Media Khalil Rountree: "No takedowns" in my plans vs Alex Pereira

[ejazahmednit]

Khalil does fight like his opponents owe him money
But all he is owing Alex is a knockout which Poatan will exact from him

 

[Urluberluu]

i lie khalil but he don't deserve this fight and he will get ko round 1

 

[BoxerMaurits]

 

[justmark]

He never shot for a takedown in his life, he is considerably smaller than Pereira, and has HORRIBLE ground game. Meanwhile, Jan tried 9 times to take Pereira down, managed to bring him down only 3 times, but pereira got back up on the feet without any problem. Jiri tried to take him down 4 times, only managed to take him down once, but could not do anything to him on the ground, despite beating the living shit of glover every time he was on top of glover, he could not do anything to Pereira.

He will be a fool to even try it. He will only get himself tired and possibly timed with something. It's really not rocket science.

 

[Tweak896]

Rountree doesn't have the gas tank for wrestling 5 rounds to grind it out, Pereira doesn't have an iron chin. I think it's his best shot to use his strengths.

 

[Xoleth]

"And yet, I compete in MMA, not kickboxing. It is a fucking mistery. It is also a mistery how a got a win over Jacoby by hitting air for 15 minutes."

 

[Pechan]

He would just gas out if he went there with a wrestling heavy gameplan, its not his style at all, if Jan couldn't do shit to Alex on the ground, Khalil would do less.

 

[Blastbeat]

i give him less than 2 rounds before he's on his back staring up at the lights.
announcing youre not gonna go for takedowns didnt work out too well for Strickland. since Khalil isnt as good of a fighter as Strickland, i can reasonably assume he's gonna meet the same fate.

 

[Cooliox]

Honestly I am mad Khalil has this shot.

I love the guy but Ank deserves it, this a travesty imo.

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[HHJ]

Khalil gotta fight how he fights. Aint no reinventing the wheel gonna help him in this one. He just gotta go for it.

 

[SkinnyClaw]

He can't take Alex down anyway, even if he tried. I'd bet Alex would have more success if he wanted to grapple

 

[usernamee]

He's not a takedown threat anyways

 

[ledonk]

Can he take anyone down?

 

[Urluberluu]

LHW is really the division with the most retards brawlers
Absolute heaven for Peireira

 

[Streeter]

Why do folks think Alex is totally helpless on ground? He has Glover coaching him . Never seen him in any real trouble when taken down he always gets right back up if he wants to only time he was down for a while was Izzy 3. Anyone is at dis advantage standing with him. Hardest puncher maybe ever p4p in ufc. who is also maybe most technically sound as well.

 

[arcadeperfect]

Alex actually has the better grappling.

 

[Shaddows]

That doesn't bother me one bit.

Every fighter will (or should) try to sell their fight with the champ for a chance to be next.
The problem I see is when fans try to make up exceptions for the fighters they like.

 

[RemyR]

Every single MMA fighter formulating a game plan against Pereira:

 

[Hassan Mouzine]

khalil is a good striker and can definately hurt Poatan. But if he thinks his best chances ar to just strike with him......that's actually stupid. Sooner or later Poatan is gonna connect with something big or something small......doesnt matter, something is going to ktfo Roundtree if he doesnt make it an mma match and keeps it a kb match with mma gloves.

we have seen Strickland try this before and he learned the hard way.

 

[svmr_db]

Every single MMA fighter formulating a game plan against Pereira:

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True but Khalil doesn't have much grappling in his toolkit, there's not much he could do to exert any form of significant advantage over Alex with 2 months to prepare.