[vishal-ajj]

Originally Posted by Translucent

Indeed Cyrille Diabate blasted him a few times and made Shogun take him to the ground.

Cyrille is a 6'6 tall kickboxer and has excellent speed he is a lot like Alistar as far as being an explosive starter is concerned.

[ZILLAPMP]

lets just wait and see

[Willy Lump Lump]

Originally Posted by Translucent

Indeed Cyrille Diabate blasted him a few times and made Shogun take him to the ground.

ue, but Diabate is a very good striker....has a retarded reach and height advantage, smart move by Shogun..Forrest is NOWHERE near Diabete as far as striking goes.

[machadojj]

Originally Posted by Tarantino

Because Nakamura is better Griffin

pwnd

[caliborn]

Originally Posted by Sakurama39

Yes , He does become more of a ground fighter after he broke his arm.But so what? he still finishes most of his fights and ever finish overeem faster than the first time they met.I dont think Shogun will take a long time striking with Griffin , He will throw him off with strikes and goes for a take down.While he's there , hes gonna finish the fight and punish griffin with elbows and strikes to body and head.

Shogun will fight smart.GnP is the smartest choice against Griffin.

Why are so many people expecting Shogun to come in with some Tito style elbows?

Shogun's ground and pound is great and he knows how to finish there but his style is unique in that he doesn't get close to the fighter on the ground.

He always stays far enough to throw powerful punches and close enough to not let them get up. He stays away from submissions and lands powerful punches with surprising acuracy.

So unless he changes his style a bit, which he must have at least considered because of the rule differences, I don't think he will be using elbows on the ground.

I'm not a follower of Shogun, I'm more of a Rampage guy myself, but I won't bet against that guy.

[ArtKuanJitsu]

Originally Posted by Mr Judo

damn, i don't know who invented this term troll but stfu, don't mention it anymore, its fucking gay. This is a fighting site and we talk about fighters and fight related topics if you don't like it go elsewhere.

you tell 'im.

[mikehunt]

Call it a hunch...

[ArtKuanJitsu]

Originally Posted by Willy Lump Lump

ue, but Diabate is a very good striker....has a retarded reach and height advantage, smart move by Shogun..Forrest is NOWHERE near Diabete as far as striking goes.

Snake was all skin and bones, no strength on that guy and his TDD was non-exixtent. Forrest has some strength and TDD going in.

[AKS1]

Originally Posted by caliborn

Why are so many people expecting Shogun to come in with some Tito style elbows?

Shogun's ground and pound is great and he knows how to finish there but his style is unique in that he doesn't get close to the fighter on the ground.

He always stays far enough to throw powerful punches and close enough to not let them get up. He stays away from submissions and lands powerful punches with surprising acuracy.

So unless he changes his style a bit, which he must have at least considered because of the rule differences, I don't think he will be using elbows on the ground.

I'm not a follower of Shogun, I'm more of a Rampage guy myself, but I won't bet against that guy.

Shogun always uses elbows on the ground, but to the body. Now that he can throw them to the head, I expect to see him use them.

[Kevin Lee]

Not all fighters are the same.