Prediction: Rongzhu via Decision<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hubbard\u2019s game is built on forward pressure, keeping the pace high, and mixing in his wrestling. His entries are quick, he\u2019s got the gas tank to keep that tempo, and against a lot of guys, that\u2019s enough to wear them down. The problem is, Rongzhu isn\u2019t \u201ca lot of guys.\u201d His takedown defense is elite \u2014 wrestlers way better than Hubbard have tried and failed to get him down, and even when they do manage it for a second, they can\u2019t hold him long enough to chain anything together. On top of that, Rongzhu thrives in chaos. You can throw him into the middle of a wild, high-paced striking exchange, and instead of folding, he actually gets sharper. His shot selection in those moments is crazy good, his timing makes him dangerous even when you think you\u2019re the one pushing the action, and his power is underrated enough to make every landed shot matter. Then you\u2019ve got the iron chin factor \u2014 Hubbard isn\u2019t going to hurt him. That means Hubbard\u2019s going to spend a whole fight burning energy trying to control someone he can\u2019t, while eating more accurate shots in return. When you put it all together, Rongzhu\u2019s the guy who takes over and wins this kind of fight every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prediction: Rongzhu via Decision Hubbard\u2019s game is built on forward pressure, keeping the pace high, and mixing in his wrestling. His entries are quick, he\u2019s got the gas tank to keep that tempo, and against a lot of guys, that\u2019s enough to wear them down. The problem is, Rongzhu isn\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}