Are Holloway, O'Malley and Petr Yan in the same striking level?

[TriangleMonkey]

 

[DanDragon Machi]

Order aside, yes they are all on the same level. I agree with the others that O'malley is the least proven but he has performed well against the best so far - outstruck Yan, KO'd Sterling, masterclass against Chito.

I don't think Sean outstruck Yan

 

[Neck&Neck]

Max’s striking isn’t that great from a technical standpoint

 

[fortheo]

ummmm I don't think it's all that absurd. I dont exactly agree but I see the argument. How good are max's kicks? are they better than seans? With all 4 limbs taken into account who has a deeper bag of tricks? Are we talking about their bag of tricks, or are we talking about effectiveness against top flight competition? (in which case "skills" wouldn't matter"

Recall that Max lost to volk in a fight that was pretty much striking only 3 times. Sean only lost Merab because of grappling, And the next best striker in the division (who I'd like to think is petr yan) lost to O'malley.

There are a lot of ways to look at this arguement.

Max has great kicks. I've seen him hurt guys numerous times with them like cub, pettis, gaethje, volk, bermudez etc etc. I can only recall o'malley winding merab with a push kick, and that's about it.

 

[DanDragon Machi]

Max is a great kicker

 

[markantony20]

O’Malley has the most diversity in his striking of the 3 he mixes his kicks and punches more.

Yan uses his boxing to clinch and wrestle more.

Holloway has the best hands in terms of just pure boxing even though I think Yan is a bit more technical from a pure boxers perspective and his boxing defence is very good.