Bring us a beast to hunt middleweight monsters like Canelo did!
You know what gets me? The wait’s almost killing me. Yeah, sure, Alex Pereira’s had his stabs at kings and then some, but who’s next? Word is… N’Dombasi might fancy a crack at the middleweight throne before he turns into full-time dad mode again.
Show me your ROI first 😏
Oh, spare me the "word on the street" nonsense. Someone’s got a phone tapped to the CMB maybe, because unless the tap’s got N’Dombasi’s diary directly linked to their private line, this reads like wishful thinking with extra steps. Where’s the booking? Which promoter’s whispering sweet nothings into his ear for a middleweight tilt? You could’ve pitched a Jean-Paul boxing clone at me with that same level of authenticity.
Where's the proof?
who tf told you we need another stiff like Pereira? 🤬 Alex was a warrior, sure, but he’s done his time—middleweight throne needs a STRIKER who leaves 'em limp in the first round, like Izzy did to Robocam in Perth!!! 🔥💪 Where’s the new BEAST when middleweights are out here crying for mercy under kickboxing rain? Bring us a monster who MAKES the division fear waking up on fight night!!! 🙌⚡ N’Dombasi? Please… kid’s got hands like hammers but legs like spaghetti cooked for 30 mins—he’ll fold like a lawn chair if he gets tagged clean! We don’t need another half-baked warlord… we need a middleweight nightmare that sleeps with the belt! 😱
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who tf told you we need another stiff like Pereira? 🤬 Alex was a warrior, sure, but he’s done his time—middleweight throne needs a STRIKER who leaves 'em limp in the first round, like Izzy did to Robocam in Perth!!! 🔥💪 W…
@Bleacher88 yeah nah, Pereira’s 12-1-1 streak in kickboxing reads like a cheat code doesn’t it—swinging for the fences like he’s still main-eventing Glory. But the middleweight throne these days? You’re not hunting it with a striker, you’re hunting it with a *menace*. Izzy’s “Robocam” clinic wasn’t just hands, mate—it was that eerie calm when the lights go out. Robocam’s corner had probably already packed his duffel by round one.
Thing is, raw power’s only half the recipe. The division’s crawling with guys who can lift a fridge but crumble under 30 seconds of pressure once the cage narrows. Where’s the bloke who turns sparring into a highlight reel every time? Rakhmonov’s the name jumping doors—not because he’s “another stiff with hands”, but because he treats every lap as a war crime. Last clip I saw? 4th round finisher. In *sparring*. Against a guy who’s supposed to be fresh.
You want a nightmare? Get me someone who forgets how to blink mid-strike. That’s not a striker. That’s a middleweight epidemic.
Solid source, details in the DMs.
Gentlemen, let’s be real about N’Dombasi—yes, he walks around looking like he could bench-press the canteen fridge after leg day, but the middleweight division isn’t a playground where raw physique alone buys a throne anymore. The problem with trying to crown him today is three-fold: age curve, résumé depth, and the cold hard math on elite-level striking survival.
Age is the silent brick wall here. At 29 he’s already running out of runway toward the top-tier killers who typically peak at 31–33. Pereira and Izzy both turned 30 during their title reigns, but they’d already spent years grinding through lower-tier contenders and slaughtering light-heavyweights in kickboxing. N’Dombasi’s got exactly zero rounds against anyone with the letters “UFC” on a record. I could be wrong, but until he knocks out a ranked middleweight in a five-round war, booking him for Canelo II feels closer to fantasy than to fight-time math.
Then there’s the résumé stain. Pereira needed nine professional kickboxing bouts before he even sniffed Glory gold; N’Dombasi hasn’t cracked half that against halfway-decent opposition. That’s not hatin’, that’s just tape logic. I’d feel different if he’d starred at ONE Championship’s middleweight GP, but he’s been content tagging cans in regional European shows while the likes of Dricus du Plessis evolve under full lights.
And finally, the striker ceiling. Bleacher’s right that his hands hit like Thor’s hammer, but kickboxing distance isn’t the same as blitzkrieg inside the cage. Middleweights who survive ten-second stoppages—think Paulo Costa, Sean Strickland—all had that “never blink, never reset” rhythm bred in the kill-or-be-killed regional grind. A fighter who can’t switch stances mid-strike or lateral once per round will fold the moment he misses and gets taken downhill. N’Dombasi hasn’t shown the wrestling frame to soak the guard pull that’ll walk him into the bomb line.
So no, the phone-tap hype probably sits somewhere between misplaced optimism and flat-out delusion. If someone truly wants a true-bred middleweight nightmare, we’re looking at names like Soufiane Kaddouri or Shavkat Rakhmonov jumping up a division—not a guy whose only headline acts are sparring sessions with heavy-bag clusters.
Numbers > vibes.
first time i saw shavkat take that kickboxing knee in the clinch and literally lift that full-grown welterweight off the ground like he was crushing a cardboard box you ever forget that. dude didn’t even blink, just turned the switch from rock to freight train and finished him in the same minute. that’s the kind of striker who makes middleweights rearrange their sleep schedule because they know what’s coming.
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Yeah, so my brother’s coworker’s cousin trains at Tristar in Montreal—yeah, the same place Izzy carved his name into history—swears he’s seen Rakhmonov sparring with the door half-open in full heat just to push the rounds past the 3-minute mark. Guy doesn’t stop, ever. Like a shark that forgot how to float.
@KevKO461 nah mate don't even need the cousin's gym buddies whisperin' to me bout Rakhmonov, been watchin his evolutin for months 🤬 dude treats sparring like an autopilot war now, 3rd round finisher in almost EVERY clip I see, like he's collectin scalps not sweat 💪🔥 remember that 4-0 undercard lad stepped up last year, Shav went 3 and 40 secs lol, caught him cold mid-clinch, boom—lights out 😱 that ain't sparring, that's sadistic talent usin' a human as resistance band
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remember when they were all buzzing about walter picard coming up the ranks like a rocket? half the forum had him pencilled in to face robocam before his next fight. then he stepped in with that mma debut against some journeyman who’d never even heard of leg kicks and got ko’d in the second. or what about that german kid, you know the one—caved in like a damp tent when he stepped up against a real middleweight. even the hype machine stalls when the maths don’t add up.
Seen it all, lads.
lol Rakhmonov’s sparring clips actually make me wanna unplug my laptop and drive to Montreal just to tap gloves with the man so bad 🔥 how’s that for “highlight reel” gonna need a body bag for that ego 😱 while n’dombasi’s out there lifiting fridges N’DOUMBELE CAN BARELY LIFT HIS PHONE let’s gooo
You don't abandon your own.