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  • Ryan Bader

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    Votes: 8 66.7%
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***OFFICIAL*** Ryan Bader vs. Glover Teixeira Thread

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Light Heavyweight bout: 205 pounds
Main Event - Five round fight




 
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#124 ·
Glover lacks the extra little bit to beat Jones, highly doubt he can make a fight of it. Jones is the #1 in the world for a reason, he's on an entirely different level and he doesn't mess around like Silva used to.

Jones is a juggernaut and it's going to take someone as dynamic, strong and big as him to beat him. It's going to be like Silva where he fizzles out when he gets old and until then he'll dominate everyone. This fight didn't make Glover look good in my eyes, just made Bader look really really bad.
 
#140 ·
fair enough, we can't force you to be impressed. When I watch the guy I get this sense of terror from his opponents sometimes, it's the physical imposition he brings that impresses me. Nobody else dominates their opponent like Jones, he's got that extra edge of bringing the psychological aspects of fear and terror into the game. Glover said he's happy to be in the cage but against Jones he'll get scared really quick when he's pressed against the cage. Seeing his toe come through the skin and he hardly even flinched, that's a scary person to have to be in a cage with.

I completely get what you mean though, technically he doesn't stand out particularly in one single aspect (as Silva and GSP do) and he lacks the one punch power. I'd rather lose via one big shot as opposed to being physically broken down over 10-15 minutes with knees, elbows and kicks.
 
#142 ·
Seeing his toe come through the skin and he hardly even flinched, that's a scary person to have to be in a cage with.
Do you mean his toe injury in the Sonnen fight¿ He didn't see it during the fight and after the fight when he had seen it, he went quite into literal shock while talking to Rogan.

I completely get what you mean though, technically he doesn't stand out particularly in one single aspect (as Silva and GSP do) and he lacks the one punch power.
His Greco-wrestling stands out, so does his range work. He already has pretty good timing which helps him to disrupt his opponent's attack and rhythm. And he has a pretty good instinctual fighting creativity, which I think will develop even more. I don't know whether he can catch up with Silva's 2 decades of more striking experience, but I think we will see Jones improve in that area significantly during the next 4 years.
 
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