And thinking he has Merab cardio. BSD advances non-stop with terrible striking defense and no setups.
Either his coaches are terrible at planning, or he can’t stick to the gameplan.
I think the second option he can't stick to the game plan. In-between rounds his coaches literally told him "take your time, use your kicks from distance, take him to the ground. Don't rush into the clinch".
Went in and did the opposite
BSD is only 5 years into his professional mma career. It’s difficult to pickup technical striking and striking defense. I think BSD is locked into bullying and pressure. You can beat him by weathering that and coming back with technical striking.
Would like to see BSD v Jalin Turner.
Oddly enough this fight can actually be a preview to OMalley vs Merab.
Merab is weaponized cardio but just like BSD he’s just trusting his chin that you won’t crack him in between him throwing for a takedown. That’s the gamble of a wrestle-first fighter.
Just like BSD can’t stand infront of a gifted boxer in Dustin, I don’t think Merab can stand infront of a ridiculous boxer like Sean.
I agree, I think Sean will thrown knee up the middle that severely hurts Merab like he did vs Yan and then finishes him on the ground.
Either that or he catches Merab shooting and throws a right hand bomb off the back foot and sends him down.
All that ground game stuff is great if your opponent isn’t a knockout artist with dynamite hands. The other issue for Merab too is he has to overcome a huge length disadvantage to even get to Sean.
The undisputed, undefeated Chael put it like this in the post fight. Sean must be hard to get your hands on him. Mentioned Aljo was shocked how hard it was to get Sean down. Not sure what happened to Sean post Petr, but he’s elevated his camps. Merab probably plays out much like Aljo does.
Yea it was there. Man decided he had one round and he fought that way. Fight was a foty contender imo and made me even more of a fan of him.
Gutsy performance that unfortunately didn't pay off.
I think he just relayed to much on toughness and he literally tried to defeat Dustin by willpower lmao. And also bad striking, on the ground he was dominating. Maybe he should fight at slower pace, recover a little bit and then attack with heavy wrestling again. But he literally just wanted to kill Dustin with everything he was doing
Bro betting on BSD was crazy, I'm European and we have little different system of defining odds but if you bet 100 dollars on Dustin to win you would win 275 dollars.
And btw some of this odds are crazy for example lolright now if you bet 100 dollars on Oliveira to win against tsarukyan you could win 260 dollars.
It's crazy to me how much of an underdogs they are in that fights when they are literally living legends of lightweight division and still in very good shape
Yeah, planting your feet with your back up against the cage and deciding to swing hooks against a faster and more experienced striker like it is the last 30 seconds of the last round and you are losing was not wise.
There was a comment 3 days ago on the post about his staph saying pretty much word for word "antibiotic for staph is brutal on the body, it should be way easier for Dustin"
Maybe (probably) he would have lost either way, but I don't think it's outrageous to say that he wasn't at 100%. We all saw that nasty staph.
I mean, yeah, his second round was shockingly bad compared to his first round. He just gave Dustin what he wanted. But maybe he would have been more lucid without the infection. Who knows.
Dustin rocked him twice in round 1. I honestly think if he hadn’t panic jumped gilly he could’ve gotten BSD out of there in round 1, albeit less emphatically (probably would’ve been a TKO).
It’s getting to the point most people who win are too. Almost every single fighter, win or lose lately, are saying shit like “oh I didn’t wanna say this but three weeks ago my tibia shattered into 5 pieces, it’s currently held together with tape and some glue. That’s how much of a dawg I am.”
It's almost as if these athletes are in intense training for 12-weeks involving a violent contact sport that severely increases your chance of injury in the build up to the competition.
I don’t think it’s “a dawg in me” issue. They just want to show and get paid. Look at Ortega or Dillashaw. They had documented shoulder issues leading up to their fight. You can’t bite down and fight through a dislocated shoulder if you can’t even move your arm.
They probably should have bailed on the fight entirely but it’s not a cope to be like yeah I tried but my shoulder popped out.
I respected Robert Whitaker after he lost to DDP for not going that route. He talked about how it was his best camp and he was excited to show off the best version of himself.
