Didn’t catch the Adesanya fight, can someone fill me in?

[YoudBeSurprised]

Can someone give me an unbiased, non-shertarded view on the fight? Im excited to see Israel move up the ranks, but I want to know everyone’s opinion on how he’d do after last nights fight.

 

[drbolony]

He's the future of middleweight. Nuff said. Made Brad look like a debut fighter.

 

[TemDee]

Incredible striking, great poise, questionable decisions when scrambling.

Give him the right matchmaking and he starches most of the top 185 guys.

 

[maxi diablo]

Adesanyais a great alternate to Wonderboy. Great striking and not afraid to get hit.

 

[xMaxPower]

Can someone give me an unbiased, non-shertarded view on the fight? Im excited to see Israel move up the ranks, but I want to know everyone’s opinion on how he’d do after last nights fight.

he picked him apart with his reach

 

[Soul On Ice]

Bradley was outclassed but his toughness got him to the final bell
HypeTrain's TDD has significantly improved in a short amount of time.

 

[YoudBeSurprised]

Adesanyais a great alternate to Wonderboy. Great striking and not afraid to get hit.

He’s certainly more palatable than Wonderboy to casual fans lol.

 

[Workaholic]

Absolutely dominated in every way except getting the finish

 

[Ares Black]

Extremely impressive performance. Made Tavares look bad.

His takedown defense was great. Dominated.

 

[JayPettryMMA]

I think you'd be surprised.

Adesanya stuffed 11 of Tavares's 12 takedown attempts.
Adesanya outstruck him in all five rounds, landing 119 significant strikes to Tavares's 40.
Adesanya's significant strike accuracy percentage was 55%, compared to Tavares at 22%.
Adesanya even attempted a submission.

http://fightmetric.com/fight-details/247f9e56965a1c07

 

[xhaydenx]

Incredible striking, great poise, questionable decisions when scrambling.

Give him the right matchmaking and he starches most of the top 185 guys.

He couldn't 'starch' Vettori or Tavares, but he's going to run through most of MW?

I like Tavares, but people seem to be forgetting that he's never been some elite beast at MW.

 

[RogerD]

Awesome fighter to watch, very fun. Smoooooth and bit showboaty. Think of it like a mix of Jon Jones, Michael Venom Page and Anderson Silva. It was my first time watching him- he just broke into top 10.

Really sad Machida is at Bellator now, I was thinking of that fight nexy for Israel till I realized it cant happen.

 

[YoudBeSurprised]

Bradley was outclassed but his toughness got him to the final bell
HypeTrain's TDD has significantly improved in a short amount of time.

Do you still think its all hype even after that performance?

 

[lepsahekim]

He won, other guy lost. Go buy fight pass or read the front page

 

[YoudBeSurprised]

He couldn't 'starch' Vettori or Tavares, but he's going to run through most of MW?

I like Tavares, but people seem to be forgetting that he's never been some elite beast at MW.

He’s a good measuring stick for up an comers though. He’s been around and fought top guys.

 

[King in the North]

He did about as good as he could do against a guy like Tavares. Brad isn’t exactly an elite wrestler, but the TDD and ground control of Israel were better than expected.

On the flip side he did seem to make some questionable decisions when Tavares was hurt and during some of the scrambles. I thought he was a bit reckless on the inside against Tavares, and he ate more than one big shot for it, but his clinch game was deadly.

Hype warranted, at least for the time being.

 

[YoudBeSurprised]

He won, other guy lost. Go buy fight pass or read the front page

Yeah I could but i also wanted everyones opinion. No need to be an asshole.

 

[Soul On Ice]

Do you still think its all hype even after that performance?

No, I never thought that
I'm captain of the Stylebender hypetrain

 

[surgeyou1]

Superb diverse striking. Not much natural power but is highly patient and accurate.

Solid TDD fundamentals and active and creative in scrambling positions.

Sky's the limit if he stays focused and doesn't get too crazy with the showbaoting.

 

[Dogo1]

He looked great but seems to have no power. He hit Taveres with a pile of clean shots, punches, elbows, knees, headkicks - Taveres never seemed to be in serious trouble.