Dos Santos as a LHW

tolivendiewithLA wrote:

He can hang don't get me wrong, the question was posed as why he'd want to drop, so I made the argument, really all I wanted to know was what he'd be like as a LHW, since he isn't that big, but no one answered.

He'd be like a guy who can't come close to making weight.

237lb he weighed in at 237lb, a lot of fighters make cuts like that, AJ weighs at or over 200lb to cut to 170 for instance, u can say it'd be hard, but not out of the question IMO

tolivendiewithLA wrote:

237lb he weighed in at 237lb, a lot of fighters make cuts like that, AJ weighs at or over 200lb to cut to 170 for instance, u can say it'd be hard, but not out of the question IMO

Maybe your right, and maybe once he starts fighting the big guys he'll start to think it might be a good idea to give the weight cut a try. And he'd jump right into the title contention mix no doubt.

But considering his age he's prob thinking more about packing on the weight, then making a cut. But I still lobby for a 235 division.

How i see JDS matching up against the other UFC hw's
Guys he beats - Mir, Kongo,
guys he loses to - a healthy Brock
not sure on - Velasquez, Carwin. Those would be great fights.

oggy420 wrote:

How i see JDS matching up against the other UFC hw's
Guys he beats - Mir, Kongo,
guys he loses to - a healthy Brock
not sure on - Velasquez, Carwin. Those would be great fights.

I plused u for Mir, Kongo of course

but I meant LHW's , but it doesn't matter

Oggy JDS vs Mir would be a great fight Im not so sure who would win that fight but Im leaning towards Mir.

captain organic wrote:

tolivendiewithLA wrote:

237lb he weighed in at 237lb, a lot of fighters make cuts like that, AJ weighs at or over 200lb to cut to 170 for instance, u can say it'd be hard, but not out of the question IMO

Maybe your right, and maybe once he starts fighting the big guys he'll start to think it might be a good idea to give the weight cut a try. And he'd jump right into the title contention mix no doubt.

But considering his age he's prob thinking more about packing on the weight, then making a cut. But I still lobby for a 235 division.

Ok, yeah, building himself up to a in shape 250lb would be great for him, and he's 25 so tons of time.

I would lobby for 235lb aswell, it would fill up quick IMO, but would weaken HW

hmm, hard to really say cause we dont know what type of fighter he would be at 205 but if he could still translate that power he could probably be top 5, but i dont see him beating Machida, Shogun, Page.

true Tim Mir is much improved. I just feel like if Frank exchanged with Dos Santos it would end bad for him, but if he took it to the ground he could get a sub, not sure how JDS's ground game is but i know he trains with Maia and used to train wuth the Nogs.

I know it was short and sweet, but Mir faired pretty well standing with Kongo.

And even if JDS's ground game is good, we know Mir's is very good, and the new Mir would have a pretty distinct size advantage which would be another big adv for Mir on the ground.