Andy's more versatile, less point-fightery. Seemed to have a sharper killer instinct, too.
But still hard to say. Izzy seems like he's found the right blueprint to beat all these jacked manlets and has no reason to add any flash to it. I can't blame anyone for doing whatever it takes to win.
But, yeah, Anderson's striking reel is just richer. Take a look:
Andy's more versatile, less point-fightery. Seemed to have a sharper killer instinct, too.
But still hard to say. Izzy seems like he's found the right blueprint to beat all these jacked manlets and has no reason to add any flash to it. I can't blame anyone for doing whatever it takes to win.
But, yeah, Anderson's striking reel is just richer. Take a look:
I think Anderson takes it on all levels not just mma striking. Izzy is just a kickboxer, he's missing many elements of the striking game. He doesn't really throw elbows or knees. Anderson has a more complete striking game with more killer instinct.As a pure striker - Izzy.
MMA striking - Anderson.
Alex Periera may potentially surpass both - although age is not on is side.
Actually, I could see Izzy putting away most of the lessers that Silva put away; I would have a hard time saying Silva is a KO guy and Izzy isn't. I think Izzy has fought tougher comp than Anderson did. Agreed neither really had tough stylistic matchups most of the time; there is still time for that to change for Izzy though. Someone new could come along unless he pulls a Khabib and retires before that can happen.This seems a little crazy to me. Silva was putting people away with his striking. Izzy keeps people at bay with his. There’s no real comparison here. Except both ruled over very shallow divisions where the real strong stylistic matchup just didn’t really exist. MW seems to be about striking. WW seems to be about wrestling.
Id like to see a potential Izzy vs Borz matchup in the future. We’ll see what happens.
Except both ruled over very shallow divisions where the real strong stylistic matchup just didn’t really exist.
Andy's more versatile, less point-fightery. Seemed to have a sharper killer instinct, too.
But still hard to say. Izzy seems like he's found the right blueprint to beat all these jacked manlets and has no reason to add any flash to it. I can't blame anyone for doing whatever it takes to win.
But, yeah, Anderson's striking reel is just richer. Take a look:
You can also consider that wrestlers are used to cutting greater weight and prefer to drain themselves as much as possible.This shit is stupid.
If MW is/was so shallow, why didnt some of the elite wrestlers in the allegedly super strong WW division just moved up and ruled the weightclass back during GSP's era, or today?
We see fighters move up and down one weights all the time.
The truth is some of them tried....and failed, because there wasnt such skill disparity, the top contenders at either weightclass are/were of comparable caliber.
1.Long Way to Go
2.On the right Track
3.Similar Striking already
4.Better Striker than Anderson already
Andy's more versatile, less point-fightery. Seemed to have a sharper killer instinct, too.
But still hard to say. Izzy seems like he's found the right blueprint to beat all these jacked manlets and has no reason to add any flash to it. I can't blame anyone for doing whatever it takes to win.
But, yeah, Anderson's striking reel is just richer. Take a look: