Are we not gonna talk about how good Adesanya looked?

[Dorkman]

He put up a pretty great fight. Just hard to stop that never ending pressure Dricus puts on you. Like waves on a beach, just wears on you.

 

[bng]

adesanya looked very good, great striking, cardio, couter-strikes, grappling, ground game, full top pack
he was leading 3-0 on Howie Booth's scorecards until fluke submission
instant rematch and the trilogy, dana pls

#freeIsrael

 

[Egészségére!]

Tell that to Napoleon, Rommel, the Confederates, the 48 Hungarians...

 

[AstralPanda]

Izzy actually looked reasonably fast and crisp in the first 3 rounds. He began to fade badly around the time he got choked; he had very little gas in the tank, and not enough to fight off the choke like he had earlier in the fight.

So yeah, I think he has decompensated with age. He would hold guys off in the later rounds of his other fights without running out of gas.

Decompensated?

 

[acannxr]

I wanted DDP to win, but I thought Adesanya looked great. Judges had it 2 - 1 DDP but Adesanya was leading in significant strikes and im sure lots of people had it 2 - 1 the other way. He was landing and drawing big reactions from DPP too. The Adesanya I saw yesterday probably runs through most of the top 10 without too much trouble. He is 35 but could probably fight another couple of years at 185 and extend his career a few more years by moving up.

DDP was gassed after two rounds; Adesanya's speed/reflexes looked slower compared to his last fight but it was enough for him to start taking over the fight in the third till he got submitted.

This fight was one of those occasions where I wasn't impressed by either fighter.