Izzy's title reign was pretty average in hindsight

Well its the #2 best Mw title reign in UFC history

By that alone, its above average
 
Nothin average about it.

This thread is an average couch warriors cheetos encrusted keyboard attack though.
 
Against Strickland after round 3 Strickland said he don't wanna fight, he won't fight. Izzy pretty much fought that way though his entire career. He does enough to not fight and win. Their are sparks in their where he hits the counter but mostly he backs away and circles.
 
People love shitting on Izzy and Khabib. They need to understand that both of these fighters defended their title multiple times.
 
ArtardFiesta said:
i'm not a fan of hte point fighting strategy city kickboxing prioritizes
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GSP and Khabib fought the exact same way just with wrestling not striking. They would try to avoid taking damage instead of looking for a finish. Jon Jones and even Anderson Silva fought the same way many times. People have short memories about this sport.

And everyone point fights at 155 and below. The finishing rates at lower weight classes are half of what you get at heavyweight. Max Holloway is hitting guys 300 times per round and not finishing them versus Pavlovich touching someone once and decapitating them. People expecting someone like Volk at 145 to be like McGregor is not realistic. Hardly anyone is a pure finisher at even Welterweight and below.
 
The point of sport fighting is to inflict as much damage as you can while following the rules and not take damage yourself in the process...

This is not a movie you can't keep going rock em sock em , with soundtrack music to guide you to victory staying on top forever ..

My point being its all part of fighting there's a time to brawl and theres a time to box..
 
tomjones said:
People love shitting on Izzy and Khabib. They need to understand that both of these fighters defended their title multiple times.
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Nobody shitting on Khabib . He beat everyone . Izzy on the other hand lost 66 percent of his last 3 and was losing the one fight he won before the lucky punch. Khabib is a goat and Izzy is just a jackass.
 
DecisionSplit said:
GSP and Khabib fought the exact same way just with wrestling not striking. They would try to avoid taking damage instead of looking for a finish. Jon Jones and even Anderson Silva fought the same way many times. People have short memories about this sport.

And everyone point fights at 155 and below. The finishing rates at lower weight classes are half of what you get at heavyweight. Max Holloway is hitting guys 300 times per round and not finishing them versus Pavlovich touching someone once and decapitating them. People expecting someone like Volk at 145 to be like McGregor is not realistic. Hardly anyone is a pure finisher at even Welterweight and below.
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Khabib absolutely dominated his opponents Izzy ran away from his while Rogan and Cormier tried to sell you on his unbeatable style. They apparently were both wrong.
 
MMAProfessional said:
Against Strickland after round 3 Strickland said he don't wanna fight, he won't fight. Izzy pretty much fought that way though his entire career. He does enough to not fight and win. Their are sparks in their where he hits the counter but mostly he backs away and circles.
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Izzy is one the TOP 7-10 UFC fighters of ALL TIME. Stop being a hater

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Izzy's career summarized:
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He held the belt and racked up defences... once you have the belt depending on how you fight for points or not you're trying to win..
Its up to the competition to beat you weather they try and do it you're way or not sean let's see how many defences he gets
 
tomjones said:
People love shitting on Izzy and Khabib. They need to understand that both of these fighters defended their title multiple times.
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When Sean loses, they will shit on him too...its the way of the sherdog force...use the force.
 
cburm said:
He held the belt and racked up defences... once you have the belt depending on how you fight for points or not you're trying to win..
Its up to the competition to beat you weather they try and do it you're way or not sean let's see how many defences he gets
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Rainy weather comes my friend.
 
pankrat said:
To say using the cage to stay standing was in it's infancy 10 years ago is obscenely uneducated
To say he beat Maia and Muñoz before fighting for the tittle and right after saying "he fought absolutely nobody prior to getting the belt" reveals a troll, a hater, or a mentally challenged person.
To try and downplay him for the Gastelum win, when he beat him in way more emphatic fashion than Israel did to get his belt, is more of trolling/hating/mentally challenged dude
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It's just an opinion on the guy. The cage was still being used as a major weapon at that point in MMA. These days it's used by guys like Izzy to stay up against better grappler. 2013 was during the wall and stall era dude. How is it an uneducated opinion? That was still during a time when strikers were avoiding the cage, now it's the main strategy to return to your feet as MMA evolved.

Who else does Weidman have on his resume besides those guys pre belt?
Alessio Sakara who was 6-4 in the UFC at the time. Great win on debut but not worth a major mention and a pre UFC Hall.
Tom Lalwer who hung around for quite a while also.

You say I am trolling but that's what made Weidman win over Silva so impressive. He was a 9-0 pro who beat some great grapplers in Maia and Munhoz, but was thrown in there to be highlight reeled by Silva. He instead highlight reeled Silva and then won via a legit technique with the leg check. He beat the ghost of Belfort, great win over Machida before getting destroyed by Rockhold after throwing the worst spinning kick in history (maybe Schevchenko's is worse) against a guy who is great at them and lost his title. He then went 2-7 with his only wins being Gastelum (good win) and Omari (Easily could have gone the other way).

Weidman is now 15-7. He has nearly more ranked losses than his has wins now.

Izzy win over KG wasn't great either. KG is a great fighter that couldn't be bothered to train hard and make 170. It makes sense though after his performance vs Strickland. Both have great boxing and Izzy has a hole there if he can't use his leg kicks to keep you away.
 
The second best MW in UFC history had a "pretty average" title reign?
 
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