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also, why do some of you like psycho or why you like rickels???
I'm having a hard time breaking this down. I thought psycho looked great against lozano and he really suprised me as I thought lozano was gonna win. He's gonna be huge against rickels who I think is a bit small looking for ww. My concern though is that psycho has yet to go out of the first round at this class and that is a heavily muscled body... Not that he's really had a problem with cardio at mw, but you never know at ww and its really an unkown at this point. Rickels seems to have the one trick from his guard and I'm not sold on his stand up being something special, in all honsetly it looked somewhat sloppy from the little I have seen, but that is mostly an assumption about his stand up. I wish I knew more about rickels. I will say that his past comp has looked pretty bad, so minus the smith win, he's looked good against pretty 'meh' fighters. Not that karl has fought vastly better comp, but they were bigger men and bigger names. I think karl might actually take it down and think he is powerful enough to explode out of those triangles and tie ups from rickels guard, he has yet to be subbed too so I think he can hang. My concern again is cardio and that he might slow down to the point where he is slow and weak, where he can either get tagged up on the feet or controlled sub on the ground. Overall though I think karl is huge, young (perhaps just now peaking in this new ww and can call it his 'prime' home weight), more experienced, and very well rounded... Rickels is just an unknown to me which somewhat scares me but also says perhaps he's unproven and will be exposed against a powerful well rounded and experienced guy like psycho... Therefore -165 isn't looking too bad, but I'm pretty hesitant to play..
What do you guys think about this match / what's the breakdown???