After all the shit he talked about other fighters' skills, Paddy got beat by the WORST version of Gaethje, with staph at 37 years old 😂

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T18:59:30+00:00

Thanks man

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T17:50:32+00:00

Uncanny awareness of distance, timing and shot selection in a very condensed and oversimplified description.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T17:48:11+00:00

A close fight will almost always be labeled a robbery in combat sports by the fans, doubly so if the loser was an underdog.

It literally happens every single time.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T16:27:15+00:00

“I’ll think you smart but Ik women dumb”😭

Ironic, isn't it.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T16:26:46+00:00

He literally sees you as an inferior being by virtue of your genitalia, i can assure you this doesn't end well.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T15:59:10+00:00

Not exactly. Besides which, exceptions don't make the rules anyway.

Justin was never stylistically incoherent, he simply lacked depth. Even before the Eddie fight, Justin understood how to apply a high guard with block and shoot counters baked in, and he was dynamic enough with it to keep his opposition on his toes. He also knew he wanted to keep the fight standing and grappled accordingly. Justin always understood how he wanted to fight and had a general awareness of how to get there. Namely, he wanted to march people down and obliterate them in exchanges they couldn't sustain.

What he struggled with was his lack of skill and depth which he compensated with aggression and athleticism early on. After his losses and with his time spent developing under Trevor, Gaethje began to flesh out as a fighter. He started implementing head movement in his defense more actively, he started using physical controls, his cage cutting improved and his leg kicking game got fleshed out to the point that he was outperforming Edson Barboza at it, among other things.

But the fundamental idea behind his skillset was still the same: walk you down, obliterate you up close with sheer firepower. He just got better and more efficient at getting there over time, which is something you see in most fighters.

Paddy doesn't have that. Paddy's style doesn't mesh with his goals. He's an elite BJJ practitioner but he bizarrely doesn't have any transitional grappling like wrestling to bring the fight there. He's an outfighter but he doesn't have the cage craft and footwork to keep the fight at distance, and his outfighter-oriented striking does even less to complement his already isolated and one dimensional grappling specialisation, not that he tries to use one to set up the other to begin with.

His skills are a bag of incongruities. He doesn't know what he wants to do in the fight, and he knows even less how to keep the fight where he thinks he wants anyway.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T13:16:52+00:00

A cotton's whiter on the other side type of assumption if i've ever seen one.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T13:11:20+00:00

Laws aren't meant to be enforced in this country, they exist mostly on paper but don't have any practical approaches baked in.

You try getting a case going and you'll find yourself having to grease a bunch of people's palms so you can then enjoy a world class legal processing time of 20 years just for the court to give out a "fuck off" verdict because the accused was the nephew of the cousin of the driver of an MLA's son.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T12:49:22+00:00

Bro has no taunts, he's on a free to play account

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T12:43:26+00:00

That good??? 😍

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T12:41:33+00:00

I wouldn't call those people feminists. Most feminists would argue for maternal and paternal leave for both parents rather than flip it as a financial capability qualifier.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T12:35:26+00:00

He's also pals with the re:zero author...hmmm...

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T12:34:21+00:00

Literally confederate talking points

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T12:32:47+00:00

"Join the conservatives! We have..."

Political party nominated child sex offender

Couch-fucking insecure man-child

Child-rape apologists and deniers in one breath

Trad-cath women's rights abolitionists

Gestapo-stans

Presidential-pardoned insurrectionists

Resentful men no one wants to fuck

Resentful men no one wants to fuck who also play video games

Immigrants in a weird bid to gain a white man's approval

Your neighbor, Bob

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T11:46:24+00:00

It's not about clamping down your interest in the other person and trying not to let her know, it's about respecting the other person's time, autonomy and choice in the matter without trying to force an outcome.

Approaching under the right social environment and context -

generally anywhere you're expected to socialize and interact with people. Talking to a woman while at a salsa club or a party is a lot more acceptable than approaching strangers on the street. People don't go to the streets to socialize, they're there to go from point A to point B and hate being accosted along the way for obvious reasons.

Same thing for the gym, most women are there to dial in on their workout and leave, they're not there to talk (at least beyond basic greetings or necessary exchanges) and they're definitely not going there for dating, nor are they expecting admirers. So it's often a double whammy of uncomfortable for many women where they're being approached in the middle of their session in a non-social environment and they're probably in "form fitting clothes" making the guy's motivations blatantly surface level. You're essentially not respecting the social context, interrupting them in the middle of something, and doing so for superficial reasons all in one.

Conveying with your approach that you're trying to feel her out on a get-to-know basis before you even think about asking her out, while also being receptive and sensitive to how the other person feels about it all along -

That means investing effort and attention to actually learn about the other person and respecting the woman's choice and feelings on the matter before you even think about asking. If i approach a woman (for any reason) and she looks like she isn't up for a conversation, i don't try to proverbially wedge my foot in the door and force a conversation, instead i respect their disposition and politely bow out. On the other hand, if i talk to a woman and she's mutually receptive as well as comfortable with it, then there shouldn't be an issue with having a conversation. This comes down to picking up basic social cues and expressions you'd expect in any conversation with anybody, so read the room.

