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***OFFICIAL*** Hector Lombard vs. Rousimar Palhares Thread

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Middleweight bout: 185 pounds

 
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#74 ·
Pretty hard to defend when you have a bull charging at you who has a low center of gravity with Olympic caliber Judo.

Tim effectively used his teep to keep em at bay + Lombard seemed pretty nervous. He just didn't get off with his punches even when he hurt em. Lombard reminds me of Falcao. That would be a funny match up.
 
#75 ·
haha... well, that guy has gotten better lately.

Pretty hard to defend when you have a bull charging at you who has a low center of gravity with Olympic caliber Judo.
head movement, some decent foot movement, faints, better reactions?

are you telling me that even Anderson Silva couldn't defend against Lombard's punches? Palhares ran straight back into the cage every time Hector threw something at him.

Give Lombard Bisping, in the future sometime, and I guarantee that Mike would put a striking clinic on Hector.
 
#83 · (Edited)
Tim Boetch put a clinic on Lombard. Bisping would beat the piss out of him. And I despise Bisping.
A clinic? Rofl. He pulled a Condit on him, except it was twice as bad.

Tap his leg and run away.

C'mon man, you can't defend the Diaz/Condit fight with your life and some how approve of Boetech's game plan against Lombard. He took the Condit game plan to another level.
 
#88 · (Edited)
A clinic? Rofl. He pulled a Condit on him, except it was twice as bad.

Tap his leg and run away.

C'mon man, you can't defend the Diaz/Condit fight with your life and some how approve of Boetech's game plan against Lombard. He took the Condit game plan to another level.
I never said I approved of how Boetch beat Lombard. But it worked.

He showed how to beat Lombard, he showed the holes in Lombard's game, and that really isn't how Boetch normally fights.

But it's exactly how Bisping fights. And Bisping would smoke Lombard by using that same strategy only 100 times more effectively.

I don't approve of point fighting, but it's here to stay. And Lombard, who would have been a lot of fun to watch in the UFC 7 years ago, is a relic of a time gone by and will never amount to anything in the UFC unless he's spoonfed guys who aren't savvy enough to avoid and outpoint him.

And by the same token, people who think Condit truly beat Diaz, can't now turn around and say Boetch's win doesn't count. It was the exact same thing.

I'll never be happy about what Condit did to Diaz. I think it was cowardly, but the real reason it bothered me so much, is because I was a HUGE Condit fan too and wanted to see the war these two promised us. Nick showed up intent on delivering that war, Condit shit the bed.
 
#80 ·
I saw Lombard drop him with a toe kick to the liver and take him down twice and saw Boetsch throw a lot of kicks while looking like he was scared to death.

Hardly a "clinic"
 
#90 ·
Hector has no ******* clue how to cut off the cage. He was chasing Paul Harris around like an idiot. Anyone with just decent footwork would have been able to land and circle out time and time again and Lombard would be left standing around like a.....wait a minute...

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#91 ·
You think a guy with as many fights as Lombard has never heard of cutting off the cage? He was owning Palhares in terms of movement. At all points of the fight, Hector moved to Palhares' lead(jab), and Palhares was forced to move towards Hecotor's left(power) hand.

If the cage is to Rousimar's left side, Hector does not need to move to Rousimar's right. His power hand is there waiting for when Palhares tries to circle out.
 
#92 ·
Is that why he consistently was out of range until palhares tried to go back inside towards the cage because he didn't know what he was doing or the reason Tim was always out odd range. Lombard follows his opponents along a line. He doesn't cut off the cage. Watch him fight he walks right after the guy as he backs away. If he could cut the cage effectively he wouldn't be left standing looking all the time.

You really think that kind of footwork would even give Anderson a reason to work? Belcher would be able avoid it easily. Anderson would laugh.

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#94 ·
I'm of the opinion he was playing with Rousimar a bit, he threw a few hail mary punches before committing to the kill... fact is, Tim and Rousimar were not confident in trading with Lombard. If they out-moved him so well, they would have landed something decent.

You say Belcher can avoid Lombard's striking... do you mean he can beat him in the pocket? Because I guarantee you he can't. Outpoint him from the outside? You're looking at a repeat of the Tim fight.

Striking with Lombard is a case of get knocked out or look like a ***** trying not to. For me, Anderson is the only exception to this rule in the division.
 
#104 ·
I still need to see more. An awful fight against Boetsch and out striking Palhares still isn't a great indication of where this guy is at. Glad he won though so we can see him against better opponents.
See more what? Is he not even top ten?

Also I don't like this "out striking" Palhares, he beat the crap out of him in two minutes and knocked him. He rocked him, cut him, and knocked him out in 120 seconds.

Palhares earned a top five guy (loser of Bisping/Belfort) with that win and his career a title shot.
 
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