UFC on ESPN+ 10: Dos Anjos vs. Lee

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Remember when people were saying Kevin Lee would beat Khabib lol

Lee didn't really look any better at 170. Would have expected more from him since it was a big weight cut.

RDA's a stud. Same choke he got on Magny, right?

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Yea that performance by Lee still would've beaten some top 15 guys

@jiujitsu “Yea that performance by Lee still would've beaten some top 15 guys”


I agree with this 💯. Lee is very talented fighter and getting more well  rounded  and stronger in every area except one very I important one: cardio. He needs to make the adjustments possibly in both trainings and in fight strategy. Some guys just don’t have ave’s 5 round cardio, even after training for it. It may take longer than just one camp. 


All love here for mytapology brethren but reading people give RDA the first round was extremely laughable and showed either pure bias or lack of understanding. I haven’t read anyone elsewhere that scored the round for RDA. That’s not to say I looked everywhere or plan on making that silly “uh huh vs nah uh” argument to go nowhere or blast them for their opinions. I understand we won’t change each other’s minds. You see, people everywhere have every right to their wrong opinions. 


Lee striking isn’t technically phenomenal by any stretch but he was landing some nice kicks to the body and kept RDA honest with his hands. Even though Lee clearly won the first in my card, it was obvious the veteran RDA wasn’t concerned and was bidding his time, wearing Lee out. It’s my opinion that Lees cardio cost him the biggest fights of his career.  It cost him at least 2 fights...maybe three if you throw in Ferguson. 


Again, he’s only 26. It will take him a long time to develop the kind of cardio he needs Imo. He might not it even be able to. I feel hen he wed to work know no this far more than his striking actually. He need some to understand this issue and adjust his pace, approach and game planning early in fights , until he develops or if he can’t develop slop his cardio. JMO. 

* Edited at 05.19.2019, 5:30 PM ET *

Well I’ve never had him as being a champ personally. I’ve always thought of him as a top5 gatekeeper. That’s a too 5 in the world at 2 potential weight classes. That’s a good career. Not everyone will be champ. He’s always honing to be the same fighter but his stand up has improved but essentially he is what he is.  He always gonna be a Wrestle/grappler  first. 

I think people were looking for him to have better cardio without the cut. I hoped so too and took him in very low confidence but I’m not sure he accounted for carrying the extra mass. I’m no trainer or authority on his cardio issues. I can’t say whether or not he need a complete new strength/conditioning regime or minor tweaks or just how to pace himself better within the fight or all of the above. I only see it as his main problem to become better than a upper echelon gatekeeper. 

i picked lee to win with very low confidence, i agree with just about everything swain said. first up he needs to fix his cardio im not sure if that means new strength and conditioning regime or better management during the fight, prolly both. but hes also right that some guys will never have 5 round cardio and conor jumps into my mind on that point. i think lee is talented and hes still young at 26, maybe a camp change? get out of his comfort zone?

I think scoring the round towards RDA was similar to the Jacare/Kelvin fight...body language. Even though Lee and , IMO, Jacare did more in a particular round, they wore their exhaustion on their faces. Watching the struggle makes it look like they’re losing or doing less. Even though I felt they won a round, JAcare I thought won the fight (not robbery guys just close one could be scored either way).  Looking exhausted makes you look desperate and it’s easy for a judge To overlook the quality work you’ve done and only see that struggle. JUst my guess.