Is Adesanya Done at a Chamionship Level or Does He Take This Agaisnt Dricus?

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I can’t figure out a winner on this fight. I originally picked Izzy but now I lean more towards DDP as the fight gets closer. Adesanya has cleaner and better technique but he takes his foot off the gas way to much in fights. Dricus usually thrives against guys who lay back as he gets ahead quickly on activity and damage. I personally think the best version of Israel beats the best version of Dricus but Izzy may have lost the fire. Thoughts?
 
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I think Adesanya is going to come back at a new level.

Last time we saw him he was complacent, unmotivated.

I think he picks Dricus apart. Dricus will be confident and aggressive, I see him getting sniped and outpointed. His striking is slow and sloppy (despite his recent success, I see him as a flash in the pan that benefited from good timing), his best route to winning is to wreste, grapple and make this a dirty fight.
 
Izzy has struggled against pressure fighters in the past. Gastelum put it on him before Izzy was able to turn the tide late. Poatan TKO'd him in the 5th when he finally started to pressure and was in full control of the second fight pressuring from the beginning before he got overaggressive seeking the finish and Izzy made him pay for it. Then there was the Strickland fight. Dricus has the tools to give Izzy stylistic problems. Honestly I'm probably 55/45 DDP. I'm not super confident on the pick, but I do slightly favor DDP pressuring the shit out of him.
 
We'll find out. I think he's lost a tep. Guy has had a crazy number of fights (100?). It's going to happy eventually.
 
Adesanya haters & Stricktards make me want Style bender to win in spectacular fashion.

Izzy's salty ex girlfriend behavior throughout ever Poatan title defense makes me want to see him get wrecked in comical fashion.

My mind says Gender bender will emerge victorious. I suppose it depends on where his heart is at, after such a pathetic loss to Strickland...
 
I think Izzy is done but how do we really know until the fight is on?

Strickland and Poatan took his heart.
 
Gabe said:
I can’t figure out a winner on this fight. I originally picked Izzy but now I lean more towards DDP as the fight gets closer. Adesanya has cleaner and better technique but he takes his foot off the gas way to much in fights. Dricus usually thrives against guys who lay back as he gets ahead quickly on activity and damage. I personally think the best version of Israel beats the best version of Dricus but Izzy may have lost the fire. Thoughts?
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I believe his plan is to get a back door champ champ fight.

He wins, he calls out Potan to settle the score at 205 and he hopes to get champ champ status. That’s my suspicion
 
I've been saying since day 1 that Izzy vs Dricus is a blatantly bad stylistic matchup for Dricus. His style/defense leaves him wide open for pull counters. Predicting Izzy KO round 2.

Only way I see Dricus taking this is if he's leveled up in the wrestling and can take down Izzy and do work there. I like Dricus' offensive grappling when he gets position established, I think it's no doubt his avenue to victory this fight.
 
I think DDP really should've lost to Strickland, I don't rate him as highly as some here. It seems like a very winnable fight for Izzy, DDP is going to sit at range and trade strikes with Izzy. Maybe Izzy is slower and more vulnerable now, but it should still be very competitive at the least.
 
Gabe said:
I can’t figure out a winner on this fight. I originally picked Izzy but now I lean more towards DDP as the fight gets closer. Adesanya has cleaner and better technique but he takes his foot off the gas way to much in fights. Dricus usually thrives against guys who lay back as he gets ahead quickly on activity and damage. I personally think the best version of Israel beats the best version of Dricus but Izzy may have lost the fire. Thoughts?
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If he loses to DDP, he won't be champ again, I think that will be his last straw
 
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It's not a striking contest though. DDP, will rough him up in close and on the ground unless Izzy puts him out early.
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Izzy has decent TDD, plus he will keep it at range and pick DDP off. I only see one winner, people forgetting just how good izzy was
 
Gladiator24 said:
Izzy has decent TDD, plus he will keep it at range and pick DDP off. I only see one winner, people forgetting just how good izzy was
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Izzy has been taken down enough for me to worry about that TDD, especially at 35 years old after over a year lay off and having only prepared for strikers in his last three fights before that. If whittaker and vetori could get prime Izzy down multiple times, I expect dricus, who is a better grappler, to be able to get an older version down multiple times too.

We'll see how it goes.
 
The Izzy that fought Strickland loses. The Izzy that fought Pereira twice beats DDP.

I didn't like how he looked against Strickland. He didn't even try to win that fight. He should never lose to a guy like Strickland. I don't know where he's at so I'm actually leaning on DDP winning this one
 
ElLunico said:
The Izzy that fought Strickland loses. The Izzy that fought Pereira twice beats DDP.

I didn't like how he looked against Strickland. He didn't even try to win that fight. He should never lose to a guy like Strickland. I don't know where he's at so I'm actually leaning on DDP winning this one
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One could argue that izzy has been slipping since the Jan fight. He lost to Jan, had a super boring uninspired fight against Vetorri and cannonier, arguable lost to whittaker, lost to pereira, and was losing to pereira until he found that chin in the rematch. Then he got outclassed by strickland.

He just hasn't looked dominant or special for years now.
 
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