He’ll go all the way down if MMA doesn’t want him anymore, imo. He’s too proud to admit his time is over and I think he wants to prove to himself as much as anyone else that he’s still a competitor. Problem is his style was always so bespoke and unorthodox that once his reflexes, timing and agility deserted him, he has only rudimentary fundamentals to fall back on and a too game tendency to stay on the central line and wait to see what happens next, which is why he needs pulling before someone really ends up hitting him as flush as Emmet did to Mitchell over the weekend. Tony can also take far too much of a punch, so you know he’ll get absolutely clobbered to be properly put out, otherwise he’ll keep plodding on getting the brain cells beat out of him until the ref calls the fight.
He’s already in deep waters and shouldn’t be fighting, so I shudder to think what the even more aged and slow version of him will look like in the upcoming year.
for UFC 300 and Dustin Vs BSD at UFC 299 in Miami.