Scouting Report: Amir Albazi

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Amir Albazi
Born: Oct. 27, 1993 (Age: 29) in Baghdad
Division: Flyweight
Height: 5’5”
Reach: 68”
Record: 16-1 (4-0 UFC)
Association: Xtreme Couture
Stage of Career: Prime

Summary: Albazi is an outstanding grappler who has developed competent standup, with no clear weaknesses that are simple to exploit. In terms of his grappling, he is remarkably well-rounded. He has effective takedowns, damaging ground-and-pound, excellent submissions and decent top control. While no one element is overwhelming, the complete package is difficult to deal with, especially since he has the impressive cardio to threaten with it for all three rounds. Many opponents wind up getting submitted or lose decisions off the strength of his grappling alone. However, Albazi has a solid striking game, too, relying primarily on the jab, cross and leg kick, which are all fairly decent. His left hook and overhand right are poor, but he does have one truly scary weapon in his right uppercut—a technical, accurate and powerful punch he used to knock out Alessandro Costa. His strongest attribute in the standup department can be found on the defensive side, especially his fine sense of distance and well-timed retreats, which make it difficult to clearly outstrike Albazi. Additionally, he has shown plenty of intelligence in his fights, making smart decisions about when to strike and grapple while displaying steady progression over his outings. A number of elements to his game improved in his most recent assignment.



STRIKING
• Stance: Orthodox.
• Hand Speed: Average.
• Jab: Straight, and he doubles up on it nicely. However, it either has fine speed and is a little light or else carries impact but is a little slow.
• Cross: Straight and technical enough, but it is telegraphed. With that said, it comes with some power now and resulted in a flash knockdown of Costa.
• Left Hook: It has a solid arc and is reasonably accurate but sorely lacks rotation and thus has little power to it. He can be countered off of it, too.
• Overhand Right: Awkward, technically flawed blow that often lands with the side of his hand.
• Uppercuts: Lethal from the right side and by far his best punch. It is a technical, accurate shot with some power.
• Solitary Striker or Volume Puncher: Mostly throws a punch at a time, with the occasional two-punch volley.
• Favorite Combination(s): Has not yet showed a preference, but he floored Costa with a two-one.
• Leg Kicks: Solid, hard and technical enough.
• Body Kicks: Fairly accurate but lack power.
• Head Kicks: Does not throw them.
• Chains Kicks to Punches: He has paired a body kick with punches before, though it lacked power.

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