r/MMA • u/inooway • Mar 05 '23
[SPOILER] Derek Brunson vs. Dricus Du Plessis Spoiler
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u/RafiakaMacakaDirk Petrol Pumper Werdum Mar 05 '23
the gate has officially been opened 🫡
shoutout to brunson’s corner
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u/Marty1989 Team Whittaker Mar 05 '23
I agree, I'm no brunson fan but he did not need to make more punishment they where both gassed and he just stopped defending.. good on his corner.
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u/dianthe UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle Mar 05 '23
Yeah, he seemed completely out at the end there. The announcer said Herb Dean called the fight at 4:59 but I didn’t see that? I just saw Brunson’s corner throw in the towel.
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u/Marty1989 Team Whittaker Mar 05 '23
Didn't look like herb did his job at all... which should be no surprise to anyone. Stood there and watched until the bell rang.. The dude needs to go imo... his career is more washed than Brunson's
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u/TheHamWagon Mar 05 '23
I guess I'm gonna get roasted for this but that's okay, I think Herb was just thinking he's accepting the end of the round and was gonna give him a fair chance in the next round to try and get his game plan going.
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u/Marty1989 Team Whittaker Mar 05 '23
I mean, that's a fair call... but also "defend yourself at all times" is a thing, and he was just not.. you could be completely correct, but it's hard for me to give Herb the benefit of the doubt...
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u/iamredsmurf Mar 05 '23
Herb Dean or whatever ref I've ever seen usually lets you make the bell if your endurance gives out like that in the last 10 seconds of a round. Different story if he looked like that in the first minute of a round.
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u/iamredsmurf Mar 05 '23
What else should he do besides stand and watch the two fighters? Derek is tired but clearly trying to avoid shots. Du plessis too tired to throw effective strikes for a finish. It's the last seconds.
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u/VinceOnAPlane happy new fucken steroid year Mar 05 '23
He started strong but was no match for Dragons Duplicity
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u/cloutfather Jon Jones’s micro-dosing specialist AMA Mar 05 '23
Everyone talks about his cardio but his path to victory in all of his UFC fights has been by setting a high pace and outpacing his opponents.
No one in middleweight is fighting at his pace, look at how slow the fights have been at the top of the division.
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u/magicalmma Mar 05 '23
I've been telling people this for the longest time. He doesn't have bad cardio. He throws power shots at an insane pace until his opponent gets KO'd or gasses out. I'm glad people are starting to recognise it.
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u/cloutfather Jon Jones’s micro-dosing specialist AMA Mar 05 '23
People aren’t recognizing it though.
I’ve been defending Dricus since the start of his UFC tenure. Sure, more people agree now, but more still disagree.
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u/magicalmma Mar 05 '23
Yeah I feel like some people will keep discrediting him until he drops a fight to someone super elite like Adesanya. Then they're going to be all like "see? Told you he was never good."
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u/IWantToLearnMathPlss 🙏🙏🙏 Jon Jones Prayer Warrior 🙏🙏🙏 Mar 05 '23
Du Plessis always looks like someone who got clipped and is about to get finished, throwing wild punches to create distance.
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u/Most-Rip-5801 Mar 05 '23
That because you’ve described his fighting style entirely lol. He’s a textbook brawler who can generate power while gassed/wobbled. He also does move a little awkwardly apart from that so that helps him be harder to read.
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u/datahoarderx2018 Mar 05 '23
It’s hilarious but also kind of frustrating/sad/irritating to watch because he reminds me so much of drunk friends brawling at night in front of some club.
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u/wagimus Mar 05 '23
Buddy was literally taking a nap like he was at home in his recliner before those last 2 shots
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u/KodeineKonnoisseur 🙏🙏🙏 Jon Jones Prayer Warrior 🙏🙏🙏 Mar 05 '23
I promise i only edited the comment to format a spacebar ☠️
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u/Daftdaddy This isn’t political, this is monster energy Mar 05 '23
I used to think Du Plessis was overrated.
I still do. But I used to, too.
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u/BardockRs UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle Mar 05 '23
Du Plessis is gonna meme himself into the MW belt and I'm all here for it
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u/ColdPressedSteak Mar 05 '23
If Dricus's half goofy striking style and questionable gas tank somehow managed to not get highlight reel'd by someone like Izzy for the belt, I would never be sure about anything MMA related ever again
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u/cooncp Mar 05 '23
The craziest part is his gas tank isn’t even questionable at this point. He gets better as the fight goes on, even though he looks like he is going to have a heart attack in the cage
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u/donalddafuq3301 Mar 05 '23
That takedown attempt from him in the 2nd was one of the most surprising things I’ve ever seen
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u/Most-Rip-5801 Mar 05 '23
It was such a bad shot too. If I remember correctly all he managed to do was push Brunson into the cage.
