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Originally Posted by molson
MMA is the cruelest sport when you're on the downside of your career. In other sports your role can be reduced, you get benched, you can maybe still be carried by younger teammates.
In MMA you keep getting beat up, all alone. In June 2019 Tony Ferguson beat Donald Cerrone for his 12th win in a row, to move to 25-3 overall, leading to at title shot. He's never won again, lost 7 in a row, none of them really close.
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His fighting style never lent itself to a long career. Same with guys like Eddie Alvarez, Michael Chandler, Diego Sanchez. All bangers, all reckless, all with tremendous dropoffs. I was really high on Ferguson when he broke out. He had IT, but he's totally dropped off, and he shouldn't fight again.