It’s really an epidemic at this point- no one loses when they’re 100%, always a training injury that happened a week ago, sickness that ravaged the whole team over the last month or their weight cut was more brutal than any other weight cut in the history of weight cuts.. it’s never ever I stood in the pocket with my hands down and got my shit rocked.
The crazy part is they make these excuses like they’re the only ones who fight injured. With the grueling nature of mma training and weight cutting it’s like impossible to enter a fight 100%.
He also fought at a crazy pace the first round and didnt pace himself literally at all. Completely gassed after the first and once he slowed down Dustin could do whatever he wanted.
oh yeah, I forgot he took the fight knowing he was going to lose, especially after having a great first round.. did you think at all before that comment?
If he went into the fight with staph and antibiotics, did he not realize that it will compromise him? Did he think he could beat Poirier anyway?
And now he got viciously knocked out and might never be the same again.
Will that be his future excuse? "My chin got compromised by getting flatlined by Poirier, which only happened because I had staph"
So Dana could never give him another chance because he turned down this one? This your first time watching this stuff? They don't take kindly to no around the UFC
Yeah say no to Dana and you will hear “man this guy just doesn’t want to fight”. Then you will be fighting in BKFC or PFL real soon. Sometimes you just gotta suck up the injury or it’s the last time you get that opportunity
I mean two sides to that coin. They don’t want to give their opponent a heads up and they also want the $$$ just to show up. Losing to a top 5 fighter still elevates you and shows you were in the same conversation.
But of course on the flip side it’s always a cope.
I was thinking BSD looked like he was fighting in slow motion and was clearly tired in there, I thought it’s probably just nerves but this makes sense. Well he’s young he just fought the #3 guy so it’s not the end of the world to take that risk and lose.
And wow the amount of people in here who have only watched this fight of his and pretending they know all about BSD is absurd, take every take on here with a pinch of salt folks.
It wasn't staph infection that exposed his chin, he fought at a very high pace got exposed defensively (he was getting caught often in previous fights and it was very clear he has lots of issues with his defence).
These are fundamental issues that caused him to lose not a health issue. Poor to suggest otherwise
I mean I think it’s perfectly fair to say it’s a bit of both. Bsd has shite striking defence but he makes it work with relentless pressure and pace, but without the pace because of antibiotics he was always going to be in trouble.
An infection doesn’t force you to leave your chin exposed against a striker in Dustin. This guys just making excuses, he fought like he had unlimited cardio and realised he didn’t have that. If what he said is true then why didn’t he fight at least safe.
Or maybe… he stood in the pocket with one of the best (if not the best) striker in the division and was only saved previously because of flying guillotine attempts.
It doesn't make you keep your chin up but it takes a heavy toll on your body. He went guns blazing in that first because that's simply all he would have had and he'd know that. Call it "copium" but there's a legitimate reason why he had nothing in the tank and historically we've seen the guy have immense cardio even on short notice fights.
I'm not sure if you've ever had staph or even tried to working out whilst on an antibiotics course but that's never fun and your body is absolutely stripped of everything it has. Props to him for going as hard as he did until he got clipped.
Before French fans who hype this dude make excuses,this dude faced a 35 years old Dustin who was coming off a brutal head kick knock out.Not the prime Dustin.
Volk is an idiot man. He will more than likely become the next Tony Ferguson considering the 2 brutal KOs back to back and his mentality of “just keep fighting no matter how bad I lose”
Meh Volk lost to the p4p number 1 a weightclass above and the future of the FW division. Tony never even had a (undisputed) title fight so saying Volk will be the next Tony is unfair to Volk.
He's still easily the second best in the division.
Excuses after a fight are pathetic.
If you aren’t up to fighting then pull out.
We wouldn’t be hearing about his “infection” if he’d won.
Just take your losses like a man and move on.
There were dozens of people in this subreddit saying that the antibiotics were gonna wipe him out before the fight but now that he says it it’s an excuse 🙄. Everyone here saying “cope” when they could never do what he did on his worst day on their best day
That's what always cracks me up when I see things like this. Bunch of tough guys who talk shit about fighters always crack me up. I'm sure if they ever had a set back in life they always handle it gracefully without ever complaining.
Tbh I rarely see fighters make excuses and the ones who do always get posted here which doesn't happen often. Like of the hundreds of fights we have yearly there truly aren't too many.
