Weidman has been my favorite fighter since he landed that elbow on Munoz. What I like about him is that he's a quick learner. Does his thing wrestling, does submission grappling for a year or two, enters ADCC. Comes to the UFC dominating lower-tier opponents with his grappling. Rounds out his game as guys try not to grapple with him. Starts landing standing elbows, left hooks.
He's been in some wars. The machida fight he won the majority of with a broken right hand. He had something special with his footwork against these backtrotting counter fighters. Machida did an underrated amount of damage to him in that fight for what looks like a unanimous decision win on paper.
The Belfort fight was rough too. He got rocked and flurried on by Vitor. Wrecked Vitor as soon as it got to the ground.
Watching the Rockhold-Weidman fight I was pretty nervous after round 1. Weidman was winning, but Rockhold was making him work a lot harder. Although not a KO, more damage.
A flying knee from Romero that would've KO'd anyone. Had the same feeling as the Rockhold fight. He was working a lot harder than Romero.
The moose fight was a wash. I think he could've kept fighting and the commission screwed up that night by not being clear and concise about the ruling. I still think Mousasi would've continued the same formula the last two opponents did.
He looked good against Jacare. I felt like the commentary was a little biased towards him. But that's the second time we've seen him knocked dead.
Both definitely can do without any more head trauma. They're the only guys that one another should be fighting at this point. They're both at the point where they go out with one good shot and are walking into these shots more frequently.They're both in that Chuck Liddell zone so whoever's chin is incrementally worse won't make a difference.