I remember that -- he was on ESPN doing the post fight analysis of Santos/Ankalaev and was saying how unimpressed he was with Ankalaev despite pitching a shutout against a guy that KO'd him previously. He then faces Ankalaev and gets dominated after dismissing him.
How about this -- both of them are great fucking fighters. Islam Happened to defeat Charley Olives, but let's not act like there is any mutual exclusivity to both of them being phenomenal fighters and probably future HOFers.
Surprisingly, I've never seen Van fight but he has a pretty nice resume. Hopefully he knows how to grapple. I don't know how I've missed him all this time with the wins he has.
If Ankalaev chooses to go for the knockout like he says he will, I think Pereira wins by KO. If Ankalaev chooses to wrestle, however, I think he takes Poatan down and gets a submission in round 1 or 2.
I know Anthony Smith is a walking joke to most, but what should he say? That he has no shot? With that said, no I don't think he has a title run left in him lol
I don't feel his comments are delusional. I don't feel that anything he said in the quote provided is far off. Pereira has been matched up with predominately strikers.
Kevin Lee's skills depleted overnight. I kinda wonder how much of it had to do with the passing of Robert Follis. It's easy to call him a can nowadays, but if you look at what he did in his career, it is quite impressive. He gave Gregor Gillespie his only loss, and who has more dominant wins...
I'm a Diaz fan but this doesn't surprise me -- that dude was pretty fucked up, and based on the video, it'll be hard to claim self defense. Hopefully they settle out of court and the fiasco is avoided.
I think it depends on what you value in master class performances. Some may argue that it wasn't since he didn't show off his ground game whereas others wouldn simply argue that he didn't have to because his shot was so accurate. It could be argued to be at the top for sure when you factor in...
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