How does Marvin Vettori have no power?

[Sean Chowdhury]

Lol aljo and movsar are half Vettori’s size. They’re pretty shredded, but midgets in comparison.

For their weight class they are very muscled and don't hit hard so similar comparison to vettori

 

[sph1nx]

Do Italians famously lack power?

As far as I remember, the only Italians in the UFC have been Sakara and Di Chirico, and Marvin was the only one to fight for a title.

Anyway, two things:

1. Marvin is an idiot because after two years of inactivity—coming off a one-sided beating from Cannonier and shoulder surgery—he decides to take a five-round fight against Dolidze.
2. He’s even dumber because he got to a title shot with solid wrestling, which he has completely abandoned. Instead of pretending to be a Muay Thai striker—when he’s never had real power—if he had mixed in that decent wrestling with his good cardio, he could have been a middleweight version of Merab Dvalishvili.

 

[AMAZINGUFC]

Has anyone else built like Vettori ever completely lacked power like him? It’s like he has the opposite of Anthony Johnson’s DNA.

He is a lettuce man and he wanted to make the United States one giant lettuce plantation.

 

[Ube]

Not Rocky Marciano.

He had power, but I don’t know, he must have had some tough fucking opponents to be able to take his shots in all those wars he had.

 

[Ube]

Rocky Balboa

No way, took him forever to take out his opponents.

 

[BEATDOWNS]

pillowfisted with zero killer instinct cant wait until he's gone.

 

[MotorCityCobra]

Ditto what everyone said about chin.

Marvin Vettori, Marvin Hagler... might be something there... (ignore Marvin eastman)

 

[OldNick]

Alessio Sakara is an Italian KO artist for those who forgot.

 

[Trabaho]

I was just being an asshole. But aside from the gold medal sprinter who’s part black or something, I can’t really think of an Italian power athlete or athlete that had notable “power.” Maybe in soccer? I don’t know.

Italians let me know brah.

They are elite in soccer, which is the most poplar sport in the world.

 

[Fahcough]

I quit watching him years ago. 15-25 minutes of nothing. Like a big Sean Sherk.

 

[Goldentrophy]

That’s different because they aren’t jacked white boy brawlers. Those guys are all pure grapplers

Tito Ortiz and maybe Forrest Griffin?

 

[Skarsgard]

Just not a ton of rotational power.

 

[Qays Stetkevich]

pillowfisted with zero killer instinct cant wait until he's gone.

He's a pretty much guaranteed snooze-fest, agreed. Probably the most prominent current one in the UFC.

 

[Vampire life]

He’s Italian. They’re good with marble though.

Rocky marciano
Rocky Groaziano
Rocky Balboa
Vinny Panerarell
Want me to keep going ?

 

[mkt]

Palhares and Jeff Monson also come to mind. Both built like fireplugs, juiced (Monson admitted it & Palhares failed a test) but not power punchers at all. Palhares didn't have a single KO/TKO win. Monson had 5 TKOs in 61 fights but I'm guessing most were ground n' pound.

Monson was built similarly to Igor Vovchanchyn but their styles and punching power were worlds apart.

Hector Lombard was built a lot like Palhares but he hit hard. In fact, he flatlined Palhares with a punch when they fought.

 

[TR1]

Alessio Sakara is an Italian KO artist for those who forgot.

Had the punching power but no chin.

The inverse of Vettori.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

None of you in this thread have trained.... its not strength.... its precision and fast twitch reactions

 

[RichardHarrow]

Do Italians famously lack power?

Italians of yesteryear that everyone is citing were tough. But so was everyone during that time.

Italians today are the Olive Garden versions of themselves.

Paulie Malignaggi
Joe Calzaghe
Enzo Maccarinelli

Were the only boxers of modern times and all three couldn’t punch their way out of a plastic bag.

Very much like their soccer they play technically and don’t focus on power.

 

[DrRodentia]

No way, took him forever to take out his opponents.

True. Most of his KO's came pretty late and only after landing 100's of full on undefended absolute bombs.

 

[DrRodentia]

Palhares and Jeff Monson also come to mind. Both built like fireplugs, juiced (Monson admitted it & Palhares failed a test) but not power punchers at all. Palhares didn't have a single KO/TKO win. Monson had 5 TKOs in 61 fights but I'm guessing most were ground n' pound.

Monson was built similarly to Igor Vovchanchyn but their styles and punching power were worlds apart.

Hector Lombard was built a lot like Palhares but he hit hard. In fact, he flatlined Palhares with a punch when they fought.

I always felt like if for some reason I had to fight a pro MMA fighter, prime Lombard would have been one of my last choices. Dude was scary.