Reality Check: Size DOESN'T Matter

UFC 91 certainly proved that size doesn't mean anything when it comes to MMA. It's a bit contradicting that I just ranted about how size matters but if you saw how easily Kenny Florian dismantled Joe 'Daddy' Stevenson, you would be saying the same thing. Even though they weight the same, or probably not by fight time, there's a huge difference in body type between the two.

Joe Daddy looks like a guy who's been in the gym, has packed some muscle on his frame in thickness and width, and looks like a dude who could scrap. Kenny Florian looks like he's never even touched a weight in his life and resembles someone more suited for the chess club.

Well throw all that out the window because Kenny Florian is one of the baddest men in the UFC. You can't tell me that Florian is stronger than Stevenson yet when the two tied up, it was Florian who threw Joe Daddy down and worked a vicious ground game that would make any jiu jitsu practitioner proud. Within minutes Florian was tapping out Stevenson with a rear naked choke in his most dominating victory of his career.

Joe Stevenson is not a pushover. He's an all world fighter and will beat 95% of the lightweight division. He just happened to match up against a better fighter who might be the only threat in the lightweight division to give BJ Penn a run for his money. I can't imaging Florian beating Penn but nothing Kenny Florian does will surprise me anymore. The way he's been fighting it just proves that SIZE DOESN'T MATTER.