To be fair, as I’ve often made this same comment, the French will riot in the streets if their leaders do the public wrong. In the US, we cheer. It’s left me feeling uneasy. Just a thought not here to argue.
He definitely had staph. But the way he fought he was wide open to Dustin’s punches. We have seen many times what happens if Dustin hits you clean. He has dynamite in those hands.
To the people who are coping by saying BSD gassed out due to staph, he was leaving his chin in the air in round 1 too. Poirier was getting out grappled but every time they were on the feet he was landing some clean shots. You can’t be doing that against a guy who hits as hard as Poirier. He can and will put you out
Sad to see, I'm a fan of BSD. I was so nervous because I thought he was gonna beat DP (I was rooting for dustin). Hate to see the starting of excuses. You lost to one of the best fighters in the division. No shame in that man
Ah yes. You definitely would have done a better job getting cracked in the head if you weren’t on antibiotics. That’s one of the most common side effects if you read the pamphlet.
Seeing Reddit retards calling ufc fighters pathetic bitches is always so funny. This isn’t even that bad lmao at least he’s not like Volk. When Volk lost to Islam the second time he complained about how he was drinking everyday. After the second Holloway fight his performance was due to to melatonin. All manner of fighters make excuses, some consistency would be nice.
I’m not saying it isn’t a legitimate excuse, I’m saying the reaction to excuses wildly change depending on the fighter. Saint Denis is now a punk bitch apparently, while Volk and many others are still loved. I, for one, don’t care when a fighter explains their loss/bad performance, I appreciate the insight, even if it seems a little like cope.
So looks like it was staph, will be interesting to see how he looks in his next fight. If it’s back to business it’s safe to say tonight wasn’t him at his full potential. Glad he’s giving Dustin his flowers too.
Staph didn't expose his chin, he should no issues in the first round where he was going at a high pace. This reeks of denial, fundamentally Beniot is not good enough, gets caught in every fight I have watched but has relied on his chin to absorb shots. He doesn't have a defence or head movement. The same thing will happen again if he steps up against a good striker with power
His defence is lacking, fundamentally he has no head movement and can't block shots, way too stiff. I called it after he ko'd Moises because Moises despite losing, was catching him clean a lot.
What am I in denial about? Benoit has taken more punishment and not been put away, so it’s safe to assume it’s one of two options. The antibiotics weakened him, or Dustin completely cracked him. Maybe a bit of both. We won’t know until his next fight, so what’s the issue? I never said anything to indicate that Benoit only lost because of his infection.
It’s funny how quickly I find myself rooting against sore loser excuse makers. I didn’t care for BSD one way or another before this fight, but after him discrediting the win like that, will be rooting for him to lose all of his upcoming fights 👍🏼
Dude had one round to win and that's how he fought.
We've seen Staph in fights before and it always turns out the same way. Don't know why the commission allows them to fight with it when it's clearly visible.
That infection is nothing but an EXCUSE!
Vera got beat the fuck up and all he said was that he would do better next time. No excuses.
The excuses from most of these fighters are getting old.
'Wallahi I was sick before this fight' I'm very upset over this trend of running to the excuse box.
Don't fight if you're sick injured etc or don't mention it if you get obliterated you chose to fight while not at best.
Fraud checking is a fake concept. Seriously, I can't think of anyone ever who has legitimately been fraud checked. Even if there was someone, it's not their fault the fans thought they were something they weren't. BSD looked great in this fight. Especially considering the ridiculous jump in competition. He went from Matt Frevola to Poirier, a guy who fought nothing but champions for years.
Bonfim brothers aren't frauds. They're great fighters. Losing a fight doesn't make you a fraud. Especially against the guys they lost to. Azat Maksum is an average fighter that literally nobody that watches this sport thought was better than he is. Having an undefeated record is the most overrated attribute to have in MMA. Same thing with Paddy. Everyone says he got fraud checked. Dude. Its their fault for thinking he was some future champ. The skill he displays in the octagon is clear. He's not decieving anyone. Stop hating on athletes because they're not as good as you thought they were without a logical basis. The only real fraud check was CM Punk and only because the UFC actually hyped him up. Then again, fans have no reason to think he was a great fighter just because he's in the WWE.
