Can your eyes recognize that these three shots all landed?

mxer31 said:
ya then he can fight at 195. great idea!!
Click to expand...

My man Silva isn't a big guy in his latest years he is under 200.

And Israel clearly looked skinnier then him I don't think he cuts a lot.
 
JustKen said:
Buddy I think you're keeping up with sherdog a little too much. Referencing other threads and making a thread bc of it?
Click to expand...

Oh shit, that's a greeeeeeeeat point buddy, instead of coming up with this thread which takes a fresh angle I should just have made the 783,982,157,233rd thread about who is the GOAT or the 882,437,903,335th thread about whatever Conor just posted on Instagram.

Really good call bro.

Really good call.

giphy.gif
 
Israel looked shook af after throwing those shots. Almost like he expected to get clocked after the last one. I think Andy could have idk why he didnt.
 
Anderson wasn't trying.

Isreal got lucky.

Would have gotten him in his prime.
 
Rum said:
In several threads this gif has been posted with comments/titles suggesting the three strikes missed ("OMG, ANDY IN MATRIX MODE AGAIN!!!"), when in reality all three of them landed.

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...o-the-matrix-at-one-point-last-night.3909485/

It's in danger of becoming Sherdog's version of the "Yanny or Laurel?" or "Is this dress blue or gold?" memes of recent times.

ClosedPeskyFrenchbulldog-small.gif


It's understandable some have become overexcited at this gif, because if you just glance at the sequence (while wearing rose-coloured glasses) it looks like Andy eluded each of the three punches.
  1. The jab connecting is somewhat difficult to clock, since Andy rolls with it fairly well, but once you know what you're looking at you can clearly see it connect with Andy's right eyebrow and knock his head back as Andy's stepping forward.
  2. The easiest one to clock is the right cross, which, although glancing, clearly knocks Andy's head back to the left (with a slight rotation) as Andy begins to bring it forward again after the first strike knocked him back. The illusion is that Andy jerked his head back to make it miss. The truth is what jerked his head was the strike hitting it. Again though, Andy does see it coming and rolls with it, taking some of the sting out of the glancing shot.
  3. The third strike looks to the uninitiated like a double-pumped second cross that whiffs past Andy's ear, when in fact anyone who understands the game can clearly see it's a backfist that connects with Andy's ear. Contrary to this being a "Matrix-like" move, Andy actually moves his head into this shot rather than eludes it. Fortunately there's no juice on the backfist, and Andy lives to fight another day.
Obviously, even though he did get hit a bunch in every round by Izzy, this is still an impressive performance from Andy. He still dealt with Adesanya's striking better than any UFC opponent yet, and did an amazing job to reach the end of the 3rd at 43, after his extended break, against the craftiest striker in the division. It's just that it's not the Old Skool Matrix Andy some Shergoofs are fooling themselves into believing it was.

Or if it was, then Izzy is in the Matrix too, because he hit Andy with each of these 3 shots.

<BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1>
Click to expand...
He dodged them all,

You mad bro?
 
It's pretty obvious they all landed. Anderson was just standing there eating shots all fight. Why is this a thread?
 
Bumblebeef said:
there is a moment at the end of the gif where silva could have landed a very good right hand to the head of adesanya.

probably a prime anderson would have been able to react to this kind of situation.
Click to expand...

At the end of the sequence you actually see Adesanya paw out his left just in case he has to defend exactly that counter strike from Andy.
 
If you gonna say those punches landed then you have to give props to the WWE guys for landing 100% of their punches.
 
Rum said:
In several threads this gif has been posted with comments/titles suggesting the three strikes missed ("OMG, ANDY IN MATRIX MODE AGAIN!!!"), when in reality all three of them landed.

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...o-the-matrix-at-one-point-last-night.3909485/

It's in danger of becoming Sherdog's version of the "Yanny or Laurel?" or "Is this dress blue or gold?" memes of recent times.

