Islam vs Ilia serious question

[Wicked_1]

Ilia's resume is very weak right now.

Beating Arman would be his best win by far.

Yes notice the lack of top tier grapplers, which on islams level are very few. People like the ko. I do too but I'm not delusional. He has shown nothing that would leave me to believe he can hang in grappling and I think JDM prolly hits as hard as him. I don't think his speed would carry up to 170 either as his Frame is too short to add the weight without losing speed . I haven't seen enough of his grappling in the cage to know if he is as good as he claims but a lot of people say that they can hand and end up looking like the other guys before them as they can't get up.

 

[cburm]

Aight Sherbros, be honest. Let’s say Islam didn’t move up and faced Ilia without Ilia having to fight a top lw contender first. He dominates Ilia and obviously moving up takes some time. Would it have been more impressive than his win over JDM?

Illia koing volk and max back to back still beats what islam has done..

 

[pamirec]

Illia koing volk and max back to back still beats what islam has done..

Are we gonna pretend like Volk did not get ko’d by Islam four months before the Ilia fight? Islam beat Volk when Volk was on a great run.
I get it, Ilia knocking out Max is very impressive, but it’s only impressive because Max had never lost by ko before that fight. It’s not better than Islam’s win over JDM.
Ilia’s other best win is over Charles, who is kinda chinny and don’t forget Islam subbed the Charles on a 11 fight win streak.
The more I look at it, the more I understand how unrealistic Ilia fans/Islam haters are.

 

[Ozze]

Honestly, if Islam just when straight for a takedown and subbed Ilia, or controlled him to an easy UD like he did against JDM (which I think he would, since he's not dumb enough to get into a fire fight with Ilia), most people would be talking about how Ilia was never really that good of a wrestler, is just some small FW with good hands, and that the true challenge was JDM.

I think Islam made the right move and should stay at WW and forget about Ilia.

 

[pamirec]

Honestly, if Islam just when straight for a takedown and subbed Ilia, or controlled him to an easy UD like he did against JDM (which I think he would, since he's not dumb enough to get into a fire fight with Ilia), most people would be talking about how Ilia was never really that good of a wrestler, is just some small FW with good hands, and that the true challenge was JDM.

I think Islam made the right move and should stay at WW and forget about Ilia.

“He was never that good” is a Sherdog classic. Yeah, Islam ain’t killing himself to make 155 again, but if both of them keep winning, I don’t see why the UFC would not wanna make that fight happen.

 

[Just Creed]

For me, if Islam beat the current Topuria who just ko'd Max, Volk, Charles, then yes.

Topuria is an absolute beast and is a better win than JDM IMO.