Media Ankalaev Instagram story shows bro is definitely planning to wrestle😂

[HHJ]

Craig-That late sub when all he had to do was hold position for a dominant decision.

When people say this, you can kind of disregard their opinion on fighting lol

Did GSP have poor fight IQ when he tapped against Hughes?

 

[volcom5]

You can say that Pereira is favored in the stand up and I wouldn’t disagree, but to say Ank has “no shot” is absurd. Jiri was hitting Alex CLEAN in their first fight and had him hurt several times, Ank is not as powerful as Jiri but he’s faster and has better eyes. Make no mistake, he CAN hurt Pereira on the feet and possibly even KO him. Alex doesn’t have an iron chin. Another thing to consider is that Alex will be worried about take downs so his striking defense won’t be as sharp and also compromises Alex’s kicking game somewhat.

I don’t know about hurt several times, that is a little over exaggerated I just watched the fight first fight. The first round, Jiri was pushing the pace but the leg kicks forced Jiri to go for the TD which held Pereira down until the last 30 seconds and he landed a “uppercut.” According to Anik, which didn’t look to significant imo. Jiri shots were mainly glancing and Pereira rolled with them.

The 2nd round, only time Jiri had success in striking or “hurt Pereira several times” was when he got wild at 2:55 only to and forced a clinch on the fence until then separated a few seconds later, then he Jiri landed another right hand at 1:05 that led to Jiri to over commit and got hit with the left hook.

Your definition of had him hurt was more of Pereira trying to circle out of Jiri’s aggressive wild striking. Overall Periera landed the cleaner shots but Jiri did land strikes. Adesanya had Pereira hurt at the end of the first, that was hurt. What Pereira was against Jiri was him just trying to circle out.

Can Ankalaev win by KO, sure. At the heavier weights everyone carries power, the striking isn’t close imo & Ankalaevs wrestling is overrated on this site.

 

[moosaev]

I don’t know about hurt several times, that is a little over exaggerated I just watched the fight first fight. The first round, Jiri was pushing the pace but the leg kicks forced Jiri to go for the TD which held Pereira down until the last 30 seconds and he landed a “uppercut.” According to Anik, which didn’t look to significant imo. Jiri shots were mainly glancing and Pereira rolled with them.

The 2nd round, only time Jiri had success in striking or “hurt Pereira several times” was when he got wild at 2:55 only to and forced a clinch on the fence until then separated a few seconds later, then he Jiri landed another right hand at 1:05 that led to Jiri to over commit and got hit with the left hook.

Your definition of had him hurt was more of Pereira trying to circle out of Jiri’s aggressive wild striking. Overall Periera landed the cleaner shots but Jiri did land strikes. Adesanya had Pereira hurt at the end of the first, that was hurt. What Pereira was against Jiri was him just trying to circle out.

Can Ankalaev win by KO, sure. At the heavier weights everyone carries power, the striking isn’t close imo & Ankalaevs wrestling is overrated on this site.

You can say Pereira has the striking advantage and i wouldn't disagree, my only contention is with the claim that Ank has "no shot" in striking. I think thats pretty dumb considering that Alex has been KO'd by Adesanya, and he's been tagged by fighters with worse striking than Ank.

 

[Lee Danger]

Watch Ank wrestle-fuck Poatan and then we hear the endless crying about "he said he wouldn't wrestle on Instagram!" from all the sad fanboys.

 

[Tayski]

He has no chance striking with Peireira, of course he needs to use his wrestling. Otherwise what's the point?

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

Good…

If he wasn’t planning on using his grappling, then it would probably be a pretty short night for him….

I still think he loses though, wrestling or not…

 

[maximus__]

When people say this, you can kind of disregard their opinion on fighting lol

Did GSP have poor fight IQ when he tapped against Hughes?

No it has nothing to do with the timing of it. A fighter has no way to know.

GSP vs Hughes 1 had a submission created by Matt Hughes. He landed a takedown on GSP who was outstriking him on the feet. Hughes made an adjustment, took the fight to his strongest area and then landed offence that opened up that sub, with no option to defend.



Ank on the other hand was beating Craig everywhere including the ground because he wasn't hanging out in guard and took dominant positions to attack. He turned his other arm away and punched himself into a triangle for the finish. He chose to put himself there in a fight he was comfortably winning and would have won. His finish was avoidable. Craig basically fell to the ground and Ank put himself there.

 

[Conan the K-9]

Chama is preparing for wrestling shoe

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

I don’t get it - I’m scared Ank is going to lose is what you surmised from my post? Interesting….

I just think it’d be funny if he wrestled to win and it upset the Poatan fanboys because Ali runs his twitter.