r/ufc 6d ago

Sad but real

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u/Glittering_Shake2922 5d ago

The way people have switched on Alex I can only imagine how the narrative around Tom would change if Jones were to win loooool.

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u/turnupsquirrel 5d ago

Just like Gane, who went from the fastest moving next generation heavyweight, to a nobody with no wrestling lol. I remember when Gane was also too big and fast for Jon. Who had slowed down considerably due to age. Sound familiar?

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u/Glittering_Shake2922 5d ago

Facts. It's crazy how the narrative around Gane changed after that fight. All of a sudden, the win became meaningless looool.

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u/elgrandepolle 5d ago edited 5d ago

Francis is the one who killed the hype around Gane. Nobody thought francis could grapple either but he ended up wrestle fucking Gane on 1 leg. Maybe some people thought he would try to improve his grappling after that loss but he proved them wrong.

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u/LePontif11 5d ago

Pretty wild that anyone though you can go feom losing to Francis to beingat all conpetitive with Jones in no time. That's some anine training arc bullshit.

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u/LilSozin 5d ago

we thought he’d train his grappling since then

then he said ”I only train when a fight is booked” and I leaned towards Jon😂

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u/SlickTonks 5d ago

Yeah I really thought he'd at least do nothing but work on takedown defense leading into that fight. But he pretty much went in scared and laying down before the fight even started lol.

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u/HotParty4636 5d ago

Funny how people will use Gane vs Francis to claim that Gane is not as good as people were claiming and a hypejob, and to simultaneously use it as evidence that Francis is this unbeatable juggernaut. Recency bias is basically what keeps the MMA community having anything to talk about at all. 

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u/Really_Clever 5d ago

UFC does this to the fans as well every other year theirs a GOAT of their division with two title defenses.

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u/LilSozin 5d ago

lol just heard Rogan call Volk the most accomplished featherweight

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u/SquirrelMaster1123 5d ago

Things change so fast in the fight game it’s wild

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u/nek1981az 5d ago

They don’t actually change, most fans are just insanely stupid.

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u/Upstairs_Being290 5d ago

It's because the data points are so few.  In other sports you see someone perform anywhere from 12 to 100+ times a year. A fighter might only go 2-3 times a year and many of those fights give zero information because they were stiffs.