ClosedPeskyFrenchbulldog-small.gif


It's understandable some have become overexcited at this gif, because if you just glance at the sequence (while wearing rose-coloured glasses) it looks like Andy eluded each of the three punches.
  1. The jab connecting is somewhat difficult to clock, since Andy rolls with it fairly well, but once you know what you're looking at you can clearly see it connect with Andy's right eyebrow and knock his head back as Andy's stepping forward.
  2. The easiest one to clock is the right cross, which, although glancing, clearly knocks Andy's head back to the left (with a slight rotation) as Andy begins to bring it forward again after the first strike knocked him back. The illusion is that Andy jerked his head back to make it miss. The truth is what jerked his head was the strike hitting it. Again though, Andy does see it coming and rolls with it, taking some of the sting out of the glancing shot.
  3. The third strike looks to the uninitiated like a double-pumped second cross that whiffs past Andy's ear, when in fact anyone who understands the game can clearly see it's a backfist that connects with Andy's ear. Contrary to this being a "Matrix-like" move, Andy actually moves his head into this shot rather than eludes it. Fortunately there's no juice on the backfist, and Andy lives to fight another day.
Obviously, even though he did get hit a bunch in every round by Izzy, this is still an impressive performance from Andy. He still dealt with Adesanya's striking better than any UFC opponent yet, and did an amazing job to reach the end of the 3rd at 43, after his extended break, against the craftiest striker in the division. It's just that it's not the Old Skool Matrix Andy some Shergoofs are fooling themselves into believing it was.

Or if it was, then Izzy is in the Matrix too, because he hit Andy with each of these 3 shots.

<BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1>
Click to expand...


And yet....there was no ko.
3 punches and....he stands with his hands by his side?
thats some diaz pillow punches stuff.
 
Rum said:
In several threads this gif has been posted with comments/titles suggesting the three strikes missed ("OMG, ANDY IN MATRIX MODE AGAIN!!!"), when in reality all three of them landed.

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...o-the-matrix-at-one-point-last-night.3909485/

It's in danger of becoming Sherdog's version of the "Yanny or Laurel?" or "Is this dress blue or gold?" memes of recent times.

ClosedPeskyFrenchbulldog-small.gif


It's understandable some have become overexcited at this gif, because if you just glance at the sequence (while wearing rose-coloured glasses) it looks like Andy eluded each of the three punches.
  1. The jab connecting is somewhat difficult to clock, since Andy rolls with it fairly well, but once you know what you're looking at you can clearly see it connect with Andy's right eyebrow and knock his head back as Andy's stepping forward.
  2. The easiest one to clock is the right cross, which, although glancing, clearly knocks Andy's head back to the left (with a slight rotation) as Andy begins to bring it forward again after the first strike knocked him back. The illusion is that Andy jerked his head back to make it miss. The truth is what jerked his head was the strike hitting it. Again though, Andy does see it coming and rolls with it, taking some of the sting out of the glancing shot.
  3. The third strike looks to the uninitiated like a double-pumped second cross that whiffs past Andy's ear, when in fact anyone who understands the game can clearly see it's a backfist that connects with Andy's ear. Contrary to this being a "Matrix-like" move, Andy actually moves his head into this shot rather than eludes it. Fortunately there's no juice on the backfist, and Andy lives to fight another day.
Obviously, even though he did get hit a bunch in every round by Izzy, this is still an impressive performance from Andy. He still dealt with Adesanya's striking better than any UFC opponent yet, and did an amazing job to reach the end of the 3rd at 43, after his extended break, against the craftiest striker in the division. It's just that it's not the Old Skool Matrix Andy some Shergoofs are fooling themselves into believing it was.

Or if it was, then Izzy is in the Matrix too, because he hit Andy with each of these 3 shots.

<BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1><BC1>
Click to expand...
tenor.gif
 
Anderson in his prime also got hit slipping.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
1,237,053
Messages
55,463,960
Members
174,785
Latest member
JoyceOuthw

Share this page

Back
Top