Media Khamzat downplay's Dricus weird fighting style "Weird style don't matter when you are on the ground"

[188912345]

Looking at the facts no one can deny. We are talking an Usman who had no knees, was knocking the door of the 40s

Lol, Usman never had any knees even when he was a dominant champ.

I love how 36 year old becomes "knocking on 40". That's still 3 years younger than old Brunson when he gave DDP a lot of trouble.

What Usman did have before that fight was a 97%+ takedown defense, and he even used his wrestling to dominate a guy on a 6-0 winstreak with big muscles in his last fight this summer as a 38 year old.

 

[BullyKutta]

The more this guy talks about his 'plans', the less convinced I am that this fight is going to be even remotely competitive.

DDP is on some other shit, entirely.

Khamzat is going to get dragged to some seriously deep waters here. Waters he's never experienced. He's going to choke.

 

[wisdom blows]

Looking at the facts no one can deny. We are talking an Usman who had no knees, was knocking the door of the 40s and well past his prime, 10 day notice, no fight camp and game plan as well as someone who is a true welterweight. It was still a majority decision rather than a unanimous decision with some thinking Usman won the round 2 and 3. The first 10-8 was the main reason Khamzat won.

Dricus has absolutely zero parallels with Usman.

If that is what helps Khamzat and his fans sleep better at night, so be it.

“Well past his prime”

Bruh, he was 1 fight removed from being champ. Khamzat tore ligaments in his hand. With evidence. That’s a fact no one can deny.

And you’re right he has zero parallels; he’s a worse fighter with worse wrestling.

 

[wisdom blows]

The more this guy talks about his 'plans', the less convinced I am that this fight is going to be even remotely competitive.

DDP is on some other shit, entirely.

Khamzat is going to get dragged to some seriously deep waters here. Waters he's never experienced. He's going to choke.

What other shit? Going to decisions with Strickland, having a war with old ass Izzy, and beating Whitaker far less impressive than Khamzat did? Lmao

 

[Bradillac]

Khamzat won the third round and took Usman down 14 mins into the fight. Usman has far, FAR better takedown defense than DDP, and at the very end of round 3, Khamzat took him down. This idea that Khamzat can’t win after 7 mins when he won both round 3’s against Burns and Usman is silly. Also, DDP gets tired by round 2, he just wills his way into fighting on, but isn’t exactly the energizer bunny either. Let’s see his cardio after being backpacked for 2 rounds and being punched in the face and fighting off sub attempts.

Chimaev did not win the 3rd round lol. He has about a round fo cardio and then that’s it for him. DDP ups the pace as his fights go on, he has excellent cardio.

The reality is that Chimaev is not a complete fighter and is way out of his league here.

 

[svmr_db]

Looking at the facts no one can deny. We are talking an Usman who had no knees, was knocking the door of the 40s and well past his prime, 10 day notice, no fight camp and game plan as well as someone who is a true welterweight. It was still a majority decision rather than a unanimous decision with some thinking Usman won the round 2 and 3. The first 10-8 was the main reason Khamzat won.

Dricus has absolutely zero parallels with Usman.

If that is what helps Khamzat and his fans sleep better at night, so be it.

You're talking like someone with a solid amount of confidence that DDP wins this. If you really feel that way, you should put a bet on him. He's like +165 odds right now.

 

[Bradillac]

You're talking like someone with a solid amount of confidence that DDP wins this. If you really feel that way, you should put a bet on him. He's like +165 odds right now.

Free money, how does Chimaev win this? He doesn’t have the cardio or striking to be a serious threat to the best guys in the division.

 

[svmr_db]

Free money, how does Chimaev win this?

DDP almost got choked out by Brunson in round 1 lol, if Khamzat gets him in that position that early it's a wrap.



Understandable to have a lot of questions about how Khamzat will perform in a championship level fight, but he is one of the most dangerous & dominant fighters on the roster in the first round.

 

[188912345]

Chimaev did not win the 3rd round lol. He has about a round fo cardio and then that’s it for him. DDP ups the pace as his fights go on, he has excellent cardio.

The reality is that Chimaev is not a complete fighter and is way out of his league here.

I think we've been through this before.

If you need to rewrite history to make your argument, it's probably not a great argument.

Khamzat has been to a 3 round decision twice in the UFC.

Vs Burns, all 3 judges scored the 3rd round for Khamzat. His output was even higher in this round vs previous rounds.

Vs Usman, 1/3 judges scored the 3rd round for Khamzat. Slow round from both of them, but he still had a takedown with a lot of control time.

So, he has a 4/6 success rate in the judges opinion so far when it comes to winning round 3. And 100% success rate with winning decisions whenever he has gone the full 3 rounds.

 

[mkess101]

Agreed. There is a huge assumption everywhere that the fight is going to be entirely rolling on the ground. The Whittaker fight is a huge factor in how people are perceiving this simply because Whittaker took Dricus down. Hence, Dricus must be super easy for Khamzat to take down.

Huh? There are more people here predicting a late DDP win than that the fight will be them "rolling on the ground" the whole time.

 

[Tweak896]

People like to hype up DDP's striking as being better than Izzy/Strickland/etc..., but really he uses lots of takedowns of his own to be effective against mainly strikers. He's gone for takedowns in every single fight besides his 1st fight in the UFC. The one guy who stopped all his takedowns completely was Tavares and ended up having a relatively even fight with DDP.

I think DDP has gone up against so many strikers in a row that people have ignored the part of his game that having takedown threat against those strikers really helped along with his untraditional striking. Against Khamzat he likely won't have this. DDP is no Khabib with his control on the ground, but his bully/pressure strategy worked on guys who really wanted to stand. Now he could get a TD on Khamzat, but I would suspect it would be more of a surprise takedown, like Jones and Gus.

Still I think if he's forced to be a more traditional striker, Khamzat might actually do better than people think striking with him. The last person he couldn't takedown was Tavares. So just a different angle on analyzing this fight beyond DDP getting taken down, but if he's not a takedown threat his offense might not be as effective.

 

[VinceArch]

BRB gonna go to the nearest goth nightclub and test this line out

If you get sprayed with any sort of mist, GTFO.

 

[JustforBROCK]

First time ive ever heard him speak. Sounds like an absolute goober.

 

[MMAFanCal]

Huh? There are more people here predicting a late DDP win than that the fight will be them "rolling on the ground" the whole time.

Those are the people who favor Dricus. The people who favor Khamzat, are saying it will be a wrestling match and will be decided based on how Dricus deals with the dominant wrestling of Khamzat. I know because I have been in arguments with many. I firmly believe, there will be a lot of striking as well and not just rolling on the ground.

 

[MMAFanCal]

You're talking like someone with a solid amount of confidence that DDP wins this. If you really feel that way, you should put a bet on him. He's like +165 odds right now.

1 - I am stating the facts as they are. I said there are zero parallels between Usman and Dricus. To you, anything that is unabashedly not in favor of Khamzat, will tend to seem biased in favor of Dricus. I am just speaking facts.

2 - I 100% would put money down, if I were not Muslim and betting was not Haram. I would put a few hundred dollars, no doubt. At least, I give credit that it will be a competitive fight as opposed to all of the Khamzat groupies who think this is going to be a whitewash and Dricus is going to get the Whittaker treatment by Khamzat. I solidly believe that is not going to be the case.

 

[mkess101]

Those are the people who favor Dricus. The people who favor Khamzat, are saying it will be a wrestling match and will be decided based on how Dricus deals with the dominant wrestling of Khamzat. I know because I have been in arguments with many. I firmly believe, there will be a lot of striking as well and not just rolling on the ground.

Ahh okay. You're only addressing those picking Khamzat. If it goes past about 12 minutes, likely yeah there's gonna be some striking. Only guy who can push a grappling pace like Khamzat has early on for 25 minutes is Merab. Khamzat's cardio issues are overblown imo, but he's not gonna ragdoll DDP for 5 full rounds. DDP needs to survive the early onslaught obviously.

 

[usernamee]

Agreed. There is a huge assumption everywhere that the fight is going to be entirely rolling on the ground. The Whittaker fight is a huge factor in how people are perceiving this simply because Whittaker took Dricus down. Hence, Dricus must be super easy for Khamzat to take down.

I haven't seen anyone say or think that this fight is going to be entirily on the ground. Nobody believes Khamzat is going to be grapple fucking DDP for five rounds. What people think is that he for sure will grapple fuck him for 1-2 rounds tops then it changes.

 

[wisdom blows]

Chimaev did not win the 3rd round lol. He has about a round fo cardio and then that’s it for him. DDP ups the pace as his fights go on, he has excellent cardio.

The reality is that Chimaev is not a complete fighter and is way out of his league here.

No he doesn’t. He is good at fighting through being tired; one of the best in MMA at it actually. But he gets slow and sloppy as the fight goes on. He’s lucky he fought past prime Izzy, cuz he was losing that fight and getting exhausted before the final takedown. He’s never beaten an elite wrestler. In high level UFC fights, the elite wrestler almost always wins. That isn’t changing with this fight.

 

[wisdom blows]

I haven't seen anyone say or think that this fight is going to be entirily on the ground. Nobody believes Khamzat is going to be grapple fucking DDP for five rounds. What people think is that he for sure will grapple fuck him for 1-2 rounds tops then it changes.

He doesn’t even need to grapplefuck him. He can just ride him out and win rounds with his vastly superior wrestling. I think Chimaev knows the challenge he faces and will conserve energy. DDP is sloppy and that works in his favor offensively but not defensively, and this is his first time fighting an elite wrestler in the UFC.

 

[MMAFanCal]

I haven't seen anyone say or think that this fight is going to be entirily on the ground. Nobody believes Khamzat is going to be grapple fucking DDP for five rounds. What people think is that he for sure will grapple fuck him for 1-2 rounds tops then it changes.

Correct. I am just saying, most favoring Khamzat, believe Dricus will collapse in the early rounds and Khamzat will submit him. That is what I am reading everywhere.