JDM will embarrass Islam.

[Portland8242]

I really think Islam is gonna surprise people again when he shows he's not nearly as outgunned in the striking department as people think he will be.

 

[JKS]

its been pretty well documented that he had a very short rehydration window in AUS. That will definitely kill your cardio and chin. Now he has no weight cut at all

JDM has been TKO'd in the past too. his first mma fight.

Sure, but where not talking about JDM, we're talking about Islam and how going up a weight class will affect his chin. JDM is not the one moving up.

BTW, at least watch the fights instead of checking results in wikipedia. JDM lost his first fight by TKO from his opponent getting mount and dropping elbows and punches while JDM just covered up. Had nothing to do with his chin.

 

[DiazSlap]

What path to victory does he have?
Submit JDM who is twice as strong, training with Craig Jones and more fluid. Win a decision ? With his gas tank against JDM?

Win a striking match? Please…

In what? A f*cked up nose contest?

Lets be real here, JDM squeaked by Bum-Belal…Islam is a whole different animal.

 

[rjmbrd]

Also in the Burns fight JDM had a broken arm. But either way, maybe I'm missing something, but I see Islam as a better version of Belal and if Belal can lose a 47-48, I'm assuming Islam easily gets the extra point. Of course, my line of thinking goes out the window for many fights.

But hey I hope it's a war like you guys expect. Personally I see it one sided for Islam, but that's even a better scenario from my expectations. I'm leaning towards Islam decision, but if goes Islam's way I'm thinking sub in the first 3 rounds.

If JDM keeps it standing and beats Islam on the feet I think I've underestimated him once again. To be fair I predicted Belal to beat him, so my JDM prediction track record isn't great.

Belal left that fight with a mutilated face and completely battered. His chin was bonkers. No way in the world can Islam take those shots and stay in the fight.

 

[BJJ4Tone]

What path to victory does he have?
Submit JDM who is twice as strong, training with Craig Jones and more fluid. Win a decision ? With his gas tank against JDM?

Win a striking match? Please…

Oh thank god... Now I know the result and don't have to watch the fight!!
Thank you so much for letting us know.

 

[BJJ4Tone]

I just don’t understand the Islam hype

Neither do I...
He's a terrible fighter with zero quality wins and a rudimentary skillset.
He was only p4p #1 because Dana has a crush on him.
Look into it.

 

[BJJ4Tone]

Weird, I strongly dislike Islam, but dudes a helluva fighter.

Still losing next weekend though. I'm a couple hundy on JDM and will drop substantially more come fight time when every casual bets Islam and pushes his line more.

War JDM

May I ask why you strongly dislike him?

 

[BJJ4Tone]

What are you basing him being twice as strong in and wtf does fluid even mean?

JDM got ragdolled by bum fighter Basil Leaf Hafez

 

[Angelassassin53]

I just don’t understand the Islam hype

It's like Khabib if he was exciting and took risks and had fights that were fun

 

[jonnysilvabelfort]

What are you basing him being twice as strong in and wtf does fluid even mean?

JDM got ragdolled by bum fighter Basil Leaf Hafez

And Islam got slept by Adriano martins lol that doesn’t mean shit.

 

[chinarice]

Would love to see Islam KTFO'ed but my pick is Islam to win by decision. I am not a believer that JDM is the guy.

 

[LordHellraiser]

May I ask why you strongly dislike him?

His demaneaor, attitude, it's all shit to me. But skill wise he's top tier for a reason.

 

[JustBleed69]

And Islam got slept by Adriano martins lol that doesn’t mean shit.

You didn't answer my question & the Basil fight was much more recent than the Adriano fight.

 

[prime_lobov]

And Islam got slept by Adriano martins lol that doesn’t mean shit.

That was over 10 years ago. Giacomo went life and death with Basil Hafez like 2 years ago. Then a split decision against Kevin Holland and almost losing to Giblert Burns. The guy’s record is not that incredible.

 

[nostradumbass]

I hope JDM enjoys the next 10 days of sherdoggers pretending to be huge fans just because he's Islam's opponent, because if he loses, every one of them will flip in an instant from "incredible fighter, top notch boxer and huge WW with amazing footwork and anti-wrestling" to trying to discredit the win with "JDM was never my friend, who the fuck did that bum ever beat"?

 

[THE PIT VEGAS]

We just saw Khamzat vs the strong DDP. I don't think size and strength mean much when it comes to wrestling like people think it does.

DDP doesn't have good takedown defense and is not good getting up off his back. Also he doesn't have knockout power in his hands.

 

[TheNewGame]

Curious to see how Islam's chin holds up at 170. It's 15 lbs heavier and the guys hit harder. He's been dropped numerous times at LW, Volk a FW was able to drop him.

It wasn't a knockdown, he was just gassed.

I don't think anybody knows how anything will translate for him at WW. Not cutting to make LW might help his chin, who knows.

 

[dominion]

IDK man, lately all across combat sports when smaller fighters came up in weight, bigger fighters didn't enjoy any size advantage

 

[agibmxmma]

Is he twice as strong in the same way DDP was supposed to be?

+1

 

[asdf122345]

If it was a stand up war sure. But on the ground I'm not sure about that.