Did Shogun Ever Explain What Happened In The Jones Fight?

Yes, long lay-offs due to to surgery don't have any effect on fighters. That's well-known. I'm sure that doctor they always dig up whenever anyone gets injured on TUF has said as much. "Surgery? Bah. Do you want to be a f#$!ng fighter or not?!"

Rua has looked **** coming back from surgery before. He looked **** coming back from surgery again. Anyone with a brain can see this.

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Thinking about it a little, Hendo would be the perfect guy. Seems to be UFC bound too

 

What a sorry individual you are man, honestly. Every time two guys meet who have already fought is a rematch. Obviously it is - they have fought before, so they are being re-matched again. :nut That you would even want to debate such a pedantic, petty, trivial point (and lose it pretty miserably) says a lot.

 

Surely Hendo will stand and bang though?

 

Chuck Liddell got bodyslammed and pounded into the mat by Randy Couture, then brutalized him in the rematch. That's another one.

 

I can't think of any young contenders who'd be up to the job though. Can you?

 

Hendo can take it, more than Davis probably and is a little bit less one dimensional as he's equally dangerous on the feet, clinch or ground with that sledgehammer right. And his Clinch game is a test on the cardio too, maybe suit Rua a little better to be pressed up against the cage as opposed to the matt. Davis will probably be more likely to wait out the decision with top control, Hendo will try to finish the fight and wont be intimidated.

And it will be damned fun to watch

 

That brutal flying knee that landed perfectly 20 seconds into the fight, the one that Shogun didn't see coming and later said knocked him senseless for the duration of the fight, that didn't have anything to do with the result? :huh

:hat

 

True, I wasn't saying there weren't any fights like this I just couldn't think of many as one sided as Shogun vs Jones, the Couture fights with Liddell were a little bit closer if I remember right.

 

Shogun is my favourite fighter of all time, I would consider myself a hardcore Shogun nuthugger.

Despite this, he has absolutely no chance of ever beating Jones. He's his absolute worst nightmare stylistically. He hits as hard, seems to have a solid chin, can put Shogun on his back at will, has a ridiculously heavy top game and pushes a fast, hard pace.

Absolute worst possible fight for Shogun in the division.

 

When somebody is asks for examples of a rematch he is not talking about when the fighters have completely changed, which in the case with Rampage vs Wand 3 (not a rematch, learn dat engrish), one assumes he is talking in the context of Shogun Jones Re: the thread and not just any rematch that went differently.

Examples: Jones vs Hopkins II compared to Wlado vs Brewster II. Get it? Context matters.

 

So brutal that it dropped him? So brutal that it knocked him out? So brutal that it sent him stanky-legged stumbling all around the cage? So brutal that it had him clinging on for dear life, in another world until he regained his senses?

:think:think:think

OR, none of the above. A hard knee that hurt, but that wasn't sufficiently lethal to drop him, and that he quite clearly did recover from since he took numerous HARD shots after that without folding until the 3rd round.

You're guessing, speculating, and overstating. The video evidence of the fight does not support your point.

 

Hey, all I can do is answer the question as set to me by another poster:

Which I did. Wand vs Rampage 3 continues to be a perfectly valid and correct answer to the question asked. :good

 

Actually **** it, I never read the first post and argued like a wanker instead.

I think its actually a dodgy answer for the reasons I said, but thats not what I objected to. So I apoligise.