Media Chandler avoiding Makhachev

[tehMoose]

Scared of the leg humper?

LOL

 

[Azrael40]

Everyone in Lightweight feared Khabib. Khabib couldn't get a fight for two years until RDA stepped up and welcomed him into a top 10 LW match up. Khabib ragdolled RDA like no one else ever has and afterwards Khabib was ranked finally. After that the top 10 LW had to fight Khabib and one by one he knocked them all down. And every once in a while Tony Ferguson fight would be signed and the two men with the most insane winning records would prepare to fight one another. And the fight never happened. Only Max Holloway on two weeks short notice had the balls to say I want to be the greatest that ever lived I want to fight Khabib.

It is the same with Makhachaev. All fighters see him as high risk/ low reward. None of them want to face him and lose everything they worked so hard to attain. Except for Dan Hooker who said I think I can knock that guy out give him to me. We all see how well that went for him. None of the LW want to face Makhachaev as they know there is a 90% chance he will make them look like amateurs and make them tap easily.

If you are one of the very best in the world and you trained your whole life in striking, grappling, wrestling, jiu jitsu, and a man like Khabib or Makhachaev exists. You know that if you want to be the greatest fighter of your time you will have to face them and beat them. If you dodge them to maintain your aura of winning and accomplishment you are lying to yourself and hiding from the inevitable.

To be the greatest of your time you have to face the most dangerous opposition and come out victorious. Anything else and you were merely a placeholder until the real Champion could arise. Like Conor, Poirier, and Ferguson.

 

[NoBiasJustMMA]

Islam was ranked when chandler came from bellator

No, Islam wasn't top 10 till after Chandler vs Hooker when he beat Dober 3 months later and Gaethje has been ranked over Islam the whole time including now. Choosing to fight higher ranked opponent is just smart. Hooker was ranked over Islam when Chandler fought him and Gaethje is ranked over Islam as well.

 

[humdizzle]

chandler just wants to ufc gold once (probably doesn't care to even defend it) and the easiest path to get there for him is avoiding makhachev.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

It's not a school or prison yard, fighting is their profession. Obviously that requires strategic planning especially when you're in the top 5

 

[Boxingfan998]

This narrative of fighter A being scared of fighter B needs to be dropped. It’s ridiculous. No one who fights for a living is scared of another fighter.

What’s actually happens is people act like divas refusing to fight anyone ranked below them. You see a lot of that in LW and WW. And they tend to avoid fighters with difficult styles like Islam’s. There’s a reason why Nate, Masvidal, Conor, and others complain about “crotch sniffers.” They know they can’t win against dominant wrestlers.

There is a point to be made about being scared. And that is they don't want to fight any fight they might lose. That's actually fear. Fear of losing. It's typical not just with Caucasian wrestlers but any dangerous dude coming up the ranks. They're hedging their bets and trying to stay on top of rankings in safer way.

I hate what can only be called prissiness. Take wonderboy for instance. Dude is getting old and never turned down a fight. Fought Luque and all them sharks coming up. That's a real fighter.

Reality is rankings mean j s to a real fighter. A real fighter fights the dangerous looking fighters. People should be eager to fight Islam to make a name for themselves, only cowards and schemes think otherwise.

 

[TheWave111]

'You come from Bellator. I want to check your skills'.

@Ackmed
Hooker also said that he didn't want to fight Islam when he was ranked lower than him.
But later Hooker choose to fight unranked Haqparast.
All these fighters are full of crap about lower ranked. they are willing to fight cherry picked lower ranked fighters if it suits them.

Chandler is scared.

 

[ryun253]

Only makes sense for Mak to get a title shot for destroying Hooker as well

 

[tasticles]

Accusing someone of being scared because they’re smart with their career choices reeks of immaturity.

It really does. Boxers worth noting have always had good managers who looked out for them giving favorable match ups. Mma is no different. It's hard to get rich off a .50 record unless you're Diaz.

 

[storeybuckle]

Islam and Ali have been saying everyone is scared to fight Islam for years now. Islam hasn’t been ranked almost the entire time until just recently.

Now people are taking fights with him because of his ranking, which is completely normal.

 

[C0NCH3TO]

He isnt afraid but clearly knows that he might lose to a guy that isn’t even well known. Huge risk low reward.

Islam would work Chandler 8/10 times.

 

[Ackmed]

'You come from Bellator. I want to check your skills'.

@Ackmed
Hooker also said that he didn't want to fight Islam when he was ranked lower than him.
But later Hooker choose to fight unranked Haqparast.
All these fighters are full of crap about lower ranked. they are willing to fight cherry picked lower ranked fighters if it suits them.

Chandler is scared.

Chandler's "Islam is ranked too low for me" argument didn't age well

 

[Ackmed]

He isnt afraid but clearly knows that he might lose to a guy that isn’t even well known. Huge risk low reward.

Islam would work Chandler 8/10 times.