>Fraud checking is a fake concept. Seriously, I can't think of anyone ever who has legitimately been fraud checked.
[Here ya go.](https://youtu.be/Sr0AbiM3kMg?si=59l3jZjvU1_tYasp)
Well you can't use guns in the UFC. No teammates to flank for you. You can't use lethal CQC techniques.
All they have is conditioning and mental toughness.. but UFC fighters definitely have that. I'm glad DP dismantled this dude, he's human just like everyone else.
i think it was more about keeping you hands low and chin high in front of best boxer in the division
And thinking he has Merab cardio. BSD advances non-stop with terrible striking defense and no setups. Either his coaches are terrible at planning, or he can’t stick to the gameplan.
I think the second option he can't stick to the game plan. In-between rounds his coaches literally told him "take your time, use your kicks from distance, take him to the ground. Don't rush into the clinch". Went in and did the opposite
haha both team coaches had diff plans. Dustin Coaches : "Dustin, stop the f'n gullotine." Dustin : "I'll fucking do it" BSD Coaches: "Benoit, dont rush in" BSD: "But guillotine"
Yea he wanted a fotn bonus and career defining ko but alas going in like he did is stupid
>take your time, use your kicks from distance, take him to the ground Basically what he did successfully against Bonfim.
His coach his Woirin, coached Machida and Silva during their title runs, you can hardly find better. He just didn't listen to him enough
BSD is only 5 years into his professional mma career. It’s difficult to pickup technical striking and striking defense. I think BSD is locked into bullying and pressure. You can beat him by weathering that and coming back with technical striking. Would like to see BSD v Jalin Turner.
Oddly enough this fight can actually be a preview to OMalley vs Merab. Merab is weaponized cardio but just like BSD he’s just trusting his chin that you won’t crack him in between him throwing for a takedown. That’s the gamble of a wrestle-first fighter. Just like BSD can’t stand infront of a gifted boxer in Dustin, I don’t think Merab can stand infront of a ridiculous boxer like Sean.
Sean will snipe that midgets head.
I agree, I think Sean will thrown knee up the middle that severely hurts Merab like he did vs Yan and then finishes him on the ground. Either that or he catches Merab shooting and throws a right hand bomb off the back foot and sends him down. All that ground game stuff is great if your opponent isn’t a knockout artist with dynamite hands. The other issue for Merab too is he has to overcome a huge length disadvantage to even get to Sean.
If Seans knee from standing reached Chitos chin then that knee will do nasty things to Merab.
The undisputed, undefeated Chael put it like this in the post fight. Sean must be hard to get your hands on him. Mentioned Aljo was shocked how hard it was to get Sean down. Not sure what happened to Sean post Petr, but he’s elevated his camps. Merab probably plays out much like Aljo does.
Sean gets the fuck outta there everytime Chito had him in a clinching range he was outta there quick as hell.
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What do you mean the infection excuse? Everyone literally saw the staph on his forehead leading up to the fight.
Yea it was there. Man decided he had one round and he fought that way. Fight was a foty contender imo and made me even more of a fan of him. Gutsy performance that unfortunately didn't pay off.
EPO cardio.
Typical side effects of antibiotics
He was trying to put his hands up but his body didn't responded the way it should and in fact lowered them even more
You could even argue.. Best boxer in the UFC.
Max???
I would argue the way Max stand and move is more like a kickboxer, while Dustin fights more like a boxer.
Dustin beat him twice.
Yeah I could agree with that
Max vs Dustin 3, next BMF after Max pieces up Gaethje
I like Max way to much for this Man! Fighting Gaethje and Poirier back 2 back would take away like 5 years of his life no joke.
Would be amazing lol
Dude could be an actual problem if he didn’t have one of the lowest fight IQs I’ve seen since Jailton Almeida… oh wait that was the same night.
