Jiri looked terrible tonight

HHJ said:
You have no idea what your talkin about.

Jiri still was constantly pressuring, even if he didnt throw that much. He kept staying close to Khalil. Khalil was waitng for Jiri to throw so he could counter, but he was just too tight, too tense, that expended alot of energy just to keep Jiri off of him.

Similar to the Poatan fight. But I guess youll tell us that wasnt impressive either.
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Ya I do. Jiri was losing that fight until he landed a shot on a gassed Rountree. Jiri did absolutely nothing impressive & was hopping around like a fckn idiot.
Rountree gassed because it was late in the fight & the exchange they had just before the KO is what took the rest of his energy. & Rountree isn't known to be a cardio machine either. That played a bigger role in Rountree gassing other than Jiri's "pressure" of hopping around like a kangaroo.

& what was similar to the Poatan fight? Both guys did nothing significant against him & both got finished.
 
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CutStryker said:
I picked Rountree to win this fight. I noticed he wasn’t throwing leg kicks to Jiri’s legs too much. I was calling for Rountree to throw that left high kick to Jiri’s head, Jiri keeps his hands lower than he should
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Jiri's defense has always been shit, & at this point it's not gonna ever get better since it hasnt already. He's like Luke Rockhold. Has all the potential, but his defense will always be his downfall.
 
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KO Shotz said:
Jiri's defense has always been shit, & at this point it's not gonna ever get better since it hasnt already. He's like Luke Rockhold. Has all the potential, but his defense will always be his downfall.
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The only similarity between those two is that they think that they're samurais and an inability to block.
 
KO Shotz said:
Ya I do. Jiri was losing that fight until he landed a shot on a gassed Rountree. Jiri did absolutely nothing impressive & was hopping around like a fckn idiot.
Rountree gassed because it was late in the fight & the exchange they had just before the KO is what took the rest of his energy. & Rountree isn't known to be a cardio machine either. That played a bigger role in Rountree gassing other than Jiri's "pressure" of hopping around like a kangaroo.

& what was similar to the Poatan fight? Both guys did nothing significant against him & both got finished.
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Pressure played a big role. Khalil went 5 rounds with Hill, because Hill didn't pressure him as much and he didn't even filmów Hill to the ground after knockdown. There's a reason, why went 25 minutes with Bill and couldn't go 3 rounds with Jiri. With Jiri IT was high pace, especially at 205, with Hill it was slow pace. There is narrative like Jiri had nothing to say in first two rounds, but he had his moments, second round was very competitive. Jiri has the urgency that most fighters don't have after being down on scorecards and probably everyone knew that Jiri would go for the kill on 3rd and Khalil wasn't ready for that smoke.
 
The story of the fight for me is Jiri's chin seemingly recovered after taking some time off and Rountree seemingly can't finish top guys and then gasses himself out. Jiri overall looked pretty meh until he went for the kill. He had that dog in him and Khalil did not. Sometimes heart wins.
 
I felt bad for Khalil to be honest but that was an awesome fight and beatdown in the 3rd.
 
You can't look terrible and still win, unless your opponent gets injured or something.. ultimately he looked fucking good, no?

You can say he looked bad early but finished strong - that would make more sense
 
USA!USA! said:
You can't look terrible and still win, unless your opponent gets injured or something.. ultimately he looked fucking good, no?

You can say he looked bad early but finished strong - that would make more sense
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more like he looked bad until his opponent gassed, there's litterally no other reason behind Jiri's win last night.
 
KO Shotz said:
Jiri did not break Rountree lol. Rountree got tired & stood right in front of Jiri like a punching bag. Any professional fighter can KO someone like that. Jiri's win was nothing specatacular nor was it impressive. Compared to other Jiri fights from the past, he did not look good at all.

