Terrible performance from Alex. He refused to open up and let his hands go. Frustrating to watch him give the fight away and be so gun shy.
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No surprise, I always thought he was just there to hold pads, but now he is stealing the limelight from Cus D’Amato
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Fucking bastard
In addition to Alex, Jon Jones and Dana White were the big losers last night.
Fuck em
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Ank has a shitty style that can make you fight shitty imo. It makes for shitty fights. The irony is I fight like this too, but I’m not a pro, I’m just an old man in a young man sport
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This
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lol no we had a great time
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This completely irrelevant since the fight is scored in 5 different 5 minute segments. I swear people genuinely have no idea how fights are scored.
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Anyone that gave big foot jr more than two rounds are for sure lol. I gave him 1.
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Lol funny you say that cause yesterday was the first time I made that connection in my head. I was watching the fight and was like damn he looks like a mini Antonio Silva
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Just got round to watching and so glad i didn’t get up at 5am to watch. Boring fight. Wondered if maybe Poatan was showung a bit of age? Often when a fighter won’t let his hands go it’s father time stipping them.
Honestly it just popped up right before posting.
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He clearly won round 1 and round 5. 3 is the close round and I haven’t had a chance to watch it on video yet. Live I thought pereira won round 3 but maybe it looked different on tv.
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Alex gave Ank way too much respect. Anks wrestling isn’t great and he isn’t particularly strong in submissions or finishing once he gets it to the ground. Alex fought against those takedown attempts like his life depended on it, even though he could have forced the stalemate to finish the round.
In the rematch I think he opens up on the striking more and probably comes in better conditioned
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Do you even lift bro
Ank was constantly using a low feint and looking at Alex’s legs as if he was gonna shoot
Thé danger of it was constant and from early in the fight he tried for takedowns and clinch control where he absolutely owned Pereira
Pereira was carefully steered towards a championship and has been dodging the Russian because of what you saw last night
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I know a guy that trains in Vegas, a big guy that wrestled in college, and he’s trained with Ankalaev multiple times and he told me Ankalaev has terrible wrestling and won’t be able to take pereira down. So I’m not sure why anyone thought Ankalaev was a big threat on the ground
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