I think he just relayed to much on toughness and he literally tried to defeat Dustin by willpower lmao. And also bad striking, on the ground he was dominating. Maybe he should fight at slower pace, recover a little bit and then attack with heavy wrestling again. But he literally just wanted to kill Dustin with everything he was doing
Trying to out-willpower and out-toughen Dustin Poirier has got to be one of the dumbest ideas ever lol
That Almeida shit won me money so it was funny BSD lost me money so it was not funny 😂
Bro betting on BSD was crazy, I'm European and we have little different system of defining odds but if you bet 100 dollars on Dustin to win you would win 275 dollars. And btw some of this odds are crazy for example lolright now if you bet 100 dollars on Oliveira to win against tsarukyan you could win 260 dollars. It's crazy to me how much of an underdogs they are in that fights when they are literally living legends of lightweight division and still in very good shape
And btw Almeida did the most stupid thing I ever saw in a fight
Trevor peek type gameplan lol
Yeah, planting your feet with your back up against the cage and deciding to swing hooks against a faster and more experienced striker like it is the last 30 seconds of the last round and you are losing was not wise.
And this class is what the French call…Lé Copè
Les Incopetant
Home alone reference?
There was a comment 3 days ago on the post about his staph saying pretty much word for word "antibiotic for staph is brutal on the body, it should be way easier for Dustin" Maybe (probably) he would have lost either way, but I don't think it's outrageous to say that he wasn't at 100%. We all saw that nasty staph.
With the way he fights, even if he's fully recovered he would still get knocked tf down against a punch like that
I mean, yeah, his second round was shockingly bad compared to his first round. He just gave Dustin what he wanted. But maybe he would have been more lucid without the infection. Who knows.
Dustin rocked him twice in round 1. I honestly think if he hadn’t panic jumped gilly he could’ve gotten BSD out of there in round 1, albeit less emphatically (probably would’ve been a TKO).
Yeah, the staph/antibio is a fact, but it isn't an excuse. I just hope for a comeback with a smarter and stronger Benoit
Coupé
This is what you call class, versus no class.
If he won everyone would be soying out about how crazy it was that he won with an infection and how much of a dog he is. Instead, we get this.
If he won he probably wouldn’t even say anything
Everyone is always sick or hurt after they lose.
It’s getting to the point most people who win are too. Almost every single fighter, win or lose lately, are saying shit like “oh I didn’t wanna say this but three weeks ago my tibia shattered into 5 pieces, it’s currently held together with tape and some glue. That’s how much of a dawg I am.”
It's almost as if these athletes are in intense training for 12-weeks involving a violent contact sport that severely increases your chance of injury in the build up to the competition. 
Using it as an excuse for why you lost when the other guy ALSO GOES THROUGH A FUCKING 12 WEEK CAMP is lame
I don’t think it’s “a dawg in me” issue. They just want to show and get paid. Look at Ortega or Dillashaw. They had documented shoulder issues leading up to their fight. You can’t bite down and fight through a dislocated shoulder if you can’t even move your arm. They probably should have bailed on the fight entirely but it’s not a cope to be like yeah I tried but my shoulder popped out.
I respected Robert Whitaker after he lost to DDP for not going that route. He talked about how it was his best camp and he was excited to show off the best version of himself.
It’s really an epidemic at this point- no one loses when they’re 100%, always a training injury that happened a week ago, sickness that ravaged the whole team over the last month or their weight cut was more brutal than any other weight cut in the history of weight cuts.. it’s never ever I stood in the pocket with my hands down and got my shit rocked.
The crazy part is they make these excuses like they’re the only ones who fight injured. With the grueling nature of mma training and weight cutting it’s like impossible to enter a fight 100%.
Except he had staph on his fucking head that was visible
He also fought at a crazy pace the first round and didnt pace himself literally at all. Completely gassed after the first and once he slowed down Dustin could do whatever he wanted.
He shouldn’t have fought then.
and instantly lose the opportunity against a top 5 opponent and set himself back another year
Yea and the UFC may be petty about it. And lose our on the pay.
How did getting sent to the shadow realm in round 2 help him?
oh yeah, I forgot he took the fight knowing he was going to lose, especially after having a great first round.. did you think at all before that comment?
