No lie if Palhares was to cut to 170lb and fight GSP, he is the only fighter on the planet that I would be surprised to see GSP beat, thats how highly I rate the guy.
While I've never been impressed with Cantwell, and agree he looked horrible (nice gameplan there, letting Diabate up)... he did have 18 months of ring rust coming into this fight.
30-25, 30-26 just saw this at Wiki. Is this serious? What happened to Cantwell as a fighter? Holy, did he just duck and run the whole fight a la Kalib Starnes or what? Didnt watch the fight.
...That was easily one of the most terrible preformances I've ever seen. I couldn't believe my eyes while watching that fight. Just absolutely terrible. Cantwell should apologize to the fans, and to Diabate.
It's just that he had a terrible game plan. He took Diabate down in the first round and then let him up which was a bad idea in the first place, and then he gets caught for his troubles. After that, he just stood there taking punches and kicks in the second and third round. Diabate was gassed himself, but that didn't stop him from using Cantwell as a human punching bag. He mostly just lobbed the punches at Cantwell with little effort or power and left his hands down for the most part. He knew he wasn't threatened at all after the first round.
Diabate looked so non-chalant, and lethargic out there that at any moment, it looked like Cantwell could've just pushed forward and knocked him clean out as Diabate stepped back.
Unfortunately all Cantwell mustered was a straight right to the chest. :laugh:
I just want to remind everyone that Diabate's only losses since 2005 are to Shogun and Gustaffson. The dude is a gamer and one of the most wicked strikers at LHW.
That is true, but it´s also true that he was not trowing power punches and still managed to get gassed by the end of the 1st.
If he doesn´t improved his cardio he will be eaten by any mid-level fighter.
Post event interview with GSP:
1) GSP had some dope kicks on
2) I'm further convinced (as I've maintained all along) that GSP don't want nothing to do with the Spider...
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