Izzy looked bad...

[djason1988]

I'm confused cause you said you watched the fight.

Izzy was hitting low kicks and later going for ? kick or high kicks. Marvin was happy to eat low kicks all night and instead just guard against high kicks. You should have seen him block 5 high kicks at least if you watched.

Also Marvin was doing a good job of moving and parrying izzy's punch combos. You watch when Izzy throws the combo with the lunging uppercut - marvin would always move off center. So Izzy started to add in a low kick to the end of it.

Give Marvin credit he was decent defensively + solid chin means no KO

Um, that's exactly what I'm saying though? Izzy TRIED to land hard shots multiple times and wasn't connecting, and it isn't like Marvin is a technically brilliant striker. If simply keeping your hands up is enough to negate Izzy's offense, then he wouldn't be where he is. He looked slower than normal, and his timing seemed off for some reason.

 

[neandertal]

Nah he looked good, he wont be a multi-millionaire like this though.

 

[Baltimore Bro]

This thread is bad

 

[Deleted member 110072]

First off, most certainly not a hater. I've been swinging from Izzy's nuts since he got in the UFC, but I also know how to be objective.

He won the fight comfortably, but Vettori was about tailor made for a highlight reel win. A solid wrestler, but not able to really utilize it effectively against Izzy, which left us with a serviceable, but not great, striker with questionable fight IQ. He was running straight in, and yet Adesanya struggled to find solid connection with any of his shots. Sure, he landed a lot of leg kicks and several jabs, but struggled to put together effective combinations or land anything with real power to the head or body. I think Bobby or Costa would put away Vettori in short order.

I'm not sure if Vettori's defense is way better than I realize, or if izzy is starting to slow down a hair, or maybe he's just fighting down to his opponents level ala Jon Jones, but what I am sure about is that wasn't the same Adesanya that toasted Costa and Whittaker.

I would say that though Vettori didnt REALLY commit to going after Izzy, not to the way people like Kelvin, Costa and Whittaker did, he was coming forward somewhat but wasnt really throwing that aggressively, not offering many of the kind of openings Israel likes to exploit catching people in the middle of a combo.

Israel does seem to be someone who'll fight the same way pretty much every time and the result depends a lot on his opponent, if they don't commit forward they will probably last to a decision even if they lose.

 

[Post 2 Decision]

Tailor made for a highlight reel win?

Boy, how the narrative changes.

Plenty of people were saying his style was tailor made to beat Izzy. All these retards thought he'd replicate what Jan did.

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

Vettori already fought Adesanya before and it was his toughest fight, in my opinion…

The fact that he was able to stay in control of the fight for 25 minutes the way he did, against an opponent who had previously given him some problems, was impressive to me.

 

[crysis]

I guess it depends on the fighter and the gameplan...however sometimes you throw out the gameplan and make adjustments that change how you approach the fight.

israel said that the outcome this time would be different, to fans most took this as he will make the effort to get a finish.

this did not happen, there was no sense of urgency or effort to put vettori away, and I felt that he didn't land very many combos clean, good leg kicks, good use of the jab but when israel threw any combos they weren't really connecting as much as I've seen him do before.

maybe he just felt during the fight that vettori hadn't improved at all and instead played it safe and coasted to a comfortable win rather than go for the finish.

also I don't bash fighters for finishing or not.....there's many fighters who don't get finishes but are active the whole fight guys like gsp get shit on for what.....not standing in the middle like a dumb ass trading shots with an opponent who potentially hits a lot harder, I think fans with that mentality are just plain stupid.

if you don't fight, back peddle, not engage, keep holding onto the opponent that's different....but a guy like gsp who doesn't get the finish was always active, controlling the octagon/fight, basically engaged during each and every single round but just couldn't finish the guys he fought....sure maybe if gsp wanted to take a huge risk he could stand in the pocket and exchange which gsp could possibly of won by tko/ko but he could've also lost brutally by tko/ko himself.....so why risk everything especially against your opponents strengths, why not just keep doing what works or what's working against your opponent.

 

[djason1988]

Tailor made for a highlight reel win?

Boy, how the narrative changes.

Plenty of people were saying his style was tailor made to beat Izzy. All these retards thought he'd replicate what Jan did.

Lol, nobody with a brain thought that. Jan was successful due to a significant size advantage and being a very real threat on the feet.

 

[mashonkeyboard]

Vettori's head movement in this fight is underrated. I was not impressed with his striking in the first one but he has made major improvements in this one. Even Izzy explicitly said that he thought Vettori's team believed his striking improved enough to beat him, not quite, but lets not imagine it didnt make a difference. Theres a few instances of Izzy setting up a slick headkick with a feint, Vettori biting on the feints and still managing to dodge the kick by sheer reaction time. A lot of other fighters would have eaten those kicks right on the dome.

There was this left hand pump fake to a right leg pump fake into a left high kick that he dodged that I was particularly impressed by.

 

[Post 2 Decision]

Lol, nobody with a brain thought that. Jan was successful due to a significant size advantage and being a very real threat on the feet.

Plenty of idiots thought that, saw it being posted all week.