Bald Rage: Junior Dos Santos Is Not Ready

Once again, I just have to pref­ace this by say­ing that this is my opin­ion and mine alone. Please feel free to agree or dis­agree. I am no sports writer or ana­lyst, I just call it how I see it. Con­grat­u­la­tions to Dos San­tos on win­ning last night’s bout against Roy “Big Coun­try” Nel­son – espe­cially since the win guar­an­tees him a title shot against the win­ner of Velasquez vs. Lesnar at UFC 121.

A quick note on UFC 121. My money is on Lesnar this time. Ryan Bader says that once Lesnar gets tired it will be Cain all the way. I say if get­ting beaten in the face repeat­edly by Shane Car­win for three min­utes will make any man tired and look what hap­pened – Lesnar still has his belt. Now you know who I think Dos San­tos will be fight­ing and here is why I say the Dos San­tos of last night is not ready. I take noth­ing away from Roy Nel­son; he took every­thing Dos San­tos had to give and he stuck through the fight , even get­ting some sur­prise blows in that might have turned the fight around. I like Roy Nel­son: he puts on a good show and he throws a mon­key wrench in the gears of the UFC. If a big, rel­a­tively out of shape guy like that can be a con­tender, that makes the aver­age guy at home feel a lit­tle bit bet­ter about not hav­ing the physique of the aver­age MMA fighter.

Brock Lesnar is not the aver­age MMA fighter. Love him or hate him, the man is a mon­ster. I have seen a few of Junior’s fights – he has power, but I doubt he has the strik­ing power of Shane Car­win, who could not KO Lesnar. Dos San­tos kept hit­ting Nel­son in the gut, I guess try­ing to take the wind out of him. I am sit­ting there going nuts watch­ing that. “What are you doing? You’re punch­ing a sponge!” And he was because Nel­son was lit­er­ally absorb­ing those body shots. At the end I said “If I am Junior Dos San­tos, and I hope to be the heavy­weight cham­pion, I should not be going to deci­sion against Big Coun­try”.”  Once again, I am not down­ing Nel­son, but when he was get­ting hit in the face he fell back and more than once even fell down. Why did Junior not stick with this? He was never in any real trou­ble dur­ing the fight. I hope he trains like his life depends on it for this title bout because if he fights like he did last night, he will come out of the cage look­ing like what he acme into the cage as – num­ber two.

Handel

View all posts by Han­del
Han­dels web­site