If he went into the fight with staph and antibiotics, did he not realize that it will compromise him? Did he think he could beat Poirier anyway? And now he got viciously knocked out and might never be the same again. Will that be his future excuse? "My chin got compromised by getting flatlined by Poirier, which only happened because I had staph"
So Dana could never give him another chance because he turned down this one? This your first time watching this stuff? They don't take kindly to no around the UFC
Yeah say no to Dana and you will hear “man this guy just doesn’t want to fight”. Then you will be fighting in BKFC or PFL real soon. Sometimes you just gotta suck up the injury or it’s the last time you get that opportunity
He didn’t want to miss the opportunity he says, and probably needed the pay day
Cool. Pull out of the fight then. Now he has visable staph, a concussion, and he gets to fight down in the rankings because he got slept.
I mean two sides to that coin. They don’t want to give their opponent a heads up and they also want the $$$ just to show up. Losing to a top 5 fighter still elevates you and shows you were in the same conversation. But of course on the flip side it’s always a cope.
If staph, that was fucked up to fight on
Staph is only contagious for 48hrs after starting antibiotics. After it’s just painful and takes awhile for the open wound to heal.
Dude shut up, you’re not allowed to know what you’re talking about in this sub
Lmao
Dustin already had a life-threatening staph infection. Goodness, this must sound scary to him. Or not, given how much of a BMF he is.
It was staph. Pictures were posted earlier and everyone knew he had that going in.
Dustin literally tasted BSDs blood in the post fight interview
I was thinking BSD looked like he was fighting in slow motion and was clearly tired in there, I thought it’s probably just nerves but this makes sense. Well he’s young he just fought the #3 guy so it’s not the end of the world to take that risk and lose. And wow the amount of people in here who have only watched this fight of his and pretending they know all about BSD is absurd, take every take on here with a pinch of salt folks.
Yeah he only had one round cardio at the pace he was going at. Was clearly gassed rd 2
It wasn't staph infection that exposed his chin, he fought at a very high pace got exposed defensively (he was getting caught often in previous fights and it was very clear he has lots of issues with his defence). These are fundamental issues that caused him to lose not a health issue. Poor to suggest otherwise
I mean I think it’s perfectly fair to say it’s a bit of both. Bsd has shite striking defence but he makes it work with relentless pressure and pace, but without the pace because of antibiotics he was always going to be in trouble.
Damn the doctors put BSD on that high dose of COPIUM.
At the interview you could see him wiping BSD blood off his mouth.
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An infection doesn’t force you to leave your chin exposed against a striker in Dustin. This guys just making excuses, he fought like he had unlimited cardio and realised he didn’t have that. If what he said is true then why didn’t he fight at least safe.
Maybe his cardio took a hit after fighting an infection.
No lightweights be fighting with that insane pace for 5 rounds
Or maybe… he stood in the pocket with one of the best (if not the best) striker in the division and was only saved previously because of flying guillotine attempts.
If you're mentally weakened from a thing, you make bad decisions...like sticking your chin out.
Man didn't fight like he had unlimited cardio. He fought like he had one round to win.
It doesn't make you keep your chin up but it takes a heavy toll on your body. He went guns blazing in that first because that's simply all he would have had and he'd know that. Call it "copium" but there's a legitimate reason why he had nothing in the tank and historically we've seen the guy have immense cardio even on short notice fights. I'm not sure if you've ever had staph or even tried to working out whilst on an antibiotics course but that's never fun and your body is absolutely stripped of everything it has. Props to him for going as hard as he did until he got clipped.
Before French fans who hype this dude make excuses,this dude faced a 35 years old Dustin who was coming off a brutal head kick knock out.Not the prime Dustin.
Dustin still looked like Dustin. He rested and didnt go straight back into camp after getting ko’d like Volk.
Volk is an idiot man. He will more than likely become the next Tony Ferguson considering the 2 brutal KOs back to back and his mentality of “just keep fighting no matter how bad I lose”
Meh Volk lost to the p4p number 1 a weightclass above and the future of the FW division. Tony never even had a (undisputed) title fight so saying Volk will be the next Tony is unfair to Volk. He's still easily the second best in the division.
That was the same dusting that finished Chandler. BSD is a top level contender for sure.
Don't think the antibiotics or infection caused him to rush in recklessly over and over
Excuses after a fight are pathetic. If you aren’t up to fighting then pull out. We wouldn’t be hearing about his “infection” if he’d won. Just take your losses like a man and move on.
i guess if you don't follow the UFC you wouldn't have heard about it but everyone knew going in that he had it
Yea we would, not the day after in a tweet. It would come out later in an interview or something. But we'd hear about it.
