Kamaru Usman defended his welterweight title at UFC251, but as MikeyJ_MMA explains, he did not earn Jorge Masvidal’s BMF belt because of the way in which he got his hand raised.
St-Pierre was criticized at times throughout his career and considered boring by a certain segment of fans for frequently going the distance. Like Usman, St-Pierre had a strength and wrestling advantage over basically all of his opponents, but a key difference is Usman usually uses the cage to grind on his opponents and get his takedowns whereas St-Pierre would use his superior striking and timing to set up his opportunities and get his fights to the mat when he wanted to.
So, while Usman deserves heaps of praise for what he’s done thus far in his UFC career, let’s pump the brakes on the GSP comparisons.Whenever a top fighter loses twice to a reigning champion they’re put in a tough spot. They’re better than nearly every fighter in the division yet can’t get over that final hurdle and so it doesn’t make sense to keep putting together title rematches.
It really just comes down to how you scored the third stanza as Holloway clearly won the first two rounds and Volkanovski came on strong in the fourth and fifth. This should set up a fight with current champ Weili Zhang, who took the title from Andrade last August in only 42 seconds.
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