Well it's probably embarrassing to you because you're not a pro fighter. To a pro fighter, I think wins and losses have to be part of the game. If they were as weak minded as you and you were as strong minded as them, they would probably be on this forum calling YOU embarrassing and you'd be fighting in different countries, chasing your dream of personal greatness.So Izzy had a free shot on a guy who was "almost asleep" and "dying" and still managed to lose the next round and get KO'd late. That is pretty embarrassing, regardless of whether or not Pereira heard the bell.
"Height and reach are aspects of size. Tyson Fury is much bigger than Andy Ruiz, despite them being very similar weights."
That is cherry picking."
So you agree that Tyson Fury is bigger than Ruiz? Why? I thought that in your world, size wasn't about height/reach/body frame, just weight. If you concede that Fury is bigger than Ruiz as you have, then you've conceded that weight is not the only factor in size, and therefore that Adesanya has, in at least two respects, a massive size advantage over most of his opponents.
"When you come up with a theory like "height and reach = better fighter"
I never made this claim. Everybody knows I never made this claim. Even you, as compromised as you are, know I didn't make this claim. You have to make things up because you've lost the argument. But thanks for bumping the thread.
So Izzy had a free shot on a guy who was "almost asleep" and "dying" and still managed to lose the next round and get KO'd late. That is pretty embarrassing, regardless of whether or not Pereira heard the bell.
Well it's probably embarrassing to you because you're not a pro fighter. To a pro fighter, I think wins and losses have to be part of the game. If they were as weak minded as you and you were as strong minded as them, they would probably be on this forum calling YOU embarrassing and you'd be fighting in different countries, chasing your dream of personal greatness.
Everyone has a part to play in life. Some humans play fighting giants, like Izzy. And the cost of that is they will have peons on the anonymous internet belittling them because words are cheap. Actually many words are free. Other humans play the role of idiots on the web who call a champion fighting a fantastic fight and losing "embarrassing" because of some defect in their own character that they can't yet face and tackle.
I, personally, think that if you are not embarrassed for being a silly belittling critic on Sherdog (and no reason you should be ashamed - we all do it sometimes on this site - it's human, and moreover, it's Sherdoggian) then Izzy SHOULD NOT FUCKING be embarrassed for holding a world title in the highest MMA organization on the planet and losing a tough fight to a monster who would chew up a weak minded man like yourself and spit you into a trash can on his way to the gym.
At least Izzy rocked him and almost finished him. To give you some scale, the equivalent for you would be writing a great post that gets lots of likes. Would you feel embarrassed by writing a great post that gets lots of likes? No, right? Neither should Izzy feel embarrassed for being one of the top warriors in the known world.
Of course, we're all free to our opinions so I welcome your right to disagree. It's a free world. As I said, we all have our part to play so please continue playing yours. It's amusing. I like it!
A 10-8 for landing one punch on the last second of a round that was 50-50 until then?? Lol he didn’t even drop him…jfc it was not close. if he didn't ko izzy, he would've lost 4-1. adesanya deserved a 10-8 for round 1 as well. pereira was getting beat up.
1. MMA greenhorn and clear underdog Pereira ended UFC P4P No.2 Izzy's 3 year, 5 consecutive defence MW title reign, having pushed him out of kickboxing 5.5 years prior. Izzy never really was the baddest MW on the planet.
2. Izzy can't be in the conversation for best MMA striker anymore as he's 0-3 (2 by KO) against a kickboxer, who he had most success wrestling against.
3. Izzy isn't a "P4P" fighter as he evidently can't win without a massive height and reach advantage (Jan, Alex).
4. Izzy's general wrestling/submission game is poor. An elite wrestler (of which there are currently none at MW) would likely beat him; no wrestler worth their salt should be taken down by Alex, or only secure one TD against him as a result of Alex's botched TD.
Yes, definitely. If he can't run from a heavy-hitting, accurate striker he gets KTFO'd
Sorry, but that's just stupid.1. MMA greenhorn and clear underdog Pereira ended UFC P4P No.2 Izzy's 3 year, 5 consecutive defence MW title reign, having pushed him out of kickboxing 5.5 years prior. Izzy never really was the baddest MW on the planet.
2. Izzy can't be in the conversation for best MMA striker anymore as he's 0-3 (2 by KO) against a kickboxer, who he had most success wrestling against.
3. Izzy isn't a "P4P" fighter as he evidently can't win without a massive height and reach advantage (Jan, Alex).
4. Izzy's general wrestling/submission game is poor. An elite wrestler (of which there are currently none at MW) would likely beat him; no wrestler worth their salt should be taken down by Alex, or only secure one TD against him as a result of Alex's botched TD.
Sometimes????This forum is fucking retarded sometimes.
Do you think Alex would have beaten Izzy if he had the same height/reach as Rob, Vettori or Costa?
At no point have i ever thought izzy was a better striker than silva.. i don’t even know how people can watch the 2 and think that
Forrest Griffin.If Silva fought the striking talents that Izzy fought he wouldn't have looked that good. What good striker did he fight other than non-trt Vitor?
Izzy's stubby opponents also had good attributes but he was still able to beat all of them, whereas opponents who almost match him for height and reach consistently beat him, I don't think it's a coincidence. Would Alex with Costa's reach have beaten Izzy? He was favoured to beat Jan and Alex too, the "experts" believed he was better than he was.
Lol, you're probably right actually.Hes probably not a man. More likely a kid with a Learning disability.