His ground game could use some serious work. He's a brown belt. Nate has been a black belt forever.
His standup is great unless he's gassing. His head movement and footwork was great against Nate, but you could tell even in that round he was getting tired. He started getting flat-footed, lost the bounce, ate some shots.
I also don't think he's as well rounded as everyone claims, and when he fights Edgar, we'll find out for sure. But the Mendes thing was... yeah. He did not look good there. Edgar is just going to be a stronger version of that.
2nd Aldo fight should be interesting, too. I was hoping that would be a better fight. That honestly had potential to be fight of the year given their styles, but Aldo got dunked real quick. I wouldn't necessarily call it a fluke like most would. Aldo was being dumb.
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