Between this & Josh Thomson.

No Edson barboza fight

@@colinlucas7662nahhh RDA > Barboza plus Edson was tagging him up

@@CombatDrac he finished him

His performance vs Josh Thompson is up there, he dominated Josh and used every tool in his game.

This is legit prime Tony, the best Tony has ever looked against arguably his best opponent (RDA still in his prime here). The crazy thing is he still looks so young here but his next fight was a year later against Kevin Lee and he looked considerably older. And then he kept fighting just once a year until 2020... :(

Agreed. The Tony that fought Cowboy was already slightly on the downside.

@@LTD9392 yeah he didn’t look good in the cowboy fight at all, people forget that because of how messed up cowboys face was

This, Thomson, & Tibau fights are Tony at his best.

​@@LTD9392slightly is crazy he was clearly on the downside. Much slower, reflexes, spd, timing, everything. He was even declining in the Lee fight, jus wasn't that noticeable.

@axe12yearsago El Cucuy could've beaten anyone today with the exception of Islam. He'd still give him a hard time until the end. He was completely unpredictable & he knew it. Now, that's scary.

In his prime he can't win against khabib islam charles and arman. He had been lucky just fight with pure strikers and by the way this fight is close. So nothing especial about him

​​@@JaberSalam-o2t Just say you are muslim bro nobody is talking about Habib

@@JaberSalam-o2t how do you call tony for only fighting strikers yet your a fan of khabib

@@ranjotrakkar6663 yes iam muslim and proud to be Muslim and also a khabib fan and also a honest person. Tony could not even win a single round against khabib. Winning fight is a dream of him. Whoever understands this sport he knows very well

Tonys the typa guy to lose muscle memory cuz he has dementia

@@NoSc0pe78yearsagothat’s good 😂

😂😂🎉🎉

Leave Brittany alone!

Tell Habib about that😂😂

Yeah RDA is underrated. He gave a peak El cuccey a solid fight

He ducked McGregor

@@TheAntManChannel No way man he broke his foot. RDA wanted that McGregor fight for the money and fame. Conor trolled him and said it was just a bruise but his foot was legit broken. No way he’d run from the money fight like that.

Who ever underrates RDA is not a UFC fan or even a MMA fan, RDA was and is top class, some of these fights yous all know it could go both ways at anytime. That just shows you that these guys are top class and the elite

​@@LJ25Ownzwhile I will forever maintain that anyone has the right to like anyone they want, I do have to agree with this statement. 🤗

Yeah surprised there was no official upload of this fight before now.

I never noticed back then. How often he got hit and how important that chin was to his style. Still can't believe he never fought for undisputed gold

@@trubkadefekt3645 This is El Cucuy.

Also movement, agility and fighting IQ 😢

​@@tommygunnggg1127never fought for undisputed gold but he was still (C) if u look at stareoff with khabib at 25th anniversery

@@tommygunnggg1127 I'm one of the few who kept screaming how sloppy his stand up was against subpar opponents. The only threat I ever saw in this guy was his BJJ. He was EXTREMELY overrated and his winstreak was on average fighters, tiger cubs or old tigers on their way out. Mindset and momentum of a fighter is VERY important and usually a good gauge to predict the fighter's trajectory. I called Ilia Topuria 'future champ' after his short notice UFC debut against Youssef Zalal (who had both momentum and mindset on his side). TL;DR Tony's trash.

@@vuhmieif only we had him today..

Yess!! Before the knee surgery :( even in the pettis and cowboy wins he didn't move like this

still would get smoked by khabib

@@kelvin4910True but that has nothing to do with the comment

@@banezhs Yeah that knee surgery f'd him up. That plus him and Khabib's curse of never being able to fight each other effectively killed his career, as it made him eventually run into Gaethje which destroyed his body for good (making weight twice was dumb af though on his part).

the face of El Cucuy

@@justagoose7741 hell ya

Until he met max Holloway

KHABIB IS GOAT 🐐 BRO DONT CMPARE TO THIS BULLSHIT

​@@FIFAFIFO-le1tt bro....

@@FIFAFIFO-le1ttsettle down, Covid fan

@@FIFAFIFO-le1tt barg off.....fifa sucks by the way. cr7 goat cant stop winning.

He would've 💯 % beaten him but would've loss to Islam. Styles make fights.

Khabib would have gone through Tony.

@@markderwin3980 🧢, educate yourself 🎓

@@BlueprintGB-gz5qq Its true. Tell me how Tony could have beaten Khabib… make it a sensible response

@@BlueprintGB-gz5qq NO VERSION OF TONY WOULD EVER HAVE BEATEN KHABIB..

Yup and both dudes seemed pretty fresh after 5 rounds (no grappling though).

Former best cardio in the UFC.

