Let's be honest, Merab has good cardio, that's it.

[mmainvestigations]

This guy is like Khabib without any offensive ability. He can spam a million takedown attempts and throw nothing strikes, but I didn't see much else tonight.

He won every round by a narrow margin, technically those takedowns are not supposed to count for anything on the score cards since Yan popped back up each time.

So kudos to his cardio ( is he on the McGregor FAST program?), can't say I'm impressed otherwise.

 

[Ares Black]

Lol he won every round clearly and out struck Yan 2 to 1.

I swear some of you guys have no clue what you are watching.

 

[chinarice]

Poor Yan, can't even beat a skilless guy who just has carido

Just how bad is Petr Yan then, TS? lol these threads are so fucking dumb.

Your eyes are shit if that's all you saw in the fight.

 

[Phisher]

So Yan's eye was swollen shut from missed takedowns?

 

[Andrei Orlovski]

Khabib had plenty of skills like submissions and ground and pound. Merab grabs the leg 200 times in 25 minutes, no subs, no ground and pound or ground control.
There is a reason why Merab has like 3 finishes and over 10 decisions wins.One finish against washed up Moraes who has no chin or cardio left at this point.

 

[Hezekiah]

Yes he 50-45'd Piotr Yan with just cardio, and no offensive ability.

So many haters on this forum

 

[mmainvestigations]

Lol he won every round clearly and out struck Yan 2 to 1.

I swear some of you guys have no clue what you are watching.

I think you should reconsider your use of meaningless statistics before you sound off... Looking at striking ratio in a fight where Yan barely got to throw any?

 

[Sick85]

 

[mmainvestigations]

Yes he 50-45'd Piotr Yan with just cardio, and no offensive ability.

So many haters on this forum

No advance in position, Yan pops back up each time, hardly any damaging strikes thrown, no sub attempts. This guy won purely on cardio and aggression.

 

[Iron Nick]

Yeah, because it just takes cardio to beat a guy as skilled as Yan.

 

[Lavitz]

Lol he won every round clearly and out struck Yan 2 to 1.

I swear some of you guys have no clue what you are watching.

Dang Yan must be a can going by TS logic.

What Merab did was very impressive.

 

[Ares Black]

Looking at striking ratio in a fight where Yan barely got to throw any?

Lol you say that like it's a bad thing. He didn't get to throw many because he was being dominated by a superior fighter.

 

[mmainvestigations]

Yeah, because it just takes cardio to beat a guy as skilled as Yan.

What he did was the equivalent of wall n stall for 25 minutes except his opponent had good wrestling defense, so he spammed the TD attempts endlessly.

 

[Quietus]

Why take someone down and lay on them where they can chill, when you can take them down 10 times and make them use all their energy getting back up 10 times? Chain wrestling is a strategy, especially against strikers who are not used to that kind of wrestling pace. Yan didn’t want to be in there anymore by the 5th round, so it was quite effective, just looking at the takedown stats without context is meaningless.

 

[mmainvestigations]

Lol you say that like it's a bad thing. He didn't get to throw many because he was being dominated by a superior fighter.

A guy spamming TD attempts where you pop back up every time and expertly defend his grappling attempt is not domination. If this is domination, what would we call it if he actually fielded some real offense? Super-duper-domination?

 

[biscuitsbrah]

What he did was the equivalent of wall n stall for 25 minutes except his opponent had good wrestling defense, so he spammed the TD attempts endlessly.

His striking looked good. Killed yans leg. But yeah that was an awesome performance but the wrestlers of the division won’t be handled as easily like that.

He fucked yans ass up though. Yan slowed down to the point where he looked like he didn’t even want to get up when he looked at the clock and it said 90 seconds

 

[MRT]

LOL - I love some of the threads we get after events.

 

[Trainspotter]

So Yan's eye was swollen shut from missed takedowns?

Headbutt during a takedown attempt actually.

 

[Eternalwarriorking]

I think you should reconsider your use of meaningless statistics before you sound off... Looking at striking ratio in a fight where Yan barely got to throw any?

Maybe Yan didn't get to throw any...because Merab's gameplan was designed to nullify Yan's strengths? Even when they were standing the threat of the TD+ Merab's striking volume confounded Petr's striking game. There were plenty of moments for him to uncork on the feet, but he just couldn't make it happen tonight.

Hope you didn't lose much money on it.

 

[mmainvestigations]

His striking looked good. Killed yans leg. But yeah that was an awesome performance but the wrestlers of the division won’t be handled as easily like that

Yan landed the harder leg kicks and more of them, he may have hurt it by checking the kick.