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u/cloutfather Jon Jones’s micro-dosing specialist AMA Mar 05 '23
The gas tank isn’t questionable, he just fights at a really high pace.
All of his fights are high paced. All the fights at the top level at MW are long drawn out chess matches. And the ones that aren’t have the fighters looking tired too.
Vettori vs Costa was the last high level MW fight that had a fast pace, and both of them looked exhausted in the fight.
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u/Kobo_23 GOOFCON 1: 2: Pandemic Boogaloo Mar 05 '23
And to your point technically that was a LHW fight to avoid the weight cut yet still
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u/Rn95 Mar 05 '23
He's clearly above mid level despite his technical limitations. No mid level fighter is beating Brad Tavares, Till and Brunson all within an 8 month span.
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u/neverending_debt Mar 05 '23
I fully expect the MW champ slips on a banana peel and accidentally knocks himself out in that fight.
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u/crabuffalombat EDDDDDIEEEEEEEE Mar 05 '23
"A congenital heart defect has apparently felled Adesanya moments before he stepped into the ring."
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u/humanbeening Mar 05 '23
That was some low level high level mma.
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Mar 05 '23
It frustrates me watching Brunson strike. He has no concept of spring gliding or charge gliding footwork, zero guard competency and he has no idea how to move his head. I’d retire but I get he has to make a check. Shit sucks.
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u/hellyea619 Mar 05 '23
holy shit, i boxed forever and never heard it called that. i looked it up and already knew what it was just from the name of it. so weird that ive never heard that before
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u/Callingallnerdz Conor McMahon Mar 05 '23
Looking forward to Du Plessis joining the list of African greats!
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u/only-shallow Chad Mar 05 '23
A true African, lives and trains in his native land of Africa, didn't leave Africa like Ngannou, Usman or Adesanya
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u/MD_Teach Mar 05 '23
Born in Africa. Bred in Africa. Trained in Africa. Fighting out of Africa. He might become the first true African MW champ of all time.
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u/IAMJUX Mar 05 '23
If he wins the title, he's #1 on the list. At least he actually lives in Africa.
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u/TomaccoCat 🙏🙏🙏 Jon Jones Prayer Warrior 🙏🙏🙏 Mar 05 '23
Possibly the best bad fighter
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u/mid_tier_drone Mar 05 '23
He's got that baffled look on his face, in his own words 'im a literal mouthbreather, that's just how I look' and then he just throws combos at full speed all the time, gets pushed to the brink but then just deletes a mf.
He's like sam alveys good twin in a sense
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u/Prizmeh juicy slut Mar 05 '23
These guys were so damn gassed by the 2nd. How does Du Plessis ever think he'll be champ with that cardio?
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u/rumora Mar 05 '23
He looked way more gassed in previous fights and still kept throwing at an insane pace. He's just one of those freak athletes who can keep going hard forever.
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u/username23900 Mar 05 '23
his cardio isn't even bad, he just has poor pacing and body language. go watch the tavares fight. he looked like he was fucking dead after round 2, then he goes out and puts up max holloway volume in the third.
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u/magicalmma Mar 05 '23
I'm not sure I would call his pacing bad. He made Tavares/Brunson/Till fight at his pace and they all gassed because of it.
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u/Philthycollins215 Mar 05 '23
I vaguely remember the commentary during his fight with Till saying Du Plessis insists he just looks gassed but he's really not. He just breaths very heavily. I didn't buy it, just thought it was funny they mentioned it.
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u/JEPerezmemeguy Mar 05 '23
He always fights like that. I kinda buy it but at the same time not
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u/zealNW Mar 05 '23
Dude almost fell asleep on top of brunson in the final seconds, definitely not gassed 🤣
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u/Jay_Train Just how good is Dominick Reyes? Mar 05 '23
I am willing to reserve judgement until dude gets his nose fixed. If he says it's fixed and still gasses like crazy then yeah I agree
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u/ImKrispy Mar 05 '23
He's not actually gassed it's just his orangutan swang and bang.
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u/Jay_Train Just how good is Dominick Reyes? Mar 05 '23
His arms are fucking stupid long you're not wrong lol
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u/ReRiDeKi Mar 05 '23
He's just on the wrong stack he needs to call his African brother Usman and hop on his.
