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Originally Posted by just_mo
Weidman was taking some vicious body shots and that was a pretty intense fight in rounds 2-3, takes a lot of move with Machida that much. He came back strong in the fifth I think people are WAY overblowing a perceived cardio issue because they are looking for a weakness.
Can't believe people are still being fooled into thinking Belfort has a chance against Weidman, guy is gonna get taken to the woodshed. Roids ain't gonna help him when he's on his back.
Well, if you have to take some weakness from Weidman in that fight and which he can improve on, it would be the cardio. It's just like Jose Aldo, well rounded fighter, but after 3 rounds he slows down noticeably. I mean, it's not that big of a flaw when your opponent does the same but if you get a better conditioned opponent it's going to cause trouble. But in his defense lots of the conditioning was due to Machida's moving and body shots.
Other than that I think he performed very well and he was just right in pushing Machida as he did.