I did a couple of seminars and trained at his gym for a month till he drive got to be too much but he is insane. I do think however that Almedia would be a very tough test for Filho since he would defiantly have the best MMA BJJ he's faced.
I agree that Almeida's probably the best guy he's faced in terms of quality of submission game, I just don't think he's as good as Filho. Frankly, in this fight I don't think it would have as much to do with technique as you seem to be counting on, and much more to do with the power of both fighters, and Filho, in my mind, is the more powerful fighter.

I think Almeida would make it an interesting fight, and that's a matchup I'd be interested to see. I'm glad you brought it up. Though, like I said, I think that Lister would give him alot more problems on the ground because his ground game is truly on a whole different level. Though, since you admitted your bias, I'll admit I'm slightly biased towards Lister since I've been a fan of his for a long time and attended some classes with him.
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