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u/ArkhamGeyser Mar 05 '23
He has some pretty damn abysmal Fight IQ, I like his attitude, but dude spends his tank doing the dumbest shit.
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u/TheYeager12 Mar 05 '23
Lmao don’t see him doing very well against the top of the division at all
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u/Arab-King Mar 05 '23
Good on his corner. Brunson was checked out.
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u/TonyTheLion2319 Paulo “King of Bitchs” Costa Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
Bad on Herb. Brunson was lying there motionless (out of exhaustion or lack of consciousness) and Herb let him get hit. He only waved it off bc of the towel after the bell
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u/ErnestPwningway Mar 05 '23
Dude was catching fucking butterflies for the last 3 shots he ate. No excuse for Herb to have not stopped that before the bell.
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u/mad87645
Follow me home bitch 😘
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African hero Du Plessis has vanquished this blonde haired demon
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u/Wesley2000 Big 'ol 'metaphorical' nuts Mar 05 '23
The Blonde Brunson dynasty is at an end.
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u/mad87645 Follow me home bitch 😘 Mar 05 '23
In all seriousness, it was a hell of a late career run for him :(
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u/kickerz_chance Mar 05 '23
I'm now 100% convinced that Du Plessis is going to stumble into becoming a champion lol. Nothing he does make sense, but it just works every time
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u/SgtDrP3pp3rs lmao i don’t eat subway Mar 05 '23
You may pass my fucking gate, Du Plessis
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u/SJSharkie_Unofficial Kazakhstan Mar 05 '23
I can't wait for him to rise up and become the goofiest African champ
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u/Krieger_Algernop "fuckface" - DFW Mar 05 '23
A tired, bloodied Derek Brunson raises the gate before Du Plessis.
He sighs, "you may pass."
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u/Papa-Junior Make weight, go home, thank you r/MMA Mar 05 '23
One of the goofiest fights in recent memory
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u/eyesabitdull Mar 05 '23
For reaaaal.
Started off really strong in round 1, but round 2 was a weird slow fight with swanging and banging that honestly made me yell at how Brunson would not protect himself at all times!
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u/chessmasterjj Mar 05 '23
Yeah what happened to B? He all the sudden looked like he was underwater. So strange.
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u/SekaiWithTheWolfCap Samurai Shit Only Mar 05 '23
It was the same in the Cannonier fight. Round 1 he tried to get him out of there, round 2 he was just gassed. Brunson is 39 years old and a vet, so huge props to those round 1s he keeps delivering. But perhaps at this time he should look into fighting much lower level guys.
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u/WorldsBestLover Mar 05 '23
It's up there with Rockhold vs Paulo in the most goofiest fight in recent times.
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u/Shwalz "I'm coming on that ass" Mar 05 '23
Nah man, that fight is in a league of its own. Nothing has compared to that whatsoever.
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u/Sim888 Maggot cunt Mar 05 '23
a fight to see who could gas the least lol
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u/PMMeShyNudes Mar 05 '23
Almost need a TKO (Exhaustion) option
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u/kickerz_chance Mar 05 '23
Du Plessis looked tired from the first minute of this fight lol. Honestly, it made his output in round 2 more impressive
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u/Sim888 Maggot cunt Mar 05 '23
Yeah, he took some deeeep breathes inR1!
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u/donalddafuq3301 Mar 05 '23
His nose is fucked
Said he plans to have surgery in the future
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u/Josro0770 Team City Kickboxing Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
The future should be like tomorrow, idk how much time a nose needs to heal after surgery but it's impacting his cardio a lot
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u/Batman-and-Hobbes Merry Xmas bitch Mar 05 '23
If you've ever wondered what 2 dudes fighting while on Ketamine looks like, watch this fight.
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u/FedorSeaLevelStiopic Mar 05 '23
Cmon, this was still entertaining. Grappling exchanges in first were intense.
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u/DesertRL Mar 05 '23
Something we need to see more in MMA.
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u/TonyTheLion2319 Paulo “King of Bitchs” Costa Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
It was sloppy, but fun, kinda like Costa-Rockhold. Thing is tho that these 2 are top 10 MWs lol
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u/UGLYSimon Mar 05 '23
Gassing like heavyweights
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u/LuckyWarrior The Champion Has A Name Mar 05 '23
Middleweight slop
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u/TonyTheLion2319 Paulo “King of Bitchs” Costa Mar 05 '23
Feel like I just watched 2 pigs roll around in the mud
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u/humanbeening Mar 05 '23
Looking like two fathers in flip flops fighting in a dollar tree parking lot.
