Magomed Ankalaev vs. Alex Pereira - Who wins this fight if it happens?

[RichardHarrow]

I read that Ankalaev wants to keep it standing……

 

[Striker Fox]

He really should stay at LHW hahaha

idk, he's almost 37 and if he gets completely dominated by Ankalaev's grappling, maybe just fun interesting fights til he retires. Izzy, Gane ect. PAVLOVICH!?

Seems like he still has room to add muscle/bulk to his massive frame to do well against HW strikers.

"I have the height and the size of a heavyweight, I can definitely fight at heavyweight, maybe some day in the future. But it’s got to be something that’s well planned." - Pereira last month

 

[OldBoy91]

Ankalaev, because there is no way he was being serious about standing and banging with Poatan. He's going to wrestle him all night long.

Glass shins Ankalaev vs Poatan's calf kicks would be suicide.

 

[Striker Fox]

I read that Ankalaev wants to keep it standing……

until Alex lands a couple of leg kicks

 

[Kompromat]

If Ank takes a page from Khabibs book and fights like he did against Gaethje then its likely Ank wins. I'm just unsure whether Anks submission skills are on the same level as Khabibs, he seems to prefer control and GnP and I feel Perreira is good enough to survive these till the end of the round. That's risky because he would have to succeed with this approach for at least 3 rounds and it always starts on feet ..

 

[Dionysian]

What’s stopping Poatan from drilling take down defense day and night for 12 weeks? All he has to do is keep it standing and he wins.

And all Ankalaev needs to do is take him down and he wins.

So to answer your question: the same thing that stops you from drilling TDD for 12 weeks (or 12 years) to stop a much higher level grappler... the experience deficit.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

i still don't know what Pereira is thinking going to HW. yeah, he's big enough to STRIKE with HWs, but can he take the hits? can he withstand the grappling from someone the size of Curtis Blaydes? these are huge factors at HW.

 

[scytheavatar]

Even if Ankalaev keeps it standing there's no reason why he can't do to Pereira what Israel did. Ankalaev is the best counter puncher in the division and will have a speed advantage over Pereira. With how hittable Pereira looks and how he seemed to have lost a lot of the KO power he had in MW the fight massively favors Ankalaev.

 

[Hdfi]

If Ankalaev fights smart he wins

 

[HHJ]

i still don't know what Pereira is thinking going to HW. yeah, he's big enough to STRIKE with HWs, but can he take the hits? can he withstand the grappling from someone the size of Curtis Blaydes? these are huge factors at HW.

They'll just not put him in there w blaydes lmao

Poor curtis

 

[Bilzerian]

Easy win for Ank

 

[jk7707]

Ankalaev probably. But man, if he takes the number of leg kicks he did against Jan or Walker against Alex he'll be on one leg in the first minute of the fight.

 

[IvanDrago2.0]

I actually believe Alex wins that fight rather easily by Ko. Magomav said he wants to keep it standing and he’s no where near the level of Alex. Alex will also present a striking game that magomav has never seen and not to forget that power in Alex’s left and those brutal calf kicks. Magomedov will resort to take downs out of desperation by then his legs will be too mangled to be effective. I see Alex winning via ko

 

[IvanDrago2.0]

idk, he's almost 37 and if he gets completely dominated by Ankalaev's grappling, maybe just fun interesting fights til he retires. Izzy, Gane ect. PAVLOVICH!?

Seems like he still has room to add muscle/bulk to his massive frame to do well against HW strikers.

"I have the height and the size of a heavyweight, I can definitely fight at heavyweight, maybe some day in the future. But it’s got to be something that’s well planned." - Pereira last month

Haha no he’s not a hw by any means and moving up to hw would be a huge mistake. He has a narrow frame, hate to say it but chicken legs made of concrete though, he’s just a naturally lean human being. If he moved to hw, he’d be a bloated mess at this stage in his life. I got to meet Alex in salt lake for the week, I’m 6’3 barefoot at 248-251 lean muscular and I dwarfed him in mass big time. You could also see when he was sitting next to aspinal, Alex was trying to measure up and he right there realized that he was really undersized next to aspinal. Alex doesn’t have the luxury of Jon Jones to take 2 years off and come back at hw

 

[MrBlackheart]

If they were to fight, would that be the first non English speaking fighters in a title fight?

 

[RichardHarrow]

until Alex lands a couple of leg kicks

My point precisely

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

They'll just not put him in there w blaydes lmao

Poor curtis

yeah but there are other big HWs who can grapple, at least better than Pereira has currently shown. like if Black Beast or Gane got on top of him i have a feeling they'd just pound him out rather easily.

 

[Gregoire1]

Perreira 60/40

 

[Striker Fox]

Haha no he’s not a hw by any means and moving up to hw would be a huge mistake. He has a narrow frame, hate to say it but chicken legs made of concrete though, he’s just a naturally lean human being. If he moved to hw, he’d be a bloated mess at this stage in his life. I got to meet Alex in salt lake for the week, I’m 6’3 barefoot at 248-251 lean muscular and I dwarfed him in mass big time. You could also see when he was sitting next to aspinal, Alex was trying to measure up and he right there realized that he was really undersized next to aspinal. Alex doesn’t have the luxury of Jon Jones to take 2 years off and come back at hw

There've been some MWs/LHWs who've fought at HW and had success tho. Hendo, Rumble, Couture ect. I'd imagine he's trained with plenty of HWs and has a pretty good idea about his chances, even before he's added some good weight to his frame.

I doubt he'd consider fighting HWs who have good grappling like Aspinall, Jailton, Blaydes. But strikers? Sounds like he's interested, and who wouldn't want to watch a Uber Poatan against Gane?

 

[HHJ]

yeah but there are other big HWs who can grapple, at least better than Pereira has currently shown. like if Black Beast or Gane got on top of him i have a feeling they'd just pound him out rather easily.

For sure Derrick will never get that fight either. Its pointless. Poatan is and always will be an anomaly,and thus.he will basically just fight top level mostly strike oriented fighters for the rest of his career. UFC would be stupid as fuck to match Lewis with him.