If you think Israel looked bad in that fight....

I’m wondering why Anderson threw the fight.
 
GoshiShun17 said:
If anything he simply gave Silva too much respect. He could have turned it up and brought it to Silva had he chose to.
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Could have, should have, the end result is he didn't. This can be said for many fights. Doesn't change the outcome. Is he going to "bring it" against Whittaker?
 
Fesaine said:
That's not the point, the point is that Israel did good but casual like you can't see it.
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He did just ok. Good would have been finishing the 44 year old opponent. And considering you guys keep contradicting yourselves, again, this thread is pointless
 
blaseblah said:
Could have, should have, the end result is he didn't. This can be said for many fights. Doesn't change the outcome. Is he going to "bring it" against Whittaker?
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If he is comfortably out pointing him, he might not. I've said before many of his fans may turn on him when they realize he won't go out of his way for the finish.

People turned on Anderson the same way. Fake fans.
 
The betting line was Silva +450 going into the fight. During the fight, the live line dropped to +250 for Silva in the 2nd round.

Adesanya didnt look terrible. But he underperformed while Anderson overperformed.

He would probably have a lot of trouble with Kelvin and Robert.
 
Considering he was fighting a middle aged man it was pretty underwhelming. Silva backed him up repeatedly, even stuck his chin out and gave him numerous free shots, but he still couldn't make shit happen. Prime Silva gave Weidman the same opportunity and he got put to sleep.

Isreal's striking is a tad overrated.
 
blaseblah said:
Could have, should have, the end result is he didn't. This can be said for many fights. Doesn't change the outcome. Is he going to "bring it" against Whittaker?
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Again you're too dumb to realize what is trying to say. When ts say Israel respected Silva a lot or too much , he meant that Israel didn't gave Silva any chance of countering him or leaving himself open . that's why Israel was not biting into silva traps, overcommitted with strikes, or looking for the ko too much that he leaves himself open to Silva counters.
 
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GoshiShun17 said:
That's not an excuse, that's what happened. What exactly am I excusing? He still DID NOT look bad. Have you ever competed in any form of striking? Do you know what it means to give someone too much respect???
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See that part in yellow? That's your opinion. Typing it in capitals does not make it accurate or factual or compelling.

Some people do think he looked bad.
That's why you made this thread calling them all idiots.
 
Israel did not look bad, he is a very technique striker, that's it.
The problem is that he doesn't stand a chance against the top five because this is not a k1 competition but mma, he is good yes but doesn't look like phenomenal, he can't win against real competition at least not yet, maybe whithin some years (maybe) but now is just a good fighter and an autentic hype job, nothing more...and absolutely not a legit contender this is the worst bullshit.
 
Fesaine said:
Again you're too dumb to realize what is trying to say. When ts say Israel respected Silva a lot or too much , he meant that Israel didn't gave Silva any chance of countering him or leaving himself open . that's why Israel was not biting into silva traps, overcommitted with strikes, or looking for the ko too much that he leaves himself open to Silva counters.
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Idiot. I already posted Adesanya was scared of Silva's counters immediately following the fight. You're not saying anything new.
 
Anyone who thinks Israel came out looking better is a nuthugging moron
 
blaseblah said:
Idiot. I already posted Adesanya was scared of Silva's counters immediately following the fight. You're not saying anything new.
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Again, that's not the point.the point is that israel did good by not playing into silva games and didn't leaving himself open too much . But the casual think it's a bad performance because they think israel should've not respect anderson silva counter striking abilities and just go out there and ko him
 
GoshiShun17 said:
If he is comfortably out pointing him, he might not. I've said before many of his fans may turn on him when they realize he won't go out of his way for the finish.

People turned on Anderson the same way. Fake fans.
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Silva took a lot more chances than Adesanya did. Standing right in front of him with his hands down, standing against the cage, running forward and overreaching with his punches, etc. I was expecting Adesanya to counter him those times Silva rushed forward with those reaching punches. Would've been brutal. But he never went for it.

Adesanya is good no doubt. Legit top 10, possibly top 5. He just doesn't look like a world beater.
 
Fesaine said:
Again, that's not the point.the point is that israel did good by not playing into silva games and didn't leaving himself open too much . But the casual think it's a bad performance because they think israel should've not respect anderson silva counter striking abilities and just go out there and ko him
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Being scared of getting countered is not a legit reason to not engage. You can apply that to any fight. The reality is Adesanya had many opportunities to engage more and didn't. That's on him. Both Bisping and Weidman were willing to engage more with a younger Silva.

Did he look like a top 10 fighter? Yes. Did he separate himself from the pack at middleweight? No. It was a good performance overall, but not one worthy of the hype he's getting.
 
So what, he 30% usman’d it?
That’s also not okay. You can’t go in there and half ass it against anyone. When he felt like going easy on Silva it looked bad, and when he tried and actually turn it up and didn’t do anything, he still looked bad

Sure he won, but he didn’t look like a guy who deserved a title shot doing it.

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Yeah I thought he looked fine. I think he beats Gastelum btw
 
Gave him too much respect...Why do you have to make excuses for this guy. He's good but not as good as prime AS.
 
He won a safe fight. It is what it is. He didn't look great, but he certainly didn't look bad either. He clearly won.
 
Marco_mma said:
Israel did not look bad, he is a very technique striker, that's it.
The problem is that he doesn't stand a chance against the top five because this is not a k1 competition but mma, he is good yes but doesn't look like phenomenal, he can't win against real competition at least not yet, maybe whithin some years (maybe) but now is just a good fighter and an autentic hype job, nothing more...and absolutely not a legit contender this is the worst bullshit.
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Marco_mma said:
Israel did not look bad, he is a very technique striker, that's it.
The problem is that he doesn't stand a chance against the top five because this is not a k1 competition but mma, he is good yes but doesn't look like phenomenal, he can't win against real competition at least not yet, maybe whithin some years (maybe) but now is just a good fighter and an autentic hype job, nothing more...and absolutely not a legit contender this is the worst bullshit.
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If that's how you feel then cool. But there was nothing in this fight gives evidence of your opinion.
 
Alot of users on this board exposed themselves as trainless idiots for their immediate post fight reaction
 
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