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Opinion: Overwhelming Talent Is Not Enough

Related Topics: Charles Oliveira, Paul Felder

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To understand complicated systems, whether in MMA or physics, it helps to look at extremes. For the former, an illuminating specimen is Charles Oliveira. Oliveira may well be the most physically talented fighter in MMA history. He is significantly more talented than legends like Georges St. Pierre, Anderson Silva and Khabib Nurmagomedov.