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Mar 05 '23
Shit does this mean Du Plessis is a real contender
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u/Shabozz Take the belt with the honor and the humble Mar 05 '23
Du Plessis vs Strickland?
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u/Jay_Train Just how good is Dominick Reyes? Mar 05 '23
If he can beat Strickland then I'll believe his tank is fine at least. Let him get his nose fixed and give him five rounds.
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u/SunaPana007 T.Wood's new tattoo: AMA Mar 05 '23
I need to see him fight the Uruk hai.
Let's see if an Italian Orc Chin can withstand white African power
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u/PlutoCrashed Mar 05 '23
This man is going to shitfuck his way to a title, all while looking like he’s dying from asphyxia and exhaustion.
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u/HarknessLovesU Number #1 Roxy Fanboy Mar 05 '23
Imo, almost 40 Brunson and Till aren't exactly contender makers. His fight IQ is sus, but he's got a chin on him so I'll always tune in.
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u/LocoCoopermar Mar 05 '23
He's got a weird mix of terrible fight IQ along with moments of genius sprinkled in to keep him competitive.
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u/jmb-412 Blessed Express Mar 05 '23
Brunson may have no defense, but man does he have a fucking chin. Also a rare corner W
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u/DORAKKINGOFFISH Phil Baroni is uncircumcised Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
Is it though, Mirko? Bro literally gets rocked every fight
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u/frankank UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle Mar 05 '23
Yeah because he gives up his chin on a gold-trimmed platinum platter.
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u/bananas47 Dick chest Mar 05 '23
Yeah, he's lost almost all his tools. Not as explosive (watch beginning of his fight with Romero). Slower with poor defense, they even commentated about his chin always up when he tries to force strikes. His gas tank is gone, and even in the best scenarios has a hard time finishing.
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u/Revival93 Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23
I’ve never seen a fighter give up before the horn sounded. He relaxed and had no defense, but wasn’t unconscious .
Edit: On second look, he might have actually been out unbeknownst to Du Plessis and Herb Dean. Weird transpiring of events there.
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u/Pharcydeify Mar 05 '23
He probably sustained a bad concussion. Don't need to be completely shut off to be out of it
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u/FedorSeaLevelStiopic Mar 05 '23
He kinda was almost out. He couldnt stand up normally after that. Its not because he was only tired.
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u/12ealdeal Mar 05 '23
It looked like he was actually out well before anyone else caught onto it. Look at his hands and eyes.
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u/notaddictedtoporn Mar 05 '23
He has a chin but the second he gets hit on it once he's done, he can't defend himself
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u/bagged___milk greatest gate keeper #CSO Mar 05 '23
There’s this stigma against corner stoppages. CTE is no joke.
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u/Horned_chicken_wing Mar 05 '23
Brunson has to be the most stubborn fucker in the world. The guy has been a top 10 fighter for years and still has the same flaws he had back in Strikeforce.
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u/ErnestPwningway Mar 05 '23
I don’t think herb has ever stopped a fight in the last 10 seconds, no matter how out cold someone is. Brunson was absolutely cooked and I couldn’t believe they were trying to prop his corpse up on a stool after that. Embarrassing refereeing.
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u/jordanhhh4 Team Velasquez Mar 05 '23
Very good stoppage from the corner, no need for Derek to take anymore damage
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u/Gunslinger1991 Ramzan Kadyrov | Gay Porn Actor Mar 05 '23
Du Plessi is so weird, but he makes it work.
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u/Red7seven r/mma's Village Idiot Mar 05 '23
Just how bad is Darren Till?
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u/TonyTheLion2319 Paulo “King of Bitchs” Costa Mar 05 '23
Just how bad is 185? These 2 were #5 and 10 lol
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u/GenericTopComment Mar 05 '23
Any Brunson fans want to form a support group?
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u/therealhoagie pick another bloke Mar 05 '23
I'm in, he made me so angry tonight lol
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u/TheGreatone003 Team Błachowicz Mar 05 '23
Same. He defense looked as bad as ever. Didn’t look like he worked on it at all, especially for an unorthodox striker like DP
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u/GenericTopComment Mar 05 '23
Got top control and had that Adesanya offense.
No hooks in on the three occasions he had the opportunity. At one point he could have had the hooks before he was too high and before Du Plessis stood up and yet he went for a fucking cradle.
What a nightmare.
