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Originally Posted by IronMan
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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I would agree that Filho is stronger however if you've ever seen Almedia's grappling match with Josh Barnett at ADCC you can see he can adapt to a size difference (I know it's grappling not MMA however I have a feeling Filho vs Almedia would turn into a grappling match.
I think a good fight also would be Lister vs Almedia I think that would be crazy on the ground.