Demian Maia would like to fight Jon Fitch or Nick Diaz |
| Posted By |
Message |
Bythar
MMA Regular
Career record: 899-455
Season: 21-3 (#83)
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland.
|
Fitch and Maia is very interesting to me. Fitch has escaped from all kinds of submissions most would tap to. In particular, he is really hard to choke. The interesting thing for me is, if the choke is applied by Maia, will he be able to escape?
However, with Fitch's wrestling, it seems likely he'll try to keep it standing. He'll fight smart. With Nick Diaz though, I think we could see a real ground battle. I prefer that fight.
Maia has been on a tear since the drop, hopefully he'll get booked the big fight.
|
|
Post #16 10/20/12 6:48:15AM
|
|
|
TeamDEY
Belt Contender
Career record: 152-124
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: North Carolina
|
Both make interesting fights... i think Maia would lose to either one
|
|
Post #17 10/20/12 11:18:24AM
|
Advertisement |
|
warglory
Heavyweight Champ
Career record: 465-318
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: Portland, ME
|
Posted by TeamDEY
Both make interesting fights... i think Maia would lose to either one
If Maia boxes with Nick, he is going down, but if it hits the floor, I think Nick will meet his match in the jits dept for sure.
Last edited 10/20/12 11:32AM by warglory
Edit note/reason: n/a
|
|
Post #18 10/20/12 11:32:00AM
|
Manak
Belt Contender
Career record: 154-103
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: Texas
|
grappling heaven is what both these fights would produce. it would really showcase the ground game at a very high level. it will be high paced and have such integral moves that I feel they should put on fox to really show what the ground game is capable of producing
|
|
Post #19 10/20/12 1:32:07PM
|
MMA Sensei
Career record: 618-377
Season: 8-3 (#1719)
Location: Ontario, WHAT!
|
props to Maia
|
|
Post #20 10/20/12 1:39:29PM
|
bjj1605
MMA Sensei
Career record: 889-537
Season: 20-4 (#531)
Location: Chicago
|
Posted by Bythar
Fitch and Maia is very interesting to me. Fitch has escaped from all kinds of submissions most would tap to. In particular, he is really hard to choke. The interesting thing for me is, if the choke is applied by Maia, will he be able to escape?
However, with Fitch's wrestling, it seems likely he'll try to keep it standing. He'll fight smart. With Nick Diaz though, I think we could see a real ground battle. I prefer that fight.
Maia has been on a tear since the drop, hopefully he'll get booked the big fight.
There is absolutely no way that Fitch would be able to ride out a choke from Demian Maia. What he did against Erick Silva was impressive, but it had a lot to do with technical mistakes made by Silva.
Not only does Maia have perfect technique, he has an absurd squeeze. Ask Rick Story how good Maia's squeeze is.
It's really hard to understand unless you've had a chance to roll with a guy like that (I've gotten to roll with Pedro Sauer and Marcello Garcia on occasion) but they really are different animals than the rest of us. Guys who have spent thousands and thousands of ours on the mat practicing that squeezing motion...there's no substitute in weight lifting.
|
|
Post #21 10/20/12 4:03:46PM
|
jae_1833
Heavyweight Champ
Career record: 918-569
Season: 20-4 (#327)
Location: Cali
|
I would love to see Maia vs Fitch so that I could see Diaz vz: Ellenberger, Koscheck or Hendricks.
|
|
Post #22 10/20/12 7:05:21PM
|
|
