Mountain Tiger is Chinas greatest hope

[FilipEmoFights]

For a male UFC Champion.

he beats Garry and Shakvat if the fight stays standing right now.

 

[Lawrence]

I dunno about that.

But great performance and a welcome must see LHW !

 

[FilipEmoFights]

Because he’s a light heavyweight and I’m an idiot

 

[HuskySamoan]

Yadong is pretty legit and has the best chance I think but China really isn't well set up to produce championship level fighters in MMA or boxing, same for Korea. Japan? Maybe, Central Asia? Very possibly

 

[Arm Barbarian]

Way early to tell, but guy has big power in those hands. Good killer instinct.

 

[7 others]

Geez that 3 punch combo which dropped his opponent

 

[Black9]

Song Yadong?

 

[Mesos]

Yadong has best chance at championship. Mountain Tiger is still unproven, has alot of potential though.

 

[Hank Grill]

He certainly is their largest chance he's a cccp experiment gone right sent to please the JBG

 

[barillas]

What a beautiful combo that was

 

[USA!USA!]

Maybe.. but I wouldn't say he is a legit contender after that one.. was a nice win no doubt, but lets slow down

 

[Odoylerules22]

Yadong is pretty legit and has the best chance I think but China really isn't well set up to produce championship level fighters in MMA or boxing, same for Korea. Japan? Maybe, Central Asia? Very possibly

Arguably the best boxer in the world is from Japan.....so I'd say it's more than a maybe

 

[Nabs]

I def want to see his wrestling/grappling, but that 1-2-3 combo was beautiful. The fact that he already has 6 losses on his record could be concerning, but we shall see. Either way, great to have exciting new blood in the division.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Arguably the best boxer in the world is from Japan.....so I'd say it's more than a maybe

The second half I meant pertaining to MMA. Naoya is amazing and there's been quite a few great Japanese boxing champions. Also great Olympic wrestlers, Judokas and Kickboxing champions. Japan has all the resources to produce MMA world champs and contenders but they tend to see the sport as more of a spectacle and their gyms and training methods are still kinda behind.

 

[gregyu]

Yadong is pretty legit and has the best chance I think but China really isn't well set up to produce championship level fighters in MMA or boxing, same for Korea. Japan? Maybe, Central Asia? Very possibly

No, with all the regulations and anti competitive measures and silly rules, it requires private sector businessman who fund gyms abroad as a personal hobby, Zhang Mingyang come from the same gym as Tang Kai - China's best male MMA fighter currently, and they are based in Thailand currently, some of the highest level talents from China are coming out of Sunkin Fight Club and they are funded in part by a real estate company, with no help from the Government, as for Kickboxing, keep an eye out on Liu Ce, he could make a transition to MMA after bagging a few more K-1 titles in the future, guy probably have the best calf kick knockout ratio in the world right now and have already dabbled in MMA.

 

[NoSmilez]

Maybe if they can produce guys in heavier weight classes. The Chinese don't have good ground game yet. They can strike but their game planning is still bad. They show up to fight rather than implementing their game.

 

[FilipEmoFights]

As an Asian I must say, Chung Ching Chong.

Now that thats out of the way, feels good to have a new Champion. Volk was awesome, he beat Islam and should have left it at that and now he has fucked it all up. Regardless he wasn’t beating Ilia unless he fought completely differently then he did tonight.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

For a male UFC Champion.

he beats Garry and Shakvat if the fight stays standing right now.

Dude is a glass cannon.

Great firepower, terrible defence.

 

[FilipEmoFights]

It seems Asian fighters have a tendency to have shorter reach or an upright upper body posture that leaves their head in the air a lot of the times. I guess it’s just habit carried over from the massive influence traditional martial arts there is eventually going to be a kink that gets worked out so there are more guys that can have the shorter reach and still have the defense to get into the pocket to land their shots.
Otherwise most Asian fighters who have really been successful have been dudes with REALLY HARD HEADS like the Thais and the Filipinos not the squishy Asians like the chinese and the japs. I’ll give it to the iron turtle he’s definitely in the hard head club. So is BJ. Machida is not in the hard head club lol

 

[The_Renaissance]

I love these type of fights because I had never seen either guy fight before so went in blind. I remember Ribeiro being praised a bit after his DWCS fight so expected him to win but he got sparked.