Let's be 10,000% honest with ourselves. We all knew that this fight was going to end this way. I feel really, really sorry for Beniel because he spent the last decade of his life climbing the ranks of a version of the lightweight division that doesn't exist anymore. It's even more upsetting that the dude was optimistic enough to say he's willing to fight for the belt at 38. That shit is probably not happening. He probably won't be able to compete for much longer. He's chinny and he's old, and he's reached the level of competition where those things definitely matter and they will definitely get you fucking knocked out. It happened to Tony Ferguson. Dana White Privilege unfortunately exists.
And he was going up against the fucking Octopus from the Bronx. As cringe-worthy as it may souond, watching Charles use all eight points of contact (fists, elbows, knees, and feet) in his fights is what made my ass start pursuing Muay Thai. That motherfucker hits you with every part of his body that he can. Look at how he finished Beniel. He fucking kicked him in the side of his head and then dove in for the finish immediately. It was not fun to watch that happen to Beniel. Given, that's bound to happen to any human being that fights Charles Oliveira, but it's always fucking scary to see how quickly he finishes people. He lets his hands go and lets them go and lets them go until whoever he is fighting is absolutely bloodied or disorientated or both. Once he was on the canvas and Charles was on top of him, Beniel looked like a terrified deer in headlights trying to defend himself. And he was only on the ground for five seconds max.
Charles is scarily good and still in my mind the baddest motherfucker on the planet. I don't care who he loses to. Beneil Dariush stood absolutely no chance and it honestly felt like this was a lopsided fight to quickly get him out of the title picture.
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