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Originally Posted by Inmem58
This can go for any sport. Guys are bigger, faster and stronger these days.
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Meh.
It's not really about bigger, faster, stronger. It's really about how a sport changes.
8 years ago it was all about being a great wrestler. Great stand up guys had no chance because they just got taken down and that was it.
Now things have changed. Wrestlers don't wrestle as much because too many guys have great take down defense. Guys don't get sub'd as much anymore either.
What is starting to happen is that the stand up is starting to evolve. Jon Jones and even last night with Carlos Condit are showing that. Various types of kicks are working their way into the mix now and in a few years you are going to see guys with some really advanced stand up game.
Then 10 years down the road it will be something else. It's not really about guys being bigger, faster, stronger. It's just about the evolution of the sport.