cowboyronnie wrote:Susan wrote:Luque finished Chiesa, Woodley, Randy Brown and Niko Price and then lost to Wonderboy
Burns - W Dec Wonderboy, L (KO) Usman, W Dec Woodley, W KO Maia, W Dec Gunnar Nelson
They all beat Maia, Colby did it earliest and imo most impressively, they all beat Woodley's corpse and Burns got KTFO by Usman in the 2nd and Colby barely lost that second fight and the first one was really close.
He's got the second best most recent resume out of all of them imo.
He didn't barely lose the second Usman fight, it was totally convincing. And he got finished in the first one.
Literally the most impressive fights he has had have been his two losses to Usman. It's actually impressive that he only lost that badly.
I want to see him face a young lion, for once, before considering him some sort of DC (DC at LHW), who would have dominated his era if it weren't for that *one guy*. Colby is starting to get that shine, like he'd rule the division if it weren't for Usman like DC would have ruled LHW if it weren't for Jones. That's nonsense. DC beat Gus, AJ twice...no one doubted that he would run through every other LHW. It was just Jones. Colby doesn't have that. He's a pick 'em in multiple fights.
It's the Gus syndrome. Until Colby beats on the rest of the contenders, there is room for doubt that he's a level above all of them. As of now, like Gus, his most impressive fights are how well he matched up and pushed the champ 2x(Both Jones and DC)... but when he actually finally matched up with the rest of the top of the division, it became clear he was in the mix with them, not some guy that was clearly ahead.
Colby might be ahead of the pack, but we need to find out. To me Id bet he's more Gus than DC once matched up with the other young contenders.
