Is Roy Nelson a contender at HW?

You know that for a fact tim? Seriously?

Oh, those guys have bigger looking muscles, so they must hit that much harder obviously!

I've been watching Nelson since before any of us even heard of all these guys Roy has supposedly no chance of beating.

On an unrelated note ; The next two years will be so much fun though watching all these big guys lose and all the flabbergasted people who can't believe they lost. But, but but they have bigger muscles, what the fuck?

Things change bro

Quick whose Roy's best win against?

And on a related note, the HW division is changing, I think you're gonna end up finding out that these new guys are all legit and yes, size and strength matter.

Roy has been jobbed in most of his biggest fights. The AA loss is a real loss, I don't think the standup was that bad, but he beat Rothwell and he beat Monson.

I am not denying size and strength matter, but I don't think recognizing this shift in the HW division automatically means we assume a bunch of guys with two years of fight experience are unbeatable, or a guy who weighs 265 himself with a sick ground game, boulders for fists and a solid chin can't beat any of them.

Don't get shit twisted LA.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

You know that for a fact tim? Seriously?

Oh, those guys have bigger looking muscles, so they must hit that much harder obviously!

Dude ur muscle arguement is old and played out lol. Just stop it! Im judgeing it on the fact these guys are putting people to sleep in nearly every fight and they aint fighting Kimbo and the Struves of the world. Now u say Nog is washed up but before Cain destroyed his ass u was stuck on the staph infection shit. These guys are fighting better competition than Roy right now and deep down if you think really hard u know these guys hit harder. Think of it this way would u rather have Roy hit you or Carwin? JDS? Cain? And yes even ur most hated man in the world Brock? I would pick Roy any day.

Carwin and Brock probably hit as hard as anyone, no argument there obviously, but Cain never demonstrated one punch stopping power before Nog. His power was criticized widely if you remember. Roy by all accounts would hit a lot harder than he.

That fact makes me believe Nog is washed up though. The staph infections and his injuries represent now to me the greater context of Nogueira and the breakdown of his body.

I've seen Roy use his power more and more effectively as his career has progressed though, and being hit by him is just as dangerous as most heavyweights, Dos Santos being no different. His first two wins were decisions, his next four were submissions, but 8 of his last 9 are KO/TKO, a percentage similar to Dos Santos', and for what it's worth Nelson knocked out Struve a few seconds sooner and with less punches lol.