Michal 'Lord' Oleksiejczuk 25 Year Old LHW With a Gut?

Platinum Perry Mason said:
He is Roy Nelson's bastard child from a drunken jaunt in Soviet Russia.
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Roy was too far gone though to make LHW.

There is no way this guy is cutting any weight and one would think he could be a very successful MW.

But at LHW he is not big enough, hence the gut, he is carrying excess fat so he can weigh in at 205.

Bizzare
 
theTKDguy said:
I think he walks at 205. Lazy dude
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Not trying to hate on the guy but he is a borderline WW, small MW, he is only fighting at LHW because he either has a weight problem like DC or the UFC is forcing this guy too given the pitiful state of the LHW division.

25 year old professional athletes should not be walking around with guts, especially ones who have been in the UFC for 3+ years, and had a whole year thanks to the folks at USADA to just train in the gym.

Very disappointing Lord is not taking his strength and conditioning seriously. I guess the UFC just wants this guy to be a perennial prelim LHW.
 
UFCIsNOTRigged said:
Why is he fighting at LHW with a gut at 25 years old?

He could fight instead at MW where he is fighting men his own size?

Perhaps he would not feel physically outmatched to the point he has to use anabolics which he has popped for before and served a lengthy suspension.
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Agreed. What I've seen a lot (Stateside and moreso throughout Europe) is legit/well-trained guys *really* beating ass on the local/regional circuit which have a shallow talent pool. They don't need to make the cut, and often rattle off 10-15+ wins without defeat, and barely need to cut weight. They look great on paper, and then come to the big leagues where they're exposed as being to weak, undersized, or out of shape. Since you mentioned it, I remember thinking this exact thing during "Lord's" last fight.

P.S. I'm surprised he got the win on Saturday.
 
I think he's just one of those skinny-fat guys who won't be able to lose the lovehandles no matter what he tries. It's just his genetics. He's probably LHW for life.
 
Qays Stetkevich said:
Agreed. What I've seen a lot (Stateside and moreso throughout Europe) is legit/well-trained guys *really* beating ass on the local/regional circuit which have a shallow talent pool. They don't need to make the cut, and often rattle off 10-15+ wins without defeat, and barely need to cut weight. They look great on paper, and then come to the big leagues where they're exposed as being to weak, undersized, or out of shape. Since you mentioned it, I remember thinking this exact thing during "Lord's" last fight.

P.S. I'm surprised he got the win on Saturday.
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I did not think he won that fight either, but it definitely was not a robbery. I do hope though the UFC allows his opponent to find his footing a bit more because they chose to sign him even though he was super raw and not ready to be all that competitive.

Usually guys need to be at least 27 at the youngest to have naturally built up enough muscle mass to be competitive at LHW. When they instead sign young guys that have some nice knockouts against weak competition you get a Michal Oleksiejczuk situation where you have a then 22 year old popping for clomiphene and now we see him walking out there with a noticeable gut at 25 years old.

The UFC should do the right thing and let this guy fight in the weight class he is built for. Jimmy Crute is the exception, not the rule, usually 22-25 is too young for LHW. Even Jimmy lost his 0 to a guy that he was too young to be fighting and had they fought in 2021 instead he probably runs right through the guy.
 
He's less fat that Muslim Magomedov, that guy is the king of fat LHWs.
 
He definitely could make, and be better suited, to 185lbs. He's a decent fighter, aggressive and durable, I picked Bukauskas unfortunately but he definitely lost that fight, surprised it was a split actually.
 
The_Renaissance said:
He definitely could make, and be better suited, to 185lbs. He's a decent fighter, aggressive and durable, I picked Bukauskas unfortunately but he definitely lost that fight, surprised it was a split actually.
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Agreed the cage control is very impressive, the cardio looked serviceable, but we need to start seeing some better striking.

You could tell he was loading up for that knockout shot, clenching his fist, but if the shot is not there you need to be able to draw your opponent into that shot.

Cutting off the cage the entire fight is only going to pacify them if your opponent really respects your power which Modestas clearly did not. 'Lord' was lucky to win that fight because it certainly was not his volume that won him the fight and its pure speculation which one of those guys was landing the harder shots.
 
the higher the weight class the less skills you can get by with
 
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