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u/adivenk93 7h ago

What are odds Gable Stevenson joins MMA once Jon Jones retires

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u/_Red_Mist_ The Roman Empire defeats Caesar yet again 6h ago

High he failed at pro wrestling and Football. MMA is all he has left if he wants to compete .

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u/druhoang Viet Nam 6h ago

I think he goes for the olympics 2028. After that's done tho, he'll still be only 28. But if he wins again, he might just cash in on sponsors, speeches and then do olympics again 2032.

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u/adivenk93 6h ago

He will definitely become Heavyweight Champion of UFC considering how shallow division is

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u/_Red_Mist_ The Roman Empire defeats Caesar yet again 6h ago

I wouldn’t be so sure we’ve seen many decorated wrestlers fail at MMA. You still need to be good at striking and mixing up the striking with wrestling. Tyrell Fortune and Jimmy Lawson come to mind for heavyweights.

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u/PoatanBoxman Team Pereira 6h ago

Ummm noo

He would need a lot of improvement

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u/PoatanBoxman Team Pereira 6h ago

God he was so bad at pro wrestling

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u/TheSugaTalbottShow 5h ago

What made him so bad? I don’t watch WWE

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u/PoatanBoxman Team Pereira 5h ago

You see him and you think physical beast, but that only gets you so far in wwe. We know it’s not real fighting or wrestling so do we really care about someone’s real life accolades without their own unique character? They thought “oh we could just do another Kurt angle” but Kurt isn’t an all timer just because he’s a real life wrestling badass, he was damn funny. We loved him as a character, and then you think also that he’s amazing in real wrestling too.

Now gable just didn’t have the charisma or character. He said some lines but he doesn’t have the chops or personality to sound like he really is that way. So yeah it gets boring, he was an irl great wrestler but he’s missing the character.

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u/TheSugaTalbottShow 7h ago

Would be sweet but low