Jan "Polish Power" Blachowicz has the LOWEST KO rate of all lightheavyweights

[Kenny Powerth]

Ian?

 

[TreeOfWoe]

Obviously he's improved his striking and uses his power better in recent fights. It's pretty fucking obvious that he hits hard now. Shadow realmed Rockhold and Anderson, his punches absolutely destroyed Reyes. He used to be a grappling oriented fighter previously.

 

[Xandros476]

That Jan, whose gimmick is built around "Polish Power" by the UFC, isn't very good at knocking people out.

He’s obviously a late bloomer like Dan Henderson who was once known as decision Dan… he has 3 KOs in his last 5 fights.. he’s currently a decent KO artist

 

[capnlarge]

To me, Blachowicz is a hard worker and a savvy veteran but that doesn't really make for a snappy catchphrase.

 

[Xandros476]

And yet, he’s the undisputed champion. It’s almost as if there are more ways than just KOs to win an mma fight??

Fucking pathetic thread.

And it’s not like people change their style or evolve or anything…

 

[bogeyj]

why does no one accuse Jan of using PED's when he magically went from a pillow-fisted grappler to a knock out artist in such a short span of time?

 

[JJCc]

To me, Blachowicz is a hard worker and a savvy veteran but that doesn't really make for a snappy catchphrase.

Jan "The Polish Immigrant" Blachowicz

 

[Islam Imamate]

He's really sharped his stand up over the last few years and improved his ability to find those fight ending shots but I wouldn't necessarily call him a KO artist. He's an all rounder with good power and fight IQ. No shame in that at all, quite the opposite.

 

[ZaphMMA]

4 KOs in his last 6 fights. I'm ok with Jan these days. He's a changed fighter and this topic doesn't hold weight anymore. Excited to watch him fight again.

 

[RockyLockridge]

his beat down of reyes was asbsolutely savage

 

[JJCc]

4 KOs in his last 6 fights. I'm ok with Jan these days. He's a changed fighter and this topic doesn't hold weight anymore. Excited to watch him fight again.

You counting the one where Santos knocked Jan out as a KO for Jan?

 

[mjfan23]

It will only go higher now that he’s fighting against weaker competition in the ufc

 

[Post 2 Decision]

Should they change his nickname from Polish Power to Polish Grappler? Cause you know, apparently he's one of the top submission artists I guess.

You're looking at this all wrong my guy

 

[DS66]

Jan was always a grappler, using his superior strength to get guys down and put them away. Watch replays of some of his old KSW fights- Jan would pretty much just manhandle dudes to the ground and either submit them easily if they had no ground game, or hold them down and win a decision. His strategy was very, very grappling heavy until recent years. His striking technique has consistently and steadily improved over the last decade to the point where he can use his elite strength to KO high level fighters. There is no doubt Jan has legit KO power.

 

[TR1]

Jan was always a grappler, using his superior strength to get guys down and put them away. Watch replays of some of his old KSW fights- Jan would pretty much just manhandle dudes to the ground and either submit them easily if they had no ground game, or hold them down and win a decision. His strategy was very, very grappling heavy until recent years. His striking technique has consistently and steadily improved over the last decade to the point where he can use his elite strength to KO high level fighters. There is no doubt Jan has legit KO power.

The weird thing is his wrestling is fairly pedestrian.

 

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

Jan 36 fights; 8 Ko: 22.22% KO

#1 Glover: 38 fights; 19 ko; 50% KO
#2 Jiri: 32 fights; 25 ko; 78% KO
#3 Rakic 16 fights; 9 ko; 56% KO
#4 Santos 30 fights; 15 ko; 50% KO
#5 Reyes 15 fights; 7 ko; 46.67% KO
#6 Smith 51 fights; 19 ko; 37% KO
#7 Ankalaev 16 fights; 9 ko; 56% KO
#8 Ozedmir 22 fights; 12 ko; 54.54% KO
#9 Krylov 35 fights; 11 ko; 31% KO
#10 Walker 22 fights; 15 ko; 68% KO

Does Ian suck at knocking people out?

I don't think there's any ranked light heavyweight UFC fighter that has ever had a KO ratio lower than 22.22%.

He only really started to show it pretty recently, but yes, he hits like a truck

 

[JJCc]

The weird thing is his wrestling is fairly pedestrian.

KSW isn't exactly known for their great grapplers. He got outwrestled hard by Corey Anderson in their first fight, Anderson got multiple 10-8 rounds on Jan by wrestle screwing him.

 

[The Chosen]

Still better than Jon Jones

 

[JJCc]

Still better than Jon Jones

Jones has a higher KO rate; unless you selectively only choose his recent fights.

 

[Epicman1324]

What's Conor's KO rate in the past 4 years champ? not including his losses of course.