But he isn’t going to win a traditional boxing or kickboxing match with Minotoro anytime soon.Īs far as Minotoro’s ground game is concerned, is there any real need to get into the details? He is a Nogueira, after all. With that said, Bader is very, very good at the few combinations that he throws, and he also possesses better than expected leg kicks. And, of course, his fistic arsenal remains very rudimentary and predictable - range-finding jabs, one-twos, lead right hands followed by left hooks, but very few clean up left hooks, lead uppercuts or a really focused, snapping jab. His lateral movement and ability to slip punches by moving like a pendulum are average. He needs to come forward to be effective. So, his style instead allows him to take away the confidence of his opponent by eating their best shot and continuing to hammer away.īader, by contrast, is very good at very basic boxing moves. Thus, he has only lost one career fight in 22 by knockout. While that is a recipe that typically leads to a knockout loss, the grade of granite that runs through the Nogueira family jawbones is of the highest grade. In addition, he is willing to take a punch or three in order to give one back, just like his brother. Not to mention the fact that he won a bronze medal in boxing in the 2007 Pan American Games. His kickboxing game isn’t much to write home about, but the former amateur boxing champion has technically proficient hands, having won his country’s national boxing championships in 20. The Brazilian is one of the better fighters in his division in the standup realm. The Brazilian is technically more proficient than Bader in every aspect of the game, except for wrestling. Nogueira presents the toughest challenge of Bader’s short three-plus-year career – by leaps and bounds. The question, however, is whether it will last yet another fight.Īntonio Rogerio Nogueira hopes to answer that question in the negative this Saturday night, as he squares off with the man his legendary twin brother coached to victory on the eighth installment of The Ultimate Fighter.
After all, it is impossible to achieve a record better than 12-0 through 12 fights.īut, if we have learned anything in mixed martial arts, it is the fact that Bader’s run of perfection won’t last forever. In a sport tracked solely by outcomes, Bader is as good as any fighter in history through his first 12 bouts. It doesn’t matter how he won or how long it took. Yet, nobody can deny the fact that, at least as far as the ultimate outcome is concerned, Bader has been perfect thus far in his UFC career. Compared to veteran light heavyweight fighters, such as Mauricio “Shogun” Rua or Lyoto Machida, one might even consider his skill set to be a bit nascent. The 27-year-old former collegiate wrestling All-American is only a few short years into his MMA career, so he has a long way to go in terms of attempting to perfect his craft. Ryan Bader knows that he is far from perfect.
Yet, that doesn’t change the fact that they are currently the two best fighters in the world, pound for pound.
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Both men have tasted defeat – Silva came ultra close to tasting it for the fifth time in his professional career in his last bout. Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre are probably as close as one comes, but they aren’t perfect. I can say for certain that there is no perfect fighter in the world of mixed martial arts. They have achieved a level of excellence arguably unmatched by their peers, but perfection is the highest possible standard, meaning that if an athlete is perfect, than nobody, either in days past or sometime in the future, can possibly be better. Is Albert Pujols really the perfect baseball player? Was Michael Jordan the perfect basketball player? Obviously not. Exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose. Accurate, correct or exact in every detail. Entirely without any flaws, defects or shortcomings. Excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement. The word “perfect” is thrown around pretty regularly in the world of athletic competition, oftentimes out of context.
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