i will never say a fighter is washed up but tony needs to start over and get a whole new game plan and work on his take down defense plus work on his striking more .change camps if he have to because thats 3 fights in a row and if he losses another fight then dana might cut him...
Nah he's done, which is a shame cuz I like Tony and the majority of fighters that come out of Hawaii , but he's washed.
It doesn't have anything to do with talent or training. IMO its psychological. Once a UFC fighter has been in one to three wars, there is an automatic decline that takes place. Its unavoidable. By war I mean that a fighter goes toe to toe, stand up with another fighter for two rounds or more exchanging blows in a fairly equal fashion. Tony is experiencing it now, Woodley has it, Cowboy is going through it too. Past champions like Lawler, Riggs, Barrao, they all hit that wall and fell off very quickly. Its fairly common if you pay attention. That is the shelf life of a UFC fighter.
You have to be an extremely tough minded individual to survive one war and a special fighter to experience two and still be able to fight at a high level, but no one survives three.