UFC 129 Results: Sickness Slowed Jose Aldo During His Bout Against Mark Hominick

Viruses do not qualify as a form of life (don’t have all the characteristic of a living organism), hence the antibiotics don’t work.

The antibiotics could have fucked his shit all up for the reasons you just posted.

It’s still impressive.

Personally, I would love to see Patricio Pitbull Freire vs Jose Aldo even though I think that they train together, or have trained together. Frankie Edgar vs Jose Aldo would be awesome as well, and I don’t think that the weight cut would have any effect on Edgar.

Curious how Florian will do against him as well…

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just bustin your chops man.

and Voldemort’s as well. ;)

There’s a good chance power has moved a few rungs down the ladder since the wars began, so who knows who actually makes the decisions. Plus, the cells don’t meet – they may never even see anyone other than whoever assigns them targets. It’s not cutting off the head of a snake – it’s fighting a hydra.

Of course he had resources and was a part of the whole thing, but people who act like he was some kind of mastermind responsible for the whole 9/11 operation are daft.

The way he made those tapes claiming responsibility for “terrorist” attacks reminded me of how actors will pre- record a video for an award show they can’t make, with an acceptance speech and everything.

it was…

I know I definitely wouldn’t want to repeatedly take a shovel hook and low kick from Aldo. Just shows how tough Hominick is, he took those leg kicks like a champ. I knew Jose would be able to land them, but I hadn’t banked on mark being able to take kicks like that.

A well executed left hook to the body looks awesome. As does a textbook rear low kick. Aldo just happens to mix the two into an extremely badass combination.

If you’re athletic and limber, might as well have fun in sparring and try shit out. I can’t do spinning moves worth a shit, but my superman punches are surprisingly effective.

if you’re gonna throw that left hook to the body, you’d better glue your right hand to your face. Out of anything, Aldo’s pure boxing is something that needs work. If he could improve his defense overall, and tighten up some of his punches (especially his right cross), he’s going to be like Spong standing.

Just saw the Youtube footage. He threw an open hand left hook with extended fingers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFWCZJyP1vE

is a misleading title when discussing Aldo. We discussed this in another thread, it’s not like Aldo won the Mundials or anything. He won some mid- level BJJ tournaments, nothing to really write home about. He’s definitely skilled, but putting Aldo on his back is definitely one of the best ways to fight him. His only loss ever was to a BJJ player.

I won’t front though, I was pissed Georges didn’t finish the fight there and was perplexed by those Garcia-esque overhand rights he was throwing.

But when he told Rogan about his eye it made sense, he still got the win even when half blind. At the end of the day the day all you can ask of an injured champ is to do is persevere and win.

I thought Jose was just exerting his full toolset on Hominick. He was working to posture up and throw strikes, it’s not like he was blanketing Mark. Aldo beat Hom up standing, took him down, and beat him up there. Domination. The only good shot Hominick landed in the first round was a glancing hook to the body, whereas Jose must’ve landed half a dozen HARD low kicks, and over a dozen power punches.

It’s the people that buy into the hype, who really believe that these guys are unbeatable, who are responsible for these erratic reactions. I realize that Aldo is a very talented, skilled fighter, but he’s also young, still pretty green, still developing, and isn’t impervious to disease, injury, nerves, traveling, etc. All of those things are very real and if you don’t think so, then MMA fandom is going to be a bumpy ride for you.

you can’t argue that conditions were ideal for Jose.

we either accept them or not

there is a big difference in doing push ups and pushing someone off of you or going for subs when you’re getting hit in the face. btw, Aldo still tagged Hominick with a few hard punches in the beginning of the round, also if you watch it closely, he thought Hominick was going down and waited for it but got taken down by Hominick instead, which led to him getting overwhelmed by Hominick in the second half of the fifth. I think that was his biggest mistake during this fight.

did a good job of avoiding most of Hominick’s shots from the top, and he showed some nice guard work. He was just too tired to successfully sweep or stand up, and as someone else pointed out- I doubt a tired, 5’th round Hominick had much steam behind his punches.