Alex has been protected by the UFC

[Bearknuckle]

If you look at basically his entire UFC career, the UFC was building a star. He has fought only strikers,

Jiri
Hill
Rountree
Izzy
Izzy
Blachowicz

The only well rounded fighter he fought in that run was a 41 yr old Jan and it went to a split decision with many thinking Jan won.

Once he faced a real master of sport in combat sambo he lost.

The UFC proves once again it doesn’t need the best fighter to be at the top, just the most marketable one. They made alex seem like some goat, even rogan was saying he may not only be the best fighter in the UFC, but the best of all time lolol.

 

[chinarice]

Damn dude, you know what, i never thought about that and never posted that like 10 times over the past 2 years....

 

[Armyhawk]

No! Im ready for the threads asking Is Ankalaev already the goat??!?!

 

[Marko Polo]

His opponents have a combined record of 70-20 or something. He’s officially fought the best competition at LHW as per the stats. Delete this nonsense.

 

[J'Ghasta]

Yeah he was largely a UFC marketing/matchmaking creation that bought into his own hype. Rogan is notorious for gassing fighters up and getting them killed. See "once-ever fighter" Rousey. Jan definitely won btw.

 

[McSpikes]

Not like there's a huge array of grapplers in MW and LHW at the moment....

 

[Arne Rud]

Haha protected? Ank could not take Alex down one time. Ank did not beat the champ

 

[moosaev]

If you look at basically his entire UFC career, the UFC was building a star. He has fought only strikers,

Jiri
Hill
Rountree
Izzy
Izzy
Blachowicz

The only well rounded fighter he fought in that run was a 41 yr old Jan and it went to a split decision with many thinking Jan won.

Once he faced a real master of sport in combat sambo he lost.

The UFC proves once again it doesn’t need the best fighter to be at the top, just the most marketable one. They made alex seem like some goat, even rogan was saying he may not only be the best fighter in the UFC, but the best of all time lolol.

I was called a hater for saying that Alex was gifted title shots and his career is stage managed lol. It’s the plain truth.

 

[Haj01]

There may be some element of that. But I don't think it's like a big conspiracy to protect the guy. I just think the division is watered down to compared to what it used to be.

There haven't been that many great wrestlers in the top 10 for him to face. They are all strikers.

I think he just happened to come into division at a good time for his skillset. If guys like Jones or Cormier we're still in the division it would be a different story. Alex fought the last 2 LHW champions who are more striking based.

The new champ i don't know how to spell his name sorry because I never watched any of his fights till last night. But he still had contenders to beat to earn the titleshot. Well now he did that and had his opportunity.

So it's always only a matter of time before a fighter gets "exposed." Having said that it was not a complete domination. Alex did well to defend against the takedown. He could win a rematch using a different strategy. Some of the rounds were close.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Fathers plan was nullified so he resorted to Merab’s plan

 

[Kevster]

Well tbf, the only reason Ank wasn’t on that list, was Ank.

 

[Clark Rogers]

The UFC proves once again it doesn’t need the best fighter to be at the top, just the most marketable one. They made alex seem like some goat, even rogan was saying he may not only be the best fighter in the UFC, but the best of all time lolol.

Fans are just as much to blame for his hype as the UFC. hyperbole and reality are often not aligned, but a lot can't recognize that until it's made quite obvious.

 

[Bearknuckle]

Haha protected? Ank could not take Alex down one time. Ank did not beat the champ

If Ank did not beat the champ, than alex sure as hell didn’t beat Jan.

 

[Lepo Lepo]

Thank god he was, because that fight last night was boring as shit.

 

[Bearknuckle]

There may be some element of that. But I don't think it's like a big conspiracy to protect the guy. I just think the division is watered down to compared to what it used to be.

There haven't been that many great wrestlers in the top 10 for him to face. They are all strikers.

I think he just happened to come into division at a good time for his skillset. If guys like Jones or Cormier we're still in the division it would be a different story. Alex fought the last 2 LHW champions who are more striking based.

The new champ i don't know how to spell his name sorry because I never watched any of his fights till last night. But he still had contenders to beat to earn the titleshot. Well now he did that and had his opportunity.

So it's always only a matter of time before a fighter gets "exposed." Having said that it was not a complete domination. Alex did well to defend against the takedown. He could win a rematch using a different strategy. Some of the rounds were close.

The problem is, he did defend the takedown, and still got beat and outstruck at his own game.

 

[Prince Nephilim]

All killers…and he put away most of these guys who are also known to put away people

 

[Doctor Grudge]

He's been protected by beating the best guys in the 205 division? Who should he have fought?

Notice how the goalpost is shifting. The argument was that Alex would get easily beaten by wrestling, but that didn't happen at all. Not only did Ank not win easily, but he sure as heck didn't beat his ass on the ground. He had one round where he had a lot of success with wrestling.

 

[LeBron]

No he wasn’t. He just ran into The Dagastani Care Bear that loves to fucking hug you.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Welcome TS. How does it feel to be alive?

 

[Pequeño Corey]

He's been protected by beating the best guys in the 205 division? Who should he have fought?

Notice how the goalpost is shifting. The argument was that Alex would get easily beaten by wrestling, but that didn't happen at all. Not only did Ank not win easily, but he sure as heck didn't beat his ass on the ground. He had one round where he had a lot of success with wrestling.

This isn’t all the win that Alex haters were hoping for.