@@tubadude07Dos Anjos tried but Tony was too slick back then and his jiu jitsu was very good back in the day. Father Time sucks 😢

Ya,I remember the attitude era

​@@Liefvikerson Attitude Era ???? Wtf are you on bout bro OP is talking about Altitude

Landed clean second time 😂 thats why he is my favourite and topuria too also

@@bluezayyad1296 👺👹

He would've beat every lw today except Islam & prob Olives but I see him cooking Olives, keeping it on the feet. Poirier would've also been a tough fight for Tony but he would've beat him too.

Bro prime Tony would have had a field day with Charles.

A field day with charles . Islam wouldve been tough , khabib wouldve lost too

@@Albanianlaski My only worry would be if he took Tony down & that's a small worry lol.

@shaidanwheel6199 I know.

#1 mythical fighter. El Cucuy.

How to you get to this mark when the vid has only been out a minute 😂

it’s not even 10 mins since the video was uploaded and you’re already at 26mins😂

He was feeling it 😂 Danced in another part of this fight too.

Emoting on that boy 😂

​​​@@HyperReality4because legends have seen it before this video upload 🙂 im his one of biggest fan..

It would have been a competitive fight but I think you're right

Conor would outclass him on the feet in the early rounds, Tony would take the shots and march him down. It would be similar to the Nate Diaz fights. Conor also would get smoked on the ground too.

😂

Exactly 😂I noticed it

Prime Tony would've cooked Gaethje, wouldn't had been close. A clearly out of prime version of himself nearly finished a prime Gaethje early in the 2nd, fresh off 2 weight cuts & a heavy grappling camp for Habib. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the fight also on short-notice?

​@@BlueprintGB-gz5qq yea, I forget how short but I think maybe 6 weeks. It was the first Covid Card. Khabib ran off to Russia and got landlocked, so they made it an interim fight between Tony and Gaethje. Also, Tony vs. Cowboy and Pettis should not have been as competitive as they were given where those guys were in their careers and where Tony was in his, those should've been our first signs of his decline.

@@gonzalorocha Pettis fight was Tony's first fight back after injury coming back premature from it, nursing himself apparently too. If u know, Tony simply wasn't the same after losing his mobility. Tony-Cowboy was as clear as day of him declining but still ended up beating the sh outta the last good version of Cowboy.

@BlueprintGB-gz5qq If I recall, he came back after 6 months of doing his own PT, and Cruz was talking about how that's a 9 month minimum recovery since he's had that knee surgery 3xs. Props to Pettis though cause dude was still dangerous (KO'd Wonderboy right after that fight), had Tony going Sonic and rolling away lol. Yea, it was fun while it lasted though. That was such a good fight. Cowboy looked good that first round.

@@BlueprintGB-gz5qq Tony had to get his brains turned into scrambled eggs to get a chance to land that shot that didn't end up being significant anyway. Maybe Tony wins prime for prime but wouldn't have been close? Please.

yea here he was still young, obsessed, and hadn't torn his leg yet

I really believe that double weight cut before the Justin fight is what started the downfall.

​@@crazy4052 It didn't help for sure but Tony did show signs of decline before that. He was just good enough to win despite that. I think along with the double weight cut, was the fact that he overtrained for Khabib. That fight was booked in December and he eventually fought in May. That's 5 months of training for a five round fight when champions usually have 2-3 month training camps. And then there's his inactivity of fighting once a year beyond his control during his mid 30s. So many factors caused a crazy downfall :(

Si dices de Tony, después de pelear con vs Kevin lee, Tony peleó 2 veces en 2 años, por qué tuvo una lesion de rodilla de rompe el ligamento 5 meses después se enfrentó a petiis, con un buen performance a pesar de venir de una lesion de ahí tubo problemas mentales alucinando cosas, luego enfrenta a cerrone y Tony sale victoria en los inicios del 2019 de ahí viene la pandemia y todo ese año inactivo, se ve un Tony recuperado mentalmente y físicamente, se anuncia la pelea khabib vs Tony, y se cancela y después de ahí comienza el infierno para Tony, los 2 cortes marcaron una diferencia en el declive sumando la paliza que se llevó esa noche y sin caer dormido

Hoy en día "Tony siempre fue un sobrevalorado" y en realidad no saben nada de Tony

Either this or the Thomson fight is his best performance.

😂😂😂

@@mikaeel1692 minus toughness, never a issue with him. Also, minus the double weight cut.

Father time is undefeated

Should’ve been Tony vs Conor after this if Conor didn’t leave the sport to go box. That would’ve been a banger

@@rhysnichols8608 and tony vs conor goes same way diaz vs conor

@ I agree but I think it could go to a decision but in Tony’s favour

@@rhysnichols8608 i mean like first diaz vs conor fight, tony pressure make conor do mistake and fall into a submission

It's between this & the Thomson fight

@@BlueprintGB-gz5qq also barboza he was a rabid dog that night

Nope, not the beginning of the end. He went on to beat the next 3 guys making his win streak 12 in a row. Tony always got hit but always found a way to win back then.

The most feared man in MMA even surpassing Yoel.