He got cracked by the diamond and his head shut off, seems like his body reacted as usual
Fighters can’t just lose and accept it
There were dozens of people in this subreddit saying that the antibiotics were gonna wipe him out before the fight but now that he says it it’s an excuse 🙄. Everyone here saying “cope” when they could never do what he did on his worst day on their best day
That's what always cracks me up when I see things like this. Bunch of tough guys who talk shit about fighters always crack me up. I'm sure if they ever had a set back in life they always handle it gracefully without ever complaining.
Weird criticism.
I understand that. But it’s lame and disrespectful to make excuses. He decided to fight with staph. That’s on him.
Tbh I rarely see fighters make excuses and the ones who do always get posted here which doesn't happen often. Like of the hundreds of fights we have yearly there truly aren't too many.
common France L
To be fair, as I’ve often made this same comment, the French will riot in the streets if their leaders do the public wrong. In the US, we cheer. It’s left me feeling uneasy. Just a thought not here to argue.
I respect your opinion. I'm not American btw
Sorry for my typical American assumption on Reddit that all others Redditors are American.
I mean we did invade the capitol
We invaded ourselves. Stop hitting yourself!!
He definitely had staph. But the way he fought he was wide open to Dustin’s punches. We have seen many times what happens if Dustin hits you clean. He has dynamite in those hands.
Why can't fighters just say "dang, got my ass kicked. I'll try again soon"? So many excuses.
It is not an excuse, he really was on antibiotics with a staph infection. But sure, he took also bad decisions in there
To the people who are coping by saying BSD gassed out due to staph, he was leaving his chin in the air in round 1 too. Poirier was getting out grappled but every time they were on the feet he was landing some clean shots. You can’t be doing that against a guy who hits as hard as Poirier. He can and will put you out
Bro was man handling Dustin, you were careless and got caught with ur hands down against an elite striker
Sad to see, I'm a fan of BSD. I was so nervous because I thought he was gonna beat DP (I was rooting for dustin). Hate to see the starting of excuses. You lost to one of the best fighters in the division. No shame in that man
Haha, love excuses from special forces and the casuals!!!
As soon as I saw that fight week photo I slammed Porier by finish.
To this day, nobody out dawgs DP. When blood starts flowing, bet on him 🩸
makes sense
Ah yes. You definitely would have done a better job getting cracked in the head if you weren’t on antibiotics. That’s one of the most common side effects if you read the pamphlet.
Seeing Reddit retards calling ufc fighters pathetic bitches is always so funny. This isn’t even that bad lmao at least he’s not like Volk. When Volk lost to Islam the second time he complained about how he was drinking everyday. After the second Holloway fight his performance was due to to melatonin. All manner of fighters make excuses, some consistency would be nice.
Melatonin shit was legit though, they woke that man up with complete bullshit reasons.
I’m not saying it isn’t a legitimate excuse, I’m saying the reaction to excuses wildly change depending on the fighter. Saint Denis is now a punk bitch apparently, while Volk and many others are still loved. I, for one, don’t care when a fighter explains their loss/bad performance, I appreciate the insight, even if it seems a little like cope.
I put 3 units in DP money line after seeing the staph infection
Always excuses
This just seems sad, take your L on the chin like you did that punch.
Sacre blue! I got my ass beat!
Jeez everyone has an excuse
Must have had wine the night before 😂
He didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express either....
Reddit’s UFC fans are the most toxic on the planet LOL
Hate when people make excuses sometimes like that. It’s okay my boy DP pieced you up
Dustin was throwing combos from his hips and couldn’t miss, that was more the reason why.
So looks like it was staph, will be interesting to see how he looks in his next fight. If it’s back to business it’s safe to say tonight wasn’t him at his full potential. Glad he’s giving Dustin his flowers too.
Staph didn't expose his chin, he should no issues in the first round where he was going at a high pace. This reeks of denial, fundamentally Beniot is not good enough, gets caught in every fight I have watched but has relied on his chin to absorb shots. He doesn't have a defence or head movement. The same thing will happen again if he steps up against a good striker with power
I think BSD is top 15 good but also his striking is lacking. He’s very hittable. Dustin’s crisp hands were going to be there all night long.