As far as Ulberg being in the mix now, he is coming off a devastating KO win against a guy who was on a hot win streak, & against a guy who arguably beat one of the best to ever do it in Jon Jones. Reyes is a pretty serious win & it's not a lucky win where he happened to land a punch on an exhausted guy who was winning the entire fight up until getting dropped. They say you're only as good as your last win, & Ulberg's last win was impressive. Jiri's last win was luck.
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I don’t think that Jiri “broke” Rountree per se nor do I agree that Rountree just gassed on his own. Jiri remains active is constantly doing odd, spastic shit that you have to acknowledge. He also deliberately drops his hands while applying pressure in order to bait opponents into swinging, which avails counters. It’s a wacky, ballsy style to be sure and you have to be a certain kind of crazy to use it, but it does work. Even the most critically hurt fighter cannot resist the urge to fire back on a guy standing upright with his hands down. That’s how he’s seemingly always able to create chaos after he hurts his opponents.

I don’t think Rountree gassed so much as Jiri recognized that he no longer had top speed fastballs coming his way. The moment he decided that he was willing to risk eating a few 7/10 power shots to strike gold was when he began marauding. This futrther deflated the steam on khalil’s punches and subsequently drained his tank.

So yes, while Khalil certainly did gas, he didn’t do it on his own.
 
Private Whatley said:
I don’t think Rountree gassed so much as Jiri recognized that he no longer had top speed fastballs coming his way.
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Rountree very clearly gassed, especially relative to Jiri who was fresh at the start of Round 3. Rountree was breathing very hard, his guard dropped, and every motion of his slowed down; in Round 3, his blocks didn't get there in time and his strikes were all telegraphed. Khalil looked like he tied 20 pound weights to each of his arms in Round 3.
 
JBJ was here said:
This. Jiri did a pretty good job of getting hit not that hard despite Khalil throwing everything with intent to kill. That said, spotting your opponent two rounds in a three round fight is a dicey strategy even if you think he's likely to gas out in the third. Jiri made it work and made it look pretty easy, but if Khalil came at him 85% instead of 95%-100% in the first two rounds then that strategy might not have fared so well.
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Jiri simply doesn't fight to win rounds, he fights to do cumulative damage and stamina drain then finishes you at the end. Did it to rakic, Glover and now rountree. Might have been down rounds in all of those fights but does not leave it up to judges.
 
Roundtree's speed and stand up game is no joke and mix that in with Jiri slipping over and over and it was setting up to be a bad night for Jiri.

I think Jiri will be just fine moving forward.
 
JBJ was here said:
Rountree very clearly gassed, especially relative to Jiri who was fresh at the start of Round 3. Rountree was breathing very hard, his guard dropped, and every motion of his slowed down; in Round 3, his blocks didn't get there in time and his strikes were all telegraphed. Khalil looked like he tied 20 pound weights to each of his arms in Round 3.
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Not right away he didn’t. I’ve rewatched that third round a few times because it was awesome and Khalil looked fine until Jiri decided to go into berserker mode. Khalil effectively deterred Jiri’s advancement in rounds 1 and 2 with his check hook counter. He started round 3 doing just that except Jiri decided that he would no longer worry about the return fire. That’s when he started marching forward, putting Khalil on the backfoot and giving the illusion of an open target.

There’s a reason why Jiri fights turn into chaos the moment he hurts his opponent. Most guys directly swarm in for the kill while their opponent shells up and attempts to grab a clinch. While Jiri does swarm, he also gives his opponent a target for them to swing at, which drains their gas tank, messes with their equilibrium, and leaves them open for a kill shot.
 
He fought like a caricature of himself lol. Way too much goofy shit going on. He was sloppy as shit his footwork was genuinely terrible. I thought he had a knee injury because he kept slipping because he wasn't keeping his feet underneath him.

But he's a warrior and took him out in the 3rd so whatever I guess lol.

EDIT: I will say Jiri did a good job with body shots throughout that fight that contributed greatly to Rountree gassing.
 
So much delusional people here. As i before mentioned it was not perfect fight for Jiri, not even close. But every single person saying that Jiri took too much damage are absolutely delusional. Jiri actually fought smart. He could'nt safely engage for two rounds, in 3rd he knew he have to finish Roundtree - Even his coaches told him that he is 2 rounds down.

Aaaaand one little thing, there is something called fight stats

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BTW this is Jiri after taking sooo sooo sooo much damage -



Jiri won rightfully and at the end finished his opponent even when it was not his day...So comeone with all this nonsens hate.
 
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