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So pumped about this fight. Head says Fitch, heart says Maia.

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So pumped about this fight. Head says Fitch, heart says Maia.

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knuckleballs - Anderson Fucking Silva couldn't put Maia away in 25 minutes. I think Fitch doesn't bring much to the table for him, but, i think that they are both pretty evenly matched, regardless.

It should be an excellent fight.

Not sure if you're serious or not. I think the majority of MMA fans believe Silva could have put Maia to sleep if he had wanted to, and rather easily. The gap in stand up was light years.

What confuses everyone is why Silva did not, and why he was spending 25 minutes dancing around and acting the clown

Actually, the first three rounds, Anderson didn't run from him, he hit him with the kitchen sink. Anderson only ran for the last 2. Yes, it is and was weird, but if one can take 15 minutes worth of what Anderson Silva has, than they should be able to take 15 minutes of what Jon Fitch has.

I may have to go back and re-watch it, but I don't ever remember Anderson "hitting him with the kitchen sink". He threw shots here and there, but never really went into beast mode and engaged.

I don't have any doubt that if Anderson wanted to KO Maia, he could.

He broke his orbital bone, his nose, and made one of his eyes completely close. Anderson wouldn't follow up on the ground, which was his game plan, to stay away from the ground of the BJJ champion. Can't fully blame him, especially after seeing how easily he submitted some good fighters in Chael and Quarry. Now, why he ran in those last two rounds is the millon dollar question, but it should be mentioned that Maia was pushing the fight and wasn't butt scootting in the last 2 rounds like Leites was. At the end of the day, all we can take from that fight is that Anderson lit up Maia on the feet, wouldn't go on the ground with him, and was scared to fight him for the final two rounds.

Check out Maia in this post fight interview.

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/4/12/1416802/demian-maia-post-fight-interview

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Vale_Tudo_83 - Im looking forward to fight maia has iooked good at ww. I think he wins standing and on the ground. The only way Jon win is guida style lay and pray.

Eh the more I think about the more I doubt fitch can LNP a man of maia's abilities. Fitch should have the edge on the feet tho, and that may be where he looks to keep it. Maybe go for td's late in the rounds. I hope it doesn't turn into a c grade boxing match tho

Maia is a far better striker then Fitch

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ortman166 - 

burner22 -

Vale_Tudo_83 - Im looking forward to fight maia has iooked good at ww. I think he wins standing and on the ground. The only way Jon win is guida style lay and pray.

Eh the more I think about the more I doubt fitch can LNP a man of maia's abilities. Fitch should have the edge on the feet tho, and that may be where he looks to keep it. Maybe go for td's late in the rounds. I hope it doesn't turn into a c grade boxing match tho

Maia is a far better striker then Fitch

I would say Maia has more talent, but he also leaves more openings IMO.

DaemonDragon - Maia is a better wrestler than Fitch IMO. I don't think people really understand this.

Maia was forced to Stand and Wang against guys like Munoz and Weidman because they're huge wrestlers with elite credentials and he couldn't budge them. He ragdolled both Kim and Story.

Now Kim's injury was a fluke, but the brilliant takedown straight into mount wasn't. Kim would have been in real bad shape anyway. Also Maia became the only fighter to finish Rick Story, which is damned impressive.

While Fitch has great offensive wrestling, Fitch's TDD has always been suspect (and I've maintained this since even before the Penn fight). And Maia has some excellent takedowns. I feel as if Maia can win either by sub, or decision.

And on the feet I'm not sure how it would go...if Fitch really did stuff Maia's subs but didn't take Maia down, I'm not sure who wins on the feet.

Fitch's striking is underrated, but Maia's striking is decent, and he has more power - both Anderson and Munoz said they were surprised how hard Maia hit, and Wanderlei who spars with Maia has always said the same thing.

I'd definitely much prefer a grappling match between these two though than a sloppy kickboxing match...

caseharts - :) told you so

burner22 - 

DaemonDragon - Maia is a better wrestler than Fitch IMO. I don't think people really understand this.

Maia was forced to Stand and Wang against guys like Munoz and Weidman because they're huge wrestlers with elite credentials and he couldn't budge them. He ragdolled both Kim and Story.

Now Kim's injury was a fluke, but the brilliant takedown straight into mount wasn't. Kim would have been in real bad shape anyway. Also Maia became the only fighter to finish Rick Story, which is damned impressive.

While Fitch has great offensive wrestling, Fitch's TDD has always been suspect (and I've maintained this since even before the Penn fight). And Maia has some excellent takedowns. I feel as if Maia can win either by sub, or decision.

And on the feet I'm not sure how it would go...if Fitch really did stuff Maia's subs but didn't take Maia down, I'm not sure who wins on the feet.

Fitch's striking is underrated, but Maia's striking is decent, and he has more power - both Anderson and Munoz said they were surprised how hard Maia hit, and Wanderlei who spars with Maia has always said the same thing.

I'd definitely much prefer a grappling match between these two though than a sloppy kickboxing match...

Spot on about the wrestling bro

UGCTT_LastCall - Maia will only stand and Wang as long as it takes to grab hold of Fitch...and then it will be a sad day for Jon.