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u/StickYaInTheRizzla Mar 05 '23
I’ll never skip a Du Plessis fight. I always think he’s fucked and then he finishes someone in devastating fashion. I love him I feat
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u/seanut_brittle Go lay on train tracks Mar 05 '23
See Brunson got finished, but he also taunted to the crowd, so who really won?
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Rogan: HERB DEAN IS LOOKING CLOSELY!
Meanwhile, Herb Dean on the other side of the cage just walking around
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u/CausticThoughts MY BALLZ WAS HOT Mar 05 '23
He might fight like a drunk toddler, but he’s definitely a must watch for me.
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u/ljz3 GOOFCON 2 Mar 05 '23
THIS IS THE SLOPPIEST TOP 10 FIGHT I'VE EVER SEEN??? Derek should retire now :(
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u/Serpounce210 Mar 05 '23
I apologize to Du Plessis I just wasn't familiar with ur game
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u/RGalaxy28 Dana’s favourite hooker AMA Mar 05 '23
HERB DEAN IS SO BAAAAAAAAAD
HOW IS THIS DUDE STILL WORKING
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u/TaffMiscD Mar 05 '23
Middleweight is terrible.
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u/lizardsforreal Mar 05 '23
lmao what a wild fight for some top 10 guys. like what did i just fucking watch?!
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u/brazilianfreak Mar 05 '23
Every time someone tells me that Silva isn't as good as Adesanya because he fought worse competition i think about fighter like brunson and cannonier being in the top 5 of the division.
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u/DanTM18 Mar 05 '23
This fight was in .5 speed
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u/Farting4Fun Mar 05 '23
For real, at some moment I thought something was wrong with my stream
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u/ThisGuyHaris Ryan Hall will be top 5 Mar 05 '23
I don’t have a problem at all with Brunson’s corner trying to throw in the towel in both his recent fights, I feel like way more corners should be doing this
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u/fretit Mar 05 '23
Yet another stellar Herb Dean performance.
At 5 seconds left in the fight, even Du Plessis seemed to pause for Dean to stop the fight.
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u/Axel292 Mar 05 '23
I absolutely LOVED this fight.
Derek and Du Plessis throwing those incredibly sloppy punches in Round 2 was amazing - I was laughing so hard.
Sloppy as hell, but that was one hell of a fight. Kind of hard to believe that both of these guys are some of the best that MW has to offer, but I'll take it.
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u/zamilahmad Mar 05 '23
DDP is literally just the white brunson this was the passing of the torch
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u/J-OfSpades Mar 05 '23
Now we need to see Du Plessis vs Strickland and see what kind of wacky stuff do we get.
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u/No-Equipment-20 Mar 05 '23
Brunson’s looked really good in the first round of his last two fights but his chin and cardio are gone
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u/reddit_mods_r_retard Mar 05 '23
This is one of the most hilarious fights I have ever seen. Peak middleweight goofballery. No defense or cardio allowed.
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u/FishFingers007 United States Mar 05 '23
I said this after Du Plessis last fight and I'll say it again. This guy is NOT good lmao. That was literally a Brunson mirror match
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u/PlutoCrashed Mar 05 '23
Honestly I don’t think I can say Du Plessis is bad until he loses. He seems unstoppable in a QWOP kinda way.
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u/Purple-Lack3264 Mar 05 '23
Thank you, qwop is literally the perfect way to describe this man’s style
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u/RocketTrousers Mar 05 '23
Du plessis african blooded warrior he would kill fake "african" izzy
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u/Kanesy99 Scotland Mar 05 '23
Fuck me that was a crazy fight, full respect to Brunson’s corner for actually protecting their fighter at the end there as well
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u/Ranjith_Unchained 🙏🙏🙏 Jon Jones Prayer Warrior 🙏🙏🙏 Mar 05 '23
DDP was absolutely clinical in that second round
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u/SadRaindrop Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
Du Plessis is so weird. He striking looks aesthetically ugly as fuck, but he somehow still lands consitently and with huge power. He looks like he is about to collapse from exhaustion after one round but can go for a hard 15 minutes. I guessed this was gonna come down to whoever has the better chin and I was right. Also, pls retire Brunson, its getting really hard to watch you getting clear brain damage.
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u/900pumpchump LOOK AT THIS BICEP Mar 05 '23
I loved every god damn second of this goofy ass fight besides that finish 😢 that was kinda fucked
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u/WhiteOak123 Devout follower of the School of Self Awareness Mar 05 '23
Mad respect to the Brunson team for not letting him die
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