Media Petr Yan says he was injured going into the fight

[AmonTobin]

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Did Petr Yan mention what injury he had? I didn't pick up on any impairment. He looked and fought like classic Yan to me.

 

[AfroBanana]

No one is allowed to say they were injured. The unwashed basement mob will wave their flabby fingers in judgement.

I been saying all along since the illegal knee he doesn’t handle adversity well or accept defeat. He’s way too emotional and that’s not a good quality (always playing the victim and making excuses). It shows in the results. From what I’ve seen of Yan this was a crazy stylistic matchup to overcome. He’s never made excuses because he’s always staunchly played the victim.

Here’s why I can’t take Yan seriously. Merab has done nothing but praise Yan as a fighter and acknowledge his abilities and this being by far his toughest fight. After the fight he again acknowledges Yan as a great fighter and his biggest challenge. Yan was dismissive of him the entire time until they fought and basically seen him as an easy win.

Post fight he didn’t even congratulate him or take an interview. He just scurried off and then he’s “injured”. No matter how you slice it Merab disrupted Yan who takes a few rounds off and relies heavily on his opponents to let him lead and conserve his energy for later rounds.

Merab had him in a defensive state the entire time and sapped him easily. Injured or not I doubt Yan would be this cardio machine. He was struggling to finish face down limp Aldo.

Yan is terrible when it comes to accountability and I think this will continue to be his downfall.

 

[7 others]

Imo even if Yan was 100%, Merab is still gonna 50-45'd Yan anyway

 

[CPH]

What’s funny with Yan claiming he won both is criteria wise it’s not possible. He either has to admit he won because he held Sean down or lost because he got held down. Sean has a more compelling argument to saying he won the stand up and was controlled less than Yan does with Sterling. He’s basically in conflict here. Sean did much more damage to him than he did to Sterling, Yan held Sean down less than Sterling did him. Sterling also worked more for subs and shit.

You do understand that fights are not judged as a whole, right? So when comparing striking vs control, you have to look at the fights round by round.

In the Yan/ Sterling rematch, Sterling only managed TDs in rds 2 and 3, so the argument for Yan winning is not a striking vs control argument, it’s who landed the better strikes in rds 1,4,5. (rd1 being the one hardest to judge)

As far as Yan vs O’Malley goes, the control made the difference in rd1 where the striking was too close to call.

 

[chinarice]

Yan is so easy to dislike.

Thank you merab for tooling this dummy

 

[Feniamin]

I been saying all along since the illegal knee he doesn’t handle adversity well or accept defeat. He’s way too emotional and that’s not a good quality (always playing the victim and making excuses). It shows in the results. From what I’ve seen of Yan this was a crazy stylistic matchup to overcome. He’s never made excuses because he’s always staunchly played the victim.

Here’s why I can’t take Yan seriously. Merab has done nothing but praise Yan as a fighter and acknowledge his abilities and this being by far his toughest fight. After the fight he again acknowledges Yan as a great fighter and his biggest challenge. Yan was dismissive of him the entire time until they fought and basically seen him as an easy win.

Post fight he didn’t even congratulate him or take an interview. He just scurried off and then he’s “injured”. No matter how you slice it Merab disrupted Yan who takes a few rounds off and relies heavily on his opponents to let him lead and conserve his energy for later rounds.

Merab had him in a defensive state the entire time and sapped him easily. Injured or not I doubt Yan would be this cardio machine. He was struggling to finish face down limp Aldo.

Yan is terrible when it comes to accountability and I think this will continue to be his downfall.

Well I think in one of UFC videos Yan said something like -- I won my last fight but whatever I moved on in Russian and UFC translates via subtitles only part about I won.
But also I've seen Russian journalist said that Merab gave like a 20 interviews to Russian media in last 3 years while this year Petr gave 0 interviews. Also there were something like one Russian journalist traveled to Abu Dhabi and after the loss Yan ignored him and didn't gave an interview. And seems like him and Volkov prefer not to give interviews after loses.

 

[r-harper-1]

I’m a fan , but I don’t care

 

[pick999]

Still mad he didn't get fined for weigh in attack

 

[13Seconds]

When has Yan ever made injury excuses after a fight? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Merab still put on a masterclass.

He's made other excuses after every loss.

First Sterling fight: Sterling won because he’s chicken and milked the situation. Yan gave no apology at all and only blamed Sterling.

Second Sterling fight: Yan got robbed, won almost every round again had nothing to say about his own mistakes.

Suga fight: UFC is corrupt, contemplating leaving the organisation because of horrible decision.

Merab fight... Well he got beat so bad there's no room for anything else other than injuries.

There's a pattern here.

 

[Aurelian]

Probably best to not make yourself look like a jackass prefight if you're going to pull this excuse after losing the fight.