He's a dozen years older, arrives with two straight losses and is less prone to highlight-reel inclusion.
But if you think that means Yoel Romero can't win his UFC middleweight title match with incumbent Israel Adesanya this weekend in Las Vegas, think again.
The 42-year-old Cuban has been agonizingly close to adding a championship-caliber bullet line to his resume, dropping an interim title fight in 2017, missing weight prior to KO'ing Luke Rockhold in another interim bout seven months later and losing a split decision in yet another opportunity in 2018.
Adesanya is the favorite for good reason, but the gap between he and Romero is hardly vast.