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He doesn't need KO power. He has almost endless cardio and in the time we are talking about Alex's defensive grappling wasn't as good as Izzy's. Besides it might not have even been a 5 round fight and Vettori has decent submissions too.
Jan and Jiri don't have the kind of cardio that Vettori has especially not when grappling.
Strickland has endless cardio, too. I don’t think that’s something that can be leveraged against AP at MW unless you have the straight up wrestling chops to relentlessly land takedowns, which Vettori ain’t got. Vettori’s fights against Adesanya and Bobby showed us that he falters against the more polished strikers at MW who are competent enough to keep it standing. Alex has a comparable tool kit to Izzy with better power and leg kicks, plus he can match Marvin’s physicality.