Marvin Vettori: Adesanya is ‘pretty useless’ once on the mat.

[B-Level]

“With Jan, the last time he got taken down, he kind of quit,” Vettori said. “He was just laying there. Adesanya, when it comes to the middle of the cage, when he’s taken down in the middle of the cage and he doesn’t have the cage, he’s pretty useless on the floor to be honest. Kevin Holland is a better jiu-jitsu player than Adesanya for sure. Even when Adesanya said, and I made fun of it because even after the Blachowicz fight he was like, ‘I was trying to go for deep half.’

“I’m like, what the f**k are you talking about. There was no attempt to go to deep half. That shows you don’t know what deep half is, and I know exactly what deep half is, because I’ve been training with (Fabricio) Werdum. I actually used deep half in my Roberson fight. I used it successfully. His game and the way he fights, because he scrambles hard the moment you try to take him down next to the cage, but yeah definitely when he’s down, he’s pretty useless to be honest.”


Vettori is pretty spot on here. His lack of ability to defend TDs or stand up in the final 3 rounds of the Jan fight was foreshadowing what’s to come with this fight. Plus the fact that Vettori already knows he can take him down and control him like round 3 of their first fight, when Marvin was only 24 years old and very green. We are going to have a new MW champion on June 12th. Marvin wins a UD 48-47 or possibly 49-46.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mmajun...calls-israel-adesanya-useless-ground-game/amp

 

[Iron Nick]

Jan is a significantly bigger and better fighter than Vettori.

Izzy's TDD is damn good and his BJJ solid.

 

[charalsias]

Well get home there...

 

[Beeruz]

Your stand-up is useless

 

[Herwald]

Jan is a significantly bigger and better fighter than Vettori.

Izzy's TDD is damn good and his BJJ solid.

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/compilation-of-fighters-cage-weight-redux.3977251/

Vet is only behind Costa and above Homero for biggest weight cutter at MW. Shorter and less rangy than Blach, of course, but the amount of meat on them + sheer strength might be close.

 

[13Seconds]

Vettori is not wrong but good luck getting it there

 

[Iron Nick]

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/compilation-of-fighters-cage-weight-redux.3977251/

Vet is only behind Costa and above Homero for biggest weight cutter at MW. Shorter and less rangy than Blach, of course, but the amount of meat on them might be close.

Vettori weighed in as heavy as 211 pounds and Blachowicz i assume is probably around 225, if not higher.

Considering both are about the same body fat percentage, that makes Jan about 10-15+ pounds of pure lean mass heavier, which is quite a bit.

Also, Blachowicz has significantly better stand up and just like wrestling helps with striking, the opposite is true too.

I just think the overall narrative some people cling to about Izzy having allegedly been exposed by Jan is ridiculous.
Striker goes up a weightclass and fights a superior grappler who has 20 if not more pounds on him and doesn't defend all takedowns/gets held down for a while...

I mean in other news water is wet, you know what i mean?

 

[Apollo33]

Vettori weighed in as heavy as 211 pounds and Blachowicz i assume is probably around 225, if not higher.

Considering both are about the same body fat percentage, that makes Jan about 10-15+ pounds of pure lean mass heavier, which is quite a bit.

Also, Blachowicz has significantly better stand up and just like wrestling helps with striking, the opposite is true too.

I just think the overall narrative some people cling to about Izzy having allegedly been exposed by Jan is ridiculous.
Striker goes up a weightclass and fights a superior grappler who has 20 if not more pounds on him and doesn't defend all takedowns/gets held down for a while...

I mean in other news water is wet, you know what i mean?

While Balchowicz is most likely bigger than Vettori. Vettori is probably the better grappler between the two.

I think if Vettori were to fight Izzy again, it would be a grind fest for sure

 

[Substance Abuse]

At 185, Izzy's TDD is stellar and proven. Jan is much bigger than Vettori and has better timing and striking defense which helped him immensely against Adesanya. If Martin thinks he's going to take Izzy down as effortlessly as he did Holland he is going to be in for a rude awakening.

 

[Joseph Alfano]

Even against the cage Vettori can pull off those direction change takedowns (dont know the technical term) and rip Izzy off the cage he might find success there too.

Im rooting for Marvin but dont think itll be an easy fight

 

[Phisher]

Vettori is not wrong but good luck getting it there

He is wrong. Adesanya was able to scramble off of his back in the fifth round against Kevlin.

Jan outweighed him by 25 lbs and is a long time BJJ black belt.

 

[King in the North]

Really hope Adesanya starches this orc and sends him back to Mordor.

 

[Slatersan]

Izzy definitely doesn’t have good bjj. He is a new purple belt and probably is barely that level. I’d be surprised if he could even place at a high level blue belt tournament like the worlds.

 

[Final Say]

Your stand-up is useless

You know that was a split decision right? Vettori gave him everything he could handle in that fight

 

[Beeruz]

You know that was a split decision right? Vettori gave him everything he could handle in that fight

No gastelum did, Vettori was easy win.

 

[Raymundo Alvarado Guevara]

It will be and excellent fight right now

 

[Final Say]

No gastelum did, Vittoria was easy win.

Easy win, but one judge scored it for vettori and the other two had it 2-1 for Israel...

 

[Conor_Is_Overrated]

It's an intriguing fight.
Izzy is the favorite.
Vettori is a live dog though.

 

[Substance Abuse]

Easy win, but one judge scored it for vettori and the other two had it 2-1 for Israel...

Shouldn't have been a split. It was a clear 29-28. Number of rounds were close because there was only three of them, lol.

 

[Beeruz]

Easy win, but one judge scored it for vettori and the other two had it 2-1 for Israel...

One judge gave canelo over Mayweather... Normal in judging.