MMAFTM13
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While Blaydes has definitely improved his striking, his boxings not the best. He made it competitive but if this fight was 5 years ago, Hokit wouldn’t have had any trouble beating him. That’s a testament to Blaydes improvement on the feet, but most of his tko wins were from ground and pound. Hokits wrestling cancelled each other out. The holes in Hokits striking is evident and he has his hands down a lot. His over-reliance on his chin also will cost him against a big HW with huge power, legit striking, tdd.He handled being hit by blades and Lewis. While blades isn't a striker like @MMAFTM13 pointed out he still has heavy hands and we know that and getting up after taken down is Lewis's 2 best qualities.
I thought Derrick had a small chance to catch him because of those holes in his defence, but relying on a 42 year old that blows a gasket out of his fat asss after two minutes of the fight these days, is one of the stupidest mistakes I’ve ever made in my life. I still never picked Lewis to beat him on games. But I don’t think I’m wrong in these potential matchups for Hokit with Pavlovich, Volkov, Alex, maybe Acosta, certainly Aspinall and Gane. We shall see but we’re betting when one of these fights gets made sport.