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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Hammer House: Stinger Splash Zone > UFC 297 Strickland/du Plessis: The Bore War
Which UFC Middleweight should be champion instead of either of these dudes?
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Robert Whittaker 5 29.41%
Yoel Romero 5 29.41%
Anthony Smith 0 0%
Kenny Florian 5 29.41%
Francisco Trinaldo 2 11.76%
Total: 17 votes
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kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad

CarlCX posted:

I really wish du Plessis would stop throwing the winging overhand, it's nowhere near landing and Strickland's jabbing him on it 3/4 times now.

I thought maybe he's trying to program Strickland to raise that jab forearm really high to set up something to the body. Never did anything more with that other than those two weakly landing spinning back kicks.

crepeface posted:

strickland really does have a nice jab
His straight punches are great, but it really is all he's got. In the late rounds when he was trying to score and Du Plessis was flailing around defensively on the inside, Strickland threw some of the dumbest, least disciplined punches I've seen out of him. If you can get your head significantly off line while landing kicks to the lead leg, I think you have a solid offense on Strickland.

The other weakness I saw is that Strickland will block kicks to his right body with the elbow or by catching the kick. If he refuses to wrestle, you're taking away his harder punch when he responds to the kick, so that's an easier target, too.

BrotherJayne posted:

Izzy DDP time, that gonna be wild
I far prefer this to a rematch. It'd be a close fight but not especially entertaining given what I saw this time. If Izzy wins, I would like to see if he can make adjustments or get revenge like he did for Pereira.
If DDP wins, sure, give Strickland the rematch.

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