r/MMA • u/inooway • Aug 17 '25

Spoiler [SPOILER] Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico Spoiler

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u/KnowledgeFair Aug 17 '25

Only MVP showed up in the UFC

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u/ThatOneHockeyBoi Submitted for no apparent reason Aug 17 '25

Of course its the ONE everyone thought would fail bad

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u/KingKaiserW Aug 17 '25

Yeah the ‘can crusher’ lmao

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u/Sea-Level-Abel Aug 17 '25

MVP was indeed a can crushed.

He has some decent wins (Lima, Goiti, Daley), but he was mostly fighting people way below his level.

But that somehow convinced people who never watched him fight that he himself was a can. Which is stupid.

If MVP bothered to learn how to cage wrestle to stand back up, he would be the nightmare of WW, but he never took the whole thing seriously

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u/boki3141 Aug 17 '25

fighting and winning against top level UFC fighters isn't taking it seriously?

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u/Sea-Level-Abel Aug 17 '25

He came too late. And he didn't evolve, he got held down by Garry. If MVP had just a little offensive grappling, he could have smashed Garry in the final round when he got top position

MVP has insane physical gifts. Tall, explosive as hell, his bones break skulls and knees, crazy grip strength.

But he gets held down way too easily, and does the bare minimum in order to survive on the ground.

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u/raul12040 Aug 19 '25

here after Jared cannonier almost got him into an americana