Exactly - afraid of losing the fight, no UFC fighter is afraid of having physical pain inflicted on them

This should be a given but shertards still respond hur hur hur he's a cage FigHter hE's NOt afRaid...whenever it's said that so and so Ducked or so and so was afraid

 

[RogerB08]

"I'm #4 so I don't see myself getting a match with a #9".

These guys are so full of themselves and their little numbers/ranking which really means jack S.
If I was in UFC top 10, I'd fight Islam just to make a statement.
Bunch of sissies.

If you're #4, beating #9 does nothing for you. If you lose though your career takes a hit. It's all risk and no reward. Chandler isn't at a stage in his career where he can afford a lot of setbacks en route to a title shot.

 

[clackers]

I don't think anyone is scared of fighting Mak especially Chandler . Makhachev does win his fights but his opponents take very little damage fighting him. They may not want to have fought him previously because it doesn't benefit them in there quest for a title shot.

As his ranking improves I'm sure they will fight him but to say someone is scared of a guy who will basically have a grappling fight and possibly submit you is not true.

Fighting guys like Ngannou, Robbie Lawler in there Prime I could understand as these guys really cause alot of damage to there opponents.

Chandler is figjting Gaethje who kicks like a mule and has fought alot of dangerous guys so I doubt he is actually scared to fight anyone.

 

[Boxingfan998]

If you're #4, beating #9 does nothing for you. If you lose though your career takes a hit. It's all risk and no reward. Chandler isn't at a stage in his career where he can afford a lot of setbacks en route to a title shot.

This is all mental analysis though. In truth, a victory (especially dominant) against Makachev would make Chandler the OG of the division.
Wonderboy did the same, fighting fighters like Luque as they were coming up, or Masvidal in his prime. IMHO this is a clear cut case which separates boys from men.
I understand any fighter "running" from a dangerous lower ranked fighter, but I also immensely respect those that would take the fight.

Also generally speaking, I think there is more true reward than risk in taking dangerous fights.
Mainly that you can't keep running from dangerous fighters. It might make you complacent and thinking you're good when you're not.
Wonderboy is still so good precisely because he fights all the dangerous fights, those up and coming fighters actually made Wonderboy better. Burns, Masvidal, Darren Till, Luque, etc. Meanwhile you have "upper ranked" fighters which actually are losing relevance in terms of skills, and hide behind rankings.

 

[Islam Imamate]

"I'm #4 so I don't see myself getting a match with a #9".

These guys are so full of themselves and their little numbers/ranking which really means jack S.
If I was in UFC top 10, I'd fight Islam just to make a statement.
Bunch of sissies.

These rankings are made by Twitter egg "journalists" who rubber stamp the UFC's rankings, hence why Conor is still a top 10 LW despite being 1-3 in the division and not having won a fight in five years. Can't believe so called "fans" put so much stock in this BS.

If you're #4, beating #9 does nothing for you. If you lose though your career takes a hit. It's all risk and no reward. Chandler isn't at a stage in his career where he can afford a lot of setbacks en route to a title shot.

That's obviously apparent to us but don't you see how, as fans, that doesn't really excite us? I'm not gonna get hyped for a guy who jealously guards his ranking and only takes fights that has reward with no risk. Islam's last four fights have been guys that are all risk, no reward for him as evidenced by guys like you dismissing those wins as being over "unranked" guys. Did he turn them down? No, he took them and dominated them. That's the kind of fighter I want to see, someone who takes fights, wins impressively, and keeps marching forward instead of sitting on the sidelines angling for "money fights" or guys higher ranked than them.

 

[Ackmed]

Scared of the leg humper?

LOL

Yup u know more than other LW fighters, timestamped:

 

[Paolo Delutis]

I never seen someone more scared to fight a fellow fighter.



Every excuse under Gods green earth

Creative post....
.in sense u took everything out of context ...

Thats an old Chandler interview ...
Chandler has Gaithje to deal with and then he'll face islam...Chandler took the long round to the UFC hes not gunna duck people

 

[Boxingfan998]

These rankings are made by Twitter egg "journalists" who rubber stamp the UFC's rankings, hence why Conor is still a top 10 LW despite being 1-3 in the division and not having won a fight in five years. Can't believe so called "fans" put so much stock in this BS.

That's obviously apparent to us but don't you see how, as fans, that doesn't really excite us? I'm not gonna get hyped for a guy who jealously guards his ranking and only takes fights that has reward with no risk. Islam's last four fights have been guys that are all risk, no reward for him as evidenced by guys like you dismissing those wins as being over "unranked" guys. Did he turn them down? No, he took them and dominated them. That's the kind of fighter I want to see, someone who takes fights, wins impressively, and keeps marching forward instead of sitting on the sidelines angling for "money fights" or guys higher ranked than them.

It's precisely because Khabib, Islam, etc take fights, that they are legends which are respected, even by people who do not agree with other parts of their personality.
In a warrior's game, one respects a true warrior. Meanwhile the respect people have for people like Conor, Edwards, etc has gone down drastically.