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Who will win?

  • Vitor Belfort

    Votes: 31 75.6%
  • Luke Rockhold

    Votes: 10 24.4%

***OFFICIAL*** Vitor Belfort vs. Luke Rockhold Thread

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#1 ·
Middleweight bout: 185 pounds

 
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#113 ·
2 Headkick (T)KO's in a row for Vitor huh? I personally have to say I am impressed, especially a wheel kick. Vitor may be doing the single thing that most fighters forget to do, evolve. I wonder what it will take for him to get another title shot? I don't expect a different outcome, but still it would be interesting to see.
 
#114 ·
I wouldn't mind a second fight between Silva and Belfort. Providing that Anderson gets past Weidman, and a superfight doesn't materialize.
 
#120 ·
Roflcopter is right but you still need the requisite skills and most guys in MMA simply don't have those. If you don't shield your chin with your lead shoulder, know how to roll with punches, have good footwork, etc you better wear those earmuffs. Great fighters are great fighters because they can do that stuff and keeping your hands low gives you better angles with less tells but again those are great fighters.
 
#123 ·
Well one fluid longer movement is going to gain and share momentum better so I am buying that it makes them snappier. If you think about how a straight punch works having your hands high slows down the process and makes the motion jerky so you are either going to end up throwing from your elbow or being significantly slower from start to finish.

In other words rather than the entirety of your arm in one motion with equal momentum you are going to end up starting your movement from your elbow. As a result your hand to your elbow and elbow to shoulder are not only moving separately but at different speeds.
 
#134 ·
Thank god ... i though you will be like all youtube comenters F#ggots that think that Vitor won only cuz he used TRT ...
That was ******* pure skill ... i myself like Luke said , didnt saw that coming at all ,luke was just about to start pick him apart you can see that he started to feel more confortable untill that spinning kick ...
Sry but I personnaly don't believe that Vitor its cheating and his succes its just cuz he's cheating ... Vitor its the most experienced fighter in UFC right now and he has a hart of a lion ... thats all it is . And I do believe that a Vitor vs Silva 2 (if he beats bla bla bla) .. would be the fight of the year , but I still do believe Silva will win.
Anyway Vitor was its and always will be one of the best fighters in the world !
 
#136 ·
Still find it hard seeing that Vitor is constantly getting blasted and has become the poster boy of TRT negativity, when nobody gives a damn about all of the other fighters who are known TRT users, some with more checkered pasts than Vitor. Honestly I think that some people are going after Vitor only because Sonnen (their hero) called him out it, which is ironic.

Basically what im saying is... lay off the guy people, he won because he kicked a guy in the face, TRT doesent teach you that.
 
#141 ·
But Vitor loves Jesus and isn't caucasian :sarcastic12:

On a serious note I am a fan of Vitor and am glad he won.
Rockhold needed to be humbled and that kick was one of the better KO's I've ever seen.

TRT or not we got treated to an awesome KO.
 
#142 ·
Vitor was quite clearly roided up to the tits for this fight (as with the Bisping fight). No wonder he likes fighting in Brazil cos they dont test him.

Despite the fact it was a great KO, I cant take Vitor seriously at all when he is so blatantly a cheat. Im not saying he wouldnt have won without TRT but I bet it made him faster and stronger and who's to say if that kick had come at a slightly slower speed that Rockhold wouldnt have been knocked down?

If he fights Anderson anywhere other than Brazil then he is done for.

(threatening Reporters after the fight for asking him about TRT too... whats all that about?)
 
#143 ·
Vitor was quite clearly roided up to the tits for this fight (as with the Bisping fight). No wonder he likes fighting in Brazil cos they dont test him.

Despite the fact it was a great KO, I cant take Vitor seriously at all when he is so blatantly a cheat. Im not saying he wouldnt have won without TRT but I bet it made him faster and stronger and who's to say if that kick had come at a slightly slower speed that Rockhold wouldnt have been knocked down?

If he fights Anderson anywhere other than Brazil then he is done for.

(threatening Reporters after the fight for asking him about TRT too... whats all that about?)
I havn't seen that, anybody got a link for me?
 
#153 ·
His jesus and crazy nonsense is annoying as well, also he was popped for actual roids back in the day as well. By all means give him anderson or lol jones again like he wants and see another mismatch beatdown from either. Dana said if you can't licensed in one state they won't let you go around one commissions back to go to another place to fight legally, but I guess that was an empty statement
 
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