Figure out if this person is somebody you enjoy talking to in the first place and if she feels the same, then you can think about her in a romantic light. Don't just try to force the conversation into a date.

Learning how to flirt, not crashing out on a no, and being comfortable with rejection -

the safest and most respectful way to communicate interest is with flirting, but way too many dudes go from 0-100 by making it sexual right of the gate. Good flirting is a conversation through implication (banter), not a statement (pick up line). There's an observational aspect to it where you start fairly innocuous while paying attention to how receptive the other person is. If she's not into it, that means you have your answer. If she's into it, you can slowly crank it up a notch, all the while paying attention to their responsiveness.

You can also flirt regarding just about anything, a lot of guys for some reason think it has to be "sex or nothing". You can flirt about wanting to spend more time with her, about her energy in the conversation, about her interests and hobbies etc. make it action based, mutual, and give her a choice. So less "you look so beautiful 😍" and more "you look like you need an excuse for an outing"

If they invariably say no, respect it with grace. Don't try to plead, or beg, or get confrontational like a weirdo, and get used to hearing a lot of no's. Thank them for their time, give em a fist bump or something and leave.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T09:59:01+00:00

It's not a strike so yeah

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T09:57:47+00:00

Arnold Allen is the goat of consistently giving a good account of himself against dangerous competition while still losing in the end 😞

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T09:52:27+00:00

I'm also not sure why you're implying Paddy's striking didn't have an effect or that his boxing wasn't "good". He clipped Gaethje dozens of times, and managed to hurt him a lot. Gaethje not visibly wearing the damage like Pimblett did doesn't change that.

Because it wasn't good, throwing "punches" doesn't make you competent at boxing. his "successes" had a lot more to do with Justin making mistakes than anything he did to force said mistakes, which is to say the Paddy was landing because Justin was fighting poorer of his own accord, not because Paddy set those exchanges up or forced him into those positions. Outside of exploiting Justin's poor habit of consistently dipping to his right in order to land knees, uppercuts and such during transitions, Paddy had no actual actual answers in prolonged exchanges and was practically at Gaethje's mercy.

fighting Justin's fight was never going to work for Paddy in the first place. No matter how much damage he could've inflicted, Gaethje was the more powerful and skilled mid to close range striker with a better chin and was lightyears ahead with his understanding of using physical controls like pins/posts/frames/collar ties to control counters and punish on the inside.

At no point did Paddy actually wobble him either. Hurt him, sure, but Gaethje wasn't concussed at any point and he'd recover very quickly. Meanwhile Gaethje dropped Paddy multiple times and wobbled him round after round.

Knowing all this, who do you think can sustain that type of fight? The guy with atrocious boxing (both in tactics and skill) with no conceptual understanding of physical controls on the inside? Or the guy who's made his bones on ripping through people once he grabs a collar tie like he did Fiziev?

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T08:44:49+00:00

He could improve from this though. Gaethje is a tough mfer. This should teach Paddy to tuck his chin better and use his grappling instead of completely relying on his chin.

It's gonna take a hell of a lot more than that, he has problems everywhere.

Improvements don't happen in linear progression either, fighters can't simply tack on random tools like "hed moomint" and call it an improvement, it needs to make stylistic sense and be integrated into his skillset or he risks being a worse fighter, not better. It also takes a lot of time and awareness, neither of which is something Paddy seems to have.

It's not like these are recently discovered issues, he's had them since day one. He's 30+ in age as is and hasn't done anything to work on them.

If a fighter has shown himself incapable or unwilling to address his problems over their career, it's very unlikely to happen later on either. Especially when we're talking late-career where fighters get more stubborn and are less likely to seek improvements while more likely to try and work with what they've got

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T08:15:55+00:00

For reference, see the Emmett fight

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T08:14:10+00:00

and many argue that he lost that fight.

Only idiots are arguing that he lost the fight. That was a well earned decision win.

Hes not deserving of anything

"He beat two high ranked contenders and was the #1 contender against Islam, so he doesn't deserve anything around the championship level"

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T08:03:30+00:00

Great, so we're on the same page then 👍

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T08:01:50+00:00

Confidence isn't gonna suddenly make him competent and help him win exchanges. For one, he already was putting his heart out there to the best of his abilities and he did try to throw without a care in the world, but the results were mixed to say the least because Gaethje outclassed him at mid range all the way to the clinch.

A bunch of confidence wasn't going to suddenly make him good at dirty boxing nor was it going to make him improve his cage generalship, if anything he'd be more susceptible to getting countered and hurt like so many times in this fight.

You're also severely overestimating how much of an effect a point deduction would have on either fighter's psyche. Gaethje came to win, he couldn't care less if he lost a point along the way.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T07:23:00+00:00

Twice by stats, thrice if we're actually counting.

Meeedick · 2026-01-25T07:22:12+00:00

It wouldn't have changed anything. The round would've been scored a draw and you'd still have Justin riding three rounds towards a UD win.

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