Jiri Prochazka says Magomed Ankalaev was clearly compromised at #UFC320

[HHJ]

Who?

JIRI

 

[ryun253]

3 leg kicks made Ank go orthodox to get smeshed. did he have a leg injury going into the fight too?

 

[WhiteMousse]

It wouldn't surprise me. The thing is his movement seemed fine, at least at first. He got leg kicked three times, switched stances and then got smeshed. He didn't seem compromised. Also while I would trust Ank's words, his manager is a final-boss level punk. The dude has very little credibility.

Regardless I don't think Ank gets another chance at Alex. Won a moderately competitive fight the first time, got wrecked the second time. Both Dana and Alex probably want the last couple Poatan fights to be spectacular, and no offense to Ank but most people don't find his fights to be really exciting.

 

[Ibm]

People forget Ank was winning before getting Ko'd, he landed strikes and had good movement. The reason he lost was he did not expect Poatan to come in guns blazing so he got flustered. He expected Poatan to make it a tactical fight, that's why he lost.

 

[ledonk]

so poatan injured = lose 47-48, ankalaev injured = folds within a minute.

tells me all i need to know.

 

[Karate Kid]

sherdog for the first fight:

Poatan had a flu he was compromised he had diarrhoea and bad dreams before facing Ank, he has an excuse

sherdog for the second:

Ank is just creating excuses for being BTFO

 

[Hdfi]

The medical committee determined they were fit to fight and that's all that matters.

 

[JBJ was here]

I’m a perreira fan but this is so childish. He was clearly injured.

People in one breath say Poatan was injured for the first fight but Ank wasn’t injured for the second

To the extent that injury is an actual explanation for their respective performances, Poatan probably should have pulled out of the first fight but Ankalaev definitely should have pulled out of the second. A hand injury is tricky, and you're not going to test punching with it before a fight in a way that risks aggravating it. Fighting through a viral infection is another tricky judgment call. If Poatan was able to do several rounds of non-contact sparring at a high level of effort leading up to the fight, then fighting likely wasn't a crazy decision for him. Questionable, but not crazy.

As for the second fight, it's not like Poatan hit Ankalaev hard on the ribs early on, causing him to collapse in pain, something that might happen with a small hairline fracture that minimally impinged on breathing. The only way a rib injury caused that performance is if Ankalaev was unable to breathe normally--not even unable to breathe deeply, just normally, given how quickly everything collapsed for Ankalaev--and if you can't breathe normally you can't fight, plus if you have a rib injury you can't breathe well enough with to fight through, there's a 100% chance that you know it. A rib injury that could have caused Ankalaev's performance would have left him unable to do a light jog for a couple of miles.

 

[Prince Nephilim]

“I don’t like to make excuses for my loses…but I have an excuse for every-time I lost”- Rampage

When ANYONE loses or doesn’t win excitingly…there was something wrong.

 

[Fight Professor]

It was not smart defending so soon after winning the belt. But if he was compromised, that makes it even stranger.

 

[whocares]

For every common sense take these days there's 5 more people trying to invent a narrative. Here's an idea dude. Pereira pursued Ank aggressively right from the jump, pushed him back, clipped him and finished him. It ain't a conspiracy.

 

[AL-Tappo McSnappo]

Jiri Prochazka noticed something off with Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 320.

Prochazka (32-5) was in attendance when Ankalaev (20-2) put his light heavyweight title on the line in a rematch against Alex Pereira at UFC 320. Pereira walked Ankalaev down, dropped him, and finished the contest with elbows and punches in just 80 seconds.



Prochazka noticed an entirely different Ankalaev than the one who dominated Pereira over five rounds to win the title at UFC 313 this past March.

“I saw him [pushing] himself back, a little step back. I saw he’s not right, something’s wrong,” Prochazka told MMA Fighting. “He was so careful, not like last time [when he was] going forward, up and down, changing levels, self-confidence. He was a totally different person there.”

In the aftermath of UFC 320, Ankalaev’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, claimed that the fighter was not in his best shape. Videos have since surfaced of Ankalaev’s undergoing treatment for a rib injury just 20 days ahead of UFC 320. Ankalaev's team reportedly wanted him to pull out of the fight, but the Dagestani was adamant about defending his title. Ankalaev was undefeated in 14 straight outings before his loss to Pereira.

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Jiri Prochazka Says Magomed Ankalaev Was Clearly Compromised at UFC 320

Jiri Prochazka noticed something off with Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 320.

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Doesn't matter, he took the fight, has to take the result.

 

[Tweak896]

Honestly don't give a fuck. Likely Pereira goes to HW and Ank can fight up again and be champ if he wants or move to HW and fight up to get another rematch. I think Ank could grind out another win, but I don't care to watch it.