[quote]xXxJoKeRxXx wrote:
same here, hard not to cheer for Nelson lately seeing how entertaining his fights have been. The fat suit at the weigh in was priceless.
I couldn’t say much about him when he’d just lay on his opponent and try the mounted crucifix for minutes on end, and tap on the guys forehead til the ref stopped it for not intelligently defending, and he’d barely make contact with any of the punches. Am glad the Cro Cop fight wasn’t stopped at the end of the second round when he was doing this. [/quote]
I get a huge kick out of Roy Nelson’s attitude.
Also, I became a fan because of his mounted crucifix shenanigans. Given the single elimination and frequent fight schedule of TUF I thought he was the only one fighting smart. No damage taken, plus the bonus for the TKO. If it was stupid than someone would have stopped him when they had the chance. Now that he is fighting much better competition he has to do more.
Regards,
Robert A
[quote]Robert A wrote:
[quote]xXxJoKeRxXx wrote:
same here, hard not to cheer for Nelson lately seeing how entertaining his fights have been. The fat suit at the weigh in was priceless.
I couldn’t say much about him when he’d just lay on his opponent and try the mounted crucifix for minutes on end, and tap on the guys forehead til the ref stopped it for not intelligently defending, and he’d barely make contact with any of the punches. Am glad the Cro Cop fight wasn’t stopped at the end of the second round when he was doing this. [/quote]
I get a huge kick out of Roy Nelson’s attitude.
Also, I became a fan because of his mounted crucifix shenanigans. Given the single elimination and frequent fight schedule of TUF I thought he was the only one fighting smart. No damage taken, plus the bonus for the TKO. If it was stupid than someone would have stopped him when they had the chance. Now that he is fighting much better competition he has to do more.
Regards,
Robert A [/quote]
It’s a good technique, and safe strategy, but freakin’ boring as hell for me to watch. He’s in no way threatening to submit, or land any real hard strikes, but relying on the ref to may a judgement on how much his love taps are skimming off the opponents head. Considering it would take 3 minutes for him to finally secure the arm lol. Like I said, I’m glad the ref didn’t stop it at the end of the round, and he finished Cro Cop with some bombs after taking his back. Including TUF and his first few fights in the UFC, I think he was very hesitant to finish fights. but you know, when contract re-signing time comes along, all of the sudden some fighters become more entertaining…
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
I agree. Nelson is respectable as a fighter, but its little wonder as to why he doesnt have this huge fanbase like Cain or JDS. Has anyone ever gotten excited for a Roy Nelson fight?[/quote]
me.
Nelson would be a fat middleweight who goes with the heaviest and comes out pretty good, and he is entertaining!
i think he was like robert a said fighting smart in tuf due to schedual. also hes an arrogant SOB (which i like) and felt his competition was beneath him. the first time he did that crucifix on kimbo i think it was him exposing to the world how much of a joke the guy really was and in subsequent uses of the maneuver how easily he could dominate his opponent.
i think this also comes down to a “dont hate the player hate the game” yes it was stupid, but well within mma’s shitty set of grappling biased rules
when it came down to him having more time to recover/ fights with a large audience where he could make some extra knockout of the night money, he devastated scrub i mean schuab and destroyed that lanky abomination streuve
he also finished 11 of his 13 wins prior to tuf … and was knocked out for the only time in his career by arlovski
edit
he was also comming of two losses in a row into tuf so that could help explain his conservative fighting style