UFC 117 Preview: Junior Dos Santos Talks Roy Nelson - "My Intention Is to Keep the Fight Standing"
by Nick Thomas on Jul 31, 2010 12:15 PM EDT
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"I’ve been training with the Nogueiras here in Bahia. Rogerio (Lil' Nog) was here a little longer than Rodrigo. Demian Maia has also been strong for me and a few more people who came to assist me and my team out here including the Northeast Champion of Jiu-Jitsu who has helped me from the beginning."
"This week I am doing the final preparation, its time to start winding down and on Saturday I do my last sparring and I'll have to be 100% to do this sparring. Then next week is the maintenance phase of the training," Dos Santos said.
"My intention is to keep the fight standing up, because I like the striking and want to use my boxing, which is where I consider myself better and it's where I want to try to surprise my opponent. But if the fight goes to the floor, I'm ready too, because I'm training a lot of Jiu-Jitsu and I'm sure I can still surprise him on the floor as well."
-- Junior Dos Santos talks to tatame.com.br, translated by fightersonlymagazine.co.uk.
Junior "Cigano" dos Santos (11-1)
Win Gabriel Gonzaga - TKO (Punches) UFC on Versus 1
Win Gilbert Yvel - TKO (Punches) UFC 108
Roy "Big Country" Nelson (15-4)
Win Stefan Struve - TKO (Punches) UFC FN 21
Win Brendan Schaub - KO (Punch) TUF 10 Finale
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i see this one being over quick
JDS is elite roy is good, their differences will show
We have a saying back home that if your coming on, COME ON!!!!
Roy's got some hands but...
JDS has dynamite fists. I see the moon going down at 117.
Keep sleepin' on me...
I really hope it goes to the ground
Regardless of the outcome, I want to see how good JDS is on the ground.
Nelson has really strong ground skills and someone with his size that knows how to use it is really rare.
I wanna see JDS use some ground skills, but I don’t see this fight working out favourably for him if it goes there… Arlovski-esque stand-ups aside…
Have to go with Dos Santos in this one. I can see JDS keeping the fight standing. Nelson is good and could surprise us, but I have to give the advantage to JDS. From what I have seen of Nelson, he does takedowns mainly from the clinch like trip takedowns and whatnot. I can’t see JDS letting Nelson get that close to him.
JDS should win
His jits should be good enough to keep Nelson off of him if the fight goes to the ground and his striking is good enough to end the fight.
But I’m still worried about his striking defense, there seems to be too many holes.
I’ll still go with JDS TKO Rd.2
I apologize for my never-ending assault on the English Language. I feel like Qui the promoter from Jade Empire...
BlackHouse is the management company (Ed Soares and co)
they each have their own team, Team Nogueira (Nogs, JDS), XTriker (Andy, Feijao), Lyoto has his dojo, etc. They’ll sometimes train together at the Blackhouse gym (or when Andy goes train with the Nogueiras at their gym), but they’re mainly from different camps.
the following two things are signs of weaknesses:
stay silent when it's needed to speak up, and speak up when it's needed to stay silent.
Man I REALLY want Roy to win
A) Because the JDS overhype is TOO much
B) I REALLY wanna see if Dana will stick to his winner gets a title shot
C) I REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY wanna see a Nelson title match promoted.
Called it before the fight:
Cardio - The BIG question. Does Shane Carwin have cardio? He's never gone past the first round. His muscle mass is astounding and we all know that with all that muscle comes a need for the heart to pump fresh oxygenated blood to keep them from building lactic acid. He does train up in the thin air of Colorado, so that can't do anything but help. However, we have seen him pretty winded after a 1st round fight. Adrenaline dump or cardio problems? We won't find out the answer to that until someone takes him out of the first round.
by S.C. Michaelson on Jul 31, 2010 3:17 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
For once we agree on something sir, lol
by dreamers_12345 on Jul 31, 2010 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
And I really want to see Roy get KO'd
Just because.
[goes and lights incense in front of JDS shrine in my closet]
Walking the line between intelligence and ignorance since 1985
@deowade
I really wanna see the staredown between Lesnar and Nelson
And the poster, for that matter.
Big Country vs. Velasquez?
That would be a fun matchup
As a future title contender match. Hahaha
Called it before the fight:
Cardio - The BIG question. Does Shane Carwin have cardio? He's never gone past the first round. His muscle mass is astounding and we all know that with all that muscle comes a need for the heart to pump fresh oxygenated blood to keep them from building lactic acid. He does train up in the thin air of Colorado, so that can't do anything but help. However, we have seen him pretty winded after a 1st round fight. Adrenaline dump or cardio problems? We won't find out the answer to that until someone takes him out of the first round.
by S.C. Michaelson on Jul 31, 2010 8:07 PM EDT up reply actions
JDS by KO round 1
JDS hand speed is too much for Roy. Roy will come out with that pawing left jab almost Nick Diaz style and try to set up a big right hand or rush in for the clinch and osoto-gari (bearhug and trip Roy version of osoto gari). However, JDS will slip that pawing jab and fire punches in bunches. His hooks and uppercuts will be too much for Roy. Nelson is NOT a striker he has KO’d other guys who cannot strike and by strike I mean they have no head movement, footwork or skill which is most of the ufc
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