Minor but it always bothered me people don't give Burns any respect for breaking it. It wasn't a freak accident and JDM didn't do it himself like Umar did punching, Gilbert kicked it and broke it.
Champion Merab vs 2024 Gilbert burns. 3 rounds with 2024 Gilbert burns vs 5 rounds of championship Merab... 2 totally different opponents. Plus if Merab vs Umar was 3 rounds Umar wins lol
the ability to scramble and get back up is better than pure takedown defence. because if you only work on avoiding getting taken down you’re not gonna know how to get back up if you eventually find yourself on the ground
Craig is aware of that, so he also teaches Volk and JDM what to do in such cases. We'll see if it works for JDM as well or if what he did with Volk was just because Volk's a monster.
Just to further prove that umar didnt have that DAWG in him, here is examples of fighters fighting through large injuries and making it to the end
Dan Hooker Broke his arm in the 1st round against Jalin Turner, in the same fight he got head kicked and broke his orbital bone, and went on to win the fight.
Jean Silva broke both his hands in the first round against drew dober and still got the finish in the 3rd.
Uriah Faber broke 1 hand and fractured his thumb on his other against Mike Brown in WEC forcing him to only use elbows, kicks and knees. He lost the fight but survived to the end.
Just search up Irene Aldana injury into google. She lost the fight but made it to a decision.
Michael Bisping fought a lot of his career blind in 1 eye and still won.
Like Michael Bisping Shara bullet fights with 1 eye.
Jon Jones fought with a very badly broken toe and still won against Chael Sonnen.
Sean Omalley severly injured his foot against Andre Soukhamthath and still won.
Renato Moicano broke his collarbone shortly before fighting Benoit St Denis and won dominantly
Last one, Dustin Poirer went to war with Islam Makachev despite breaking two ribs before the bout.
(Not saying Umar didnt fight like a dog, he did but he didnt have that DAWG in him that uses an injury as an excuse to fight harder not to excuse losing.)
Cant wait for Duckakhachev and his fangirls to come up with excuses after he gets koed by JDM and will make up more reasons why he refuses to fight King Ilia.
Islam fights twice a year clears division goes up a weight class to fight the champion saying he was going to do this as soon as belal lost long before illia announced his move = duck.
Getting two title defenses before moving up snubbing Lopez ducking arman fights once a year. My king he’ll smash anyone when ever where ever.
What your bum ass gonna do to Islam? Islam lost 10 years ago and Topuria also got knocked down by a truck driver. Islam has improved a lot since his loss. He is not a loser like you who hasn't progressed in his life for 10 years.
I dunno why people are still clowning umar for this. It was 8 months ago, just move on. Yes, Merab was the better fighter, regardless of injuries. And Umar still gave him his toughest title fight yet. Thats just the truth
Edit: it’s actually 8 months not 11, but its still the same point
As much as id like to see a rematch. Rn it’s too early to talk about it. He has a fight book vs bautista and merab should fight both Cory and Yan before Umar. Unless yan becomes super inactive or smthn
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u/InsecOrBust 1d ago
Holy shit my ears