What are your thoughts on Brian Stann? The new WEC LHW Champion after about 1:00 by KO. I could tell Marshall was intimidated before the fight started. I think Stann has the right mentality,work ethic,toughness, intelligence, chin, and power to be a very successful fighter. He will be tough to beat. I would like to see him retire Chuck Liddell. I do think he could take out wide swinging, one dimensional, big mouth Chuckie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR3yWZEp5pM
Relax he KOed Doug Marshall the WECs weakest Champion by far. I dont think we can start comparing him to Chuck Liddell a guy whos defeated 6 different World Champs.
It is not that he defeated Marshall. Stann is probably stronger, faster, has a better chin than Liddell. Stann can punch, he has Ko'd all his opponents early in the first round. Liddell is one dimensional, has a beer belly and throws windmill punches. Liddell is a half ass boxer. Lidell was knocked out in 7 seconds out by Jackson throwing a wide looping body shot, with his hands way down, that even an amatuer boxer or drunken bar fighter wouldnt ever throw.
Yea, he wasn't a captain on the wrestling team at Cal Poly, and he didn't punt a top 10 lhw's head into the crowd, he's one dimensional. Stann is a promising up and coming fighter, but to say he takes out the guy with the best list of scalps at 205 is silly.
Stann improves every time I see him, and he's got great hands - solid technique and good power. He's a bit rough around the edges in other areas, but he's got some decent potential. I don't think he could hang with a guy like Jardine at this point, but he's got potential down the line. He might be like a Forrest Griffin type, with heavier hands.
Does anybody else think his chin is awfully...what's the phrase...straight up in the air? I've seen a few of his previous fights (not last night's yet though) and it's way up there to be hit. I haven't been too impressed by the guys the WEC has at his weight so far. They have some real good guys at the lower weights, but the bigger guys all look like goons.
Stann, with his background, is a great champion for the WEC. That said, I am in no way impressed with him as a fighter. Aside from having power I don’t see much in him. I know it’s early and he hasn’t been training long. So, maybe my judgement is premature. At this moment in time, though, I see him as a tough guy, with power, who will get taken apart by the first technical striker that he faces. Maybe he has a ground game. I don’t know. What I saw last night didn’t impress me at all. He looked like another one of those guys with quasi tough-man stand-up. To me, at this point in time, he looks like a very low rent Houston Alexander. Someone, in a comment I agree with, on another forum said Stann is lucky to have stumbled into the weakest division in mainstream mixed-martial-arts.
Liddell is washed up though, and lost 2 out of his 3 last fights. The only reason he beat Silva is because Silva is even more washed up than he is. Silva is totally shot! Had the fight happend several years ago, it probably would of been a different result. When Liddell is loosing the stand- up (which is all he has, or at least only uses) to weak chinned fighters like Jardine, you know he is done.
Yeah, he does ask to be hit, and I don't think his chin is going to be up to snuff. Luckily for him though, he's got solid hands and good reach. Basically, he's got to get to his opponent before they get to him. Thus far, he's been okay, and I think he'll dish out more KOs than he receives. But he's going to get KTFO at least a few times in his career...which happens to most fighters in the end.
I think the guy is coming along great. He is new to the sport and does not even train full time yet. He is still an active duty Marine. He has fought in the cage and done two tours in Iraq. I think once he goes full time and gets with a good team, he will grow by leaps and bounds. He has the mental attitude to go very far in the MMA world.
I don't think we'll really know that until we see him in a long, tough fight. Jab Judah looks mentally tough when he's beating the crap out of people early in the fight.
I think it has more to do with Stann being a combat vet serving several tours of duty in Iraq. Being a Marine, he doesn't strike as somone who is lazy and will show up in bad shape, or be a afraid of a fight. Stann fought the best LHW in the WEC ( I know it isn't saying much), and destroyed him quickly. Stann could be the WEC champ for a very long time.It was like Tyson destroying Trevor Berbick, for the WEC. Anyone remember when Riddick Bowe joined the U.S Marine Corp? What a joke, he was lazy and didn't last long. Bowe won the HW Title but didn't have the disipline to be a Marine for christ sake. I don't know how that happens?
i agree with geppy, the guy earned a Silver Star, the third highest award for valor the US has. He has shown, I think, mental toughness beyond what any cage match will demand of him.
You all may be right about his mental toughness, but I'm just saying that it might be because of something he had BEFORE his combat experience and not because of it. There are loads of guys who have been in the military and seen combat who aren't great fighters and loads of great fighters who couldn't hack it in the military.