{"id":330995,"date":"2019-11-05T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=330995"},"modified":"2019-11-05T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:50:54","slug":"stephen-thompson-jorge-masvidal-is-different-fighter-from-when-i-fought-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/stephen-thompson-jorge-masvidal-is-different-fighter-from-when-i-fought-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Thompson: Jorge Masvidal is &#8216;different fighter from when I fought him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Masvidal has spoken a great deal about his new focus on being more aggressive and finishing his fights. His former opponent Stephen Thompson has witnessed that transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson defeated Masvidal by decision in late 2017, and after watching Masvidal bludgeon Nate Diaz to stoppage win in the UFC 244 main event, is convinced the Cuban has completely changed since their fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked better than ever, man, for sure,\u201d Thompson said at the UFC 244 post-fight press conference, shortly after he defeated Vicente Luque on the main card (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/11\/stephen-thompson-disappointed-masvidal-vs-diaz-ufc-244-wanted-winner-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201c(He\u2019s) definitely a different fighter from when I fought him last. His striking looked good. Very unpredictable. That head kick in the first round was sick. I\u2019ve got to give him props for that because I love to kick people in the head, as well. But I thought it was great. I mean Nate Diaz, he didn\u2019t have an answer. He tried to come back with some stuff, but I can just tell: Masvidal crushed him. After that first round, he didn\u2019t want any more. I\u2019m pretty sure he wanted out of there, but hat\u2019s off to Masvidal. (He) definitely deserved it, and like I was telling everybody before, that\u2019s my inspiration, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that he holds a win over Masvidal, Thompson has stated <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/stephen-thompson-prefers-masvidal-or-diaz-fights-over-maia-matchup\/\">he&#8217;d love to fight his former foe again.\u00a0<\/a>He&#8217;d also welcome a fight with Masvidal&#8217;s latest casualty, Nate Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was kind of disappointed the main event ended the way it did because I really wanted to fight one of those guys, that would have been awesome. Nicest guy vs. the baddest guy, that would have been really cool. But we\u2019ll see,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>Does a future rematch between Stephen Thompson and Jorge Masvidal interest you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/5\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Masvidal has spoken a great deal about his new focus on being more aggressive and finishing his fights. His former opponent Stephen Thompson has witnessed that transformation. Thompson defeated Masvidal by decision in late 2017, and after watching Masvidal bludgeon Nate Diaz to stoppage win in the UFC 244 main event, is convinced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":330996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10515,10132,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stephen Thompson: Jorge Masvidal is &#039;different fighter from when I fought him&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stephen Thompson praises his former foe &quot;Gamebred&quot; Jorge Masvidal, who he defeated by unanimous decision in November of 2017.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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