On paper, Robinson looks good and I thought about playing it. That being said, I don't think the UFC puts him against someone they don't expect him to be able to beat at this point in his career where they are still building him up. That alone made me think twice about Robinson and lay off.
On paper, Robinson looks good and I thought about playing it. That being said, I don't think the UFC puts him against someone they don't expect him to be able to beat at this point in his career where they are still building him up. That alone made me think twice about Robinson and lay off.
Think twice about it because they are building him up? That doesn't make much sense since you played against Kendall Grove the other night who also won the Ultimate Fighter and has been beaten twice in a row. The bottom line is these Ultimate Fighter winners do lose in their first 2 or 3 fights after winning the show as Forrest Griffin was beaten by Tito, Joe Stevenson was stopped by Josh Neer, Kendall Grove was beaten by Patrick Cote and more recently Rivera, and then Michael Bisping was beaten by Rashad Evans. Ultimate Fighter winners are grossly overhyped and I don't think as protected as much as some think by the UFC.
If your only reason for not playing Robinson is because Diaz had a fluke win in the Ultimate Fighter final then I suggest you rethink it and jump on Robinson because Diaz is not as protected as some might like to think.
For being somewhat of a supposed Contender Burkman's stamina is AWFULL. if he actually had good stamina maybe he could win. I think it's possible for burkman to win round 1 but get picked apart after that due to him gassing out. I don't think very highly of Robinson BTW. he was dominated in round 1 by Gurgel who I consider to be a pretty mediocre fighter.
I agree with you on Burkmans stamina 100%. Guy is a tool IMO. He doesn't train hard and I heard him on the radio the other day stirring up a bunch of shit with Phil Baroni. I would think a guy who is Main Eventing a show the next week would be worried about his next opponent who happens to be very dangerous and not a guy who is not even under contract with the UFC.
Your one of the reasons that is keeping me off of Robinson as we messaged about this last month either on here or across the street.I made a very small wager on Robinson when the numbers originally opened which I am going to hold on to but I will hang out with that.
I used the odds on him in comparison to Burkman as I think Robinson still has a better shot of winning than Burkman does. Burkman is a no talent hack who I think the UFC should have cut a long time ago.
