Exactly my thoughts, he should be looked great coming off a double camp. Maybe he got overconfident hitting pads. :|
yup. no idea why this happens to so many grapplers. they fall in love with striking
werdum should have had a gameplan that zapped stipe's energy over two rounds and started building upon wrestrling and grappling, so that stipe lost his striking "pop" and got worn down
instaed he chased after him, chin out, in round 1. literally the worst gameplan he could have enacted.