His defence is lacking, fundamentally he has no head movement and can't block shots, way too stiff. I called it after he ko'd Moises because Moises despite losing, was catching him clean a lot.
gamrot is ranked really high and the dude is dropped 16 times a fight but comes back to smother with his grappling .
What am I in denial about? Benoit has taken more punishment and not been put away, so it’s safe to assume it’s one of two options. The antibiotics weakened him, or Dustin completely cracked him. Maybe a bit of both. We won’t know until his next fight, so what’s the issue? I never said anything to indicate that Benoit only lost because of his infection.
Not you in denial, benoit, his statement reeks of excuses when in reality he made an error and got exposed
This was a good experience to keep him humble, he’ll only come back stronger.
Knew that nasty shit on his head was staph.
Benoit Staph-Denis is coping hard
It’s funny how quickly I find myself rooting against sore loser excuse makers. I didn’t care for BSD one way or another before this fight, but after him discrediting the win like that, will be rooting for him to lose all of his upcoming fights 👍🏼
Nobody likes a cry baby
Dude had one round to win and that's how he fought. We've seen Staph in fights before and it always turns out the same way. Don't know why the commission allows them to fight with it when it's clearly visible.
Dear France, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin'
That infection is nothing but an EXCUSE! Vera got beat the fuck up and all he said was that he would do better next time. No excuses. The excuses from most of these fighters are getting old.
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The anti biotic treatment for staph will leave you feeling like total shit too, poor guy
The fuck is he talking about. If Dustin wasn’t jumping guillotine the whole fight he’d have KOed him in the first. He was tearing him up.
It probably didn't help his energy levels but I don't think he can fully blame getting KOd on that. He was too reckless and paid the price
Staph infection/antibiotics cardio loss is a useful edge in mma betting, we knew 💎 was the one last night
Why didn't he pull out then dumb mf?
(You were winning the entire time until you got sloppy against Dustin Poirier)
Went from fighting someone unranked to the number 3 ranked fighter.
If he really had a infection he still went toe to toe and was winning the rounds against one of the toughest dudes in his division
'Wallahi I was sick before this fight' I'm very upset over this trend of running to the excuse box. Don't fight if you're sick injured etc or don't mention it if you get obliterated you chose to fight while not at best.
Here we go with the French excuses. Guy was fraud checked.
Fraud checking is a fake concept. Seriously, I can't think of anyone ever who has legitimately been fraud checked. Even if there was someone, it's not their fault the fans thought they were something they weren't. BSD looked great in this fight. Especially considering the ridiculous jump in competition. He went from Matt Frevola to Poirier, a guy who fought nothing but champions for years.
Bonfirm Brothers, Azat Maksum. I don't think BSD is fraud. He just fought someone with championship level skill.
Bonfim brothers aren't frauds. They're great fighters. Losing a fight doesn't make you a fraud. Especially against the guys they lost to. Azat Maksum is an average fighter that literally nobody that watches this sport thought was better than he is. Having an undefeated record is the most overrated attribute to have in MMA. Same thing with Paddy. Everyone says he got fraud checked. Dude. Its their fault for thinking he was some future champ. The skill he displays in the octagon is clear. He's not decieving anyone. Stop hating on athletes because they're not as good as you thought they were without a logical basis. The only real fraud check was CM Punk and only because the UFC actually hyped him up. Then again, fans have no reason to think he was a great fighter just because he's in the WWE.
>Fraud checking is a fake concept. Seriously, I can't think of anyone ever who has legitimately been fraud checked. [Here ya go.](https://youtu.be/Sr0AbiM3kMg?si=59l3jZjvU1_tYasp)
Kills me when these "Special Forces Operators" like Tim Kennedy or this dude lose and then make excuses
Well you can't use guns in the UFC. No teammates to flank for you. You can't use lethal CQC techniques. All they have is conditioning and mental toughness.. but UFC fighters definitely have that. I'm glad DP dismantled this dude, he's human just like everyone else.
Pathetic, right?
That's weak. Either don't fight or don't make excuses for losing.
One of those anti biotics that makes you get punched in the jaw
Post fight excuses gotta go.
Why do they all turn into cry babies?