Robbie Lawler vs Stephen Thompson. Who wins?
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Norway said:
This fight is just a formality. Wonderboy is the UFC Champion by the end of 2016 100 %. Great matchup for him.
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Formality? Against that fkn lunatic? Robbie Lawler is an eater of souls and Thompson was brilliant last night but he can definitely be hit. In no way is it a formality and the biggest winners in this matchup are the fans, should be a fkn classic.
BthlhmAbrtnClnc said:
Formality? Against that fkn lunatic? Robbie Lawler is an eater of souls and Thompson was brilliant last night but he can definitely be hit. In no way is it a formality and the biggest winners in this matchup are the fans, should be a fkn classic.
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Lawler is reminding me of Hunt and Hendo. Sure they're likely not the favourites in most fights, but they got the veteran heavy hitting experience to win some of these upsets.
Norway said:
This fight is just a formality. Wonderboy is the UFC Champion by the end of 2016 100 %. Great matchup for him.
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Jak said:
Lawler is reminding me of Hunt and Hendo. Sure they're likely not the favourites in most fights, but they got the veteran heavy hitting experience to win some of these upsets.
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Just realised he probably only meant it's a formality that the fight will take place. Is Lawler definitely fighting Woodley next?
cinyras said:
thompson is too accurate and lethal with his strikes for robbie to just walk through for 5 rounds. he has to have much better head movement in this fight than he has lately.
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I think Thompson would win, but you guys are going overboard. Especially those you who didn't even know who he was four years ago.
Lawler can last with John Hendricks, he can certainly last through a fight with f---ing Wonderboy. lol Whether he'll win - who knows. But the idea that Thompson has some kind of massive power is silly. Besides, Lawler has shown tremendous improvement in head and feet movement. Wonderboy is going to have to do way more than circle the cage, which seems to be new Winklejohn strategy of 2016.
CardioKing said:
I think Thompson would win, but you guys are going overboard. Especially those you who didn't even know who he was four years ago.
Lawler can last with John Hendricks, he can certainly last through a fight with f---ing Wonderboy. lol Whether he'll win - who knows. But the idea that Thompson has some kind of massive power is silly. Besides, Lawler has shown tremendous improvement in head and feet movement. Wonderboy is going to have to do way more than circle the cage, which seems to be new Winklejohn strategy of 2016.
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ive flip flopped like a motherf---er on what i think happens this fight LOL my most recent post has robbie putting thompson into a war and coming out on top.
I have to give Robbie the nod, he has the ability to hurt people in a fairly short period of time and, even in the last minutes of the fifth round, will be going all out to win. Thompson almost certainly would pick up some rounds, but take damage in every one of them, leading up to a late round stoppage. Look at last's night fight, now imagine that was Robbie landing those punches instead of Rory. Robbie would not be as tentative as Rory was.
Thompson is extremely talented, but I don't think he is the best striker in MMA. Lawler has survived the strikes of Hendricks, Condit amd Manhoef and never stopped moving forward. I think a part of this would see Thompson spending a fair amount of time trying to create space, but if Robbie gets him against the cage, ST is going to take some serious damage.
Jak said:
Lawler is reminding me of Hunt and Hendo. Sure they're likely not the favourites in most fights, but they got the veteran heavy hitting experience to win some of these upsets.
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The difference is that Robbie is consistently beating ranked fighters. His one loss, in his current UFC run, was a close fight with Hendricks. I favored Rory over Robbie and I favored Carlos over Robbie...I am not going against Lawler until he shows signs of slowing down. In the Rory fight, I honestly think Robbie was aware that his strikes were hurting Rory and felt he would eventually put him down, which is exactly what happened. Robbie is utterly confident that when he does get to you, you are in trouble. Carlos was on his way to winning the belt, Robbie dug deep late in the fifth and went to war. Manhoef was tagging Robbie until the lights went out.
cinyras said:
wonderboy is clearly the best striker in the division and maybe in mma.
but a fight with robbie isnt a regular fight.
he will create chaos and drag you into it. theres just no way around it. you gotta be ready to die in there with him.
robbie by 4th round k.o
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I don't think that Wonderboy is capable of getting dragged into chaos. He's too seasoned and smart of a striker. That doesn't mean that I don't think Robbie can nail him or walk through something to end up with the win, but I don't see any likely scenario in which Thompson is being reckless or panicked on the feet.
It 100% depends on distance, if Robbie can get on the inside and brawl, which he is the master of, it would be very difficult for Thompson to keep a hold of his consciousness. Rory had success inside but Lawler can finish it there.
That said if Thompson can control the distance and stay on the outside it could be a very long night for Robbie.
I voted Robbie because 25 mins is a long time to stay outside and avoid a pitbull.
John Hogan said:
I think Wonderboy will be the first to stop Robbie by strikes. Robbie's chin is legendary but I think if/when he resorts to trying to brawl with Wonderboy he'll get caught out and finished - probably by ref stoppage rather than an outright KO. Wonderboy might not have been able to put Rory away, but then Rory fought a great tactical fight. I'm predicting Wonderboy by headkick followed by ground and pound.
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Not the first to stop him to strikes, perse, Nick Diaz stopped him to strikes a long time ago.
But yeah, Wonderboy will stop him IMO.
smartigan said:
Robbie has been lucky in his title run tbh
IMO he lost to Hendricks and Condit and he was losing to MacDonald also before that last round
He is a tough SOB with incredible heart who I enjoy watching fight
WB stops him within 3
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You think he was losing to Rory? Wow! Don't agree with that but the rest I do.
Spidy said:
It has begun. Oldtimers sets in.
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37 the other day
I'm starting to feel like you for a change
What I remember, but I could be wrong, was Robbie should've lost to Hendricks, him just say beating Rory(but I could've remembered wrong due to my age and s---) and Robbie getting gift wrapped a BS decision against Condit.
I know the Rory fight was close though before the stoppage.