‘Poatan’ warned not to expose too much grappling footage ahead of pivotal rematch

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Alex Pereira will look to reclaim the undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight title when he rematches Magomed Ankalaev in the UFC 320 main event on Oct. 4 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Ankalev took a unanimous decision from the “Poatan” in their first encounter some five months ago, even though it was contested entirely on the feet.

While Pereira showed clear improvements in his takedown defense, the Russian outstruck him statistically in the second, fourth and fifth rounds. All three judges scored it for Ankalaev: 49-46, 48-47 and 48-47. Aware that their next fight could unfold differently, Pereira has focused heavily on grappling with coach and former UFC champion Glover Teixiera. His work caught the attention of Gilbert Burns, widely regarded as one of the most technical representatives of Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the UFC.


“I liked what I saw. There wasn’t anything ‘wow’ about it,” Burns said on his Portuguese YouTube channel. “I think he’ll improve by coming back and getting into shape for the camp, but from the little I saw, I could tell he’s confident in the guillotine and confident in his back defense. He’s starting to do the lift. I’m enjoying seeing his jiu-jitsu progress.”

Burns made it clear that revealing too much in training can have negative consequences.

“Remember when [Pereira] knocked out Jiri [Prochazka] in the second fight? He saw Jiri warming up with his hand low and thought about throwing a high kick,” he said. “I think the opposite is also true. He’s showing everyone a lot. If I were Ankalaev’s ground game coach, I’d take a lot of things and say, ‘We can work on that.’ There are those dangers.”

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‘Poatan’ Warned Not to Expose Too Much Grappling Footage Ahead of Pivotal Rematch

Alex Pereira will look to reclaim the undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight title when he rematches Magomed Ankalaev in the UFC 320 main event on Oct. 4 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

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[Arm Barbarian]

Hopefully he's training a lot on how to keep from getting wall n stalled, otherwise we are in for another snore-fest. First fight was beyond anticlimactic.

 

[PrideNverDies]

Let's pray he fights aggressively this time and KO this boring mfer

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Just needs to work the clinch and getting off the cage. Don't have to worry about takedowns since Jank went 0-13

 

[usernamee]

Just needs to work the clinch and getting off the cage. Don't have to worry about takedowns since Jank went 0-13

and also open up WAY more on the feet

he was so hesitant to throw because he was always thinking about the takedown threat

it wont matter if he doesn't get taken down or pushed up against the fence if he doesn't get enough done on the feet!

 

[Dr Fong]

Hopefully he's training a lot on how to keep from getting wall n stalled, otherwise we are in for another snore-fest. First fight was beyond anticlimactic.

Although a slightly different type of stinker, this reminds me of the reaction to the Romero vs Adesanya fight. Adesanya's fluffers managed to push the narrative that Romero was mostly to blame for the fight being garbage, when Adesanya was literally running away.

Just like Romero, Ankalaev is hardly without significant blame himself, but just like Adesanya, Poatan was the primary culprit in that first fight being trash. His output was almost non-existent.

Both Adesanya and Poatan relied on leg kicks for their limited offence, with Poatan being hesitant and Izzy being outright timid.

Ankalaev threw and landed more than double the amount of head and body strikes and yet the only thing mentioned here is the wall n stall.

 

[Arm Barbarian]

Although a slightly different type of stinker, this reminds me of the reaction to the Romero vs Adesanya fight. Adesanya's fluffers managed to push the narrative that Romero was mostly to blame for the fight being garbage, when Adesanya was literally running away.

Just like Romero, Ankalaev is hardly without significant blame himself, but just like Adesanya, Poatan was the primary culprit in that first fight being trash. His output was almost non-existent.

Both Adesanya and Poatan relied on leg kicks for their limited offence, with Poatan being hesitant and Izzy being outright timid.

Ankalaev threw and landed more than double the amount of head and body strikes and yet the only thing mentioned here is the wall n stall.

Oh I agree on all that. Poatan did absolute fuck all in that fight, and deserved to lose. And I say that as a huge fan of his.

He better have a vastly different game plan in this one, or he will lose again.

One being to just actually throw strikes, instead of one leg kick then accepting the clinch.

Props to Ank for making it his type of fight, but I don't think fans of EITHER guy were particularly jumping up and down with excitement on how that first one played out.

 

[Nobru]

I do believe alex will tko ank this time

 

[Alpha_T83]

If Pereira can win this rematch, it will be an incredible feat. Ankalaev is the most complete LHW since Jon Jones. There would be no more excuses of "Pereira was only champ because the UFC gave him an easy path".

Sadly I expect Big Ank to win, but I'll be cheering for Alex.

 

[JBJ was here]

Just needs to work the clinch and getting off the cage. Don't have to worry about takedowns since Jank went 0-13

Forget getting off the cage; Poatan should work on trips in the clinch and G&P/submissions. It won't take much for Poatan to train an advantage over Ankalaev on the ground.

60/40 serious/joking. People radically overestimate Ankalaev's ground game. Most of the joking is just that it would be appropriate for Poatan to work on getting off the cage as well.

 

[2004 account]

Let's pray he fights aggressively this time and KO this boring mfer

This. What a boring mf ank is

 

[Söze Aldo]

Let's pray he fights aggressively this time and KO this boring mfer

It's funny but I'd strongly bet most causal UFC fans don't even realize Ank is a current UFC champion. He's probably as anonymous a champion we've seen in the modern UFC.